Answer to Question #242628 in Management for Jayjay

Question

Witbeen lives with 13 other people in a room in Kronlein. The water is not running, the lifts don’t work, and the toilet has been blocked for months. The rent is N$ 3000 a month. As none of the people in the room are Namibian citizens, the landlord has threatened to report them all to the immigration if they do not pay. Now he is asking for more rent. She comes to you for advice on her rights

Answer 1

I will advise Witbeen to consider reporting to the landlord for violating tenants’ rights. Regardless of the tenant’s originality, the landlord agreed to accommodate them as tenants under specific terms. Witbeen and her roommates have rights to access water, clean toilets, and workable lifts, and she should make the landlord aware of this and his consequences of his failures.