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BY MARK VERBAAN DRAMATIC EVIDENCE of army involvement in the death of Mr Immanuel Shifidi at a Swapo meeting late last year concluded the inquest into the fatal stabbing ofthe 58-year­ old man this week.

The inquest ended in the Win­ Philemon; Veino Andreas, and the dhoekMagistrates Court on Tues­ leader ofthe group who was known to day morning, with a statement him only as Kaashiimbi. revealing that more than 50 The two buses left 101 Battalion in convoy at 08hOO on Saturday, members of a SWATF Battalion November 29, had been ferried from northern At a petrol station in Okahandja, the Namibia to attend the meeting in men spoke amongst themselves, say­ Windhoek on November 30. ingthat they fIrst had to travel to Win­ This s~artling fact emerged in a sign· dhoek where they would get inform a­ ed affidavit which was read to a pa«k­ tion about the'camp in which they were ed courtroom by Magistrate Frikkie supposed to sleep. They said the camp Truter. was near Okahandja. Lawyers handling the Shifidi case "Meanwhile, while we were still at obtained the statement from a bus the petrol station, Thomas told me that driver from northern Namibia who they were not going to a course, but transported soldiers from 101 Bat­ that they were actually going to attend talion at Ondangwa to Windhoek the a Swapo meeting which was being held day before the meeting was to be held. the following day in Windhoek:' Friends, family and Swapo sup· The driver said, in his statement, porters crowded into the public gallery that he asked Thomas what they in­ where they listened attentatively as tended doing there. Thomas said that details of an army conspiracy emerged. they would go to listen, as they had THE PA~T WEEK'S bitter cold had people hauling out their thickest woollies. But for many Namibians, like In his statement, the driver said he never attended such a meeting before. the children pictured above, the lUXUry of warm clothing remained a dream not easily realised. Picture by operated a mini-bus service between Con.inued on page 2 John Liebenberg. ' Ondangwa and Oshakati, and that he never took people to the south. During the last week of November, 1986, he was approached by a Jakob Thomas who inquired about the TODAY: possibility of him dri ving people to the AG • Swapo to Court , INSIDE south. • Deported after 10 years He saidthatheknew Jakob Thomas ------By RAJAH MUNAMAVA-----­ as a member of 101 Battalion. THE SOUTH AFRICAN Administrator General, Mr Louis Pienaar, • Stormy Ovambo legislative Assembly Thomas told the driver that he had already spoken to his employer about has accused the internal leadership ofSwapo of "conniving" with • MUN banned from Tel meeting the trip, and that his employer had Swapo's military wing (Plan), and said the internal leadership agreed to it. should be equally held responsible for "atrocities" such as the • Thomas told him that the men were bomb blast last Thursday in Windhoek. to undergo a course at Okahandja. On Saturday morning, the day before The AG said the internal leadership Deputy Chairman ofthe White N a­ .-=- the Swapo meeting was scheduled, he ofSwapo glorified and identified itself tional Party, Mr Jan De Wet was and his assistant driver went to 101 from time to time with the armed reported as saying his Party was in "Have you heard?" Battalion as arranged with Thomas. struggle at their meetings and that in favour ofSwapo being declared a bann­ "I parked outside the camp. Later as much as doing so, were resposible for ed organisation if "terror attacks" in Thomas came to us. There was also a Swapo's "acts of violence". the territory did not stop. second mini-bus - I don't know the Though he was not sp~aking on According to a Sapa report, he said driver's name, but I know they are from it could no longer be permitted that a the Kwambi tribe;' said the driver in so-called politu:al party did not distan­ his statement. tiate itself from violence, and con­ He said Thomas told them that they tinued with sabotage and must bring both buses into the base, intimidation. where the drivers had to wait inside a Approached for comment, Swapo's tent. Joint Foreign Affairs Secretary, Mr "Inside the tent were two white N ico Bessinger, said the statement by soldiers. One of the soldiers was dress­ the AG was aimed at spreading fear ed in army uniform and the other was and was an attempt to create disunity in civilian clothing." in the ranks ofSwapo, especially when The uniformed soldier asked how referring to "internal leadership". many people could fit inside each bus, He said that successive colonial and the drivers said that 27 passengers governors have tried similar strategies could be accommodated. He also ask­ but have failed to reach this objective. ed about the cost, and the drivers in­ Mr Bessinger said the state of formed him that it would be R27 per escalating violance was usually person. created and fuelled by the reluctance "They had money with them -cash. ofthe coloniser to let free the colonis­ They gave each of us R1 080 for a return ed hence Namibia kept true to this trip." pattern. After receiving the money, the * Beautiful dress material, MR Louis Pienaar, drivers returned to their vehicles. The pure cotton only R4,92 per metre black soldier who translated for them behalfof the State, he hoped that legal remained in the tent. ' action would be taken against Swapo's This soldier came out after awhile internal leadership, he said. and told the men to board the vehicle. Mr Pienaar said personally, he was Smart men's Sunday hat "Twenty-seven people climbed not in favour ofthe banning ofSwapo, aboard my bus. They also loaded bows and further disclosed that such a deci­ onlyR16 ,45 and arrows, Ovambo knives, ordinary sion lay with the Cabinet ofthe interim knives and kieries onto the bus. They government. were all dressed in civilian clothing." He added however, that there might The other 27 people boarded the se­ be good grounds at this stage to ban the, cond bus. movement. @ Amongst the 27 men who were on his Mr Pienaar said he was waiting with bus, he recognised some ofthem as be­ great interest to see whether the OERMANN ing soldiers attached to 101 Battalion. Swapo leadership inside the country Tel: 32391 They were: Jakob Thomas; Paulus W BROCK would dissociate itselffrom acts such Sakaria; Emmanuel Gideon; Matheus as the bomb blast in Windhoek, or not. ---WHOlESAlE _ _ .....__ • Friday July 24 1987 2 r' THE NAMIBIAN

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In a report on page two ofThe Namibian ofJuly 17, headed "TCL can't meet demands", statements were made regarding a meeting, conducted between Tsumeb Corporation Limited, represented by Mr Bob Meiring, and member s of a Tsumeb consumer boycott group, including Pastor Hevita, during the week July 13-17. The Namibian has since established the following facts: • that no meeting has ever taken place between Tsumeb Corporation Limited and representatives of a consumer boycott organisation; • that Mr Meiring was not present at any meeting conducted during that time with any workers' delegation; • th at Pastor Hevita was not at any time a member of a workers' delega­ tion meeting with Tsumeb Corporation Limited. It is apparent that the statements and attitudes attributed in the report to Mr Meiring and the-Tsumeb Cor poration had no basis offact, and were the result of a misunderstanding between the reporter concerned and his source. The Na mibian accordingly retracts the report and unconditionally apologises to Mr Meiring, Tsumeb Corporation Limited and Pastor Hevita for any embarrassment and inconvenience caused. FROM left to right, Mr Thomas Fues, Ms Ursula Eid and Michael Vesper of the German Green Party Army exposed who are on a fact finding mission to Namibia. that it was not the correct camp. Continued from page 1 "1 offlo aded the men together with Greens' fact·finding visit The buses then continued on to Win­ their goods, and drove to the gate." dhoek, and went to an army base "near When they reached the gate, THREE Delegates from the Greens Party of West Germany, led by The delegation consists ofMs Ursula a place where cement is made". Kaashiimbi asked them to wait as he was waiting for an answer over the Ms Ursula Eid, a member of Parliament for the Greens, are on a Eid, MP, Mr Thomas Fues, (staff From there they left with a soldier in two week fact-finding mission in Namibia . member for Southern African Affairs) uniform on a motorcycle riding before radio. He recei ved an answer and told the and Michael Vesper, an Executive them. He took them to another army The group will consult with Nami­ Director of the Greens Party. base to the south of Windhoek. driver that it was not the camp where The delegation will also collect infor­ bian church leaders, Swapo and other mation on the rumour that West Ger­ "As at the previous camp, Kaashiim­ they must sleep, andthat he should go back and pick up the men again. political groups outside the South many was planning to dump its bi and another person went into the African interim government. Ms Eid camp with the white soldier. We waited He said that his bus was not running nuclear wastes in the Namibia desert. smoothly, and he told Kaashiimbi this said that since the change of govern­ Ms Eid said her party was opposed to Prayer outside in the buses:' ment in West Germany, there had been After awhile they returned from in­ once they reached Windhoek. any development aid -to Namibia As a result of the problem, it was ar­ a change of policy towards Southern before independence and that the pur­ lp.e .~t;pg)Os:., side the camp, and were travelling in Africa and particularly Namibia by an army Landrover with two white ranged that 1 would transport the peo­ pose of their trip -was to equip The ActIon Committee-has­ her government. themselves so as to be better prepared /Ai-//Gam~ soldiers. The Landrover drove ahead ple to the bridge west of Swawek, announced that "3. 'prayel' meettlig for The new German Minister of for debates in the German parliament. on the road to Rehoboth, where they where the vehicles from the Okahan­ the implementation of resolution 435 dja base were to pick them up. Economic Cooperation, she said had She said they also planned to go to were taken to yet another army base stated that he was in favour of pre­ will be held in Katutura over the a few kilometres south of Windhoek. He said he offioaded the men at the the north to inspect the human rights weekend. bridge, where the second mini-bus was independence aid to Namibia and that situation there, since very little was He said that they were allowed into this was one of the issues they hoped The meeting will be held at the the camp to offload the men. Kaashiim­ waiting, and told them he was going to known in Germany about the South take his vehicle to a garage. to discuss and get the feelings of the African human rights violations in Roman Catholic Church in Katutura bi remained at the gate where he spoke people on_ Namibia. on Sunday 26th at 16hOO hours. The over a radio. The dri ver said it seemed Continued on page 3 public is invited. LI

AT THE CONTINE TAL HOTEL ON THURSDAY JULY 30 AT 20HOO ALL LCOME SPEAKERS ARE: USCHI EID (Memb r of Parli nt) AND DR MICHAEL · VESPER (Genera ecre ry of the Greens) THE NAMIBIAN Friday July 24 1987 3 MUN officials banned fro'mTeL meeting. with representativesofthe MUN, with OFFICIALS FROM THE Mineworkers Union ofNamibia, includingits General Secret~ry a view to recognition, when the union Mr Ben Uulenga, were banned from attending a meeting between Tsumeb Cor~oratlOn has proved itselfto be truly represen­ Limitedt(TCL) management and a delegation of workers on Wednesday evenmg. The tative of the employees of TCL, meeting, which was held in the TCL recreation club at ~he small northern miningt,?wn, was employed in the recognition units in question. As recognition has not been attended by worker representatives ofthe TCL-run mmes and management offiCIals from finalised, TCL is not in a position to the Corporation, including its personnel manager, Mr Tonie Botes. negotiate wages and other conditions of employment with the MUN." The statement adds that TCL has received "threatening" and "ar­ ficials and the worker delegation in­ began, attended by the delegation of sisted that management respond to workers and Mr Uulenga. "Mr Botes consultative worker committees, but rogant" notices informing them that that there is no provision for Mr Bob Meiring. a strike would be considered illegal by each and every demand. and several other officials insisted that Management officials, including Mr I leave the meeting. The workers negotiations. Workers at TCL have for some management. With regard to the matter of He said that the MUN attempted to Botes, said they would approach the demanded that I be present," said Mr time been agitating for manage­ grievances and demands, the state­ step in to negotiate between manage­ General Manager, Mr Bob Meiring, Uulenga yesterday. menttopay heed t o their listof15 and request that MUN office-bearers ment said that "as discussions with ment and workers, and suggested that Mr Uulenga, and another MUN employee representatives regarding grievances and demands, and last a delegation of workers be permitted be present at a future meeting. representati ve from the Windhoek of-' weekworkersfrom the TCL Mr U ulenga said the nightbefore the matters of concern to them are still in to speak to management. fice, had to wait outside while the progress, itis considered inappropriate ' mines submitted lists oftheir own The workers did not strike on Friday, meeting was to be held (Tuesday), he meeting was conducted. I['wo hours received a telephone call from a TCL to comment hereon further". grievances to TCL management. and TCL agreed to a meeting on Satur­ later the delegation emerged. The list of demands and grievances official, who informed him that Mr He said that the workers told him Workers threatened to come out on day evening, during which TCL being made by the TCL workers in­ Meiring would not allow him to be pre­ that their demands had not been met, strike on Friday iftheir grievances had management agreed to reconsider clude a 120 percent wage increase for not been replied to by Thursday. some of the demands. This was ap­ sent at the meeting. bu t that several promises had been On Wednesday evening the meeting all workers; the abolition of the con­ According to Mr Uulenga, workers parently not satisfactory, and union of- made by management. tract migrant system; the right to be The wage increase issue, he said, was able to live with their families; the im­ / turned down by management. provement of accommodation and safe­ "The workers are very disappointed. Continued from page 2 ty conditions; compensation for They also said that they had not been They still have to report back to their workers sustaining injuries; proper hurt very much, apart from one person They replied that they h.ad to be back union members." and adequate pension arrangements; who had a cut on his arm. One member Move to TCL management had also seeming­ the following day. paid annual leave for 60 days so shot a person with an arrow, they said. Thomas boarded his bus and they ly organised a small "party" for its workers may have sufficient time with They said that had it not been for the staffat the recreation club on Wednes­ their families; an efficient ambulance drove to Katutura, where a mechanic police, most of them would have been was found at the hostel. On Sunday day evening, which, according to Mr service; an end to arbitrary and unfair killed, and that they were fortunate to counter Uulenga, was boycotted by the workers dismissals; an end to verbal harass­ morning, they took the vehicle to him. have arranged previously to run to the and was attended only by It was returned at about 09hOO. ment of union members. police station. management. They then went to a soccer match at Point number 13 on the grievance They also said that they had been Mr Uulenga said it was now in the the Katutura stadium, and at approx­ list states: "The vast majority (99,9%) chased by a bakkie, but were lucky that private hands of the workers themselves to ofTCL workers and their families are imately 15hOOThomassaid that they the bakkie had overturned otherwise decide what the next move would be. must go to the meeting to see if the directly affected' by the war in the it would have driven over them. He said that the MUN was "informal­ north. The majority of workers have other group was there. The driver and his assistant, "When we arrived at the meeting, we ly involved" in the dispute as TCL lost members of their families as a together with Thomas, returned to the refused to negotiate with the Union. parked our vehicle next to the other schools result of the war. TCL must state une­ bus once they had eaten. A few bus at the northern sideofthe tarroad. A sta tement telexed to The Nami­ quivocally its stand regarding the war members of the group wanted to report bian from TCL management yester­ waged by South Africa against From the bus we walked directly to the Thomas to the white man, because he IN WHAT APPEARED as a meeting:' he said in the statement. day said "any precipitous and illegal workers and their families". had done nothing. ' move to counter the emergence industrial action is not acceptable to Point nine reads: "Apartheid and He and his assistant driver stood in "I was told that we must wait for the front ofthe stage with other members of private schools in the south, management in view of the implica­ white supremacy still reign supreme second bus. It arrived on Monday mor­ a delegation from the Nama Se- . tions for all concerned. at TCL. Abolish all forms ofa partheid, ofthe audience. ning at approximately 07hOO. When While they were standing there, one cond Tier Authority held "TCI:s policy in regard to unions is white supremacy and discrimination. we left, the Ford and the 'Ibyota return­ one of acceptance of the role of Whites should stop being called 'Baas'. of the group, Nangolo Josef, came up ed to Windhoek to search for the miss­ discusions with three Transi­ to them. He said that they had come in tional Cabinet Ministers in representative unions, operating in ac­ Separate facilities for workers, accor­ ing per son." cordance with established and agreed a Ford, and he pointed to a white Ford Windhoek recently where the ding to their race, must be done away The driver said that while they were practice, procedures and structures. In with. Black workers must be recognis­ bakkie. Kaashiimbi was standing in the base (Okahandja), he noticed need to register private schools alongside the vehicle, which had a line with this policy, the management ed as people and their human dignity that there were a few soldiers station­ was raised. of TCL has had several discussions must be restored". Windhoek registration. ed at the camp from 101 Battalion . Nangolo J osef said that the other There are presently about three On Monday afternoon they arrived private schools planned for in the members ofthe group were at the side at Ondangwa, and the driver dropped of the church behind the crowd. He south - Gibeon, Hoachanas and the men off at Oluno and not at 101 Vaalgras, one at Berseba and the other then returned to the Ford bakkie. Battalion. Jakob Thomas said he was going to at Ganigobes 40km outside Berseba. "After I had arrived in Ovamboland, The proposed school for Berseba that join his colleagues and left the driver I heard for the first time that someone and his assistant. After a short time he was meant to officially open a fortnight had died at the meeting." ago ended in a fiasco when an anti­ returned, and said that the others were From the group which he had ferried at the church. private school group led by Chief to Windhoek, he knew that Jakob Johannes Isaaks allegedly disrupted "While we were standing there, one Thomas was killed on the border dl,lr-" ofthe group came up to us. I don't know the move. It was also reported that the ing May, and that Vulika Jakob also police had subsequently intervened in his name. He said to us that we must died on the border the same month. leave the meeting, as trouble was about the form of rubber bullet and teargas As far as he knew, Kaashiimbi is still attacks. to begin." a corporal at 101 Battalion. The other The driver, his assistant and Thomas If these schools are requested to men he named in his statement are register according to legislation then drove off and returned to the soc­ also still at 101 Battalion. cer match. En route to the soccer, stipulating registration of private He heard later from Thomas that the schools, it is feared that certain schools Thomas told the driver that they had person missing in Windhoek had agreed to meet at the Swawek bridge. would be denied registration. returned to Ondangwa. The delegation consisted of Cap­ At approximately 17hOO that after­ In conclusion to the' affidavit, the noon they drove to the bridge. tains, members of the Executive and driver said that he had known nothing Legislative Assembly. The Cabinet "When we arrived at the bridge, the about the group's plan. white Ford was standing under the Ministers were the Education, Justice "I only transported them after they and Governmental Affairs Ministers. bridge. There were a few members of ahd already spoken to my employer. the group, and the others hadn't arriv­ The discussions included the issue of Had I known of their plan, I would education, the need of registration of ed!' definitely have refused to take them Kaashiimbi was behind the steering private schools, the possibilty to ra­ - there:' he said. tionalise provision of education to a wheel of the Ford. While they were In a separate sworn statement, also standing there, said the driver, a beige greater extent and problems en­ read out to the court, the secretary of countered by the Nama Administra­ 'Ibyota 4x4 driven by two white men ar­ the 'Namibia Police', Mr Shilongo rived. He recognised one of the men tion on the educational front. Lipumbu, said that he had attended The Ministers indicated that these from 101 Battalion, where he had seen the meeting on November 30. him the day before. When they had left problems would have to be taken up on Soon after the rally had begun, three the Cabinet level as soon as possible. on Saturday, this man said that he people had approached himand asked would follow them in his own car. him for Swapo posters. He recognised There were six members of the group one ofthese men as being a member of inside the 'Ibyota. the police Koevoet unit. He was "Some of the people drove in the suspicious and followed themen, who First robots 'Ibyota, others on the bus and in the ran uptoa white Ford bakkiewith the Ford. We drove to the Okahandja base!' registration SW 60175 (apparently a for Katutura When they left, a few ofthe group had police vehicle). still not turned up. 'Another ran out of the church WHAT COULD be the only traffic When they arrived at the camp, grounds to the bakkie. Violence then lights in the township of Katutura Kaashiimbi began calling out the broke out and he saw several people will be implemented within two names. Three or four members ofthe running after Swapo officials. months time, according to , group were missing, and the 'Ibyota Mr Lipumbu said he had visited the Katutura Director Mr Leon Venter. went back to Windhoek to look for hospital to check on the condition of a them. It returned to the camp with two friend who had been injured at the The robots are to be erected at ajunc­ more people, but one was still missing. meeting. tion on PA De Wet Street leading to Later there was a 'braai' which was In the same ward was another man, Soweto, near the Katutura Dry Cleaners. also attended by six white men. The who said his name was Martin Ipinge. group was asked how the trip had gone, Ipinge was one oft he three men who Mr Venter said the City Engineer and Kaashiimbi translated. had approached him for Swapo posters. had ordered all the materials which The members of the group complain­ When he returned to the hospital at would be needed, except two com­ ed that they had been forbidden to take a later stage, Martin Ipinge had disap­ ponents which he said were still being their firearms to the meeting, while peared. Ipinge is apparently an ex­ awaited before work could be started. the "Swapo people" had petrol-bombs, _ insurgent now attached to 101 According to Mr Venter, the com­ assegais and bows and arrows. Battalion. ponents would be received around mid­ September: 4 .... 4( ...

