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:e: = : r = * * SCHOOLS: A 'BURNING' ISSUE ' INSIDE"'TODAV * * ) SB'OT ,IN 'COlD BlOOD ------By CHRIS SHIPANGA----"'• . IN YET another act of alleged security force brutality against civilians innorthernNamibia, a young woman from Oshigambo, Ondangwa, was'shot-and killed in cold blood while busy selling liquor in a bar in Oshakati last Saturday. This reporter was present at the time the shooting occurred. A police spokesman in Windhoek on Asked where the arrested man had inquiry flatly denied that the alleged got the firearm from, the policeman killer was a member of the security" said: "THere are many persons walk· forces. He, however, confirmed that a ing around wi th firearms, both licenc man was arrested in connection with ed'as well as unlicenced." _ the shooting incident, but declined to ,Reporters from The Namibian were give further information saying the last Saturday, (July 30), at about man had not yet appeared befor.e a 21hOO, socialising and having some ' court. refreshments in a shop, when a young woman, Ms Petrina N angula N tinda, 30, suddenly entered to ask'for some change. Although the young womanap· peare.d to be in a great hurry, she was nevertheless very polite, and smiled at one of the men in the shop who gave her aR2,00tip. Min).ltes after she disappeared into an adjacent liquor shop, a shot rang . out, and as bystanders, including repo; ters from. this. newspaper, PICTURED minutes aft~r she was .shot, Ms Petrina Ntinga. Reporters helped feel for a pulse Continued on page 3 .but she 'died minutes after the shooting Incident. Picture ljy.-Chris Shipanga. - . - SA FORCES IN NORTH IN ~- REACTION' · -TO CUBANS, PIENAAR TELLS GUEST ------------By GWEN LISTER----------- MS USCHI Eid, Member of the West German Parliament for had been told that since its opening on the Greens Party, has left the country after a week-long official Ju \y9, 45 cases ofviolations had been visit to Namibia, where she met with a wide spec~rum of reported, which covered a spectrum political and community leaders, as well as the South African·' ranging from damage to property, in- . MR JEREMY SHEARER, who, . juries, detentions, killings, harass appointed Administrator General, Mr Louis Pienaar. At the con ment, disappearances, rape, robber from mid-August, has been ap· clusion of her visit, she said reactions to the current four-nation pointed as the Permanent and assault. Representative of ·the South ' talks in Geneva, had been 'mixed' and tinged with a 'desperate She said the Secretary to the Chair African Government at the United hope'. Ms Eid, who also paid a visit to the far north, expressed man of the Ovambo Administration, Nations in New York, paid a brief shock at the 1)igh level of militarisation in that region. Mr Oswald Shivute, M.d reported that visit to Namibia this week before In the course of her stay, she had met 'tinged with desperation'. in the past his office received an taking up his new post. with representatives of NPP-435 , the While there appeared to be progress - average of 130 to 150 allegations of Mr Shearer succeeds Mr Les Interessengemeinschaft, NUNW- at an international level, the lives of security force atrocities per annum, Manley in this position. affiliated unions, Swapo ' represen N amibians on the ground had not lieen but this year he had already received Mr Shearet; along with his wife, tatives, Mr Peter Kalangula, Chair affected, and in the north, she said, she about 120 -indicating an increase in Penelope, paid a brief visit to man of the Ovambo Administration had been informed that human rights the level of such incidents. Namibia and were also scheduled a'nd other officials, Mr Louis Pienaar, violations continuned, and were in fact She had met with Bishop Kleopas to visit the far north on an army and churchleaders including Bishop increasing. Dumeni, whom, she added, had made trip. Kleopas Dumeni. She had noted that the road to the far an appeal to the German community Mr Shearer was formerly Perma· Her visit to Namibia, she said, was north 'was one large convoy' 'and said in Namibia not to isolate themselves nent Representative of SA at the to find out the reactions and conse- - that area had been increasingly into a laager, but to enter into dialogue UN Mission :in 'Geneva, quences of the present Geneva talks, militarised since her last visit. with other Namibiansin order to help Switzerland, and takes up his new on the daily lives ofNamibians. Most While in the far north, she had shape the future. post at UN headquarters in New had mixed feelings, she said, and their visited the newly-opened Human