The Namibian government will soon rehabilitate eight boreholes at Duineveld Settlement in the Hardap Region.

The Director of Water Supply and Sanitation, Dr. Elijah Ngurare, says the community of Duineveld is supplied with water from a borehole that is situated on private land.

There are about 600 inhabitants at the tiny settlement of Duineveld who use this borehole, and the owner now threatens to cut off the supply because of vandalism.

All vacant positions at Daweb Senior Secondary school at Maltahohe in the Hardap Region have now been filled.

The school has not had teachers for Mathematics Grade 9 and Physical Science Grade 8 for the year 2022. 

Teachers still remain reluctant to apply for teaching posts at rural schools.

This, according to Principal Hilary Cloete makes the learning environment difficult. She, however, is happy that all positions at the school have now been filled. 

Farmers have managed to contain a veld fire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in the Hardap Region at farm Kachas, situated about 15 kilometers west of Mariental. 

Kobus Lombaardt, the owner of farm Kachas, told nbc News that farmers were able to put out the fire a few hours after it broke out in the dry riverbed of the Fish River.

He speculated that the veld fire was started by people who were allegedly catching fish illegally in the Fish River.

The raging veld fires in the Hardap Region that destroyed large tracts of grazing land have finally been contained.

The fire started on resettlement farm Haribes and spread to other farms over the course of five days.

The cause of the fire is still unknown.

Hardap Governor Salomon April confirmed the devastating veld fires were put out around 19 hours on Wednesday.

He said the rain has also brought much respite in the battle against the fire.

Farmers in the Hardap Region have been battling a veld fire that broke out at the Haribes resettlement farm on Monday.

Both Hardap Governor Salomon April and Hardap Region Council Chairperson Gershon Dausab were at the scene of the fire to help put it out.

The Rehoboth Farmers Association and firefighters from the nearby local authorities, as well as the police, were also assisting.

Members of the Namibian Defense Force were also enlisted to help extinguish the fire.

A veld fire is also raging in the ||Kharas Mountain area.

The Roots Apple Project in the Hardap Region is expected to harvest about fifty tons of apples with an estimated value of four-comma-eight-million dollars this year. 

It will be the second harvest of the first commercial apple orchard in the country. 

Roots project manager Jano Rieckert says the apple project aims to reduce Namibia's import dependency from neighboring South Africa and to ensure the country's food security. 

The apple project was established on ten hectares of land in a single phase in 2018. 

Some Swapo delegates in the Hardap Region have expressed mixed views over the internal campaign for those vying for top positions ahead of the party's Congress.

Swapo Party members across the country descended on the Persiane Hall at Mariental for the last session, where candidates gunning for the top position engaged delegates.

Our nbc News team spoke to some of the Congress delegates from the Hardap Region on the party's internal campaign concept as the drive nears an end.

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila concluded her regional visits to the Hardap Region, where she addressed the regional council leadership and management.

The meeting, which was attended by the Hardap Regional Council and delegated functions as well as the Governor, highlighted some of the pressing challenges the country is facing as well as development plans.

A number of visually impaired people have expressed appreciation for the equal opportunities available to them to participate in economic activities to uplift themselves and their communities.

They were speaking at the International White Cane Safety Day themed "Unity is Strength" held at Mariental and attended by about a hundred visually impaired people from ||Kharas and Hardap regions.

The event was organised by the Southern Association for the Visually Impaired under the auspices of the Namibian Federation for the Visually Impaired.

The Gibeon Village Council in the Hardap Region is moving closer to ending the bucket toilet system.

Sharon Bezuidenhout, Chairperson of the Council, told nbc News that the government has allocated N$335 thousand in the current fiscal year for the construction of sanitation services in the village. 

The funds, she says, will be used to construct septic tanks in the Lukas Stephanus location.

In 2016, the council constructed toilets there. However, due to a lack of a reticulation system in the area, the toilets have become white elephants.