New Turn TV Guldes ••• Intensive Care Unit in Wind Hoek's Katutura Hospital but M-Net, Nbe There Is No Reaction to Lights Shone
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f' .•11 TODAY:. ' M~STERY DEEPENS OVER( 'CULTURAL'FRONT" .*.' GOv:r ;CHAl!l"ENOEf)10N'tAEFOGEE fSSUE-·tt SPORT .*-" ! , R1.00 {GST Inc.) Friday June 5 1992 INSIDE TODAY Farm seam * Photos of Mlchelle's school visits Eighteen-year-old Donovan . Dickson is spending his thir teenth day in a coma today. * Readers He was found unconscious write on takes a ' on a soccer field a few hours a crowd watched him being bribery, allegedly beaten up repeat edly by a policeman. Govt plane, Police say if he dies, mur racism der charges will be pressed. On Wednesday morning, Donovan Dickson's eyes * Full weekend mcked open as he lay in the new turn TV guldes ••• Intensive Care Unit in Wind hoek's Katutura hospitaL But M-Net, NBe there is no reaction to lights shone . into his eyes and he as more top names emerge continues to He without move FIGHTING FOR LIFE ... ment despite operations to t8-year-old Donovan ~------------------~-------------------, -------------------------------------- take blood from his bridn. Dickson is in a coma since MBATJIUA NGAVIRUE Dickson's mother visits him being found on May 23 every night and sald it is shortly after an . alleged THE latest person to be implicated in the contro ''heart-breaklngt' not to be police beating. versy surrounding the allocation of 44 farms in the . able to do anything. Kavango is the Regional Director for Agriculture More than :zo people ap Three eye-witnesses sepa parently watched the assaults ratfJy told The Namlblan what for the Kavango, Fieter Horn. at the. soccer ground and in they saw. Apparently a po According to reliable According to infonned liceman came up to Dtckson, the yard of a friend's house. sources, Horn is one of the . sources, the diversion of the But the policeman allegedly who was under the influence of liquor, at the Khomasdal top officials alleged to have funds to the Kavango was involved has not yet been sus improperly acquired a fann specifically approved by pended. A police statement soccer field on the afternoon on a Government-sponsored Nghipondoka who was one suggests the delay is because of Saturday, May 23. Dickson investigators do not have was suspected of stealing a agricultural project in the of the lucky recipients of enough evidence to act, de bag and the owner asked the Kavango. the Kavango fanns. spite statements from many policeman, who one witness Several other top Govern The money was used for local people. To page 2 ment officials have been surveying the land and es:.. implicated including penna tablishing valuable infra nent secretary of Agricul structure such fencing and ture Vtlho Nghipondob and boreholes. pennanent secretary of The latest development in . Home Affairs Ndali Cbe the controversy is that doubts. Kamati. have been cast on whether Other officials believed it is, in fact, either illegal or I to have received fanns are improper, for senior Gov Namibian ambassador to ernment officials to acquire . Brussels Shapua Kaukun fanns on a Government I gua and deputy minister of project. Labour' and Manpower Deputy minister of Agri Hadino Hishongwa. culture Kaire Mbuende . The allocation of the 44 yesterday deplored the fact fanns is currently being that the media had already A SEA OF MAIZE ... It will take seven days to omoad investigated by Chief Inves passed judgment on the the US ship Ilion's cargo of t4 000 tonnes of maize at tigating Officer for the Frank officials before it had been Walvis Bay, where most of it is loaded straight on to Commission, AG Visser. established whether they had TransNamib rail trucks. The Ilion docked on Tuesday In addition, the Commis . done anything improper. almost immediately as the Argentinian ship Evameria sion is also believed to be One argument currently sailed away after depositing over t8 000 tonnes ofyellow investigating the impropel' being used in their defence maize. The arrival of the two ships represents the efforts diversion of Government is that the fanns are not on of Namibia's two main maize processors, Agra Mills funds from a project in Government land but com- and Namib Mills, to ensure that the country does not Hererolaod to the project in experience a maize shortfall. See report, page 3 the Kavango. To page 2 SPES BONA MOTORS FOR SELECTED USED CARS Independence Avenue WINDHOEK Tel: 3-2442122-4579 PO Box 20974 Ferdl Holloway and Eddle Holloway TCL: (061) 22-4579/3-2442 After Hours: (061) 4-2970 . ..... , .