A GROUP of people turned up for the launch of the nationwide campaign to increase old age pensions by 100%, which took place at Tamariskia Town Hall in Swakopmund on Wednesday.
Speaking to a packed hall, Jade McClune of the Senior Citizens and Destitute Children's Association said the N$600 pension is an insult to the people who built up this country and who are now forced to languish in extreme poverty and a state of perpetual starvation and insecurity in their old age.
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