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Disease Control Centre for Coastal Region Siglinde de Villiers In a campaign to raise awareness on the Ebola Virus Disease, especially at the points of entry into Namibia, the Ministry of Health and Social Services invited all stakeholders in the medical industry to an informative presentation at the State Hospital on Wednesday. Amongst the discussion of what procedures to follow for any suspected cases, the possible construction of a temporary isolation facility outside of Walvis Bay was mentioned.

The vicious Ebola virus pandemic in West Africa has sowed fear within the hearts of many coastal residents, especially those of Health Officers who would be the first persons guaranteed to contract the disease in Namibia. For this reason, the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MHSS) together with representatives from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have gone all out on an educational campaign to educate Health Officers, provide training, and implement steps in order to protect Namibians

from Ebola.

“The disease is progressing.

Already there were 13 deaths in Congo, of which 11 seem positive for Ebola. The chances of Ebola reaching Namibia are very limited,” the presenter said, “nevertheless, we need to be prepared.”

As of 20 August there have been 2615 cases and 1427 deaths in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria. 90% of the people who contract the virus die. Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in a village near the Ebola River in Congo and the other in a remote area of Sudan. Since then there were small outbreaks around West Africa throughout the years, until the recent one of 2014.

“This outbreak is different in that it not only affected rural areas as in the past, but spreads through urban areas,” the presenter said. The origin of the virus is unknown but fruit bats are considered to be the most likely host. The incubation period, the time interval from Continued on Page 3

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Prayer Day Failed, Nujoma Calls For Beheadings Opinion Piece by Gareth Amos Anyone with half an eye on the media lately must surely have been stunned to see that our Founding Father and indeed our

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As President Pohamba concedes that the national prayer day has failed in its objective, at the very same

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function, our Founding Father Sam Nujoma has called for village heads to behead the perpetrators of gender based violence.

According to news reports, President Pohamba expressed his disappointment in the effectiveness of the national prayer day in terms of achieving its primary goal, which was to end gender based violence in Namibia.

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Pohamba is quoted as saying, “On March 6th this year, I called on the people of this country – because we are Christians – to pray for peace.

I was thinking that after that day of prayers, the killing of women would come to an end… I was wrong. The killing continues still.”

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Disease Control Centre for Coastal Region infection to onset of symptoms, is two to 21 days. Patients only become contagious once they begin to show symptoms. They are not contagious during the incubation period.

In accordance with WHO guidelines, Namibia has

implemented several surveillance and preventative measures for Ebola. In addition to temperature scanners screening those entering the country, travelers will also have to fill out a form with their most recent travel history.

WHO representatives have also

Continued from Page 1 evaluated the isolation ward at the Central State Hospital in Windhoek, where all suspected cases will be transported to and treated, and provide ongoing training to the staff there.

“We have acquired all the protective equipment to deal with anything,” the presenter said. Sadly, patients can only receive supportive treatment.

“There is no cure for the disease. So, we will only treat symptoms and try to ease their suffering,” the presenter explained.

He continued to urge that it is important for anyone who has the disease to get treatment as soon as possible.

“WHO research has shown that only 30% of those who got early medical treatment died. Thus, the earlier a person gets medical

care the higher his chance of surviving,” the presenter laid out.

WHO is busy working on various potential Ebola therapies and vaccines.

On 4 September more than 100 experts in the medical field will participate in a consultation on ethical, legal and regulatory issues of some of the most promising Ebola treatments. Issues of safety and efficacy will be discussed with innovative models for expediting clinical trials. Possible ways to ramp

up production of the most promising products will be explored. Questions such as whether experimental medicine that has never been tested and shown to be safe in people should be used in the outbreak and, given the extremely limited amount of medicine available, if it is used, who should receive it, will be answered.

Despite the efforts of the MHSS, the presentation was poorly attended, with nobody of the private hospitals and health care institutions present.

Prayer Day Failed, Nujoma Calls For Beheadings Continued from Page 1 Forgive me if I seem cynical, but I do recall noting my scepticism about missing a full day’s trade and commerce (which our economy can ill afford) to a mandatory, unconstitutional public holiday to call upon God to solve the scandalous national disgrace that is embodied in how we as a people treat those that are most vulnerable… our womenfolk and children. Imagine, if you will, what the effects would have been if the country toiled as usual upon that day with 10% of the day’s national income being set aside for real, tangible and measurable projects to minimise the scourge instead.

Do not get me wrong, I am at all times in favour of prayer in private and in our churches. I am however more inclined to lean towards the establishment of tangible programs that are quantifiable in nature. We must, after all, see real progress from our time and efforts.

This being as it may, I tend to side step or at the very least draw the proverbial line in the sand at our Founding Father’s suggested program, calling for village heads to behead alleged perpetrators of gender based violence. For those not in the know, let it be known that Nujoma made these very comments at the same event at which Pohamba expressed his distress at the abject failure of the prayer day.

