Bringing Africa South Vol.3 No.338 NS1.50 (GST Inc.) Thursday January 271994 Guibeb in·centre STAFF REPORTER THE Windhoek City Council last night basi­ cally gave a South Af­ of travel conflict rican developer, which includes Pick'n'Pay, the go ahead to pro- ceed with plans to set up shop in the capital. Erven 7033 and 7034 in the city centre were Auditor-General is investigating "s u s pensi v ely" awarded to Retail I Property Projects, one 1------ ---------------------------------, CHRISTOF MAlETSKY of two bidders for the plots. RPP's bid includes THE Auditor-General is giant supermarket chain Pick'n'Pay and investigating a decision by Foreign, a cinema and other de­ Affairs permanent secretary partment stores includ­ ing Dions and Clicks. Andreas Guibeb to give · the T he tender award is Ministry's annual multi-million subject to negotiations on RPP fulfilling cer­ travel account to an agency, known tain Council require­ ments. as Travel Afrika, which is These include a ve­ reportedly unlic.ensed with lATA. hicular bridge, parking lA TA is the International Air Transport Associa­ requirements, traffic tion and the appointmenl of lATA travel agents is fl ow and pedestrian done through Geneva. traffic .and pedestrian Other Ministries are also being given directives to movement. make use of Travel Afrika which already handles Pending a satisfac­ "70 per cent of Government travel bookings" ac­ tory agreement being cording to a Travel Afrika spokesperson. reached, the land will It is also being alleged that the serv ices of Travel be sold to RPP for N$3 ' "l! million dollars. Afrika have been used by Fore ign Affairs since Should no agreement early October last year. despite the fact that the be reached within 60 company was not re gistered unti l late November or days from the Council CLOUDS OVER CAPRIVI ... The view from the air when The Namibian's reporter new North December. This would have implicati ons for the Resolution, the matter yesterday for the official opening of the third phase of the Trans Caprivi Highway, which was collection of GST. Until October. the Ministry had been utilising the completed in December. Namibia is experiencing good rains in most part of the country at the Cont. on page 2 moment. See also, p3. Photo: Josef Motinga Cont on page 2 Controversy over MP's taxi permit taxi is a car which operates in Rehoboth TOMMINNEY and has a permit. He added he does have a minibus which operates to and from POLICE ARE investigating allegations Windhoek but said this was only for his of forging and uttenng overa taxi permit farm employees to use. issued to Dr Ben Africa. a member of Africa also confirmed his driver was Parliament for the Democratic stopped by traffic police on Friday and Tumhalle Alliance. Issued with a ticket for carrying passen­ Police spokesperson ChiefInspector gers. He added that the driver Jansen Sean Geyser confirmed last night po­ Kasona sometimes waits at the taxi rank lice are investigating the allegations in the centre of Windhoek apparently but no-one has been charged or even while dropping the farm employees. He cautioned and no-one had been arrested. said Kasona sometimes does take pas­ He confirmed the pub\" c transporta­ sengers who approach him but added tion permit being investigated was is­ Kasona was very honest and he trusted sued under Africa's name. Accordmg him and got along with him well. to sources it stemmed from an incident He confirmed police held Kasona in a on Friday when a minibus belongmg to room at the police station for most of Africa was stopped on th~ R~h oboth yesterday afternoon and then released road carrying passengers and th ~ ~r­ him. but said he did not know what this mit was shown to police. was about. At his farm near Windhoek. Africa Africa also alleged that many taxi denied any know ledge of the investiga­ tion or any forgery. He said his onl) Cont. on page 2 . - ~ -. ...... ..