Dear Sir 

On 17 January this year, we signed a lease contract with Ernst Arnold Kessler, private residence given as Arebbush Str. 286 t/a Solute Car Repair and Panel beating, for a workshop of 125 square metres, situated in Percival Street.

We agreed on a monthly rent plus a deposit and the contract was effective on I February 2007.
Mr. Kessler stated that he could only make a stop order for payment of the rent earlier then the 6th of each month, as the Municipality of Windhoek, his main employer, is a late payer of his services.
He paid N$ 2000 as part of the deposit, since then nothing came forward.
That means he had a rent free workshop for five month, i.e. from 22.01.2007 when he moved in to 21.06.2007 when he was finally expelled, leaving behind two broken toilets, a beyond repair damaged wash cabinet, and oil spots all over the workshop. A wooden partition, for which he has not paid either, is to be removed.
Mr. Kessler has moved his workshop, where he is never seen nor found during working hours, to an address in Prosperita, where he presumably will have the next rent free spell of another five month.
With the existing form of legislation, two movements in a year will give subjects like him a rent free existence for his entire working life. No wonder the rent for workshops and offices is so high in Windhoek. 

Werner Milke
Windhoek