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In a 31 July letter to Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa, the US State Department outlined its efforts since February 1974 to obtain from the South African government specific information about Namibians held incommunicado in detention .' The communication pro- vides details of the fate of 15 leaders of the South West Africa People's Organization. The South African Department of Foreign Affairs, after repeated representations by the US embassy in , Pretoria including a call by the American ambassador on the For- eign Minister, Hilgard Muller, and a diplomatic note, advised the embassy that a total of 15 SWAPO and SWAPO Youth League members had been detained "under Arti6le 6 of the Terrorism Act and that none of the detainees David H . Meroro would be charged under the Terrorism Act " . This re- sponse did not come until late June. David H . Meroro, national chairman of SWAPO inside Namibia, was released on bail on 16 July . The State Department letter says : "He has been charged with possessing eight copies of a South African Communist Party journal,aSuppres- sion of Communism Act offense " . THE STAR of Johartnesburg reports that the 57-year-old businessman 'must appear in Windhoek regional court on 3 September. His bail conditions-are that he report twice a day to the police, that he not attend any public meetings and that he not leave the Windhoek urban area . His bail is 200 Rand ($300).

Thomas Ndalikutala Kamati, SWAPO Youth League leader and an applicant along with Lutheran Bishop Leonard Auala and Anglican Bishop Richard Wood in con- sistent and so far unsuccessful attempts to have public,floggings by Bantus- tan authorities stopped (Kamati was himself flogged in Ovamboland last year), was released on 11 July . He was immediately charged ."with malicious damage to property because he wrote on his jail cell during his confinement " - he scratched with his spoon the words " ONE NAMIBIA, ONE NATICN " . Mr . Kamati filed an affidavit with the Windhoek magistrate's court in which he described some of his ordeal at the hands of the security police . The ?2- year-old student was arrested 31 January 1974 at St . Mary's Anglican Mission in Odibo. THE WINDHOEK ADVERTISER of 14 August claims that Mr . Kamati had crossed the border into Angola to join an estimated 800 recent Namibian exiles.

ONE NAMIBIA - ONE NATION (continued) Ezriel Nashilongo Taapopi, chairman of the SWAPO Youth League, and the League's. secretary, Joseph Kashea,went on trial in Windhoek at the end of May, the State Department letter continues . "They were charged under Section 9 (2) (b) of Ordinance 13 of 1962 with attempting to incite people 'to commit murder or to cause public violence or malicious damage to property! . They were found . guilty and each sentenced on July 30 . to five years with three years suspended . The case will be appealed . " Two SWAPO detainees were released uncharged . Nine of the 15 are still in prison. THE WINDHOEK ADVERTISER carries a story about a large demonstration outside Windhoek supreme court as the judge president sentenced Mr . Taapopi and Mr . Ka'shea . Watched by armed police, including the security branch, the demonstrators carried placards reading "Viva SWAPO " ,, "Long Live All Freedom Fighters " , "Independence The Only Solution To The Namibia' Dis- puce ", "We Want Namibia Commissioners Office In . Namibia " . FLOGGINGS The South African regime's supreme court in Windhoek has refused to impose temporary prohibitions on political floggings . This was the latest in a series of court proceedings initiated in November 1973 by Lutheran Bishop Leonard Auala, Anglican Bishop Richard Wood and SWAPO Youth Lea- gue leader Thomas Kamati to attempt to stop public beatings of men and women by South African-supported Bantustan officials in Ovainboland.

