Bank wins case to take pensioners' house

TWO Windhoek pensioners are now at risk of being evicted from the house where they have lived for nearly 40 years, after losing a long legal battle to stave off losing their home to First National Bank Namibia.

Pensioners Jason and Martha Mukapuli are again facing the threat of being evicted from their home after the Supreme Court on Friday last week dismissed an appeal through which they were trying to hold onto the house in which they have been living since 1979. With the dismissal of the couple's appeal, FNB Namibia will be able to have a court order for their eviction from their house carried out, if the bank wants to proceed with such a drastic action. The couple remained adamant yesterday that they no longer owed the bank any money as a result of a home loan that they received from SWA Building Society in September 1998, and that they have repaid the money they borrowed – and some more.