The offices of the Directorate of Veterinary Services at Rundu are flooded with the sewage water.

Administrative Officer Ericah Geingos says the situation is posing a hazard and needs urgent intervention.

Geingos says the situation has been going on since July last year, but the Rundu Town Council has allegedly failed to address it.

They say sewage manholes get filled up and overflow every day due to some blockages in the area.

Members of the Sauyemwa Center for the Visually Impaired are calling on the Rundu Town Council to issue them a title deed for the plot on which they operate.

Established in 2008, the center provides skills training to people with visual impairments in the two Kavango regions.

The Chairperson of the Visually Impaired in the Kavango regions, John Ndara, says the center is unable to get donors to build permanent structures because they do not have proof of ownership.

Residents of the Sun City Informal Settlement at Rundu have reiterated their demand for compensation for their crop fields the town council allegedly allocated to the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

The crop fields are situated within the town boundaries, but residents claim the town encroached on their ancestral land.

The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture has requested the plot to upgrade the Sikandoko Primary School, which has become too small to accommodate the growing number of learners.

Rundu Town Council's annual Trade Fair Fundraising Dinner raised more than N $300,000 for the upcoming event.

The trade fair is scheduled to start on the 28th of this month and run until the fifth of November.

This year's trade fair will be sponsored by Recon Africa with N$150 thousand, while FNB Namibia pledged N$50 thousand.

Speaking at the event, the trade fair's patron, John Mutorwa, urged the event organisers to use the money for its intended purpose.

The Rundu Town Council has expressed its desire to exit its partnership with the Northern Regional Electricity Distributor.

At a stakeholders' consultation meeting with the Electricity Control Board, Mayor Gabriel Kanyanga said NORED's services to the town were poor.

The Rundu Mayor said the council might not renew its agreement with the electricity distributor when the current one expires in three years' time.

Rundu, he says, has, among other signs of decline, become a dark town, despite NORED's mandate as responsible for the maintenance of street lights.