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, "_ . .. .. * TODAY: * FW HAUNTED BY APARTHEID SKELETONS * TOP MESSAGE FOR MICHELLE * FRENCH DEFEND JET DEAL * Bringing Africa South Vol.2 No.561 * Slaying of woman WELL-KNOWN game very good shot". ' 'Iwas fanner and owner of He added that it was very Mount Etjo Safari discourteous and completely Lodge, Jan Oelofse, nounced to the press that unprofessional for the own~ yesterday attacked the the President had shot aDd ers of the game fann to owners of the game farm wounded animals when the "belittle" the President by on which President Sam President visited Gebarde's running to the media with game fann in the Khomas the story. Instead any prob Nujoma was involved in Hochland on April 26. lems should have been sorted drunk' a controversial hunting Oelofse said the President out confidentially, he said , trip for breaking a basic had visited his own game Oelofse added that it was .J: k -11 ethic between hunters. fann between Okahandja a general ethic for hunters con£ esses larm 1 er Oelofse said it was "dis- andKalkfeldtbreetimesand not to speak arout the wound- _ __...,... ___~~~~~~~~~~ graceful" that the owner, had always proved to be a Gunter Gebarde, had an- "perfect gentlemen and a TYAPPANAMUTEWA ~------------------~--~---------------------------- ATOKAHANDJA THE alleged mur derer of Jacoba Mag rieta Swanepoel, 64, who was savagely killed 10 days ago, yesterday told the Okahandja Magis trates court he was under the influence of liquor when he com mitted the crime. Johannes Skrywer, 22, of Omitara, pleaded guilty to ON TRIAL FOR MURDER ••• Johannes Skrywer (left) the charge of murder and a tries to hide his face as he leaves the Okahandja court continued on page 2 yesterday. French defend Falcon deal ... STAFF REPORTER KATEBURLING THE French Embassy yesterday denied that the PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma purchase of a French Falcon 900- jet for Presi reaff"lI'med his commit dent Sam Nujoma is linked to any further pur ment to Nambia's children chases of any kind. yesteray, when he opened The embassy said it wanted to make a statement over a four-day conference on the purchase of the R80 million jet given "the partially Early Childhood Protec erroneous informations published by the media and tion and'Development. especially some speculations made in this context by The conference, which journalists and even political parties on the matter of has been organised by the purchase of the Falcon 900 plane by the Namibian Ministry of Local Govern Government and its relations to the French aid in this ment and Housing, the country". Education Ministry, Unicef The embassy said the Namibian Government decided and various other NGOs, 'some months ago to buy some French aircraft and re aims to highlight the im quested help from the'French Government. portance of the years 0-6 The French, according to the statement, agreed to in a child's long-term give partial budgetary support to purchase some French development. And, as only aircraft as they are seen as a long-term investment and four per cent ofNamibian as something which could be used for "missions of children currently have public interest". access to pre-school pro- The embassy. also states that Namibia has accepted , vision, it aims to fmd ways the French proposal to facilitate the maritime surveil of improving the situation. lance of Namibia's Economic Exclusion Zone by giv President Nujoma said ing a grant for a F-406 plane with its equipment and he had "great personal training costs included (totalling RlO,77 million). interest" in the subject and The budgetary support and the grant for the F-406, the that his Government had statement emphasises, are in additi90 to the normal devoted considerable at- French aid to Namibia. continued on page 2 2 Tuesday May 12 1992 TfI E NAMI BIAN President tells men 'you have to change' CHANGING laws which TIle multi-pmpose centre, KATE BURLlNG discriminate against catering particularly for women in Namibia is a 'grassroots' women from all piece of cake compared of urban women were em political and cultural back to wrenching outmoded ployed as low-paid domes grounds, has been spported traditional beliefs into tic wotkers or in the service by contributions from N o industries, while rural rad, Sida, the French Mis the 21st century. women were either farm sion for Co-operation and Speaking at the opening worlcers or subsistence fann Development, and a 1988 of a W omen's Centre in ers in communal areas. They Norwegian TV campaign. Katutura