4 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN Andrew gets his erven Students used a selling price should be paid within 30 ------By ESAU NOWASEB----_-­ days, failure of which would result in the cancellation ofthe transaction. 'naive' approach AT LONG LAST, a second application by the Transitional Cabinet. While the other Councillors remain­ ______By ESAU NOWASEB ______Minister, Mr Andrew Matjila, to purchase erVen in the Wanaheda ed tight-lipped when the issue was section of Katutura, was approved by the Katutura Advisory again raised this week, Councillor Board at its monthly meeting this week. This issue provoked a Ludwig Gonteb got up in a leisurely THE FINDINGS of a Depart­ lege andlor the students. But this was storm of protest from the Councillors when the application ap­ fashion, and after having deplored the mental Committee appointed not the case, according to the evidence peared on the agenda for the first time. fact that the issue was again brought to investigate the problems led. The Rector had acted in a correct to their notice when they had already which led to the class boycotts and responsible manner, the Commit­ At the time most of them felt that plication and approved that 16 erve.n expressed their "definite disapproval", tee found. at the Khomasdal Teachers According to the Committee, the "State offi cials" should not indulge in (1055 - 1070) in Wanaheda be sold to seemed to convey the attitude of "Let's Training College in May were allow him to do whatever he wishes, no negative "attitude" ofthe Rector was private businesses. The main argu­ Numaba Homes. These erven would announced recently. ment was that the "State officials" have to be purchased in cash and the matter the consequences". only seen by the group as a whole, and received 100% housing loans and that According to a statement released by not on an individual basis. they feared some kind of monopoly in the Coloured Administration, the The students had also not given the the housing applications. They also Committee found that the students did Rector an opportunity to put his case feared that ifthey let the application not follow "a <;onstructive approach" to when they demanded his immediate th rough it might spark severe the problem. resignation. criticism from the residents of It described the actions of the The Committee consequently Katutura. Storm? ... students·as "naive" in preparing an recommended that communication The issue had been referred back agenda with a "View to arrange a channels be either re-opened or twice to the Board's Management meeting (on May 6, 1987) with the created anew, and that the authority Committee, and this time was finally Wha~5torm. Rector. structures be made clear and opera­ approved. The Committee saw the boycott of tional, and a style of management be During earlier debates on the mat­ the assembly in the hall (May 8, 1987) adhered to. ter, the deputy Katutura Director Mr by the students as a way of exercising The Committee also recommended Faan Oosthuizen r epeatedly warned their authority. that both the Students Council and the against the Councillors taking the The Committee could also not Rector follow the correct proceedures wrong course. substantiate from the evidence given of negotiation. He explained at the time that Mr the actual cause which led to the In view of these findings, the Ad­ Matjila was not the sole applicant in students' class boycotts. ministration (Coloured), saw it in a the controversial application submit­ The students' grievances which were . serious light that the students took the ted. In fact, Mr Matjila had applied on submitted to the Committee in the right upon themselves to give a behalf of a group of people. Mr form of a memorandum and the negative impression of the Rector Oosthuizen argued that applications evidence they gave were all based on through the public media, in order to should be handled on merit, adding hearsay imputations and far-fetched (as it would seem), . win justification that Matjila's position shouldn't be a presumptions, the Committee found. and sympathy for their actions. determining factor. Itfound that the evidence was conflic­ The Administration ruled that all Minister Matjila applied for 30 ting and that the individual the students should app1y fo_r re­ residential plots in Wanaheda exten­ grievances were generalised. There admission by entering an undertak­ tion on behalf of the fir.m, Numaba were also distorted ideas about the ing, and that those who would not be Homes, earlier this year. The plots status of the Students Council as an prepared to enter the undertaking be would be developed during the course authoritative body in the College denied re-admission. ofthe year in an effort to meet the coun­ . hierarchy. The College had been plagued by try's housing needs, particularly in The Committee was of the opinion class boycotts since 1985, and in May black residential areas. that drastic measures against the Rec­ this year the same fate befell the in­ At its meeting this week, the Board tor were justified if the Rector had stitution which resulted in its im­ withdrew its earlier rejectionofthe ap- acted in any way to endanger the Col- mediate closure.

FOR ALL YOUR One day work stoppage LOCK REPAIRS CALL THE EXPERTS yl y PHONE MORE THAN 100 workers from Southern Pipeline Contractors GORELICKS in Okahandja, staged a one-day work stoppage on Tuesday to TEL: 37700 pressure management into negotiating wage increases. 119 Kaiser Street. The workers stayed away the whole when they were given wage increases of Tuesday and resumed work on ranging from six to sixteen cents. Wednesday, after a compromise agree­ On Monday this week, the workers ment was reached in which manage­ approached a foreman and instructed ment promised to be available for him to request a meeting with KANS VAN 'N LEEFTYD! . negotiations - on condition the management over wages. Hier is 'n wonderlike geleentheid vir workers went back to work. No response was forthcoming, and die persoon met groot drytkrag om sy A spokesman for the workers confirm­ the workers resorted to a stay-away ac­ eie besigheid in die beleggingsmark ed that management has agreed to tion in order to force management to te skep. negotiate and respond by today (Fri­ negotiate. Ons is op soek na so 'n persoon in die day), and that the agreement had been The workers, the majority of whom Oshakati/Ondangwa/Rundu area. submitted to the workers in writing. get less than R2,00 per hour, are As u graag u eie baas wil wees, The wor kers said they had been pro­ demanding a R3,00 hourly wage and bel 061 37610 mised wage increases since last year many of them cited the growing cost of of skryt aan Posbus 22731 and in January this year they were living and rising inflation when.inter­ Windhoek 9000 SWA given a mere six cents increase. viewed by The Namibian. vir verdere inligting. They were then told that more wage There were no incidents during the increases would be given in June. stay-away and Security Police kept Nothing happened until this month, check of the strikers. BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed ~-----~....,

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tota Unions at loggerheads The Namibia Wholesalers and unions by confusing workers with number of supporters they had. Retail Workers Union and Richo­ their "fictitious" union, and further­ He also accused NANAU and Mr yet Richard-Xam Goaseb, have both more asked how he could have been N gaujake of having failed to fulfill an strongly disassociated themselves elected its president without being agreement worked out by their from the Namibia National Trade consulted. lawyers whereby both sides were to Union and claimedthatthe NNTU The dispute between the present and have attended the NNTU congress and is a "non-existent" and "fictitious" former ll1embers of the NNTU arose allowed the workers themselves to set­ organisation. when the former Secretary General of tle the dispute. THE re-Id,~t,!!mt'~Hl.1 This follows a report in last week's the union, Mr Theo Ngaujake was ex­ Mr N gaujake failed to appear at the Katofa Namibian on the first congress of the pelled for alledgedly having recieved congress but the members endorsed Police H~m~~'H~1rml~~ NNTU, at which the NNTU, claimed R4 000 from the Security Police the decision ofthe executive commitee dhoek, the NWRWU as one of its affiliates, without authorisation. to expel Mr Ngaujake, and Mr 'IJirare weekbyij~'Ull~Ulm~~I~~ld and also elected Mr Goaseb as its The statements by Mr Hangura and said that since both sides had agreed who President. Mr Xam Goaseb saying that the to this arrangement, Mr N gaujake was Mr In a statement issued by its NNTU no longer exists are apparent­ bound by the decision of the members. Treasurer, Mr Henoch Handura, the ly based on their claim that NANAU Mr 'IJirare expressed surprise at the NWRWU said that it had signed ar­ is in fact the NNTU, but with a new claim by Mr Xam Goaseb that he was Chief Inspector Tubby Kaaijk of ticles of association with other unions name. "not a party" to the meeting at which Police Public Relations said on A lawyer for the Katofa family said to form the umbrella body known as . . Asked to react to these claims, the he was elected president of the NNTU, Wednesday this week that Mr Josef this week that he was still looking in­ the Namibia National Allied Unions present Secretary General of the since Goaseb had in fact been present Katofa was being held under securi ty to the matter and said his client had and that it therefore did not want to be NNTU, Mr Eddie 'IJirare, said he felt at the congress and freely consented to legislation AG9, but would not say been seen at the Outapi base in the linked to the NNTU which it con­ there was no real need to comment on his election. Furthermore Mr Goaseb since when he has been held. Ombalantu district. sidered to be no longer in existence. whattheNWRWU said as the very fact had only this week been in Windhoek It was reported from the north last Mr Katofa was detained for over a Mr Xam Goaseb in a separate state- . that the NNTU had held a congress on behalf of the NNTU and before week that Ombalantu headman, year from May 1984, until the ment said that he was "not a party" to proved that it was very much.alive. He . returning to Otjiwarongo had not men­ Oswin Mukulu was insulted and Supreme Court ordered his release the meeting at which he was elected challenged anyone who doubted this tioned any dissatisfaction with his ap­ threatened by the 'police at the Om­ following an application by his brother, president ofthe NNTU. He accused the fact to visit the companies where they pointment as president, or indicated a balantu Police Station, after he had Nicodemus. NNTU of trying to destroy bona fide were organising workers and count the wish to resign. gone- there to enquire about the Katofa's lawyer confirmed on en­ whereabouts of the Katofa brothers. quiry yesterday that he had received JosefKatofa was reportedly detain­ an out-of-court settlement for a civil ac­ ed on July 7 and headman Mukulu tion for damages which he had in­ said he had seen Mr Katofa who was be, stituted after his release was ordered ing held in Ombalantu, and alleged by the Court. Katofa was re-detained that the man had been assaulted and in January this year with his elderly had his head buried in a hole in the father and was released after spending . ground. a fe", months in detention . StructumllMechanical ~alangula stands Dmughting positions firm' on R435 A challenge for men experienced in all ------Tobias Mbako ------­ ,aspects of Engineering dmughting A CALL made in the Ovambo Legislative Assembly this week for the immediate withdrawalofSouth Afri~an troops from the region CDM (Pty) Ltd, operates a in the attractive, modern town of was vehemently opposed by self-styled opposition leader, Mr Im­ major opencast diamond mining Oranjemund, a town that offers manuel Nghixulifa. operation in SWA/Namibia_ The comprehensive facilities including company's several thousand . a hospital, schools and a large The call was again made by the "Human life in this region is not employees and ~heir families live shopping complex_ Chairman ofthe Ovambo Administra­ respected, and loss of life is not con­ tion, Mr Peter Kalangula, during a sidered to be a loss ofsomethingimpor­ stormy session ofthe Assembly which tant;' he said. was held at Ongwediva in northern Mr Kalangula went on to cite the Senior Design Dmughtsman Namibia. Ohangwena school example. You'll need at least a T3, Reporting to th~ Chief In his budget speech, Mr Kalangula "At Ohangwena we have a secondary although T4 or equivalent' will Draughtsman, you will be said that his Administration was school with more than 600 pupils. The be preferred and your experience responsible for a team of Design strongly opposed to the "deliberate army base at Ohangwena is near the will span a period, exceeding ten Draughtsmen and Draughtsmen violation of fundamental human school, and whenever the base is at­ years, in Structural, Mechanical pr.oducing drawing for all plant rights by the .security forces" in the tacked the pupils are exposed to death. and/or Mining. Experience on and mechanical aspects on the region. Three pupils have been killed and CAD, would be advantageous, mine. The main issue under debate was the several wounded already. The parents although not a prerequisite. question of whether or not the securi­ and pupils have asked for the removal tyforceshad any right to remain in the ofthat base, but those who are respon­ region. ._ sible refuse to do so. They make feeble . Desig-n Dmughtsmen · u!1.; Oppo~jti,6n le<\de,r,' Mr , ~ ghixljlifa, excuses that there are no funds." . ;_crtlate4"cQnsid,erllble.:consteI;nation He said this was another dear in­ You'll need at least a T2, .. of Engineering practice and ._: w.hen hEl.D.egan argJJ.ingthat the SADF dication that the presence of the securi­ although T3 or equivalent will produce sketch plans and was needed in Ovamboland. He also ty forces was a threat to the lives ofthe be preferred as well as 6 years working drawings for .both. stressed that UN Resolution 435 was inhabitants ofthis part ofthe country. relevant experience in your field. Project Development and Plant "defunct", and that the Ovambo Ad­ Even senior headmen were for the idea The Design Draughtsman will Maintenance_ ministration had to "turn to other that the base should be removed, he means" of bringing about in­ said. use his experience of all aspects dependence to Namibia. "There are those who want to exploit He also believed that it would be the the situation and make it a political "best thing" for the Ovambo Ad­ issue. I say this because after our ef­ Dmughtsman ministration to participate in the forts we were told to take the matter up You'll need at least an NTC3 or working drawings for both Hiemstra constitution. with the socalled Cabinet. We will equivalent and a background of project development and plant Replying to these remarks, Mr never recognise nor talk to this Engineering draughting spannip.g maintenance, working in liaison Kalangula said that Resolution 435 Cabinet." . at least 4 years. with the Design Draughtsmen was still the only viable solution to the The Draughtsman will and the Senior Design country's problems, and that he would produce sketch plans and - Draughtsmen. never join the Hiemstra constitution. Investigation He further accused the opposition leader of hampering the meeting with requested free medical treatment in "petty issues", while refusing to raise Oranjemund, and assistance with the essential question of people dying THE CHIEF ofthe Criminal In­ at the hands of the security forces. relocation expenses. vestigation Department, Please 'phone Kobus Loubser Mr Kalangula also informed the op­ Brigadier Piet Fouche, has position that they could "foreget during working hours on (06332) about" him joining the interim been requested by the At­ 2418, or write to The Senior government. torney General's office to Personnel Manager, CDM (Pty) He also said it was obvious that Mr undertake "certain investiga­ Ltd, P.O. Box 35, Oranjemund Nghixulifa did not attend the July 2 tions" into the circumstances 9000, enclosing full details of . public meeting at Oshakati, where the surrounding the death hiSt qualifications amI career to date. residents themselves called for Resolu­ year ofSwapo member, Mr Im­ Closing date: 31 July 1987. tion 435 and the withdrawal of the manuel Shifidi. SADF. "The opposition seems to be ignorant A spokesman for the Attorney of what Resolution 435 is all about, and General said that some statements that is why they are opposed to it's im­ from the inquest which ended this plementation. In being opposed to it, week had already been submitted to they are opposed to a ceasefire, to the him. CDM return of all exiles to Namibia, and to He has asked Brigadier Fouche to in­ peace in general;' said Mr Kalangula. vestigate certain aspects of the case, for (Proprietary] Limited He went on to express his "disgust" his own purposes. at Etango, which he described asbeing The inquest records are still in the the "political wing of the SADF". process of being translated, and the At­ "They continue with their harass­ torney General's office will begin ment of the people. People are being working towards a decision regarding molested because they do not want to a prosecution or prosecutions once accept Etango!' these documents arrive. 6 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN Being"made a 'scapegoat ' BY GWEN LISTER

