Residents of the Fransfontein settlement should realise that they must start paying rates and taxes as development is brought to the village.

Khorixas Constituency Councillor Sebastian !Gobs says that this will help grow it into a village council.

The Cabinet has directed the Minister of Finance and Public Enterprise to continue monitoring the performance of the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) to ensure that the state exposure to the Fund is optimally managed.

President Hage Geingob has arrived back home after participating at the Global Gateway Forum and the first-ever European Union-Namibia Business Forum in Belgium.

The Windhoek City Council is currently executing a five-year plan to provide adequate ablution and sanitation facilities in the city's informal settlements.

Under the plan, a total of 1,620 pit latrines are set to be completed.

The Swakopmund Municipality has started to install security CCTV cameras at 15 identified crime hotspots.

This comes after the community raised concerns about the increasing crime in the coastal town.

At a recent meeting, Swakopmund residents fed up with crime asked the municipality to intervene.