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Page 3 Namibia 58 Page 3 Page 14 Namibia - ANC what is SA up soldiers in to now9 a Detmas Page 28 court room Historic face the workers' death sumr sentence E D I T O RIAL i-' •' • * < • • On January 11, South Africa's minister of home to the representations made. affairs and of communications, Stoffel Botha, Finally, on March 2, Botha's office informed warned Work In Progress that an examination of WIP's publishers that no action was being the publication was underway in terms of state of contemplated in terms of the media emergency emergency regulations. regulations. Over a year before, Botha had warned WIP that It is not for WIP to speculate on why the minister unless it ceased 'systematic publication of has chosen to act against some publications, and subversive propaganda', he would act against it. not others. The media emergency regulations The January 11 warning involved possible closure involve arbitrary decisions and personal opinion. of WIP for up to six months, or imposing a There is little point in seeking logic within pre-publication censor - a state official with powers arbitrariness. to censor the contents of the publication. But it is worthwhile re-stating WIP's position on Over the next weeks, enormous support was publishing: that not only do all South Africans have expressed for WIP and its publishing policy. This the right to be fully and accurately informed by a came from editors of mainstream newspapers, wide range of opinions, debates and analyses and trade unions, political organisations, religious reporting. In addition, freedom of speech of its bodies and a host of other interests and nature guarantees the right of publication - and the organisations. right of readers to be exposed to diversity and The Congress of South African Trade Unions contradiction. noted that 'censorship of WIP is a direct attempt to WIP has always been happy to allow readers to stifle free and open debate, and to prevent the flow make their own choices on the basis of a wide of information so vital to the building of range of information and views. This is the democracy'. The National Union of Mineworkers opposite of propaganda, which seeks to impose said that 'every issue of WIP that does not come one view while suppressing others. In this battle for out will be a loss to our members', while the survival with the ministry of home affairs WIP has National Council of Trade Unions referred to the no doubt which side supports the publication of publication's 'intelligent and fearless analysis of systematic propaganda. the political, social and labour trends in our country'. This edition of WIP is unavoidably late - held From within the media world, Business Day back until the outcome of the threatened closure editor Ken Owen spoke of WIP as a 'reliable, had been finalised. intelligent and ethically impeccable publication', No action is currently contemplated against the while Tertius Myburgh of the Sunday Times called publication in terms of media emergency WIP 'an invaluable source of information which regulations at present - although the state still has deserves to be heard by all who are interested in much in its arsenal. serious affairs in South Africa'. But WIP intends surviving - and sees a long-term Representatives of foreign governments strongly future for its publishing programme. One part of condemned proposed action against WIP and other this future is financial stability - a crucial publications, and a number made direct component of independent publishing. representations to the South African government. Ensuring financial stability, together with Two weeks after Botha's warning, WIP responded ever-increasing costs in paper, printing, to his threat of closure in a 40-page memorandum reproduction and postage have forced WIP to raise dealing with the emergency regulations in general, its rates. But these increases are modest - way and the nature of the publication in particular. below rates of inflation - and in some cases are the Botha turned down a suggestion that he meet with first for over three years. a delegation from the publication - and then a The editors thank all those who supported WIP in blanket of silence descended. its most-recent battle for survival • and look By mid-February, two publications warned at the forward to ongoing and increasing support from the same time as WIP had been suspended for three most important component of any publication: its months, and WIP began pushing Botha to respond readers. Work In Progress 58 -March/April 1989 I \ • ." * :\v • ftiL Gj^^S- • **' A Swapo Youth League rally in October 1983 - their message is very dear • Nanso President Paul KaJcnga: Swapo docs not get a two thirds 'Probably 30 percent of the voting majority (and be able to be the The bumps population is aged between 18 and outright government). Many of the 21, and the majority arc politicised South African troops who have done along activists working in the Swapo Youth military service here have been League and in Nanso - they are issued with Namibian identity Namibia's militant Swapo members. South documents'. Africa is trying to exclude these road to people from voting, lowering the The notorious Kocvoct counter number of votes for Swapo'. 