Keetmans business community cleans up

Private business entities, along with the Keetmanshoop municipality, conducted a one-day clean-up and debushing campaign alongside the reception area next to the B1 road in the Ileni informal settlement on Friday.

The campaign started at 08:00 and continued throughout the day.

Volunteers were employees from the municipality and from businesses that were involved in the campaign such as Supersand, Elso, Kaap-Agri and Plastic Packaging, among others.

NamWater also contributed 1 000 litres of water to the informal area community, while the various companies brought trucks, bulldozers and refuse bags for the cleaning.

Speaking to Nampa, the municipality's environmental health officer Rudo-Whan Benade said the campaign will continue next month.

“It will take place in areas such as Tseiblaagte, Krönlein and Westdene,” he said. Benade, on behalf of the municipality, sent out a word of thanks to the private companies and individuals who lent a hand.

“We appreciate what they are doing, the municipality has ideas of such campaigns but we are crippled by the lack of machinery,” he said.

NAMPA