A 23-year-old Walvis Bay woman who was electrocuted at work says her contract was allegedly terminated while she was admitted to the intensive care unit.

The now disabled Theresia Jeremia was once a healthy young woman before she survived an electric shock incident in her line of duty.

This situation has left Jeremia in the full-time care of family and friends.

Jeremia moved from the rural area years ago to look for greener pastures in the harbor town.

She was then employed by Spar as a chef on a contract until the incident around June last year.

The Board of the Roads Authority has decided to extend the employment contract of Chief Executive Officer Conrad Lutombi for another three years.

The three-year extension is also to allow for the recruitment process to commence timely and facilitate a smooth handover once Lutombi retires.

The extension also comes barely weeks after Lutombi was offered the top job at City Windhoek, whose package he said he was studying at the time.

The more than 600 fishermen who allegedly resigned from the Cavema Joint Venture at Walvis Bay have appealed to the government to give them active employment instead of a monthly allowance.

The Ministries of Fisheries and Labour, together with the joint venture, reached an agreement in 2020 to employ the fishermen in exchange for quotas.

The workers were responding to Derek Klazen, the Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister, who urged them to withdraw their alleged resignation from Cavema.