NamPower has announced a country-wide electricity disconnection of power in stages for all its defaulting clients.

Clients affected are those receiving electricity through the central and northern electricity distributors, Cenored and Nored.

In the ||Kharas and Hardap regions, all defaulting villages and town councils except Keetmanshoop will be without electricity from June 5 if they don’t settle their overdue accounts by May 31.

In the |Khomas Region, Windhoek will be spared the shutdown, while Brakwater and Groot |Aub are affected.

In the Omaheke Region, the capital Gobabis, Witvlei, and Leonardsville will also be affected by the suspensions.

The disconnections will be done in stages, starting with four to eight hours a day if full payment is not made by May 31.

Stage one will start next Monday, May 15, with four hours from 11 o’clock in the morning to three o’clock in the afternoon, while stage six, with an additional two hours to five o'clock, will kick in on Saturday, May 20.

In a statement, NamPower says it is owed in excess of a billion dollars by its client.