Small-scale farmers at Camp Five are devastated after the Otjiwarongo Municipality removed fencing from their garden and set it on fire.

Good rains received in Otjiwarongo over the past few days had farmers optimistic that in no time they would reap what they sowed.

But farmers at Camp Five had their hopes dashed after the municipality burned down their garden fencing, which was made out of bushes to protect their produce from domestic animals.

The Otjiwarongo Municipality is still looking for resources to evict illegal settlers at Camp Five.

Residents' structures were to be demolished last week, but that did not happen due to a lack of manpower and structures to impound livestock.
 
Some of the residents at Camp 5 settled there as far back as 2016, but the land had already been earmarked for residential plots.

Devastated farmers who have not yet been relocated are still at the camp and have been going from one office to the other, wanting to know where they will be relocated.