The Windhoek Observer Newspaper of Friday 7 February, 2014, reported that Veteran's Affairs Deputy Minister, Hilma Nikanor, bought a piece of land from the City of Windhoek at a price less than a quarter of the market value of the property. The Windhoek City Council sold the land, with a value of N$1,078,400.00, to Nikanor for N$345,000.00 after the Deputy Minister complained in a letter, written on an official ministerial letterhead, to the Council that she could not afford the market value of the land.