The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security started with its outreach programme for the distribution of national documents in the Kavango East Region.
The programme aims to issue a national document to people in outlying areas who face challenges travelling to Rundu for services.
The first outreach programme for 2024 started on February 19th and ended on March 4th.
Over 3,000 people in the Musese Constituency, Kavango West Region, are without national documents, and the community is pleading for help.
Lack of documentation, they say, deprives them and their children of government services.
During the regional council community meeting at Musese Constituency, Councillor Kosmos Katura stated that he is aware of the challenge and that his office will work with officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs to find a solution.
The Windhoek High Court has revoked the national documents of a man who was born 22 years ago at the Otjiwarango State Hospital.
High Court Judge Boas Usiku has dismissed with costs an application in which a 22-year-old man born in Namibia to Burundian refugee parents wanted the court to order the Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security to grant him a Namibian passport.
Russell Kwizera’s parents entered Namibia in 2000 and applied for refugee status; at the time of their son’s birth in 2002, they had not yet acquired refugee status.
