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namib times SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6342 FRIDAY 4 APRIL 2014 Tel: 064 - 205854 / 064 - 461866 / Fax: 064 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
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Pastor convicted
Remember to adjust your clock one hour backwards on Sunday 6 April
of raping schoolgirl dies a prisoner Jade McClune A well-known religious leader from Swakopmund died of an unnamed illness last week after he was transferred from his prison cell at Walvis Bay to Windhoek State Hospital following a medical emergency.
British warship’s peaceful mission
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Air traffic controller stirs up a fry
A MUST READ: The British High Commissioner Marianne Young launched the new version of a booklet, “Doing Business Guide in Namibia” on the occasion of welcoming the Royal Navy Ship HMS Portland to Walvis Bay on Monday. See article on Page 2
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for the coast
Miss Arandis Jade McClune crowned The first of three auctions of erven around the Nonidas Castle took place at the end of March
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Property in perspective
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and half of all erven on sale were snapped up on the sale day. The remainder of the developments at Noni- that area.” 60 erven are set to be das, some 10 kilo- The concerned resiauctioned off be- metres east of Swa- dent wanted to know t w e e n A p r i l a n d kopmund, and pointed why the Heritage Hill December. The sub- out that previously “it developers have been division of the area was not allowed to allowed to subdivide into smaller residen- subdivide the Swakop the area west of Nonitial plots has however River smallholdings in das into numerous r a i s e d q u e s t i o n s t h e S w a k o p m u n d small erven. among property ow- municipal area into “Why was an excepners further east along units smaller than 10 tion made? Will the hectares (100,000 same 'rights' now the Swakop river. O n e c o n c e r n e d square metres). apply to everyone?” resident contacted the This was a stipulation “We are allowed to namib times to find out by the municipality to subdivide the property a b o u t t h e l a t e s t avoid urban sprawl in and we did not get any
preferential treatment,’’says Mr Coenie Botha, the prime mover behind the Heritage Hill project.” This area was zoned for erven for township development and it took a three-year process to get it approved. It had to go through Council and several other bodies, and at every stage the public had a chance to object. Continues on page 2
Pastor Abner Dourob was sent to prison in November 2010 after he was found guilty in the Swakopmund Regional Court of raping a 16-year-old churchgoer. The victim testified that Dourob was praying while he raped her and apparently said “Amen”, when he had finished violating her. Magistrate Gaynor Poulton sentenced Dourob to seven years in prison for raping the schoolgirl. Dourob's wife and children were reportedly in the house in Walvis Bay on that fateful day in November 2008, when he raped the learner in a room outside his main house. It was reported that she had gone to the pastor for counselling and had asked him to pray for her, as she was struggling with her studies. Dourob admitted her to the prayer room outside his house, but then asked her to step outside for a moment, while he attended to other people in need of prayer. When he let her back inside, Dourob started to rub oil on her genitals and then proceeded to have sex with the bewildered schoolgirl, while he was praying fervently throughout the assault. A criminal investigation followed after she told a friend at school about the incident and word got out that the pastor had raped a member of his flock in his prayer room. Dourob died in the Windhoek State Hospital last week of an unidentified illness. A memorial service was held for him in Walvis Bay yesterday. He will be buried in Usakos on Saturday.