Swapo Party Secretary General, Sophia Shaningwa, has called for the government and institutions to make more use of local investors to enable money to circulate within the country.

Shaningwa was speaking at a recent Swapo Party roundtable discussion at Otjiwarongo.

Shaningwa encouraged locals to form joint ventures with foreign companies for the mutual benefit of all.

"We have to also look at our own local businessmen and women to be afforded the opportunity and to become investors, because they understand the situations far better than the foreigners. And when the money and opportunities are given to them, it will enable the financial matters to circulate around the country and within the population it serves, instead of giving too much to the outsiders, and then they carry the begs out."

She also cautioned against the wastage of public funds through the construction of infrastructure that ends up being abandoned.

'What is going on? Why should the government, the public money, be put into something, and today it becomes a white elephant where we were supposed to generate food and feed the nation? No, these are the types of things that we have to tackle."

Vocational training opportunities, housing, unemployment, road networks, and improved service delivery also formed part of the discussion.