3 October 1986

STAFF REPORTERS IN WHAT WOULD appear to be a 'Iast ditch' atte~pt to engender the sup p ort of the .population of Na~ibia, t he interi~ govern~ent has launeh e d a ~ajor pUblieity ea~paign, whieh will inelude T-shirts, bu~per stiekers and badges. Theea~paign, f inaneed by t 'axpayer's ~oney, also eo~e s at a ti~e when the self-styled ' Govern~ent of National Unity' i s riddled with dissension i n i ts o wn r anks,' with Mini s t ers r esorting t o t he eourts i n atte~pts to arbitrate t heir disputes. - Mr Paul van Schalkwyk, head of the Information Service, confirmed yester day that 5000 T-shirts were on order; an d that badges and bumper stickers wer e also to be printed to promote the interim government. Pregnant women allege l'ape by soldiers in north TWO PREGNANT WOInen who ela iIn t o h ave h een r a ped and assaulted h y IneInher s of 5 3 BattaUo n a re presently h e i ng treat ed at the Onandjokwe H ospita l i n n o rthern NaIni h i a. Bot h WOInen said they inten d ed t o l ay eltarges one e t hey h ad lef t t he h o s p ita l . The alleged rape and assault took place in the early morning hours of last Tuesday at Oluno, and residents confirmed that an unidentified third woiIlan also fell prey to members of the security forces who were allegedly looking for Swapo fighters who blew . up telephone poles in the region. Nine months pregnant Mrs Mari~ bing and dragging her out to nearby Kamutukwata, 30, in a quivering bushes. voice told The Namibian from her She said the soldiers spoke 'a hospital bed at Onandjokwe that strange African language' which she three ' Defence Force members on said -was 'definitely from South Tuesday forcefully opened her room Africa.' and ordered everybody to wake up. 'Two soldiers held me by my arms She said she was with another and legs while the third slapped me THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE - thehoIneless and uneInployed, are the foeus elderly woman in her room, whom through the face and then raped me. of our eentrespread this week. Pieture in Katutura of a Inakeshift hOIne. the soldiers ordered out, before grab- Continued on page 3 Specials first week of October: fill your hair needs . Professional braiding from R60.00 will be attended to. PERMS: only R3 5.00 Ca rl List lioase Peter Muller Street Tel: 227267 2 Friday October 3 1966 TtjE. NAMIBIAN , Evidenee-to he heard Bessinger ~ubject A JUDGEMENT to the effect that . microbus blocked his way at a stop do not respect the rights. of others and to intensive check legal preceedings commence and street. who would not refrain from killing peo oral evidEmce be submitted for the 'Two persons'immediately jumped' ple who they conceive are their hearing of an urgent application out of the microbus, moving towar4s . political opponents! brought by Swapo Education me andl noticed that they we.re carry The respondent originally opposed at roadblock Secretary and Namibia Literacy ing long objects in their hands: he said. the application, but later denied most SWAPO JOINT Foreign affairs Project Director, Mr Joshua He said he sped around the microbus of the alleg1!-tions and filed extensive . Hoebeb,againstNudomember,Mr as the persons starteasmashing his Secretary, Mr Niko Bessinger, applications to strike out annexures was last Thursday subjected to Unotjari Katjimune, has been vehicle's windows with the objects, but and parts of alleged offending matter what he called 'exceptional handed down by the Windhoek Jater discovered that he had also been appearing in appllcant's affidavits. scrutiny' of his vehicle and per Supreme Court this week. shot at. Handing down judgement on Tues sonal documents at an army road Mr Hoebeb's application sought an One ofthe bullets recovered had been day Mr Justice Johan Strydom ruled block on the Tsumeb-Ondangwa order interdicting and restraining the that oral evidence be heard in regard road. respondent Mr Katjimune from to whether the applicant was attack Mr Bessinger said although a road assaulting, molesting, threatellingto ed by the respondent; but that the sign indicating a police road block physically harm or to unlawfully in events at and during a Corpus Cristi ahead was put up, he was convinced terfere with Mr Hoebeb's fundamental Procession last June be specifically ex- that the men manning the block human rights. cluded'from such evidence. we~e from the Defence Force and