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Jul
Erasmus Shalihaxwe More than 400 000 households across the country are still without electricity. To meet its target of universal access by 2040, the government must connect at least 26 700 households per year, which currently represents just 6.68% of the total connected homes annually. This is according to the deputy prime minister and minister of industry, mines and energy, Natangue Ithete, who was speaking over the weekend during the commissioning of electrification projects in Windhoek’s informal areas, in the Tobias Hainyeko constituency. This comes as the cabinet approved the National Electrification Policy in 2022, which sets out that every…