HE WAS being "penalised for his attitude towards' black people", said Mr Peter Ellison, The attitude of most whites in Run­ journalism student, were.pre sently at . schoolteacher of Rundu in the Kavango, when informed by the authorities that he would be du, he said, was that of "they are black Rhodes University in Grahamstown, given 14 days to leave the country. Mr Ellison and his wife, Margaret, who have lived and and we are white", and that segrega, and had had their schooling in Win­ tion was still the order of the day. worked in Namibia for 10 years, wer~ informed on July 17 ofthe decision by the Department dhoek and Swakopmund. of Civic Affairs and Manpower. He said that he had never addressed They were presently asking the the subject of politics in the classroom, Department for an extension until the Peter and Margaret Ellison, both on British passports, were living in former Rhodesia, when, disillu­ but that most of the teachers at the end ofthe year, so that MrEliison could sioned with the lack of change there, they had been impressed by what they had heard about the pro­ Rundu Secondary School, where he finished off the school year with his gress of the Turnhalle conference in Windhoek, and what they had then seen as a movement towards was presently employed, were 'the students in English and they would wives of security officials'. He and his then leave for the UK in October or black and white working together. wife were also English-speaking, a fac­ November. tor which apparently counted strong­ Mr Ellison said that from 1971 to saw him as 'politicising the The letter from Civic Affairs, datedJu­ ly against them in white Kavango Dr Lukas de Vries, deputy Minister 1977 in the then Rhodesia, he had been ly 15 informed him that his exemption schoolchildren', Mr Ellison said he was society. ofCi vic Affairs, saidyesterdaythatMr a member of the police reserve. They involved in the organisation of sport, from visa requirements for British They had intended to make Namibia Ellison's application for an extension had decided to come to Namibia citizens had been withdrawn in terms and was also an active member ofthe their home, the couple said, adding had been turned down, and that the because ofan move towards Rundu Chiefs Football Club. ~pparent ofSection 40(7) of the Admission ofPer­ that both their children, Richard, a couple would have to leave the country social change and what they saw as sons to the Republic Regulation Act, He' and his wife, Margaret, also ' . final year psychology student; and within the period as originally "black and white working together". 1972 (Act 59 of 1972). employed by the Kavango Administra­ Louise, their daughter, a second year stipulated. Mr Ellison said he had been Asked as to what the reasons could tion, had not even been members ofthe recruited by.theformer Bantu Invest­ be for the order to leave the country ROK (Rundu Ontspannings KIub) ment Corporation which later became af~er . ten years-residence here, Mr because he claimed it was 'whites on­ the First National Dllvelopment Cor­ Ellison, who says he was never and is ly' and was'not multiracial. He had poration, also known as ENOK, to still not politically involved, explain­ been a member in his days as an ENOK employee, but had later not Alternative projects work in Namibia. ed the ways ofwhite society in Rundu. He and h~s family. arrived in Adding. that t4e 'only possible ex­ renewed membership because it was Namibia in September 1~7']. and he waIiatio~ could be that the authorities not 'multi racial'. He and his Wife went had worked for ENOl( in agriculture t:w%i}~~r[<':w -~ until 1981, and later he was transfer­ .....pose no-threat red to KatjmaMulilo in the Caprivi as ,r a training manager.cIn October 1981 . he returned to Rundu Where he MR VEZERA KA'NDETU. Associate General Secretary of the joined the Department ofEduca tion in Council for Churches in Namibia, has reacted to the slating of so­ the Kavango, and worked asa teacher called "al~rnative projects" by the Administrator General,'Mr at the.Le¥i·Hakusembe school.'· '" · Louis Pienaar, When the latter opened a developnieJ;lt symposium . Until that time, Mr Ellison said, he ihJWindhoek, Hosted by Action National' SetUement"· aitil,·the had been a staunch supporter of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, had in · Namib~~ , ~~a~~h :~f~~~ ~~~e~?,Pmeiit'St)cietY of S'ofi.~llE!fii~~~ fact voted duringthe'1978ethnfeelec­ tions. By 1983, ' he added, he had Inastrongly-worru;!Istaten;~~r~; ' ~)4r,j~i}'~p! W§~¥;~lh

Until he·was informed last week, , I · been -underserved· oy the South revolutionary c,entres. when a document from Civic Affairs AJrican authorities in tliis country to "Indeed,students are calling for and Manpower notified him he was to the extent that manyJiad to teave the alternative curriculla, infact they are . leave the cqlffitry ,within two weeks, he MR PETER ELL,ISON and his wife Margaret, who, after being resident in·this coUntry in search ofeducatipnal oppor: calling for the transformation of the tunities - some of whom hil,ve become whole educll,tional system. This is on- h~4 had to apply on a six,monthly basis country for ten years, hav~ ~een given fourteen days to leave. for a renewal of his residence permit. the authorities that the AGis apprent- ly logical and those concerned Chris- ly referring to." - bans shQuld be impressed by the fact .. to the RunduMotel, which was the on­ (The AG had said there were those that students are yearning for real ly place in the town where black and who were attempting to "embarass th~ . change, despite the indoctrination white could mix, he said. authorities by creating alternative · they have been dragged through and social and educational structures such the hell in which they hav.e been rais- q,OUNCIL OF CHURCHES Adding that he was being made a i" d '.. " ' ed. Hence they are calling for 'scapegoat for the fact that he was one as c m!cs ~n trammg centres, arid .' democracy in education, and they are IN NAMIBIA ofthe only whites In Rundu to have a had al~o. Issued a ~a::nz'}f! thai t~e .:'~-complementedJ5ytheifJ~arentsincall­ lot of black friends, some of whQm are authorzt!es .were resIstIng an attemI; . :?'. lng . f6r: EngliSh . as a 1nediuHl of politically involved', Mr Ellison added ted revolutwn. And those factoJ"s In '" . ,'. tr ·t· · ~<. ; .~1$ that he was being "penalised for his at­ soci~ty, by which it is·Yeci" 8hould lJ'1l .;c, m,s;R!c·ri;····i i' -;&'1' h \ ~la .· ''f. titude towards black people". evolutionarily removed"). . "th ~ /t~S l~ . ~ ' i'?b;· !3. o,l"d" b .l VACANCIES au on le,s",,,e' ,em I\r,asse . y: t~,e peoples' chOICes? ~' • . "There is no threat 'posed by com­ 1 DIRE(rrOR.OF SOCIAL SERVICES UNIT munity development projects to SALAfi'i': Negotiable. . . anybody. What threat is posed by the C,OUNCIL OF CHURCHES Jacob Morenga Tutorial College? REQUIREMENTS: B~BSc Social Sciences plus What threat is posed by the AME experience in community ' ork. ," . '~ Ir.fN· AMI~IA private school? What threat is posed by DUTIES: Run Sociaf Services activities to include the Otjimbingwe People's Clinic? Unit staff supervis,ion a_nd training, Dr.ought Relief VACANCY What threat is posed by the Katutura Co-ordfnation; Co~ordinate Services to displaced Community Centre, and to whom? "What threat is posed by the CCN - and needy people.and more. ' granting fifty scholarships to need The Contextual Theology Unit ofthe Council of Churches .< Namibian studllrits annually to study 2 HEALTH WORKER in ~~mihia (CCN), has vacan~ies in the following in Southern Africa and elsewhere? SALARY: Negotfaole. . positions: ' . . _. ' ' . . Why should the authorities be em­ DUTIES: Work as health educator in preventative barassed when the CCN provides . Health P.rogramme, visit community programmes , assistance to needy chldren whose 1. CO-ORDINATOR of the Contextual Theol~gy Unit .' . parents cannot afford the uncontroll­ and schools; assess need and draw plans for (preferably a woman), mainly to facilitate and co-ordinate women's ed high school fees; whim the CCN pro­ proper intervention. Visit Health and Welfare projects and programmes. vides tents for citizens.ofthis country who are victims of para-stataIs such as Committees and help with community health 2. CO-ORDINATOR 'of the Youth Desk: education. ) Nasbouk()r and the Municipality? . to plan, organise, co-ordinate or facilitate youth projects and "Why should the authorities be em­ 3 TRAINING CO-ORDINATOR IN programmes. barassed when the CCN delivers food to needy schools and starving com­ THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNIT (EW) Requirements: munities in the Kaoko region? SALARY: Negotiable. a) Some previous experience in women's and youth work "No. The authorities cannot be em­ DUTIES:' Plan and execute training programmes respectively. . barassed by such noble attempts by for ELU teachers; co-ordinate research and to those concerned about the fate of suf­ b) A deep Christian commitment to working for justice design m'aterial for teaching. · feringpllople. If they are einbarassed and peace. . it should be by their disinterest in REQUIREMENTS: Matric, teaching experience, developing Namibian communities, and responsibilities will demand experience in CLOSING DATE: AUGUST 15 1987 and the onus lies upon them to put the teaching English as foreign language; have ability resources of this rich country where to work with people of different age levels, and Add~ss inquiries and applications to: they should be used!' administrative abilities. Director, CCN-Contextual Theology Unit, INQUIRIES: CCN General Secretary, PO Box 41, ADVERTISE IN tel: (061) 37510/11112 WINDHOEK 9000 THE NAMIBIAN! DEADLINE F~R APPLICATIONS: July 31, 1987. Tel: 061-37510

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THE NAMIBIAN Wanton killing of an innocent young girl ------BYTOBIASHMBAKO ______AT THE HIGHLY emotional funeral of young Laina Katikati have people who will kill an innocent, Taapopi, (17), last Saturday in Katutura, various speakers lashed 17 -year-old girl just like that? How out at the present interim government, inferring that its ministers could a small girl like Laina Taapopi pose a threat to armed men?". should be answerable as to how and why the young girl had met Students and teachers from the her violent death in northern Namibia a fortnight ago. Jacob Morenga school in Khomasdal Laina Taapopi was shot and killed Lutheran Pastor, Gerson U ahihama also came to pay their last respects to last week in Valombola, the residential delivered a sermon in which he con­ their erstwhile companion. area of Ongwediva in northern demned the killers of the young girl. ' In a tribute read by one of Laina's Namibia. Reports indicated that she Pastor Uahihama sais that ifthe peo­ classmates, the school said that she had been a conscientious person who was killed by security forces while ple who killed Laina Taapopi called LAINA Katikati 'sschoolfriends raised their fists in a power salute as they sang travelling in a car with Mr Israel themselves Christians, "then they are was welllikedhy the staffand students ofthe school. the freedom anthem" Nkosi sikele i Africa" at her funeral, attended by a crowd Mwandingi, a friend of hers. very bad Christians:' .' of approximately 1 000 people. Mr Mwandingi is receiving treat­ ''A Christian who thinks that his dai­ The entire school had been shocked ment in the Katutura hospital, and ly bread should come from the blood of to learn of Laip.a's death, especially doctors said he is paralysed from the the people of Namibia is definitely a due to the fact that it was at the begin­ waist down. bad Christian. 'Ibday we pray for such ning of term when they heard of the. The funeral; attended by aboutl 000 people to repent while there is still tragic news, the trIbute said. people from all over the country, was time to do so. We need to pray fpr those The principal of the school, Mrs opened by the wellknown freedom an­ people _because Jesus says that Otillie Abrahams was virtually in them, "Nkosi sikelel' i Mrlca:' . whoever bikes, a ' sword ,and kills tears when her turn came to pay last. 'Women's ;Voice' The singing was led by students of another, would suffer fr~m that sword respects. . the Jacob Morenga School, where as well", Pastor Uhihama said. She managed to say a few words in a Laina was a pupil. The Pastor then drew a parallel bet­ hushed voice, to the effect that Laina's In a hard-hitting address, Mr Chris ween Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, and death was a shock to the ~hole coun­ try. An acfsuch as tqis warranted the defines support Aukongo, who spoke on behalf of the the killers of Laina Taapopi, adding' bereaved family, said that the killers that Hitler maintained he would greatest possible condemnation, she of young Laina may be unknown, but triumph and rule the world. said. . the people of Namibia knew who was "Where is Hitler now - and in this A principal of a local primary school, answerable for her death. context what does Laina's death mean Mr Juuso Katangolo, also condemned for'/Ai-IIGams The interim government ministers, to us?" . the,kiWng, and said thatNamibia waS STRONG' SUPPORT fQr the ,The attitude of the health system like Messrs Katjioungua and Pastor answered the ques.tion tired of such senseless wanton acts. ' IAi-//Gams Declaration was towards women has been a long stan­ Shipangawould nave to answerforthe . himself, saying that in a country full "Namibia", he said, "can do without ding concern of Women's Voice. They people who.commit

STANDING NEXT TO THE COFFIN OF the 17-year~ old Laina, victim of a senseless killing, a classmate pays tribute to her memory in an address to an emotional crowd.

SEMINAR Rehoboth Gebiet being misled THE WOMAN OF TODAY: LIFE SKILLS AND PERSONAL GROWTH by divide and rule tactics This workshop semina,rwill assist career-orientated womento bet­ ______BYRAJAlIMUNAMAVA ------ter understand and manage career-life challenges. Workshops will APARTHEID, SOUTH Africa's divide and rule tactics, and its racial classification and identity cards focus on homeland system have created conditions whereby the people of and said they were nothing but the old - Career planning Rehoboth were being mislead into believing that the "Gebiet" was "Pass Law system" in disguise. She called for the scrapping ofthe eleven a sovereign state, a paradise and an independent island state, - decision making ethnic systems and said Swapo stood - communication Swapo's Administrative Secretary, Mr Immanuel Ngatjizeko, told for the concept of "One Namibia one a Swapo Youth League rally in Rehoboth last week Sunday. Nation". ' -:- assertiveness She further castigated the interim - time management Swapo, he said, was striving for "one the Police force, Ezuva, Etango and Namibia one nation" and Rehoboth government for purportedly ~.tanding - stress management such other groups. He said that there for national unity while some oftheir was part of the total Niimibia.-tt was 'Were organisations in which the youth DATES : 28-30 Jufy therefore the n;spo~sibility of the could playa meaningful role such as participants represented and even­ fo ught for ethnically constituted se· TIMES : OBhOO-17hOO daily youth to carry on the task as set out by the Swapo Youth League, Nanso and their forefathers and unite to fight for cond tier authorities under AG8. She VENUE ' : Hotet Safari, Main Hall others. appealed to women in Namibia to par· the total liberation of Namibia in­ A Swapo Women Council leader Ms PRESENTER : Mrs Truida Prekel (UNISA, SBL) ticipate in the revolutionary struggle cluding the socalled Rehoboth Gebiet. Ida Hofman, said apartheid was still side by side with their menfolk. COST : R150. This includes lunches, refreshments Participating in South Africa's col· alive and well in' Namibia and that it and notes . . onial institutions was 'a betrayal of was those who supported the status Another speaker Mr Martin trust for those who have-fallen for the quo that thought otherwise. Kapewasha, said SquthAfrica's war in REGISTRATION : Tel: 061-37353, Mrs Kunert cause of Namibian independence: - She said that blacks were still denied Namibia had brought untold destruc­ The Swapo Administr_ative the freedom of movement and speech tion and suffering. He disclosed that' IMLT has a number of sponsorships to Secretary said the youth in Namibia and the fact that Proclamation AG8 'current expenditure by Pretoria on its enable you to attenq this seminar should were becoming counter·revolutionary was still intact was testimony ofthe ex­ war in Namibia stood at about R3 you have difficulties' paying'the R150. by joining in the oppression of their istance of apartheid. million a day and that partly subsidis­ people through enlisting in Koevoet, Ms Hofman further lashed out at ed with Namibian tax money. ~.. --~----.------~~------~... --~~----~~~----- , --~ -----.~~------~~----~--~------~------.------~

