R1.00 (GST Inc.) Monday March 23 1992 inistr .. s~ac s' '(" Throat cut at sea In Govt war 'on corruption / PEOPLE are wondering what drove a Namibian IM m m _. .1 STAFF REPORTER I. "[,jlhw-.>. ill" . 4 b\1*1 .!., . I fiS h er on Fn' d ay all eg edl y ".' . ",'t-m !il§'~.".~_,~%x+. .,;· M~ • . to slit the throat of a fel­ THE Ministry of Health low crew member as he stood at the boat's winch. and Social Services an­ Faroe Islander Olaf Vigda nounced on Friday it had was popular and bad years of dismissed 22 of its em­ experience of fishing offWalvis ployees, and took the Bay. ' He died in the afternoon, highly unusual step of apparently as his boat, Ferina publicising their names. Sun, was fishing at sea. The employees were dis­ A Namibian crew member missed for allegedly being guilty reportedly attacked him in full of either theft, fraud, misuse of view of fellow crew. Government property, continu­ Vigda's friends tried to save ous absence from duty or being him but were unabIe to slow under the influence of alcohol. the bleeding and he died soon. The move was announced South Africa Police were on barely 48 hours after the Cabi­ MYSTERY MURDER ... Popular OlafVigda (left) who hand when the boat came back net made known last week that to port in Walvis Bay and ar­ it would act promptly and died tragically on Friday afternoon after a fellow fisher -. rested a man. decisively to address the rec­ allegedly stabbed him while their rlShing boat was at sea At the time of going to press, ommendations of the Frank off WalVis Bay. Here.he is with friends at a Seamen's no further details were avail­ Commission of Inquiry into Mission in the town. able. theft and fraud of Government property and funds. In its statement on Friday, the Ministry of Health said it bad taken the unprecedented 'Not guilty' verdict step as part of its responsibil­ ity of accountability to the Namibtan nation. In addition the Ministry said . in ·Liideritz m urd er it had decided to make the information known in an at­ tempt to .curb the widespread misuse of Government prop­ High Court drama as two state erty and misappropriation of Government funds. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL ••• Prime Minister The Health Mini st~ aalso witnesses charged with purgery .• wamed all employees, mespec- Hage Gemgob took tIme out from. a busy sports pro- tive of rank, as well as the THE case in the Wind­ be Kaipa's best friend, was a gramme at the.Independence StadIum on Saturday to public at large, that "the strong­ ROLAND ROU11-I hoek High Court in which liar, a thief and a dagga smoker. throw a lunchtime Independence party for the elderly est possible measures" would a man faced charges re­ He said Majiedt bad made a at the People's Primary School in Katutura. One of the be take against anybody found lated to the brutal murder mitted, the Prosecutor had been poor impression on him and old-timers shows the Prime Minister the way. Also ~ of nusconduct. of an I8-month-old baby unable to prove beyond rea­ that his testimony bad to be pictured at the back are, from left, Regional Commis- ' The employees dismissed on and the rape of the infant's sonable doubt that Kaipa had rejected. sioner Neville Angermund, and deputy minister of Justice charges of alleged theft/fraud, committed the crimes. Judgc< Strydom added that Vekuii Rukoro. To page 2 mother took a dramatic In addition, the testimony of although Majiedt bad identi- turn on Friday. Majiedt and Markus bad to­ fied Kaipa as the attacker, the David Kaipa was found not tally conflicted with the state­ court bad heard testimony that guilty by Judge Johan Strydon ments they bad given to the it was quite dark on the night New fonns in year three and walked out of court a free Namibian Police at Liideritz. of the attack. ••• man. The case followed the The Judge said he bad con­ Immediately afterwards coldblooded murder of a baby sidered the fact that semen bad Red faces, pink slips and Rhodesian Railways Judge Strydom ordered that two girl, Johanna N dwelago been found on Kaipa's boxer state witnesses in the case, Shikifanusba, and the raping shorts, but said this was not AMA.ZtNG old stationery is still in circulation in Namibian are obviously still being pho­ Petrus Majiedt and Gabriel of her moth~r , Ronna Haikali, enough to convict Kaipa. two years after independence. tocopied or duplicated from old originals. It would only Marlcus, be arrested and charged at Liideritz on July 17 last year. Judge Strydom concluded by Are the Ministries still