ORIGINAL: Lnýclibjk, N, Vouýteenth Session FOURTECOWIT

Home , Hoachanas

7 N Är10 N 5 GENERAL A/c. 4/425 20.0ctober ÄS -5 E. M B LY 'ORIGINAL: lnýCLIBJK, N, Vouýteenth session FOURTECOWIT-TtE Ägen4a i t eä' 38, QUESTION OP SOUTH VEST AFRICA Statémtnts made by Chief Hosea.KutakQ-, Chief Samuel Witbooi, P7 the Reverend Plarkus Kooper and other pýetitiongrs In South West Africa göte by% cretariat: The followingstatements bäve.been Uranseribed from the tgpe-recording made available to the urth Committee by petitioners. They are circulated to ~Fo Xe4b:ers of theFourth Committee in accordancewith a deciýpioä .,,-taken by the Ccmmittee at the 907th meeting. i äm,, Hosea Kutako speaking now and I am saying this. our countxy, för quite 5 idh people themselves h Pr ia, traded, -ýkt etor g timeý vas under the, Afri.-can th-ey ith us me ý4ýtat ar 0n1 the Germans ceme and entered into negotiations w ti, Itýhey-ýgtårted killingpeople, not direetly but in one way or änother; sotetimåå Ný aåld Ne thougiit he wa,8 an adimal" or 'Ve thought it was stonell tý,uey ya ågy Ä "Ocmet-bing, like that. this, the Hereros realized that these people did not come in peýicéå Aft'cr- all 4, 2 , -4 t6d, ,_ y pu ofof f le between us and the Union outh Africa; they star, k- p11 trac n p 7 Uing us. Åpparently tpesei, people came, for war and they the rQvoked us..l., D that this thing is recording what I am saying? Are you: su They ålsa plundere they invaded our land,-they took, awåy cur .UAkd and we 'had'nö home, That was what led ta war - that iýs they came here nöt 'ä with all, their military force to force us ssion and we didthem but, rose and fought; even withcut guns ar anything we fought them. ý,jtgý,t.."t'heg withbut glans or, anjbhing and we vant to irjpress upon the Äqörld thet '5, -ve this land as a present to the Germans; wie fought for iVand '&-not, just gi -t1 ý v. 3 k k t English t :We shall always b laim it'batký This is why,.even flå ýour land. p to this dayý:' even up- to this day, we are ap ealing tö the. ýv6 clåim it beck and this is why> p njtedý pptjong:. And then followed a period of slävery when we were really exposed to sufferings and to a löt of hardzhips. Then the country changedhands and we. t4ought that the country had been taken over by the British people only to realizof later on that we were under the Boers. And our suffering continued:under tJheBoers; sometimes we feel that it is even, more than we had under the Germans. That is vhy I amappealing to the United Nations and to all the nations an en to tbis; wc who are suffering have been ggithereýcI. there to se d to list suffering from German times up to this dayi The dwelling place whichwas givenus by God has been taken away from us and ag such t.oday:we just like animals whohave nowhere to live. So thatthe United -up.to now the United Nations hasnot done anythin Nations can frec us but to frelå-l. us, But we shall not give up appealing to the United Nations; we sha11, continue to petition the United Nations so that they may hear our voice and our cry.w Thi s colunt<-ry is ours andIt is ours;'we never gave it to the Germans as a present, and we-,,shall continue to ýlaim it, and we suffer for it even today. We ajppéal to:the United-Nätions- to help us; we appeal to the United Nations tö give us the fre.edom 2i we desi'ra,» We are suffering andwe havé been suffei-ing for a, long time. We want :ýreedcm. wanted to go tothe United Nations many years agobut I was not, allowed 1; appliýp4 f or a pässpört to go to the United Nations; it was not granted me.; MY, people ppplied för passpqrts to go in äYplace but they. were not given-pä- gspcTt$. to now, we 'have not been, allowOd to lea-ve, for the United Nations. Vst -ly, in, fajet last week, in Aminuis reýerve,, I was viGitecl by;Some Official- fr Windhoåk, and I told them, this: that tbýis year I'wantt9 gend six, men to the Vpited Nations. And now I have been appealing to the United Nätioh5, for.manyjeaiå anåýthe United Nations Organizationknows this very. well. ýAnd this what I have tö ääy.to the.UnitedNatibns: I :Lniýlore;the:.YJiiitekl i012ýg to CLve me my freedom this year. I'do nöt want this year't6 p4 And -A fnuåh of Åhat, 1,'havé to gay and about. the conditions 14 this country ýas teen r> .byl the Revcirå.ndlächael Scott. Even that Jaac been said:by Brie: and the

