While rural villages and farms struggle to accommodate learners in proper shelters, a pensioner from the Karanas settlement in the Hardap Region, Hendrick Brand, has stepped up to assist.
The community of !Hoachanas in the Hardap Region has expressed their dissatisfaction with the settlement office over what they termed a dysfunctional office and slow development.
To gain insight, the MICT Hardap team spoke with the Regional Councillor of Mariental Rural Constituency and the community.
The Shack Dwellers Federation Housing Project is hailed as a model concept, and in so doing, restoring the dignity of thousands of low-income earners in the country.
Small and Medium scale farmers in the Hardap Region were commended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources, for playing a role in food security in the country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
