* TODAY: KIGALI FALLS TO REBELS * CLIMBING',HOUSE ·PRICESTO.STOP * FINANCE NEWS * Bringing Africa South Vol.3 Nu....... N$1.50 (GST Inc.) Tuesday July 51994 - ...... Geihgob to USqnd "·World CUp' Borehole probe now PRIME MInister Hage Geingob 'lumbia College in Chicago. takesotTfor a 15-dayomcial ,151tto Cbicagoyfill also be tbe. venue for the United States of America on a series ofmeetings with investors 'in the final stages' Friday. interested ~ Namibia. Geingob is set to visit Chicago, In LosAngelesthePrlme Minis­ Los Angeles, Q!lk!a.nd,New Yoik tera!1d~ ," delegation will meet • CHRISTOF MALETSKY Brits attributed the long wait to the fact that they had had to visit an the and Detroit dunng 8' tour 'mainlY wJa.thep~~ts,n'l~oanhneJD- , THE 'internal committee' probe in­ regions concerned. aimed at promoting ' inv~tment in. hers of tbe African Development I' stituted four months ago to investi­ Earlier Geingob said he had ex­ Namibia. $-"" , / Publtcln~tCorporadonand gate allegations that two Ministers pected the report to be finished by the While in California the SQCCer- Location~todiscusstbeuseof received boreholes drilled and con­ end of March. loving Prbite MfiVster will attend Namibia as it location fOl Holly­ structed with drought aid money " is If not submitted by Thursday this tbesemJ-flnalsandflnaiotthe-Wol'ld wood mm-mak.efS. in the final stage" and would be sub­ week, Namibians will have to wait for Cup.as a guestf!fQlltex NamI\Jia's Next ~p tor the delegation will mitted to Prime Minister Hage at least two more weeks as Geingob Managing Dir~or:, Paw Blaucb. be the pOrttown ofOakland which Geingob shortly. leaves for the United States on Friday Another highlight will come on ·r~ntly ,betame the tWin city of This was confmned by the chair­ and will be baCK in his office by July July!! when; , ~fDgq~ receives.an · ~, person of the four-strong committee, bonolJtrv doCiOrilte"in lawWm'Co- 25. ~ . ·'x·,1V,ho •. ' .. wk. w., .'W' ~M,)M,Ml' ,.,,f,K ",;."'.: ·,·, .. ,';'·4#:.~t""":'H4"J, ,,<>""", ... OM .. ,~.. " %*,,£ I Willie Brits, who said they' would Yesterday Brits was unable to con- pass on the report to the Prime Min­ Swakopmund ister "very soon". cont. on page 2 row to to Ministry I;::;;;========================'11_ ... ... CHRISTOF MALETSKY A PETITION by 1505 homeowners and OkahanoJa pUpIlS tenants at Swakopmund is to be referred to the Ministry of Regional, Local Gov­ , stick to demands ernment and Housing by the coastal .., .... _ CHRIS NDIVANGA town's Town Council. ,,,.. ~:r-01t..:,,;,~ A decision by the Town Council last month to ~~ GRADE 11 and Grade 12 pupils at the raise assessment rates by 22,5 per cent provoked a Okahandja Secondary School have vowed to strong protest from the Swakopmund Residents' continue their class boycott until next Monday, Association (SRA) who demanded an increase of a spokesperson told The Namibian yesterday. not more than 15 per cent. Manuel Ngaringombe of the Students' Rep­ The petition was offic~ally submitted to the Town resentative Council said pupils had decided to Council at its meeting last Thursday. carry on with the boycott until the Ministry of Although the Town Council earlier appeared Education and Culture sets a date on which reluctant to budge on its position, it is now to refer textbooks will be provided to the two grades. the petition to the Ministry to help them decide on If the Ministry does not deliver the books or their next move. set a date for when they will Oe delivered, the At Thursday's meeting the petition was handled pupils will consider other steps on Monday. according to Municipal standing rules which al­ Pupils boycotted classes for the third day lowed no debate. While the matter was referred to running yesterday to back their gemand for an the Management Committee for discussions, reli­ audience with a representative from the Minis­ able sources indicated to The Namibian that they try of Education and Culture. would approach the Ministry for assistance. Ngaringombe told The Namibian there is a So~rces in the Municipality as well as at the shortage of Development Studies and Business Ministry did not rule out the possibility that the Studies books in Grade 11 and of Business 199411995 budget might be adjusted as a result. Economics, Accounting and Biology books in The SRA claimed most people wanted to know Grade 12; as well as in some lower classes. what they would pay after the new evaluation of .Ministry spokesperson Johannes Tjitjo yes­ property in 1995 . terday said the cause of the problem had been About 171 residents from Mondesa who signed -~ traced. The Ministry had discovered that an the petition complained that although they paid order had