A bid by Namibia's biggest labour-hire company, Africa Personnel Services to challenge the ban on labour hire in the new Labour Act failed in the High Court yesterday. In his judgement, Judge Collins Parker called labour hire an unlawful activity which reduces people to personal property...He said labour hire is not only not part of Namibia's contract of employment law, "but it also smacks of the hiring of a slave by his slave-master to another person...APS, in its application, contended that labour hire greatly contributed to the national economy...[while]...the Government, argued that the sector was dangerously exploitative in its nature and robbed workers of their dignity.