8 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN Res 435 should AKrevctl-k~r~nttfl'U1 . . he amended aff£r tht ~ifid i ; ~4fAtst... A PARLIAMENTARY Delegation which visited Namibia earlier this year (April27-May 3),just before the British General election, has now released its report. The three Members ofPatliament, Tim Rathbone, Michael Colvin and George Gardiner, say that United Nations Security Council Resolution 435 needs to be amended to take account of the existence ofthe Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNU). In a statement released on Wednes­ They conclude their report by stating day this week, MP Rathbone said "I that punitive sanctions on Namibia believe that Resolution 435, which is "would be totally counter-productive now nine years old, should be amend­ in the light of recent developments in ed to recognise that Swapo, while tap­ - Namibia." ping a broader cross section of tribal Mr Nicholas Winterton, MP Chair­ support, is no longer the "sole man of the All-Party Parliamentary representative" ofthe Namibian peo­ Namibia Group in British Parliament, ple, and that the TGNU exists and said on Wednesday that the delegation should be encouraged and used as a would shortly be' invited to give transitional constitutional . evidence to the committee and that instrument. "The United Kingdom should take their report would be considered iIi account of these changes; and the UK d~tail. Government could take the initiative Commenting on Mr Rathbone's in drafting such an amendment." r~mark about Resolution 435, Mr The delegation also repeated con­ Winterton said "Robert Jackson made cern - held by previous delegations to his point in early 1985, before the in­ Namibia, that AG8 of 1980 had to go. auguration of the TGNU, 'moving the In their report they say "Its repeal will furniture of 435', is I think how he put be the acid test of South Africa's good it. We musttake account ofthe reality faith on Namibian self-determination ofNamibia and the very real progress and the final abolition of apartheid." of the TGNU." Inerease all very well but still inadequate THE Federation of Teachers' could not compensate for the rise in Associations has expressed ap­ consumer prices since the previous in­ preciation for the increase in crease of salaries, and for this reason salaries for teachers and civil the Federation insisted on yet another servants announced recently increase to narrow the gap. Mr Fransman said that the Federa­ in a difficult economic climate, tion hoped the current inquiry into the but felt that the needfor higher salaries of teachers and government salaries and earlierimplemen­ services personnel would be completed tation of increases had not speedily and that in the light ofthe fin­ been satisfied. dings of the inquiry, the government In a statement released by the Chair­ would make realistic adjustments to man of the Federation, Mr JC ensure sufficient teachers for the pro- . THE OFFICE of the Attorney He said these two reporters had sup­ He said he knew there were two Fransman, he said that the Federation fession and that only the best students General yesterday confirmed plied him with the information which kinds of Swapos - the "peaceful" and still held the opinion that the increase are recruited for the profession. t hat "some allegations" h ad he had used to write a lead article on the "radical" element, and it was most been levelled against the editor December 1, 1986. likely that Mr Shifidi was killed when of Die Republikein, Mr Des Mr de Bruyn was called as a witness, "spontaneous violence" broke'out bet­ and under cross-examination admit­ ween the two. E r !ls mus, r egar d ing t h e ted to the court that he had not been Advocate Bryan O'Linn, appearing testimony he had given during sent to the Swapo rally that day, for the Shifidi family, pointed out to Mr the inquest into the deathofMr "because we do not usually attend Erasmus that his lead article was Imm anuel Shifidi on Swapo rallies". devoid of any truth and misleading. Mr November 30, last year. He could not say whether Gene Erasmus replied that he would not tell During the first inquest hearing last Travers had attended the meeting, but lies in a lead story. week, Mr Erasmus told the court how that he had received information Legal sources are ofthe opinion that he had written a front-page lead arti­ about trouble at the rally from "a it is possible for Mr Erasmus to face cle the day after the Swapo rally dur­ source" which he could not identify. charges of perjury. ing which Mr Shifidi was killed. In his evidence, Mr Erasmus said A spokesman for the Attorney Speaking under oath, Mr Erasmus that spontaneous violence which General said that a decision would be SEMINAR told the court how he had sent two of erupted between the "peaceful" and made once the inquest records arrived. his journalists, Andre de Bruyn and the "radical" elements ofSwapo at the "We will look at this from all the Gene Travers, to Katutura to report on rally could have resulted in the death angles, and peruse the documents WORD PROCESSOR, SPREADSHEETS ofMr Immanuel Shifidi. before coming to a decision," he said. i AND GRAPHICS ON THE the meeting. MICRO COMPUTER BLOOM COUNTY Berke Breathed ~------, 1. On 28 July word processor training will be given. W{,KE IIU 17CKt.£Il THIIT YOIJ YWN&, ~PPY MIJSI­ 8I1CK­ MYH((£ .' 2. On 29 and 30 July the seminar will deal with the CIIINS C(}(/W !'LilY RJI( liS / STII(£. HA~A/. Wf{(l?n:~ 1H~ OTHeR. «(/}//I micro computer as an aid for the manager. 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THE NAMIBIAN Friday July 24 1987 9 FLASHES Challenge of the 'Total eonunitDl.ent' Still in charge Beira Corridor ACCRA: Ghana this week warned its THE INCREASED SECURI­ nationals working in South Africa that they were contravening the country's African leaders in power TY AND VIABILITY OF THE policy of "absolute commitment" to the since independence Beira Corridor offered a direct total liberation of South Africa and challe~ge to the business com­ Namibia. 1 Felix Houphouet-BoignY,lvory Coast (1960) munity within the SADCC to A statement from the Foreign Affairs use it to the full, Zambia's Ministry carried by GNAexpressed concern 2 Kenneth Kaunda,Zambia(1964) 3 Hastings Banda,Malawi(1964) Prime Minister told the at the large number of Ghanaians - in­ SADCC Council ofMinisters in cluding technicians and skilled workers­ 4 Sir Dawda Jawara,The Gambia (1965) Ii Lusaka this week. \> residing and working in the Republic 5 Habib Bourguiba,Tunisia (1959) "This is contrary to the (ruling) Provi­ • Manuel Pinto da Costa, Sao Tome and "There is absolutely no justification sional National Defence Council's avowed for their continued dependence on the commitment to the struggle for the eradica­ Principe (1975) southern route (through South tion of apartheid;' the statement said, Africa);' the Prime Minister, Mr Meb­ without giving precise figures on the size of by Musokotwane, said. the Ghanaian community in South Africa. He was speaking at the opening of the meeting of the Council of Thousands flee Ministers, which is being held in JOHANNESBURG: The News AGency preparation for today's (Friday), of Unita, KUp, reports that nearly 5 000 SADCC summit, Ziana, Zimbabwe's _ people have fled from the towns of semi-{)fficial news agency reported this Bocoio, Balombo, Kanjala and Kalapo week. in the Angolan Province ofBenguela, to Poiting out that the basic aim of Unita-controlled territory over the past SADCC when it was formed seven three months. years ago, was reducing the According to KUP, hunger, disease and dependence of the nine member states forced military recruitment by which on South Africa, Mr Musokotwane children as young as 13 years were taken, highlighted developments in were the main reasons given for the flight. transport and communications as an area of significant success. Lawyer arrested . Earth stations and micro-wave links had increased telecommunication KAMPALA: Police removed a promi­ links between member countries and nent woman lawyer and her staff from there had been regional co-ordination her office here at the weekend, and are of air line schedules, as well as a major holding her without charge at a police station in the capital, eyewitnesses and rehabilitation and standardisation of police said. road and railway infrastructures. "The transport and communications The police said they were holding Rebec­ caKadaga, Presidentofthe Uganda Women sector have so far registered 18 capital Lawyers' Association, at old Kampala investment projects which have been police station, but declined to give the completed at a cost of US dollars 193 reasons for detaining her. million." he said, adding that opera­ In a press release this week, Uganda Law tional co-ordination activities were go­ Society Secretary, RK Kasule, called on the e o ing on in road infrastructures, road authorities to investigate the reasons '1l1851 traffic and transport, railways, civil behind Kadaga's arrest, and set her free if aviation and national airlines, ports there were no charges against her. and shipping development, She is also vice president of the Interna­ meteorology and postal services. tional Women Lawyers' Association.

Poliee without wheels HARARE: Criminals were getting the better ofthe police force, which was im­ mobilised mainly because of a lack of On eharting anew line transport, Zimbabwe's House of leaning Kenya. Assembly was told this week. vice-chairman. SOCIALIST TANZANIA feels increasingly'isolated on a conti­ The symposium will be followed Former Tanzanian president Mr John Zhakata, MP for Mufakose, one nent where a growing number of budgets are run on Interna­ by another equally important Julius Nyerere is expected to con­ of Harare's high-density suburbs~ describ­ tional Monetary Fund principles. Once Mrica's philosophic ed the police-criminal situation in the meeting: 44 political parties world­ test the chairmanship despite his capital as "pathetic:' leader, it now finds that few other countries share its view of the wide have been invited to send earlier suggestion that he would Mbare police station, he said, had only two world. In an effort to turn back the tide and renew commitments delegates to the CCM conference at hand over the powerful post to vehicles, and there was a general lack of to the liberation ofthe white-ruled South, reports Gemini News Dodomain October at which it will President Ali Hassan Mwinyi. transport for the police. Service, it has called a symposium of African political parties, elect a new chairman and "We are facing a situation where criminals have outgrown our police force" to meet in Dar es Salaam. he said, adding that this situation had Tanzania has called a meeting of22 has become a succession of spread throughout the country. He urged the Ministry of Home Affairs to African political parties in the military coups. look into the issue and to see that the police hope of charting a new line for Tanzanian officials say Africa Subscribe to got more foreign exchange to buy vehicles. decolonisation in southern Africa. needs to make a thorough review of He a~so suggested that private companies There have been suggestions that its political problems, which that had spare vehicles, make them Tanzania is worried about the in­ hinder the process ofobtaining in­ ~ [tJ @~HM] ~ ~ @[tJ available to the police. creasing number . of countries dependence for Namibia and the ID defaulting on their contributions to abolition of apartheid in South Sexual diseases the Organisation of African Unity's Africa. ~~------~~~------~ liberation committee based in Dar Party leaders here consider the NAIROBI: Kenyan Police rounded up ••••••• 26 weeks 52 weeks... • ...... ~ more than 100 women in the north­ esSalaam. symposium important in light of eastern town of Garissa this week, and A feeling ofincreasing Tanzanian the political and economic set­ Namibia R30,OO R60,00 isolation in the face of a continen­ backs which have shattered many took them to hospital to test them for SA & homelands R33,00 R66,00 sexually transmitted diseases, the of­ tal shift to the political right also of the bright hopes of 1950. ficial Kenya News Agency said. appears to be a motive for calling Some political scientists argue Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, A senior police officer said they carried out the meeting. that social discontent arising from the swoop after receiving reports that Senior officals of the ruling economic difficulties has led to venereal diseases were rampant in the area. Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) an­ military coups; radicals and Business in the town's . bars and nounced that the symposium socialists who have stayed in restaurants has come to a virtual standstill, would meet in Dar es Salaam in power have "lost direction" while the AgencY added. July. capitalist ideology gains ground...... ••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• It will be the first ofits kind since A senior party official in Dar es ~- ....::.:;~1:.:~::;··~:;\:..:,_;d_;_;_;-;-:...:~~l;;..;...::o.:.::...::-~ The Dl.ore the Dl.errier the 1950 gathering of African na­ Salaam would not say which par­ tionalist parties in Accra under the ties had been invitea:'''We are still YAOUNDE: A 35-year-Qld Camerounian North America chairmanship of Kwame at early stages ofpreparations. But singer, Mongo Faya, has taken six new R219,00 wives in addition to the 36 he already Nkrumah, who subsequently some 22 political parties have in­ Send To: lives with, the official Cameroon became president of Ghana. That dicated they will participate in the Australia and New Zealand The Namibian Tribune newspaper has reported. conference sent out a serious symposium". R281,OO PO Box 20783, He married all six at a civil wedding challenge to colonial rulers to quit He ,suggested those attending Nordic countries WINDHOEK 9000 Africa or face armed rebellion. would include Zambian President ceremony on July 11 in the Por city ofDoula. RI92,OO NAMIBIA Faya's wives, aged between 20 and 24, live The Accra gathering was attend­ Kenneth Kaunda, Congo President Tel: 36970/1 harmoniously under the same roof, the ed by prominent nationalists ofthe Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and Libyan Telex: 3032 paper added. day, such as the late Jomo Kenyat­ leader Muammar Qadafi. The singer, who earlier this month return­ taofKenya, Zimbabwe opposition He refused to comment on ed from the United States where he record­ leader Joshua Nkomo, the late reports that North Korea had pro­ ed his latest album titled "Stop Apartheid", WEB Dubois and Malawi's vided generous funding for staging has28 children, whose ages range between Kanyama Chiume. the symposium. three months and nine years. Name: ...... It came at a time of growing Apart from Zambia's United Na­ African self-confidence and tional Independence Party (UNlP), Address: ...... Thanks, but no thanks heralded the emergence of com­ the Congo Workers Party of BRUSSELS: Morocco's application for mitted nationalist movements Sassou-Nguesso and Mozambi­ membership in the 12-nation European which culminated in the liberation que's Frelimo, there are few others ...... Code: ...... Economic Community this week, got a of many African countries. on the continent that Tanzania con­ polite, but cool reception from the EEC Since that historic meeting, siders share its views. Radical I enclose a cheque/postal order of ...... Foreign Ministers. African parties have not met on a CCM workers feel that a return to The Ministers, meeting here in their single platform to discuss the socialist ideals must be for ...... weeks subscription to The Namibian regular monthly session, even refused to changing political climate. In the encouraged. (Please ensure exact amount in Rands or equivalent consider Morocco's bid serioously, calling it intervening years many of the Its feeling of isolation is exacer­ currency.) As from 1/7/87 ulltil further notice. a "sign of Morroco's wish to develop closer original movements have run out of bated by its persistently uneasy ties" with Europe. . steam, and change in government relations with neighbouring West- 10 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

WHY does the media continue to give prominence and credibility to the often ridiculous pro­ nouncements of members of the interim government, who have made the same statements fol' the past two years, and who have thusfar failed to implement the changes that they promise so vehemently. A case in point is in­ terim government Education Minister, Andrew Matjila, who once again this week promised a start to equal, free and com­ pulsory education next year.

THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT's 'rule' is fast being characterised as one of "promises, promises", while nothing is put into practice. Interim government Minister Andrew Matjila, rashly promised equal and integrated education from the start of the 1987 school year - a promise that has never seen the light of day. Instead of using some caution in making such predictions, he. does it again ... and ' this week in the National Assembly, r.eiterates that a start to pro­ viding equal and compulsory education would be made next year. In view of his past record on changes in education, he can't really be believed. But then the past few years have seen several inter-im government Ministers make the same mistake . . Among some of the many 'promises' on their part, is the commit­ ment to the socalled Bill of Rights (a commitment in word, but not in practice); a promise to bring existing socalled security legislation into line with-the socalled Bill of Rights, and many others, too many to detail here today. Possibly their biggest omission of all, concerns their 'commitment' to Security Council Resolution 435 -the independence plan providing for the holding of free and fair elections in this country. We are aware that their mentors in the South African Govern­ ment have instructed the interim government not to jeopardise their international commitments (this is seen as a reference to Resolu­ tion 435), and the interim government in turn is forced to obey. But the majority of the population are well aware that theirs is not a firm commitment to Resolution 435: it is pure opportunism and a case of "obeying their bosses" that prevents them from declar­ ing Resolution 435 dead and buried. The population also know why the interim government fears the implementation of this Plan; and if they truly intended it should be implemented, then they would continue in the trend of what is set down in the plan for the bringing about of change in Namibia, which includes the scrapping of apartheid; ethnic governments and so on. THE KAISER STREET entrance to the parking garage after the bomb blast last week . . Instead they allow themselves to be used by the South African Government to set up structures inside Namibia which are in total contradiction to the UN Plan. These structures include the forma- . tion of what they call "an own national army"; the setting up of an ".own" police force; the reinforcement of the bantustanisation of Namibia by continued rule in terms of Proclamation AG 8. These are but a few of their contraventions. In addition the interim government, as Namibians, have no right to collaborate with the South Africans in robbing their fellow coun­ trymen of something promised to them in terms .of the League of Nations Mandate: "shall promote to the utmost the material and moral well-being and social progress of the inhabitants of the ter­ ritory" , and furthermore, to lead them to self-determination and independence. The South Africans have never done this; and the interim govern­ ment is not presently acting in the spirit of the Mandate by keep­ jng N amibians from the realisation of this goal. What, in fact, since they took over governing this country in 1985, have they really done for the Namibian population as a whole? Their public relations consultant, Sean Cleary, probably had his work cut out trying to 'promote their image abroad', since he hasn't got much to work on. And instead of 'promoting the image' of the interim government abroad, his offices have to resort to attempts to discredit the opposition, thereby hoping to bestow more credibili­ ty upon the South African-appointed government. But the interim government and its representatives should desist from making promises that they can never fulfill: they must be well aware of the fact that equal, compulsory and integrated education will be no easy task; they cannot talk ofthe scrapping of AG 8 while their mentors insist on minority rights guarantees; and they can­ not even think about the drafting of a constitution before in­ dependence when none of the opposition parties are prepared to cooperate. Perhaps the time may come when even the interim government, sick and tired of the orders and instructions from Pretoria, may welcome the implementation of Resolution 435. Let us hope that the time will come when they will join all other parties in Namibia in calling for the scrapping of the linkage proviso. Hopefully then, the South African Government will keep its promise of allowing the peo­ ple of Namibia to decide for themscives. Unfortunately, however, COLONEL DESMOND RADMORE ofthe Army's Bomb Disposal Unit, and others searching the debris a1 we cannot put much faith in that possibility. the blast. THE NAMIBIAN Friday July 24 1987 11

July 24 1987 Equal treatment for press

IT IS high time that the staffof this newspaper were given the same recognition and equal treatment awarded by the authorities to every other journalist in Windhoek. A case in point is last week's bomb blast at the French Bank Cen­ tre parking garage, when pol~ce treated the Namibian's photographer in an abominable fashion_ One high-ranking officer in the public relations division of the police actually physically m an handled ou r photographer w h en he attempted to p hotograph the d amage, which is, after all hisjob. Another officer inthe security police, dragged our photographer from inside the Kalahari Sands building (a fair distance away from the scene), and literally pushed him into the street, saying "You see what your people have done .. :' We condemn in the strongest possible terms this virtual hysteris displayed by uniformed members ofthe police towards journalists attached to The Namibian. Pictured above, the AG Mr Louis And to act in this fashion in front of members of the public is Pienaar and General Oolf Gouws u nforgivable. inspect the site of the blast. Our photographer was strictly and violently forbidden from enter-, ingthe parking garage, while otherjournalists were given free rein to roam at will photographing and filming the consequences ofthe b last. . A SWABC!['V News crew were permitted inside the garage short­ ly after the blast to record the devastation, while the photographer from the Allgemeine Zeitung and the Windhoek Advertiser was allowed to do the same. . This biased and preferential treatment of the media must end. On Friday morning, after the blast, reporters and photographers Security forces and OK staff start were once again barr.ed from entering the scene. the business of cleaning up the next morning. But while a police officer was telling staff of The Namibian that it was not yet possible to inspect the site, two cameramen and a reporter from SWABC TV-News calmly walked out ofthe same area in the company of the present interim government Cabinet Chair­ SHOPS AND BUSINESSES IN THE FRENCH BANK CENTRE lost hundreds of man, Mr Dawid Bezuidenhout. thousands of rands in pre-weekend revenue when they were forced to close their doors This blatant favouritism shown by the police, and their atrocious after the bomb-blast which ripped through the complex last Thursday night. Several treatment of our staff, provides sufficient cause for us to b~lieve ' shop-owners spent most of Friday removing shattered panes of glass and sweeping up that there is indeed a campaign against The Namibian and its debris scattered about by the force of the blast. The massive explosion, which personnel. reverberated through Windhoek's city centre and outlying suburbs, was caused by the most powerful bomb ever to detonate in Namibia.

