21 September 1994

1.50 (GST Inc.) Wednesday September 21 1994 . .~".~ " aSS"IVe 'boost for city, centre Sa:nlam -to invest millions • GWEN LlSTER BARRING unforeseen last-minute hitches yesterday, Sanlam will be the new owners today of an estimated 3 590 square metre prime business site adja cent to the Sanlam Headquarters in In dependence Avenue. The insurance giant is plex. planning a new prestig- It was believed that ious office complex and yesterday was D-day for Shopping~ mall is SanJam's option to planned. finalised and no last- While. th~ precise pur- Cont. on chasepncelsnotknown, i • ~ i . it is believed Sanlam will invest N$65 million in the development which includes both property and buildings. CHANGING SKYLINE ••• What is known as the 'Gathemann building' The good news is that and adjacent business sites are soon to be developed by Sanlam into a Sanlam will preserve the prestigious office block and shopping mall with undercover parking. The historical facades of the estimated cost of the project, including purchase ofproperty and buildings Gathemann building and as well as development, is about N$65 million. Saitlam also plans to retain 'Kroonprinz' as it is the historical facades of the old buildings and incorporate them into the known, and incorporate new complex. Photo: Chris Ndivanga them into the new com- N$23m for"Govt workers • STAFF REPORTER and recommend new conditions of . t H G· b service. PRIME Mims er age emgo The commission will be told to THE POWERS of took the unusual step of address- present its findingg for formulation in Unam Vice-Chancel-' ing the nation in a TV broadcast the 1995/96 budget. 10r,Dr Peter Katjavivi, last. night on the issue of salaries A Teaching Service Commission must be. clearly set for Government workers. will also be set up to address the needs down and regulated Geingob reassured public servants of teachers, Geingob added. according to the Com that salary increases would be coming He said the Government is still com mission of Inquiry's their way eventually .~He announced mitted to dealing with the problems of report on allegaUonsof that N$23 750 000 will be,used from workers and recognised that "it was mismanagement at the this year's budget to benefit mainly well nigh impossible" to survive on University. lower paid Government employees. four to five hundred dollars a month . All units set up by Geingob listed the categories of . Unions representing public service Katjajvivi within the workers to gain from the N$23m 'as workers are currently deadlocked in Vice-Chancellor's of nurses, 'welfare workers, cleaners, la- negotiations with the Government over fice must be rel~ted, bourers, watchmen, messengers, ag- salary increases. according to the report. ricultural technicians and stores of- Nantu, Napwu and the PSUN have This will allow ficers among others. He said the Gov- jointly called for the Government to Katjavivi to lead the ernment was "mindful of ... a need for urgently address the issue of salary . University's affairs in general increases across the board (in increases. They have warned that in ..... accordance with Coun Government) and we aim to address dustrial action could follow if demands cil's policies, the report this issue in the forthcoming budget." for a 29 per cent increase for lower adds. Geingob added that a national paid employees and 10 per cent for The Commission in wages, salaries and conditions of serv - higher paid workers are not met. its'report said that the ice commjssion would ~ set \,I~,to . Hr" - Cont. on page 2 re~ iew th(n~ istini s1tlary structf1-tt,· ....~,\. <:;ont. 0 1J..,p~ge 2 :' Katjavivi's powers should be limited Unam broke tender "rules From page I that the two Pro-Vice should be based on laid Bursar at Unam "ac- '-----' -----' Chancellors be given down procedures. quaints himself fully • GRAHAM HOPWOOD Unam Management independent powers * A policy favouring with the budgeting re- m4ndeattnrt whereoJhe lowest ten Committee wa~ domi- with acco.unta?i1ity ~o the .e~ployme n t of 9uirements of t~e Min- TENDER proce.dure~ have bee~ i ~ - det is not accepted, the awarding nated by .confuslOn. as to ,the CouncIl as Il!egal. m N ami blans should be Istry?