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Bringing Africa South SOc (GST Inc.) Comprehensive result to readers' army vote YSA CTIO
BY DAVID LUSH
THE PEOPLE have spoken: not only should the new Namibia have an army, but there should also be conscription. This was the overwhelming view Walvis Bay is still under captivity. of those who responded to The South Africa won't give up this piece Namibian's ballot in response to the of land if we don't fight for it." suggestion by Namibia's Associa * People must realise "you can't tion for the Handicapped that the eat, plough or live with guns," writes future government should scrap plans one Windhoek voter who called on for an anny and form a "develop TheN amibian to' 'educate" its read ment force" instead. ers into accepting that Namibia does A staggering 78,3 per cent of the not need an army. vote was in favour of afull time anny * The signatories of a collective with conscription while 9.7 per cent letter - Alfred I1ukena, L. Hamutu wanted no anny. mua, E. Imene, Clau Iikela, Levy A further 9,7 per cent voted for a Nakatana, Peter Shiyamba, Ami full tim,e anny but no conscription, Kaume and M. Nambina - believe an and the NNF's idea of a People's anny should be seen as part of the Militia took the remaining 2,3 per nation's development. The idea would cent of the polLIn all, 175 people had be to have a defensive anny: "The voted by the time the poll closed at situation in Southcrn Africa speaks I -~---- 14hOO ye~tetCliry . ' [tlr itself. Without an anny to protect The response to the ballot sur Namibia, Namibia will become a passed all expectations and some voters playground for those forces whose were so keen to make their point that objective is to destabilize other na they marked double, treble and even tions. Remember that Botswana had quadruple crosses against the selec no anny in the beginning but was tion of their choice. forced to have one as a result of the And a good number of voters en Smithregirne in the then Rhodesia as closed letters giving reasons for their well as South African invasions. We vote. will be stupid if we don't learn from * "Swapo's victory will not be other countries' experiences". effective without the aid of the army," * In its editorial of December 2, says Naame Munacho from Wind the Windhoek Observer newspaper hoek. "It is total madness to say Namibia must not have an army while CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
SWAPO President Sam Nujoma yesterday signed the Swapo Book of Condolences. John Walenga photographed him with Mr Martin Andjamba and Mr Moses Garoeb as he paid tribute to Cde Nauyala MARTTI with the words: "On behalf of the Swapo Central Committee and in the name of all Namibian patriots I would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family of Comrade Nicki Kapuka Nauyala who was a.tireless freedom fighter of our time. I wish he could live and witness the day when PREDICTS MARCH the flag offreedom is raised up and colonialism will die forever in Nam ibia. May his soul rest in peace". Photograph by John Walenga. INDEPENDENCE THE top UN official in Namibia said yesterday the territory'S Constituent Assembly might be able to complete a constitution during January and declare independence in March. . NAUYALA Briefing reporters on the situation January". after the UN-monitored elections last He said the general feeling in month, Mr Ahtisaari said: "If we are Namibia was that "sometime in March very lucky they might tie up the we will see independence" before constitution during the month of the expiry of the 12 month mandate of the UN operation launched last April!. FUNERAL Ahtisaari, who heads a UN team of 7 000 troops, police and civilians THE funeral of the late former Swapo Chief Representative to He was appointed personal secre overseeing the transition from South Zimbabwe and member of the Namibian Constituent Assembly, tary to the Swapo President Mr Sam African rule to independence, said Mr Kapuka Niki Nauyala, is set for the weekend at Ongwediva in Nujoma in 1976 and also became the atmosphere in the Assembly had the north. member of Swapo's Central Com been helped by all parties' accep mittee the same year. tance of constitutional Jrinciples drawn The body of Mr Kapuka was flown Mr Nauyala is a graduate of the In 1983, he became an alternate up in 1982. to Windhoek from Cape Town yes University ofIbadan in Nigeria from member of the Swapo politburo and "I am looking forward to a vcry terday from where it will be taken where he was made Swapo's repre later chief representative to Zimbabwe democratic constitution emerging out north. The Swapo leadership is ex sentative at the African Association in 1986. of this process' he said. pected to attend the funeral which is of Students Union in Ghana. He was badly injured in a motor Ahtisaari said he hoped Namibia scheduled for Saturday at Ongwediva. After completing his studies, Mr car accident recently and died in Cape could join the United Nations during Messages of condolences have Nauyalacame back toZarnbia where Town while receiving treatment. With the current 44th session of the Gen already started pouring in from as far he was made an education officer him at the time was Dr Nicky Iyambo eral Assembl~. which will adjourn as Europe, Nigeria, Zambia and and later promoled to Acting Secre and his wife. The couple have three later this month but is expected to Zimbabwe as well as locally. tary for EducatlOr. children. Mr Ahtisaari. resume during 1990. 2 Friday December 15 1989 THE NAMIBIAN Boat people strongarmed out of Hong Kong
MORE than ' two million hospitals in Hong Kong. They say they want to have them here," said reJugees Jrom Indochina, an international aid worker. mostly Vietnamese, have There were demonstrati ons in sought asylum abroad in the various dete~ t ion centers on Wed last 14 years - and they are nesday, none of them violent. still leaving. With almost2(}O Said a camp worker of Thursday's protest at the Sham Shui Po Centre: " 000 still awaiting resettlement It is very well organised. People are in south-east Asia, Hong marching round, then come sit down Kong has created a bitter in rows. But there is no violence." Britain decided to send back boat controversy by adopting a people against their will -despite se policy oJsending boatpeople vere international criticism because back to Vietnam. officials said the situation had be After more than a year of growing come critical. pressure over the presence of the Government officials have fore Vietnamese in that country - 57 000 cast that unless radical action is taken, at last count - the government has up to 30000 more could come when made up its mind to defy interna favourable sailing weather arrives tional opinion and send them home. next March. The decision to repatriate the boat Although officially recognised as people will go down well in Hong refugees, a tough screening programme Kong where the Vietnamese have was introduced in June last year and never been popular among the terri now boat people are held as illegal tory's 5,5 million Chinese who see -immigrants unless they can prove them as interlopers accorded better their refugee status. treatment than illegal Chinese immi Some 6 500 have already been grants from the mainland who are screened and only 400 granted refu immediately returned home. gee status. Those who fa il to qualify But for the boat people themselves, face imminent deportation. many of whom will be herded onto Camp workers said most inmates ships or aircrafts for forcible repa had seen reports of the compulsory triation to a country where they en repatriation programme on televi dured so much hardship to escape, sion or radio. the decision is certainly not wel "They are scared, very .scared. come. Some have reacted by demanding to Over the past year, violence has go back under the voluntaryrepatria erupted repeatedly in camps. There tion programme, others seem to think have been injuries on both sides, and if they stay put in their camp, a dark rumours of stashes of home miracle may happen," said one made weapons. worker. Security officials control the camps The United Nations High Com rigidly, with the result that few out mission for Refugees (UNHCR) siders really know what goes on in operates a voluntary repatriation side. programme under which some 630 And on Thursday, thousands of people have flown back to Hanoi Vietnamese boat people callirig out since March. slogans demonstrated against depor Vietnam has promised they will tation at the Hong Kong Detention not be punished and they are given Centre. cash grants by the UNHCR to re Prison officials guarding the centre Vietnamese boat people : Hazardous journeys in flimsy , overcrowded vessels establish themselves. The interna watched as virtually its entire poyu tional body monitors their progress. lation, about 5 000 men, women, and Vietnam has given similar pledges children, circled the compound wav said there was no violence. of a high-security police operation. ters a second flight was planned for under the deal between London and ing banners and chanting. Workers and residents of nearby The Vietnamese had little time to next week after British parliamen Hanoi, but Bri tain has been unable to On Tuesday, Hong Kong authori office and apartment blocks watched collect their belongings, to dress or tarians debate the issue on T~esday. persuade an independent b9dy to ties flew 51 Vietnamese refugees as the protest, which started around to find out what was going on. There "The atmosphere in the camps is monitor the scheme. The three-man back home against their will, the breakfast-time, carried on through were scuffles and, later, reports of now really tense. People are worried. British Embassy in Hanoi is respon start of a controversial repatriation the morning at the centre in the heart injuries. Women who are due to have babies sible for checking on the progress of programme the boat people have long of the busy Kowloon district. A senior British official told Reu- don't even want to risk going to the those who return. dreaded. . The people sent home from the Wearing white headbands, a tradi British colony this week were taken tional colour of mourning in Asia, from their beds at night, ordered the protesters shouted" death before outside, and made to move if they sPECU LATIO-N repatriation" and "forced repatria resisted. tion is inhumane". Camp workers The entire undertaking had the mark ABOUT MANDELA OTTO BENECKE STIFTUNG -----hereby invites----- RELEASE INCREASES SPECULATION is mounting that the announcement of Nelson of justice is also in charge of South all former OBS students who completed their Mandela's release is imminent - possibly as early as this weekend. Africa's jails, as well as being Free State leader of the National Party, is technical training before 1987 to apply for' tools. A series of developrnenis this week a definite move away from discrimi- due to be present on the stage. Please place your application before December has added up to such a scenario being nation in South Africa, the country In the light of the recent statement quite within the bounds of possibil could become part of aregional group by Mr De Klerk that there was no 20, 1989. ity. Firstly, on Tuesday, Mr Man of southern African countries. further fundamental impediment to dela's lawyer announced the jailed He said he believed the "problem Mr Mandela's release, and his brief- For further information, please contact our OBS ANC leader wanted, contrary to a of discrimination" would be solved ing of President Chissano the previ- office in Windhoek under the following ad belief in many circ~es, to be released during the term of office of the next ous day, a momentous announce- now. South African state president, Mr De ment seems possible on Saturday, dress: Then, on Wednesday, President Klerk. On Mr Mandela, whose re- some observers believe. Mrs Ruth Hilbert F. W. de Klerk and two of his senior lease is generally seen as the key to It would be. a move of extreme aides - minister of constitutional getting' 'real" negotiations between political symbolic significance that Progress Building (lst Floor) development Dr Gerrit Viljoen and white and black nationalists in South Mr Mandela's release be announced Old Mutual Arcade minister of justice Kobie Coetsee - Africa underway - Mr De Klerk told on the Day of the Vow, marking the Kaiser Street new to Cape Town for a meeting the press conference at the presiden- battle ofB lood River, one of the most P.O. Box 3771 with Mr Mandela in the presidential tial palace in Maputo Mr Mandela's important Afrikaner commemora- office at Tuynhuys. position was discussed "in general lions. An observer asked: "What more Tel. (061) 22-8221 On Friday Mr De Klerk is due to terms, and we had the opportunity to appropriate day to anno.unce the final meet a senior southern African leader, exchange views in th,is regard". beginriing of reconciliation between President Joaquim Chissano - in On Saturday. President De KIcrk - black and whi'te in South Africa?" . Maputo. At a joint press conference in his last major scheduled public The white right-wing might in- Certain companies boycott The Namibian in July after the two leaders - when appearance this ycar - is due to ad- deed be outraged - but Mr De Kkrk Mr De Klerk was still only National dress a Day of the Vow gathering in has signatted his unequivocal rejec- and refuse to advertise for political reasons ..Part}: .leader - ~adJI1,et in Maputo, BI
