The Keetmanshoop Municipality has written off municipal debts totalling N$75 million for senior citizens, the unemployed, and people with disabilities. 

The Rundu local authority has introduced prepaid water meters to eliminate the conventional ways of collecting water charges from the residents.

The council has run up debts of millions of dollars and is in arrears with NamWater because residents do not honour their post-paid water debts.

Gobabis Municipality is battling with paying back outstanding debts of more than N$100 million owed to NamPower and NamWater utility companies.

The debt has accumulated over a number of years.

This was revealed by the town's Mayor, Melba Tjozongoro, in an exclusive interview with nbc News.

Keetmanshoop Mayor McDonald Hanse thanked the town's residents for "a commendable display of responsibility to settle their municipal accounts."

Otjozondjupa Region Youth Activist,Terry Ujamba, in the following insert, explains why the budget was a good one.

Otjozondjupa Governor James Uerikua says the regional council agrees to the writing off of historic water debts in certain cases.

Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has cleared all statutory debts, amounting to over N$93 million, including historical tax payments owed to the Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRa).

Keetmanshoop Town Council is embarking on an aggressive campaign to recover outstanding municipal water debt, running into millions of dollars.

Residents, government institutions, and businesses owe the town council a combined total of N$212 million in unpaid water bills.

Residents of the ||Kharas Region have thrown their support behind the motion on the writing-off of water and electricity debts that local authorities owe bulk suppliers, NamWater and NamPower.

The Insitute for Public Policy Research has expressed concern over the country's high level of public debts and called for cautious borrowing.