According to one newscast, Nujoma is quoted as saying, “I want to end passion killing. I also want all the village headsmen to behead any men who kill ladies and throw them away in the bushes.” The irony in the correlation between “headsman” and “beheading”, I am certain, is not lost upon the reader.

I can only imagine that the two gentlemen had not discussed their precise tactics in addressing the matter beforehand. Alternately,

perhaps we have finally been blessed to see a “good cop, bad cop” act played out upon a national stage….

“You tell them you are disappointed that our prayers have gone unanswered and I will tell them it’s time to shift from a ‘help us, God’-strategy to a ‘chop their heads off’-course of action instead.”

While I have voiced my desire to see our leaders engage in positive programs that are measurable (and Nujoma’s beheading program would be just that – although arguably positive in its approach), one thinks that just maybe, our leaders should confer on such matters of national importance prior to unleashing the “la-la-landish” call for the unconstitutional and undeniably unChristian (though no doubt effective as a deterrent at least) practice of decapitation (i.e. the not so gentle act of forcibly removing ones head from ones shoulders). I emphatically pray (pun intended) that I stand not alone in solitude and in dread of our leaders’ outlandishly unwise line of attack to a problem as systemic as the one of gender based violence.

The idiom “can you think long term?” comes to mind, for this is what I thought was the purpose of government.

As our leaders hop from plot to plot, surely someone within the annals of power recognises that education and poverty alleviation

alone shall vanquish this specific foe – and indeed many more that fall within the remit of social cataclysm.

In the meantime though, would it not be good if our collective time and effort be redirected from “Holy Mary Passes” strategies to activities that enlighten our government, local community leaders and indeed men of the cloth to act responsibly in how they approach this malady?

Our attitudes and methodology must be steeped in scientific understanding of the adverse social, physiological and most importantly psychological effects of poverty and all utterances made on the matter should be made from this point of origin only. Our leaders must learn, for they are lacking, it seems, in their comprehension of the enormity of the psychological degradation that underlie the subject matter.

Misunderstand me not, NBC has for many years been in a steady state of decline and I doubt not for a minute that weekly beheadings broadcasted on TV would significantly improve the situation, even if we did soften the blow to teeth extractions without pain management or even just a gentle tap on the ankle with a sledge hammer. The fact of the matter is once the reality show runs its course and all is prayed and done, we shall still be facing the same precipice upon which we so desperately clutch to today.

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Thursday, 28 August 2014

Public Transport is the Root of Road Deaths

Opinion by Lavrenty Repin Organising campaigns, making speeches, buffing up law enforcement and increasing traffic fines is the direction that the Namibian government has chosen to follow in an attempt to curb down the appalling road accident statistics in Namibia.

Although our road network is regarded as one of the best on the continent, it should be no secret by now that Namibia has the highest death rate from road accidents in the world and that the current strategies, such as festive TV and radio adverts, flyers and posters, are not working. Government road safety campaigning is estimated to cost nearly N$100 million each year, indicating that the State’s general stance seems to be of blaming the driver and appealing to the public to be cautious and alert. But it is indeed the public who should be appealing to the Government to use tax-payer money appropriately for a sustainable plan to make travelling in Namibia safe.

One solution often cited by politicians and journalists is to widen roads to doublelanes and tar slippery gravel roads, but such infrastructure projects are long-term and unprofitable; a fact which, I dare say, discourages our elite immediately. Namibia has 64,799km of road, yet only 7,841km is tarred and, most depressingly there is virtually no public transport option in our country besides that of road travel.

By comparison, we have a measly 2,382km of railway tracks in Namibia, the majority of which is used exclusively for transporting goods and resources. The railway route between Walvis Bay and Windhoek is one of the only examples where a safer alternative to road transport is available.

One train coach, with a passenger capacity not exceeding 70 seats, travels for 12 hours (often with major delays) between the capital and the port town. The price of the uncomfortable journey (no beds and poor sanitation facilities) varies slightly around the affordable N$100 mark. During the festive

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season, as with all things Namibian, additional coaches are called in to service, which include special bed fitted carriages that presumably spent the rest of the year collecting dust.

Public transport in Namibia mainly consists of a large network of shared taxis, certainly affordable, but the sheer quantity (estimated 35 000 in Windhoek alone) means that law enforcement is incapable of controlling the safety and road worthiness of both car and driver.

Minibuses travelling between towns have a notorious reputation; they are often overloaded and in poor mechanical condition. Both these modes of transport are privately owned with nearly no regulation from government and no funding.

Windhoek has a fleet of 60 busses that transport mainly lower class workers to their place of employment and back. Besides this and the railway service, we also have a very able airtravel service, with no less than 33 domestic and international airports and over 100 airstrips plotted around the arid country.