Plan fighters training in Lubango AN ARMY WHY? MUST SERVE AN ARMY of an independent Namibia must be a "servant and protector of the people" and not the country's ruler, says the Council of Churches. "Given our neighbour South Af nation either directly, through a coup, THE MAN behind the rica's history of medling in our af or indirectly, when an inordinate 'develop men t-force-not fairs and in those of other countries amount of the nation's resources are defence-force' campaign in the area, it is probably inevitable devoted to 'national security'." remains undeterred, despite True national security came about that an army is needed for Namibia, ' , the resounding vote against his said the CCN in a message to mem with a "prosperous, well-educated, bers of the Constituent Assembly. healthy, free and democratic popu plan in our readers' poll. "We call upon the government lace", said the CeN. "It shows how much the parties and people of Namibia to ensure that Calling for the right of conscien have to do to get the people right a Namibian army is indeed the ser tious objectors to be respected, the on this issue," says Mr Cees vant and protector of the people. CCN added: "We call upon all Strijbis, Director of tbe "We do not want to fall into the Namibian to ensure that not too many Association for the Handicapped. trap so many countries have, where of our scarce resources are drawn Mr Strijbis feels more time is the army takes over' control or the away to the army." needed to convince people of his argument, which is that mooey for a defence force should instead be channeled into development projects on which conscripted Narnibians would spend a period of time working. "Most people who are au fait with worldwide politics would go along with my thinking," says Mr Strijbis. A standard fighter jet cost about US$ 25 million, and for the same money the government could PACiFISTS may well ask why so few people voted in favour for the Association for the Handicapped's proposal that the new government build a 10 hectare hothouse and scraps any plans it might have for establishing a defence force and grow 4 million kilograrnmes of channel the funds into a development force instead. tomatoes a year, says Mr Strijbis. "With the' money from three jets we could feed the nation. We cannot fight poverty unless we leave arms behind. " NAMIBIA NITE After Christmas he and his association will continue to presents campaign on the issue, holding seminars and talking with Miss Wet T-Shirt politicians. Already, the Director says, he had received a positive response from many, including Tonight: Semi-finals one representative of the United Finals: Saturday, 16 December 1989 Nations, whom he did not wis to name. Admission: R12 , 'This person said that it would be a victory for the world to see NB: Taxi sta~ring 20 December 1989 the UN leave Namibia and the , government declare a development force and not a Women Plan combatants prepare for action. defence force," says Mr Strijbis. 4 Friday Decembe'r 15 1989 THE 'NAMIBIAN
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The South African Interests Office in Namibia is to take over the issuing of passports from the Department of Civil Affairs and Manpower as from Monday. The acting head of the mission, Mr John Sande, said the issuing of passports was a service which would be delivered in Namibia until independence.' He pointed out that South Africa remained responsible for foreign affairs until independence. The Department of Civil Affairs and Manpower had already made personnel available for the transfer of the service, he said. iehahn says school syllabus Mr Sande said there was no liaison at the moment between his office and Constituent Assembly on passports. Namibian passports would only be issued after the Assembly had decided on citizenship, a national seal and emblem. ·s inadequate for labour'market A spokesman for the department said all applications already handed in at the office would be processed before the transfer of the service. THE PRESENT school syllabus is not aimed at preparing schoolleavers for the "labour market" and Enquiries about applications and passports not dealt with yet must be gave very little attention to the question of schoolleavers and is too "academic and theoretical". This directed to the S.A. Interests Office from Monday. is the opinion expressed by the commission of inquiry into labour matters in Namibia in its second report. The Commission is headed by the wellknown South African labour expert Prof. Nic Wiehahn and has just completed its second report. Attention readers "The system (school) is geared investigate and analyse the human tion under a separate labour portfolio rather for South Africa's Cape Prov resources development needs and with direct ministerial liaison. ince, and not Namibia," the report formulate plans and strategies as to A suitable legislation which pro said. how best it could be realised. vides a statutory framework for the and advertisers: Irrelev::.nt subjects which have "It should advise the government, rendering of oc'cupational services nothing to do with the labour market employers arid trade unions on hu should be drafted. Furthermore, ~ a are often a major part of the syllabus. man resources development on the matter of urgency, all outdated labour THE offices of The Namibian will be closed " ... the vast majority of school widest possible front." legislation should be revised and be from Friday, December 22 to Sunday, January leavers entering the labour market An incentive scheme' 'by way of consolidated in a single labour code, are largely ill-equiped for employ tax" should be introduced to em the commission recommended. 6. Next year The Namibian will be bigger and ment." ployers and approved training organ The National Labour Council Act The report specifically mentioned isations as an "encouragement" for of 1986 should also be amended and better and announcements in this regard will two technical training colleges, the training of people in Namibia. a separate tripartite (government, be made in the New Year. We also take this Augustineum and Okakarara Tech The commission report also criti employers, employees) be established nical Institute where education pro cises the existing labour legislation on a national level under the auspices opportunity to wish all our supporters a very vided is 'unsatisfatory'. "It was and says that its language is too of the Department of Labour to co peaceful Christmas and New Year.. Editor suggested that the trainers at these 'difficult'. There is a need for more ordinate and promote all forms of institutions should approach com clarity regarding the legal interpre training and manpower development. and Staff merce and industry so that they may tion of "statutory rights" and re be exposed to, and become acquainted quirements among both employers with the requirements of the business and employees. industrial world," the report sug The commission also found that gests. labour matters in this country did not The state also had been very reluc enjoy priority in the country 's ad tant to formulate a " national strat ministration. egy " in terms of the present and In this regard it is recommended future needs of the country. that the existing Directorate of Even the training schedules Ap Manpower of the Department of Civic prenticeship Ordinance of the De Affairs and Manpower be abolished partment of Civic Affairs and Man and a 'fully-fledged' department for A memorial service is to be held for powerwas "outdated" and needed the administration of labour matters to be replaced by different legisla be created on the establishment of Comrade Kapuka Niki Nauyala, a tion which will be more flexible. the government service of Namibia The commission recommended that and that the new department be name a National Council for Human Re the Department of Labour. member of the Constituent Assembly, sources Development for Namibia The Department of Labour should should be established. be accorded equal status with other Such a council should inter alia government departments and func- who died tragically in a car accident. Former detainees All the diplomatic corps, members of seek asylum at West the Constituent Assembly and the German embassy general public are invited to attend. The West German embassy in South Africa has confirmed that 11 Namibians had applied for political asylum. The firs t secretary for media liai Ya Nangoloh said the group of for The service will be held at the son and information at the embassy, mer detainees who had applied for Herbert Quelle, said the people were asylum with the West Germans had Lutheran Ctiurch in Katutura at 4p.m. former Swapo detainees who left been warned during their detention Namibia recently in fear of their lives. by Swapo that action would be taken He said their applications were against them if they publicised de on Saturday, 16 December 1989. being considered by the West Ger tails of their detention after their man Ministry of Internal Affairs. release. Mr Quelle said details about the Mr Ya N angoloh said the Parents' applicants, who are currently in S.A., Committee had already informed the A book of condolences has been opened were being withheld in their best SW A Police of threats agains the interest. lives of former detainees. He said at the Swapo head quarte rs. A spokesman for the West Ger members were concerned about their man observer mi~ssion in Windhoek personal safety, especially after in also confirmed several members of dependence. All diplomatic corps, members of the the Parents' Committee of Namibia - The U.S. and Candian missions in which campaigns for the release of Windhoek said no applications for Constituent Assembly and the general detainees it alleges are still held by political asylum had been received. Swapo - had applied at the office for The Australian and British mis protection against possible political sions said no details of such applica public. are invited to sign the book from persecution. tions would be announced, since k:cording to the spokesman, the asylum was regarded as a confiden Friday morning until Sdturday afternoon requests were channelled to the of tial matter between the government fice of the Administrator General. and the applicant. Parents' Commiuee spokesman Phil THE NAMIBIAN A -. CHANCE TO by Gwen Lister PERSPECTIVE TURN AT LEAST THE Police in this country want a SOME SWOROS INTO new image, and millions have been spent by the office of the Administrator General on both a recruitment campaign as well as a public relations PLOUGHSHARES campaign for the police. The issue of a police force is probably more crucial than that of an army. After all the Afterthel\1a]~a sU,~nijJ,Sovietspokesperson , Gerasimov .declared the Cold latter are usually dormant except in times of war. But it is the police who War offiCiaIIY ;'dead>lJilshgave the thumbs up sign when reporters asked are responsible for law and order whether he agreed. Tbelrhe qualified the poinCIt looks,reports Gemeni News and the protection of fundamental Service,asifar~r~opportunity hasarisent~sWitCh some military expenditure human rights. Why then does it sometimes appear as if incompetence int9m:oduc~iye devel()pment.Butitwill notbe easy. The danger is that current is the order of the day? geopoliticaLs~iftsmighteve~Jeadtopressures.toboostweaponssales . .
