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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6802 FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Crime: Erongo among the Floris Steenkamp
The Erongo Region, along with Khomas, Otjozondjupa and Oshana are the worst hit by crime in the past two months, according to the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, Daniel Kashikola. The Deputy Minister on Wednesday addressed the annual Security Sector Parade in Windhoek, attended not only by members of the Namibian Police, but also other security segments which included neigh-bourhood watch formations. According to Kashikola a total of 49 000 criminal cases were reported between March and August countrywide (March to May 22 800 cases and June to August 26 400 cases). Kashikola quoted crime statistics of the past five years which show theft of cell phones increased by 29,5 %; murder by 9,5 %; robbery by 36,2 %, theft of motor vehicles by 34,4 % and stock theft rose by 21,4 %. Crimes which showed a downward trend over the past five years are attempted murder (3,4%); common assault (4,9 %) and rape (2,2%). “All Namibian Police Force regional commanders and their respective regional management cadres are under strict orders to ensure that crime is, at the very least, reduced in their regions”, Kashikola told the audience and also called for an improvement in the management of dockets in order to speed up investigations and facilitate less delays in prosecution. Kashikolo remarked these crime statistics and also the regions worst affected the past two months are cumbersome, given that these regions will be popular destinations during the upcoming festive season. In Erongo, in particular the coastal towns, thousands of holiday makers are expected to start to flow in from early December. The Deputy Minister called for increased interventions like intensive crime prevention operations, crime awareness campaigns and intelligence-driven operations to root out crime syndicates and networks. Also speaking at the Parade was the InspectorGeneral of the Namibian Police LieutenantGeneral Sebastian Ndeitunga who said youth unemployment are among the root causes of rising crime statistics.
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Ship on fire at Syncrolift
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Floris Steenkamp A fishing vessel caught fire at the Walvis Bay Syncrolift on Wednesday after welding and cutting work set the accommodation quarters of the vessel alight. Thanks to the initial steps taken by people who were aboard the vessel at the time the fire started, and subsequent quick response by the Walvis Bay fire brigade, the fire was promptly under control and extinguished. “People were conducting hot works on the vessel”, explained the fire chief of the Walvis Bay municipal traffic department, Dennis Basson yesterday. Hot works refer to welding and cutting work which are generating heat. According to Basson the hot works heated up the vessel's hull and conducted the heat to combustible inner-layers of the vessel, which in Continued on page 2
Outjo buries her beloved Lindie Prinsloo today
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Locker vom Hocker
Floris Steenkamp Residents of Outjo buries their beloved Lindie Prinsloo today. Prinsloo was killed last Friday during a murder suicide incident at the hands of her life partner, Ivan Pitt, in her home in Vineta at Swakopmund. Prinsloo's young daughter found her dead on the On Monday of this week an estate agent went to floor of a bathroom at 5 Harder Street in Vineta the murder house and made a further shocking last Friday. Prinsloo was laying in a pool of discovery. Pitt was hanging by a rope from the blood and she had a cut wound to the throat. rafters of the murder house's garage. He ended Hours after the discovery of her body, fingers his own life, presumably on Saturday, a day after started to point to one suspect, Ivan Pitt. A man- the murder. hunt ensued, but the Police was unsuccessful in A funeral service is scheduled in Outjo's Dutch every attempt to locate and arrest Pitt who was Reformed Church. It was understood that the evading law enforcement officers in Prinsloo's community will honour Prinsloo with various car. Continued on page 2
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