Scores of residents of Keetmanshoop braved the scorching sun as they lined up at the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication, and Social Welfare's Conditional Basic Income Grant registration.

Residents nbc News spoke to said they started queuing as early as six o'clock in the morning.

A chaotic scene unfolded at Ongwediva after the registration for the Conditional Basic Income Grant was unexpectedly postponed.