THE police liaison division seems to be in a mess at present; one BY GEOFFREY TANSEY officer on leave and the other booked off sick. It is therefore very difficult for the press to make, and receive prompt replies to, The dramatic changes in Europe offer a unique opportunity to cut the $34-billion currently spent every queries right now. This, despite the expensive public relations year on global military expenditure and redirect the money to more productive use. The danger is that campaign. the changes in the north will so preoccupy the superpowers and Europeans that their attention is Little was said by the police themselves following the apparently switched away from the developing countries of the south. well-planned escape ofthe Outjo Three. It is still incomprehensible In the European Community (EC), could leave a lot of overcapacity in accounting for 22 per cent of the to many people how three men, due to stand trial for murder and the pressures are already mounting Europe and thus increase pressures Third World sales in 1988 against 12 various other offences, and described as 'dangerous', were taken to switch money from development to sell arms to developing countries, per cent in 1984. by two policemen from Otjiwarongo to Windhoek - a few hundred aid budgets to Eastern Europe. unless plans are made for conversion The debt crisis threatens increased Already a number of European of these defence industries to civil militarisation, internal upheaval and kilometres - without handcuffs or additional security. Commission staff have reportedly ian production. moves away from democratisation, The magistrate, -bless his heart for his concern, told the police that been moved from working on food Pressures from the European the report suggests. As countries they should allow the accused to 'stretch their legs' or 'relieve aid for developing countries to food Community single market of 1992 struggle to repay debt interest and themselves' along the way! And the three managed to get out of the aid for Eastern Europe. and from Nato (North Atlantic Treaty ~apital, it says, governments must van, shoot one policeman, lock another in the van, and make off to One encouraging sign from from Organisation, the West's main mili cut expenditure, increase their in destination unknown. the United States is the proposal by tary alliance) for more standardisa .comes or finance a budget deficit. The police didn't say whether they conducted both air and ground the US Senate foreign relations tion of equipment will mean ration If they cut expenditure - the route committee for a $I,25-billion pack alisation of European defence indus favoured by the International Mone reconnaissance for the three; and the SWABC, on the night of the age to help Poland, to be paid for tries, in which trade union estimates tary Fund and World Bank - cuts in escape, merely said that the men were 'armed and dangerous' , that from the defence budget. But the suggest there is already 40 per cent military budgets might cause discon people should not approach them, but they failed to even show the idea is a long way from acceptance. overcapacity . tent in the armed forces and result in public what they looked like! . In the south, the greater uncertain Without conversion, this could mean military coups. Is it any wonder then, that many of our black compatriots feel there ties of a new world order with super maSsive job losses and pressures to But reductions in housing, health was police bungling, or possibly even complicity, in this case? Is it power rivalry being replaced by wha:t develop arms export markets, espe and education, wHere most. govern also any wonder that the public are generally not yet impressed by the specialists are calling a multipo cially in developing countries. ments make cuts, may lead to popu lar world could actually increase Already the bad news is that a fall lar discontent and greater militarisa the ' new face' of the police force? pressures to spend more on defence, in world military expenditure in 1988 tion to control the population. And right now, the police don't know where the three are -could be promoted by the northern arms deal has not brought a decrease in mili Increasing incomes through cash South Africa, Botswana, or even in Namibia itself. Roadblocks or ers, and so lead to a reduction of tarisation in the Third World, ac crops and primary commodities is not, they've probably already made their escape; and its unlikely, spending on the poor. cording to SIPRI's 1989 review of subject to fluctuating international in view of amnesties granted to ex-policemen facing charges of Another twist to arms sales may World Armaments and Disarmament markets, and some countries, like murder, that the three will be returned to Namibia to stand trial come from Europe, according to Jane There has been a shift from the Brazil and China, have turned to a Sharp, a senior researcher at the Middle East as the junior market - it new cash crop - arms. even if they are found. Stockholm International Peace Re accounted for 48 per cent of all Third Printing money to finance the These things have to change ifthe police force is to gain prestige in search Institute (SIPRI). World sales in 1984 but 39 per cent in deficits creates hyper-inflation which the eyes of the people. Successful arms reduction talks 1988 - to Asia, with South-East Asia also causes discontent and brings In the wake ofrevelations of police 'death squads' in South Africa; pressures for military takeovers. The the refusal of the SA State President to appoint a judicial commission report says: "More important, it casts of inq uiry into the matter; the police generally have a lot of work on The science of war aspersions on the organisational abil their hands to improve their image. ity of clviilan governments to look Announcements on progress in the Lubowski assassination after the country; the military stands to look more 'efficient' ... investigation are being made from South Africa, and not Windhoek. The whole idea that military power And when approached here, the police simply refuse to confirm or can offer security is attacked in a deny police links with the Irishman presently being held for Lubowski's report from the Washington-based . murder, saying that the press are hampering, rather than helping, environmental think-tank, the their investigations. Worldwatch Institute. This sees the The case of the Outjo Three was postponed time after time. This is present levels of military spending also hard to understand. It is equally incomprehensible to try and and research in rich and poor coun tries as a major threat to the environ figure out why police would transport 'dangerous criminals' several APPEAL FOR A Free the Walvis Bay Five THIS newspaper joins the call for the release offive Namibians who are being held in jail in Walvis Bay following convictions on charges of public violence. We also strongly urge the United Nations to take the matter up with the Administrator General, Mr Louis Pienaar. Mr Pienaar recently unanimously decided on amnesties for ex Koevoet members who were to stand trial on serious charges of OF WEALTH murder of civilians, and his decision was made on the basis that they had done so 'in the heat of battle'. THE Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN), in a strongly-worded appeal to the Constituent Assembly, Yet the five Nanso members, who were given varying jail sentences called on this body, which had been given the mandate by the Namibian people, to embark on a for actions which resulted in minimal damage to school premises programme of redistribution of land and the country's resources. . 'in the heat' of the 1988 school boycotts, cannot be reprieved. One would hope that the Administrator General, of his own accord, "During the occupation of our In this regard the church calls for a they could stand up for themselves would note the serious discrepancy between granting amnesty to general minimum living wage which country, fIrst by Germany and then when their rights were being threat those who' faced charges of murder and refusin,g those whose by South Africa, Namibian people would cover all workers, including ened. were dispossessed and locked up into farm workers , casual and domestic The government should put em actions resulted in minimal damage to property and none at all to reserves, with their land taken away workers. phasis on community-based primary persons, and therefore decide to release the five. by foreigners. Today this land is in The church further appeals to the health care and should embark upon This week the Legal Assistance Centre confirmed that it had made the hands of a very few people, as government to create job opportuni public health education programmes. representations to the UN Special Representative concerning the socalled private property," the church ties and also to establish an unem The CCN statement also addressed five. But UN sources are at this stage uncertain as to whether the statement says. \ ployment fund for those "unfortu the question·oftne rriisuse of alcohol. . call for the release of the five is within their mandate. The churches further expressed their nate ones in the society who have no "The government must take meas In the present climate of politically 'one-sided' amnesties, we join disappointment in what the starva work" and no means to support them ures to combat the abuse of alco the call for the South African representative here, to release the tion W:lges workers are being paid by selves. hoI." There should be strictly-en students. their employees. The greed of ti:le A law governing the exploitation forced laws against giving alcohol to The plight of Namibinns in Walvis Bay cannot simply be ignored employers, the CCN says, caused of Namibia's natural resources by children. misery and suffering among the multinational companies should be Corruption in the government serv because South Africa reaffirms its ciaim to that enclave. The majority of Namibians. introduced, so that the country's riches ice should be combated vigorously. protection of human rights of Namibians in that area, must also be "The church demands an end to were applied for the benefIt of its The church also called on the guaranteed. salaries based on ethnicity, sexism, inhabitants, the CCN reiterated. government to abolish the death Although sources were uncertain as to whether the release of the and cheap labour." A free and compulsory education penalty. "In Namibia, the death five Namibians could be effected before Christmas, we hope that in should be introduced by the state. penalty has been a tool against politi the present spirit of reconciliation, this will be made possible, so Education in an independent cal opponents ... The churches recom that the five can be rejoined with their families at this time. A CHANCE Namibia should be geared towards mend the abolition of the death pen TO TURN AT . making students independent and to alty as an important sign that the new "resolve problems in a democratic Namibia displays a reverence for life, * Beweringe oor moordlys... LEAST SOME way". a respect for humanity and a rejec Students should also be taught and tion of vengeance," the statement SWORDS INTO made aware about their rights so that concluded. PLOUGHSHARES STAPPEKOM CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE . TEEN it has not had to bear. Bang In addition, the north may not take the costly measures to control envi OUERKOMITEE ronmental impacts at home and fail to transfer technology to the south to 'n MAN van Windhoek, mnr. J.R. Gebhardt, het gister sy prokureur allow Third World countries to de velop in an environmentally friendly instruksies gegee om regstappe teen die Ouerkomitee te neem oor way. beweringe van 'n moordlys van Swapo. In the technology area, where re Namibiers Dit was 'n ontstelde rnnr. Gebhardt wat hewig gereageer het op 'n berig in newable energy sources are vital, the 'n Windhoekse dagblad na aanleiding van 'n mediaverklaring deur die north could have a role