J, y 4/4å5 English 1k, Fage 3 young boyJ have just sent, Kozonguizi, They can hear from me.ý We want, the, United Nations to help us; we want the= to free uS. ,N Zt is now being seid tbat while I have been ' titioning the United Nations tar such aolong'time and even now lhave sent peopie, but the United Nations bas hel-ped me up to now and it is very unlikely tbat it will ever help me. iäwbatIs.being paid. But I al ýd I shall always say that I shall not stop petitioning the United Nations. This is what I had to say, I am the Chief, Hendrick Samuel Witbooi, of the Rama tribe. The firåt chief häs already given his petitions to the United Nations Organization. His name Is David Witbooi, He wa-s complaining about freedom in his country. He could not Oven, come t gether with the people over he was intendeå to rule. 1n this land thåre are three tribes. Those three men were dwelling In this plan even béföre '']ý,qpeens came to this country. They have been handling together, they have been trading amongst thémselves but from .. when we were placed under the r e ',-the-Uhion Government, all form of freedom has disappeared. We have been asking since that time from the Union Government to be given back dur f r'e edom,, but we have not. .. et them until now. We, the indigenous inhabitants of this country,,have totallync sort of freedom; we have no freedom of thought, we have no freedomof eCK, e have no freedom of religious worship. All In which we.are kept is fear. wc have approachedthe United Nations Organization afteri ve hear'that. i 4o jgýxch a great organization. When.we hear about the United Nations kation, we thought that we will be delIvered from the Union~Government. Wo have-now a strong @ipplicåtion 0). -Tbls-Governmcnt-ökýthe I d t49 inhabitänts of this count to incorporate this country og ours ihtö the ýUni då of South Africa. e have refused. totally at all those three times. B-åt the Gövernment is keepýngon to Incorporate this country into the Union... Wé have asked our from everytbing.. Now at last the Government has pråmiseå us a kind of gmmen,. That government c,, gqýyo t In the Year 1955 formulated in the Uni on Of Senath Africa, the form of that government... Ihat government is Cä110 jýthe Baiit'jý,,:.Aýutbox-,ity Act.-, From 195ý up torow we haverefused folrm f

A/C. 4/425 "Page '4 government, But it has come tQ-1959..., Thellast time we were together was around 14 April 1959, at Beersheba. In that meeting we told the Administration quite straightforwardly ... ell the head men, all the Name head men... But we totally do not want that Bantu Authority Act., We also do not want to accept that Name tribal fund which is related to the Bantu Act. We have said "It must be buried. Let it never again sound in our ears." Although this Government says that he is not forcing us to accept anything, yet wesee that this Government is forcing usl, he is doing so. He has brought that form, or system of Bantu Education Act in this country. If the Government would have do it in the proper way, he "would have approached us, asking us to give our consent, to accept that Bantu Education Act. Or the Government would have weighed that we have to say about the Bantu Authority