N$900m road works start despite cash and water crunch

The N$900 million new road from Windhoek to the Hosea Kutako International Airport will go ahead, despite a tight squeeze on government cash-flow and a crippling water shortage that has hit the capital city hardest.

Both the Roads Authority and the Ministry of Finance have confirmed that the project will proceed unhindered. Several projects have had to be sacrificed as government finally admitted that it was suffering from a cash crunch and called for funds to be used only on priority areas, especially economically productive public works. So tight is state income that the finance ministry has compelled ministries and state agencies to get projects vetted, some of which have already been affected after a revision of their priorities.