to play if, in Ouerkomitee, wat Swapo beskuldig van moordbende-bedrywighede en dat recognition on its own long-term lede van die Ouerkomitee soos mnr. PhiljaN angoloh, mnr. Joseph, mev. Anna security interests, itsaw that defence Taukondjo en andere op die moordlys is. was not just about war and armies but Mnr. Gebhardt se naam is glo ook op die lys. also about the environment and jus Mnr.Gebhardt se regsverteenwoordiger. mnr. Hosea Angula, het aan Focus tice. hardloop bevestig dat hy instruksies ontvang het om 'n verduidelikende brief in die This would require a switch of openbaar te skryf en regstappe teen die Ouerkomitee te neem. resources from military research and Volgens mnr. Angula behoort die Iys waama verwys word aan 'n vriend van DIE Wes-Duitse ambassade in Suid-Afrika het bevestig dat elf Namibiers mnr. Gebhardt. Hy het die Iys van name opgetrek wat hy wou sien voordat hy development - which accounts for reeds vir politieke asiel aansoek gedoen het, berig die SWAUK. between one-third and a half of all na Ow ambo soureis. Die lys soudien om hom bloot te herinnervan sy program. scientific activity in the world - to Volgens mnr. Herbert Quelle van die media-skakelkantoor by die means of sustainable development Duitse ambassade is die mense gewese Swapo-gevangenes, wat Namibie using environmentally friendly tech onlangs verlaat het uit vrees vir hullewens. nologies, including those developed Hy het gese hulle aansoeke word tans deur die Wes-Duitse ministerie by human societies over thousands van binnelandse sake. rrJ-{f£ f£fJ) Irr02(J/.J{fJ) of years. Die elf vlugtelinge, wat klaarblyklik tydens die verkiesing meegedoen A new Europe with lower conven hetaan die veld tog teen Swapo oor gewese gevangenes wat na bewering tional defence needs could facilitate gemartel en gedood sou word, is tans in Suid-Afrika. Maar die Wes rrJ-{f£ SrrYL~~ O~ rrJ-{f£ that. Not only debt/environment swaps Duitse ambassade weier om hul identitiet en besonderhede openbaar te are necessary but also defence/envi maak. . ronment swaps. Western governments Intussen is ook berig dat die Wes-Duitse waarnemersending in Windhoek WISJ-{ YLLL might also take President Mikhail bevestig het dat verskeie lede van die Ouerkomitee - wat die veld tog van ~.9l%I~IJ/.J{ Gorbachev at his word in proposing gewese Swapo-gevangenes gelei het - aansoek om beskerming gedoen that some of the savings from disar het ingeval van enige politieke vervolging. mament go into international devel Vol gens die woordvoerder van die Duitse sending in Windhoek is die rrJ-{f£I2(2(f£YLfJYE1\S J/.J{fJ) opmentratherthan only intorevitali versoeke van die mense na die kantoor van die Administrateur-generaal, sation of northern economies. adv. Louis Pienaar, deur gekanaliseer. For the first time in 40 years, there Sapa haal mnr. Phil ja Nangoloh van die Ouerkomitee aan as sou hy Srurpp02(TE1\S YL is the prospect of a complete rethink gese het die groep wat nou in vrees in SA sit en aansoek om asiel gedoen of what, why, and how much is de het gewese gevangenes is wat glo gedreig is voordat hulle deur Swapo voted to defence and the chance to Mf£2(1{'Y cmusrrM5tS redirect resources to development vrygelaat is. both in the north and south. It will not Vol gens hom het die Ouerkomitee reeds die polisie verwittig van happen automatically or easily. dreigemente teen die gewese Swapo-gevangenes, wat glo besorg is oor It will require a willingness for hul perssonlike veiligheid, veral na onafhanklikheid. J/.J{fJ) YL ~OSPE2(O'U5 western politicians to grasp a new Die Amerikaanse - en Kanadese sendings het gese geen aansoeke is in vision, as those in Eastern Europe die verband ontvang nie. seem able to do. The doubt is whether Die Australiese - en Britse sendings het op hul beurt laat verstaan dat ~f£W%Yl2(_ they have the ability to do so without sulke aansoeke as hoogs vertroulik beskou word en dat hulle nie strong public pressure. inligting sal bekelld maak nie. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 8 Friday December 18 1989 THE NAMIBIAN THE MESSAGE to an dom of association, a closed society, is independent Namibia was clear: South African'mediaterrori·sts' and campaigning journalists developing backwards and is doomed "If you want to develop, you to fail," said Michanek. from theSADCC r~gion recently met on the banks of the Chobe His views were echoed by confer must have free press." ence organiser Patrick van Rensburg oj The place was Botswana's pictur River and discussed democracy and the media in southern the Botswana-based Foundation for esque Chobe Game Lodge, not 30 Africa. DAVID LUSH jOined them. Education with Production (FEP), who metres from Namibia on the banks of pointed to the way the media in the the Chobe River. The event was a semi industrialised world was used to shape nar, 'Democracy and the Media in people's views and distract them from Southern Africa', a rare coming to the real issues affecting their lives. gether of journalists from the SADCC "But it is not only in the industrial (~uuthern African Development Co The people SHALL ised world that this happens," said Van ordination Congress) region and the Rensburg. "Power ·structures else campaigning democratic media ir. where also rely to a greater or lesseI South Africa. extent on controlling the flow of infor Delegates from the latter came with mation and presenting news in a way tales of their struggle against the ~e be informed that they want ... pressive apartheid regime and left Van Rensburg recognised that there wondering aloud that perhaps, after all, could be concern among delegates South Africa had one of the freest about the constraints on the free flow 01 presses in the region. information in SADCC countries, as As for the SADCC delegates, their well as in South Africa. advice to journalists in a free Namibia "We have to look at the vibrant and was this: "Learn from our mistakes and dynamic alternative press in South don't let your government do to you Africa forinspiration and to understand what our governments have tried to do its vast potenti3.I as an educative, infor to us." mative and liberatory force." The tone of the seminar was set by Recalling the words of Chilean the keynote speaker, the pioneer of writer Juan Somavia - " Under the guise Swedish development aid to Third of democracy, different forms of pri World countries and veteran anti vate and public authoritarian poweI apartheid campaigner, Dr Ernst structures room the world" - Van Michanek. "If you are denied access to Rensburg highlighted the following information", said Michanek, "you argument: "Real democracy requires are denied the opportunity to take part democratic content and not only forms, in the discussions on your own coun and requires a high level of mass con try's development. sciousness and awareness, and o j "And if this happens, you will not knowledge, to which the process oj only be the poorer in the cultural sense, communication and the free flow of in but you will remain poor in the material formation, as well as an appropriate sense as well. " mass education, are crucial. " Michanek pointed to recent events in And education was a force for deve!- the region - Namibia's pending inde pendence after democratic elections CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 and the rallying of the South Africa's Mass Democratic Movement - and the triumph of the people in Eastern Eu "Development requires a free press" - Dr Ernst rope in drawing back theiron curtain as Michanek (centre) delivers his keynote address at the ,ZIMBABWE: .', -. _.., ... ' .. .,. proof that the desire for basic freedoms Chobe seminar, whiie a representative of the Botswana will never be suppressed. government (left) and seminar organiser Patrick van • "A society not based on a rich and free flow of information and on free- Rensburg (right) listen in. ass me 18 ignores the masses THE R~SSING FOUNDATION I IN 1988, Geoff Nyarota, then· editor of the Bulawayo Chronicle, The R~ssin g Foundation is expanding its activities and the rocked the Zimbabwean government with his paper's expose of following permanent posts have become available as from cabinet ministers' involvement in corrupt second-hand car deals. 1 January 199D : Leading politiciartS involved in what and opted for jobs as private public became known as the Willow gate relations consultants instead. ACRICULTURAL INSTRUCTOR Scandal lost their jobs. But for his They were replaced by young people role in Wlcovering the corruption, with no training in the ethics and This person will be based at the Okashana Agricultural Nyarota was "promoted" - againsi principles of journalism, and so the Training Centre in Owamboland. his will - to the post of public rela rot continued_ The ideal candidate should be in possession of an tions officer at the pro-government "If there is a Wlity of purpose agricultural diploma and have at least three years Zimbabwe Newspapers. while his amongst journalists, then it is very colleague, who was also involved in difficult for governments to inter practical experience. This p~rson will be requir~d to bringing the scandal to the public's fere," says Nyarota. "As far as the recrUl-': students, teach agricul tur!al courses and do attention, was made deputy editor of Zimbabwean government is concerned extension work. government "mouthpiece" , the there is freedom of the press, but Zimbabwe Herald. _ there are different interpretations of ENGLISH TEACHER AND SECRETARIAL TEACHER "The Willow gate Scandal was what that freedom. The more anxious the people already knew," says JOUrnalists are about keeping theiI These teachers will be based at the Adult Education Centre Zimbabwean journalist Peta Thor jobs, the less they are worried about the freedom of the press." in Khomasdal. neycroft who works for the inde pendent Parade magazine. "The Bomwell Chakaodza is one of those The ideal candidates should be in possession of a teaching people knew the.ir leaders were up to Zimbabwean journalists who have qualification and have at least four years practical no good and Willowgate proved this left the mainstream media for private teaching experience. to them. enterprise. As far as he is concerned, These teachers will be required t o teach, select students "Through the Chronicle's expose "information is just as important as and design courses. of the scandal, the people saw their food, shelter and education". own newspapers had clout and they "When the leaders in Africa The ~~ssin g Foundation offers a competitive remuneration want their papers to have clout. But complain about the lack of social package, which includes pension, medical aid and bonus. they didn't want to overthrow the cohesion, it is possible that they do government, they just wanted their not realise that it is an absence offree The salary is ~negotiabl e . leaders. to .Qc TANZANIA: Bring back the 'guerrilla typewriters' which fought for Uhuru DISTINGUISHED publisher and journalist Ndimara Tegambwage few irresponsible individuals who is saddened by the state ofthe media in independent Africa, and in exploit the very privileges of democ particular his own country, Tanzania. racy - freedom of the press, freedom of association, freedom to criticise - "In SADCC and Frontline states, need to live in peace. in order to deflect the government as in the rest of free Africa, the "And how about the millions who from its responsibilities to the people 'guerrilla typewriters' are no more," require constant education and re by creating problems of law and order. he laments. "Those journalistic education; who need systematic flow "The government must deal firmly ambuscades that kept the fire of the of information in order to enable and promptly with the trouble-mak struggle for Uhuru burning have lost them to know and grasp the mecha ers. The country carmot afford, dur the staccato frequency that character nisms of governance so that they can ing these vital early years of its life, ised the radicalism of the nationalist contribute effectively to the system to treat such people with