The reality is that people, just like goods, need to travel by any means possible, yet the only public transport worth mentioning, air-travel, is reserved for the tiny percentage of upper-income class populace that can afford it. Not only are our roads crowded, they are crowded by individuals who cannot afford to sustain a car. According to the World Health Organisation, “more than 90% of deaths that result from road traffic injuries occur in low- and middleincome countries… even within highincome countries, people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to be involved in a road traffic crashes.” With such information at

Siglinde de Villiers Last week, Kraatz honoured one of their employees for his 40-year career with them. He worked his way up the corporate ladder, from being a cleaner to a technical position as fitter and turner, training other people on how to operate the machinery.

Damian Amadhila Munyala was born in the Omusati Region in 1957 and started at Kraatz on 16 August 1974.

“In the beginning I was a cleaner and occasionally helped in the boiler. When the management realised I could communicate a bit in English because of my missionary schooling, I was assigned to work with the German specialist turner Hans Rudy, who was appointed in the machine shop around the late 70s,” Munyala relates.

He continues to explain how for the next six years, he would clean the machines for Hans and in turn he would show Munyala bit by bit how to operate them. When Hans Rudy left Kraatz, Munyala worked with Swiss turner Hans Heribert, who taught him more about fitting and turning.

“He even wanted to take me to

hand, would reducing the number of lower-income class road users not serve well to reduce road deaths?

Opening up safe, country-wide and inexpensive public railways would direct the congestion of lower- to middle-income class people away from dangerous and expensive road use. It would reduce non-roadworthy automobiles on highways, increase travel and trade as well as prove profitable for the Government.

Namibia has a history of more than 100 years of railway service, and by now we should have a splendid network that provides an alternative form of transport to all corners of the country, yet the only proposed future railway lines are all commercially motivated links with Botswana.

We should, too, focus on acquiring fully fledged busses as a means of robust and safer road transport.

Although minibuses are used excessively in Africa, one study notes that “the cheap bus favoured

by African operators could be more expensive in terms of post-purchasing maintenance than a bus effectively adapted and intended for Africa.”

Currently, minibus prices for a person travelling from Walvis Bay to Windhoek range between N$120 to N$250; yet a bus service from Windhoek to Cape Town (four times the distance) charges N$500. This obvious discrepancy speaks volumes; there is a need to reform public transport, and align it with the needs of the public.

As a small country facing unparalleled tragedies on our roads, we should focus on all aspects that contribute to unsafe road usage, and that means developing infrastructure that is on par with international standards.

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Switzerland for further technical exposure but I was denied a Visa by the government in charge at the time. Eventually, he returned to Switzerland, but I learned many things from him,” Munyala says.

From the late 80s, Munyala started training most of the new employees himself, including the current machine shop supervisor.

“I tried to improve my education through correspondence but it was difficult because we stayed in crowded hostels and there was really no place to study. Plus, work schedule was really hectic. I only started getting a bit more rest in 2005 when the fitting and turning work was divided. Prior to that, we had to work hard and long for overtime income so we could cover our needs,” Munyala disclosed.

Over the years, Munyala raised his three children, one daughter and two boys, with his income from Kraatz.

“One of my children is currently studying at UNAM for a Degree in Education,” Munyala said with pride. He concluded, “There is a really great diversity of people that come to Kraatz and I enjoy working with people from various backgrounds.”

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MOTH Club

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Lavrenty Repin World War 1, the devastating war to end all wars, was the motivation behind the establishment of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats, better known as the MOTH organisation. Now, it seems that the Namibian branch is fighting a war of as own.

Its ideals, as stated on their website, are to “help fellow comrades in need, either financially or physically and to remember all servicemen who have answered the Sunset Call, both in war and peace time.” This year World War 1 has its 100th anniversary, and time has virtually expired all wartime servicemen, and all original MOTH members. The MOTH organisation has sprouted from South Africa to England, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia, and has vouched to help veterans from World War 2 and subsequential wars thereafter.

Here in Namibia, in light of having three MOTH clubs, a decision was made to keep the charity organisation afloat by supporting members of the War for Independence, or the “Border War”.

Yet, here, especially in Walvis Bay, the organisation has seen better days.

The veterans that the MOTH Club chooses as members are few and far between and the foundation of the MOTH Club has been, according to a number of MOTH members, altered away from its original concepts of “True Comradeship, Mutual Help and Sound Memory.”

One large worry is what will become of the land on which the MOTH Club was established, land, which the organisation received from the municipality to set up the club and to help often traumatised servicemen, who deserve to be remembered with dignity. The land ownership belongs to a governing body known as the MOTH Command Headquarters, yet it cannot be sold or altered for financial gain without the approval of, among others, the National Executive Committee, thus ensuring that the charity organisation continues to serve

its pure purpose.

Last year, it was discovered that the Committee based in Windhoek was in the process of signing an agreement to rent this land to a private individual with no affiliation to the MOTH, who planned to develop a shopping centre on the prime land across from Woermann Brock.

