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Thursday, October 24, 2002 - Web posted at 8:45:14 GMT Khomasdal business complex plan raises school concerns CHRISPIN INAMBAOA ROW is brewing over plans to build a business complex near a school in Khomasdal. |
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The Windhoek City Council has instructed the Augustineum Secondary School to move its main entrance because a plot opposite the main gate on Florence Nightingale Street has been earmarked for a multi-purpose business complex. There are concerns that the school could struggle with gate control as pupils will flock to the new complex. "If something like that happens it will not be conducive to discipline, learners will stream there," a senior teacher said of the planned new complex. Some residents also fear the Municipality will bulldoze the business complex plans through without consulting the school and other stakeholders. Some of those in favour of moving the gate say that the current location inconveniences motorists as taxi drivers stop there to pick up and drop passengers. Ipupa Davids, the City of Windhoek's spokeswoman, said the main entrance at Augustineum "is built on Municipal land ... it is not where the gate should be". She said the school had been asked to look for "an alternative gate" as the land where the main entrance is located was recently rezoned to business from residential. Davids said the plan to build the complex was in an embryonic stage and consultations were still taking place with the Ministry of Basic Education and the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication. Ambrosius Agapitus, Director of Education in the Khomas Region, this week confirmed he "has received such information" about the plans, but could not give further details. |
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