Justice J .J .Strydom,according to THE STAR of Johannesburg, " found that an interdict in such wide terms would interfere with the administration of justice . It could happen that 'ordinary culprits' sentenced to a flogging in a tribal court might frustrate the administration of justice through the mechanism of protection . " The applicants were order- ed to pay court costs . Bishop Wood reports that legal expenses for the repeated applications and court procedures,including a pending appeal to the South African Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein, will total over $75,000. THE STAR says that if a person is sentenced to be flogged the magistrate in Qvamboland and the registrar at the supreme court would be notified and 10 days had to elapse before sentence was executed . The South Afri- can Department' of Bantu Administration and Development stated floggings were "absolutely a tribal matter and it is an old custom. of the tribe " , Amnesty International in London challenged the South African regime, saying " flogging had been introduced into the territory by a white commissioner named Hahn, who was known locally as 'Sjambok' (the whip) '. Amnesty added that there was an understanding between South African police and the tribal authorities that African detainees handed over by the police would be flogged " . The Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law in Washington,.,,.which first supported Namibians at the : Terrorism . Trial in Pretoria in 1967/ 68, is instructing attorneys in both the floggings case and that of Mr. Taapopi and Mr . Kashea . It is in urgent need of funds. LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW 733 Fifteenth Street, N .W . - Suite 520 Washington, DC 20005 ATT : Mr . Douglas Wachholz SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY

South Africa has replaced its police units in Namibia's Caprivi Strip with regular army troops . The changeover had been underway since March . Police had been stationed there since 1967, with an admitted loss of 10 men from landmine explosions and in other ways .. SWAPO, whose-forces have been bat- tling the foreigners in Caprivi and nearby areas of! orthern-Namibia, put Pretoria's losses at much higher figures. Cape Town journalist 'Stanley Uy's, writing in THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, says : "The real significance of the army's entry into the area is that if Angola agrees to harbour guerrillas, who will be able to strike across the border into South-West Africa, South Africa will have a 1,000-mile long frontier to .defend from the .Atlantic coast to Rhodesia . " Caprivi stretches like a long .finger, from the bulk of Namibia, 300 miles long and 50 miles wide. Uys . adds that the army units Will be made up of permanent officers and drafted national servicemen . . "Nothing will bring the reality of guerrilla conflict home to White :South African families quicker than this experience . " THE EXODUS

Namibians have been fleeing their homeland into Anola , at an increasing rate : political leaders, teachers, students, skilled personnel . John Otto, SWAPO chairman in the northern regions, who has recently reached safety in Zambia, said that they were escaping from the " barbarism of tribal rul- ers and the suppression of political expression " and because they had heard the Bantustan government in Ovamboland planned to form an army and draft Namibians to fight the " so-called terrorists on the border " .Mr .Otto said SWAPO members would be thrown into concentration camps if they refused to serve. Filemon . Elifas, chiefminister of Owambo, declared his tribal authorities were donating 30,000 Rand (545,000) " to combat communism and terrorism " . Chief . Elifas, who operates under the aegis of and who strongly supports the South African regime, lashed out at the World Council of Churches and " certain governments (which had) proved they Wanted wars and bloodshed by aiding " SWAPO and other groups . The WCC has for the fourth year made a number of grants from its Fund to Combat Racism for medical, educational and social services ;: . :African liberation movements have been the major 're- cipients . This year SWAPO was given S30,000.

CONGRESSMAN FILES S TJIT ON US-SOUTH AFRICA TALKS OVER NAMIBIA TRADE

Representative'Charles .C . Diggs,Jr ., (D-Mich), chairman of the subcommit- tee on Africa of the House 'Foreign Affairs Committee, along with several other people, has filed suit in Federal District Court in Washington, charging, according to THE NEW YORK TIMES, " Secretary of Commerce Freder- ick B . Dent with violating international obligations and United States laws by permitting discussions with South African authorities on the import of fur seal skins from South-West Africa " - THE TIMES 'quaint persis- tence when speaking of Namibia. Mr . Dent, a South Carolinian, had been asked by Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) to intervene on behalf of the Fouke Company of Greenville, SC, to expedite the fur company's request for exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act to import baby fur seal skins from the rookeries along Namibia's ,Atlantic coastline . A three-man Commerce Department team visit- ed Namibia 7-23 August despite a State Department warning that this might raise foreign policy questions . The UN and the International Court of Justice have determined UN members should not recognize by any acts that might imply South Africa has legal jurisdiction in Namibia. -4-

NAMIBIA AND THE UNITED NATIONS Sean MacBride, United Nations Commissioner for Namibia and Assistant Secretary-General ,in an interview on the "Voice of Namibia " , SWAPC's program broadcast from Lu- saka, Zambia, stated that he expected a total change in the United Kingdom's official policy toward Namibia . " :mot present, the UK recognizes South Africa's unlawful occupation of Namibia as being valid, in spite of UN resolu- tions and the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice . He noted that Britain would have observers 4 at the Taapopi/Kashea trial and that the USA and Sweden are sending observers to political trials in Namibia.