“A commercial enterprise that would benefit the individual,” as one member distastefully told the Namib Independent, “upon our grandfathers’ memories.”

The project went as far as the drawing up of a contract, of which the Namib Independent has a copy, where it stated that the land would be rented for ten years at a phenomenally low fee. According to sources in the MOTH, two members stepped in against the project and it could not be continued.

Presently, the MOTH club is rented out to a private individual who runs a bar on its premises where MOTH Members meet occasionally as well as a war-time museum that can be visited upon request.

This alone begs the question of how the MOTH message is being spread behind a liquor counter, and what the future holds for the respected and antique organisation.

Would it follow the path of the Windhoek club where the prime land in front Maruea Mall was sold to developers to make way for offices? The land, on top of the hill, is now called the MOTH Centre and old artillery and wartime vehicles stand watch over the town. However, upon inspection, the war vehicles seem to have been forgotten; clearly neglected, they are eroding with rust, the wheels are flat and in places inscription and graffiti is visible.

Inside the offices, no other reminder of the MOTH can be found.

The MOTH stands unique, a reminder of the cruelty of war, and the need for comradeship and assistance between servicemen who risked their lives for their country. A beautiful message, and it is imperative that this message continues to prosper.

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Significant Rise in Demand for Fish Locally Tanya Calitz During a breakfast meeting with stakeholders last week in Walvis, the chairperson of the Namibian Fish Consumption Promotion Trust (NFCPT), Katrina Sikeni, announced that the demand for fish by locals has significantly increased since the inception of ‘Fish Consumption Day’ three years ago.

Several members of the fishing industry as well as the Minister of Fisheries, Bernard Esau, attended the function to celebrate the third National Fish Consumption Day. During his speech, Esau praised the Trust for delivering on its mandate and said that the Ministry has always held the Trust in high regard.

“The Trust ensures that Government is able to demonstrate its effectiveness in contributing to food security in Namibia, and also just show how successful we have been in turning a predominantly meateating nation into one that now demands

a healthier and more affordable alternative source of protein in their diet,” Esau applauded the Trust. He also praised them for creating an impressive footprint across the country, enabling them to have access to a variety of affordable fish options.

NFCPT’s CEO, Charlene Hartung, shared some of the Trust’s milestones and figures, stating that the Trust is currently employing 125 people, compared to the 59 employees it had in 2010. The Trust also boasts with 13 branded shops in nine regions and will add another four shops and/or extensions, starting construction this year already. The third annual ‘National Fish Consumption Day’ will take place in Otjiwarongo on 20 September,

with activities taking place from 15 September to lead up to the actual day. The event will kick off with a friendly soccer tournament sponsored by Efuta Canned Maasbanker, an initiative by Etosha Fishing in Walvis Bay. “The aim of the National Fish Consumption Day is to promote fish consumption among Namibians, increase consumer education around fish, promote fish species, teach Namibians how to clean fish and create awareness around the Trust and the fishing industry as a whole,” Hartung said. Each year the Trust hosts the ‘Day’ in a different Region.

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Thursday, 28 August 2014

Extended Sea Territory Bid Still Floating Around Staff Reporter Five years ago Namibia submitted a bid to extend their its sea territory beyond the 200 nautical mile Economic Exclusive Zone.

Until now, however, the bid is stuck in process, and our sea territory remains true to its original limitations.

Various countries have tried to exert control over parts of the ocean that border their shores, as maritime boundaries and claims can have significant impacts on many marine activities, including ownership of living and non-living resources and fishing access. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, initiated in the 1960s, established a framework that permitted countries to define their claims over the ocean areas, and provided agreed upon definitions for Territorial Seas (12 nm), Contiguous Zones (24 nm) and the 200 nm Exclusive Economic Zones. These now cover most shelf areas down to the continental shelf margins, at which the slope of the continental shelf merges with the deep ocean seafloor.

Namibia’s claim to extend her Exclusive Economic Zone was submitted on 12 May 2009 to the UN Convention on the Law of the

Sea, while the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement continued to prepare itself to deal with the greater capacity.

The surveyor general, Uzochukwu Okafor, stated in an earlier media report, “The application to extend Namibia’s sea territory has not been ratified. Namibia was the 50th country to submit her application for an extended continental shelf.

To date, the Commission has been established for 31 submissions, meaning that Namibia still has at least 18 submissions to go.”

Several surveys had to be done to establish the exact baseline that separates the sea from the land.

From here, all other distances are measured and the Brazilian Navy assisted Namibia in determining the submarine limits of our continental shelf in 2003.

In support of the bid, the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf told the media that the “outer edge of the Namibian continental margin extends beyond 200 miles from the territorial sea baseline in a broad submarine region, comprising 10629355.85 square kilometres.”

However, there is a problem where the requested sea territory runs into South African waters, which remains

an unresolved border problem and could hinder the quest for additional sea territory.

