31 August 1989

." THE NAMIBIAN IS FOUR YEARS OLD TOMORROW United Nations says Koevoet must get out and SA has to stick to the independence plan ------- BY DAVID LUSH ------ THE United Nations Security Council has unanimously demanded that Koevoet should be disbanded, and that aU parties involved in the Namibian independence process - particularly South Africa - must. stick to the terms of the independence plan. These demands were contained in . from 4 650 to 7 500 troops. UNSC Resolution 640, which was During the debate, African and passed after two weeks of debate and other non-aligned statf'-s accused South deliberation at the UN's New York' Africa of trying to use intimidation headquarters. • and fraud to prevent Swapo from The fmal resolution was a watered winning the November elections. down version of the original draft In the [mal resolution, the UNSC which carried strong allegations of. noted "with concern" that all the South African breaches of the inde provisions of Resolution 435 "are pendence plan, and also asked for the UN military force to be increased continued on page 5 ETURN E ARRESTS.. ~olice say they-have no Itnowledge,of alle.gations THE police yesterday said they had no knowledge of reports about two returnees who were allegedly arrested by members of the police on Monday. Howeverreliablesources from the . speCtor Kierie du Rand, said it was north told this newspaper last night the first time he had heard such a that Messrs Lamek Hambidi and Isak report. Nakale, both from Omutemo near The Namibian then contacted In Endola, were arrested by police. The spector Van Zyl, District Commis two returned to Namibia recently in sioner of the North. Inspector Van terms of a UN repatriation JrOgramme. Zyl said "the matter was not re According to the sources, the two ported to him" , men were ata cuca-shop near Endola ' He further said it was possible that when police in a Toyota truck with the two men were being held at the registration number POL-3375, Ohangwena police station or else arrived. There were nine black and where,' but that he had not been in three white policemen iri the vehicle. formed about their arrest. The police members were alleg It was reported earlier to this edly armed with R-4 and R-5 auto newspaper that some Koevoet mem matip rifles, pistols, sjambOks and bers had walked from home to home pang as. in the far north asking about the The policemen took the two re whereabouts of the returnees. turnees with tJtem and nobody knows Mr Tangeni Shikomba from Fngela, where they are being held orwhat has who also returned from exile recently, happened to them. was also arrested by police members Untag was informed about the matter last week and held in a police base ' and 'it is still WIder investigation. known as Etale. He, was allegedly When approached for comment, ' badly beaten befo", taken into cus the ' pQIM~ spokesperson, chief in- > tody, 2 Thursday August 31 1989 THE NAMIBI,,,N , TAMBO RECOV ERING AFTER BRAIN SPASM MOSCOW - The Parliament in Soviet Moldavia Is set to adopt a law on the Moldavlan language which Is sure to Inflame the Russian minority AFRICAN National Congress president Oliver Tambo suffered a and cause more problems for Moscow. A spokesperson for the Popular brain spasm which has impaired movement on the r ight side of his Front, a mass movement aimed at promoting autonomy for the repub body, an ANC spokesperson said on Wednesday. lic, said parliament was virtually certain to pass the law, giving the Moldavlan language official status. "He is in goOd spirits, his condi say how long he would remain there. tion is comfortable," spokesperson ANC sources have said Tambo NICOSIA - President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjanl has reinforced his Nad Pillay told Reuters. was treated for a stroke in East Ger position as Iran's dominant political flture by securing parliament's Tambo, 71, who has led the ANC's many in 1987. approval of his entire 22-man cabinet. Rafsanjanl swung the parlia guerrillasttuggle against South Afri He fled South Africa in the early ment behind his cabinet, despite dropping the only minister a majority can white minority rule for 20 years, 1960s after the ANC was outlawed, .of deputies publldy asked him to retain. He left out Ali Akbar Mohtasheml, was hospitalised in Britain more than and is a close friend of Nelson Man an anti-Western radical leader with the closest links to Lebanese Shl 'lte two weeks ago. The ANC had said he ' dela, jailed for life for plotting to Moslem mllitants believed by the West to be holding foreign hostages. was suffering frQm exhaustion. overthrow white rule. Asked about infmnation from South "This is quite a trawnatic experi NEW DELHI- The Indian government and Its political opponents mo African intelligence sources that ence for the ANC," a South African blllsed supporters for a trial