Windhoek residents will have to come up with funds, and urgently so, or face water and electricity disconnection.

Some elderly residents NBC News spoke to expressed concern.

Sixty-eight-year-old Anna Doeses relies almost entirely on her pension grant.

Elderly residents of Donkerhoek in Katutura have received winter relief support through a humanitarian programme led by the Office of the Khomas Regional Council.

A government data verification process has left some of the country's most vulnerable citizens without income for over two months.

In Tsumkwe, elderly residents whose state grants were suspended say they are now facing severe hunger.

The Minister of Urban and Rural Development, James Sankwasa, has criticised local authorities for their failure to fully implement a directive intended to assist elderly residents who are struggling with water debt incurred during the COVID-19 period.