the same press. " of the day - or reject it?" degree of tolerance which may be Instead, governments, realising the With a literacy rate of 85 percent safely allowed in a long-established power of the press, have taken con in TanzaJ}ia - almost unrivaled in democracy." trol of the electronic and printed media, free Africa - the people thirst for Almost three decades later, an and where this "nationalisation" has reading, a thirst which Tegambwage increasing number of privately-<>wned not taken place, the politicians have says the existing private and public publications - including Tegamb created legal barriers - "all in ah press has far from satisfied. wage's Radi (meaning lightning) - effort to create what rulers call 'one "This is not because the copies do have battled to meet the growing voice, one country"', says Tegamb not get to the people, but because need among the people for infprma wage. there is no coverage of the things the tion which the loo-plus state-owned "But 'oneness' during the time of readership expect to see in newspa publications fail to meet. struggle for independence did not pers. Or there is little, and that little But the rocketing cost of news mean all people had surrendered, once is poorly treated." print and continued government re and for all, their interests, and social III or untrained journalists fail to strictions make it hard for the inde and economic status. probe even the most basic of stories, pendents to publish regularly and "No, they had responded to dia be they political ornon-political, and make any kind of a profit. lects of struggle that demanded unity they ignore glaring breaches of human However, Tegambwage says pub for elimination of colonial rule which rights clauses writen into the coun lishers can and must "stand firm" interfered with or affected various try's very own constitution. and rely on the readership's trust, groups and classes in varying de A frustrated director of the state truthful reporting, professional in grees. Nor did the coming of inde owned Radio Tanzania once summed tegrity, freedom of mind and " the pendenceniberation mean those in up the situation when he protested to democratic principles and rights power first were the best, rulers who former President Julius Nyerere: enshrined in the fundamental law of must clamp down on opposition, on "Even when we had established the the land". free expression, and who must, single truth, we continue to be told: don't "The press carmot fight it alone. It handedly define the way new nations armounce, don't announce, don't requires co-operation with other must be governed. armounce at all." conscious members of the commu "For men and women ofrepute Nyerere himself gave an indica nity, and human rights activists, to those with babels of coostructive ideas, tion of things to come several months protest. even when they do not necessarily before his country became independ "When one case is won, one human agree with policies of the day - all ent. "Too often the only voices to be right is secured and some freedom of Publisher and journalist Ndimara Tegambwage belong to one roof under which they heard in 'opposition' are those of a press is achieved." CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 MOZAMBIQUE: opment achieved through "promoting a ' Then America had all the constraints of, tonscious, aware and informed popula for example, a modem-day Zimbabwe or tion that wi II make democracy real and not Zambia, but right from Lhe start the Ameri just formal". can government made freedom of speech For five days, the debate and conversa a fundamental right through what was tion raged inside the conference hall while Lhen, and remains, the First Amendment. the Chobe river glided by outside and "And it has been proved right," said Their AIM is true smoke wafted over the Lhatched rooftops Louw. "The First Amendment is one of of a Namibian homestead on the opposite the reasons why the US is the powerful IT IS always difficult to have a free press when a country is at war, And the Mozambican government bank. country it is now. You can't have recon particularly when the conflict is on the scaleofthat in Mozambique. never gives casualty figures for its While the subjects. covered were varied, ciliation among people unless you have a own Frelimo forces despite the fact the tonsensus was clear: the media in free flow of information. Nonetheless, the Mozambican interfering with journalists' work, that "no one believes in an army southern Africa was far from free, and "It seems thaI every government in this media is experiencing a slackening the former using the argument that which does not suffer", says Fauvet. countries - and in particular their people - region thinks that revolution will spread in government control despite the adverse coverag e •• could damage the Besides the war, there is a ten suffered as a result. from every word penned by the journalist, continuation of the war, says Paul war effort". dency for government officials to be . South African publisher/editor Ray but wo~ds ~ancel each other out . Fauvet of the official news agency But Fauvet argues there are "very suspicious of journalists and refuse "Introduce press controls at a political mond Louw compared independent Afri few genuine military secrets", so can states now with Lhe United States ofthe level, then you are introducing a form of AIM (Agencia de Informacao de to give comment, an attitude which 1790s when the now western superpower apartheid - you are allowing a privileged Mocambique). media coverage of military opera Fauvet believes only has adverse was a fledgling nation yvhich _had just few to have access to information which is During the time of war there was tions is unlikely to give advantage to effects on the government in the long come through a bitter liberation war. denied to others." always the problem of the military the opposition army. run. "Governments in the SADCC countries should treat the media as an asset," says Fauvet. "Any rea sonably democratic government can gain a lot of mileage out of its media ifit lets journalists do their job rather Freest press. but thanks to who? than perpetually interfering." It was impossible for a national news agency in the SADCC region to BOTSWANA probably has the freest press in the SADCC region So for long periOds of time, the ment has a role in training medics press remains idle and a drain on the and engineers, so it should be in make a profit. so agencies like AIM but this is du-e to the journalists rather than the govern~ent, say were dependent on state funding . But Botswana media representatives. government's fmances while" the vovled in the training of journalists. ' newspapers have to make the highly The government should be acting as . this did not necessarily mean state control of the flow of information, Before independence, the media with the media?" expensive trip to neighbouring South a trustee in establishing the facilities says Fauvet, and AIM was acting was the friend of the now-ruling Journalists like Sesinyi are deter Africa to be printed; a farce consid for training journalists." with more and more autonomy as Botswana National Party, but once mined to keep Botswana's media as ering the Botswana government's Sesinyi adds: "The Botswana time went on. the country was free, it became the . free as possible, but the government avowed opposition to the apartheid government would love to control And the privately-owned media enemy of the government, says Mr makes it tough, particularly for the republic. everything and ensure that the oppo was beginning to establish itself too. Andrew Sesinyi of the state-run handful of independent newspapers As Leepile points out, the Meggi is sition doesn't make any headway." "In Mozambique, the government Botswana Broadcasting -Corporation. which have set up in recent years. constantly critical of the South Afri But thanks to the persistence of the wants state control for the sake of "Unless checked, most African The government owns the only cans and there could come a day likes of Sesinyi, Leepile and Osman, 'national unity'. But as some jour governments become hypocritical and newspaper press in Botswana but when Pretoria bans the paper from they have not yet succeeded. nalists point out, there are alterna make a m ~)cke-ry of statements about refuses to allow any publications other being printed in the country. "Now the government trusts the tives to capitalistic, privately-owned democracy and freedom of the press than its own to be printed there. Editor The government, however, does media to the extent that, around the m~dia such as co-operatives, et cet made when they first come to power. of the independent Meggi newspa have a role to play in a free press, election time, we received,criticism era." "The government should get out per, Tony Leepile, and founder of the says Sesinyi, and this was in the from both the opposition and the training of journalists. "In Africa ruling party that we were being bi of the media and let the professionals Botswana Gazette, Al Osman, say READ THE NEW do their jobs. The government is not they constantly-made offers to the there is the problem that people don't ased," says Sesinyi. "As long as allowed to interfere with medical government for the use of press, but know the ethics of journalism. both sides are dissatisfied, then we GENERATIvN NEWSPAPER surgery, so why should they mcddle were turned down every! :me_ "Therefore, just as the govern- know we are on the right track." - THE NAMIBIAN 10 Friday December 15 1989 THE NAMIBIAN oeus ON THE FAMOUS Actress Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of renowned writer Ernest Hemingway, has starred in Woody Allen's 'Manhattan', 'Personal Best' and 'Star 80', a film concerning the the tragic rise and fall of a Playboy model. Mariel underwent silicone implant surgery on her breasts for the role. {h,;.; ~* ~ ~ Ii i~ II f'E iI g$ ,S !I ~ Former 'Rocky' nemesis Dolph• Highly esteemed French monk Father Pierre is photographed 41t Lundgren juts out the jaw which made him famous. The muscular Fouquet's in Paris. Father Pierre was present at the famous The dynamic duo of narcissism, George Hamilton and Joan Collins, Parisian establishment earlier this year to help launch his biogra Scandinavian actor had the lead flash their brilliant teeth for yet another photograph. Hamilton, role in the ill-fated movie 'Red phy 'L'insurge de Dieu', written by Pierre Lunel. who has been romantically linked with Elizabeth Taylor, appears Scorpion' which was filmed in to have dropped acting almost entirely in order to pursue the Namibia. The production perfect tan. company left the country heavily in debt but at least local Windhoek residents were often treated to the sight of Dolph's girlfriend of the time, Grace Jones. ' Susan Sullivan, one of the stars Charlie Sheen faces the Hollywood paparazzi with girlfriend Kelly of the long-running TV soap Cheryl Tiegs, once the highest paid model in the world (the reigning Preston with swaggering self-assurance. Sheen comes from a famous opera, 'Falcon Crest'. Namibian queen of the beauty scene is Czechoslovakian Paulina Porzikova), family of actors which includes his father, Martin, and brother, fans of the programme breathed still radiates glamour. She is seen here with Tony Peck, son of Emilio Estevez. Charlie first critical and popular success in the film a sigh of relief when SWABC Academy Award-winning actor, Gregory Peck. Cheryl first made business was in the gripping Vietnam war movie, 'Platoon', directed decided to air the series again waves in the modelling scene when she appeared in a fishnet by Oliver Stone. after a four month long hiatus. bathing costume for an American fashion magazine. ~======~ Our sincere appreciation to all our esteemed customers and dear friends for their support during the past year. Have a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year! Popular star ofthe hit TV series 'Dallas', Larry Hagman has made Please note that we millions from his portrayal