Act with the customs of this country... We, the Nama Chiefs, the Herero Cb.iefsand the Bamara Chiefs: that is our word and our standpoint. I am really today grateful'to have met such men as these three gentlemen today, because I believe God wants to help us by sending us these threemen. How much have we, do we, desire a chief of this country to come personally to the country of Americal I was once at the office of Mr. Nita asking him to give me the passport to go over to America. I was together with the Hereros. He promised us, he would first ask the permission from Dr. Yalan, at that time Prime Minister of South Africa. But until today we have been refused and will never be permitted to 'go over to New York. So this Government, in such a secret way, with the Bantu Authority Act. Because it is not with our consent that the Administration of Native Department has gone to the Union Department of Native Affairs. In this'. country we do not went different systems of education. We, the people of this ,country,.are enough to do the work in this country. But the Union Government is saying in this-country that we are asking, demanding too high sums for our worX and that is why they bring those people in this country -,which is not right. 'By-so doing our people are pushed backwards. We have understood the United Nations, Organization to be a dignified organization, which will see that all the people .on the face of this earth will have their rights and freedom. It'is'therefore all of us, the chiefs of this country, request: that thi.s country of ours be ,.placed under the trusteeship of the United Nations Organization then be believe that we will become free.. We can no More move; the pass laws restrict us 4ý 7 4 rl7,-"jý,ýr2T' YI English Page 5 Aeverally tbat is wby we have asked this Government to release u$ from the pass laws. We believe that if this country be placed under the United Nations Or.ganizatiQn, our education would be improved. All that our children néed is to put the key iu.the lock and to unlock the door. Teachers who have to t&Lught other children were just taught, only as far as standard Two. How can a teacher vbo 4a6 only got standard Two teach other children? 'This Government has alsb done a very serious incident, which be did to the Nama people of Hoachanas. Because be reject them from, their fatherland, ýhatland belongs to that tribe from the timas of our kings. The Rooi Näsie Nama people are known as the first Näma people ever residing as Nama people in South-West Africa. All the Nama tri ame later on. I am not specking only an my behalf and on behalf of the chiefs,, but I am speaking on behalf ofthe whole indigenous-peoples of SouthYest Africa. Instead. of becoming better Y, our life situation becomes more worser and worser. The Government tells me that if I accept their Bantu -Aut4c>rity Act I will be g, V-Ez more author:Lty over my peoplebut realize that by giving me the Ban-tu Authprity Act the Government is-destroylng even the little rights xhich I have bad 50 far. Therefore it is my earriest request on behålf of all the indigenou.9 tribes, Tk df:611 the chiefs, that this mandate of South West Africa should be placed tinder the trusteeship of the United Nations. Because I believe if South West Africals 0,' mandate is placed under the trustep-ship of the United Nations our rights will be gven back to us. The Union Government has ruled (?) South West Africa'for tåhi rty - ni n å years ås a mandatory andif I coriclude all that tbis'Government basdcneý -.for tis In thatthirty'yearsthen i have foundnotbing. Ve have no opportuzilty. äl s, nä educatio ný we have no political- rights, and we see all the people gå Q:r rig7at Pprward with politjes you have no rights in the house in which you are speak here. the Reverend Markus Kooper of the _4ý2 (African Methodist C'hurch at Roachanas. I am grateful for thi s eplendid opportunityto b é ,V togetliýez here in the field of Hoachanap with men who cåme from America to hear our QcnpUiný,gand gifficulties personally. So I am going to give my brothers the chaäcýé b ståt.e their per-sonal statements and feeling to the United Nations ,AkN

