.. * TODAY; NJ,:\M TO BATrt E ON IVORY FRONT * B.~~ST. tQFJ 4 , BATTLE IN SA * SUPER WEEKEND SPORT * Bringing Africa South nection with alleged fraud after TOM MINNEY ·Frank's team of investigators uncovered alleged irregulari­ THE Frank Commission ties. ofinq uiry starts hearings This week offiCials are to again today in Windhoek be called from the North in with more witnesses from connection with housing is­ the North to add to last sues and the fact that state month's revelations from Corrupti9n probe back in Windhoek diesel seemed to be freely Owambo. available. " Two WinQhoek officials are The commission, headed by to be called back in connec­ Justice Theo Frank, is inquir­ Frank said last night he per­ had expected. own. There was a lack of con­ hoek-based civil servants in tion with the Namibian Po­ ing into misuse and abuse of sonally was "shocked" that He added much of the cor­ trol. " connection with alleged pen­ lice's communications sys­ Government property and the fraud, theft and corruption ruption had begun before in­ During the last few weeks sion fraud. tems. money. h has already resulted are so widespread, although he dependence' 'especially in the evidence which his inspectors A state prosecutor, Quintus Frank said he aims to hand in the arrests of 15 civil ser­ was not sure whether the scale North. The Owambo govern­ have given to police have led van Rooyen, has also been vants with more to come. was much worse than others ment was operating on their to the arrests of three Wind- suspended from duty in .con- To page 2 Rain relief for some in maize valley Slack work STAFF REPORTER ONE large drought-hit maize farm received heavy rains on Saturday, raising hopes that at least half the harvest could be retrieved. leav'esNam So capricious are Namib­ iau . ains that only the two next-door farms received even light rainfalls. The farm singled out for favour from the skies was Kalahari Holdings-owned De Rust, some 600 hectares in the at back of maize valley near Grootfon­ tein. h received an unconfirmed downpour of nearly 40 rnil- limNeetrl·ghes·bounn·g Jan NAMIBIAN FIRM TO DEVELOP IN SA •.• Wind- <,~armer hoek-based developer Sebastiano Grasso and the R25 the q U'e u e Engelbrecht says some rain also milli on block of Oats he hopes to build in South Africa. fell on his farm Hoba while at Behind are friends, businesspeople and other poten- , ' the farm Johannestal Eckart tial customers who viewed a model or the 60-0at Hoffinan says some ofhis fields Grasso Strand last week. See story,,' page'2. received light rains. I Engelbrecht, chair of the f-~======================~ __-:- ___-':' ___--, A::. 'Onomy Producer.s' Asso­ KATEBURLlNG ciation, is more optimistic than Ministry forecasts and says as THE AVERAGE Namibian worker produces less than much as 30 per cent of the a quarter of the goods turned out by a worker in the fields could still be saved in the Grootfontein area. He re­ Western Cape, and manages less than half the output of turned yesterday from a visit the average worker in South Africa. to Rundu and the Kavango and According to the findings of productivity levels managed by reports mahangu or pearl rnil- a recent survey carried out by 'industrialised' countries. let crops are still growing, but a firm looking to invest in TIPs put Namibia at a dis­ that harvests will be very poor. Namibia, an average Narnib- tinct disadvantage when it came Hoffman says he has already ian would make six pullovers a to winning contracts or encour­ written off his harvest and is day, while his/her South Afri- aging investment. starting to cut it to feed to can counterpart would make "The Government needs to cattle or to use for grazing. 16. In the Western Cape the investigate incentive schemes His association has put fo!'- average jumped again to 26. for Namibian workers and ward a nine-point plan for Calle Visagie of the First companies until a business ethic discussion with Agriculture, National Development Corpo- has been properly developed Water and Rural Development ration (FNDC) told the Youth in this country. At the mo­ Minister Gert Hanekom, due Employment confuren.:e, which ment, we just aren't able to back in his office today after a HAPPY OUTING ••• Children from Moria Kindergarten in Katutura enjoy a play- ended on Friday• that although compete," he said. trip to Brazil. away day in the Tintenpalast g'ardens and a visit to the State Museum. Children at South Africa's averages far Visagie also mentioned a Farmers often plant on credit outstripped Namibia' s, even from banks and other bodies the overcrowded kindergarten, who range from one to five years of age. they could not compare with To page 2 and the plan, set to be dis- I-.!