The Athletics Development Club and Pupkewitz Foundation hosted athletics week from the 12 to 15 December at Vineta Stadium in Swakopmund.

Vendors at the Swakopmund Nedbank Food Festival have commended the organizers for empowering them.

Most of the vendors were negatively affected by the lockdown regulations of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years.

Hundreds of people witnessed the switching on of Christmas lights at Swakopmund, signaling the start of the festive season.

The municipality has invited both local and international tourists to visit Swakopmund and support all festivities as a way to revive the economy.

The Swakopmund Municipality has officially opened a N$4 million outdoor recreation facility at the northern beach.

The northern beach is an area near Platz am Meer Mall, popularly known as OK Parking.

Rossing Uranium is repairing old, rusted, and faulty police vehicles at Swakopmund at a cost of N$350 000.

A total of 11 vehicles are being repaired as part of the company's social responsibility.

The Municipality of Swakopmund has upgraded the fire station at the Democratic Resettlement Community (DRC) informal settlement in order to shorten response times in the event of a fire incident. 

The municipality of Swakopmund, through their health inspector, confiscated 70 bags containing 50 kilograms of rotten mangos after a truck was pulled over by police officers at the roadblock.

The rotten bags of mangos were transported from Zambia to Walvis Bay.

More than a thousand learners at Swakopmund's Festus !Gonteb Primary school will no longer be forced to share one computer among them.

This follows a donation of 80 computers to the school, by a mining company, Basil Read.

An estimated seven hundred thousand people die each year from the misuse and overuse of anti-microbials, which is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity.
 

Close to 800 job seekers at Swakopmund flocked to the head office of the Lighthouse Company Group, to hand in their applications and attend an interview for ten casual posts that are on offer.