OPMIfC, Y, JII;:ýna,: Xåkýtl". of HoadýýåtAs, bää::'n6w beenappointed representative:ok the people of ..Hoachå å whoge oppr Sel a hcvetecome mör e 66n e Intense siiiee 29 Feb I that, date häveýnever bad any Povernme t '±fic ålå in ourlmidai. At thät, date 'ýbeåeý OffieiIa16 camie: Jn.,seVL:ýn motor därs. under the leadershiä'of theý,,,dist:Oýet magistrate,öf Rehobot!2 and the Colonelof Pol! DorfýIIýg 'With..,tifté,,erl Rumpgåns and twelve:native African 'polld with.gm'ä assagti-o ý'bayåhets, kUrls. We 46pe. that these words, will bRYO the attention, of the vgry lägh'officials, of the various nations who arg gath re at the. United flätionz, , te, vithin förtyäfi rdnutes, we were made to see oUr lplood, rý down pt t:Eýýesroundo We, aem vur: poor Ininistex, being thrown on one of the 'Gövernåe:nt la lon:iea like a thief. _This car was originally b;uilt for Amim -4 - and: ulp th, e with his -(d fe and his chilcliýenj with ou-b±ovda 't'wesäv:M ht Ad ýwithph IM t Q1ý9 wat Anä v' o are lexpecting tiiese bearerå of death to týwn up here, emery M;ý0u7ý,:eé We.::,bålýý"e weýa" awaitlå th ir re-arrivalevery day, r Johgiltkea Yub as Pie Govern-ment under whåm i am iuvixig.tödäy;. ý60, i I over 0ý that is réaponalble for ýeverything, tbat, Govår eneW_ and 1, diD am.aoking, :,or e p,.,,pleasé,å And I am ao4nt for p:, rpm:. ý e big am wéakerý th&A aý child betcause:;,! ýea ot gven provide tot dh en and ny w. . i fe 1,1k-c - a.f.tberou HereIåmlivin4ccbadlytäg.t1,i4a donotknov am~still åliVe Lf the 'tota waS nOt n t40,re 'tåa I håve been, -4 of a d v. is xrsethan,ýtha The' CIQSS, ofv41,e pkop e, ýýten ti_ýié å. be ýey_ thaxL 1. do Ägd, 1 an asking, the. Lord that heý Å4(ýu14 todwy pleaseå WeotAfkicA.. under the hands O:C tb'e Unit04 If the gtious dånot leln us qui pkly we, will die out like gra"ý Jtbat bas burntl' ad 0,4e4 Our ý'atherå, pleaoe, hear:us and pleaså help us :Cor wh viýk are a vety badly.:, Here ve.:,are stanålna like chilär-éä'ý,ý 6, x19: YM4 are'.' eiing ome is býxnea eff, We,,årestanding here helpýessly_-.,, We not ha a, ve nothin Ogr 14t1 ot er the. pers.6ný tc Ohäm,, 44 14 leader, ýund thoudht here:," h 0Äléader', hebas, b-eýn täken away. from us, has been t'arcm iåto a: truck:ÅýO g: thkef wa: takeri evay..: a t00 ke Varit back.

2 1,14 ý1 ...... -4/425 Pa 5 -týack ple'aae In t4e name, of, theý United Nations. wh can say to at those 'moýhers,':those -women Qf us who are pregnant toda.y, tbóbe'wåzen whø, hav)?- been bruiýied:sø, Énich, at', that day, even: today there aza~søte óf them whýý re,, li' l 11hey-bave b.een, trQýited ÉO'badly, they: hýve, been bodily aswilted-k Even ax ýýpýýaking.bere, bas ýbeex- cut. in various' pla-ces,, with bayonets. At tha-ýI.day Mýy tiýar, -rall an4 am, In' ýfie, Uftiteå Nations to-dry my tpars, for me. k)hapne s. Zooper, is speaking now. I am talkiný:about the, tretizentýwe.. received ftaz,ýth,,e, Derz, police. We non-EwCopeans, meet, the jwlice of the per then-it: it> justss good,, if -we.meet the death itr.Qýf. It I telý bim IAY, -J i fficulti es,,, ýam, not allowed, to, open iny. mouth. And if I kelap on telling: him: -What, c>r' di ffi culty I have, that wolild cQst m,ý prison-, Tjýe.