* TODAY: THE EUGENE AND JANI SOAP OPERA * IMKERHOF - WHAT NOW?"* NA DEADLOCK OVER FUNDING * ..... - - '---- ~. -- Bringing Africa-South - R1.00 (GST Inc.) Tuesday July 28 1992 f - Conti killer gets 17' ,years ~ 1jc ~v-..t . fora 'brutal and senseless' murder TYAPPA NAMUTEWA A SOUTH AFRICAN citizen who mer­ cilessly killed a security officer at a Windhoek hotel earlier this year was yesterday senftoJail for 17 years by the Winllhoek High Court. The presiding Judge, Jus­ ter staying in the Continen­ tice Hannah, found . that tal·Hotel for two days, his . Jacobus Hendrik Coetzee; . wallet had been stolen while from Kimberly had acted in he was drinking in a public a brutal manner when he bar: struck security officer As a result, he said, he Immanuel Timotheus oyer had had no money to pay the head with a huge rock. his hotel fees. Timotheus was murdered On the day of the murder, at the Continental Hotel on .he had decided to go and February 10. He died on the stew money fTom the ho­ spot as .a result of a broken tel's reception. On his way skull. he had noticed the security ---- MBATJIUA NGAVIRUE ---- During the trial, Coetzee man: who was sitting on a told the court he had had no chair. \ . THE AXE is set to fall on a large number of NBe intention of killing Tim- As he had to pas( the employees on Thursday when they will receive one otheus. " ' . security man, he had de­ month's notice of termination of employment, accord­ According to his evidence, cided to hit Timotheus with ingto a statement released by the NBC board yesterday. CRUEL BLOW ... Namibian welterweight champion Coetzee came to Nam:ibia a rock "only to make him The move will come as a burdened with a top-heavy Harry Simon on Sunday night lost out to a Puerto Rican to visit friends. devastating blow to those bureaucracy on the admin- boxer in a controversial points decision at the Olympic He told the court that af- Cont. On Page 2 dismissed while others will Games. See story, and more on Barcelona '92, on page be able to breathe a sigh of Cont. On Page 2 11, also pS. Photograph: Conrad Angula " reliefknowingth~months r-------------------~--------------------------------------~ of anxious waiting have come to an end The retrenchments have Lonrho·plan ... on target been on the cards for some time following recommen­ INITIAL stages of a giant sugar project that could tation, linked to a N amib­ dations made by a team of employ up to 4 000 people in north·eastern Namibia are ian sugar refinery: Local consultants from the Brit­ still on target. " . fanners in the eastern Ca- ish Thompson Foundation. The only factors that were Prime . Minister Hage London headquarters was privialso grow area sugarare expected and sell to L~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ not known was how many Geingob went to a working hosted by Robert Dunlop the refinery. The project would be retrenched and lunch in London with tWo and Paul Spicer. Also pres­ should also prevent Namibia whether the axe would fall deputy chairmen of multi­ ent were the board of direc­ from having to use foreign Omega Constellation goldlsteel gent's watch with date. equally in the news gather­ national Lonrho on Friday . tors of Lonrho and Bob exchange on importing sugar Scratch-resistant ing sections and the admin­ and heard that the first Meiring, director ofLonrho and may evert provide for sapphire: crystal. Water-resistant. istrative side of the corpo­ Narrubian grown sugar could Namibia Limited, and some exports although there Swiss made since 1848. ration. be available by the middle members of the Prime are many sugar processing The NBC has long been of next year. Minister's delegation. industries in southern Af­ considered over-staffed and The lunch at Lonrho' s Lonrho said they have rica. already spent over R2 mil­ Geingob thanked Lonrho lion on establishing the sugar for the confidence they had Investment Act now IQW plantation and increasing its shown in Namibia and en­ size. couraged the company to THE Foreign Investment Act, passed by the National· It will take eight years explore other areas includ­ Assembly in 1990, was finally gazetted on July 7 and before the project is com­ ing mining and engineer­ became law. The act, passed before the highly suc­ plete. Although the project ing. cessful Private Sector Investment Conference in was started in 1990, with Comment: For over a year February 1991, has been long·awaited. the deal signed in a fanfare now there have been re­ It sets out the regulatory framework for investors of publicity on independ­ peatedrumours thatLonrho in Namibia, detailing the Government's liberal tax ence day, a final decision is about to pull out of the regime and foreign exchange allowances. Last year on whether to proceeed with sugar project due to an inter­ the act was highly praised and one reason for the long the project was scheduled national cash-flow crisis, but delay in turning it into law may have been the need to only to be taken in some Meiring has always firmly .co·ordinate its clauses with restrictive regional bod- months'time. denied this and said things The full plans are for a10 are going to plan and well Continued On 2 000 hectare sugar cane plan- ahead of schedule. 