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. 7Ef'" > fl ! Wednesday June 13 CRIME INCREASE but more patrols will be on streets soon, police promise TY.APPA NAMUTEWA ----------- AN URGENT call has been made to the police to increase its town. patrols at night in Katutura and Khomasdal in order to He accused members of the public normalize the security situation there. of wasting police time by calling them for trivial incidents. He said According to residents things are . they were now apparently unable to they should only be called when . becoming uncontrollable. On inquiry prevent these crimes, some taking necessary, and not for 'family prob­ the police confirmed that instruc­ place in broad daylight and in the lems' when people refused to lay tions had been given by Home Af­ heart of the city. charges. fairs Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba Some angry residents wanted to Asked about certain policemen to increase police patrols at night in know what had happened to the po­ allegedly collaborating with crimi­ order to combat the crime increase. lice's crime prevention patrols. There nals, Brigadier Eimbeck said they The call was made by many resi­ are allegations that these patrols are had received such complaints, but dents of the two townships who say only done in areas where whites are the allegations could not be con­ they are now living in fear following staying. firmed. He called on the public to various shooting incidents which have "Policemen are there for the pro­ report every such incident. already claimed lives and left others tection of everyone. We want to feel " Police members who are col­ injured. The residents are also com­ safe and free in our country. There­ laborating with criminals must be plaining about other criminal acts in fore we request the police chief to reported to their superiors immedi­ the townships which are increasing deploy his men and women all over ately, " he underlined. daily. the country, especially at night, so Regular patrols in the past. he said, At least six shooting incidents had that every citizen can be protected," were done primarily by the task force, been reported to the police since the the residents said. many of whom had returned to South beginning of this month. When approached for comment, Africa. - ONE of the first returnees to set foot on Namibian soil, now So far only one suspect has been police chiefliasion officer Brigadier "At this stage we haven't enough Minister for Health and Social Services, Dr Nicky Iyambo. arrested, .while other incidents are Siggi Eimbeck admitted there were task force members to do regular Yesterday he addressed a reunion party at Dobra, where the first still a tnystery. not enough patrols at this stage, but patrols, because some of them have returnees were received one year ago. See report on page 5. Residents called on the police to he added that Minister Pohamba had become bodyguards to the President do regular patrols in the townShips to given an order that the night patrols . and ministers, while others are guard­ maintain law and order and to stop must be increased. According to ing their homes, " the police liai son unnecessary crimes. Brigadier Eimbeck, the patrols will chief said. Some went as far as to accuse start soon. He requested the public to remain police of negligence in performing He denied allegations of discrimi­ calm and not to take the law in their their duties. nation against certain groups, and own hands, because regular patrols According to the residents, many said many policemen were only would start in the near future and he Trouble brews as ex-fighters threaten police cars were patrolling every deployed in the town during the day was certain that the police would do Khomasdal and Katutura street both when many people were about. This everything in their power to stop to cut off electricity supplies day and night in the past, but that was done to prevent robberies in crimes; RAJAH MUNAMAVA TROUBLE could be brewing in the north-western town ofOpuwo as ex­ Plan fighters reportedly threaten to cut off electricity supplies to the Namibia asks EC for quota whole town after their own supplies were cut off. Former fighters apparently occupy government houses in the area. NAMIBIA has applied to the European Community for a quota to from gaining a 0,04 per cent share in " It is likely that Swapo members will 'black out' the whole town in export 19 000 tonnes of beef and between 2000 and 3 000 tonnes of the European beef market? retaliation," a source at the Swapo office told The Namibian yesterday. mutton to Europe annually. A Namibian delegation which Matters came to a head a week ago when the ex-Plan fighters moved into visited Europe earlier also applied government houses in the town without official permission. According to a report on NBC, the munity hake has largely come from for karakul pelts to be