- fi t thingth4t he me thýe,,pags s ýcountry. the o4iest means we.arýe.lýving in thi They ask me, where I a;m living., TIýey ask: me ab a paý5ý ,.and if ýe, vitho# åý. ]ý"s -ýust Iýe, arrested and bound and tbrown With -best, that this country beýongs to meý ancl I must go, c 1,1-Qel y -i n ýthis country,,xhiswe-ýrer I want.to go Sýeb) speaUnEý, np% It i s our cl s'ý uld api (T e ýLre thatIf wýs ýýø Uýiited Nat-Ions. -Orgýiýization'end, ýfe a", wa,,4tIng freýmthe, Unitýd, Nations ý.qýy. earnestlyýtbeýir- 4,elpi, Soachatlas is our ýWopér-ty; the tropezty gf. Qur ýAnd wer.: -1o,,ýe it :That'ýi s, why, we clon.' t vant to move from, Hdalcha)m s... We ý:a:slý týýe Qrgeýnizatip4, Øf t4e World nment to comé an Gover d see, ditfl,aulties -ve, é ýe ch-. Weý have o accept- the x'efused -t Baptuý, (AutIýoriýties Act) ýýb e g,:yv,-,,r=etit,.hØyé vilfully kept oý1 :to wrý.te papers, official:' paperrs wi th t)ýýe terrý And...,we ask.:the tJnited Nations Organi ýaticri tó,, rériove Gem,err4zieat ancl to place South "e ký Africa, underý the truatéÉýship of tbe unit d ør.ý itider;. aýnother' ý;U 2en t Uiýsab, I have Izýe!ýn waitiri On ine4 ýg all: th.e. tilýe UP mýte, dif ficý,t. tbýe, ý9. 1955.,,People- ýýoý~ h~- 4b$o'lu ly no "asoh, wel-e ,týacked by the baygnets knive and zachine.ýguxis ý2vea:ý ere f37ýghtýehed: se kniv Sýen eýant ýý,n 34t1ý'tho p. pr to en

A/G.4/4 25, Engli sh Page Even before that, if the police came to Hoachanas without asking any questions, they ran into our houses- and just do what he is wanting to do in our houses. He doesn't.even ask anything, just ran in to our houses and say he is searching after the beer; but he is actually not searching after the beer. So he did onaday in my own house. I am expressing today my wish with greatest pleasure. The main reason why we don't go away from this place is that Eoachanas has been found by our forefathers and they loved it and we, their generations or remnants, love it too. We therefore ask the United Nations to deliverlus from this slave state life under which we are suffering. We have absolutely no education whatsoever. The onliest thing we are getting is the slavery. I will therefore -wait on the help of the United Nations before I die. So that our children inherit TToachanas as their property and that I also ask the United Nations that the Reverend YAchael-Scott be, bringed back by the Administration of South West Africa, I am evangelist Jonas Nakom speaking again.. 'What we want to explain to.the United Nations Organization is this: it was our wish to come to the United Nat Organization to tell here our feelings; personally and from faca-to face. The rea'svoh: whywe refuse to be removed from Hoachana8 is that we are drinking the same Water which our fathers have drinking. The Union Government has absolutely done no . I rovement to the reserve of Hoachanas; only improvements that the Union Government mp has done at Hoachanas is that he has stolen our country - or a part of the land of' the reserve. We therefore ask that the United Nations would see that we get back that land which was stolen by the Union Government and the Administration of South West Africa. This is clear that in the next year the books will be introduced and will be introduced into the syllabus of the Government. That is why we know that, the Uad'a Government has iven us the Bantu Authorities Act, in spite of our refusing td accept. it. All we have' said about have we spokenon behalf of the whole tribe' of the., Hoachanas reserve and also on behalf of the whole Name people, and in fa c't -on bi66alt:,11 of the whole non-European tribes of South West Africa. So it would be better foil. the United Nations Organization not to be hindered by t a acti ns of the delagation of the Union Government. Even if Yx. Eric Louw, as he usually did take h:LB hat and go out from'the United Nations Organization. The South I Watt Africa Administration must be piaced under the United Nations Organization.