of the malicious evil-doer' J. R. Ewing'. will be closed from As an ardent anti-smoking campaigner Hagman is reputed to carry 23 December 1989 a tiny portable fan with him at all times in c\se he finds himself in until 1 January 1990. the company of one who indulges in the pleasure of nicotine. Hagman stands here with his wife of many years, Maj. THE NAMIBIAN Friday December 151989 11 UNICEF REPORT: Focusing on the plight of today's children The Deputy Special Representative of !he United Nations In Namibia, Mr Joseph Legwalla, yesterday introduced the latest edition of the United Nations Children's Fund publication "The State Of The World's Chil dren". At the launch Mr Legwaila said that the release of the Unicef report had become an annual milestone event in the calendar of the United Nations. He said that Unicef had produced a comprehensive document on the welfare of children throughout the world every year for the past decade. In this report Unicef presents the results of its monitoring of the status of the world's children, focusing on their physical, mental, economic and political well-being. Mr Legwaila said that the central theme of Unicers message this year was that children should be protected from the consequences of the adult world's excesses and mistakes. This meant that they should be protected, whether one was talking about violence or war, or the cumulative effects of economic mismanagement. He pointed out that the report stressed that human capital was a far more Important factor In economic growth than physical capital. "Investment in human capital In the form of nutrition, basic education, and health cannot be postponed: It either takes place at an appropriate age when the need is present - or it does not," he said. The under-pmphaslsed tragedy of the disinvestment In human capital in the 1980's would be carried forward in stunted bodies and deficient education well Into the 21st century. Turning to the Namibian situation, Mr Legwaila said that the 1990's would be a decade of hope and formidable challenges for the country. The unfolding challt:nges that faced Namibia and the world would pose new demands for the development of effective country-specific and global . strategies for the benefit of children. Today on this page we publish a short summary of some of the sad statistics found In the 102-page Unicefrej>ort. The governments of the develop social issue. The summit would also ing world as a whole are now devot give a boost to the new convention on ing half of their expenditures to debt the rights of the child, which Unicef servicing and military spending. These says "should become the standard two essentially unproductive activi below which any civilised nation, ties, states this year's State of the rich or poor, will be ashamed to World's Children Report from Unicef, fall" . are now costing almost one billion "It is time that the needs of chil dollars every day - or approximately dren were given this kind of prior 400 dollars a year for every family in ity," says Unicef's Executive Direc .J the developing world. '~ tor James P. Grant. "Protecting the Meanwhile, says the report, nearly physical and mental development of 8000 children are dying every single the children is the most important of 1tfIMfJI ··· day because they have not been all investments in the social and immunized, nearly 7 000 are dying economic development of our socie daily from dehydration caused by ties. Doing what can now be done to diarrhoea, and approximately 6 000 achieve that goal is therefore an issue are dying every day from pneumo worthy of its place on the agenda of nia. the world's political leaders, the Making available today's low-cost world's press, and the world's pub solutions to all of these child health lic." problems would cost approximately 2,5 billion dollars per year. "It is a ACHIEVEMENTS great deal of money," says Unicef, "it is as much as the Soviet Union The achievements of recent years s ' s~r; .... has been spending on vodka. It is as have shown what can be done if the a 'nuals" much as U.S. companies have been will is there. Immunization, which port's, . J1.tcs ' {~ :; t j ~ ~ ; ~n; spending on advertising cigarettes. It protected fewer than 10 per cent of . is as much as 10 percent of the EC's the developing world's children a expa,rision slol's, 102···. ' keyb(;fa '£~E'Sg;, annual subsidy to its fanners. It is as decade ago, now reaches 70 per cent EPSON LX400 graphi~s prtnt . much as 2 per cent of the developing of those in need and is saving ap world's military spending." proximately two million lives yearly. a suite of four programs' Oral rehydration therapy,litLle known an integ,ratec;J Wordproce~ " . ata- A SUMMIT FOR CHILDREN outside scientific circles until the bas ' ~ ,", ,,""", § <" ijiP' > F ·,/" 'sheet and G 'raphics early 1980's, is now being used by graD\'; ~;;"; If present trends continue more one family in every three in the de "000 sheets of prJ than 100 million children will die in veloping world and is estimated to be pap!!"., ',.. , box of diskette the decade ahead. "They will die in preventing one million juvenile deaths delivery, fitst 'llation and trai the sunken-eyed coma of dehydra each year from diarrhoeal dehydra tion," says Unicef " or in gasping tion. within 50km of Windhoek extremities of pneumonia, or in the In addition, says Unicef, there are iron grip of tetanus, or in the fever of an estimated 1,5 million children who THE WHOLE LOT FOR measles, or on the rack of Whooping are "walking, running, and playing cough", normally in the villages and neigh These five common ilnesses - which bourhoods of the developing world can all be inexpensively treated or today who would be crippled by polio 11(191)5 prevented by vaccines, oral rehydra were it not for the immunization tion therapy, or antibiotics - account efforts of the last decade" . Excl GST for over half of all child deaths and Achievements of th is kind, states r!'llt malnutrition cases in the modern , Unicef, show that it is possible - in world. practice - to prevent the majority of Arguing that only high-level po illnesses, malnutrition, and early litical commitment can put today's deaths among children of the 1990' s. low-cost solutions into practice on "These breakthroughs have meant the necessary ",~ aJe, Unicef has called mobilising today's new communica for a World Summit for Children to tions capacity to put science at the MATRIX be held in September 1990, at the disposal of the majority of the human The com put e r shop 1 n S W A U.N. Headquarters in New York. It family," says Grant. .. A further would be the first time that heads of Tel 061-31994 PO Box 6364 Windhoek 0000 state would meet to discuss a major continued on page 22 12 Friday December 18 192? THE NAMIBIAN EVERY struggle . demands It is utterly wrong to suggest that a constant re-evaluation of slave cannot criticize the actions of a fellow slave. There is no way we can strategies employed. The train people for democracy if we be confirmation and endorsement CNFA:THE lieve that our leadership is immune of some and criticism and from criticism. We must stop hiding rejection of others. behind the racist Spons Council. Such a reassessment can only take The demands of any other document place under circumstances conducive seeking to gi ve us guidelines on the to an objective consideration of diverse future of Namibia cannot be treat~d as and challenging ideas. The launch of holy cows. All documents must be this workshop provides such an oppor ROAD AHEAD placed on the table for a critical public tunity. analysis. Our leadership has to know Black unity and liberation is a yearn that the more deeply people are af ing common to all who suffer the slings fected by a decision, the more impor and arrows of oppression, slavery and tant it is for them to share in the making exploitation. So much is being dOlle, or of that decision. This is a consciousness is being said to be done, in 'a bid to we need to cultivate amongst spons acquire unity and liberation. Yet, what not with each other. Whilst the CNFA ticular type of leadership if our goal of men. is unity and liberation without self reli must in no way usurp the task of the freeing the mind is to be achieved. We need spons leaders who will help ance? How can we begin to talk unity broad liberation movement, we should Leadership has been described as an us to develop a consciousness of free w hen we lack self reliance- major cause believe that we can playa meaningful exercise of power and power is the dom and development. But freedom of our present disunity. There are many role in getting everyone ~o begin to ability to achieve purpose - it is the and development cannot be attained reasons and excuses for the lack of self understand one another; to be able to strength required to bring about social, through passive self pity, sloganeering reliance among our people. That we are criticize and be criticized without hav political and economic changes. But and time wasting and mudslinging the dispossessed and have no control ing to reson to any other form in order the common goal of freeing the mind is among victfms of apartheid. over the means of production is one; to settle problems. still unable to unite us. Some of us will Freedom and development require that in commerce we are not part of the We are painfully aware of the extent object to being referred to as blacks, hard work, sacrifice and commitment. decision making process is yet another to which the ruling class has succeed in Africans or Narnibians because we use My challenge to all Namibians today is - let alone the fact that we are not destroying unity and in the process these labels to divide sons and daugh to take another look at the rational represented in parliament. reaping a harvest of disunity which is ters of common soil into different po behind the dependancy complex of The road to liberation and national today terms is simply death of com litical labels. We spend all our effons sponsmen on the liberal establishment. unity was long rough. As long as we rades. looking for everything that .divides The N.R.B. must find out why things stay divided, the longer it will take us to It was frightening and it was destruc rather than unites us. The agenda of the are the way they are and train OUI get to bur destiny. When people talk of tive. The only winners were the coloni spons struggle has been marred by the sponsmen to understand that the way freedom and liberation some talk of the alists. We at the CNFA must believe inclusion of divisive items which could things are is not the only way things seizure of power and others speak of that we cannot stand by and watch, thus be dealt with once the common enemy should be and can be. The system is not the freedom of the mind. we have adopted a non-sectarian stance Bobby Sissing of the oppressed has been defeated. invisibl~ . W-:, at CNFA as sponsmen have for in the past in the hope that we could act This means that there is something It can' and must be changed. But it far too long labelled ourselves or arro as brokers in helping political organ that suspicion and mistrust will make utterly wrong with our leadership. cannot be changed by members of a gated to ourselves the exclusive right of isations with different ideologies to our task even harder. Our leadership is wasting a lot of group that created it, maintained it, and being the only socalled non racialists. understand one another on the spons That we shall be reviled by all those time bickering over a meatless bone benefited from it materially and other Unfonunately this is no longer true and field. It is a responsibility we believe who - pretending to speak in the name while our common enemy gets all the wise over the years. Changing the sys we must today examine a perspective that should be borne by any person who of the struggle - act as counter revolu time it requires to entrench its domina tem can only be done by the victims if which would open new doors in the professes to be engaged in the struggle