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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>THE unemployed residents of Mariental’s Takarania New Location wake up every day to sit in the sun.<\/p>\n

This is how they pass their time.<\/p>\n

Paul Boois (31) says he often walks to the nearest traffic lights, hoping to find a piece job as a grass cutter or yard cleaner for the day.<\/p>\n

He has four children and is his family’s only breadwinner.<\/p>\n

Boois says trying to escape the cycle of poverty is exhausting.<\/p>\n

He says he is a qualified plumber and handyman, but cannot find work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not working, we are hungry, and we are getting hungrier every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day we are going to town to struggle for N$20. People sometimes help us with N$5 so we can buy our children food.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not good for us, we are all people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Boois says despite being skilled, he cannot find work at Mariental.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can do everything with our hands, we have skills, but if there’s no work, how should we survive?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we steal, they will take us to jail. The government must help us,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Boois says the settlement’s young people are mostly unemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome young people are done with school, but they do not have jobs. Most of them are at cuca shops and use drugs every day,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Boois says during election times they are visited by many political parties full of empty promises.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter elections, not even one of the politicians come to us to see how we are living.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hungry every day,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Hannerine Goeieman (42) says she has two children, one who is studying at university.<\/p>\n

She says she is struggling to support them, despite receiving a grant from the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you get that N$500 for two kids, the bank deduction will be N$50, and I sent her N$400 to Windhoek.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that money, I can’t even buy bread for the smaller child I stay with, not even cooking oil, but the government says they give us money,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Goeieman says she is willing to do cleaning or any other job.<\/p>\n

Ellis van Schalkwyk (46) says he has tried getting a job in the construction industry, but it does not pay much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have five children. My wife is also unemployed, and we have applied for a grant, but we are not sure if it will be approved by the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need food, and, most importantly, a decent job,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Van Schalkwyk says they survive on food from a soup kitchen, and on being paid for occasional repair jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have my certificate from school, but I am almost 50 years old, and whenever I apply for government jobs, they say they only accept people between 18 and 45 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the municipality, they told me I am very old,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Last year, the World Bank recorded that at least 1,6 million people in Namibia are living in poverty.<\/p>\n

The number of poor people in Namibia is measured in terms of the upper middle-income poverty line at N$84,43 (US$5,5) per person per day, using purchasing power parity terms from 2011.<\/p>\n

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