Further relief claimed against the He ruled further that the parties were dressed 'in army uniforms. respondent was an order directing him shall be entitled to subpoena and call He said the thorough search to immediately surrender any firearm any witness to give evidence provided through his car and documents, and and animunition in his possesssion or that if a witness was to be called who the consequent questions amounted under his control to the police, and that had not yet filed an affidavit, then one to an 'isolated and selective' manner he be declared unfit to legally possess had to be filed with the Registrar not of manning road blocks. , any firearm. less than two weeks before a fixed date He pointed out that although he The application arose from an at of hearing. Mr Niko Bessinger produced his Identification Docu tempt on the life ofMr Hoebeb during The Judge directed that the matter ment when asked for a senior the evening of June 8, this year, when be postponed to a date to be fixed by ar Defence Force member kept on ask shots were fired at his vehicle and the rangement with the Registrar, and Swapo ing for it and questioned him on the windows smashed with sticks and that the matter of costs of the applica purpose of his visit to the north. metal rods. tion be reserved for argument after rally' in 'Are you a Swapo executive Mr Hoebeb,in a sworn sta'tement, hearing evidence. member? Are the other people also earlier told the court that he and other Nom.tsoub Swap os? And are you going to hold Augustineum School Committee Affidavits by several people were fil a Swapo meeting in Ow ambo? ' were members attended an emmergency ed in support ofMr Hoebeb's applica SWAPO is to hold a public rally some of the questions put to Mr meeting at the house ofCCN Welfare tion. Included among them are af Bessinger. Director Mr Vezera Kandetu following fidavits by Mr Vezera Kandetu, Mr in Nomtsoub, Tsumeb on Sunday. The rally will be held at the open . He said the men also photograph a fire which broke out in a staff room. Dan 'I)ongarero, Mr Otniel Kazom ed' and made notes of most of his per He said he went out to a neighbour Mr Joshua Hoeb'eb biaze, Miss Nora Chase, two Windhoek area between the Saint Fransiscus Roman Catholic Church and the sonal and professional documents, ing house of a Mr Otniel Kazombiaze journalists Mr John·Liebenberg and and repeated the same action on his handed to the police, and Mr Hoebeb Tsumeb Municipal Compound at to phone when he spotted a white Mr David Pieters. way back from the north. added that since the incident he had 14:00. 'Ibyota Hiace microbus parked in the Mr Bessinger's trip followed an in been living in fear for his life. Mr Katjimune is cited as the first Speakers will include Mr Eliazer street across Mr Kandetu's house. vitation to the official inauguration . He described the attack onhis life as respondent, and the Democratic'Tur . Tuhadeleni, Mr Dan Tjongarero, Mr He told the court that he immediate of a new library at Oniipa. ly became suspicious, retreated and 'the work of politically motivated peo nhalle Allience (DTA), of which N udo Solomon Gamatham. later got into his motor car and drove ple who clearly show little or no respect is a member party, as the second in the some 60 metres away when the same for the due process ofthe law, and who matter. P ublic respect f .or g.overnment is J ost, s ays Sarel Becker MR SAREL BECKER, Chief Executive of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) in Namibia, has called for the reinstatement 'of rule ~ --------------------~--- , by the Administrator General. ~ - . I I In a telex to the South African State President, Mr P W Botha, Mr ' I I Be'eker asked for the disbanding of the interim government and rule by the South African-appointed Administrator General. I I .He said that members of the interim government were fighting among themselves and taking one another to court. The interim government had I I also failed to broaden its base. Mr Becker said that public respect for the government had been lost I I and that the interim government should be disbanded. I I He suggested that the Administrator General 'be advised' by the se I I cond tier authorities. I I 1 I I I I 1 . I TEL: 34390 I I UNDER NEW MANAGEM,ENT (formerly Salon Brigitte) I OPENING!! I from OCTOBER 1, 1.986 I of the new . 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