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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6799 TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
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Rough seas are rapidly breaking up the Japanese fishing vessel Fukuseki Maru No 8, which ran aground near Mile 108 in March this year. A picture on the left shows the vessel in March shortly after it ran aground. The latest picture on the left shows the wreck is listing and pounded endlessly by the waves. Also see picture on page 2
Pension for December “I have to look after my already paid in November jobless girlfriend and Not a bonus or windfall - spend the money wisely warns Ministry three-year-old child”
Murder mastermind applies for bail:
Pensioners and beneficiaries of disability grants will receive a double payment in November to also cover December, the Ministry One of the suspects in the murder in August last year in Swakop- of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare said in a statement over mund of the elderly couple, Siegfried and Roswitha Strzelecki, the weekend. argues he needs to get bail in order to earn an income to care for The double payment is view this double pay- For the month of Nohis unemployed girlfriend and his three-year-old child. He for November and ment as a bonus, or a vember 2018, all elifurther argues bail would also afford him the opportunity again December. The Minis- windfall, but to bear in gible beneficiaries will to care for his teenage siblings and he needs to pay salaries to two try urged in a statement mind this is a normal receive a once-off cattle herders he employs in the north. Continues on page 2 for recipients not to pay out to cover for the g r a n t o f N $ 2 5 0 0 expenses towards their (which include N$1 welfare for the month 250-00 grant for the month of November of December. The statement reads: 2018, and N$1250 “The Ministry of Po- grant for the month of verty Eradication and December 2018.) Floris Steenkamp Social Welfare informs From the month of JaYou do the crime, you do the time. The message is clear now that crimes against tourists all beneficiaries of old nuary 2019 onwards, age- and disability the eligible benefiand other visitors to Namibia will no longer be tolerated. You are guaranteed of a prison grants that as per usual ciaries will receive sentence if convicted. practice towards the their normal N$1,250 The three thugs, who were recently found guil- another man was sent to jail for six months for end of the year, the per month. ty of breaking into a South African tourist’s snatching a tourist’s back pack in Walvis Bay’s Ministry will be af- The Ministry of Povervehicle parked next to the lagoon in Kovambo central business district. fecting double pay- ty Eradication and Nujoma Drive in Walvis Bay, were on Friday Crimes against tourists will hurt Namibia’s ment in November Social Welfare urges sent to jail for ten months. There was no option international image as a visitor-friendly country. 2018 for the grant re- all beneficiaries to of a fine. The tourism sector is also one of the biggest cipients for the month ensure that these grants Immanuel Junior (28), Ian Harding (26) and employers in the country and a catalyst for both of November and De- are used for the welfare Herold Ipinge (29) were served swift justice, as local- and overseas investment and can simply cember 2018 respec- of the beneficiaries and the break-in occurred less than a month ago. not be compromised by criminals. their families.” tively. The prison sentences follows only weeks after Floris Steenkamp
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Kosie Pretorius honorary lecture
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Fatal bike Accident
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Another whale stranding
Ten months jail time for thugs who broke into tourist’s car
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16-yearold makes history Page 15