About 29 reed houses have been destroyed in a fire at Aussenkehr settlement in ||Kharas Region this week.
The acting Police Regional Crime Coordinator for ||Kharas, Detective Chief Inspector Jochobetha Angukku, confirmed the fire incident that broke out on Tuesday morning.
The Orange River Irrigation Project along the Orange River at Aussenkehr expects improved summer agricultural production this year, despite its financial woes.
Paulus Mungoba, acting project manager, said this in an interview with nbc News.
The Karasburg West Constituency Office has provided temporary accommodation to 57 households whose reed houses were destroyed by fire at Aussenkehr farms early Tuesday morning.
The fire also claimed the life of 27-year-old Willem Shiyoleni.
The Roads Authority (RA) has announced that District Road 212 (DR212 - Aussenkehr to Rosh Pinah) is now open to all traffic.
The Namibia Grape Company at Aussenkehr in the ||Kharas Region has exported more than 2 million boxes of grapes to the European market over the last season.
The company's MD, Gideon Nuunyango, revealed this during the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources oversight visit to the project.
Workers of the Orange River Irrigation Project (ORIP) at Aussenkehr in the ||Kharas Region say they have been left uncertain about their jobs following the government's recent decision to dissolve Agricultural Business Development Agency.
Although he lost most of his business after the 2006 flash floods in Aussenkehr, Kutenda Ndonga, an informal furniture maker, is calling on young people in the country to make use of indigenous ways of producing furniture that can be exported to other countries.
