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The Namibian
Tue 13 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-08-06
Illegal farmers’ case goes to court
Theresia Tjihenuna
THE N≠a Jaqna conservancy in the Tsumkwe area will on Friday approach the High Court through their lawyers to get an order allowing the police to serve 32 respondents with eviction orders.
The !Kung Community of the N≠a Jaqna conservancy in the Tsumkwe area has said their land is being stolen and sold to people from outside their area and has called for government intervention.
Illegal farmers in the area have defied police orders to vacate the area and the committee has now decided to apply for what is called in legal terms a procedural substitute founding application to allow the police to serve the papers on the illegal settlers.
The lawyer representing the conservancy, Peter Watson from the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), says the application is in two parts.
“The first application is for an order for substituted service to ask the police to serve the main application instead of the messenger of the court. Once we have that order, the second or main application will be served on the respondents,” he explained.
He said the respondents have the opportunity to file their opposing affidavits and once all the procedural requirements for the application are met, the matter will be set down in court for argument and judgement.
Watson also said that he has been informed that the Otjozondjupa Land Board has received applications from over 41 people to register customary rights given by the late !Kung Chief John Arnold before his death in July 2012.
According to another lawyer representing the conservancy Willem Odendaal, who is also from the LAC, more farmers continue to occupy and fence-off land illegally in the Tsumkwe West area despite the order from authorities for them to vacate the area.
Approached for comment on the progress made in removing the illegal farmers in the area, the Chief of the Namibian Police, Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga, distanced himself from the situation, saying the matter has now been taken over by the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement.
Ndeitunga could not confirm if farmers have started to vacate the area or not.
Last month Ndeitunga boldly stated that those who defied the orders of the police to voluntarily remove their illegal fences in the area will face the full wrath of the law.
“The Land Act is administered by the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement so they are the ones who have to respond to that,” Ndeitunga said yesterday.
The Otjozondjupa Land Board declined to comment on the matter because the “process has not yet started”.
The !Kung Community of the N≠a Jaqna conservancy in the Tsumkwe area has said their land is being stolen and sold to people from outside their area and has called for government intervention.
Illegal farmers in the area have defied police orders to vacate the area and the committee has now decided to apply for what is called in legal terms a procedural substitute founding application to allow the police to serve the papers on the illegal settlers.
The lawyer representing the conservancy, Peter Watson from the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), says the application is in two parts.
“The first application is for an order for substituted service to ask the police to serve the main application instead of the messenger of the court. Once we have that order, the second or main application will be served on the respondents,” he explained.
He said the respondents have the opportunity to file their opposing affidavits and once all the procedural requirements for the application are met, the matter will be set down in court for argument and judgement.
Watson also said that he has been informed that the Otjozondjupa Land Board has received applications from over 41 people to register customary rights given by the late !Kung Chief John Arnold before his death in July 2012.
According to another lawyer representing the conservancy Willem Odendaal, who is also from the LAC, more farmers continue to occupy and fence-off land illegally in the Tsumkwe West area despite the order from authorities for them to vacate the area.
Approached for comment on the progress made in removing the illegal farmers in the area, the Chief of the Namibian Police, Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga, distanced himself from the situation, saying the matter has now been taken over by the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement.
Ndeitunga could not confirm if farmers have started to vacate the area or not.
Last month Ndeitunga boldly stated that those who defied the orders of the police to voluntarily remove their illegal fences in the area will face the full wrath of the law.
“The Land Act is administered by the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement so they are the ones who have to respond to that,” Ndeitunga said yesterday.
The Otjozondjupa Land Board declined to comment on the matter because the “process has not yet started”.
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