Windhoek receives 12,000 new residents a year, municipality says
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Windhoek Observer
Illustrative image · Magda Ehlers · Pexels · Licence PexelsAbout 12,000 people are said to move to Windhoek each year, a pressure the municipality says it cannot absorb, the Windhoek Observer reports. The newspaper says the concentration of jobs and services in Namibia’s capital calls for a more effective decentralisation policy.
About 12,000 people arrive in Windhoek and stay each year, Moses Matyayi, chief executive of the municipality of Namibia’s capital, told a parliamentary hearing, the Windhoek Observer reports. This growth is putting pressure on the city’s services and capacity.
The newspaper says the influx goes beyond the remit of the municipality, as Windhoek concentrates a large share of Namibia’s jobs, public services and economic activity. It urges the government to make decentralisation effective by developing more job opportunities, access to services and economic activity in other regions of the country, the Windhoek Observer reports.
