03 aug namib times e-edition

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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6774 FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net

Claims that Platz Am Meer is partly build on Government land

inside CNFA on fishing rights

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Two sources disclosed this week that a delegation of high ranking Government officials, and other interested parties, will meet with Safari Investments to discuss options to remedy the fact that its Platz Am Meer shopping complex allegedly exceeds its building boundary and intrudes onto Government land below the high water mark. One source claims Safari Investments will be given a choice to either break down structures intruding on Government land, alternatively to negotiate for a ninety nine year lease for the land it occupies unlawfully. The second source confirmed knowledge of the meeting, but said he had no knowledge of any choices to be put to Safari Investments.

Massive crane ship Page 6

Locker vom Gang possibly targeting Hocker

President Hage Geingob officially opens the Dome trucks on the B2 road Namibia’s Head of State President Hage Geingob and a delegation of high ranking public officials are on an official visit to the coast. Part of the President schedule during his visit was last night at the official opening of the Dome Swakopmund, one of the coast’s main sport venues.

Child trafficking trio wants bail At the time of going to press yesterday late afternoon, the bail application was still heard Khatri Sarhan, the Pakistani national who was arrested along with two Namibian women as accomplices on a charge of child trafficking. The bail application is heard in the Walvis Bay magistrate’s court. Sarhan and his two co-accused, Jerezuuka Beverley Kamongua and Melody Ortner, were arrested over the weekend and made a first appearance in court on Monday. It is alleged Kamongua and Ortner allegedly against a payment provided a sixteen-year-old girl to Sarhan for sex against her will.

Floris Steenkamp A gang is believed to have targeted at least one truck on the B2 highway between Arandis and Usakos in recent days, throwing an object at the truck’s windscreen with the hope the truck driver overturns the vehicle. It is believed the motive is then to plunder the truck of valuables in the event of an accident or when the driver stops to investigate the damage. A truck owner of Walvis Bay made this startling revelation this week, telling of his ordeal of Sunday night in a similar incident some 20 kilometres east of Arandis. This truck owner said it was already dark and there were three vehicles driving behind his truck. In the truck’s headlights he could see a white pick-up, single cab without a canopy approaching from the front. “I could see a person getting up on the back. It was a male. He threw an object to my truck. The next moment the windscreen exploded”, the truck owner explained. He kept driving on and only stopped to inspect the damage after traveling a significant distance. He believes there was an attempt to make him cause an accident where after they would have turned around to loot the truck from valuables. “These people don’t have respect for the lives of others. I could have made an accident and I could have killed other road users”, this truck owner explained. Adding he calls upon truck owners and operators to be vigilant and also for the Namibian Police to investigate this matter urgently.

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