on Saturday, the were burdened by the need It has been built at Okury President had nothing but to earn money, produce food angava, and comprises a SKILLS ON OFFER ... Women at Saturday's opening of the Women's Centre in scorn for men who harped and bring up families, de meeting hall, office, dem Katutura advertise some of the courses available. Photo: Tyappa Namutewa on tradition to justify the spite the fact that, in the onstration kitchen, guard's maltreatment ofwo men . urban areas at least, their house and toilets. Soon to . cash, sheets and two bottles by Mrs Swanepoel for the past "It is unfortunate that income was as low as 50 per be added are two offices, of champagne. The value of 16 months. the stolen items, including Although he agreed that he . many men bring children cent of men's income. two classrooms and a library. money,wasestimatedatRl2 knew that what he was doing into $s world and leave Steps had been taken to Focusing on the educa charge of robbery with ag- 355. (when he killed the woman) their upbringing to the introduce "affinnative ac tional and training needs of gravating circumstances. Skrywer took Mrs was punishable, he told the mothers. It is sad that men tion" in Government and women in Katutura and Skrywer killed Mrs Swanepoel's vehicle, a Ford court he was under the influ- alone tluce the decision of legal spheres. Qualified Khomasdal, the centre plans Swanepoel at her fann, Uitkyk 4x4, and drove to Okahandja. ence ofliquor on that day and how many children a fam- women had been appointed to hold lectures on health, in the Okahandja district. He was arrested by Detective did not know what . really ily should have and when, to senior posts from which legal aid, literacy, English, . The elderly woman was Sergeant Michael Booysen the happened. but it is the women who they had previously been home maintenance, book kicked and hit ·with a huge same evening. The case was postponed to bear them," he said. excluded; women's pension keeping and gardening. rock until she died. Her body Skrywer pleaded guilty to June 11 pending further in- "It is wrong for husbands contributions had been Other plans include a was loaded into her car and all the charges. In an explana- vestigation. Counsel for the to have the sole control over brought into line with men's; Saturday morning market dumped near a public road. tion of his plea, he told the State requested that Skrywer household income and ex- legislation which currently and an infonnal discussion Skrywer thenrobbedherof court he had been employed be remanded iri custody. penditure when they at times discriminated against club, where women cari talk ;:::::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;;::;:;;;:;::::::::;:;;--d:-e-n~t'-s -en-.t-o-ur-:a";'g-e,-w-:hi:-:·~ch~w""'a-s-::Pre:-s:-id:-e-nt:-ov-e-r-th::-e-:i:-ss':"u-e - o-:f:-i do not even contribute their women - such as property . over problems and intereSts. accused of shooting animals permits for hunting, saying salaries to. such income. It laws and contract agree Before leaving Okuryan with AK-47's and as a result the Head of State had the right is criminal when husbands ments - were being revised. gava, the President fired one settiDg fire to 300 hectares of to hunt out of season and if use household income to buy Nevertheless much more warning shot across the bows . ing of animals. veld, Oelofse said he had never there was any doubt about his alcohol and assault their had to be done, said the of the new project: "Let the . He also explained that there experienced any problems hunting of protected species wives and children in their President, and he was pleased centre be a meeting place could be a number of reasons with the President's guards. special permission could drunken stupor." to see women organising for all Namibian women who . fora hunter wounding an However, he did add that always be sought from Na- These, he said, were the themselves through projects need it and not only for those animal, including the possi- he made sure they did not ture Conservation. things which had to change. such as the new centre in of a certain political party bility that Nujoma had been . < a~G.9mpany' Nujoma w.hij~ Oelofse' 14 000 h~c tare Nujoma said the majority Katutura. or group," he said. placed in the wrong position <J hunting; but w·ere ·kept "out game f~ 'Okaue' , is situ- to shoot by the game farmer. ·ofhatll1' s'way'\ '.~ ated' neaf to the luXury Mt On the question of the Presi- 0elofse also· defended the Etjo Lodge. 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