The bomb, which according to garage would be deserted, and scrawled on the inside walls ofthe garage, but it is unknown whether 'Undemocratic' AG police contained at least 30 consequently nobody was injured kilograms of explosives, exploded when it did go offshortly after half­ or not this graffiti was painted inside the boot Of a car parked on past-nine on Thursday night. long before the bomb-car was The South African chief representative in Namibia, Mr Louis the third floor of the. six-storey '" Many of the 33 cars which had parked mthe garage. It has not yet Pienaar's comments about what he calls alternative structures, garage which serves the shopping been par~ed · in the garage were been discovered whether there is are as politically deceiving as they are undemocratic. a link between the writing, which complex. destroyed or damaged, with He misses the entire point by not addressing himself to the simple question as to why people see the nee4 to establish community or development projects outside the official system which he represents. He does not ask himself the simple question: alter­ native to what? Because if he properly applied his mind to this question, the entire basis for his uncalled for remarks would com­ pletely fall away. AFTER ATH e should ask himself why people in this country want to create schools, clinics and community projects outside the framework (alternative to), of existing structures based on apartheid, Dense clouds ofbillowing black several catching alight causing includes slogans like perpetuated through laws such as AG8. smoke poured from the garage for petrol tanks to explode. SWATF = malnutrition, and the hours after the explosion. Minutes after the explosion, bomb. . He should ask himself why school pupils and students in this coun­ Although the structure suffered hordes of curious Windhoek Late on Friday afternoon, the try think that school curricular should not be based on propagan­ extensive damage, the founda­ residents poured into the city to Swapo London office said that the da and apartheid principles and should rather include relevant· tions are apparently intact and see what had happened. Kaiser organisation was claiming curricular and educational principles acceptable to the people of the building will not have to be Street and intersecting roads were responsibility for the blast. this country. Maybe he ~hould ask himself, for example, why Nami­ demolished. immediately cordoned off by The Swapo DepartmentofInfor­ bians should be forced to learn about Jan van Riebeeck and voor­ It has also emerged that there is police who arrived at the scene. mation in Luanda described the trekker issues in their history syllabuses in the current way, whilst no strong connection between the The Fire Department -were also incident as a "demonstration of historical events relevant to Namibians are excluded. He should blast and a vehicle which had sup­ rapidly on hand to extinguish the Namibian people's resolve to also ask himself the fundamen hl question as to why people of posedly been hired by a Canadian burning debris and blazing cars . shake off the yoke of colonialism Namibia look for alternatives to assist them, which was imposed man. inside the garage. by all necessary means". on them without their consent, and indeed against their will. Press reports claimed that the The car which contained the The Administrator General, Mr vehicle had been reported miss­ bomb was mangled beyond Louis Pienaar, has since been By his criticism of alternative structures, Mr Pienaar has predic­ ing, and had been involved in the recognition, but although it was quoted over the state-run SWABC tably exhibited the tolerance typical ofthe South African Govern­ explosion. The Canadian man merely a twisted lump of scarred services as saying that Swapds in­ ment, which does not tolerate and seeks to crush opposition to its who hired the car had supposedly and scorched metal, police manag­ ternal wing were as responsible own policies and structures. Although he categorises his approach disappeared in the interim. ed to determine that the vehiCle for the blast as the external wing, as "those democratic, social and economic ideals that we stand A police public relations officer was a Colt Gallant. and should be brought to court. for", most Namibians will reali~e that these comments are without said this week that the 'Canadian The blast ripped a four-metre * The Namibian was unfor­ any substance arid that if they were even a little democratic, he connection' had played only a hole through the third floor ofthe tunately unable to inform its would recognisethe right of people to establish their own schools "minor part" in the investigation. garage, and sent huge concrete re­ readers of the bomb-blast in its and other structures and not to have apartheid run every aspect "With any bomb blast there are taining walls crashing to the previous edition, as the newspaper of their lives. . rumours;' he said. ground below. had already been printed. He added that there were still no Residents and , staff of t he Mr Pienaar's undemocratic and heavy-handed comments will not indications as to the origin ofthe Kalahari Sands Hotel were deter those in this country striving for an alternative society bas­ explosive device, but that in­ evacuated soon after the BY MARK VERBAAN ed upon self determination, equality and the recognition of human vestigations were continuing. explosion. AND . dignity to replace his own apartheid system in its various forms The bomb had apparently been Anti-army and End Conscrip­ JOHN LIEBENBERG imposed on the people of this country, based upon inequality, in­ set to explode at a time when the tion Campaign graffiti was justice and colonialism.- 12 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

quoVadis? Thus, the one-way teacher·student relationship must end and a liberating According to news reports around two·way relationship must be 25 000 people are benefiting from an established. This will enable students emergency feeding scheme. The to have a say in their quest for reality. Department of National Health and With this relationship, political educa· Welfare, and private welfare organiza· tion lessons must be introduced to tions, like the Red Cross are involved. raise the level of political maturity of While having sympathy with students. hungry people, and supporting the ef· Thirdly, teachers must realize that forts to help, we have to ask ourselves, . the powers th.at be are hard at work try­ "Why are these people starving". The ing to create a middle class in the black following proQlems are contributing to community, and that the teachers are the problem viz: slowly but definately being A) Population Growth: vote election. Therefore population similar deeds. Blatant raeis:m. assimilated into this middle class. This The annual population growth hovers planning as a form of imperialistic, Don't say the workers are wrong tactic is used to create a buffer zone around three percent. Fifty percent of capitalistic, racial suppression, has no because they are boycotting the THANK YOU for a newspaper which which will absorb the revolutionary the population is 15 years or younger, logical or scientific basis. white business area. is completely newsworthy and which onslaught ofthe working class. This and therefore unproducti ve. Between With the present growth curve, In those papers they distribute strives to bring forth the truth. I think reactionary middle class which con­ 5 to 10 percent are retired and no demands' on health, housing, food, among the Nomtsoub residents, they - you ought to have a bi-weekly sists mostly ofthe black intelligentsia, longer make a contribution. Present· education and employment, are in ex­ try to use the people to inform the newspaper. I would not hesitate to pay can be identified in Katutura by the ex­ Iy only 20 percentofthe population are cess of supply, and the situation is police who are the culprits, to tell up toR2 per issue for it andI don't think . pensive houses they buy. Teachers gainfully economically employed, and worsening. Demand greater than people not to buy in the white area. many readers would mind. Could you must refuse to be used as partners in ofthis group, one quarter works for the supply boosts inflation, which in turn please put it to a referendum? the exploitation of our people. State. The balance 20-25% are either aggravates poverty even further. It is NGHISHIPOPI YA AKSEL 'Ib come to therealreasonfor writing, Lastly, teachers must fuily identify subsistence farmers or unemployed. a vicious cycle. Only a firm political NOMTSOUB I have never read such blatant racism, with the working class which has the The population growth outstrips statement of intent and action, can such warped ideas, such drivei, in my historic task ofleading the revol ution food production, housing resources, break this cycle. It will require.a brave Make a plan now life, as was spewing forth from the to its logical conclusion. socalled Veripi Mungunda. schooling, health services and job crea­ man to do it, but if successfull, he will I HAVE passed my Standard Eight NAMBATA KALOMO Both his letters, and his attitude, tion. As a result the population go down in.history as the man who and watch the -newspapers daily for ACADEMY becomes poorer and poorer, and the brought progress and prosperity. Peo­ smacks of florid racism. . a possible vacancy. On each occasion His anti-Ovambo sentiments are ab­ economically active group smaller in ple will become independent of, rather I find that the business undertaking Stop dis:m.issals proportion. It is always tempting in an than dependent on the State. solutely frightening -no wonder we are in question is looking for persons , still where we were in in 1972 when I SCHOOL principals, especially in nor­ effort to redistribute wealth, to heavi- B) Farming Methods: with experience. was still at school. thern Namibia, should stop in­ 1y tax this group. Care must however Farming methods must become scien­ , What can a mere student do in this timidating students by dismissing be taken not to kill the goose that lays tific and conservative. Namibia is vir­ Is he trying to create the same situa­ situation? Something has to change, tion as after the Kapuuo them from school or by closing down the golden eggs. tually only suited to livestock and because in this manner the schools when the disregard of the game farming. The delicate ecological assassination? B) Drought: unemployment situation increases on I cannot sufficiently express my authorities forces them, regrettably, to Namibiaisasemi-desertcountrY) ~nd symbiosis must be nurtured for future a daily basis. boycott classes. generations. disgust at his drivel. Why can't he send droughts are part oflife. The prob1e@ One's family has to incur all the his ideas to the daily Afrikaans Principals had better listen to the arises when the odd few good rainfall C) Political Settlement costs and expenditure for schooling, newspaper? They will surely welcome problems of students and find solu­ years are taken as the norm and no pro­ (AG8 and Resolution 435): and at the end of it all, you are his contribution, and their propagan­ tions to them. Alternatively they could vision is made for the inevitable bad The guerrilla war can only be ter­ jobless. Is this not unfair? da machine would suit Mr Mungun­ tell us that they are powerless in which years in nature's cycle. minated by a political settlement. It is Our parents work very hard and da'sviews. case they should not stand in the way C) Farming Methods: often said that Namibia must decide encourage us to go to school, and Mr Mungunda, please don't spoil our of our struggle. Farming methods are sometimes very its own future, but to most who have business undertakings should bear leisurely Thursday evenings by having They say students waste their time destructive, especially in the com­ followed the political yo-yo game, it is this in mind before advertising a to read your nonsense. We don't want when they go on strikes. What about munal areas. There, no rotation graz­ obvious that outside sources from a vacancy. to hear your views in our newspaper. the students they expel from schools? ing is implemented and very little con­ number of sides are manipulating our What can inexperienced people do Put your views in the daily Mrikaans Don't they similarly, waste their time? trol is exercised over stock numbers. future. A settlement will hopefully in order to gain experience if he or neWspaper where we won't be bothered It would be worthwhile for them to talk Traditionally the number of cattle is bring peace, stability, investment and she has not already worked in a to see or read it. to those they term 'troublemakers'. a symbol of wealth, irrespective oftheir prosperity. business; and only has a Standard Mr Mungunda, for your information, Finally, all school principals, and the condition. Owners are also often loathe D) Good Medical Services: Eight or Matric qualification? Swapo is not 99,9 percent an Ovambo population of northern Namibia as a to sell their cattle, even j n times of Good medical services must go hand in I think something must be done organisation. it started off as the whole, should understand that N anso drought, with resultant destruction of hand with education and economic about this problem. What do the Ovamboland People's Organisation, is a non-political students organisa­ grazing and death, as witnessed a few progress. 'government' say? about which we are not ashamed, and tion fighting for equal, free and years ago in Kaokoveld. The result is E) Political Independence: it became a national organisation com­ democratic education for all. N anso is IMMANUEL XOAGUB the same as in the Sahel region in Political independence depends on prising all the language groups in a national organisation whose North Africa. Man has totally upset economic independence. Namibia's OKAHANDJA Namibia. We are proud that we can get membership is open to all Namibian the delicate balance ofnature for short resources must be developed by Nami­ as much as fifty percent support of each stUdents, irrespective of race, which term gain, with longterm destructive bians for Namibia, with help if Onandjokwe error language group. Mindyou, a language strives to organise the exploited results. necessary. Presently symptoms and THE ONANDJOKWE Lutheran group, and not a racial group, you students of the country. Support the D) Guerrilla War: not causes are treated. This only Hospital Management Committee tribalist! students ofNamibia in their struggle The war, especially in Owambo, con­ postpones a solution until it becomes wishes to draw your attention to the I am not prepared to enter into cor­ for a decent education by supporting tributes to the misery ofthe locals. As insurmountable. article "hand put into exhaust of respondence with Mr Mungunda. 'Ib N anso as best you can. a resultofthe political uncertainty and Man has been able to control all Casspir vehicle" which appeared in the editor, please don't spoil our paper CONCERNED STUDENT lack of international recognition, in­ other forms oflie but not himself. One The Namibian of Friday, June 19 by printing such trash. Burn it and ONDANGUA vestments are not readily made in of the few people still in harmony with 1987, on page 5. send the ashes to whoever wrote it. We Namibia, with resultant meagre job nature is the Kalahari bushman. He It is being pointed out that in the want to enjoy our paper -the paper for SA Ministers visit sets an excellent example oflive and let creation. The spill-over of the war in second last sentence started: "He the people. I WISH to express my point of view con­ Angola, streches our liinited resources live, unlike the suicidal lemmings of said he went to the Onandjokwe · cerning the recent visit of high­ with refugees. the Antarctic. FASPARA Hospital on Sunday ... " the patient, ranking South African Government You don't help a poor man by giving POBOX7273 E) Good Medical Services: Mr Johannes Elia, never visited the Ministers to Namibia. One wonders him a fish, but by showing him how to hospital on Sunday as reported, and KATUTURA As a result of good medical services why they do this because it .has no catch a fish. The aim should be in­ more people survive in an otherwise " .. where a white doctor refused to NOTE: This letter has been shortened meaning for N amibians. Is it possible often hostile environment. There is a dependence not hand-out nurtured write the required report". - Editor_ dependence. that South Africa's Defence Minister sense offatalism and the beliefthat the The required report was not writ­ could concern himself with the Con­ State will provide for all needs. This is CONCERNED CITIZEN ten on the first visit because some in­ (:ause for eoneern stitutional Council? often demanded as a right which the WINDHOEK formation was required from the At this stage of our struggle for na­ Did they come here to talk about the State has to satisfy. Unfortunately this clinic where Mr Elia was first treated tiona I liberation, the role ofteachers real situation in Namibia, or did they demand is not matched by responsibili­ before coming to Onandjokwe needs to be critically examined. 'Ib this come to give instructions to their Tsu:m.eh hoyeott Hospital. In fact the required report ty or contribution. In order to try and effect, it should be noted that black pawns in the interim government? Did. was written by the doctor in Onand­ solve the problem, and to avoid an OPEN LETTER TO teachers are in a dilemma. they come to re-inforce the curfew ecological and biological disaster, the NOMTSOUB COUNCILLORS jokwe Hospital on June 16 1987 long • As 'ci vil servants', they re being us­ restrictions? What is the purpose of problem must be tackled with political before The Namibian of July 19 was ed as tools to further the aims of this protecting a minority when they will. THE CONSUMER boycott of the sold to readers. Mr Elia said he only racist, capitalist and imperialist disregard the wishes of the majority? A) Population Planning: white business area from the spoke to the nurses on his first visit education system in Namibia, and Namibians are suffering daily, long­ to Onandjokwe on June 12 and NOT Namibia is not a rich country. Many of mineworkers is in its sixth week in • At the same time, they are part and to any doctor. Furthermore, Mr Elia ing for independence, crying for self­ its resources are transient e.g. Tsumeb. parcel offthe oppressed and exploi ted stated that he never spoke to The determination and implementation of diamonds (CDM), base minerals (TCL), Many ofthe white businessmen are masses which are engaged in a heroic Resolution 435; but our human digni· uranium (ROssing), gas (KUDU), and really feeling it now, because there Namibian reporter himself because his jaws were swollen, and only a cer­ struggle for national liberation. ty is detrimentally affected by the gold (Karibib). When the mines close, is nothing to keep the business run­ Against this backround, the ques· tain lady who was with him spoke to socalled SADF and SWATF, the latter this source of income is gone. The ning on. tion that arises: what should black created illegally in our country. resources remaining will be farming, For the attention of the General The Namibian reporter. Mr Elia denied having made the conclusion teachers do to playa revolutionary role I feel their visit was a provocation to fishing, tourism and human. If the Manager of the Mine (TCL) there are in the struggle? the oppressed people of Namibia, and human resource is planned and nur­ certain workers' demands, which in­ stated in the last sentence of the ar­ ticle, starting: "Perhaps the doctor Firstly, teachers must have a revolu· those who welcomed them here must tured it will be the most important. clude a call for an increase in tionary conscioilsness, which means " be people who have lost interest in One just has to look at Japan, a coun­ salaries. There are also grievances that they must be fully aware that the These corrections were put forward Namibian affairs. try with virtually no natural concerning the high taxes they pay; present education is designed to serve after Mr Elia, nurses and doctors in Let SA leave Namibia in peace; let resources, but an incredible human and the war in the north. the interests of the dominant bourgois them give the Namibians what they resource. The residents are supposed to put Onandjokwe hospital were consulted. Mr Chris Shipanga could not be class. In other words, to maintain the want and forget about creating confu­ Due to the population explosion, their 'grievances to the Nomtsoub status quo, students are taught to un­ sion with an appointed, unrecognised China has taken drastic steps aiming Community Councillors who were contacted. Finally I want to stress that no doc· critically accept the exploitative government which works under SA at one child per family. Parents who never elected by the residents of the nature of the established order. tor working at Onandjokwe Hospital control.' want more will have to pay and forfeit town. The socalled Councillors Ruling class ideologies are deposited Their daily Afrikaans language free services and free schooling. This distribute some propaganda through will refuse to fill the forms for in the minds of students who have to mouthpiece, instead of exposing the may sound very radical but one has to the Nomtsoub township as well as in assaulted patients. memorise mechanically and realities, hinders the truth and be cruel to be kind. The alternative is the workers' hostel. reproduce in a parrot· like fashion misleads the people, This propaganda another Ethiopia. Here the initial They say that we are in a free and ONANDJOKWE LUTHERAN whatever they are ta ugh t to believe is has no benefit to our nation. Why don't worldwide enthusiasm and Bob independent land. Please, Coun­ HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT the truth. Thus there is no critical in­ they want to test the peoples' will in a Geldoff waned as soon as the TV im­ cillors, don't mislead the people. COMMITTEE. quiry into reality, and this militates free and fair election under UN super­ ages faded and aid mismanagement Think of what happens in the nor­ Private Bag 2016 against the philosophy of education. vision and control? became known thern part of our country. People are ONDANGUA Secondly, teachers must use the We need true leadership, elected by Population planning can also not be suffering and innocent people are dy­ NOTE: We regret that reporter Chris classroom as a battleground. They the people, and we believe Resolution seen in the white/black political con­ ing at the hands of SADF' and Shipanga is presently abroad and could not be contacted for his version must introduce revolutionary concepts 435 is the best solution to the Nami- . text. Already blacks outnumber Koevoet. of events. Nevertheless, in his absence to raise the consciousness of students. bian question. whites by more than twelve to one. It is our money we pay in taxes that we publish the correction as re­ Teachers must realise that students Whether it is two to one or 12 to one they use to buy Casspirs, to destroy quested by your Management Com­ are not empty vessels which must be TRUE NAMIBIAN makes no difference in a one-man one· our lands, and perpetrate other mittee - Gwen Lister Editor. fi lled entirely by teachers. KATUTURA Z £ t " =

