29 August 1990

* TODAY: CHANGE OF NAME AND ROLE FOR 'NASBOUKOR * EXODUS OF EX-SADF MEN TO ANGOLA * Bringing Africa South , . Killer Aids could wipe SADCC APPROVES MAJOR out Namibia PROJECTS FOR NAMIBIA rHE ENTIRE Namibian [lopulationis in danger .of being wiped out 'by the killer virus ljds if preventative action is including . Swa~op oil termin,al, ' 110t taken so.on. A grim statement indeed, but a realistic Qne nonetheless according MBATJIUA NGAVIRUE to infol111ition provided by National Aids Control Progranune (NACP)" THE S.outhern African workers yesterday. Devel.opment Co-ordinating "The probl~jn Namibia is that Conference (SAI)CC) bas the country has such a small popula tion," saidactingNACPprogranune \ approved several , important manager Abner XoaguQ. "1b,ree pr.ojects f.or Namibia, including . hundred and forty-seven people (the a new .oil terminal at number of reported Aids cases, in, Swak.opmund. Nanlibia at the momc:nt) might sound The oil terminal will make Na like a small number, but if everyone mibia less dependent on South Afri of these' 347 ,people can infect 25 can fuel and it will probably be used people and so on, the whole Namib- for direc~ imports of refined petro · ian p'opulation can be wiped out by leum 'products from Angola. this disease. " A local oil company is believed to Xoagub was speaking on his and have already signed an agreement · other NACP committee. members' with the Angolan state oil company retum from a conference held in Ghana Sonangol to import Angolan diesel at which the neeg for Aids preven . for a six-month experimental period. tion in Namibia became abundantly The building of the oil terminal ·clear. would mean that hlige quantities of For example, Nigeria - with a cheap Angolan fuel could be brought population of 120 million people by sea instead of the poorly-main (almost 100 times bigger than that of tained overland route. ' Namibia) - has only 161 more re Like other projects approved by ported Aids cases (508) than this SADCC, funding still has to be found country. but the provisional SADCC cost es And as delegation member Pandu TALK in southern Namibia is that the signs are g.ood for early rain this summer. As this picture taken tinlate for the oil terminal is US$500 Hailonga explained, the reason be in the Grunau area sh.ows, the ~louds are already gathering on the h.oriz.on. Photograph: David Lush. 000. hind the limited spread of Aids in SADCC projects that will either Nigeria seemed to be the country's directly or indirectly benefit Namibia effective Aids prevention programme. are mainly in the field of energy. Hailonga said that compared with, , mining and transport and communi otlier countries, Namibian health cations. workers, not'to mention the general New houses for Namibia's They projects include the repair of public, were not well informed about' the Gove regulating dam in southern Aids. Angola at ltcostof US$6 million. - But she added that hationwide public The Gave dam is situated in a high aw~reness campaigns and a sweep rainfall area in ~gola about 500 ing health worker training scheme homeless police officers kilometres from the Namibian bor were about to be launched. der, but it is currently inoperative because of a construction defect. The play 'with the Aids prevention A MAJOR building initiative aimed at pr.oviding new P.olice h.ouSing announced the use of troops to assist The repair of the dam is expected message, Fast Norman and His Girl the police in their duties, the Housing is ab.out t.o get underway, acc.ording t.o Local G ..overnment and to help in improving water supply to friends, and a puppet shqw Puppets Ministry was charged with .finding Housing Minister Dr Libertine Amathila. the Ruacana and CaIueque dams in Against Aids· are currently touring solutions to the accommodation the dry season. the 'country, raising public aware The first houses in the scheme are the provision of more police housing problem. The SADCC'also approved US9,5. ness about Aids. to be built in Windhoek where police as a matter of urgency at the begin According to Amathila, all the million for electrical power supply And an Aids Awareness Week, to accommodation problems are at their ning of this month. planning for the new houses was cQ-operation in border areas. include numerous events aimed at most acute, she said yesterday. The Poor police housing was identified complete. It only needed ,Cabinet Another important project approved educatmg people about the disease new homes would contain two and as one of the main contributing fac approval in order for the building to by the SADCC was the evaluation and how to stop its spread, is due to three bedrooms and would be built tors to low police morale in Namibia. , go ahead. and development of Namibian coal · fake place from September 10-16.