/ 25 March 2001

HOUSING PROVIDER REFUSES AIDS CLAIMS

NAMIBIAS largest low-cost housing provider, the National Housing Enterprise (NHE), has stopped paying out mortgage insurance to relatives of home buyers who die of Aids-related illnesses after its own insurance company, South Africas Fedsure, complained that it was processing too many Aids-related claims. This means that the family of the home buyer will lose the property unless they can make the payments on their own. – AFP