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Assaulter wants job back

   This is unbelievable! A man assaulted his manageress and they are supporting him to get his job back. Who wants to / can work with someone that assaulted you? How can you even support such case? He smelt of alcohol and got aggressive and now some people comment that "maybe he just had a bad day". Unbelievable that is all I can say! - lucy

   Ja, denga odomu... You think you are the boss then you have all the power mos.. Respect your employees if you want them to respect you - Edward

   The bastard deserve to go, let him go and serve his Union for 18 years of alcoholism, stealing and ill-discipline. - charge him

   I am not supporting Shipanga to go back to work. He is one of the men in Namibia who are abusing women in this country. He does not respect the law . This is the Namibian independence country . He does not have the right to abuse and violent the human right law. Shipanga should go back to his home and learn to respect people ecpecial women. Point number one he was drunk during working hours and abuse his supervisor. What kind of a mess is that one. What kind of union is that one?, that is protecting the Shipanga the women abuser? You guys from the union go back and read the Namibian 's human right constitution and come back to tell us the content of it. In Namibia we are not going to tolerate and accept women abuser in our society. We are tired of sick men who are abusive us as women. You unionist what will happen if Shipanga will continue to become drunk at work or to abuse Moolman? We are tired tired of men who are abusive women in this country? - nuusiku

   Theft is an offence of dishonest, even if N$10. He was just a better employee but when he steal more especial from client he deserve to be fired at all cost. If I was the employer I would call back the butcher back serve him with suspension and fire him right away, retain all monies due to him and while at the same time suing him for any loss incurred as well as medical fees. I believe the union will be forced to hire an attorney to defend for another 18 years. There are many ways of killing a cat - tuhafeni

   @Ronnie - your own racist predjudice and hatred is exposed by your garbled comment. Shipanga was not fired 'because of 10 bucks' - he was fired 'after he assaulted his manager' ... ... "he allegedly lost his temper and punched her in the face knocking her onto the floor and then kicked her in the face and head repeatedly." ... In other words, he beat the crap out of the Woman - you choose to ignore this and instead play the Race Card in his defence. I'm guessing you don't have a problem with alcohol abuse either. Shipanga got off lightly. - zapata

   this is intorelable in the society since it only us women vicitimased to the beating,it s a shame; anyway he was just suppose to be transfered to the other branch if NAFAU want to work in a good faith. - priscilla niinkoti

   An absolute disgrace. How can the NAFAU defend the indefensible? There is no place for violence within our society, especially against women! I'm only sorry that his sentence was suspended. NAFAU; where is your integrity and credibility?? - David J Cartwright

   Whether the guy worked for 18 years is irrelevant! Did you see that woman's face? My goodness! This is not even a matter of debate! He comes drunk to work, steals from a client and then beats up the manager. Any one of those 3 offences are reasonable grounds for dismissal. There's just nothing this guy can say to justify his actions. If he had a problem with the manager then he should've discussed it with her or with the owner in a civilized manner. That dude deserved to be fired and quite frankly deserves to be jailed! - Mervin

   Oh, my goodness, some unbelievable comments! I wish these writers were the ones to be beaten up so badly by an employee - drunk on duty and seemingly dishonest as well. I bet not one of them would keep this guy in their employ. Grow up the lot of you one-sided, individuals - this type of behaviour at work or at home is unacceptable and he definitely deserved to get fired. He knew better, and he will never be trusted in his position again, so he has to go. My bet is that Holloway followed the law absolutely. No wonder Namibia is in such a mess - few people accept responsibility, few behave professionally and oh, how convenient it is to always blame others, and the past, for the poor service and performance that is prevalent in Namibia today. Veritas - Vera