tionaries. The fifth columnists are'leg tion over us. that change is to be genuine, effective world of soccer in Namibia. for freedom. ends in our midst. But we shall not be We also need to produce a leadership and everlasting. In dealing with the We must conclude as a matter offact Unfonunately in spon and particu deterred. We believe that it is historic that will have respect for democracy or aforesaid. principles what is being that our people and cenaill organisa larly in soccer no one has seriously task that cannot be ignored - indeed, the the right of the people to accept or urged here to today is more democratic tions have been talking past each other taken the steps to bring people together eminent uniting of Namibian soccer reject that which they like to dislike. approach to determining policy that - not with each other. We must there and that is why we as spons-adminis organisations signifies that we are We have developed a tendency to also ensure that issues of tactics are not fore also conclude that soccer rights trators should take on this responsibil right; that, if we are to win the struggle label those who disagree with us as made matters of principle. We must and individual soccer organisations ity. We will not expect to win overnight then we must work tirelessly for unity. counter revolutionary or as identifying have been talking past each other and - we know it will be a long hard road; In soccer we need to produce a par- with the common enemy. continued on page 13 BLOOM COUNTY AGENT /DISTRIBUTOR by Berke Breathed .REQUIRED "'Oppressing' is a board game on the politics and the apartheid regime. The game is marketed in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Island. The manufacturers and distributors world wide are now seeking to establish their company in Namibia. The successful agent or distributor will be given all advertising and promotion material. If you are interested, please write, phone or fax your interest to Midson (London) Limited OLG, P.o. Box 11, Swansea, Wales, UK Tel. 0792-816786 THE NAMIBIAN Friday December 18 1989 13 AFRICA sank deeper into FOCUS ON AFRICA IN THE EIGHTIES: ANC guerrillas. poverty and political chaos A Commonwealth study by Harare during the 1980's, but as the based r~ searchers Phyllis Johnson and David Martin puts the military and decade came to a close there econmic cost of South African policies were hopes of a negotiated end toward its black neighbours at 45 bil to several regional conflicts and FEW HOPES IN A lions dollars and the number of war apartheid in white-ruled South related deaths at 1,5 million. Africa. "No development can take place in a South African-ruled Namibia was violent unstable environment such as finally put firmly on the road to inde WASTED DECADE that in which we are forced to live," pendence in 1989 and negotiations Mugabe said in 1988. began to end the long-running civil Western nations reluctant to i~pose wars in Angola, Mozambique and BY ROBERT POWELL, SAPA ful.! economic sanctions on South Af Ethiopia. rica helped southern Africa's black In South Africa itself, a new presi form to return the country to civilian has promised new reforms and has al states reduce their economic depend dent promised further moves to dis rule by 1992 and Guinea's military ready relaxed curbs on black opposi ence on Pretoria during the I980's by mantle apartheid, racial segregation leaders had promised to do the same by tion demonstrations and the media. developing alternative trade routes for and free veteran black nationalist 1996. De Klerk has released eight of South them via the Mozambican port of Beira leader Nelson Mandela after 26 years in African governments became in Africa's best known political prisoners and the Tanzanian port of Dar Es Sa jail. creasingly dependent on western aid to and it is widely expected that ANC laam. But for sub-Saharan Africa as a survive and many countries now re leader Nelson Mandela hemself will be Looking to the future, there is some whole, the 1980's were bleak as living ceive two or three times more in aid freed soon. hope that the recent slackening of su standards fell and famine spread. each year than they earn from exports. " We are deadly earnest about re per-power tension will lead in Africa to "The 1980's were a wasted decade "Genuine structural reforms are building South Africa," De Klerk told a negotiated end to civil war in Ethiopia for Africa," said General Olusegun urgently needed to end Africa's total foreign journalists recently. and Angola. Obasajo, who ruled Nigeria from 1976 dependence on foreign aid. We are Nevertheless, De Klerk's reforming Diplomats say the Soviet Union want to 1979 before handing power to an talking about a whole continent surving zeal is tempered by the possibility of a to reduce its military aid to these two elected civilian government that col on an (intravenous) drip," said Joseph backlash by extreme right-wing whites Marxist governments to concentrate on lapsed four years later. Ki:Zerbo, a history professor from who oppose any relaxation of apart reforms at home. "Politically we have something to Burkina Faso, one of Africa's poorest heid. But the future pace of political re show in that the decade began with nations. The independence of neighbouring form in South Africa is uncertain and independence for Zimbabwe and looks Structural reforms are in progress Constituent Assembly that will draft a. Zimbabwe under black majority rule in the economic outlook for the continent like closing with the take-off of an since most western aid to Africa is now constitution for the territory to become 1980 proved that a black take-over as a whole remains grim. independent Namibia," Obasanjo told linked to government compliance with independent in April 1990. need not end in a bloodbath or political The World Bank says sub-Saharan Reuters. economic reform programmes stipu During his 11 years in office, which chaos and that whites can be accommo Africa's 450 million population is "B .. t economically in sub-Saharan lated by the IMF and World Bank. ended in August 1989, President P. W. dated under black rule. growing by 3,3 per cent a year, but Africa we have regressed," he added. Even Marxist Slats such as Ethiopia Botha dropped some of the most de Although President Robert Mugabe without a massive injection of foreign According to the World Bank, most and Congo are liberalising their state spised aspects of apartheid, such as preaches socialism Zimbabwe's 100 aid, economic growth will continue to Africans are almost as poor today as run economies and adopting free mar laws restricting the movement of 000 whites still control most of the lag behind. they were 30 years ago, when the con ket reforms which promote private en blacks and inter-racial marriages. country's economy and have not seen In a special report on sub-Saharan tinent was still under colonial rule. terprise. But he also imposed a tough state of their lifestyle eroded. Africa published on November 22, it Countries bordering the Sahara were But many African economists ques emergency to contain mounting black But economic development through caHed for a massive aid package for repeatedly hit by drought and starva tion whether the IMF and World Bank unrest which allowed even children to out southern Africa has been blighted Africa similar to the U.S. Marshall tion during the 1980's. are giving Africa the right medicine to be detained without trial for political by the shadow of apartheid. Plan, which helped western Europe's Famine in Sudan, EthiOpia and cure its economic ills. agitation. South Africa remains the economic economy recover after World War II. Mozambique was aggravated by civil "The monetarist approach of the Alongside the anti-apartheid cam giant ofthe region and controls most of The World Bank sees agriculture as war. Up to one million people starved World Bank and IMF programmes, paign, battles between rival black its trade routes to the coast. the main engine of economic growth in to death in war-tom northern Ethiopia theirinsensitivty to social, cultural and groups erupted in the townships, where In the past it has been accused of Africa and Nigeria's Obasanjo agrees. during the great drought of 1984/85. political realities in Africa as well as burning tyres placed over the heads of fuelling civil wars in Angola and "For the 1990's it goes without say The economies of most African their adverse effect on the majority of selected victims gave a new and sinsiter Mozambique and has not hesitated to ing that agricultural development is countries remained dependent on the the population, especially the poor and meaing to the word "necklace." carry out military strikes against other crucial and we have to reduce popula export of agricultural commodities the vulnerable, have created wide Botha's successor, F. W. de Klerk, countries suspected of harbouring tion growth," he said. while wars raged across the continent spread dissatisfation," Adebayo Ad from Angola and Mozambique in the edji, head of the U.N. Economic Com p •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• south to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia mission for Africa, said earlies this in the east, sending floods of refugees year. into neighbouring countries ill Events in southern Africa during the : Will the following students : equipped to receive them. 1980's were dominated by the situation Chad and Ubya pursued their war in South Africa where the white minor over the Aouzou border region, but ity retained power in the face of world • I agreed in Augustto end the 15-year-old hostility and an increasingly restive : who were studying in the conflict with a pact to solve the territo black population. • rial dispute by political means within a Pretoria tried to dissuade neighbour • year. ing blacks states from giving military : United Kingdom on Africa Governments squeezed by mounting suport to the African National Con • foreign debts and falling export reve gress (ANC) black nationalist guerrilla • nues found it impossible to satisfy the movemnt by supporting rebel move • demand for education and medical care ments in left-wing Angola and Mozam : Educational Trust sc·holarships from Africa's rapidly increasing popu bique. • lation. Butit also compromised by agreeing • Social pressures mounted as living to give Namibia independence under standards fell and a series of military black rule in return for the withdrawal : contact Asnath at the CCN at • coups swept the continent. of an estimated 50 000 Cuban troops • As the decade ended, only four of from Angola. • Africa's sub-Saharan countries - Sene U.N.-supervised elections in Na : tel. (061) 217621 extension 242 gal, Gambia, Botswana and Mauritius mibia in November 1989 gave the • enjoyed full multi-party democracy. black nationalist movement, Swapo • • But Nigeria's military rulers had (South West Africa People's Organisa :...... ;.. :...... • launched a programme of political re- tion), a comfortable majority in the • • constitute the overwhelming majority • • continued from page 13 have not had a say in determining • • CNFA policies. • The soccer writers in the township • avoid being rigid and inflexible - this is themselves be given the opportunity to • not to say that we must abandon all our • principles but be absolutely flexible in express themselves on this. • • tactics. If N.RB. takes this approach it is 0fSLJ~ is@.>:;gnJe.b • then likely to alienate soccer rights • To use a very suitable example in our society the emergence of unions - in there who must be given the space to • · sfl!