Following a violent stand-off between Brakwater residents and jobless people born in exile, known as ‘struggle kids’, Swapo appears to have distanced itself from its problem children, saying: “The issue of the struggle kids is being dealt with at government level.”
Although the details of Thursday’s drama at Brakwater remain sketchy, it is believed that the violence was triggered when a resident bumped one of the ‘kids’ with his car. Three ‘struggle kids’ had apparently trespassed on his smallholding in order to get firewood.
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