Westside is represented at the Junior Town Council

Metumu Tjimune
The Junior Town Council (JTC) of Swakopmund is a non-profitable organisation that, through its activities, has become an incentive for change in its community. Not only has it emitted positivity and goodness, it has also manifested and revealed the strength and power yielded by the youth of Swakopmund. The JTC members continue to make Swakopmund proud in their activities that provide much needed youth and community development and empowerment. It doesn’t end there, the JTC also offers a platform where the learners of Swakopmund can be prepared and moulded into future leaders of our country.
Each year, seniors of the JTC (grade 12) step down from their positions in the council. And from the juniors (to-be-seniors) a group of executives are chosen. Namely, the Junior Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, the Secretary, the Public Relations Officer and a Treasurer. The teachers and learners were truly proud when 3 out of 5 of these executives were chosen from Westside High School. Lucky Goreseb is now the Secretary of the Junior Town Council. Lee-raid Tuzembeho was chosen as the Public Relations Officer and lastly, Tracy-lee Brockerhoff is now the Deputy Mayor of the Junior Town Council, alongside Mayor Ané Van der Merwe and Treasurer Trislan Diergaardt. The Westside High school community has high expectations for these learners in their executive positions and surely believes they’ll make us proud.
Ex-secretary of the JTC Raymondi Basson, has come to the end of her reign and says that being a part of the JTC has been one of the best experiences. As the seniors leave and the executives are chosen, a new group of aspiring leaders are chosen to represent their schools, the youth and the Swakopmund community on the JTC. Metumu Tjimune of Westside is now one of these learners, and her other junior members include Celine Penda, Naango Kainge, Shaun Kamesiepo, Rivaldo Gertze, Aurielle Louw, Justin Brandt, Ayeshe Elago, Mauricia Mowes, Johanna Hipangelwa, Charlene Grobler, Zeekurua Kangueehi and Simone Scherer.
This new group of councillors has the honour to be part of an organisation that strives to develop, promote and empower the youth of today. Swakopmund truly hopes you’ll emulate the previous the previous groups and better our town.