2 Tuesday Ju1y 28 1992 THE NAMIBIAN the actual incentives of offer INVESTORS and exactly who qualifies for ------- special status still have to be COIII. FfIIlll I'al!(' 1 released by the Ministry. It is not clear when actual unconscious" , so that he ies dominated by South Afri­ details of the Government's could steal the money can interests. tax and. other incentives to "unhindered". One aspect in the act is that investors will come through. Although Coetzee pleaded . some companies can be given A law on export processing guilty to culpable homicide, . special status by the Ministry zones could be in the closing Judge Hannah found him­ of Trade and Industry. The act stages of drafting but the status is a framework and details of of other in:;entives is not known. _ guilty of murder -as, the judge said. he should have fore- _ seen the possibility that any increases. lining of the corporation. NBe NBC staff have notrereived "It is with great reluctance person would die if they were --- hit over the head with such pay·increases for the last four that the Board has to announce Cnnt. From Pag~ 1 that the corporation intends a huge rock. years, and it was widely ex­ Coetzee's sentence was pected that while axing some, implementing a process of re­ organisation for. economic and postponed several times - -istrative side while news gath­ management would try and -firstly while waiting for ering and programming suf­ buy labour peace with pay managerial reasons," the state­ details of his previous con­ fered. hikes. ment said. victions and later for a copy At one point the absurd Management has remained This process would start on of a report from the Welfare situation existed whe<re the tightlipped about its plans, with September 1 and affected Department in Kimberly whole news deparnnent only the Thompson report appar­ employees would be infonned where Coetzee was treated had three television cameras ently only made available to by July 31. twice. A copy of the report and video tapes had to be a handful of top managers. "The Board requested will now be sent to the prison llSed over and over again Even members of the NBC .management to implement the authorities. resulting in a severe loss of board reportedly only received process in a fair manner, tak­ Before sentencing Coet­ quality. the Thompson report a few ing the policy of affIrmative zee, Judge HanniIh reminded The NBC received R39 days ago. action into account." the state-­ him that he had killed a million in the 1991/92 budget It is believed management mentadded. defenceless man, who had but then had to request an only made the fmal decision From what it has been been attacked unexpectedly. additionalR6,1 million in the on the retrenchments at a possible to establish, the ra­ Judge Hannah described additional budget. rreeting last Friday after which tionalisation will be far less it as a brutld attack by a man Of this R3,4 million went it was presented to the board drastic than originally believed who had had no mercy for . towards salaries while the for ratification yesterday. and is likely to involve far Fast work at . the security officer who had remainder was used to cover The final rationalisation plan fewer than 100 people . "stood in his way". an inherited shortfall in de­ 'is believed to be a mixture of The reaction from NBC staff He said Coetzee had be­ preciation allowances. the recommendations made to the Board's statement yes­ This year the corporation in the Thompson report and terday was cautious but 'Quick Curl' come aggressive quickly and had acted on the the spur of receiv:edR41432000and the management's own recom­ unmistakenly negative. the moment "If you didn't NBC might still have to run mendations. One member of the socal­ JOSEF MOTlNGA . have money to pay the bo­ to the Government for a hand­ The statement from the NBC led Steering Committee tel, you could have sneaked out before the end of the fi- board yesterday is very vague · formed during a recent dis­ SALON Quick Curl lost goods with a combined value of out and nobody would have ·nancial year. and merely states that after pute to promote the interests around R7 500 when thieves broke in over the weekend, been harmed," Judge Han­ The one big disappointment extensive deliberations, the of black staff described the forcing entry through an iron door.