· by Nasboukor, soon to be revamped which in tum was affecting the coun "We should be able to start the deposits for wich no cost estimate is Information gleaned by the NACP as the Namibian Housing Enterprise. try's soaring crime rate, it was de housing progranune in September," Dr Amathila' s Ministry was In CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 cided. • she said. "It was presented for prior CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 structed by the Cabinet to look into At the same time President Nujoma ity treatment and it got it!" ~ t~ -_ . -. ~- - ~-- 1 SPECIAL HOUR christo landsber9@· , ., is all we need to 4 · TRIP ARCADE ' - OFFER ' I :; . ~, process , . KAISER STREET , FOR EVERY COLOUR. FH.M· ' I ; . :AJ~~JI: & print , . TEL (061) 3-~2947 . HANDEl) IN FOR .' I . ~ ~~J.\ '¥;·j.• A your COLOUR . POBOXlSOO PROCESSING & PRINTING , I, ':'(\\"l \1 -17.p FILM WINDHOEK" GET A FREE ~~~ '- ENLARGEMENT OF-YOUR. CHOICE . ; .... J.J. , ••• . " ./'1 ' ,. ~ r I -- ----~~---~~~----~~~------------------~~~--------------~1 t ·Saddam tells women and no children to go home NICOSIA: Sad dam Hussein said yesterday that all women and But hl added: "Politicians are fuft:ed children foreigners in Iraq are free to leave the country, the Iraqi sometimes to , take a position that News Agency said. goes beyond what they see directly in front of them. Saddam issued the decree after Iraqi News Agency said Saddamalso I "If it had to do with human feel Coal mine 'blast meeting with a group of foreigners ordered that one unidentified British ings towards you ... then I would held in Iraq and hearing complaints family be allowed to return home. immediately say you should leave about children being held, the offi- It was not immediately clear what and go back to your families." But cial news agency said. , countries the foreigners were from, he told them their presence was ~ A statement from the Revolution or when and 'here the meeting oc to prevent an attack on Iraq. claims many,lives ary Command Couns;il said the deci curred. , Saddam has used the same justifi sion was made ,. to presexve the image One woman with a British accent cation in the past for his detention of DOBRNJA, Yugoslavia: Rescue teams have found the bodies ofl34 of Arabs," said the news agency. asked Saddam why he was using about 21000 foreigners, includin&3 men killed in a weekend blast in a Yugoslav coal mine and an , The agency, monitoredinNicosia, children in" in something they can't 000 Americans and 3 000 Britons, official said on Tuesday the final death toll might be higher than the said the Iraqi president decreed •'that Undersand". He gave a long answer who were trapped in Iraq and Kuwait anticipated 170. ' all women and children who are for in which he repeated that his hand at the time of the invasion. eigners in Iraq are allowed to move was forced by Western troops mass British and US officials say Iraq Regional mine inspector Rifat Kooic have to carry some bodies 1 500 freely in Iraq or to traevel whenever 'ing in the region. has moved more than 150 Britons said several wives had called in to metres to the conveyor belt," Bosko they want starting tomorrow, includ He also complained that the inter and more than 60 Americans from say their missing husbands' names Selic, a spokesperson for the rescue ing the families Iraq is hosting" . national trade embargo against Iraq Kuwait to strategic locations for use were not on a list of 170 miners teams, said. It did not elaborate on whether that was reducing supplies of food and as •'human shields" against a pos released by colliery management. 'About 200 women, children and . just meant those who have been taken medicine to his country . sibie attack by the US-led forces. "'I'm afraid at least two or,three other relatives spent Monday night to Baghdad as a "human shield" Saddam said "cl,ildren will be It was the second time Saddam - names will have to be added to the in silent vigil behind a wire fence against attack by the West, or whether undernourished" and could become visited hostage families in a broad list," Konic said. watching exhausted and coal-black ,it iricluded women and children who ill and die. He said the, cutoff of cast intended for Western COIl$UffiP Rescue squads went into the Kreka ened rescue workers come and go were among some 21 000 other medicine could cause outbreaks of tion. He was widely condemned for pit in the central town of Dobrnja for 'from the mine shaft. Westerners stranded in Kuwait after disease. his first visit last week, which was a third day, with no hope of finding ' The sole survivor, Smail Imam the August 2 invasion.

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