allowed on the Their applications to occupy government houses in the former 'white' Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Namibian waters, and while there European market under the Stapex Water and Rural Development, Gert was nothing illegal about what has > Opuwo township were being deliberately turned down, the source said. benefits. A week ago, a white policeman, in an exchange with the men over housing Hanekom, said the beef quota would been described as the 'greedy free­ The Stabilization of Exports Sys­ allocation in the town, had told the fighters to "go back to the bush where be the biggest single advantage that for-all' of the past, N amibians hope tem (Stapex) guarantees a stabilized you come from. You don't know anything about houses", the source at the membership of the Lome Conven­ that in return the country will have price for certain agricultural prod­ Swapo office said yesterday. tion held for Namibia. practical benefits from joining the ucts for African, Caribbean and Pacific He named the policeman as im officerGert van der Linde, and accused him and At present Namibians watch with Lome Convention. countries under the Lome Conven­ other wh ite residents of the town of 'conliiving' with members of the fonner great interest whether the country The big question is: will Namibia tion. Herero Adm inistration in den ying accommodation to the ex-fighters in the white will get the requested beef quota as be granted a realistic beef quota, or According to Hanekom, the appli­ township. there appears to be some resist1lnce will the clear need Namibia has for ' cationwas received favourably, which Th is led to the Swapo men moving into the houses without official pennission. internationally. such a quota be cast aside because of meant that karakul prices could sta­ ----- CONTINUED ON PAGEJ ----- Howev.er, it is an undisputed fact the strength of the European beef bilize over a five-year period. that over the years the European Com- lobby anxious to prevent Namibia NEW IMAGE HAIR AND BEAUTY SALON Khomasdal (Previously Phoebe's Hairport) "We are leaders in Ethnic Hair" Free consultation and advice on chemical damage, thinning of hair and split ends (hair breakages) We specialise in Relaxers, Perms, Chemical Blow Outs, Treatments and Scalp Massages plus facials We are experts in blowdrying coarse, thick and very curly hair Tel 21-2161 "The Salon for the people" - now under new management Mozambique.pe "ace talks to start in Blantyre MAPUTO - Mozambican Cabinet ministers and the leader of a rebel group arrived in neighbouring Y OUR DAU.Y GUIDE TO EvENTS WORLD-WIDE Malawi on Tuesday for their first direct peace talks aimed at ending a devastating 13-year war, the national news agency reported. Afonso Dhlakama, commander of bique National Resistance, also known Africa openiy backed them in the the Mozambique National Resistance1 by its Portuguese acronym, Renamo, early 1980s, and the white-minority arrived in Blantyre, Malawi's capi­ would hold talks in Malawi. government of Rhodesia helped them tal, the AIM news agency said in a "We are prepared to meet any­ until it became black-ruled Zimbabwe. dispatch from its correspondent in time, anywhere, except Malawi," rebel The rebels have demanded recog­ MOSCOW - The 'Soviet Union's giant Russian Federation formally Malawi. spokesperson Manuel Frank had told nition by the government and free declared its sovereignty, laying down a fresh challenge to Kremlin "By midday, all the actors in the the independent TSF radio station in elections in Mozambique, but their leader Mikhail Gorbachev. drama were present in Blantyre, al­ Lisbon, Portugal. political aims have never been clear. SOFIA - Bulgaria clearly emerged as the first East European country though the talks had not yet begun," The rebels had said they would Chissano's government officially to elect reformed communists to power after official results showed AIM said. prefer talks in Kenya or ·Portugal, dropped its Marxist label last year they won more than twice as many constituency seats as the opposition. The Mozambican government which ruled Mozambique until 1975. and has been moving away from its MOSCOW - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev suggested that a delegation includes Transport Min­ There was -no explanation for the socialist-oriented economy toward a change i .. Nato doctrine and strategy could ease the way for a united ister Armando Guebaza and Foreign sudden change of mind. more market-oriented system in re­ Minister Pascoal Mocumbi, both The war has claimed an estimated cent years. The government has pro­ Germany to join the Western alliance. members of the Political Bureau of 600 000 lives and made the south­ posed a new constitution that would MOSCOW - The death toll from a wave of ethnic unrest in Soviet the ruling Frelimo Party, AIM said.

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