The Deputy Mayor of the City of Windhoek, Joseph Uapingene, has labelled the Katutura Residents Committee (KRC) as "ungrateful" and their demands as "inhumane."

Since mid-2023, the group KRC has been at loggerheads with the Windhoek City Council and its administrators over the appointment of a debt collector. 

The group has been demanding that the city terminate its contract with Red Force, the city's debt collection agency.

The city has maintained that using the services of Red Force is effective and financially viable.

Residents of Katutura feel misled by the City of Windhoek and its campaign to write off the municipal bills of elderly residents.

The promised debt cancellation includes conditions of payment that residents say remain unaffordable for the elderly. 

Katutura residents, mostly comprised of the elderly, marched to the Windhoek Municipality Care Centre, demanding the cancellation of high municipal bills.

The escalating population growth is putting pressure on the City of Windhoek (CoW) municipal infrastructure, intensifying demand for service delivery, and underscoring the need for government intervention. 

Among the ongoing initiatives, CoW Mayor Queen Kamati unveiled the "Informal Settlement Upgrading Pilot Project," which involves constructing 113 houses in Goreangab ext. 4. 

Laura Garises, a twenty-two-year-old, never had access to running water and grid electricity while growing up in her grandmother's house.

 Unfortunately, her hopes of seeing these amenities in their household were shattered when the City of Windhoek introduced debt cancellation. The family, residing on ERF 3837 Max Eichab Street in Damara Location, inherited the debt from their grandparents, who were recipients of the free housing scheme during the apartheid regime. Garises, who lives with her fifty-year-old asthmatic mother, is burdened with a municipal bill of over N$100,000.

The City of Windhoek has gone back to the drawing board on plans to construct flats for the residents of Okapuka ka Nauyala in Ombili Area after the community raised concerns.

It will now consult the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development as a partner to come up with a social housing model that can be agreed to by all, including considering affordability.

The meeting was held by the city's Department of Housing, Property Management, Human Settlements, and the Division of Housing and Land Delivery.

The City of Windhoek hosted a candlelight vigil in tribute to the late president, honouring his legacy and the vision he had for the city.

Inheritance is what you leave behind for people, but legacy, on the other hand, is what you leave inside of people.

The City of Windhoek hosted a candlelight vigil to honour the legacy of our late president, Dr. Hage Geingob.

They described him as a visionary leader who dedicated his life to serving the nation.

The biker community in Windhoek also expressed their sympathies with the nation.

The City of Windhoek management committee remains incomplete as the council failed to nominate office bearers to fill the two remaining positions on Thursday.

Community Development Worker and activist Rosa Namises has called on the City of Windhoek to allow citizens to explore and utilise unoccupied municipal areas to positively showcase the landscape.

Namises made the call following what she termed unfair treatment by the City of Windhoek employees when they demolished a temporary shade structure where Namises and her children were camping at farm #Goas.

About 1,000 inhabitants are currently living on the 8,000-square-metre farm.

A lack of decent housing should be tackled at all ends and should not only be left to local authorities but must be on the national agenda.

This was said by the Chief Executive Officer of the City of Windhoek, Moses Matyayi, who stressed that the impact of flush flood-prone areas is one of the issues his office is looking into to alleviate.

Matyayi was a guest on our sister programme, One-On-One.

Matyayi said that the council has been able to put mechanisms in place and plans with the Disastrous Management Plan, which is a continuous discourse to find solutions.

The Ministry of Sport Youth and National Service's Executive Director, Mbumba Haitengela, has clarified that the electricity and water bills for the Independence Stadium were paid on Wednesday afternoon before the power outage occurred.

The power outage resulted in the match between Orlando Pirates and Life Fighters being abandoned. However, Haitengela refuted claims and reports in the media suggesting that the Ministry owed N$400,000 to the City of Windhoek.

He stated that the outstanding balance was paid on Friday the 17th and again last Wednesday, erasing all debts.