31 july namib times e edition

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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958

NO 6475

FRIDAY

31 JULY 2015

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Mayor warns about 'housing schemes'

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Pensioners await increase

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HIV Awareness Campaign Smart Partnership Launched

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The CEO of the Walvis Bay Corridor Group, Mr Johny M Smith, and one of the Directors of the namib times, Dr Dean Kock, after they had themselves tested in the WBCG Roadside Clinic. The WBCG yesterday officially became a smart partner in the namib times-Pepfar HIV-Aids Campaign to promote HIV-Aids awareness in Erongo Read the article on Page 10

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Man 'stealing own bed'

Salt-strike successfully mediated Marshallino Beukes

Intervention from the Erongo Governor, Cleophas Mutjavikua and also President Hage Geingob, saw the four week long strike at Walvis Bay Salt Holdings come to an end this week, after the workers and company managed to reach an amicable agreement. Both the company and the employees’ bargaining unit, the Mine Workers Union of Namibia (MUN), yesterday expressed their sincere gratitude to the Governor for facilitating this agreePage 4 ment. President Geingob, Music at who visited the harbour

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town this week, reportedly told the Governor to sit down and keep discussing the matter with the two parties until an agreement was reached. In financial terms, the strike has been costly to all stakeholders, including the country, the company

and the employees. The strike initially started after the workers accused the company’s management of a discriminatory salary structure, illegal reduction of leave days and illegal reduction of medical aid, as their main concerns.

At the two-day meeting with the Governor as arbitrator it was established that the allegations of salary discrimination proved to be unjustified, and no adjustments in this regard were made as part of the agreement.

The agreement ensures that employees will receive an annual basic salary increase of 6,5% for 2015. The annual wage increase will be backdated to 1 March 2015. A means for a salary progression mechanism was also agreed upon,

and adjustments relating to this will be backdated to 1 May 2015. Previous conditions, laid down by the company, which initially infuriated the employees, were set aside and are not enclosed in the signed agreement. MUN Branch Continues on page 2

Volunteers Ocean Key – construction to commence soon wanted! Bernabé Blaauw

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After construction on the controversial Ocean Key luxury penthouse complex at Langstrand was stalled since the end of last year, all indications are that construction will start again, soon.

After President Hage Geingob’s visit to Walvis Bay on Tuesday morning, contractors have started with the servicing of the land in Narraville and are in dire need of volunteers to help A spokesperson at the Muthem with the project. The servicing of the preferred land started on Wednesday. Contractors were servicing the land when namib times visited. A spokesperson at the site (contractor) said that they currently have no volunteers but would need a lot of volunteers to start helping immediately.

“I am a contractor and the few people we have here all work under me. We have no volunteers at the moment, but would definitely make use of volunteers. There are of course procedures that will have to be followed when making use of volunteers but Continues on page 2

nicipality of Walvis Bay confirmed that they were informed that the project will go ahead, but could not say what the reason for the delay was. Rumours that the developers were looking for new investors, could also not be confirmed. The scaffolding and protective shade netting that

Workers at the Ocean Key building site busy removing rust from the scaffolding covered the main structure, as well as several smaller pre-fabricated structures, were removed. Workers were observed on site where they were

removing rust from the scaffolding pipes that were exposed to the harsh coastal climate. We were referred to a certain Mr Sean Zch Tan, who

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