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Mercedes banned 'Noble' Minister muscles out landless poor ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast's government, keen HARARE: The first person to benefit from southeast of Harare - to enacted last year allow· Act, after Agriculture to project a new image ofausterity, has banned Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Mangwende for five ing the State to confis- Ministry officers had purchases of Mercecles-Benz cars for minis "revolutionary" policy to seize white-owned years. This after the land cate land, fix its own recommended it did not and top civil servants. ters farm land for black peasant farmers, is Dr was prepared for the re compens~tion and deny qualify for resettleme~t "No more Merc:edes," said the headline in Witness Mangwende, the former Agriculture sett~ement of 33 peasant the owner the right to because the new owner, yesterday's official dally, Fraternite-Matln. Minister responsible for driving the families from the nearby challenge the seizure in Michael von Memerty, The decision was taken at Wednesday's controversial policy into law. overcrowded Wedza court. .'. was actively developing cabinet meeting. The government said it was communal farming area. Bath was among the the farm. He appealed part of moves to cut state expenditure after Sapa's Zimbabwe cor- l234ha cropping and The Government first 70 farms officially against the designation, January's SO per cent devaluation of the CFA respondent has estab- livestock estate with bought the farm in a designated for resettle- but was rejected. franc. - Sapa Iished the Government permanant river in the forced sale from a young ment last year in terms has leased Bath Farm - a Wedza district, l20km white farmer under laws of the Land Acquisition Cont. on page 2 ~ e · aSIDO OD car S N$30 million hotel complex planned at Swakop President TOMMINNEY A BEAUTIFUL railway station will be lashes at turned into a 75-room hotel and tourism complex with a casino, if a reported officials N$30 million deal goes ahead. Government-owned TransNamib is close to sign ing with Stocks & Stocks Namibia to renovate and CHRISTOF convert the Swakopmund station, once the corner MALETSKY stone of Namibia's railways. TransNamib marketing manager Dirkie Uys yes PRESIDENT Sam terday had "no comment" when asked about the Nujoma yesterday deal which was reported on Namibian Broadcasting slammed what he de Corporation radio news. He said a full stat!!ment scribed as "unpatriotic" would be issued once a deal is signed. members of the The aim is to start work as soon as possible, Namibian Police and maybe even this month, to finish by mid-December Wildlife, Conservation in time for the holiday rush. According to the NBC, and Tourism officers. work has already begun on taking up rail lines, The President charged ahead of the signing. they had been used by Swakopmund town clerk Eckart Demasius con the South African Police firmed yesterday that plans are with the council and • in a "humiliating act" said it was a "nice design" which was in keeping against a well-known with the town's planning rules even though southern ostrich farmer. SHIPSHAPE ... Members of the Brazilian Navy visited President Sam Nujoma at State House TransNamib was operating on its own ground and Nujoma's hard-hitting yesterday. The President revealed that the Brazilians will train a Namibian naval force. From left the proposal was even to rezone and pay rates. words came at the open are Commander Francisco Carlos Ortiz de Holanda Chaves, Captain Sergio Loesch Soares and He added it took considerable courage for private ing of the 20th annual Captain Julio Soares Moura Neto. They were accompanied by Brazilian Ambassador to Namibia, companies to invest so heavily on the basis of a general meeting of the Mario Augusto Santos. Commander Chaves will be stationed in Namibia for two years to head up future upturn in tourism. Namibia Professional training for the Namibian navy. Their ship, Frigate Niteroi arrived shortly before the reintegration The plans include a whole tourist complex, with Hunting Association ofWalvis Bay into Namibia. It will leave tommorow with Captains Neto and Soares. the original station "not touched at all, but reno President Nujoma praised the Brazilians for their willingness to train Namibians. Namibian vated" according to Demasius who says the hotel Cont. on page 3 Defence Minister, Peter Mweshihange was also present at State House. Photo: Tyappa Namutewa. Cont. on page 2 HAIl HAIl HAIl HAIl aAIl aAIl aAIl HAIl HAIl 3AIl HAIl 3An 3An 3AIl 3An 3AIl LIVE W.l IN THE MOST SOPHISTICIfED DISCO- b THEQUE ~ DON'T MISS THE TIP ~ PRESENTS RAPPERS OF SOUTHERN ~ TONIGHT AND TOMORROW NIGHT AFRICA Tel: 229066 • 41 Banhof Street g; ONLY :J LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LTVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE t:itday AAareH 4'l994 ~Ft'l!: Mt(Mlali\N '2 ,... ...... r ...... ___........ _ .... __ .... __ "' • ., ... ___ , . ..... _ . ... ' ._. ...... -... , . ...... _ .• ,._ Zim land issue say ing there were now two suit in a "vindictive land Major complex for Swakop forms of resettlement, one grab", that it would be Cop probe r----- -- - The scandal coincides for peasant farmers and a blind to the race of farm The proposed hotel From page 1 second that was ha noble LUANDA: Angolan In with deepening alarm over ers affected and was in LFrom page I ~ would be built by a new programme to assist genu tended to rei ieve the se terior Minister Andre Pitra In September, resettle the Government's cancel will be in a low U-shape. company, an equal joint ine black farmers regard vere land pressure of com "Petroff' has ordered an ment authorities pegged lation last October of The developers will ap venture with Stocks & less of their type of cur munal farmers, commer investigation into allega plots for the proposed set leases to 64 State-owned ply foragambling licence Stocks, rent employment". There cial farmers have had their tions that senior police tlers but were surprised to properties held by white once a law is passed, but According to records at was "nothing sinister" in worst fears confirmed. offir.ers have been traf be told they had to shelve farmers. Commercial this is not vital for the the Registrar of Compa Mangwende's lease, she White commercial ficking in stolen cars. their plans because farming sources said all development. nies, Stocks & Stocks said. farmers who offended lo A newspaper here pub Mangwende was moving had been released and "not The station was built Namibia has as "mem The first inkling Wedza cal ruling party officials lished an unsigned letter, in instead. one of them has gone to a about 100 years ago, un bers" Katutura Invest residents had that Bath and black opposition poJi said to be from a police The land issue has been known farmer". der Geanan rule. Now mentsand Zebra Holdings would not be going to ticians have had their officer, which described a one of the most bitter de The new lessees are sen TnnsNllmib .. wants to which includes Frans genuine settlers was in farms seized, and the gov '''well-organisid network" ~tes since Zimbabwe's io~ officers in the Zimba build a station ont\le main Indongo, Zimbabwe!'n November last year when ernment's power t6 "des ,of crime in 'the police in~epen_del,lce, wjth bwe National Army, the line-to WalvisBay, which Peter Chinetsa aAd Wind Mangwende atrived ilt a ignate" a farm has been transport department. Mugabe and Ml!Ilgweode Zimbabwe RePublic Po would be quicker, and councillor Immanuel farm in the area-, insisting Used frequently as a threat. hoeJc denouncing the "racist" lice, the Air Force ofZim more 'convenient for its Ngatjizeko all direclors. It named·three senior it ",IS his, inci'demaDding , Anthony 'Swire distrjbuUon which gave 4 ·babwe, the ~ntral Intel ·mainly business custom Stocks and.Stocks last officers, including the 000 white fanning fami ligence Organisation and to know why the faimer Thompson, president of occupying i( was 'stifl .the Commercial Fimiers' ers;Alinewhichonlygoes year bought Swapo's deputy director of trans lies nearly 30 per ~nl of topcivil servants, au~: to the station could be re Windhoek headquarters port in,the interior minis there. He had gone to the Union, commented: "The the country's surface area tative sources confirmed. moved. try, Daniel Manuel Gil, wrong address, and was whole rush in the acquisi for more than N$6 mil and squeezed nearly a mil Senior Agriculture TransNamib has not lion for a giant property who were accused of fal Ministry officials, who given directions to Bath. tion of conunen:ial land lion peasant farmers into hidden its designs on the scheme, and it plans to sifying the registration pa spoke only on condition The sources said Mi has supposed to have been 40 percent ofmost1y over station, holding a public build for the University of pers of vehicles stolen at of anonymity, said the Mangwende had been for resettlement We have worked and infertile land. architecture competition. Namibia. Luanda port. - Sapa-AFP The original section in current Agriculture Min given a loan ofZd200000 co-operated with the Gov the Bill of Rights guaran ister Kumbirai Kangai had (NS 100(00) by the State ernment all along. This is teeing "willing-seller, directed that Bath Farm owned Agricultural Fi a betrayal of confidence. willing-buyer" conditions be leased to Mangwende nance Corporation to fi "If Witness for rural land, which law despite appeals from offi nance this season's crop Mangwende or any other yers say is the basis for cials that this would be of maize, and he had paid Minister wants to farm, property rights, was abol " inappropriate" .