- ........... " . Taxi controversy .;. Shipanga liof'guilty of fraud [ . From pag-e1--] "I wanted to hit him re­ ally." admitted Africa. saying he was very angry business problems as Bailey had intimidated was not entitled to a sec­ of the application fomls of the application foml stemmed from Baile){ 's his driver. CHRtS NDIVANGA ond passport as she al­ nor the said passport. but the original could not transport and that on Tucs­ John Bailey said he did ready had passport is­ Hangula told the court be found in the "strong day Bailey was threaten­ not want to comment on A PROMINENT Windhoek businessman sued in her name. that there was no way room", ing his driver at the taxi the row but said he did not was yesterday acquitted on a charge offraud Eveline Aluteni, the forms cou Id be Kandetu told the court rank. He said when he ar­ know Africa's driver and in the Windhoek magistrates court. As a result of the sec­ traced. that it was nomlal pnx'e­ t rived he called Bailey to denied he had threatened ond application. Aluteni Hissubonlinate Lydia dure for the Ministry to settle the matter man to him. He denied that he Martin Shipanga was benefit of the doubt be­ was issued with a sec­ Kandetu testified thal make copies of passport :1 man . but Bailey drove off was trying todominate the accused as the main per­ cause of a lack of evi­ ond passport (number Hangula had instructed applications for the po­ I, swearing at him. taxi business. petrator in a case against dence. 030225) issued qn Janu­ her to make a copy of the lice, ·t ary 28 1991 to her in the second application fonll. I, -;:::===============~ Eveline Aluteni (43) of Horn found both Louis Botes. defence :1 PRESTIGE DEVELOPERS Erfl586HochlandPark. Aluteni and Shipa!1ga name of Eve line Aluteni whereupon she had gone counsel for the accused. H KHOMASDAL who was accused of de- not guilty. Shipanga. to the "strong room said there was a lack of I 15 III Khoraluib frauding th~ .Govern- According to the Both passports were where she had got the evidence and as well as . •• ment by obtammg a sec- charge-sheet. on January exhibitted in court. original copy, "a lack of sequence" to * INo-aJsa IIMI Igaubals uha sals la ha!na Igao om d rt f th I' I ? on passpo rom e 7 1991 Aluteni had pre­ Called to the stand. She said she had made substantiate the evi­ .noas .aroma . M' . f H f tended in a passport ap­ two witnesses from the a copy. as requested. and dence. The second pass­ * !Gai mOlui !KhaibalS la oa? IIara !na-omde uha oms .lnlstry 0 ome A - ama.ele sa ha!Khais ase a diUKha sals 10 oa? faIrs. plication form handed to Ministry of Home Af­ had handed it to Hangula port was issued to * IIIullhusabahets a Igui lIasen !ni-!nioms lawa si Handing down judge- Frederick Nguvauva of fairs gave contradictory and had then returned the Aluteni on January 29 masaogu Isi !aumigusa. !gosase 1I0aJlaegu ai? ment Magistrate HJ the M inistry that she was evidence. original copy to the 1991 whereas evidence * Ne Igawiga ma didi ails ga .... ' limi !e~am oIs ge !gai Horn said while there married to Shipanga Erastus Hangula. "strong room", presented by Home Af­ IIKhoaha uha Isits ge !gai-i gui-e. sa Oib Ina I1llgao. were very strong suspi- when in fact she was not. deputy director respon­ Kandetu said that fairs the passport had * lita ge IIgarillgarivave sa Ikha a !Igam IIKha salsa cions about Aluteni. the The State charged that sible for Civic Affairs. some time later the po­ been issued to Aluteni II gari lamave sida di loaJamsa omdi di Igauga State had gi ven her the she also knew that she said he had not seen any lice had needed a copy on February 7 1991 . IIgau \si mi!ga!gahas !aroma. Tila IKha Ihaolhaoven re. ne III sMllllllawa !g6allllawa. Guibeb in travel conflict Si,cnni lawa 224656 Isi Oms lawa 216133 Adding insult to injury From page1 is the fact that both Guibeb and Pius Dunaiski are serv ices of the close associates of Ms TransNamib parastatal' s Richter. !t TransNamib Travel for Approached for com­ A. travel arrangements for ment on the lATA issue. PRESTIGE Foreign Affairs. There Ri chter told The il DEVELOPERS DESMOND KEIS was also reportedly a writ­ Namibian that she was len agreement to this ef­ both "lATA-trained" as ~ ~ fel't. well as an lATA member. ... However TransNamib Other sources in the air­ late last year sold off the line business. however. travel agency. whil'h is dispute this statement. now an independent com­ They claimed her ap­ pany (Trans Namibia plication to lATA was re­ Tours and Travel) in jected in January and she whkh the parastatal has a has thus far failed to put in minority shareholding. a new one. GHOST ROAD GONE , •• This used to be a gravel road and was called the L. On Guibeb's instruc­ Non-accreditation can 'ghost' road because of the many accidents that took place along it. Now We have moved our tion, in Ol'tober last year. have far-reaching and it is part of the spanking new Trans Caprivi Highway. The completed to staff of the Ministry were sometimes negative im- section, the third phase, stretching up to the Divundu Bridge in the Bagani ..l' ncrw premises for yOur told to start utilising the plications for travellers.