Amendments to the new Labour Act, which has not been fully implemented so far, would come soon, Labour Minister Alfeus Naruseb said. Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Agricultural Employers Association (AEA) in Windhoek on Tuesday, Minister Naruseb said the delay came because of "a number of technical flaws in the Act that came to light" after it was passed in Parliament. The errors would be rectified and the "entire process" including amendments to the Act of 2004, would be done before the end of this year. The minister did not mention that the controversial Act was virtually bulldozed through parliament by former labour minister Marlene Mungunda and that the input of opposition parties and the labour Advisory Council were flatly ignored, causing outrage in the business sector.

On Tuesday, Minister Naruseb also came up with the usual laments that commercial farmers allegedly did not pay minimum wages, treated their workers badly and dumped them on public roads after dismissing them. He even said that charcoal producers let children of farm labourers work at the charcoal plants and not letting them go to school. AEA chairman Helmut Förtsch said if that were the case, the AEA would bring it up with the relevant farmers. Förtsch said the Labour Research Institute (LaRRi) had recently conducted a survey among farm workers which would be published soon.

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