10 October 1991

* TODAy:f0PINIONS 'DIVI'i:)ED OVER SLEEPING-WITH ANIMALS * DOUBI!E ~TAX SHOCK * Thursday October 10 Unita's tru.cks free to travel... Namibia could become regular supply route STAFF REPORTER Town businessman who is using Namibia as a transit route to supply former BLUE-BLOODED Angolan rebel movement Unita is bidding to A Royal first for BOYS ••• Two baby get Namibian Government permission to step boys (above) were up regular a supply chain. born in the Os hakati State Hos Future deliveries along the Namibian Defence Force but Windhoek Show pital "only a few overland Walvis Bay-Macusso released again on Monday af minutes" before ' route could include Unimog ter a confrontation with the the Queen arrived all-terrain trucks, radio equip Namibian Police who insisted TOM MINNEV ment, pbaunaceuticals, fuel and the soldiers' action was ille yesterday. Giving ambulances. gal. EXCITEMENT shimmered in the heat as the first mo birth on the Royal Currently 20 four-wheel However, lawyer Hans torcycles heralding Queen Elizabeth 11 wound over the occasion drive pick up trucks built by Bruno Gerdes says his client hills behind Windhoek's showground. Waiting were mothers Maria the General Motor Corpora rows of cattle, sheep and goats, their owners standing Alfred and Hende tion of US are at Grootfontein. Continued on page 2 I steady beside them. A huge crowd· the stands had been lina Klamenena. They were impounded by the closed to newcomers for some time as they were full - Photograph: gazed down on them and clutched flags. Oswald Shivute A cheer came up as the Queen drove up to the small dias facing the stands. 'Flags waved, cameras snapped. Accompanying her Kalahari activist were husband the Prince Philip, the President and First Lady Kovambo Nujoma as well as other dignitaries such as Prime Minister Hage Geingob and Foreign Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab. First was a stiff line-up for national anthems, then the Queen arrested in city started adding to what could be a world record for shaking hands. Ready to press the royal fingers were Agriculture, Water and MPHO Shobo, an activist ANDREW PERRIN Rural Development Minister Gert Hanekom and his wife, Wiud for Kalahari rights who hoek Show Society President Alian W alkden-Davis and his wife, has been involved in the According to Shobo, the first and the show society's vice president (Livestock) Immo Mitten ongoing Kalahari-Tswana indication that he was to be dorf and his wife. dispute, was arrested yes deported came yesterday at Almost out of camera range behind the dias, a seven-year-old llhOO, when the two Immi pupil of St George' s Anglican School stepped forward with a terday by two Immigra tion officers. gration officers, officers Jacobs bunch of flowers. The Queen accepted it graciously and Bridgit and Bru oNer, arrived to arrest Thorp almost skipped away with her mother. They intend deporting Shobo to Botswana within the next Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 two weeks. Andrew Matjila, a DTA leader, and Constance Kgosiemang, chief of the Tswanas and also a DTA member. Matjila flatly Traditional welcome as him. denied any involvement. He was taken to Windhoek 'Ihl Tswanas and the Kalahris Central Priscn, where he is being have been engaged in a pro held pending deportation. longed conflict, and Shobo is a Royal fever hits North The officers later told The Kalahari. Namibian he could be deported ,The Director of Immigra Everyone spoken to, many as early as this Sunday, but tion, Mr Nandango, was reluc EXCITEMENT swept the OSWALD SHIVUTE AND TYAPPA NAMUTEWA would probably not leave for tant to comment on the case, North yesterday as thou of whom had travelled great AT ONDANGWA AND OSHAKAll nearly a week after that. but denied that the DTA was sands ofpeople turned out distances to pay their respects Officer Jacobs said Shobo instrumental in securing to give Queen Elizabeth IT to the Queen, thanked Her had lied on his application for Shobo'sdeportatio~ The Queen and the Presi Many people The Namibian Majesty for having visited "our and the Duke of Ed dent than travelled to Oshakati spoke to about the Royal visit new Namibia". They wished Namibian citizenship, claim The Deputy Director in inburgh, Prince Philip, a charge of the case, David Shim State Hospital. Thousands of said it was clear that Namibia's the Queen and Duke a good ing to have been born in then rousing welcome. South West Africa. He said he wino, is in Switzerland and Oshakati residents turned out independence and the COUD journey and good health in the had documents proving Shobo was unavailable for comment. People from the far-flung for the occasion, while at the try's widely hailed constitution future. was born in Botswana. When contacted Matjila corners of Owambo travelled hospital nurses and