According to the Namibian Constitution, its southern boundary shall extend to the middle of the Orange River, in line with international conventions. Yet, South Africa insists that its boundary is on the northern shore. This same dispute still continues about the departure angle of the line in the sea.

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Online Debate Over Gay Marriage Under the Microscope Lavrenty Repin When last week’s front page story hit the digital world of Facebook, a huge public response ensued.

Through comments and shares the digitally-savvy Namibian public was involved in a pro/contra battle, which is as surprising as it is complicated.

Last week’s story reported on a local lawyer who has found a loophole to legally marry samesex individuals in South Africa - a union recognised, unintentionally,

by Namibian law. Same-sex marriage is a heavily debated issue worldwide, with most critics citing religious teachings and ‘morality preservation’ as frameworks for their disagreement, while supporters point to equal rights. Indeed, at present

only 16 countries enable, by law, gay marriages and this is testament of how divided the topic continues to be.

Studying social media trends gives us an idea of the playing field on different issues, including this one. Although Facebook sharing and commenting is by no means a definitive depiction of the social structure of Namibia, it is still an indication of the sentiments of different Namibians, from different backgrounds, cultures and beliefs.

Recording and sharing these reactions can help us understand our community better.

With this in mind, we looked into over 250 actions that eager social media users engaged in to see whether Namibians are for or against gay marriage, and why. The results

were surprising. 58% of those who could be identified, showed that they were for gay marriage, while 42% were against it. Only a handful of “pro” respondents identified themselves as homosexual; most claimed to be sympathetic heterosexual individuals. The most mentioned reason for approval was, in one form or another “equal rights”.

The most liked comment (with 34 likes) was “pro gay marriage”, as were the second and fourth of the Top Five comments. The third most liked (27 likes) was “contra” and the fifth, a somewhat misplaced comment calling for “legalisation of weed”, had 18 likes.

Although slightly under the 50% mark, those against gay-marriage were clearly visible, making for a well-balanced argument over the

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issue. Those against were motivated a lot more by religious sentiment than those for gay marriage. 46% of individuals against the ritual mentioned religion or religious scripture in their comments, compared to only 15% of pro-gay marriage who also based their opinion on religion (i.e. live and let live).

Important to note is also that comments covered a wide range of tribes and cultures, although the religion-backed comments were all Christian based. Finally, and imperatively, the few inappropriate comments of an attacking nature that could be found in the comments belonged to those on the “against” front. Some were of a religious context, such as, in what is clearly an emotional issue for some: “Jesus must come take his people and burn all this evil people i can't believe it i thank god i have not seen a gay from my tribe”.

Another comment read, “Now all Namibia needs is the death sentence back.”

Yet these dark interferences should not overshadow the mere fact that the majority of comments were positive, and many of those who found the gay union distasteful still responded politely. At the same time, many others were of praise and unity, and

those stemmed not from just one race or tribe, but from a variety of (mainly young) Namibians, who were quick to preach tolerance and love, as these few examples indicate: “There are few things as stupid to me as the inequality gays face. Glad to see there are people here working to help them.”

Lovely words of encouragement: “We all deserve to make our own choices without judging each other. Love is never wrong.”

EBH Walvis to Build Houses for Staff

In light of the Government’s Vision 2030 announcement in 2004, EBH in Walvis has responded with their own initiative of building accommodation for their employees.

Central to this vision is the improvement of the quality of life of Namibians, “to the level of their counterparts in the developed world.” In recognising the importance of partnerships to achieve sustainable development, the government called on all members of society, including the private sector, to join together in ensuring the fulfilment of Vision 2030.

As a major contributor to the Namibian national economy, ship repair company Elgin, Brown & Hamer (EBH) Namibia has always heeded the call for the socioeconomic uplifting of Namibia’s people through job creation, supporting the local communities in and around Walvis Bay. This supportive ethos has now been taken an important step further, with the announcement of an affordable housing project for EBH Namibia’s employees.

EBH Namibia has always been serious about social responsibility, and we have initiated a number of projects, which are based on the needs of our local community.

We decided to take our involvement in the community to the next level by addressing the local housing shortage,” says Hannes Uys, Chief Executive Officer of EBH Namibia.

It was when employees of EBH Namibia requested assistance from management to procure affordable housing that Uys decided to start researching the local housing market. Finding that there was a shortage of affordable housing in the area, the company approached the local council - on behalf of its employees - to facilitate the process of procuring land. In April

2014, EBH Namibia purchased 10,000 hectares of undeveloped land.

“The land will be developed in due course, and will be used exclusively for the housing project. The first time homeowners employed by EBH Namibia, who have previously not had access to affordable housing, will be given first option. They will purchase the houses directly from the developer, via bankapproved loans,” explains Uys. The company is in the final stages of awarding the tender to develop the land, and the successful developer will be announced thereafter.

