A heated debate was sparked recently in the National Assembly when the Congress of Democrats’ Nora Shimming Chase, on the issue of the President’s Pension and other Benefits Fund Bill, asked if the president had more than one wife, whether they all would be entitled to a share of the former president’s pension upon his death (The Namibian, ‘Questions of Polygamy, Bigamy Trip up law on Package for Presidents’ October 14, 2004).
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