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According to Herero tradition, Kutako's father, Mutanga was an Mrs Kutako was never allowed evangelist of the Rhenish Mission to take an active part in the Church and his mother, Ngurao, was related to Samuel Maherero. Kutako political affairs ofthe Chief, but grew up in his father's kraal at Om­ .Sondag Kangueehi, a family HOSEA KUTAKO buro and attended the Rhenish Mis­ friend who often visited Mrs sion school there. Kutako, remembers that in the early days - when many BY HEIDI VON EGIDY He was baptised and later confirm­ ed as a member of the Rhenish Mission Hereros were poor and living A FORTNIGHT AGO, CLOSE to a thousand people gathered at Aminius to sever their last Church at the age ofeight, but he later on the Reserve - Mrs Kutako direct earthly links with one ofNamibia's greatest leaders. Across the political spectrum, played a key role in the formation ofthe would allow any poor person to N amibians gathered to attend the traditional funeral of Mrs Lucia Kutako, the wife of the Oruuno Movement in 1955 after a use her butter-making great Herero Chief Hosea Kutako, who died on July 18, 1970. Lucia Kutako survived her hus­ break with the Rhenish Mission, machine - a prized and expen­ which stressed the maintenance of sive piece 'of equipment. . band by 27 years, and died two weeks ago at Toasis, the official residence she shared with traditional aspects ofHerero religion, her husband, who had moved there in 1925. She was 96 years old. and he always .kept a sacred fire Lucia Kutako was also a staunch (okuruwo), burl}ing in front of his Christian and took an active part in house. church life and organised many special In his twenties he moved to Okahan­ events. In her role as the Chief's wife, dja to live in Samuel Maherero's kraal she would make arrangements for the and fought during the 1904-1907 important meetings held by Chief Herero uprising against the Germans Hosea and his Herero Chief's Council, and was wounded twice. According to "which she did very well:' remembers some sources he held the rank of Kangueehi. "omajoro": Few Namibians of course, need Kutako never followed Maherero in­ reminding ofthe role played by Chief to exile in Botswana and after the war Hosea Kutako and his Council in the was interned by the Germans at development of Namibian Omaruru where he escaped after three nationalism. years, fleeing to the mountains where It was Kutako who first petitioned he lived off wild fruit. His first wife, the United Nations to end South Natalia died when he was still in the Africa's mandate over South West camp. Africa, and he and the Council did so Little is known about his life after his relentlessly for close on three decades escape. Some sources say that he - starting in 1945 when Kutako, with taught in Omaruru while others say he the blessings of Samuel Maherero in worked on the mines in Tsum~b for a exile in Botswana, enlarged the Ohief's time, while his successor, Clemens Council with the specific aim of Kapuuo, maintained that he was a "publicising and protesting each new transport driver distributing com­ act of oppression by the colonial modities by oxwagon to various parts administration." of the country. By rl9ffo, some 120 petitions were In 1911 Kutako moved to Windhoek reaching the United Nations a year, where he was initially in charge of and ' ·Kutako had appointed the Owambo railway workers. He later Reverend Michael Scott and later worked as a bookbinder for the Ger­ Fanuel Kozonguizi and Mburumba man administration. Kerina as permanent petitioners at Although Kutako had no traditional the UN. claim to the office ofParamount Chief Kutako had a rare gift of drawing of the Herere, Samuel Maherero re­ people together behind a common quested him (in writing), to take care cause. His house was an open one, ofHerero interests inside SWA and in . everyone was welcome and many ofto­ . 1917 Kutako was elected paramount day's political leaders were greatly in­ chief and Samuel sent his son, fluenced by him - many recalling the Frederick to "put his hands on secret meetings with Kutako's men "in Kutako:' the symbolic confirmation of the bushes at night" to discuss some his appointment. new act of the South African Ad­ In 1918 Kutako moved to Orumbo on ministration and what they would do the White Nossob, where he farmed about it. cattle and sheep. He moved to '!basis in 1925, where the Administration The Nama Chief Samuel Witbooi for recognised his leadership of the example, gave the Chiefcarte blanche Herero. to sign his name on any petition Kutako cared to send to the UN or When Kutako died in 1970, his suc­ elsewhere. Kutako also had the full cessor described him as a humble per­ support of Tsekedi Khama in son. "He was very religious and had an Botswana, and he would.often take up open mind, and because of this, he Kutako's cause in international could judge a situation better:' circles. Lucia Kutako was not buried next to Hosea Kutako was a committed na­ her husband, because Hosea Kutako, tionalist, and throughout his life cam­ when he died, broke with Herero tradi­ paigned against the ethnic division of tion to demonstrate his commitment Namibian society and in 1959, gave his to national unity and requested to be full support to the creation of buried next to a former enemy of the Namibia's first national party Swanu. Herero, the Nama Chief Jonker Be also played a keyrole 1n the 1959 de­ recognised by the Administration as found out differently. why South Africa was never able to in­ Afrikaner, at Okahandja, instead of at fiance campaign against the Win­ the headman of the Herere Aminius Kutako busied himself with expos­ corporate Namibia as a fifth province. the grave of his forefathers. dhoekMunicipality's decision to move reserve and leader ofthe Herero Chiefs ing South African strategies in It was not entirely clear exactly the people from the old location to Council in 1925 under a Native Com­ Namibia and his combined efforts with when and where Hosea Kutako was Katutura. missioner as part of their strategy to other petitioners such as the Reverend born. Some say at Okahurime in the Biographical details in this report '!b the South African Administration control the actions of Namibia's tradi­ Hamtumbangala, the Reverend Omaruru district in 1870 - others compiled from a number of Chief Hosea Kutako was a major tional leaders. If they expected this Markus Kooper and the Beukes' of again say that he was born at Etjo, near ·sources, including an article in the headache. He had been official Chief to be a docile lackey they soon Rehoboth, was one ofthe major reasons Kalkveld in 1872. 1977 issue ofthe SWA Annual.

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; ,. Making 'Hollywood' waves

N~w _Honda agents

MIDMACOR, THE SOLE DISTRIBUTORS OF HONDA motorbikes and generators in Southern Africa, will in future handle the distribution of honda products in Na~ibia. This step foliows the termiriation of an agreement with Flying Machines, which, until recently was the official agent of Honda motorbikes in Windhoek. According ~o Mr Frank Aldridge, Manager of Midmlicor in Namibia, this decision means that Honda owners can now expect better service than ever. A PERM-DEMONSTRATION was held last week at" Maison Kiku" Hair Salon, to i~troduce the latest in hair, He also announced that Midmacor had concluded an agreement with Motor· care products from America. Sold under the brand name "Hollywood Curl", the manufacturers of these cycle Centre forthe provision of parts and repairs of Honday products. Besides products claim them to be "the ultimate in haire care and styling." Pictured is demonstrator and agent for Midmacor, Motorcycle Centre will also sell new Honda motorbikes. Mr, Mike de Hollywood Curl, Mr Selelo Montlhabaki, showing staff members how it is done. They are Raimo Naanda Kock, owner of lYIoto~cle Centre in Klein Windhoek Road, is 'wellkliQ.wn il1 blk· " (Manager), Mirinda Slinger, Maureen I='olster anqEnnaJan~en. These products are available at Maison Kiku ing circles. He has made a name as an off· road biker and his business isabo'ut ~J - and at "Winnie's Hair Care" 00 16117 Katutura. . eight years old; Since its inception, Motorcycle Centre has built up a repafA.. w. . - tion for good service, and accoiding to Mike, Honda owners can be assured of I the same service. Motorcycle Centre has also been'the agents for K8wasaki­

motorbikes for the pastthree years. ' -' 4 '~. '. ' Cream ~nhe crop for new Namib Building Society NAMIB BUILDING SOCIETY, Namibia's second building SOCiety, officially opened on Ju­ ly 1 this year, has not been slow in appointing expertpersonnEtl to their staff in their temporary of­ fices in the Nimrod Building in Casino Street.

MRS MIRIA KOUDELKA is the cashier, receptionist and typist at the Namib Building Society. She was born in Upington and matriculated at the Parktown High School in Johan· Hoba Meteorite Project completed nesburg. She has worked for building societies for the past 13 years. - A JOINT project of the National in 1984, which highlighted-the issue pany approached the National Monuments Council and ROssing of vandalism at the site of the Monuments Council and a plan was Uranium, which consists of the metecrite. Over the years, many produced for the protection of the MR ARTHUR SAMUELSON is the in· provision of extensive facilities at visitors have tried, and some succeed­ meteorite. One of the main aims of the vestment manager of Namib Building the Hoba meteorite near Grootfon· ed, in removing small pieces of the project is to promote environmental Society. He was born in Wynberg in tein, has been completed and will world's largest meteorite. education. the Cape, but his family moved to be opened'on July 31,1987. In addition to keeping the negative For this purpose, information panels Windhoek when he was four years impact on the environment to a were designed to supply details about old, and he has lived in this country The facilities include information minimum, at its mine near Swakop­ the meteorite and the plants of the ever since. After leaving school he boards for visitors, braai and toilet mund, Rossing has always area. " joined Barclays Bank. He has four· facilities and a house for a fulltime endeavoured to contribute to the con­ ROssing made a substantial sum teen years of experience in related caretaker. . servation ofthe natural environment available for the erection of the fields and will be responsible for The Hoba Meteorite Project came of Namibia. facilities, which-were completed over recruiting investors, contrOlling the about as a result of a newspaper report In keeping with its policy the com- a period ofhyo years. entire spectrum of investments and dealing with the society's bo.oks. Before joining Namib Building SOcie.­ BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed ty, he was employed by Enok in tbeir'. ~------~~ legal section: ., ~. .;.: -, . / _~. • YOIJN68t1/TT, If YC'\'! WNT .. -' - -?~ - 511Jf !JI/&GING M~, IU fIII~ MY t~l/fl mIW&'­ Ptllyef( ~ 11f~ HIJIIP . (If MRS JANE COWLEY, is the manager, of the loans department of Namib Building SOCiety. She was born in Sihito in the TransJ

)K REVIEW ••• BOOK REVIEW ~ •• BOOK REVIEW ••• 'OOK REVIEW • •• BOOK REVIEW • •• BOOK RE NEW AFRICAN WRITERS SOME exciting new novels have ap­ sent by her family to a dreary rest THE SEASONS OF THOMAS peared on the market in the· home. FRANGIPANI HOUSE is also Heinemann African Writers Series. a protest at institutions that isolate, TEBO By John Nagenda They include works by' the and a way of life that denies respon­ celebrated Nigerian writer, Elechi sibility for the weak and infirm. Retail price R14.95 Amadi and a few 'first novels' by other African and Caribbean APATA A vivid allegory of modern Uganda, writers. By Harold Bascom the book tells the story ofThomas 'lebo, Retail Price R15.50 an enchanted,. magical youth who. FRANGIPANI HOUSE becomes dangerously involved in By Beryl Gilroy Described as "the story of a reluctant politics and who. eventually is forced to Retail Price R14.95 criminal", APATA is'an imaginative go into exile. Its also a portrait of the story of victims and outcasts Ugandan people, struggling to cope Beryl Gilroy is a Guyanan living in everywhere, a gripping adventure that with the horror of violence. Nagenda Britain. Now ' a headmistress at a confronts a hurtful period when dif-· is a Ugandan ?J'ho spent a lot oftime North London School, FRANGIPANI ferent cultures collided. Bascom was abroad but who returned to the coun­ HOUSE is her first novel, and 'won a born and lives in Georgetown, Guyana. try after the victory of the National prize in the GLC Black Literature He was ,the author ()f a collection ·of Resistance Army in 1986. He has writ­ Competition. The book tells the story ' poems '-and later a film script, and ten a children's book and published of Mama King, an old woman,who is APATA is is first full-length novel. numerous articles and poems.

TWO MOVIES were , pr~miered . 'r . . no experience in such matters. In­ during the Gl'ahamstowD.J !lm it BY' FREI)D! E PHI~NDER stead of merely showing Namibian festi.v~l,· l!-n~ . they. ~ere": V ~~~ 'L.) ~ ,.,; OJ _\ ~ • .' reporter Chris Sh~panga, not saying Namibia, pr04u<;ed 'by: DliV.i fJ. '" ., moYie, who exploit ~amibia . Indo­ a word, at the start of the ·film, he PuP~~ w..tz; , ~n ;e~e st aying in;'!.1 ) ng this, he cpmpletely ignored, the could \lave been. used for the Londgnj ;- ~)yl ;\ "'JtI;less ~o . :Ap,:u,.-, ",; p.-· app._orth\'l fiJ,mi ;.v,as'lt ,:;J,lm!l.d on Ms Singer admiring the Nami­ am~t~mM"ly ~fl..~J\t!',VFtl,lf ~lJYi;. ~e~~ ,,, ",,,,at ; R~ttin.z l>ympatQ.y'.for..the ~tr~ggle, bian countryside. The whole exercise· were a lot of shortcomi.ngs in the film, .or ",(~ii'. it. Dlade to_ l'lroj~ct tp.e:natural . reminded me very strongly ofthe ill· and thejBtel,"vi Eli>lz ~Lc9ndp.cte

No sex or rare fruits please - we're journalists! THE SOCALLED Press Club why should old J osef Kozonguizi be uses when confIrming a carrier case. ofthe CDM centre in the tragic belief of Namibia , which is basically allowed to sit peacefully in his village Carriers include every man who that the killer virus is already gnaw­ a right-wing coalition of in­ on the banks ofthe Zambezi in total doesn't smoke Texan plain or drink ing away at their brains. t erim government oblivion to this little bug of genocide? Klipdtift or watch rugby or drive a Private parts will become even more mouth pieces, have released It dpesn't matter that over the past Cortina. private, and the word 'sex' will be four years, seven mortars, three flares A woman could be spreading the evil struck from the Bill of Rights. their first statement! and nine rocket-propelled missiles virus ifshe doesn't go to church or isn't Those who insist on maintaining Whoopee, shock horror and hold the have done more damage to his home married by 30 or doesn't know how to their promiscuous lifestyles will be front page. Attached is a three-page ar­ and family than·a rampant outbreak " make koeksusters. shipped off to the Henties Bay Leper ticle on VIGS .. . which they claim is a ofthe Black Bubonic Plague could ever The conspiratorial Press Club, at the and Aids colony. disease caused by rare tropical fruits. do. end oftheir letter to editors across the The NGKwill follow the Press Club's In their desperate statement, the The Press Klub Kommittee says "Ag globe, claim that it is the "moral.duty alleged committee ofthis malfunction­ never mind .. " at least we can prevent of every newspaper" to publish their lead in condemning anyone who covets another man's wife or another ing Press Club openly admits to being his last remaining child from becom­ series of articles on VIGS. woman's husband. involved in covert meetings with a doc­ ing an orphan". Strange ... I would have thought it tor from a government department. Then the sekatry of the kommittee the moral duty of every newspaper to The age of consent will be increased Interim government reporters and (who has had a rough day at TV-News) report on things like a two-year-old from 16 to 42, and charges of statutory interim government supporters have leaps to his feet and screams "We must baby girl being crushed under the rape will be laid against anyone con­ spent the last few weeks in a huddle destroy the carriers!" wheels of a Casspir. spiring to spread the dreaded epidemic with the Department of Health, fran­ Psychotically sexist reporters prowl Some newspapers can't even report by kissing in public. tically tryingto devise a way to spread the empty streets and every suburban correctly on a Swapo meeting which Special squads of Vigs Polisie will the fear ofVIGS even further afield. sidewalk becomes a bloody bat­ get disrupted by army imports from monitor bedroom scenes with infra-red Now that the Windhoek men have tleground as civilians carrying VIGS the north, so you can imagine what video equipment, and offenders will be been scared right out of their condoms, are mown down in their hundreds. they would do to a sensitive issue like brought before the Press Club and the'women have taken celibacy The committee become known as the AIDS. Tribunal and ifconvicted will spend up vows, it is time to shed a little terror Fearless Figs Fighters, and every People coming down with a common to twenty years in the Rehoboth In­ over the rest of the land. Naturally, member receives a checklist which he cold will toss themselves from the top stitution for the Very Naughty. -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Return of raunchy fun with Porky's gang THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MOVIE comedy of 1982 has a sibling - "Por ky's II - The Next Day" in which the boys of Angel Beach High are back in action, turning their town and school upside down. The 1982 "Porky's" turned into a box office smash for direc­ tor Bob Clark, and his unique brand of nostalgia ofth e 1950s, once again perva_des the sequel in the "Porky's" saga, and whereas they eliminated Porky Wallace's infamous Everglades nighclub in the, 1982 movie, their latest nemesis is a fiery, backwoods bigot, Reverend Bubba Flavel. Such a combination only makes for one thing - a highly explosive situation!

