20 February 1992
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-,, u, I N~ - ~~: , rt -· .. --· .... 1 NA NEWS"* NBe: TO:Sl"RIKE.OR NOT ! T() ',STRIKE ~(SU~ER :.sPORT * ~U()LJ7 ' PfiMlc, .lIt_ ••• 6!'!t!".6 .ARf { Thursday February 20 1992 Dead' hand POTCHEFSTROOM: South Africa's National PartY was thrashed by 2 140 votes by the Conservative Party in yesterday's by election here. The extent of the swing to the CP from anNP majority of 1583 votes in the 1989 election has dire implications for the NP. " NP MPs and senior party officials were visibly shocked by the yt outcome and left the polling station as soon as the results were of '~ drougBt announced. CP leader Dr Andries Treurnicht told thousands ofch eering CP supporters at the polling station the outcome meant that the government no longer represented the white nation, and that it was not qualified to represent whites at the Convention for a .+ ~" ~ -." :-" ~ . :" - ' - , - n . Democratic South Africa. Treurnicht called for a, general elec N tion. - Sapa Right: WHAT NOW? ••• SA State President FW de Klerk is being challenged CP leader Andries Treurnicht. grips am by THE Namibian Sport takes pleasure in welcoming Arsenal FC from Lesotho to. Namibia. The Lesotho champions will clash with Eleven Arrows in a return-leg match of the Africa Club Champions Cup preliminary round match at the Katutura Cattle, goats .di~e~l\I1aize Stadium on Sunday. Arsenal beat the N amibianclub champions 3-0 in Lesotho, a score that the coastal giants want to reverse on their home soil. Once again welcome, good luck and let sports fails. Disaster threatens. manship prevail on Sunday. May the best team win! Cop found TOM MINNEY THE DEAD hand of drought gripped Namibia's---------- - guilty farmers this week, with the prospect now very close of losing nearly all the maize crop and of murder much of the mahangu millet harvest. In western communal are.as net. TYAPPA NAMUTEWA drought is also threatening fann By last week, the commer ers, such as in southern Dam cial farmers of the main maize A FORMER police offi araland where boreholes are growing area around Tsumeb, cer from Katima Mulilo, drying up and 95 cattle and Otavi and Grootfontein said Mickson Kachilombwa hundreds of sheep and goats they had lost half their crops Fwambi, 31, was yester have already died. and needed rain in the next day sentenced to an effec If no rain falls by the end of eight days if they were not to tive 12 years' imprison April, the situatIon in many lose the rest. That time has mn ment after being convicted parts of Namibia will be cata out. strophic. Already South Africa, Zim of murder and two charges The Ministry of Agriculture, babwe and Zambia have lost of attempted murder. , Water and Rural Development most of their harvests, leading The State found that Fwambi is already launching a full to the danger of food shortages shot and killed Charles Mabak PLEASED TO MEET YOU '" Members of the fledgling Italian-Namibian chamber assessment of the disaster, in the region. eng with an R-5 rifle at Muyako, of commerce met President Sam Nujoma at State House yesterday. The three were particularly in s~all stock The good news is that cattle Caprivi, on July 3. Gianni Cerza who now lives in Windhoek and visitors Gabrielle Attardi and Rossella grazing areas. It will soon submit On the same day and at the Bracco. See story, page 3. Photograph: Tom Minney emergency proposals to Cabi- continued on page 2 same place, Fwambi also tried to kill Gilbert Matiti and Ve ronica Silumbu, by shooting at them. According to the charge NBC strike 'unlikely' sheet, Fwambi, Mabakeng and Matiti were at a cuca shop at LATE LAST night confu jeering. People who attended Muyako on July 3, when an sion surrounded possible MBATJIUA NGAVIRUE said staff were upset that the argument ensued between il"=llllil'li~ board had dismissed their Fwambi and Mabakeng. strike action said to be KA TE BURLlNG The SOUI1::e also claimed they demands without making any Mabakeng and ~atiti left planned for today by some had been tipped off that effort to meet them halfway. the shop and sat outside. Fwambi unhappy black stafTmem THE FORTUNES of thousands of women left stranded rightwingers at the corpora Furthermore, the "half left, but returned later, armed bers at the NBC following by runaway men may be looking up following a Cabinet tion were allegedly ·plahning hearted promises" of change with an R-5 assault rifle. the NBC Board's rejection decision to thrash out a two-way agreement with South "some sort of sabotage". apparently promised were just Fwambi opened fire without of their demands on Tues Mrica on the enforcement of child maintenance orders. "The black employees would seen as another delaying tac waming and several bullets