~ Educat~on an?, nored.at t~e Umve~slty of Namibia committee fully motivate their award whetheflthad an execu- tenns of the Umverslty drawn up. the Mmlstry ofFmance. resultmg m fi nancial losses for the for ratification by Unam's Manage- tive or advisory function Act. * No more consultants "The Commission also institution, according to the Corn- ment or Council. ' and had had its deci~ A system of commit- should be appointed into noted a number of divi- mission of Inquiry report. No details of the cases where ten- sions arbitradl~ tees was also put f~r- line positions. sions and co.nf1i~ts . The Commissi~n, set up ~o.inves- der rules were broken by Unam changed. ward by the Commls- * Consultants should among the Umverslty tlgate alleged Irregularities at management were revealed in the As a solution the Com- sion as a means of avoid- have dear tenns of ref- community. The Vice- Unam, recommel!d~d in its report final IS pages of the report released l ~ mission urged that two ing the present "auto- erence. Chancellor was against that tender. regulatIOns be strictly to the press. Pro Vice-Chancellors be craticregime"withpeo- '" Unam should not the former Academy l...:a:d::h:e::re:d:.:to:.::lO:.::th:e:.ti::u::t:u:re;::.~ ___ ; i" -============== ; appointed to fonn the pIe running to Katjavivi have to pay part of an staff; the Director of executive core of the fordecisions.Aninterim employee's salary if a Strategic Planning, School focus management with committee system has funderwithdrawsa'top- .Richard Jacobs, had a Ministry m~n in Katjavivi. In addition it already \)e(!n approved up' grant. relationship of "open MINISTER of Education recommended that the according to the Coun- AftertheCommission hostility" with Pro Vice- and Culture, Nahas confusion over the com- cil press release. found that Unam was Chancellor, Terence Angula has just attended court over ,· fraud mittee's status be ad- On personnel matters operating without a Davies; there was con- a four-day ministerial con sultation meeting on dressed. the Commission said: bud,get and making only flict between the Vice- A MINISTRY ofHome Affairs official, Frederick "School drop-out and ado The Council in a pres~ * Salary scales should verbal pleas for money €hancellor and Regis- Ueriurika Nguvauva (33) appeared in the lescent pregnancies'" in re!~ase?bjected to o ~ be ratified and all future to the Government, it trar,ZachKazapua,over Windhoek Magistrat,es Court yesterday on a 'Commiss.ion' ·proposal contracts of employment recommended that the the offering ofjobs; there Mauritius. Among others, the charge of fraud. ' was a general division No details were available but, according to • , between staff and man- meeting discussed the cost I of wastage, causes of uncofirmed reports, the charges are believed to agement; and "a serious school drop-out, eco relate to an alleged passport scam. communication gap" nomic, social demo Nguvauva was granted bail of N$ 1 000 on existed between the graphic and health impli condition that he r.eport to the police three times Vice-chancellor and the cations ofschool drop-out a week - on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. students. and strategies for the man Secondly, he has been prohibited from enter "In conclusion the agement and for dealing ing or going within lOO metres ofthe Ministry of Commission called for with sexual harassment in Home Affairs. , "a serious effort to cre Educational institutions. Lastly he was ordered no(to Jeli v~t ~eJ9 uni~i ate a sense of commu The conference was or pal area without permissiori~f%iili~J~~ lg~tbl~ nity at the University ... ganised by the Forum for officer. ' '. ' the Management should African Women Educa work hard to improve tionalists (FA WE) in co human relations on cam- operation with the gov Young woman ernment of Mauritius. ' Govt pay increase abandons baby • FRANNA KAVA RI A TWENTY-TWO year-old woman who aban doned a new-born baby because she was jobless and ..I::Ao~~-tb,e.::M&g.i.§tf~~..(;oy~ ,. " " " ' , said he had beelY man" 'F<sum~b; onThuTsda)'\~,~~",:,:",,~';::' . ~;"~" ,- '';Y , more tha~ 30 pris- ' dated to speak to the The woman was arrested on Monday five days oners. She pomted out nation during yesterday after a baby boy was found dumped in the garage of that the department was . ,. a vacant house in Tsumeb. The baby was taken to -A mornmg scabmetmeet- THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, ex treme Iy sh ort-s ta ftiCl! • • the Lombaard Hospital in Tsumeb where his con WATER AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT and sometimes the war- 109. He also mcluded an dition had improved and he is now described as dens had to do other appeal to voters to regis being in good health. Invites work. ter for the coming elec- ChiefInspector Sean Geyser, Police senior spokes Those prisoners who tions. person said the suspect had been pregnant and had JAPANESE TRADING FIRMS had not been sentenced The Cabinet's deci given birth but did not have the baby with her. were not handcuffed for sion to broadcast the She had admitted giving birth to the boy but said which have either registered office or agent in the fear of violating their message to Government she was forced to abandon him because sh~ was jobless and homeless. She will be ch.aiged~Wjtl1 Republic of Namibia, or have representa~ve office in human rights.

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