Mr . MacBride is the first full-time Commissioner,who took office 1 February 1974 . His father was executed in the Re- bellion in 1916 by the British government, MacBride was a founder of the Fianna Fil, the Irish Republic Party . He served as Foreign Minister of Ireland from 1948 to 1951. He was for several years Secretary-General of the Interna- tional Commission of Jurists and at the time of his UN ap- pointment was chairman of Amnesty International and the In- ternatidnal Peace Bureau. Commissioner MacBride, at 70, is deeply involved in exercising the potential of the Council for Namibia . A prime aim is to set up a Research Institute for Namibia in Lusaka, which essentially would train a civil service for ad- ministering' Namibia once it is free of the South African occupation . The In- stitute will open at the end'of this year with sections devoted to economics, health, education, racial and social problems, cultural affairs and constitu- tional, legal and judicial affairs . Welcomed by the a.mloian government, the Institute's chief problem is that of obtaining financing. While in Zambia in July, Commissioner MacBride issued an admonition to the 40,000 German-speaking settlers in Namibia . If they wish to remain in free Namibia, they will have to accept the basic rule of one man, .one vote if they Carr ; on in the Nazi fashion, in which they now do, there is no future for them, Addressing the 62,000 Afrikaners,he said ; " they must readjust their thinking to the realities of the present-day world If they are to stay in Namibia, they must accept majority rule From discussions I have had with SWAPO, the Namibia liberation movement, I know these settlers could stay pro- vided they accept the ordinary rule of life . Otherwise, there is no future for them in a free Namibia . " The Commissioner sent a message to Namibians : " With courage, perseverance and steadfastness, freedom is around the corner for the people of Namibia . All Namibians should give full and loyal and active support to SWAPO which has been carrying on the struggle for independence . " AMERICAN INVESTORS IN NAMIBIA Commissioner MacBride stated that "he had the occasion to read some of the confidential circulars by stockbrokers to all their investors advising them that recent events in Mozambique and Angola made it unsafe to have investments in Namibia " . In Washington in June Senator Walter F . Mondale (D-Minn) introduced legisla tion, an amendment to the Trade Bill, which would deny tax credits to US com- panies operating in Namibia . He said that despite US recognition of the il- legality of South Africa's occupation, " . . .we allow tax credits, for taxes paid to the South African government, on American investments in Namibia " .

rut ality bac ke by JO HERBERTSON, formerly of the British Foreign . Office, who recently returned from a visit to Namibia.