- ministered . by traditional Whether the Frank Com~ ventures with the help of Sunday. FARMSCAMS chiefs. missi.Qn finds that grantjng Land Bank loans. BOY IN COMA Police said yesterday sus IT the Government needs farms to the GoveQlDlent In this light , Mbuende from page 1 pension is decided by the Dis from page 1 communal land for a proj officials on communal land questioned whether it was trict Commissioner, 'and this ect it would request the local is legal or or not many people ,fair to exclude some people claimed was' off duty but usually is quick and Ion the munalland. chiefforits use; but it would will still question whether from Government fanning driving his police car, to get it basis of the "prima facie" ~ . f · Furthermore it is said the ~ an extremely rare caSe it is morally right. projects simply because they back. (immediate) evidence, while farms were not allocated by . where the chief could ref"· Government officials such worked for the Government. The bag was recovered and .the Prosecutor-General de Government officials but the use. J _as permanent secretaries and He also cast doubt on the no clwges were to be pressed, cides what charges to press. - local chief Hompa Sitentu Mbuende explained that deputy ministers are rela argument that all senior but the more people tried to A charge ,of assault with in Mpasi of the Kwangalt ' the Kavango project was tively we3ithy compared to Government officials are stop the policeman beating "tent to cause grievous bodily Those who defend the initially meimt for the reset-' most comniunal fanners and wealthy enough to ooy fanns Dickson the more he pressed harm is being investigated. officialssayitwasperfectly . tlement of commun31 farm should be able to buy farms in commercial farming ar- on, using hands and his own In Dickson's case the many within the chiefs rights to ers, and that feasibility stud- . in commercial farming ar eas. head. statements already taken do grant land to whoever he ies on the project started eas. "I cannot pronounce on Dickson is a slight youth not seem enough, which , ple~es including Govern i even before independence. On the other hand, the the economic position of and was apparently offering :people fmd astonishing, as ment officials. ' , Surveying, building of same argument has been these people, but 1 myself no resistance. One said he beating up a young man ~ However, deputy minis infrastructure and the allo- ' used for years against com am a communal fanner with was dragged over a wall by full view of a crowd seems ter ' Mbuende yesterday' . cation of the farms however munal fanners who have cattle I inherited from my the stadium. clearly outside normal police conceded that the distinc was all doneafterindepend been granted land on Gov father, and 1 know 1 could He was allegedly taken to a duties. A police statement says tion between communal and ence. The project is only ernment-developed projects. not at"ford a commercial friend's house, where a neigh "members of the public and a Government land is an ooe of many similarscremes Many coInmunal fanners, farm," he said. Another as bour said they saw the beat police officer allegedly as- ' "artificial distinction". for the resettlement of com particularly in the Okamata pect the Frank Commission ings continue mcluding saulted" Dickson but charged He pointed out that all munal fanners including one pati area, are known to have will have to consider is Dickson being thrown over a it is not clear if his injuries communal land is Govern in the Mangetti- Bloc in over 1 000 head of cattle whether Hompa Mpasi gave gate to land on his head and were caused by the beating 'or ment land in terms of the -Owambo; and Okamatapati and are wealthy enough to the Government officials the being thrown into a police -by something else after they - , law even though it is ad- in Hereroland. start ' coDUilercial farming land simply out ofthe good vehicle. One or two other left him. ness of his heart, or whether police were allegedly present Last night his worried undue influence was exerted. , but did not stop their colleague, mother said DickSon is the While rio one, wants to while neighbours were told "baby" of three children, and encourage tribalism, it can not to interfere with the p0- studied at Dawid Bezuiden not escape notice that none lice. The accused officer.is hout school before leaving to of the Government officials apparently well-known in the learn electrical and welding involved in the Kavango neighbourhood. skills and was starting to work. affair are K wangalis. Dickson was then dumped She said he could be "naughty" It is almost unheard of in back at the soccer field, as no but was very kind. never made Namibia for a tribal chief to charges were to be pressed. trouble and was always good grant communal land to Hours later, other police were at home. someone from outside his called to take away Dickson Doctors told her her son is own region. who was still lying there seem not getting worse, but they Possibly the Government ingly drunken.