3insurgency unit - 'credited' with freedom • Swapo Deputy National 70 percent of all guerilla deaths and Chairperson Dan Tjongarcro: 'They allegedly responsible for some of the s Namibia lurches towards know this age group is a militant worst atrocities in the war - has pro-Swapo portion of the population: supposedly been disbanded and its Aindependence, several one has to ask whether the election members integrated into the regular issues have emerged which will still be free and fair if this is police force. But there is ample could impede a smooth accepted'. evidence (including some seen by transition in the months ahead. this writer) that the members of the The following is a brief outline South Africa is insisting that the unit have simply donned new uniforms. The 3 000 Kocvoct men of some of the points of 2qualifying period of residence for voting be as short as possible. There will form almost half the Namibian disagreement, accompanied by is evidence that Unita rebel troops police force of 6 300 assigned to quotes from some of the key and South African troops arc being 'maintain law and order' in the actors in the Namibian registered as 'citizens* to boost the transition process. settlement plan: ami-Swapo vote. • Picnaar: 'Koevoct no longer • Picnaar: 'My own choice is to exists. The unit has dissolved South Africa is insisting (hat the make the residence period as short as completely, and the men have been 1voting age be 21 years, not 18. possible, something like 12 months*. sent for retraining (as regular Swapo and the Namibian National • Executive of the Council of policemen). Some could not be Students' Organisation (Nanso) say Churches in Namibia (CCN): 'Unita retrained, and they will not have the this is a ploy to exclude the members arc being issued with rank of policemen with powers of thousands of militant youth activists Namibian citizenship to enable them aiTcst'. who support the liberation movement. to vote against Swapo*. * Major General Dolf Gouws, * SA Administrator General Louis • Tjongarcro (speaking at a Swapo commissioner of the SWA Police: Picnaar: 'In South Africa, the term rally in Windhoek): 'Attempts arc "Swapo were not the enemy, they adult means people over 21. As far as being made to enlarge the numbers of were criminals. All criminals arc the I am concerned, the voting age those who arc going to vote for the enemy of the police, and when they should be 21\ enemy in the elections, to make sure stop being criminals, they arc no Work In Progress 3 •««">""•» ^ v^^">^x^aatY>y-^wxTOB»>»«wwaw*w»M :;:;:•:-:•:: longer the enemy „. Everybody in this unit was a policeman before, they are (rained policemen, they will help maintain law and order'. Gouws said in a separate interview with the Times of Namibia that the policing role would keep them employed and 'prevent them taking up arms against Swapo'. * Tjongarero: 'If Kocvoet have been trained to be killers, if they have been trained to be extermination squads, if their only training was towards the extermination of Swapo, one wonders whether the stain on their brains can be diminished in just four months'. * Legal Assistance Centre director David Smuts: 'I have serious doubts about Kocvoct's ability to be impartial... Untag (the United ,. Nations monitoring force in r«f 11 Namibia) will have to be extremely Swapo's Dan Tjongarero on SA's proposal to change the voting age: vigilant as to what Koevoct is doing "... one has to ask whether the election will still be free and fair'. during the elections, and they don't normal fashion in a normal situation owned by absentee landlords will be seem to have sufficient people to do ... No person was ever arrested or expropriated, and their owners paid that'. kept in detention on an illegal basts out. * Security police chief inspector (by Koevoct) whatsoever'. * Independent economic consultant Derek Brunc: '(The challenge facing Eric Lang, himself a farm owner: 'I the Kocvoet men) is basically to live Swapo, tn its economic policy think the agricultural sector has not in normal society again and to 4document, says it will not been making its just contribution to operate as normal members of expropriate white farms which are the state revenue. Development must society, and not as people whose productive and useful to the start taking place in the rural areas. I primary aim is to hunt trained economy. But those farms which arc believe land that is just being used as terrorists, but to be able to react in a lying idle, used as tax loopholes or weekend hunting lodges is not smallholding during May 1988, state's indictment: Broederstroom when four residents were detained, * band grenades; and a vast arsenal of arms, explosives * limpet mines; three face and ammunition allegedly * mortars; impounded by police.
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