51 A/C.4/425 English Page 9 (new voice I have asked for "a passport alreadyso that I could go and tell our people) to tell the people overseas, about our way of life but I was r fused that. So I am very glad today that I know that our sorrows will be told to the people at the United Nations through the means of this machine. So I ask with all my heart that those great nations who are gathered there will help us quickly so that we will be released even this year from the bondage of the Union of South Africa. That is the only way that we will have political rights in our own country. That is the only way our children will have true education) it is the only way our children and our people will be able to make a true living and that is the only way we will be able to put up a life decent homes; the only way in which we will be able to get work under decent and fair conditions, so that righteous laws will be made under which we will all benefit. I am giving, on behalf of my people the mouths to speak to those three men whom I will name to speak on our behalf. Those men are the Reverend.Scott, Konzonguizi and Kerina, and we ask them to speak on our behalf without fail. I and the Reverend Kooper of the A.M.E, church) appointed to the pastoral charge of Hoachanas since 1952, and have been working as a pastor and a minister of the A.M. Church since that time in that congregation. Before I go on to give my personal statement about my removal from Hoachanas, I will first give a short history of Hoachanas itself. Hoachanas is a place which was found by the people, Nama people, called the Rooi Nesie about in the year 1900., 1700)' not 1900, I-In sorry. From that time up to now the generations of Hoachanas Rooi NaBie people have been residing at Hoachanaso Aft6r they came to South WestAfrica the German Governmenthad a war with the Nama people. Not only with those of Hoachanas) the Rooi Nasie people, but they had a war with the Witboois and the ie 'Reteros in particular and also those people of (2),Nema people. In this war the ,Nama -people, the Rooi Nasie, were defeated by the Germans. But prior to the war of 1904, in to the year 1902) the Hoachanas were declared as a Rooi Nasie rtserve by the German Government. And this declaration of the reserve of 14oachatas'has never beeh withdrawn by the German Government even after the.war. So when the war was ended, the German.officers came to Hoachanas and fetched the .,people who-were at Hoachanas as war prisoners to Windhoek. He gathered.the people

A/C. 4/425 English Page 10 Y and told them th ,t although their captain had she too much blood, he had done hi-s war in a proper way and a righteous way. Therefore his people willnot be removed from Boachanas. They will serve th6ir term of war prison at Windhoek.' But after the elapse of that time they will come back again to Hoachanas and retain it as their property as was the case in before. When the Union Government came he asked the people to go from Hoachanas. They first asked them to go to Aminuis, the present Herrero reserve, but the people refused. All along from that time until up to nowO They said that they can not move from Hoachanas because it is their property. It is a misleading statement to say that the German Goverment has given Hoachanas to some few residents. It is absolutely robbed from any truth that the Union Government now say that Hoachanas is a temporary reserve since 1950, since 1952. But it must be pointed out that there is absolutely no such things as temporary reserves at Hoachanas that Hoachanas is a temporary reserve. Hoachanas is and has been. always the headquarters of the Rooi Nasie Nam'a people. The Rooi Nasie pedple have the sovereignty rights over the Hoachanas. When the reserve was proclaimed by the German Government it was not-proclaimed as 4,000 hectares in extebt, it was proclaimed as a 50,000'heatare reserve, by the German Government. And no portion of the 501000 hectare of land has afterward been sold or given to any white an but.the Union Government has took in the whole year doing it a part of that land and giving it to the white people. Now the Union Government is alleging that they took that land because ----- notthat they took that land, but that land belonging tothe German dovex-nment and because it was belonging to the German Government they took it. But this is absolutely:not true. Even all the fathers, all our fathers, the Rooi Nasie fathers who have died up till 1946, knew nothing J, about such things that Hbachanas havebeen a German place or that it.had been a temporary reserve. The temporary reserve has come for the first time in,1952. It is at this time that the United Nations made hear understand that whatever the Union delegates may say at the meetings of the United Nations Organization,. the fact remains that Hoachanas is our property and anything that wil 1 be done, to Hoachanas must be done with our consent, the consent of the Rooi.Nasie people. Now the people'have refused everything to be removed from Hoachanas, On the aq.th, In early morning of the 29th of January the Magistrate of Rhehoboth, Mr.