York in mid.August. hopes of an imminent settlement Were Rights Centre at Ongwediwa, and she ('ontinlH'd on pag(' t Ms Uschi Eid AT THE KALAHARI SANDS Break dancing/Panzula/Disco Dancing or any other form of dancing? Michael Jackson/Boy George/Elvis Presleyl Brenda/Tina Turner or another of your PROTER fiLAHfiRI SA" S HOTEL favourite stars? For more information/entrance details contact· Liz Shipanga at tel. no. 36900 ext. 111 Between 7am and 3pm * * Competition * Big Prizes * * Competition * Big Prizes * * Competition * * 2 Friday August 05 1988 THE NAMIBIAN THE prosecution suffered a major the incident until he could get some ad setback in the trial of Leon Van vice from a friend in the police force, Rooyen and his wife Anna Susan COUPL.E ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Constable Ben Van Tonder. naformurderon Wednesday, when He had later loaded the corps of a sworn statement by his wife made Henoch Horaseb onto his bakkie and to the police was ruled inad ------------- BY MBATJIUA NGAVIRUE --------------- on the same Staurday evening he dumped the corps into a dry borehole, missable as evidence. the drinking. another black man with a bicycle on He nad seen what to him appeared Mr Justice Herbert Hendler together with the sawed up bicycle, and He said that when they left the hotel the roadside bordering San Souci. to be a large man in the telescope of the then covered the hole with sand and however 'rejected an application to they were both under the influence of When the person saw them he threw rifle. But before firing he had pulled have charges against Mrs Van Rpoyen rocks. liquor, but he was not staggering and his bicycle down and ran into the bush the rifle up and aimed at the tree tops. He made several unsuccesful at withdrawn made by the Van Rooyen's felt quite capable of driving. and jumped a fence. Only after did he realise that he had defence counsel, Mr Gerhard Maritz. tempts to contact Constable Van On the way back to the smallholding He had remarked to his wife that it shot the person and he had exclaimed Tonder and when they went to bed that Mr and Mrs Van Rooyen are charg he had seen two blacks (swartes) along must be one ofthe people who had been to his wife "Oh God, I hit him". ed with the murder ofthe 17 year-old night neither of them could sleep. the roadside and one ofthem had made stealing goods on the smallholding. He said that he had never aimed to Constable Van Tonder came to visit black Grootfontein schoolboy, Henoch a gesture which he intepreted as mean MrVanRooyenwasemployedatthe shoot the person but only wanted the Horaseb, on Saturday September 1 on the Sunday and the two of them ing "F... off". Kombat mine at the time but he also wind from the bullet to whistle past the went into Grootfontein to buy some 1984 when the boy was returning from He had stopped and climbed out of grew vegetables and fruit on the p~rsons head to frighten him. the shops after having been sent there beers. While they were in the toilet at the car to ask them what they meant smallholding. He said there had been His wife had said that they should go by his parents. the hotel he had told Van Tonder by the gesture. One ofthem had replied several thefts on San Souci, including and report the matter to the police, but everything. Police investigations into the killing in Afrikaans "wat trak ditjou boe.rtjie" thefts of bags of vegetables and fr'lit. ended in a dead end street in 1984 he had dissuaded her. When they enterE~rl the hQuse after and an argument and a scuffie had When he saw the man running he He 'said that because of tho recent returning to the smallholding his because of a lack of evidence. The case followed. had asked his wife to hand him the ri was only re-opened in 1987 after more death of his fiance's mother and fiance asked Van 'Ibnderwhether Leon Not long after this he had seen fle that was in the car. because his father suffered from a Van Rooyen had told him what had information had become available. heart condition he felt the news would At Wednesdays' hearing a-sworn happened. Van Tonder snapped that be too much of a shock for the family. she should keep her big mouth shut, statement Mrs Van Rooyen made in They had decided to keep quiet about the presence ofChiefInspector Jo"han and that he knew nothing. .christo Van Zyl was ruled i·nadmissable. During cross examination the Chief Inspector admitted that in contraven tjon ofjudicial rules he had at no time told her what her rights were, during . the roughly four hours he spent with Mrs van Rooyen, both before and after she made statement.

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