“Like any sustainable project, we view this as a long-term process, which has to be carefully planned. There is still much work to be done to prepare the land and create the relevant infrastructure before actual construction can take place,” says Uys, explaining that reticulation of the land is planned to commence soon after the tender has been awarded.

“Housing remains a critical issue in Namibia and as contributors to the economy it is incumbent on the private sector, in partnership with government and other stakeholders, to ensure that our shared vision of improving the quality of life of all citizens of this country becomes a reality,” says Uys. “As in any developing country, access to adequate housing is pivotal to social and economic well-being and progress.”

He continues: “We are thrilled to have come this far in initiating the process of establishing an affordable housing project; and are looking forward to the day when a number of our employees obtain something that every individual should have – the key to their own front door!”

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Vacuum and clean windowsills and corners. Wash the insides and outsides of the windows.

Take down and rinse off screens, before replacing.

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This is a great time to sweep and mop Time Required: 1-2 hours underneath it too if you can find some 1. Begin with a 15-minute kitchen help to move it. Be careful of scratching cleanup. This will clear out the clutter your floor. and dirty dishes, and give you room to do the actual cleaning. Don't worry about 7. While the oven cleaner works, cleaning the floors in the 15-minute begin sorting through the freezer and refrigerator. Throw out any expired cleanup. We will do this at the end. food, mostly empty containers, and 2. Dust down the ceiling and corners items that you bought and never used. of walls. Determine if the walls need Put the stuff to keep on the counter. to be washed completely or just spot Take out the refrigerator shelves and cleaned. Spot wash, remembering air drawers. Wash them down, being vents, doorknobs, doors, switch plates. careful with glass shelves. Wipe down Walls will likely need to be washed the entire inside of the refrigerator and more often in this room than in others. freezer before replacing shelves and Pay special attention to places where food. Wipe down and clean out the oven people are likely to rest their hands. according to the directions on the oven You may not have noticed that the hand cleaner. mixer or blender sloshed goop all over the wall. Take your time now to clean 8. Take the knobs, burners, burner the grease, grime, and spilled food from covers, and spill catchers off of the stove. Follow your stove/oven owner’s your walls. manual for information on proper 3. Dust and clean all art and cleaning methods for your model. photographs along the wall. Use a (The one you carefully filed, when you microfiber cloth to dust down art and bought the stove, just for an occasion photographs. Occasionally these items like this.) Some stove tops lift up to may need to actually be washed. Wipe allow easy access to spills and crumbs. down with a slightly damp rag,being Wipe down the entire stove. careful not to let any liquid seep behind 9. Wipe down and clean the toaster, the frame and damage the photo. blender, and other small appliances.

4. Dust and clean the ceiling fan. I like Wipe down and clean the microwave. If the to use a gentle cleanser like Murphy's spills in the microwave are fossilised, try Oil Soap. The kitchen ceiling fan always bring a water-filled glass cup to boiling in the seems to be a little more difficult to microwave. The steam should help loosen the clean because of the grease and food gunk. If the microwave smells, boil lemon residue in the kitchen. Take down any juice. Unplug all appliances first. Don't forget light fixtures and gently wash and dry the turntable. them before replacing.

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By Room Guide 7. Wash the inside and outside of medicine cabinets, linen cabinets, etc.

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Take out anything that isn't being used on a regular basis. Reorganise and wash down the 9. Shake out bathroom rugs. Launder them and hang to dry. insides and outsides of cabinets.

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10. Sweep and mop the floor. One of the best ways to get a floor REALLY clean is to use a rag or towel while on your hands and knees. If this is not an option try going barefoot and scooting a large towel around the floor with your feet. It provides more contact and pressure with the floor. Press gently, and be careful and slow. Even though this is the last step, the floor is 12. Wash down the counter tops in your not the best place to rest. kitchen. Don't forget back splashes. How you clean your counter tops depends heavily 11. Empty and wash out the trash can. Lining the on what type of material they are made from. trash can will save time when it needs to be emptied, and help keep it cleaner longer. You can buy small 13. Wipe down and clean out any drawers. commercial trash sacks, or use leftover grocery sacks Organise your flatware. This is a great time to and help recycle. install drawer dividers to better organise your LIVING ROOM kitchen drawers.

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15. Sweep and mop the floors. Don't forget baseboards. One of the best ways to get a floor REALLY clean is to use a rag or towel while on your hands and knees. If this is not an option try going barefoot and scooting a large towel around the floor with your feet. It provides more contact and pressure with the floor. Press gently, and be careful and slow.

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1. Begin with a 15-minute living room cleanup. This will clear out the clutter and give you room to do the actual spring clean up. Don't worry about cleaning the floors in the 15-minute clean up. We will do this later.

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Spot wash, remembering air vents, doorknobs, doors, and switch plates.