All the raunchy pranks that made carnival sirens, and above all ~ their "Porky's" a household name in own youthful \lrges. America, continue in this sequel. Representing the new team Determined to impress his new members are Joseph Running Fox, a girlfriend, Wendy, as well as the lusty real-life Pueblo Indian, portraying a appetites of his companions, bumbling Seminole who is a determined young Peewee Morris (Dan Monahan), con­ drama student who runs afoul ofthe tinues his search for the experienced local segregationalists, Bill Wiley as woman who can satisfy everyone. the wild fire preacher, Cisse Cameron . Simultaneously, TQmmy (Wyatt as the lovely carnival stripper, and Ed Knight), finds himself once more mat­ Winter, the corrupt city commissioner ching wits with a humourless physical who makes a costly political mistake education instructor, Beula when he turns traitor and supports the Balbricker (Nancy Parsons). And who "wrong" side. THE DIRTY HALF-DOZEN return to wreak havoc on the mythical town of Angel Beach in their latest com­ can forget how"his wrenching shower The y(lar is still 1954. The kids con­ edy adventure' 'Porky's 11- The Next Day' '. Clockwise from the top they are Roger Wilson, Wyatt Knight, room encounter backfired last time?) tinue to hang out at Deadbeat's Drive­ Dan Monahan, Tony Ganios, Cyril O'Reilly and Mark Herrier. The rest of the Angel Beach gang in on the beach. Women's liberation, Tim (Cyril O'Reilly), Mickey (Roger rock music and sexual freedom are Clark brings pure simplicity to the Wilson), Anthony "Meat" (Tony unheard of. And nothing comes quite Says Clark "Actually, the first film about the hypocritical social con­ screen. In "Porky's II -The Next Day" Ganios), Billy (Mark Herrier),and easy for the kids from Angel Beach, was more of a farce, and if there were sciousness present at the time." good and evil remain easily discerni­ any social comments, they were very Whatever, the story steamrolls its Brian (Scott Colomby), tangle with even in the quiet inbetween times of ble and even as both sides clash the lecherous politicians, corrupt officials, the Eisenhower era. subtle. 'Porky's II' is just as ribald in way forward in this second chapter, results are pretty harmless. nature, but has an expanded view of bringing together all the humorous In the latest story though, the com­ society. Rather thanjust another 'rites elements that guaranteed the first edy is deli vered on a more spectacular " of passage' story chronicling the "Porky's" such a success, and should level, reminiscent of the pranks in emergence ofyoung manhood, we now provide for some good ente"rtainment. 1930s screwball comedies - when explore their attitudes towards the However, this is definitely an adult * * IUNE 300 * * T(ll: 34155 * * shots were taken at the hypocritical society which surrounds them. In comedy, and carries a 2-18 age society of the period. doing so, we make some comments restriction. Fri & Sat: 10h00l14h30/18hOO/21hOO Sun-Thurs: 14h30/17h30/20hOO Saturday: 10hOO "FOR AN ALTERNATIVE, VIEW - YOU MUST BE JOKING TOO: Leon Schuster has pulled it off again :- another helping of laughter in the same form at as 'You Must be Joking ', to indu lge in for the best belly-laughs anyone can wish'for! . READ THE NAMIBIAN Saturday morning 101100: BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed YOU MUST BE JOKING TOO --~------~~ StU , WHIJT f}f{l I 7lft.l. YO(J 11[f(XIT {It.fCOI/f(f/f;tN& * * WINDHOEI( DRIVE-IN * * T(ll: 51700 * * f;Wf'fe~ ... (

19hOO - PORKY'S II -THE NEXT DAY: (2-18) The gang from the 1950s is back in an adult comedy. plus: NINE-AND-A-HALF WEEKS: (2-18) Kim Bassinger in an erotic love story. THE NAMIBIAN Friday July 24 1987 17 'A fighting choice' of fresh ®®II]I JULY 24 - JULY 30 programmes f~~,.V fans I'KInA \ . , part one of Indigo, anexcltmg,Jlvmg the final epIsode of which is due on 18h27 Prog. Schedule TO SAY THAT Saturday afternoon's "live" television transmission romp through the history and Monday. 18h30 Hand in Hand of the Shadow Springbok vs SWA Invitation team match in Wind- achie:,e~ents of black North With "The Lancaster Miller Affair" 18h35 Pietie se Avonture hoek was a pleasant surprise, is something of an understatement. Amenca sred-hotmuslc~lthSalome 18h56 Teddy Drop Ear It came as abouncingbonus for sport fans, rugby fans in particular., Bey,.Eu~ene Clarke, TaJ Mahal and concluded, this prime slot will used 19h14 AirwolfIII DenIs Slm next Monday for "Die Handlanger", a 20hOO Suidwes Nuus ·an d h ave t 0 a d Inl·t t h at t h ere was a "I·lee Ing 0 f smug sat· IS £ac t· Ion pson. thriller,starringChristoGerlachand I 20h15 Walt Disney movie "A in seeing the spectators atthe match huddled againstthe strong, Tribute is p~id to~o~e unf~rgettable Babs Laker. This play (translated in- Fighting Choice" cold wind whilethoseofusathomecotildsitbackinwarmthand performers hke Bllhe Hohday, Ray to Afrikaans by Kobus Louw), takes 21h41 Orpen House comfort a~d notlose out on the fun. And the Gillette World Sport Charles, Pearl Bailey, .James Brown place in a town somewhere in America . I hi h" II d h b t .. h al and the Supremes, andmcludessongs during the school holidays, when there 22h05 NewslWeather NuuslWeer S pecla w c 10 owe. t e rug. y .ranSInlSSlO? set t Ie se . on a by Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Ella 22h25 Gillette World Sport Special relaxed afternoon of ellJoyableVleWlng. Luxury mdeed! Admitted- Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole. is nothing strange in ayoungster ask- 23h19 Dagsluiting ing for holiday work. ly, there is not a regular, weekend sports event which warrants a live transmission, but still, nice to think that whenever there is a The story takes us from the cotton When a certain youth, Hennie SATIIKnA Y worthy event, we can be sure of seeing it on the box. Of course, the fields ofthe past to the present, featur­ Bothma asks Martie Venter for aholi­ ing spectacular dance numbers and 18h27 Programrooster SWABC could consider transmitting the big sports events in South day job, there is no reason for suspicion, 18h30 Kompas short sketches in settings that include as the young man acts quite normal­ Africa on Saturday afternoons ... or would that be hoping for too the legendary Apollo Theatre in 18h35 Bozo Cartoons much? ly. With her lodger also gone for the 18h48 Dreunkraans (new) Harlem and the famous Savoy Theatre holidays, Martie is alone in the house of the 30s. 19h12 Riptide (new) Oh well, we'll have to wait and see Frank Harmon (Holden), a 50-year­ when Hennie starts to do.chores for her. 20hOO The Beverly Hillbillies (something N amibians are quite good old realtor, has lost all passion and Sunday - not too much to mention And it is soon after this that strange, 20h30 Feature film: "Breezy" at), and meanwhile there are changing warmth since his divorce. He no longer specifically, except for another episode frightening things start happening in 22h09 NuuslWeer News/weather vibes in the week's schedules, that look wants to become involved, but then a of "Highway to Heaven" , with Michael the house, inexplicable things that 22h29 Miami Vice very interesting to the confirmed TV wonderfully alive, vibrant seventeen­ Landon in the leading role of the cause shivers offear '" 23h16 Indigo Part I addict. year-old girl enters his life. "angel", and in the Assignment Adven­ 24hOO Epilogue Tonight, for example, the Walt After the South African news and ture series, "The Yukon Quest." The week following " Strong Disney feature film looks great. "A weather report, "Miaini Vice", with On Monday though, more changes Medicine" is on the cards, and at the SUNDAY Fighting Choice", is a powerful drama, Don Johnson and Philip Michael are in store. There's anotherpresenta- time of going to press there was no in­ dication what it was all about. Here's starring Beau Bridges, Karen Valen­ 17h27 Programrooster tine and Patrick Dempsey, and hoping it can measure up to the stan­ dard of previous minI series' we've 17h30 Wonderboek although not a brand new film, is 17h53 Pumpkin Patch 18h08 They Kingdom Come 18h38 Don't ask me, ask God (final) 19h08 Filler material 19h13 Highway to Heaven "Thoroughbreds" Part I 20hOO Nuus/news review 20h20 Another Life 21h03 Assignment Adventure 21h55 Nuus/weerberig- News/weather report 22h15 The Classic Touch 22h39 By Still Waters

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18h27 Prog. Schedule 18h30 Hand In Hand 18h35 Lassie- 18h57 Filler material - 19h11 Land en Sand - .~ 19h36 Doc(final) 20hOO Suidwes-Nuus 20h15 Die Handlanger 21h17 The Equalizer 22h04 NewslWeather NuuslWeer 22h24 American Immortals 22h57 Dagsluiting CODY ALLEN and Nick Ryder, (Perry King and WILLIAM HOLDEN and Kay Lenz in the film Joe Penny respectively), who take two ofthe "Breezy" on Saturday night. TIII:SDA Y leading roles in "Riptide" which replaces "Remington Steele" on Saturdays. 18h27 Programrooster 18h30 Kompas 18h35 Wielie Walie nevertheless extremely topical, revolv­ learned to look forward to on Monday 18h50 Educational Shorts ing around individual rights, in par­ evenings. 19h10 Filler Material ticular tp.e rights of a teenager. Probably the most newsworthy for 19h13 The Wizard Faced with the prospect ofgrand mal Tuesday, is the fact that we're due for 20hOO South West News epileptic seizures every day for the rest the final episode of "Dynasty" in this 20h15 Dynasty (final) of his life, 16-year-old Kellin Taylor particular season, and not a minute too 21h02 We've Got It Made (Patrick Dempsey), wants to risk a . soon. Never has there been a family so 21h27 NuuslWeer NewslWeather dangerous "brain-splitting" opera­ Terry Copley tied up in jealousy, greed, sulks and 21h47 Sport tion, involving surgery which could plain spoilt rotten as this bunch of Car­ 22h17 Epilogue cure or kill him. ringtons. (At this point, no cute But his parents Meg and Thad are in Thomas. And, at the risk of sounding tion of "Land en Sand" with what can . answers about Dallas, which thankful­ opposition to this and refuse to give like a stuck record, I have to say again be termed a new format. ly, we do not have on our schedules!lThn their permission for the operation. what a pity it is that this popular series Host Johan van Wyk will introduce to one, the series replacing "Dynasty" Kellin, desperate for the chance of a is transmitted so late in the evening. viewers to the driver ofthe year com­ is another season of "Falcon Crest;' 18h27 Prog. Schedule cure, takes his parents to court, towin Is there no one up there who can petition, freedom of the city of 18h30 Hand In Hand the right to decide his own future. manage to manouevre it to an earlier Rehoboth for 911 Batallion and the 18h35 Groovy Goolies The court case tears the Taylor fami­ slot? progress ofthe eastern water carrier. 18h56 The Kangazoo Club ly apart, but although devastated by Finally, a real treat for jazz lovers - We'll ~so be s_aying ch~ers to~ ~o_c:', _ 19h22 Sport the rift he has caused, Kellin's deter­ 20hOO Suidwes Nuus mination makes him carryon, 20h15 Gunsmoke bolstered by his doctor's optimism and 21h03 Seders van Lebanon the emotional support of his girlfriend 21h29 Valerie Susie. 21h53 NuuslWeer NewslWeather Torriorrow night, replacing 22h13 Pitkos "Guillam Woudberg" is another youth programme titled "Dreunkraans" consisting of six episodes. TIII' Ksn " \ . The story takes place in a small rural community, when the arrival of the 18h27 Programrooster Landman family causes waves. 18h30 Kompas And then of course, the return of 18h35 Bugs Bunny Cartoon Special "Riptide", with Cody, Nick and Mur­ 18h58 Harry's House (final) ray. The trio is back to solve mysteries \ 19h08 Young People's Specials and murders and also cause a bit of 19h35 The Cosby Show mayhem of their own. For those who 20hOO South West News AA""'~ 20h15 For Love and Honour ' AA.~ ~ don't remember, the actors are Perry :,>. \ 21hOO Krimistunde King, Joe Penny and Tom Bray. .,.;;: At 20hOO the second episode of"The K 21h59 Nuus/weer - NewslWeather 22h19 The Living Body Beverley Hillbillies" willbe transmit­ . 1 ted, in which Ally May and her father 22h45 Epilogue return to Silver Dollar Ci ty to find her ~41 a husband. Then, the Saturday night feature ~ film - "Breezy", starring William KAREN VALENTINE, Patrick Dempsey, Beau Bridges and Parker Jacobs, who all star in the Walt Disney movie' 'A Ficlhtiina Holden and Kay Lenz. Choice" on television tonight. *** 18 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