of strength over opposition efforts to shut Tambo had suffered a stroke, Pillay intelligence source said. "They don't Oliver Tambo the nation down with a 24-hour strike. Opposition parties called the said, "He had what doctors described know how to handle the crisis. " national strike to protest against what they called corruption in high as a spasm on the left side of the brain The source said the Lusaka-based credited with maintaining unity among places and the economic and political bankruptcy of the government of lmd that has temporarily impaired ANC had been quiet about Tambo's hardline guerrilla commanders, young prime minister Rajlv Gandhi. movement on the right side of his conditions because it did not want to radicals and moderate politicians in body." demoralise its members. the movement. , PARIS - The Cambodian peace conference will end without an accord, The South African sources said In recent months Tambo has often He has defended guerrilla war as . foiled by the apparent determination of the country's factions to flght Tantbo's condition was critical but appeared frail and tired and appears part of the ANC's fight to end apart to death and foreign reluctance to stop supporting them. The 19-natlon Pillay described it as "comfortable". increasingly to have left delicate heid. But foreign diplomats regard Paris conference aimed to produce a peace settlement between Cambo He said the ANC leaders was being diplomatic negotiations in the hands him as a moderate who would prefer dia's pro-Vietnamese government and Its three guerrilla opponents kept abreast or political developments. of younger members of the ANC to see a peaceful, negotiatied trans before a September 26 deadline set by Hanoi to pull out Its troops. Pillay declined to name the hospital national executive committee. formation of South Africa into a non where, Tambo was being treated or As ANC leader, he has been widc!l.y racial, democratic society. WASHINGTON - Colombian justice minister Monica de GreitT, pledg Ing to return home next week despite death threats, says the Colombian government Is In no mood to enter into peace negotiations proposed by DETAINED, CAPE drug traffickers. The 32-year-old official Is Colombia's eighth justice minister in three years. ~ "',' MOGADISHU - The Somali government said It had approved the LAWYER IN HOSPITAL creation of a multi-party system and would hold fresh parliamentary elections by the end of 1990. The war-torn, East African country has been a one-party state since president Mohamed Siad Barre slezed power in a coup 20 years ago. AFTER HUNGER STRIKE EAST BERLIN -East Germany, facing Western calls that It make HUNGER striking lawyer Willie Hofmeyer, who was detained after a Mass Democratic Movement reforms to stem mass emigration, ruled out a change of course and protest outside the First National Bank in central Cape Town last week, was admitted to Groote Schuur critlclsed changes In other East European countries. hospital early this morning with suspected internal bleeding, his father, Mr Arend Hofmeyer, said yesterday. ROME - The chief of Lebanon 's pro-Syrian Shl'lte Amal Mllitia said In an Italian newspaper Interview that It was the wrong time for Pope John Mr Hofmeyer told a press confer lawyer colleague of Willie's found ternal bleeding was reportedly found. Paulto.vlsltth.e country. , '. "" - .: ' ~~. '<<" • ence that despite the initial recom him "doubled up in pain and grey as Mr Hofmeyer said he was "very • ~ ..... ..,. -" _ - • '4 r mendation of an assistant district an old sheet". angry" at what had happened to his JOHANNESBURG - An upsurge- In antl-apartlieid protest In South surgeon in the early hours of yester- - Willie had told them that he had son, and that the security police had Africa has set back any posslblllty that prominent political prisoners, day morning that Willie be hospital been kept waiting for two hours at the for the past 13 years been carrying on Including Nelson Mandela, would be released soon, government sources ised, his son had been made to wait police station at Caledon square before a "sadistic and vindictive" cam said. This month the Mass Democratic Movement launched a campaign several hours "in great pain" for the being seen by the district surgeon, paign against Willie, "simply be against apartheid laws and against segregated parliamentary elections district surgeon to give a second and that police had been planning to cause as a white South African he due In a week's time. The MDM emphasises that Its campaign, which opinion. Mr Hofmeyer said he had fly him to a prison in Kroonstad. had the courage to stand up and fight has included black people using whltes-only public facilities, Is peace been telephoned at about 03h30 yes The lawyer, Mr Justin Hardcastle, for the rights of people of colour".

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