? A/C.4/425 accemparded by Mr. Colonel and, somepther Officials, about thirty. in nulgbex, zen and came to Hoachenas. when-they came the magistrate caýledme apå:'tölcl me: that: t4eý' came t;o remýve_ me: fircm ýHöachanas When be tolå methat e Ii aåked him: wh ther ýhey cameto remove only ýae, or whether they have.,come to remove all of'usý. xgsteeä;' of himý, the.Colonel, Mr. Dorfling (Bp?)- said that they came to remove me todcyý buVif 1,want todo.sQ I can.tell.the otherä that they toowillbe renove4- But they today come orily tö,remove me*: So I turned,.ajjd I gotomv hause and, 1,, was 'try' Ing2 I was-putting on my c4urchuniform. WbIle I was busyputting.oh my unifo the people,,caze. frcm tbeir houses to take up the place in frontof.my house, They say the police will npt telm me away., That le what they said. Thcy'salå that. :1 am a minister and I am.in naway responsible for tbeir refasal to move.: from Hoachanas and thatAt isalso not the first timeýthe Government. hasýcome with the question of removal to the pcople~of Hoachanao. It- Is there where theýOP1~1 orclered the police to fight the peolple. So, the, police. fight the people so tbat tbel. blood wasrunning, down the,.bodies of the people. I was then fetched and thrown 1;nto the lorry. When 1.was brought, to the lorry Ivastaken by my right hand by a Coloured. policeman Ovalåbo policeman tock myleft hand'and abergeant of Rehoboth, Yr. Thcmasonx wasvalking:behind me. They brought me to the lorry. I in my uniform# ,4fter I bad been removed from Hoachanas ve I -ki4s. gi n . to the, welflare off i der at,, Tsen 4 Jle took me, to the -place which are -called Dem. They.wei oad.me therej but as thesun was tvQbot L, sald tö the tvo 4ead 'men d, whýinh vap in~ his. company, but, I have absolutely nothing. to - give me shade they aft~arclsdecided-to take me tothe,:placcjust about th"e, milen from th4t P1 an& they, thre-v me, away tbgrc,, with myifamily and all. When we Came. th theý welfare officer asked. me vhåther , l. am pleesed, now., Isald to blm that, I wa$ pleaseg at Hoachanas and I-am.nÖt pleased,.here, So be gaiC But he was not. aekingné whether I was pleaseå at Ec~,~ s and he further saicl that it w" not . the firet:time hebas heard about me. Be has already heardýa lot of non6énoe, t aboutmebut be is going.to tregt me bloodyý: good - that is what he.said., I,åcnf kli know ytåt is meant by bloody good treatment. After thatj. be was angrylandýthus retuxnej:to Tses, and theA fifteen:days later be agäin came to the same place with tiente was .1 vant to say bete at when I was ±Iézoved from ny, lacc bete t

A IZÖC 4 14 2 En04,sh J>aRe 12 at Hoachanas I bad atsolutely not a.spooný'ul of mealie, meal to quiet my ebildren if they will cryýfrom hunger. Nor have I anytbing to give them to comfort them but the welfare'officer just thirew me away there in the desert andreturneå ta Itsawisiå åfter be became angry, and fifteen days later when b- ceme w-lth those ýtents be was trying to pereuade me to have 7eace at that place# I told him that I will never get saýtisfied withthat place. He said be bad just been told by the Eoverrimentth.ere at Tses to give satisfaction to tbe peopýe* I told him that he moj do that b-åt be must'do that to the people who have been placed tbere but I belonged to ýIoachanas and if the göverment wantå to give me satisfaction be ... must give me that at Hoachanas because that is my place where I have been born, That is what the welfare officer told me. Now, at last, I understand; I bave totally no freedom of movement because.the welfare öff:Lceýr - the same welfare- officer at Tses, because Krånsplatz (ap fallsýuhder himSaid tbat Chief Witbooi and I may not leave our residence. Chief Witbooi mäy not leave Kransplatz without hispermit, and it must not be -kkneým that Tses is about thirty miles from Kransplatz where the Chief is situated.ý That means that ifithe chief wants. to move even to Windhoek North from Kransplatz be must first go -forty miles Solith to tell the welfare officer that bewants to go to Windhoek. The Chief - be tolå me that - th I e welfare officer told him that he was given that instruction by the chief native commissioner, iÄX. (?). I bave been pradticing religion and therefore I would ask the-United Nations x' ization that the Union Government Jould see that I come back to-Hoachanas to, go on with my work of religion. have never partäken in the politics. 2ut the Union Oovernment has sepn.fit to remove me from Hoachanas for reaootä which be has not mentioned toTAcé Ee just sald that I am an illegitimate inhåbitatt at '.ý:.ý.Hoachanas. But why I am illegitimpte inhabitant the South Wc.3t African ädministratich has not åald. Thårefore, I am åsking earnestly the United Natlotg ArganizatIon that I be réturneå to my work at Edachanass ý_2