been placed in June this year but had service fees the Municipality had done nothing to been "blocked". recover around N$855 000 it was losing from the Tjitjo could not explain why the order had single quarters who did not pay for water and cont. on page 2 cont. on page 2 2 Tuesday July 51994 .THE NAMIBIAN TCL deadlock 'Varsities link over N$1/2m book gift • TOM MlNNEY em Africa. It is not likely that the that computers and elec­ drags on ... The number of creation and expansion tronic infonnation tech­ CO-OPERAnON between the University Namibian students used of Unam would have hit nology will play an ever ofNamibia (Unam) and the vast University of • CHRIS NDIVANGA to be l300-1400butis the number of students, bigger part in university South Africa (Unisa) is to grow. It could now down to 800, study­ as the experience in exchanges. He s.aid that TIlE Mineworkers' UnionofNamibia(MUN) include recognition of coUrses done at either ing some of Un is a 's 300 Cape Town was that it using computers it will will meet TCL llUlIl&gement next week in an university, exchange of staff, training help courses ranging from did not affect numbers. be possible to send in­ effort to resolve a dispute over wage negotia­ and information exchanges. business, accountancy, . Katjavivi says de­ fonnation from one uni­ tions for workers at Tsumeb, Kombat and and law to social stuaies . mand is strong for versity to another almost Otjihase mines. This was the message Unisa is mainly a cor­ and science. Unam's distance learn­ immediately and lec­ when Unisa vice-chan­ ~spondence university, Interest if! -studying ing . (correspo~dence) tures and research can MUN General secre­ company after the par­ cellor and pri~cipal . one of the biggest in the seems to be 10w~r in coUrses and this may af- be ~nt this way. tary Peter Naholo said ties disagreed on June Manus Weichers yester­ world, and i~ t~aching NariUbia than in some fect Uhisa. 'He spoke with pas­ the issue had been re­ 28 and 29. The next day donated 5 000 students all over so.uth- neighbouring countries. Weichers pointed out sion of Namibia, having ferred to directors of the meeting could be on July books, worth some visited many times over 13, Naholo said. N$550000, to the Unam the past 30 years. Geingob "At the last meeting library. Weichers helped in the company failed to This was the contents processes such as draw­ respond accurately to the of the Unisa branch li­ ing up constitutions (in­ "Qompagel issues of the dispute and brary in Namibia, set up cluding for the Turnhalle threatened to liquidate Walvis Bay. In New York in 1964 before even the appointed rulers before and close the mines," he Geingob will meet offi­ Academy was dreamed independence) and said. cials from the Offit Bank, of, and Unisa students South Africa's 1970-71 Nahol0 said the union the foreign editor of the in Namibia will now World Court fight. "had negotiated in "good Wall StreetJournal and a have the full right to use Unam librarian faith and has lowered its Brazilian delegation. The the Unam library facili­ Kwame Avafia from demand from 20 percent visit will end in Detroit ties. Ghana said he hoped to where the Prime Minis­ to a 19 per cent increase for al1 workers who earn Unam Vice-Chancel­ get help from Unisa in ter will meet African lor Peter Katjavivi wel­ preparing for a new li­ American businessmen. N$ 1 000 and more. In addition the union sug­ comed Weichers and brary building. Accompanying Geingob said he hoped to sign a gestedaminimum wage Unisa already has a on the tour will be the formal agreement before Minister of Agriculture of N$ 1 000 at TCL co-operation agreement Nangolo Mbumba, mines. long. He added it made with Pretoria and is ne­ Deputy Minister ofTrade He said the union and sense for Unam to help gotiating with Zimba­ Wilfried Emvula and has adopted a wait and Unisastudents wherever bwe, Gabon and SA uni­ other senior government see attitude until the next possible and to work to­ versities. Unisastudents officials and business round of negotiations. gether as "at the end of in Namibia are encour­ people. The delegation TCL management could the day we are both em­ A CONCOURSE OF VCS as University of South Africa vice-chancellor aged to visit the Unam arrives back in Namibia not be traced for com­ powering our Namibian Marius Weichers yesterday gave N$SSO 000 worth of books the library of library and fmd out about on July 24. ment. people". Unam under Vice-ChanceUor Peter KatJavivi. using the books there. Swakop protest to Govt Okahandja boycott NUNW tenders for a the town and surround­ (. From Pale 1 From page 1 said the pupils felt that ing townships. Accord­ since the beginning of ,electricity.