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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6702 FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2017 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
inside Two matriculants in deadly accident New hours after writing final examinations brewery at Swakop Erwin Leuschner
Four young Swakopmund residents were involved in a deadly car accident on the C14 gravel road in the vicinity of the Gaub Pass on Tuesday evening. The accident claimed the life of 18-year-old Saskia de Beer. Two of the occupants who survived the accident were Grade 12 learners of the Swakopmund Private School. They only hours earlier wrote their final exams. According to one of the parents the friends were on their way to go camping in the Namib Naukluft Park for three days. As some still attended school that morning they only left later in the day. They were travelling
in a Nissan NP300 four wheel drive pick-up and were pulling a camping trailer. At about 22:00, about 50 kilometers before Solitaire at the first descent of the Gaub Pass, the driver allegedly lost control over the vehicle. Sour-
ces speculate the camping trailer was the cause, resulting in the pick-up to ultimately overturn and come to a rest on its roof. There were four occupants in the vehicle. The 19-year-old female driver is a Swakopmund resident. Her
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injuries were described as minor. De Beer, who was working in Swakopmund, passed away at the scene. The remaining two occupants were learners of the Private School Swakopmund (PSS). One sustained a leg injury while the other was admitted in a hospital in Windhoek and is currently in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Yesterday his condition was descri-
bed as stable. He is expected to make a full recovery. “This is very tragic. We are speechless”, said Hein Daiber, principal of the Private School Swakopmund (PSS), to namib times yesterday. The deceased Saskia de Beer matriculated in 2016. Family and friends described her as a lively, friendly person, always willing to assist. She was known to have a beautiful and unique soul and always
lived life to the fullest, as she said herself: “Life is short, so love the one you've got.” The accident also sparked outrage, especially amongst the paramedic fraternity. Only state ambulances were dispatched by the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVA) to assist the injured. “There was no advanced life support backup sent out, even though the MVA was
A truck carrying break bulk sulphur powder spilled some of its content close to the main gate of the port of Walvis Bay on Tuesday morning, setting into action a swift environmental clean-up operation. All the relevant emergency services assisted, which include the Walvis Bay traffic department to cordon off traffic from the contaminated area as well as the hazardous waste management services of the municipality. A clean-up team of the company responsible for the load of sulphur cleaned the area, whereafter the fire brigade conducted the final cleaning by hosing off the area. The sulphur was destined for Rio Tinto's Rössing Mine where it is used in the production of sulphuric acid. Rössing uses sulphuric acid in its leeching process when uranium is separated from the mined ore.
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A total of twelve small businesses from different towns within the constituencies of Erongo received various types of equipment donated by the Income Generating Activities' (IGA) programme on Wednesday. The IGA is managed by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare (MGCW). The IGA programme Witbooi, the ministry ed to capacitate and is aimed at contribu- does not want small equip IGA beneficiating to the socio- businesses to remain ries with the skills so econo-mic empower- small, but wants them that they manage their ment of needy com- to grow, expand and projects efficiently m u n i t i e s b y e n - create employment op- and make a profit. The ministry strongly becouraging them, es- portunities for others. pecially women, to During the hand-over lieves that if IGA beparticipate in the IGA ceremony in Swakop- neficiaries manage programme. It creates mund, Witbooi said their businesses pros e l f - e m p l o y m e n t that the ministry pro- fitably they will earn opportunities and in vides start-up material an income, improve some cases employ- and equipment, com- their livelihoods and ment for others. plemented by training this will reduce poverAccording to the De- in basic business ma- ty”, she said. Witbooi called on the puty Minister of Gen- nagement skills. der Equality and Child “Training in business beneficiaries to reinWelfare, Ms. Lucia management is intend- Continues on page 2
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