day. Independence created a legal loophole which gave hundreds of then be blamed and discred tic. stmck Matiti and Mabakeng, Earlier last night it looked ited, ' , the source claimed. men from both countries a chance to escape paying maintenance Staff are demanding the who died the next day. increasingly likeiy that there by skipping across the border away from their family commit According to sources at the immediate termination of After shooting at Matiti and could be a strike today. - ments. NBC, staff members who at employment of NBC Direc Mabakeng, Fwambi went to a . However, shortly before In the absence of a reciprocal arrangement between Namibia tended a , lunchtime meeting tor-General Nahum Gorelick nearby village where he met going to press The Namibian and South Africa by which men refusing to pay 'for their chil yesterday voted unanimously and Controller of Radio Stuart Veronica Silumbu. He called received a call from an NBC for strike action. ' dren's upkeep can be arrested and brought to trial, many mothers Super. her, but she didn't respond. source saying there would be and children have found themselves financially abandoned. The mood was apparently , In addition they want the Fwambi opened fire, wound- no strike as it was feared that As things staqd, if a man stops paying maintenance but remains. angry and the announcement removal of Manager of Hu- continued on page 2 . such action would be used to of the board's response was continued on page 2 embarrass the Govemment. greeted with loud booing and continued on page 2 --- r"~ "'''' ' ''''' -- ·'----"--"'1 2 Thursday F~t;>ruarY 20,1992 THE NAMIBIAN ••. , 7~ "": .)~:; - ~ -=':- ' ,/ : . ~ ;: ::-: ~ ..;. - ~ • tives would attempt to meet not lawful if it involved forci- with staff repre ~ entatives this bly preventing others from morning to try and avert any entering premises or carrying possible strike action. out their work. Co~p~~¥.:~~~:t l n man R~sources Jack Enright If there is a strike it will The constitution provides for in Namibia, at least a warrant and Controller of News Yusuf apparently takeeitherthd orm the right to peaceful demon- for his arrest can be issued and Hassan. of simply downing tools, or at stration but only if it does not · the courts can exercise some hospitat ' 'kitc~n These demand:s are appar the.more extreme end, picket- involve intimidation, or pre- control. ently aimed at ending what the ing of the NBC's premises. venting others from exercis- But if he hops over the bor ~tafh see !IS the Ii?mination of Picketing would mean de- ing their constitutional rights. der into South Africa, no ac ERICHBOOIS in the rural areas, treated corpses the .NB<;, by, ~pi~e . !Ul<.l .for~i gn .nyirlg stllff w h6 an: not strik- "1h:y can stand outside NBC tiononanarrestwarrantcanbe with great reverence and fear ~ op execu.~ves . , " . ing a~ce s s toJhe NBC's' two premises and try to persuade taken, IN a chilling plea in the Na and added that it must be a Source.s said _earlier that .!llain b{oadcast ce~trt?s . others to join them, but they According to the magistrate tional Assembly yesterday, very repulsive state of affairs ~~ ther ' staff I)1c:~ting would This form of action, how- . cat!'t actually prevent anyone in charge of child maintenance DTA MP Katuutire Kaura for them.' be held today ~here . i.t . would _ ever, 'ra.ises the spectre of vio- from entering," the legal prac- in Windhoek, complaints moved an unopposed motion Deputy minister of Health, ! be decided when to strike, and . lence as management would iitioner ,said. calling on the Government to Iyambo Indongo, said he would J: against runaway men began what fOml of strike action ~ould ·probably call in the polk:e to Chairman of the NBC board piling up shortly after Inde give inlmediate attention to the not comment as he would pre be taken, remove those preventing other Dr Zed Ngavirue yesterday said pendence, Rundu hospital where corpses fer the issue to be addressed However it was rePorted that employees from epteOng the onNBC TV news that the board Explaining its decision to were being kept in the kitchen. when Health Minister Dr Nicky many of th~se who signed the prenuses. had reviewed and seriously seek a reciprocal arrangement, The town' s mortuary was Iyambo, not in the House yes original petition - but 4id not Strikers would also .. find considered the grievances the Cabinet said the issue was out of order. As a last resort ,terday, was present. I ' attend ' yesterdays' meeting - themselves on very. shaky le- raised. Ngavirue added that the of "particular importance to health officials decided to store , . were now believed to be hav gal grounds. board further recognised that Namibia (since) many citizens the remains of deceased people ing second thoughts.