   This is very funny,, The guy work for 18yrs and all of the sudden he got fired because of 10 bucks that he has been accuse of. This Holloway guy, if this employee work for him for 18 yrs then he should know better by know that he is one of the most trusted employee that has work for him. And this Moolmann women why didn't she test all the employees in the morning when they report for duty, It is clear as daylight that she failed to act as a manager . This employee is not stupid to just get up a bunch a women in the face, there has to be a reason from point of view she either insulted him or was racist , It could also be that she acted out of jealous of the guy working for 18 yrs at the Stiltz . This to me is a joke!! Holloway should have done his homework before making such a decision ,,, . I am very happy that NAFAU is taking this matter into their hands to solve this problem as it has not been handle quite right. From the start its a one way traffic for Moolman and Holloway . But they forget that we have a black government that is look into this kind of simple matters,,,,. You cannot employee somebody an through him away like a dog those day are gone. Please note next time call the namibian police they are there to solve crime,,, not the so called neighbour hood watch. - Ronnie

   working for 18 years and suspended for bieng drunk and a kickbox in duty,, doesnt match at all ! - undari amon

   The Manager correctly pressed charges for assault and the employer wrongly fired Shipanga without having been found guilty by a diciplinary committe. NAFAU must ensure that an members are treated fairly by employers, irrespective of who was involved(man or woman) - MULUNGA

   Come on. Invest your time and money in local businesses. There isn't any risk involved. Sure your barman can beat the snot out of your manager, but it would be unconstitutional to fire them without making sure that they weren't just having a bad day. Skynet where are you. - Grant Kendal

   Be a man, find another job.... Union stop wasting memebers money, provide him with a salary vs expenses for court case - Marius

   I think no one can suport violence against any one,but the bone of contention here is the fact if displinary healing was not in line with the labour act and in this case climinal charges would have been laid but not both by dismissing and laying charges aginst the duo.breather lyser is also not justified in terms of our consititution and the court could not proove to us if the said results were made visible to any police oficer who made the arests in order to subsintiate the charges aginst the employee.this a miscaridge of justice if this is what is hapening and left unchallenged. - Phillip Munenguni

   I think irrespective of the money that was lost or the time the suspect worked at the place he should at least have respect for a woman and him being a bar man drinking on duty is already and offence if it is true and why did the supervisor conduct the test without a witness because its the suspects word against hers coz without any evidence they cant really get rid of a person without any evidence ,but he deserves to be punished for the assault so that he doesn't repeat it again woman and children are not punching bags they are our mothers and children Mr. Shipanga the union is confused really they should learn to prioritize situations and not act based on what they think is right. - Anonymous

   @Hilma Negonga, i totally disagree with you, you cannot dismiss someone from the word go without giving him a fair chance to explain himself or herself, that amount to a summary dismissal. a corrective measure would have been taken against this guy, to demote him, take him for anger management program or transfer him to a different department, this are all good alternatives instead of summary dismissal. he worked for 18 years, to send him back to the street given this unemployement rate is absurdity and not in the interest of society. - Ngunovandu Mwatje

   18 Years service, and still being fired like a dog while they can solve it amicably . My though is does that manager know how to operate the breatherlyser , or is it a pure make up allegation the owner himself could have back stab Shipanga with his manager - jay jay

   18 Years service, and still being fired like a dog while they can solve it amicably . My though is does that manager know how to operate the breatherlyser , or is it a pure make up allegation the owner himself could have back stab Shipanga with his manager - jay jay

   I think no one shld support violence against women, but then at the same dismissal shld be according to procedures as laid out by the labour Act. i believe the reason why the court suspended his sentence was because of the mitigating factors which included his work and family support foremost. similar the employer in my opionion would have seeked for one recourse only, either to dismiss or lay a criminal charge only - but to go for both redress amounts to unfair dismissal which is contrary to the Labour Act, 2012. - King Martin

   tourists say they left 20$ shipanga returns with 10$ after questioned the whereabouts of the other 10$ then suspected as drunk on duty test performed angry that he did not pocket the 10$, breathalyzer test performed, results positive, kick boxing, police, guiltly, sentence, What proof is there that the tourist ever left the 20$,Im working in the tourism industry, tourist are having unbelievable attitudes when they cannot stretch their budgets. - LG

   its unions like Nafau that are encouraging violance against women in this country. - anonymous

   No matter an employee commit a serious offence disciplinary procedures must be followed for fair dismissal. - matty

   This guy should not be allowed to come back to work. He will kill somebody because of his violent temper and all the other colleagues will be scared working around him - hilma negonga

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