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4. Dust and clean the ceiling fan. There is nothing more embarrassing than turning on a ceiling fan and having large chunks of dust fall down on your guest's Time Required: 45 minutes-1 hour head. Use this spring cleaning time to dust down the 1. Do a 15-minute bathroom cleanup. This fan and fan blades. You may need to use a gentle will get rid of trash and laundry, enabling you cleanser like Murphy's Oil Soap. Take down any to deeply clean the room. Don't do the floors light fixtures and gently wash and dry them before in the 15-minute cleanup. We'll do that in a replacing. later step.

5. Take down draperies, curtains, and blinds 2. Dust down the ceiling and corners. to wash or have cleaned according to the Consider if the walls in your home need manufacturer's directions. Vacuum and clean to be washed. Dust and clean all wall art. windowsills and corners. Wash the insides and Be careful when cleaning framed art and outsides of the windows. Take down and rinse off photographs. Never spray cleaner or water screens, before replacing. onto the frame. The liquid can seep behind the glass and damage the pictures. Instead 6. Dust and clean out the couches and chairs. Use lightly wet a clean cloth to wipe the frame a vacuum cleaner with attachment to clean out couch crevices. Check to make sure none of your missing and glass. items have found their way into the abyss of the 3. Dust the vents and fans. Dust the outside couch. Clean slipcovers, accent pillows, etc. Use an of vents and fans. You may need to use upholstery attachment on a rug shampoo machine to a gentle cleanser mixed with water and a clean soiled couches and chair surfaces if needed. If cleaning cloth. Take down light fixtures and a light cleaning is needed use upholstery spot cleaner. gently wash and dry them before replacing.

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10. Clean the carpets and rugs. If your carpets and rugs are heavily soiled it may be time to call a professional. You can also rent cleaning machines to use. Be sure to ask for one with an upholstery 6. Scrub down the toilet. Don't forget attachment. If your carpets are only lightly soiled the handle, crevices on the outside, and vacuuming and spot treating may be all that is necessary. underneath.

BEDROOM Your sanctuary is beginning to look more like the last place you want to be. Take the time to spring clean your bedroom with this stepby-step tutorial. Spring cleaning your bedroom will give you back a peaceful night's rest.

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outsides of windows. Take down and rinse off 2. Dust and clean all wall art. Be careful when cleaning framed art and photographs. screens, before replacing.

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4. Take down draperies and curtains to 8. Clean flooring. Dust and mop for hard wash or have cleaned according to the floors. Professionally clean carpet, or vacuum directions.

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Thanksgiving, or seven days a week, spring cleaning is a great time to get the room in 5. Wash down the dining table, chairs, and pristine condition. Take the time to review any other furniture thoroughly. If you have what goes into a dining room spring clean up. wood furniture that needs to be oiled or waxed, do this now. If your chairs have an upholstered Time Required: 30 minutes - 1 hour seat, spot clean the seats.

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LIFESTYLE Pregnant Mums on Anti-Depressants Risk One of the world’s foremost emerging uranium companies, Swakop Uranium, is focused on developing and operating the world's third-largest known primary uranium deposit near the town of Swakopmund in Namibia. We need energetic, self-motivated and confident people to apply for our roles and we regard you as our “Employee of Choice”.

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ADHD Kids Mothers who use anti-depressants during pregnancy could be increasing the risk their child will develop Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

A major new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry has found children whose mothers used anti-depressants during pregnancy had almost double the risk of developing ADHD. However, the study authors and other experts have warned expectant mothers not to stop their medication without talking to a doctor. The risk of ADHD had to be balanced against maternal depression during pregnancy which has “health complications for both the mother and child”, the study says.

“Discontinuation of anti-depressants during pregnancy can increase the risk of relapse fivefold,” the study warns. The study looked at more than 1,300 children diagnosed with autism and 2,200 with ADHD and matched them with healthy control children.

It found anti-depressant exposure prior to and during pregnancy was associated with a risk the child would develop autism but this was no longer significant when the study controlled for the effects of major depression. However, it found an increased risk of ADHD in the child if anti-depressants were used during but not prior to pregnancy. The risk of ADHD was greatest if the anti-depressants were used during the first three months of the pregnancy, the US researchers found. The authors warn the weakness of the study is that it is possible it was confounded by the fact the mothers had depression in the first place.

Professor of Women’s Health at Monash University, Jane Fisher, says

Australian women prefer not to take any medications during pregnancy unless they are essential.

“Current psychiatric advice is generally that the risk of depression during pregnancy outweighs the risk of foetal exposure to anti-depressant medication,” she says. “These data challenge (sic) this assertion and suggest that great caution needs to be exercised in prescribing antidepressants to women who are pregnant or planning to be pregnant, because of risks to foetal neurodevelopment,” she said.

However, Professor Julie Quinlivan, Dean of Medicine at University Notre Dame, says suicide is a leading cause of maternal death in Australia and women should think hard before ceasing therapy.