full thrifty is good, but one would with purgery. The crime sent shockwaves saying that he bad bad no alter­ of old stocks or do the people hope that more change would take a quick change or two to a The judge said that while throughout Namibia. native but to find Kaipa not in stationery departments love appear on the forms after two foml to reflect our ne~-Ftion. lhere was no doubt that the Judge Strydom said that guilty on both counts - of rape to live in the 'good old days' years. And if the stocks are s t~ going brutal crimes bad been com- Majiedt, who had claimed to and murder. before independence. Being Some of the offending forms To page 2 (! ...r.t_ 2 Monday March 23 1992 THE NAMIBIAN Adding to the South Afri­ cans' woes were two dubious decisions by umpire Brian Aldridge. SA opening bowler Meryick Pringle should have had Eng­ land hero Giaham Hick twice in the space of three balls. His first delivery to Hick appeared snaked through to rap the batsman on his pads. Hick looked plumb in front, but umpire Aldrigde ruled other­ wise. Then, two balls later, Hick steered a Pringle outswinger into Wessels' hands at second slip only for the same umpire to call 'no ball'. Granted two lives, Hick made COOL FANS .•. Also among the large aowd that attended Lucky Dube's show at the the most of them to smacknine fours in his brilliant 83. - Sapa Independence Arena, marking Namibia's second independenc*-, anniversary on * See report, page 12 Saturday, was this music crazy family. transactions seem to use the use "excess fare" forms which sary Namibia will have a few South African Reserve Bank are already headed TransNamib more forms suited "independ- ~, forms, so people wishing to fo_ most purposes until then. ence. .: -;; ~:_, •.•. ~ invest here with financial rand At least the price of the ticket * In the meantime, please have to fill in f01llll! about Swth has only increased from R5 to send examples of forms which strong, in some cases 12 years Africa with no mention of R8 over the period! offend to the editor out of date, how many more Namibia. Maybe by the third anniver- years before we see our inde­ Some South African insur­ pendence reflected in the pa­ ance forms still ask your race, 8A8-Mft pers that make up so much of while, red-faced, the commer­ TraIn I"u. official life? cial banks were last year busy Treln ult... iklng Some cases of offence re­ phasing these out many months WINDHOEK cently brought to the newspa­ after independence. Even some N~ 024687 COOL DUDE! He came, he thrilled and he surely won per include the admission forms tax forms still seem to work on the hearts of the Namibian musiclovers who packed the still in use at Etosha national the old population grouping agoo Independence Arena in Katutura on Saturday - reggae park last year; which asked for system. king Lucky Dube. Photographs: Conrad Angola number of children, number of Pick of the crop is the ticket dogs and then, in a third and issued to people on the sleeper lower class, the number of train from Windhoek to Walvis servants. Luckily someone Bay, and apparently still in intelligent and armed with use. ''Not valid over lines of lJecIcIinI Tkket/Bedkurt.lie Brutal 'murder typing correction fluid erased Rhodesia Railways North of a-Iptfor ..... for hire of ONE SIT flllecIcJlnt these hints of a bygone era by Bulawayo" it reads, showing it K~tansIe Ylr kaste YJr huIIr yan EEN STEL beiddejoecL the middle of last year. Other­ is in use at least 12 years and 'V.aIId rw 011. IIJIbrobn Jour.ney If' presented Intact wJth Bedelln, Aaimdut'. cbecIc. ' . ' ~se ~ many tourists ,miabt probably many ~ore since it of2-year-old have got the wrong idea. was printed. "SAR" it has at , '- Geldlr vir een ononderbroke r.e/$ u die Rle van cI,le becIbuorpr se t~ afpsburll nle. ' • One business looking for a the top - so much forindepend­ royalty agreement found of­ NOTE: An "Wtbroken" Journey I. one uncfertalcen by • ~ier from THE Namibian Police on Friday confirmed the brutal ence. point ~ point wlliflout chlAgklg from one train ~ aneither ac;epc In che fence at the form issued through A spokesperson for _ of 1/1 aCCIdenc or due ~ odIer unforewen Glrcumstancas. rape and murder of a two-year-old girl. a bank which asked how nUmy TransNamib said they are now OPMINONG: '0 "OnoJlderbroke" reil Is 'n reil _c van _ plak Ra '1\ Earlier on Friday The Namibian published a report white, black and coloured printing new tickets which will u_ afIeII-.t _der cIat die pusasler Ya/I HI! treln In 'n ....... 001'0 ,nap.