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__* '_TO_ ' _OA_~_:_C_ITY_J _FA_M_I_L_~_F_LO_· _O_D_E_D_"'.....;C_R_A.....;C_K_D_O_W.;..;;N..;;...;.;;.IN.;;..;Z;;;;.;.A...;;.;;M..;...B..;;..;I.;;..;A;...*_T...;...'A;.;;;.B.;;;;l..;.O.;;.;.;;ID;...1f..;...-Y;;...,;.. C;;...,;O;;...0;;;.,;N..;;...;.;;.M;.;;;.A;;;;,; "X;.;;.,W;;.,;E;;;.,;;;;l;;,;;l.;,;;;D;..,;;;EA;;.;;...;,;;;D_' *_....;.;:;. KCXJLt7 B~lnglng Africa South Vol.2 No.448 SOc (GST Inc.) Thursday November 7 1991 . I• u oze Squatters" homes mowed down DESOLATE ... Squatten search through their ripped STAFF REPORTERS up homes, looking for b« .ongings after the bulldozers . THE SHADOW of the bulldozer fell across Brak moved in yesterday. water yesterday when 50 people were forcibly evicted and their squatter homes demolished following a Swawek court order against them. 18 oil bids The bulldoz~r moved in to Swawek security guard, arrived EIGHTEEN oil companies mow down up to .20 houses at 13hOO, giving them a day to put in bids to explore for oil built in a riverbed on Swawek clear the area. otJNamibia by last Friday, land just beyond the turn-off to Several families were living according to a statement put Dobra. Also on the plot were at the squat, fwr of 1bem headed out by the Ministry of Mines houses belonging to white by men working at Swawek . and Energy yesterday. The Swawek employees and a ·who did not want to stay in the ministry says these are 'singles' camp formerly mean! camp without their wives and ''mostly from reputable for black workers. - children. international on exploration According to reports, 1bree other men were em companies". Swawek was awarded a sum ployed elsewhere in the area The latest statement also mary eviction order against the and six were unemployed. Some gave qlore clarity on how squatters on October 16 and 13 women were living in the soon the licences could be authority to remove them was settlement; the rest were chil awarded. Omcials will start granted on November 1. dren. evaluating the bids imme But the squatters claim to Following Rossouw's visit, diately and will start invit have been unaware of the situ \he squatters did not break down ing companies for negotia ation until Thesday this week tions and discussions early when Pieter Rossouw, a Continued on page 3 Continued on page 3 Floods all year round Students up in arms A HOUSE on the corner KATE BURLlNG worth of damage had been done of John Meinert and Van to her property during the last Rhijn Streets found itself back of the house which were household said he had been year and that she had not re JOSEPH MOTINGA in the middle of a torren soon swimming in mud. fighting with the Municipality ceived acent incompensation. tial flood yesterday eve The fact that it had happened for a year in an attempt to get "Look at it," she said, pointing STANDARD 8 biology students at Jan Jooker school before, however, did not the ancient water pipes replaced. to the ruined garden, "every are up in arms after writing a Ministry of Education ning when a nearby water dampen the anger of Angela '''They claim the pipes are OK time I plant anything, it just pipe burst for the fourth exam on Monday which they say did not match their Boenke, who rents the house and that there is adequate dIain gets washed away." . school syllabus. time in one year. from TransNamib. age away from our house," he Meanwbile Norman Ludwig, As a result the students allegedly did poorly. They told The The family living in the house "How many times has it got said as the water rushed around a 19-year-old Academy stu Namibian that some of them felt so demoralised they wanted to looked well practised as they to happen before the Munici his legs. '''They were here on dent living in the bottom room, drop out of school. stood knee-deep in water pass pality does something?" she Friday and finally promised to was struggling to rescue his "A year's hard work has been wasted," one upset student said. ing beds, wardrobes and other demanded. do something." things. Mattresses, books and Students also noted that if they failed maths, which was belongings out of rooms at the Another member of the Boenke said at least Rl5 000 papers were all sodden. He even generally a difficult subject, and biology, it meant failing the removed his pictures from the "whole exam". walls as the flood threatened to Standard Eight Biology teacher, T van der Westhuizen, told rise. The Namibian he agreed with the students. Further down the hill Hilton Van der Westhuizen said some questi()ns appeared to have Woodley gazed at his flooded been set for Std lO students, noting that in one case not even he ~ swimming pool. It had just cost . had known the answer to a question. a lot of money to repair and Van der Westhuizen said further that the questions and answers was now filled with brown for the Biology Higher levels did not match the syllabus. scummy water. "I had to rewrite the answers according to those in the syllabus As ·everyone marvelled at the students had learnt. I wonder where the examiner got the the past year of spectacular answers from," the baffled teacher said. flooding and even more spec Van der Westhuizen said he would be approaching the exam tacular Municipality hedging, iner about the matter. The teacher said he expected the students' Heidi Ludwig remembered a marks to be increased. previous drama. Pregnant and The Namibian was unable to trace the Director of Exams, PW asleep in the same room now Koopman, for comment. being baled out in front of her, Biology Subject Inspector, B Sonders, maintained that all she had been woken late last questions in the questionnaire appeared in the syllabus. ' December by water .rushing Sonders claimed that the only difference was that in the round her bed. "It was about memorandum there could have been scientific terms which the l1pm and the first thing I knew, students were not used to. we were already flooded. However, he maintained, this would not disadvantage the Imagine trying to get all this students because teachers would mark as correct the use of other lot sorted out in the middle of corresponding terms. : the night when you're so many F AMIL Y UNDER FLOOD ••• When '.s the municipality going to do something was the Sonders added that moderation would also be exercised to cry of this family, situated on the corner of Van Rhijn and John Meinert streets, as . months pregnant." their home faced an onslaught from a burst water pipe for the fourth time. Continued on page 3 " Remember last year's rush to get everything ready in time for that glorious Summer Holiday? This year we'd like to help you plan early for those lazy days in the sun by offering you sizzling summer fashions at the hottest prices! Stock up your suitcases now with big bargains in ladieswear, menswear, childrenswear and accessories. But remember - this offer is valid for two days only, while stocks last. 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