Hanse-Himarwa hits back at Boois The minister of education, arts and culture has rubbished claims by Kalkrand village council CEO Seth Boois that she had instigated a residents’ demonstration last week because of her public fall-out with his wife, Yvonne Boois.Boois asserted that Hanse-Himarwa is the sister of James Hansen, the organiser of the demonstration and known for his regular crusades to Windhoek to register complaints about poor service from the village council.
“Those are allegations of a mad and obsessed man,” snapped Hanse-Himarwa back.
“Does he really think that he occupies the slightest space in my brain? I don’t know him and I did a favour to him and his family to become inhabitants of Hardap by employing his wife then even though she came out fourth in the interview because she is a woman,” Hanse-Himarwa, former governor of the Hardap Region, said of Yvonne Boois’s employment as the chief regional officer in the regional council.
Hanse-Himarwa said she further assisted the Boois family by requesting her husband, Andreas ‘Ghenno’ Himarwa, to give Yvonne Boois a 17.5% shareholding “for free in his fishing company”, Hotago Fishing CC, “simply to empower her as a woman employed under my leadership”.
Yvonne Boois eventually took Himarwa to court for alleged fraud after dividends were not paid out to her.
“I do not have a reason furthermore to fight with people I only had a professional relationship with. Furthermore, I will consult my lawyer to restrain him and his obsession from me as I am tired of his smear campaigns and pathological lies against my person,” Hanse-Himarwa said on Monday.
She said she had only heard about the demonstration at Kalkrand after it had happened.
CATHERINE SASMAN