A craft project initiated in Grashoek, located in the Tsumkwe Constituency, in 2025, is assisting local women in empowering themselves while also contributing to community development.
The project also brings together women who make crafts while teaching cultural knowledge to the youth.
!Kung Traditional Authority leader Chief Illony Arnold has expressed dissatisfaction with the Namibia Defence Force recruitment shortlist, citing the exclusion of youth from the Tsumkwe Constituency.
A cleaning up campaign funded by Palms for Life and launched in April last year in Tsumkwe, continues to operate in the settlement.
The campaign focuses on cleaning streets, planting trees along roads, and involving young people in daily activities.
The project employs 29 youth from Tsumkwe.
The residents of Mangetti Dune in the Tsumkwe constituency have been without clean water for months now.
The generator that pumps the community boreholes broke down last year when the nbc news team visited the community just before the local authority and regional council elections.
Social grant beneficiaries at Tsumkwe and surrounding villages have expressed dissatisfaction about the slow process of Nampost payments.
Nampost took over from Epupa Investment in October last year, and beneficiaries want that company to do their pay-outs.
A belated Christmas celebration brought joy to pensioners and people with disabilities at Gam settlement.
The gathering was organised by a local teacher, together with the social group, Tjiuti Kora Tjike Kukore.
A total of 105 unemployed young people in Gam have successfully completed a skills and development training programme.
The youth of Tsumkwe say they are still waiting for job opportunities promised by NaTIS officials more than a year ago.
Local teacher Petrus Mutji, who contested as an Independent Candidate (IC), is the Councillor for Tsumkwe Constituency.
Residents of Tsumkwe say alcohol abuse, particularly among the youth, is increasing in the constituency.
Community members say the absence of sports activities and youth-focused projects contributes to learners and out-of-school youth spending time at drinking places.
