Staff members from the Kavango West Regional Council and its delegated offices gathered at the Nkurenkuru Community Hall on Friday to follow the national address to civil servants, delivered virtually by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. The live-streamed event offered public servants across the country a chance to reflect on their roles and hear directly from the Head of State.

Reflecting on the Presidential Address after the screening, IUM's Campus Director at Nkurenkuru, Hosian Hitanwa, remarked that, although he is from an academic institution, he found the address deeply relevant. 

He noted that institutions of higher learning need to design programmes that respond directly to national needs and developmental goals.

"What she said, we must also create an environment where the public sectors can also be able to flourish, whereby they can be able to employ people, because that is a target of or is one of the goals that we have—we make sure that we minimise the unemployment rates as of now. We have the new programmes that I introduced. We talk of water management. What are we doing? We are responding to the market demands. We talk of, you know, operational health and safety, which is also very needed in each and every presentation, in mines, shops."

An administrative officer in the Directorate of Education at the Kavango West Regional Council, Eucenia Munango, said she felt motivated by the president's expression of trust in government employees.

"It was really very interesting. It gave us motivation to do more as civil servants, especially when she said that she believes in public servants and she trusts the public servants in the work that they are doing."

The Control Administrative Officer in the council, Hugoberth Hamanyami, said the President's address served as a timely reminder of what is expected from public servants and hoped it would be an annual event. 

"Yes, we are very much motivated. We hit the point. Mostly she hit the points on what we are doing here. Even reminded us too much of this corruption, which is going too far."