Namibia: Keetmans Demolishes Squatter Shacks

SECURITY guards hired by the Keetmanshoop Town Council, under police supervision, yesterday dismantled illegally built shacks in the Tseiblaagte residential area.

Claiming that they were waiting too long to be allocated plots by the council, people grabbed council-owned land in February.

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