“The consequences of suddenly stopping therapy may be drastic,” she said.

A Spanish expert, Dr Celso Arango, the director of the Spanish Centre for Biomedical Research in Madrid, says environmental factors was important in ADHD and warns about the controversy over the high levels of diagnosis of the problem in the US where a diagnosis is linked to extra school funding.

“This research does not mean that women should stop taking their antidepressants. It suggests that we need more animal and human research on how this drug affects the normal neurodevelopment of children,” he said. The President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Professor Guy Goodwin, questions the credibility of the study.

“It remains possible, even likely, that the effect observed is due to increased genetic risks of psychiatric disorder in the offspring of the women prescribed antidepressants, rather than the effects of the drugs,” he says.

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Disabled Twin with Uzi During Lesson with Surrogate A British surrogate mother who was carrying twins said the intended mother took the boy but rejected his twin sister because she was disabled.

The woman claimed the unnamed mother, also British, said of the little girl: "She’d be a f****** dribbling cabbage!

Who would want to adopt her?"

The girl, who has a severe muscular condition called Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy, is now being raised separately by the surrogate mother who was paid £12,000 to carry the twins. The surrogate mother, who has also not been named, said she was ‘shocked’ by the comments the woman made about her daughter. She said: "I’ll never forget what she said to me

on the phone. I could not believe what I was hearing."

The surrogate mother said her partner had to retrain for another career and take a pay cut in an attempt to reorganise their lives around looking after the baby girl.

Speaking to the Sun, she said: "I’m glad [the mother] is miles away and I’ll never see her in the street. I hate the couple for what they did."

The story echoes that of Gammy, the baby girl whose Australian parents took her twin brother but left her with her Thai surrogate mother because she was born with Down’s syndrome. Gammy’s story caused international outrage.

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A ‘ghastly’ video showing the The video cuts out after he tells moments leading up to a nine-year- her to go ‘full auto now’ and she old girl accidentally killing her gun instructor with an Uzi machine gun has been uploaded to YouTube.

The short clip, which cuts off immediately before the incident, shows the little girl’s instructor Charles Vacca telling her to go ‘full auto’ – at which point the kick-back apparently causes her to lose control of the high-powered weapon. The girl, who has not been named, was having a lesson at the Bullets and Burgers gun range in White Hills, Arizona, just 25 miles from Las Vegas. In the video, taken by her parents as they watched on, 39-yearold Vacca is heard telling the girl how to stand before instructing her to take one shot.

"Go ahead and give me one shot. [shot fired] Alright!" he said.

pulls the trigger. The gun then jerks to the left as she loses her grip, striking Mr Vacca, a father and military veteran from Havasu City, Arizona, several times. He was airlifted to hospital but died later that evening from head injuries. Jim McCabe, Mohave County Sheriff, said the video of the incident was ‘ghastly: He described how the little girl had successfully fired the Israeli-made weapon on single shot mode but when it was set to full automatic she couldn’t handle the recoil. "The guy just dropped," he said. The girl, who was passing through the area on holiday with her parents, was uninjured during the incident. No charges were filed as Bullets and Burgers is a licensed and legal operation.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/

"Look What You Did"

Parents of Son Found Hanged

Say to Bullies The parents of a 12-yearold boy who hanged himself after he was bullied at a new school have released harrowing pictures of their son as he lay dying in hospital.

Dylan Stewart’s mother Amanda said she wanted to say to the bullies who had tormented him, “look what you did”.

The schoolboy was found unconscious in his bedroom earlier this year after his parents’ claim he was called names and physically attacked by bullies. He was taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital but he died eight days later on April 30. In the images, Dylan is pictured lying in his hospital bed, with tubes and wires coming out of him and a support around his neck. Speaking about her decision to release the pictures, Mrs Stewart, 39, said: "If it helps save one other child then we've achieved something. I don't want other parents to suffer like he have. "Bullies need to know the impact their actions can have, it has had catastrophic consequences for our family and we want them to see what they have done. "No parents should have to bury their own child, nothing can

bring Dylan back but we hope this sends a strong message.”

Dylan had started at Lakeside Academy in Telford, Shropshire, in January this year after the family moved to the town.

She said there were “some incidents where Dylan was involved,” which were “dealt with by a member of staff."

Shropshire Coroner John Ellery recorded a verdict of accidental death. He said that although he had hanged himself, he could not be sure Dylan intended to die.

But his parents believe that he did and that the bullying he suffered was a

contributory factor. They are now urging schools to do more.

"We don't want any other parents to go through what we've been through,” said Robert Stewart, 41, a chef who is now a full-time carer for his wife.

"No child should be pushed to the point where they have to take their life because they feel that's the only way to escape.

"They need to know that there is a way out, that there are other ways.

"Schools need to be more proactive on bullying, not just put children into segregation or isolation.

Source: http://www. telegraph.co.uk/

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