The former workers of Air Namibia expressed their frustration regarding the lengthy delay in receiving their severance packages.

"We didn't know what was going on. We lost our colleagues because of stress. People have debts, and people have children that go to school. We never expected to lose our jobs like this. We were just told that there is no more work for us; we need our money so that we can take care of ourselves," said Susan Mpinge.

Foibe Lukas said, "We want to be officially closed. We started this airline 30 years ago; we are now 33 years old. I feel that we need to be honoured because our people are suffering. All of us are looking up to Renier. When you look at your phone, it feels very sad when an official receives a petition and tells us the liquidators will see if they have enough money.

"Till now there are social workers working for the government, but at no stage did they make arrangements in the office to say come in for counselling." In the time of COVID-19, we were entrepreneurs, and they said you may not let people go, but 638 people in one household are without work," said Colethe Bosch.

The Chairperson of the Air Namibia Workers Union, Renier Bougard, said, "What are we? Are we nothing? Do you see these faces? These people have children. I wanted to bring my children here so they could see what you people have put us through, but I don't want my children to be in these pictures. I have to represent my family; everyone here is representing their families."