BRUTAL flogging of men and women is to continue in The attidavits—none at which charged . When I emerged from scions because he was a member Ovamboland; a black Home- was legally challenged in court the police station I found a num- of SIAIAPO. land in South West Africa -7disclose a pattern of systema- ber of tribal police waiting.' He The well-known Johannesburg (Namibia). tic brutality directed against was then questioned on his in- barrister, Mr David Soggat, who The Supreme Court of South middle-aged family men, volvement in politics. Later, he 'argued the case before the West Africa has rejected on a teachers, respected political, and his fellow-accused . Franz, Supreme Court for the floggings technicality' petitions brought community and religious were handcuffed together and to be suspended, said that pun- by local church leaders and leaders, young students and girl taken to the house of a headman, ishment without trial, without otlsers Nakwafila, in the location, . defence and without evidence . The Court refused leave student nurses. was contrary to the spirit of the to appeal, but the petitioners In many cases no charge is laid We were placed in ai filthy Roman Dutch law. There was no believe they have legal grounds against prisoners of the tribal dark room with our legs chained evidence to show that the regu- for contesting this decision and .courts, which issue sentences of together . We spent the night sit- lar practice of flogging was part still hope to be heard by the up to 30 lashes without explana- ting. The chains around my legs of the customary jaw of the Appeal Court in South Africa. tion. Mere membership of an were bound so tightly that the Ovambo. The petitioners seek to re- opposition group is evidently next morning my legs were Bishop Auala, himself an strain the Ovambo tribal enough. swollen and I have to this day ,Ovaxnbo, and a 90-year-old authorities—sponsored and en- The affidavits also show that marks on my ankles which were pastor, both affirmed in affida- couraged by the white . South the South African police regu- made by the chains . The irons vits to the *court that flogging African Government—from in- larly hand arrested members of caused my ankles to bleed . Nak- was not a traditional punish- flicting this savage punishment SWAPO over to the tribal courts, waff le was angry with us . He ment and had been use,d systems on those who oppose the Ban- knowing the severity of the pun- was under the influence of atically only under the direc- tustan policy in Namibia. ishment they will get. alcohol! tion of one white Commissioner The hard central rib of a Elise Nghilwano, a nurse in The following day the man of . Bantu Affairs, known as Makalani palm branch is used her early twenties, said in her was sentenced to 15 strokes for `Sjim.bok Hahn,' Even then it in the flogging, It is carried out affidavit that she was arrested political activity in Ondangwa. was not known that sentences judicially and in pi blic and with two other young women 'I asked the tribal secretary if of more than 10 strokes were often leaves its victims bleeding and a man and detained for six I was allowed to say anything inflicted . Nor was it known that and unconscious. days last September before be- and he answered that I was to women were flogged. The aim is to intimidate and ing brought before a tribal court undress immediately. I loosened The Supreme Court rejected coerce Ovambos who dispute where she was asked why she and pulled down my trousers the application on the technical South Africa's right to dictate had joined SWAPO, `I replied and took my underpants down grounds of late submission b the political future of a former that I had joined because it so that they were below my the defence and that the appli: trust territory declared inde- struggled for our betterment .' knees. I saw members of the cants had no locus standi in the endent by the United Nations The four of them were sen- public, men and women, looking case. 1967. tenced to receive six strokes in through the window . I am Despite the widespread public Ovamboland, close to the each with the Makalani cane, a family man and a member of condemnations in Namibia and border of Portuguese Angola, is When one of her fellow-accused, my church congregation, I am in South Africa, the Vorster one of the nine Homelands into Rachel, asked why they were be- 47 years of age and felt deeply regime has refused to put an which Mr Vorster's Government ing punished, she was told that degraded and humiliated. lay end to the flogging because it has sub-divided Namibia . Eight the court was under no obligee down over a chair and the blows does not wish ' to intervene in of them are, like Ovamboland, tion to give a reason. descended . They were agonis- the affairs of the .Homelands ' or black. But the ninth, covering Rachel was the first to be ing. . , That day, as also the 's] 'in tribal customs .' the greatest part of the country, flogged, She was compelled to previous day, his [Nakwafila It is clear from my experience is retained for whites . In the lie over a chair in the hall' (a breath smelt of liquor and from in , Ovarnboland that the Home- black areas South Africa has structure comprising a roof his speech and his red eyes and land authorities, backed by the transferred power to the tribal without walls), in full view of a his behaviour, I thought he was Pretoria regime, are faced with authorities. gathering of men, women and under the influence of alcohol. a tough political challenge in Angered by the unrelenting children . Four policemen each I was terrified that he would not their concerted attempt to militancy of the held her by a limb and she was only strike my buttocks but South West . The impose their Ideas of a ' Bantu: Africa- People's Organisation flo gged by a tribal policeman-- possibly injure my spine stan Government' on the (SWAPO) in its campaign fol. with extreme violence . The pain was terrible and produced Ovambos, who comprise nearly full independence—operating hi tribal policeman wielded the open wounds . By the eighth half the total population of exile through guerrillas along Makalani cane, using two hands stroke I lost consciousness. , . One man of 26 had been Namibia. the frontier and through a legal which he raised high in the air Wherever I went I saw young political wing at home—South before striking. arrested at the Anglican Mission Africa has stepped up the puni- T was flogged in the same because he was wearing a children, from five upwards, SWAPO flag on his shirt. The giving `Victory for Namibia' tive powers of their allies, the way.' Elise states . `After my signs . Teenage girls speak of tribal authorities' . The normal iloegieg I was hardly able to South African police kept him in a cell from 20 August to the liberation of their country. courts have been deprived of walk . walked as if I was Women are organising church jurisdiction in local Ovambo crippled . . , . When removed 2 October. He was not charged with any offence. On the morn- and other meetings to explain affairs and tribal courts have my panties found that I was what is wrong with the present been given the right to reach bleeding. I was unable to sit for ing of 2 October he was handed political system. The men are .' over to the tribal secretary . At summary judgmeut and to im- a week thereafter the court he was flogged uncoils actively engaged in political ee punishment, including un- One man of 47 teetified : On organssation demanding the pmntedi flogging. 16 August 1973 I was 'arrested fulfilment of the UN and World The grim record of this by members of the South African Court decisions that the former archaic punishment—condern. nonce and detained until my re- trust' territory should be made ned by many prominent white lease on 8 November 1973 . I fully independent. South Africans—is revealed in was released without being Since 7 February over 30 30 sworn affidavits, which I have SWAPO leaders, many of them -brought back from Windhoek, young students, have been the old capital of South West arrested under the Terrorism Africa. They formed the basis of Act. They include the SWAPO the legal action initiated there, leader, David Menem, *ho like in vain, by the Anglican Bishop,. the others has not yet been the Rt Rev. Richard Wood ; the -OBSERVER 7g* charged with any offence . Lutheran. Bishop, the Rt Rey. ;/) / Leonard Auala ; and Mr Kaman, a SWAPO member.

