LOANS NOT GRANTS Namibia Turns Down West German Loan
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* INSIDE: COMMUNAL LAND DEBATE CONTINUES * 'MYSTERY DISEASE' IN FACT NO MYSTERY * LOANS NOT GRANTS Namibia turns down West German loan THE government ofNamibia received arude shock when it recently discovered that only 25 million of the 100 million Deutsch mark it expected to receive as aid from West Germany is in the form of grants. The rest of the 100 million will be West Gennan ambassador to given as loans and the discovery of Namibia Harald Ganz yesterday this fact has left red faces in both confinned that there was a difference Bonn and Windhoek. of opinion between the two govern The mix-up has resulted in an ments on the aid issue. embarrassing situation and Namib The crisis resulted in Attomey ian Finance Minister Otto Herrigel is General Hartmut Ruppel being hur believed to have rejected the West riedly dispatched to Bonn to try and Ge.r;man loan of 75 million Deutsch reconcile the Namibian and Gennan mark outright. positions. All along Namibian governnrent At the same time Prime Minister officials, including Cabinet minis Hage Geingob has made -strenuous ters, thought the entire 100 million efforts to have Namibia classified as (R255 million) would be given as a a Least Developed Country, but few development grant. experts believe that he will succeed. The German government, however, He pleaded for LDC status for THIS LAND IS OURS: Bushman-speaking DTA representative in the National Assembly, Geelbooi has a clear policy laid down by its Namibia only ~ently when address Kashe (right), yesterday challenged all Members of Parliament, saying the land currently debated Ministry of Fmance of only giving ing the govelning council oftbe United in the Assembly does not belong to anybody else but the Bushman-speaking people. He is seen here grants to Least Developed Countries Nations Development Programme in reiterating his point with Deputy Minister of Agriculture Kaire Mbuende and Swapo representative (LDCs). Geneva. Gern1any distinguishes between Least Developed Country status is Danie Bo~ha. Photograph by John Walenga. what it calls technical aid, which is nonnally granted by the United Na- gi'ven in the fonn of grants, and fi nancial aid, which is given as 10arIS. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Swapo 'terrorists' in Afrikaans exam paper Swann Education minister expels Chase RAJAH MUNAMAVA will launch probe SWANU's Windhoek branch ------------GWEN LISTER has expelled their erstwhile foreign affairs secretary and THE POLICY of national reconciliation has obviously had painfully little effect on certain 'white' firebrand speaker, Nora Chase. schools. An Afrikaans June 1990 examination paper from Okahandja Secondary School reveals that A branch meeting on Tuesday schoolchildren are still being fed anti-Swapo propaganda and are being asked about "Swapo night also recommended to the party's terrorists" who "come over the border committing deeds of terror in South West Mrica"! central committee to have Chase booted out of the party as a whole. The examination paper for Stan South Africa had then decided to pupils to .describe a "terrorist". The recommendations, which NORA CHASE -expelled from dard Six pupils, and consisting of an attack the base with, among others, Asked to comment on the exami follow on the heels of the recent Swanu's Windhoek branch. Afrikaans comprehension test entitled paratroops. nation paper, Education Miriister split within the Namibia National 'Two Heroes', tells of two pilots of After the attack and as they were Nahas Angula described it as "out Front of which Swanu is a member governnrent, or whether it should the South African Air Force who withdrawing' 'the enemy app(oached rageous" and added that it was " out and a pending court case, are likely join the new DTA party. were awarded Honorus Crux medals with several tanks and troop camers of tempo with the spirit of national to receive a 'sympathetic ear' from During the meeting on June 2 for exceptional bravery. with deadly weapons". reconciliation which is about to start most of the party's central commit where the decision to team up with The medals were a result of an Captain Marais showed them' 'the in schools". tee members, sources close to the the DTA was taken, her party's rep attack by the SADF on a Swapo base steel that S A Air Force men are made The added that his Ministry would party say. resentatives, led by Swanu presi in Angola. of" and "wiped them out". look into the matter, and seek me'et I Chase has parted ways with the dent Velcuii Rukoro, and the Reho The comprehension test goes on to "We at home are proud and thank ings with both the principal of the majority of her paIty leadership on both Volksparty, walked outof the state that one of the Swapo bases was ful that there are so many men pre school and the teacher concerned. the crucial question of whether the nleeting, leaving her behind as chair- nanled Moscow and "from there the pared to defend our safety with their He added that.if tius type of thing NNF should maintain representa terrorists came over the border to lives," the comprehension test con was going on in white-dominated tion and closer ties with th« Swapo CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 commit deeds of terror in South West tinues. ,chools, then "something must be Africa". 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The African National Congress sanctions, the observers said there goals which would result in some deputy president was on the fourth was no doubt Mandela' s conciliatory emerging losers and some winners. leg of his European mission, urging tones and his message the ANC was "We are striving to proceed in a BUCHAREST - Hundreds of club-wielding police cleared University Square leaders to ignore President F W de committed to peaceful negotiations manner and towards a result which of protesters on Wednesday morrling after a 53-day anti-Communist demon Klerk's plea last month to recognize with the government provided sanc will ensure all our people, both black stration. The police arrested more than 100 demonstrators and rushed about 20 reforms so far and substantially re tions remained, received unqualified and white, emerge as victors." hunger strikers to the hospital. The protesters had been pressing for free media view policies, including sanctions support of the overwhelming major He said the May Groote Schuur and a 10-year ban on former communists holding public office. against South Africa at the European ity. Mandela, emphasizing the ANC agreement with the government on ALGIERS - A fundamentalist Moslem group defeated the party that has ruled Conununity summit meeting in Dublin was seeking no advantage for itself removing obstacles to negotiations Algeria since independence 30 years ago in the country's first multi-party on June 25. in its efforts to find a peaceful settle constituted a significant step. This election, the interior minister said Wednesday. Interior Minister Mohamed In what observers described as an ment, reiterated his regard for and was not only because it would result Salah Mohammedi said the Islamic Salvation Front was "pre-eminent" in almost unprecedented wann welcome beliefin the integrity ofDe Klerk and in the removal of the obstacles, but Tuesday's elections for about 15 000 seats on 1 541 municipal and 48 to the European Parliament, the 518 his National Party collegues. because it would demonstrate the provincial councils. MPs from the 12 EC nations gave "We believe they speak honestly good faith of the SA government. Mandnela prolonged standing ova when they say they seek an end to the Mandela said, however, it should MOSCOW - Faced with a splintering empire, Soviet President Mikhail tions before and after his keynote apaltheid system ... They are ready to not be forgotten the pillars of apart Gorbachev has proposed restructuring the Soviet Union into a loose federation address in the main chamber. honour all agreements entered heid remained in place, and that the of sovereign states, officials said. Gorbachev made the proposal Tuesday, the In spite of the fact an independent into ... We are prepared to work with struggle against apartheid had to same day that the parliament of the huge Russian republic approved a Italian MP had tabled a motion - them to achieve a just and lasting continue, with the international resolution declaring that its laws would take priority over national ones. obtaining 50 MPs' signatures in negotiated solution." community sharing its responsibility COLOMBO - The government on Wednesday rushed 3 ()()() more soldiers to support - calling for Europe to ease The ANC was not pursuing any with the masses inside South Africa.