============================:::;::===U-=::..::.......:..=.::.:.:....:...:..:::~~-==-____--...::......::... ____ 2i;:~~~~:n!a!:E:; =;:;:=:::t:~ [Decision soon on elephant trade 1·' cialareaswiththeirbankdebts African countries can be and to provide incentives for sold legally in world mar- them to plant next year. kets is to be argued fiercely Tourism Minister Niko Bessin­ which are calling for an end to Trade in Endangered Species growing elepb~ popula~ons Engelbrecht says Nambiia ger is representing Namibia's the ~orld ban on ivory trading. (CITES), which imposed a total and need to kill elephants to could still be self-sufficient in in Kyoto, Japan, from to- view, part of a five-nation front The debate is set to be hot at ban on ivory in 1989. limit their numbers. They want maize in future years. day. including South.Africa, Zim­ the United Natio;'s-sponsored The southern African bloc To page 2 Wildlife, Conservation and babwe, Botswana and Malawi Convention on International argue they have healthy and To page 2 I • 2 Monday March 2 1992 THE .NAMIBIAN Smaller farmers in his area DROUGHT have turned as much as four­ . from page 1 fifths of their farm to maize and even double-planted, Cabinet has been monitor­ spurred by the success of last ing the situation weekly, but year, and now face disasteJ . any aid measures have waited Farmers are saying this is for Hanekom's return. Food the worst drought smce 1962- National Asssembly appears to be running out for 3 and part of a 30-year.cyc1e appeared in weekend mood families in Namaland and other which led to earlier bad drought by the middle of Friday drought-hit southern and cen­ in 1932-3. Engelbrecht adds mornlng, after graceful de­ tral areas who depend on live­ that drought in southern Af­ bate in ':3mmittee over clauses stock. Grazing is finished and rica was apparently forecast in of the Namibian Communi­ water holes dry in many places, America as· long ago as last cations Commission Bill. forcing the lucky ones to sell June. The day started with several their livestock in bad condi­ Satellite scans of ocean compliments across the House tion and at low prices - others' temperatures revealed that a such as the DTA' s Bamey animals are dying in the fields. weather phenomenon called El Bames saluting many people According to Engelbrecht, Nino was set to cause floods in and Information and Broad­ larger commercial farmers still California and drought in south­ casting Minister Hidipo Ha­ have beef herds to rely on, ern Africa again. mutenya accepting an amend­ although meat prices· have Last night one experienced ment from the opposition's dropped 30 percent as farmers farmer in the area said the Anna Frank, a woman for whom in South Africa sell their ani­ weather is still hot but tem­ WELCOME GIFT ••. Netumbo Ndaitwab of the Namibian Foreign Ministry was Hamuteny~ said ·be had "pro­ mals because of drought and peratures are dropping, which obviously happy to receive a donation of books for the Ministry's library from North found respect". Namibian prices are set ac­ could be a sign of a "positive" Korean Ambassador, Kim Byong Gi, last Friday. Photograph: Grabam Hopwood Attorney-General Hartmut cording to South Africa. c~ge in the weather. Ruppel, after a battle with his microphone, proposed a novel FRANK gators are working full-time to technique, that after each clause uncover evidence onnew frauds Book boost for Ministry was amended ·the debate be from page 1 anf,i theft. adjourned while the secretar­ The commission directs their THE deputy minister of Libyans. Ndaitwah has re­ iat re-munbered and made other a first report to President Sam HELVIASINO Nuj<?mA next week and a sec- ' wode, suggesting areas that need Foreign AfTairs, Netumbo quested embasSies and high adjustments. Following debat~ more research or advising them ond in June. There are still Ndaitwab, received a do­ commissions in Windhoek, as across the floor, his idea was to drop other areas. If they many cases to investigate and hbrarian Anneline Ha:tutale said well as individuals, to donate rejected with Ruppel acknowl­ discover evidence of criminal nation of books on behalf the commission could continue North Korea had been the third books on topics such as poli­ edging' 'there's a lot of merit" behaviour they normally pass of the Ministry from the hearings until the end of the embassy to donate books to tics, economics, culture and in a suggestion by the ACN's this to police who decide Ambassador of the Demo­ the Ministry's new library which others to the Ministry's new Jannie de Wet was proposing, year. cratic People's Republic It ha:s stopped taking com­ whether to lay charges, arrest was established earlier this year.