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Three Anglican churchpeople from Namibia are visiting the United States from early September to early November 1974

- Bishop Richard Wood, the suffragan bishop who was consecrated in june, 1973,to fill the episcopal presence in the Diocese of Damaraland after Bishop Colin Winter was expelled by the usurping power in Namibia, the South African regime.

- Ms . Cathleen Wood, the bishop's American wife. The Woods , .-month-old daughter, Rachel will accompany them. Father Michael Tuyapeni, who is a graduate of St. Mary's Theological School at Odibo . Father Tuyapeni trained as a catechist in South Africa and served in that role in Namibia at the same time he was a community school principal. The diocese has had to put up a deposit bail money of 400 Rand ($600) 'against the issuance of his passport, an indignity perpetrated upon African people by the South African regime both in South Africa itself and in occupied Namibia. The Church in Namibia is in a condition unparalleled by that of any diocese in the Anglican Commnion . The South- African usurper has long exercised the most severe retaliation against those in Namibia who dare challenge the dictates of the racist police state . Church members, as are their fellow countrymen, have been beaten, detained, shot and shot at, tortured and convicted of being 'terrorists' . Several dozen Luth- eran and Anglican clergy and lay workers have been expelled from the country. Bishop Wood, British-born thoUgh a naturalized South African, runs the risk of not being allowed back into Namibia . He, along with Lutheran Bishop Leonard Auala and Mr . Thomas Komati, is an applicant in ongoing court procedures against public floggings meted out in Namibia . The bishop has been forbidden to enter the Ovamboland region, where the vast majority of Anglicans reside . Ms . Wood is an American who has been refused permanent residence by the South African authoriti :es ; she stays in Namibia only on 3'6-'month per- mits . Rachel Ndimuwa Wood is recorded as a South African by birth. ***************** EPISCOPAL CHURCHMEN FOR SOUTH AFRICA 1 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011 PHONE : (212) 477-0066 101nualaymilm. . ..1sexafte MOM =MEN for SMITH AFRICA NON PROFIT ORG. 14 West 11th Street U. S . Postage New York, N . Y. 10011 PAID New York, N . Y. •11NINIM.. Permit No . 4125 Address Correction Requested

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