pajama and commitment to democracy In response, Shobo said: "I denied any involvement in the to Ondangua and Oshakati to clad patients, many war ampu were key reasons why respected * For more phographs of the am Namibian, fully Namib affair and referred The Na take part in the special occa tees in wheelchairs, waited leaders like Queen Elizabeth Royal visit to the North, see ian. " He did not reveal where mibian to Kgosiemang for sio~ outside and lined the hospital came to visit. tomorrow's The Namibian he was, in fact, born. comment. At the time of going Traditional dancing and corridors. Shobo claims the arrest was to press, Kgosiemang was singing and cheering, flag The Queen and Duke were arranged through the efforts of unavailable for comment. waving crowds greeted the welcomed by the Minister of Royal party when they arrived Health and Social Services Or and along the route they trav Nicky Iyambo, hospital super and Defence. elled. intendent Or Naftal Hamata Yesterday State House is The Queen was officially and administrator, Andreas sued a denial of a front-page welcomed at Ondangwa air meka. report in a Windhoek English port by Nannbian President Sam The Royals were shown two Ike Hasson, whose Cape Town daily, that the President had Nujoma and First Lady children's wards, a United firm entirely owns Namibia summoned Home Affairs Kovambo Nujoma and a host Nations Cbildrens Fund Proj Mineral and Energy the com- Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba of senior Govemment officials ect for children hospitalised pany involved in bringing in and Inspector-General Piet and local dignatories, led by for long periods, a playground the trucks, is still trying to Fouche of the police and then the head of the Evangelical and a nurses' class in progress. approach the Namibian Gov- issued orders to free the trucks. Lutheran Church in Namibia, The Namibian also learned emment to allow them to use "The Office of the Presi- Bishop Kleopas Dumeni. that two baby boys were born an unofficial border point at dent categorically rejects Presi- At the airport the Queen was in the Oshakati State Hospital Macusso which was opened dent Sam Nujoma's so-called warmly welcomed by several " only a few minutes" before only for food and other urgent intervention in this matter as traditional group and school the Queen arrived. Giving birth aid deliveries to the hungry in devoid of any truth," read the children who performed songs on the Royal occasion were so,uth-eastern Angola. , , statement. and dances. She obviously Maria Alfred (at lOH17) and Parastatal TransNamib is the The lorries were released on enjoyed the traditional welcome Hendelina Klamenena (at transport company taking the Monday on condition that they and waved to the performers. lOHI9). ' trucks across Namibia, for cross at Oshikango, the only The !ita ya Kadha men's Her Majesty expressed con delivery to Unita at Macusso. official border post into An- dancing group from Uukwambi cern at the causes of malnutri They have offered a "unique gola, or that the Angolan disIrict, Omupembe gwa Ndema tion in one of the children's special rate" of RI 200 each Government approves supplies men's dancing- group from wards. A Dllrsing sister ex for the GMC four-wheel-drive through Macusso, near Bagani Ongandjera, the Nambura ya plained that although ignorance trucks and RI 500 each for the in north eastern Namibia. Mukatha men and women's played a role, malnutrition was Unimogs. Thisis'.s.aid t~ ~cep t- !>; dan~ group as well as drum expected to decrease as the e ....,:. .t\~c})~~~ ~o:, ge!.<!e,s, j x: -._ Jl~l~ ~ !1;is§OJ;l ~ ~~ - ~t ~nng~~e mers and young dancers from country's printary health care Pmblein.is tha.t ~ t-ruc.kS,are..- ~ .!~~ks ._~Q : :,... q,0~~7~- the International" Primary programme reached more arul paked'_olive greeii -causmg~ beld" 1treaS of AngOla, ali:bOugh WINDHOEK SHOW WINNER .•• THE Queen and School delighted with their more people. suspicion they are for military such distinctions may be fall- Holger Kronsbein of Grootfontein look at Kronsbein's energetic and thythmic displays. The Royal party then trav use. Documents given to The ing away wi~ the successful prize-winning Simmentaler cow Drantum Marke. Queen School children from across elled to the Osbakali guest boose Namibian also show that ceasefire and peace talks. It the region lined the road be where !hey were given red cmpet Elizabeth presented Kronsbein with the Queen's Cup, TransNamib has already trans- also involves a long and dan- tween Oshakati and Ondangwa, treatment and lunched with awarded for the most successful cattle breeder, at the ported 400 000 litres of diesel, gerous drive eastwards through eagerly waiting to see the community, church and tradi- Windhoek Show yesterday.

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