EP MORAL CHUKHMEH for SOUTH FAfRJCA

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ENACTED BY TM 64th GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, meeting in Louisville, Kentucky ,. 29 September - 11 October 1973:

WHEREAS, the United Nations in 1966 revoked the mandate by which South Africa had ruled Namibia (formerly known as South West Africa), which action has been supported by formal Judgment of the Internation- al Court of justice, and the government of South Africa has openly defied the United Nations by refusing to relinquish its control and has increasingly implemented in Namibia the system of .apartheid. , which has been all but universally condemned by the Churches ; and WHEREAS, the majority of the people of Namibia have indicated their rejection of South African authority,not only by their representations at the United Nations and the formation of a political coalition, the National Convention, to further the aims of unity and independence,but also by their support of a general strike in 1971-2 and by non-violent resistance to the South African attempt to balkanize what the Namibians insist must be a united, multi--racial country ; and WHEREAS, the military forces of the South African occupying power are being challenged by Namibian freedom fighters of the South West Africa Peoples Organization with a consequent threat to the peace and stability of the developing nation and a possible threat to world peace ; and WHEREAS, the stand of the Churches and particularly the Anglican Church of South Africa (which includes the Diocese of Damaraland, co- terminous with Namibia) on behalf of the imperatives of the Gospel has provoked open acts of repression against the mission of the Church in Namibia, including the expulsion of two successive Bishops of Damaraland, the Warden of the theological school, and other clerical and lay mission- aries.; therefore be it RESOLVED, that this 64th General Convention assures the Diocese of Damaraland and the Church of the Province of South Africa of its prayers and continued concern, and of its support of the people of Namibia in their struggle for independence and self-determination, and ;urges'the government of the United States to support fully the efforts . of . the gaited Nations to bring about the freedom of the people of Namibia.

NOTE : An identical resolution was passed by the Diocese of Pennsylvania meeting in Philadelphia 27 October 1973 . TEE TIMES SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 1913 OVER&EAS7___ — Another opposition politician and three nurses publicly flogged iii black homeland of S-W Africa From Michael Knipe distributing pamphIeti On Wed- The Ovambo salesman said Cape Town, Oct 2b nesday, Mr Johannes Nangu- he was arrested on August 1 tueala, leader of another po- and kept in custody until Sept- Another opposition politician sition group. the Democratic ember 5 without any charge was publicly flagged in the Cooperative Development Party, being laid . The day before his Ovambo . African homeland of received sim :iar punishment .. arrest, he said, he had to stand South-West Africa yesterday, an Both men were handed oer naked for seven hours while hour before a South African to the tribal council by the South police interrogated him . He Supreme Court judge sitting in African police, who had detained claimed 'police asked him why Windhoek, . 5O . miles away, them .without .formal charge he demonstrated during the issued an. .a`n'teril~;t interdict` for-.. under.. the quasi-emergency visits of the. United Nations bidding the punishment. powers introduced in February officials, Dr Waldheim and Dr The judge also heard allega- last year. Esther. . tions that three women nursing- The application for a Supreme On October 5, the police students had been subjected to Court interdict was made by the handed him over to the tribal public .flogging by the..Oaambp .Anglican Bishop Suffragan of authorities. who kept him in tribal,. authorities and that a,., rh.e diocese- of Damaraland, the custody . He was brought salesman had been forced to Rt Rev Richard Wood . The before the Chief Minister, who stand naked .. for . seven . hours. judge, Mr Justice G . G . Hoexter, sentenced him to 15. strokes white 'police interrogated him. granted it, ordering the post- because he was a SWAPO mem- The victim of yesterday's ponement of the flogging until ber and allegedly taught flogging was Mr Andreeas the court had reviewed the children SWAPO songs . He said Nuukwawo, an executive mem- tribal council's trial proceed- he was given 17 strokes on his ber of the South West African ings, unaware that the flogging bare skin . The extra strokes People's .Organiration (SWAPO). had already taken place. were for not lying properly He was given 16 lashes with the In affidavits presented to the while being beaten. rib taf a palm branch onhis naked fudge by the bishop three in other developments in buttocks. women nursing- , students i at an Ovamboland yesterday, tribal Chief Filemon Elifas, Chief Anglican' mission alleged they police in the Kwanyama area Minister . of . Ovamboland, were brought before the tribal apparently forced the Anglican watched as thepunishment was courton September 12 and asked. Archdeacon of Odibo, the Von meted . :out. Afterwards Mr questions which related to no Philip Shilongo, to leave St '• Nuukviiawlii required hospital apparent charge . After a while Mary's mission . in spite of a they . were asked to wait outside. court order that treatment for his wounds. When they were' recalled they . he was not to White Opposition politicians were laid they were guilty of be removed. And, according to I and; Government opponents bath being ,absent from duty without reports from Windhoek, the ,1 in South West Africa . and in leave. tribal` police beat the Anglican South Africa expressed angry They were given no oppor- Archdeacon of Ovambo, the ' revulsion at the form of punish- tunity of defending themselves Ven Lazarus Haukongo, on the ment and criticized the South and were sentenced to six head with a stick. African Government for allow- strokes . with the central rib of In Durban today, .Mr. Michael . ; ing it. the makalani palm . The nurses Mitchell., justice spokesman. of Mr . Nuukwawo was flogged on said they were taken away by South Africa's opposition United l the orders of the Ndanga tribal black security . police, held over Party, : described the flogging council, of which Chief Fiiemon a stool and flogged in front of incidents as the most base t is chairman . The victim was told about 200 onlookers . Mr Nuuk- affront upon the dignity of a he was being punished for giving wawo, . the SWAPO official people 1 have ever seen to be information to newspapers, for flogged yesterday, is a teacher allowed by the Nationalist belonging to. SWAPO and for at the mission. Government".

;!Politician Gets 20 Lashes THE NE Vv' YORK TIMES . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 . 1973 in South-West Africa Rift ! According to sources in Special to The NO; York Times Ovarobo, Mr . Nangutuitla was' I JOHANNESBURG, South Af- 1 sentenced to 20 lashes by pub- rica, Oct. 25—The chief minis- ;' lie . floggtrtp, administered by a ' ter of South-West Africa's tribal polir nien. He was taken l0vambo homeland reportedly` to a hospital for treatment, the ,}ordered a leading opposition; report said :- . Mr. Nangututtla was detained 'politician publicly flogged yes under emergency regulation terday and banished from his during disturbances in Ovambo tribal area. during recent homeland elec- Sources in Ovamboland iden-! tions there . He said the elec- !tined the politician as Johan- tions had been rigged to elect Ines Nangutuula, leader of thej the pro-South African and tra- Democratic Cooperative Devel- ditionalist government of Chief opment party, which opposes; Filernon Elifas . the South African Govern ltment's policy of racial separa- tion. It is especially opposed to .1the homeland "bantustari" eye- 'Item for Ovamboland.