HOW THE HARE BROKE THE XHOSA PART VI Jessi to plant the small millet plants A SPELL in the freshly- prepared field. The hare No far from the hare's ~osy burrow noticed that Dina was never far away, under the Euphorbia tree, lived a hard­ always watching Jessi sadly from the working man named Gondo_He was cover of some windblown mahob­ honest and industrious and after long bahobba trees. "What can I do;' years of hard labour, had managed to wondered the hare. "I really feel I owe turn many hectares of wild and weedy that young man some payment for all veld into a small, but prosperous farm_ those delicious pawpaws he has been His wife worked with him in the bringing." fields, and also his daughter Jessi. He wandered along absentminded­ Their only SOITowwas that they had no ly, planting in the row next to Jessi. By son, and their daughter, though good accident he placed a millet plant up­ and beautiful, had had a spell laid on side down with its roots waving in the her by an old witch_ air, and its leaves deep in the red earth. This evil woman had fallen over one "That's an idea!" he thought when of Gondo's ploughs in the dark when he realised what he had done, and from going home unsteadily after a wild then on, he took great care to put every beer drink and dance in a neighbour­ THE HARE IS another scurrilous favourite with the Xhosa. plant upside down. Jessi planted ing village, and she had barked her However, unlike Hlakenyane, he also has a pleasant side to his steadily until the end of the row shins painfully_Sitting in the stubble, nature. The following story shows him in one of his more amiable without looking up. Then she she had cursed the owner of the plough, moods ... straightened her aching back and and shrieked in her rusty old voice looked back along the rows they had just planted. "May his firstborn and lastborn be as "You are rather small for field work, dumb as a giraffe until an act as stupid An expression of exasperation and arn't you?" he asked, and said "how do amazement dawned on her face. as this calls back speech_" I know that you will not eat the young Jessi, being the only child, was of "Why, you stupid animal!" she cried cabbages when my back is turned. I angrily, "What ever do you think you course, the first and last born_ At six have met others ofyour tribe before and years of age she suddenly stopped are doing?" Realising what had hap­ they have usually finished on the pened, she clasped both hands over her speaking, laughtngor crying, neither wrong end of a spear!" did she sing about the house_ Gondo mouth. The power of speech had at last "Oh, I have a spotless record;' cried returned to her. and his wife were heartbroken and had the hare, "and I am much stronger Dina, who had seen' everything, no idea what could have caused this than Ilook. Give me a badzer:' Seizing came bounding out ofhis hiding place, misfortune_ one he made the earth fly. "Very well, shouting and laughing with joy and· The years passed and Jessi, although you seem quite strong:' said Gondo, "I hand-in-hand, the young couple went dumb, grew into a lovely girl, so good will employ you for a week and see how running off together to find Gondo and and helpful that many young'men well you can work." his wife and tell them the wonderful came to pay her court. But although news. they dressed in their finest skins, did The hare was left standing among their funniest dances and sang their the upside-down millet plants, his saddest songs to her, she would never badzer still in his hands. "How very laugh, cry, speak or sing, and the men like humans;' he grinned to himself, would leave dejected. "here stands the great tree spirit in . "What would we do with such a wife," person and he gets not so much as a they said, "who would have no cheer­ ./ thank you! Gratitude! However, I ing word when we came home tired believe there is still some spinach for from work, no laughter to make our lunch with pawpaw to follow! " And hut happy and no song to lull the away he went, bobbing offbetween the children at night?" trees, happy in the know ledge that he So all but one went their way. This had broken the wicked witch's spell man, Dina, so pitied Jessi and Gondo, forever. that he decided something must be done. One moonlight night he ven­ LITTLE RED STOMACH tured cautiously into a clearing among In times gone by, there was a small the Mdoni trees and called to the spirit boy who went by the name of Little Red ofthe trees to help him. Stomach. One day his mother sent him Now, the tree ,spirit was sleeping to hoe in the fields. After working heavily, for it was winter, and all the awhile, he became very thirsty and trees had lost their leaves and were went to drink from a nearby spring of sluggish. The spirit preferred the fresh water. warm spring weather, when the moon His mother saw him and called from was high and full and he cou\d dance afar "Do not drink! The owner of the all night to the music of bullfrogs and water will kill you." crickets. Consequently the spirit did "I do not care," said Little Red not answer Dina, but another voice Stomach, "my thirst is too gre·at." And did. It was the hare, who had been he drank. awakened by Dina's nervous shouts. "Why do you drink my water;' "Who is disturbing my sleep" he said grumbled a loud hoarse voice. "Did you crossly. Dina shook with fear. He could not hear your mother tell you not to?" see no one, and the voice seemed to The boy looked and saw standing there come from the big euphorbia tree near­ a hideous cannibal with a huge belly by. "Mighty spirit" he cried, falling on and large, pointed teeth. his knees, "Hear me, I beg of you!" " Now you must die;' roared the can­ The hare realised Dina's mistake nibal and opening his great mouth, he and chuckled to himself. "Speak on;' power of speech. "If yo~ have an offer­ . swalloed the boy with a gulp, then sat he cried, folding his arms and looking ing to the spirits of fresh green but overjoyed that he had enlisted the So every day the hare went to work down at the edge of the pool, as his stern and noble, though he could not be vegetables and fruit (especially help of one he thought to be the mighty in the fields, milk the cows or feed the stomach was now too big to carry. seen in the dark. "The great spirit pawpaw), everyday under the euphor: tree spirit himself. pigs. When Gondo and his wife were The frog which lived in the pool hears." bia, I will do what I can to help you;' Meanwhile the hare chuckled and croaked, "you will be sorry for eating Dina told the whole sad story of repleidthevoice. "Now leave me to my near, no one could have desired a bet­ hopped inside his burrow to think. He ter servant, but with Jessi it was a dif- , so many poor people who drink at your Jessi's affliction and begged the spirit meditations!" remembered that when he was very ferent matter. fountain. Your end is near:' to help him give back to the maiden her -So away Di~a went, still frightened, young, he had been told a tale by an old He seemed to do everything he could Indeed, soon the cannibal began to tock-tock beetle of how he had sat to provoke her. He would let the full have ten-ible pains, because Little Red under a ploughshare one dark night, gourd of milk fall as he lifted it from the Stomach was jumping up and down in­ long ago, and an old witch had fallen milking; he would walk with his mud­ side him. In agony the cannibal called over it and had cursed the owner. dy feet across the blankets she hadjust all the frogs and animals around him. At that time the hare had not paid washed and laid out to dry; he would "By tonight you will have no friend;' much attention to the beetle, especial­ let the pigs into the pumpkin patch, he told them, and sure enough by even­ ly as his mother had told him that it where they rooted out and trod on the ing he was dead. Then the boy took his was senile and only fit for an owl's sup­ young pumpkins. Many times she knife,cutaholein the belly ofthe can­ per. Now he thought of it again, "I opened her mouth as ifto scold him, but nibal, climbed out, and went back to wonder;' he mused "this needs looking no words came and she would turn the village of his parents. into;' and locking his front door he set miserably away. "Indeed, we have a clever son;' they out for Gondo's house. The hare felt sorry for the girl and as said, "and from now on we can drink at He found Gondo and wife hoeing in fresh offerings appeared at the foot of the fountain whenever we please!" the field. "That is hard work and needs the euphorbia tree everyday, he felt a helping hand. Iaminneedofajoband obliged to keep trying. ask little pay above my keep. Why not One morning Gondo and his wife NEXT WEEK: The Venda let me help you?" Gondo looked at him took a trip to the nearby village to sell doubtfully. some fresh beans and eggs, and told

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ORLANDO PIRATES FC last weekjumped from eleventh position Boks not ready for Wallabies to eighth in the NNSL's Super League, after their convincing 3-0 NEVER MIND the political considerations, the "maybe" Wallabies ahead of players like Chris Heunis and Calla Scholtz. drubbing of arch-rivals.Black Africa. rugby tour of South Africa should be prevented if o~y to protect The two centres in the Invitation XV, THE LATEST positions in the NNSL League, are, under the Springboks' reputation of being, internationally, the team to Danie van der Merwe and Frans headings "matches played:' "won:' "lost:' "drawn:' "'goals beat. Wessels also enhanced their reputa­ for:' "goals against:' and "points." This is one of the deductions made N aas Botha was definitely the disap­ tions and showed their opposite Eleven Arrows 11 7 0 4 23 11 18 after witnessing the Shadow pointment ofthe day and probably did numbers in the Bok side a thing or two. Springbok XVISWA Invitation clash at Chief Santos 13 6 1· 6 15 8 18 his team a favour when he left the field The forward battle had it's moments the Windhoek Stadium last Saturday. shortly before half-time clutching his with Boks Rudi Visagie, Schalk Benfica 12 6 4 2 23 · 16 14 The general standard of play groin. Burger and skipper Jannie Breedt ex­ Chelsea 13 5 4 4 21 19 14 witnessed was pathetic to say the least Local favo urite Andre Stoop celling but for the rest, there was lit­ Life Fighters 13 5 4 4 21 21 14 and paled in comparison to the quali­ displayed his usual brilliance when tle to enthuse about and many in the Tigers 10 4 1 5 14 8 13 ty of play seen during the recent in­ joining the line but was vulnerable large crowd must have regretted not African Stars 12 6 5 1 18 17 13 augural World Cup. under the high ball and in defence and having stayed at home to watch the live Orlando Pirates 11 4 3 4 22 21 12 Had it not been for sparklingperfor­ is unlikely to be chosen for the Boks coverage on TV. mances by the four Namibians and Explorer Eleven 13 5 6 2 31 35 12 some ofthe hopefulls in the Invitation Black Africa 11 4 4 3 21 21 11 XV, the whole exercise would have Blue Waters 11 4 4 3 16 14 11 been a waste of time. Sorento Bucs 11 3 6 2 12 16 8 Granted, the fierce wind which blew Ramblers slip again Young Ones 11 2 5 4 16 23 8 for the duration ofthe match was not RAMBLERS FC last weekend In other matches played last Hungry Lions 12 0 9 3 19 38 3 condusive to good rugby and it was further lost ground in the weekend, Maritimo and Swakopmund something of an exhibition match to chase for the Amateur Soccer drew one-all and Rossing defeated highlight the First National Bank Association league title when Atlantis 6 -3 with Donald Hughesscor· Zebra Games, but the players on the ing a hattrick for the miners. field represented the cream of South they were convincinglytrounc­ The difference in the various African rugby and had the full ed 5 - 3 by Sporting FC. strengths of the teams in the ASA Springbok selection panel in atten­ While Ramblers made amends by league is clearly borne out by the fact dance, just in case the Wallabies sud­ thrashing lowly DTS6-0, their defeat that leaders SKW and Ramblers have denly arrive 'at Jan Smuts. against Sporting left SKW a point goal averages of plus 34 and plus 25 The Boks eventually managed to ahead of them with a game in hand. respectively while bottom clubs DTS scrape home 25-21 after trailing 3 -15 SKW played only one match last and Atlantis have averages of minus at half-time, but it was players in the weekend, a 6 -°d efeat ofDTS. 33 and minus 38 respectively. SWA side that emerged with enhanc­ The one consolation for Ramblers is This weekend, trials to select a team ed reputations. the fact · that their strikers, Jorge to play in the South African Currie None more than SWA skipper Purificacao and Mario Rodriques, Cup tournament will be held. A Gerhard Mans who had a great game have taken over as leading goalscorers Coastal XI will play a Central XI and scored the first try of the match. in the League and are in line to win the tomorrow (Saturday), at the SKW field In fact all 21 points came from locals Hydroweld Cup. starting at 19hOO. with Andre Stoop scoring in the Purificacao netted a goal in the Today (Friday), a coaching and second-half and Shaun McCully defeat against Sporting and scored referees course will be presented at the f • weighing in with 13 points from his another two against DTS to take his SKW in preparation for the Currie boot, including an amazing 68 metre total to 16 from eleven matches while Cup. wind-aided penalty which must have Rodriques also netted three over the Further trial matches will be held on had Naas Botha green with envy. weekend to take his total to 13 goals, Sunday morning after which, at McCully also converted both tries and level with former leading scorer D 12hOO, the Currie Cup squad will be landed another two penalties. Brenner of Sporting FC. announced.

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Sedekia Gottlieb FULL NAME: Sedekia Gottlieb. TEAM: Eleven ArrQws. I BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Walvis Bay - 10/02/1960. I f HEIGlJT AND WEIGHT: 161cm - 63,5kg. MARRIED: No. RULES: CAR: Presently saving to buy one. .. . . For as little as R10,OO you can win NICKNAME: Sadike or Sedek. · . • The co":,petltlon IS op~n to anybody and you can buy as many this fantastic house in Wanaheda, . PREVIOUS CLUBS: None. R10,OO tickets a~ you hke. . . _ Katutura, valued at R80 000. Soren- • EachandeverytlcketofR10,OOoffersyouachanceofwlnmng: B' S CI b 1986 . . TEAM YOU SUPPORTED AS A BOY: Eleven Arrows. • All you have to do is answer the easy question. to ucs p.ort u - wmners FOOTBALL HERO OF CHILDHOOD: The founder of Eleven Ar­ • The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence wiU of the Mobil Le?9u.e - offers you the rows, Thomas Uushona. be entered into. _ ' chance of a hfetlme., The erf (no. FAVOURITE CURRE~'lT PLAYER: Brother and dubmate Im­ • Thewinnerwillbeannouncedpubliclyafteradrawduringagala 243), measuring 1 002 .square manuel 'Sparks' Gottlieb. evening on December 11 1987 at the Continental Hotel. metres, has been reserved for this MOST MEMORABLE MATCH: Eleven Arrows/African Stars • Should insufficient funds be collected, all expenses for competition and the winner.; once league clash in 1986 which Arrows won 2 -O. I scoredthe last goal. organising the competition will be deducted from the income annoLlnced, will be able to .. 'move BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Losing to Benfica on a penalty already collected and the holderofthe winning ticket will receiv~ into the house of 135 sql,lace ·metfes. shoot-out in the semi-final of the Hans and Louis League Cup last the remaining funds at that stage. year. • The competition ends on December 2, 1987. Sorento Bucs intend to use ~ the • The organisors reserve the right to extend the.deadline if they money for extending the sport fa ••••••••• Arrows and to improve as a player. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCCER IN NAMIBIA: COMPLETE THE ABOVE FORM AND RETURN TO: a) Crowds and referees must be disciplined. b) Selectors ofthe national side must select players on merit and not on previous reputations. c) The NNSL committee members must not be biased in favour of P.O. Box 22328 • Windhoek 9000 • Sixth Floor African Eagle any particular club. Building. Tel. (061) 225453 20 Friday July 24 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

Tigers vs Benfi~a top clash of JPS first round SOME EXCITING clashes can be expected when the first round of the RI6 500 John Player Special (JPS) Knock-out soccertour­ . nament kicks-off at various centres in Namibia on August 29 and 30.

The sixteen teams in the tourna­ in Walvis Bay while Chelsea are tipped ment were drawn together at a press to account for Sorrento Bucs at the conference by a Director of JPS, Mr D Katutura Stadium. Kruger last week and pitted some old Namibian teams however are tradi­ time enemies against one another. tionally unpredictable and in tour­ In what could prove to be the best naments smaller clubs often cause match ofthe opening round, the high­ upsets. riding Tigers FC have a tough en­ The team that comes through the counter against Benfica in Tsumeb tournament unscathed will be richer and the winner could well be the one to the tune of R6 000 and the losing to lift the trophy. finalist will receive R2 500. In other matches which could well involve possible winners, Young Ones The quarter-finals have been face Orlando Pirates in Windhoek and scheduled for September 5 and 6, the Chief Santos travel to Walvis Bay to semi-finals for September 19 and 20. meet Blue Waters. The final will be played at the All tPe other matches, with the ex­ Katutura Stadium on October 4. ception of the Golden Bigs vs Namib As usual, the sponsors will provide Woestyn clash in Oshakati, should pro­ incentive for players in the form of vide clear winners. "Man ofthe Match Awards". In the first rUL.L.I,,"',"," ANDRE clears under pressure from centre ng last "'''IUlTI ..,V Eleven Arrows should prove too round, the players chosen will receive match between a SWA Invitation XV and a Shadow springbok XV. The match, played in gale force winds, never much for BLack Maroka Chiefs in R100, in the quarter-finals R150, in rose to any great heights, with the Boks eventually scraping home by 25 points to 21. Picture by DAVE SALMON. Windhoek, African Stars will have the the semi-finals R200 and in the final edge when they meet Explorer Eleven the best player will win earn R250. Windhoek clubs keen 0 s op Arrows' march to title The full weekend's programme is: UNBEATEN NNSL SUPER League log leaders Eleven Arrows, '!bday (Friday) Showgrounds: will be severely tested this weekend when they travel to Windhoek Cosmos vs Russup (First League - for two away matches, against Young Ones and African Stars. 18h30), Hungry Lions vs Sorrento Bucs (Super League - 19h30) and Arrows have been in the driving seat· point lead at the top ofthe NNSL log. Young Ones vs Tigers (Super League from the beginning ofthe season, but Second-placed Chief Santos have -21hOO). PLAYER OF THE MONTH have played most oftheir eleven mat­ completed their 13 first half matches Saturday Katutura Stadium: ches on their home ground at the and are presently second to Arrows on Young Ones vs Eleven Arrows (Super Kuisebmond stadium in Walvis Bay. goal difference. League - 15hOO) and Orlando Pirates SOCCER COMPETITION IfArrows continue to play the soccer The three postponed Novel Ford vs Blue Waters (Super - 16h30). they produced against Orlando Pirates League Cup matches should provide Tsumeb Nomtsoub Stadium: in the Nov.el Ford first round match, plenty of entertainment. Apart from Chief Santos VB African Stars (Novel Win 5 cases of Castle Lager! where they were unlucky to lose 2 -3, the Stars/Santos clash, Black Africa Ford - 14h30) and Benfica vs Black they should prove too much for a strug­ meet Benfica in Tsumeb and Chelsea Africa (Novel Ford - 16hOO). gling Young Ones XI. face Life Fighters in Otjiwarongo and Sunday - Katutura Stadium: My choice for PLAYER OF THE MONTH is: On Sunday, Arrows should benefit these teams will be going all out to Tigers vs Blue Waters (Super League from the fact that their opponents, establish an advantage for the second­ - 15h00) and African Stars vs Eleven African Stars, will be slightly weary leg of the competition which will be ••••• I •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• after a trip to Tsumeb the previous day played early next month. Arrows (Super - 16h30). for a first-leg first round Novel Ford Two of the Northern clubs, Chief Mokati Stadium Otjiwarongo:­ ...... League Cup encounter against Chief Santos and Benfica, were recently both Chelsea vs Life Fighters (Novel Ford- Santos. fined R500 and suspended until the 16hOO). Should Arrows manage to win both end·of the season by the NNSL after Nomtsoub Stadium Tsumeb: EXCELLED IN (which match): their matches this weekend, they will their failure to turn up for the Novel Benfica vs Black Africa (Super League have established·a commanding four Ford games two weeks ago. -15hOO) ...... ••••••••• s · •••••••••. , s ·s ...... • •••••• •••••••••••••••• Omission of DuToil a surprise THE WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE LAST THE SWA rugby selectors rais­ far. to A section status. FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH IN THE NAMIBIAN ed a few eyebrows this week Du'!bit's omission in favour offormer The teams are SWA: when they omitted giant stalwart PietNel is generally regard­ Andre Stoop, Doug Jeffery, Danie van NAME: ...... •... flanker Sarel du Toit from the ed as a mistake. Du '!bit's prowess in derMerwe, WimLotter,GerhardMans ADDRESS: ...... ~ National XV which meets Nor­ the line-outs (at either number sevel). (captain), Shaun McCully, Leon Stoop, or four), and his play in the loose will Casper Derks, Wally Bredenhann, thern OFSin a friendly at the be sorely missed. South West Stadium tomorrow. Manie Grobler, Piet N el; Nartjies Nor­ Possession from line-outs has been tje, Arra van der Merwe, Willem Maritz and Sarel Losper. SEND ENTRIES TO: scarce this season and tomorrow will With SWNs next Currie Cup match be the duty oflock Arra van der Merwe Northern OFS: THE NAMIBIAN against Griqualand West still two and eighth-man Sarel Losper. J Nel, I Beneke, A Pawson, G Viljoen, PO BOX 20783 weeks away, the friendly against the After last Saturday's sparkling per­ D Lourens, Herbert, J Jerling, B A section team tomorrow is important formances by Southwesters in the In­ Brand~, C van Staden, K Oosthuizen, WINDI:IOEK for the selectors as they attempt to find vitation XV against the Boks, the JP Geldenhuys, J Breedt, L Blom, 9000 a combination to 'defend their team will take tomorrow's match Kulu Ferreira (captain) and A unbeaten record in the competition so seriously to further prove their claim Gerbhardt.