Groot Aub community activist Cecil Titus is requesting autonomy for the settlement, claiming that the City of Windhoek (CoW) has been making false promises.

He accuses CoW of lacking the capacity to improve, facilitate or advance development.

Over a hundred residents of Rehoboth Block E have benefited from the town council's ongoing title deed handover and debt write-off initiative. 

609 residents of Rehoboth's Block E residential area received the title deeds for their properties through the Rehoboth Alienation Scheme that was established in 1992.

Rehoboth Mayor Amanda Groenewaldt described the moment as joyful, as they had been waiting for 46 years for it.