Storm at council chambers
The |Khomanin community has been urged to give the City of Windhoek (CoW) two months to deliberate after they stormed into the City's boardroom yesterday to demand answers about the forced relocation of their residents.Although the session was closed to the media and the public, the community could be heard shouting accusations of racism at councilors from behind closed doors. According to the municipality's legal adviser, Jorro Eiseb, the residents are stranded after being "chased out" from Windhoek and relocated to the Groot Aub area, where they are now being "removed/chased out" by commercial farmers.
“We were here to talk about our people who were driven out of Windhoek and sent to the Groot Aub area but are now being chased out of there too. We now sit with these people and house them in our corridors. What should we do with them?" Eiseb asked our sister publication, Namibian Sun.
Eiseb added that the City Council was "taken aback" which is why it had asked for time for deliberation and further feedback. In 2020, Windhoek City Police threatened leaders of /Khomanin traditional authority with arrest and fined Groot Aub businessmen. This was in connection with the drilling of boreholes in the area.
Windhoek Mayor Joseph Uapingena could be seen storming out of the boardroom at the end of the session and hastily disappearing.