~i(6p. munCJ i • tially they had reservations about regis develop a sense of identity with non • ..... • tering with the state but they did so racialism and feel that they will have a MariaShfkangala • say in determining CNFA policy and • despite these reservations only because they saw it as a tactical necessity. They direction rather than having CNFA • I• used the space created by registering to policy thrust down their throat. There is • Rundu I strengthen themselves and advance nothing to replace physical contact. N.RB. affiliates must establish links • their cause - by no means have they . abandoned their commitment to the with both players and officials. This • • creation of a wider working class brings me to the means of contact with • Aune Naanda • movement and a society by registering political organisations that exist. • N.R.B . affiliates are often called upon • in fact what they have achieved is that they have faciltated these objectives by by unions and community organisa • Jason Shaende Windhoek • registering. tions to take part in consumer boycotts • It • Cert ,i nly the CNFA cannot only just and campaigns in the community. is my view that these links should be es • go into the tow nships with predeter • mineci set of abstract principles and tablished because they not only popu • • arrogantly insist that soccer rights con larise N.RB. in the townships and pro- • . vide access to sports people there but • form to these before CNFA will have This is in connection with their they establish firm and clear working • anything to do with them. CNFA • should go into the township with only links with community and political • • organisations. luggage, sent from London (AET). the most basic set of principles - all • • other matters should be negotiable after (Compiled by Bobby Sming) • all soccer rights in the township who •~ ...... ~ 14 Friday December 15 1989 THE NAMIBIAN ATTENTION The following people should please urgently contact Gideon Shilongo at CCN/RRR, 8 Mont Blanc Street, Eros, Windhoek, P.O. Box 9965, Tel (061) 37510 MAKALANI Surname and Name: District Known 1. Angula Johannes Jumbulwa Odimbo - Oukwanyama 2. A vula Sakaria Oneliwi - Ombalantu 3. Hamukwaya Gideon Josua Walvisbay or Oshitayi (Ondonga) SERVICE 4. IImene Rebekka Onathinge - Ondonga 5. IIdongo Sakkaria Ondema Ondcmwena - UUkmanyana 6. Ishikomesho John Omudaungilo - Oukwanyana 7. Johannes Liina Omakango - Endola STA,TION 8. Kaaongelwa Mpingana Ondungu - Uukwaluudhi 9. Kalimbo Festus Onangolo - Uukwaluudhi 10. Kashululu Fransina Omalapapa - Uukwanyama 11. Kasi ta Frieda Oshakati - Owambo 12. Kayoo Natalia Ohaugave - Uukwanyama (En-route to Etosha 13. Mutewa Paulus Ecmwandi - Uukwaluudhi 14. Mwasheshe Petrus Omudatingilo - Uukwanyama and Ondangwa) 15. Nabot Ester Ompokolo - Ongula ya Netanga 16. Nepembe Martin Oshikango - Uukwanyama 17. NghikudwavaJi Johannes Ndimute Engela - Oukwanyama 18. Nuukongo Elina Onathinge - Onaycna 19. Pahangwa Nghihepa Omongo - Ohangwcna· PETROL 20. Shapwa Andreas Onawa - Ombalantu AND A BAHA'I VIEW -- No. 45 DIESEL The Purpose of Life Since the beginning of time,.God civilisation , where ultimately, has sent His Messengers with the oneness of mankind will be guidance as to the purpose of recognised. When we 24 HOURS life. Their messages have been understand God's purpose for the cause of progress for the man we are able to determine, TAKE-AWA'I planet, as well as individual through our actions, our own salvation. spiritual destinies. Man is created to know, love Baha'is remind themselves and workship God; and to daily of their purpose by recognise and obey His divine reciting this prayer revealed Oko Manifestation or Prophet. The by Baha'ullah:. greatest attainment for man is service to others and the "I bear witness, 0 my God, natullmone development of spiritual that Thou hast created me to qualities. know Thee and to worship Thee. 1 testify, at this moment, We have been created with the to my powerlessness and to Thy capacity to reflect the attributes might, to my poverty and to of God, such as mercy, love and Thy wealth. truthfulness. Our purpose in life is to aquire these virtues. Success "There is none other God by in this endeavor enables man to Thee, the Help in PeriL" carry forward an advancing THE NAMIBIAN Friday December 15 198915 THE BROWNIES THAT ARE CIRCULATING HAVE GOT AIDS There's a strange feeling in the ajournalist's dream when it came to But none of this explains why I in a group therapy session using linked air these days. phoning him for a comment. live like a recluse. I am always re up television monitors and cordless It's been a long time since I caught And perhaps Kierie would like to minded of this fact because the epi microphones. No doubt some joker a strong, heady whiff of good clean reciprocate and take Chris for a triple leptic neurons in my frontal lobe get will stand up and say all mellow-like madness. scotch with a gin chaser at the Chief agitated if the eyes stare for too long over the PA system: "Just a warning Several key organs in my body get Atrocity Reporter's favourite shebeen at a white wall. people ... the Brownies that are circu uncomfortable when too much san - where he could get his back firmly I feel like a Guru with no devotees. lating have got Aids." ity creeps in . My mind imd body against a wall and tell Cde Chris that, I am a psychological expatriate Naturally nobody under 30 will sucked on the lunacy of the old in his capacity as police media liai from Nowhere. understand this, and a race riot will Namibia, and thrived on it. Now I'm son officer, his comment on that hot My neighbours sense I don't care swiftly develop. beginning to feel like a lemon sucked Thursday afternoon in 1987 wasn't anymore, and are so afraid of going All this therapy will have to be d.-y by two burnout tequila drinkers really meant for publication. up in a ball of flame one night that done on the day after Independence from the Barrio Chino in Barcelona. "It was a joke, Kris'" Kierie would they can't sleep and instead spend Day - a glorious memorable autumn Deranged politicians, economists explain. their evenings watching the street. day bound to be commemorated as with the instinct of a lemming, and "You don't really think I would Every morning I am faced with hor Knifing Day, now that Boxing Day security force officers with the tact say 'You Swapo clowns are full of ror tales across the fence of silver has become obsolete. Or perhaps it of a jammed G-5 gun have all con shit' and put the phone down if I Cressidas/blue Mazdas/yellow Mer will become Blood-Running-In-The tributed to a certain balance being meant it to be my official comment?" cedes' driving slowly up and down Gutter Day, or may be even Nauseous maintained in that inverted pickle jar he would ask before insisting 00 paying past my house between the hours of Hangover Day. I call a cranium. for the next round of triples. 1.27am and 3.22am. But, of course, the people might Suddenly the scales have savagely And then perhaps Gwen Lister will And once you start hearing things declare it Where's-My-Living-Wage and without warning tipped to the send around printed embossed invi men who own at least two SUitS . like that - no matter what you might Day, or Howzabout-Some-Serious wrong side. tations to Colonel Willem Nel and To put it another way, they are best like to think - you instinctively know Retribution Day. Why has everything become so Werner List to attend a private cock suited to deal with this sort of thing. that any lost motorist will not trace From next year I refuse to write god damn normal? tail party at her office. Field Marshal That is also the first pun I have ever the same route 120 times in as many this column anymore. I foresee an IfI wanted this sort of atmosphere Lister could tell the Colonel what it written. minutes. imminent collapse in the Funily Things I would go and live in Switzerland felt like to be arrested by him, and The spinoff of a showdown be I know there are people who would market. I will be conducting inter where the most dangerous thing to then slung - four months pregnant - tween the suits is bound to filter like to kill me. views for a successor shortly after we wake me at night would be a bloated into a police cell for nearly a week. down to us sooner or later, whether it Buy a postcard and write down have a 1990, and preference will be cow overdosing on fresh lucerne and Yes, they could both get quite a giggle be starvation or shooting each other. what you think people want to do to given to applicants who bring sisters swinging its embroidered bell from a out of that. Not to mention a bit of And we will comply ... we will starve you and send it to Dr Gonzo's private over sixteen and a bottle or two. flower-box around its fat brown neck. banter about the Colonel's arresting happily and kill each other gladly. bag. Then we can have adraw and the Although a fmely-hooed razor blade In Windhoek we miss everything. companion - a man who claimed to It's always been that way. first 400 000 readers will participate would probably do. Even in Okahandja you get violent be from the police legal division but shootouts between the good guys and who in reality could fracture your the bad guys. In Oshakati you get to fingers at the second knuckle just by watch grudge fights between ex silently looking at them for three combatants and 101 soldiers using minutes. But then, who did you ex fresh UN -issue machetes down at the pect the Colonel to take along when market before breakfast. In the south ' going to arrest Cde/Mrs/Ms Lister you can watch the razor-wire being inside the very lair of the Gaddafi of rolled out around the white schools, Journalism .. . (which is a private and in the east you can report every joke between Madam Editor and Cde white man as being an escaped Outjo Lord List, and only to be used at bomber. Even in the west you can go parties as one of those light-hearted and spend a weekend on the beach throwaway stories). lying in the middle of a state of In fact, Werner List could throw a emergency .• picnic at Daan Viljoen for all his The Annual Regional Consultative Here in the central part all we have workers he fired, and then tell them a are bad drugs, foreigners, war-dam short satirical story of why he set a aged psychotics and the Constituent squad of heavily-armed police on conferences will be held from 11-14 Assembly. them when they came back the next But where is the action? day to get their wages. Bound toraise Why aren 'thitsquads from the UN a laugh. January 1990. The venues will be as Council for NllI1libia prowling the And to get really into the spirit of 'streets delivering 12-figure invoices reconciliation, Dirk Mudge could pay to companies which violated their the dentist bills of all those poor sods follows: impressive Decree Number One all whose teeth rotted away from months these years? of eating cheap white brotchens and Why, at cocktail parties, do we see stale Elolo salt beef. Moses "Oath" Katjiuongua slapping Let's leave the reconciliation up to 1. Oshakati (for Tsumeb and far-northern students) Hage "Grizzly" Geingob on the back and laughing uproariously? 2. Rundu (for Grootfontein and north-eastern What, in the name of all that is holy, is going on? students) Can it be this new beast called reconciliation which is steadily gnaw 3. Katima Mulilo (for far north-eastern region) ing away at our hearts and minds? I fear for this thing they call recon 4. Keetmanshoop (for the southern region) ciEation. It has the rank smell of' decaying hypocrisy. 5. Arandis (for the west and north-western regions) Or maybe I'mjust being paranoid. Perhaps Chris Shipanga really should seek out Kierie du Rand and 6. Katutura (for the central ~eglon, including take him for a beer at his favourite hotel. After all, our Kierie really was Otjiwarongo) THE NAMffiIAN is published by 7. Gobabis (for the eastern region) the Free Press of Namibia (Pty) Ltd with offices at 104 Leutwein Street All students are welcome to attend. Windhoek. It is printed by John Meinert (Pty) Ltd of Stuebe I Street, and edited by Gwen Lister. Staff can bt: contacted during office For further information, contact,the head office at 061- hours at telephone 36970/1/2, telex 3032 Windhoek or fax 33980 or P 0 Box 20783 Windhoek 9000. Politi 62187 (during office hours) or your regional organisers. cal commentary by Gwen Lister, Pius Dunaiski and Kaptein Han " duba. 16 Friday December 15 1989 THE NAMIBIAN lets vir' alIDal in The NaDlibian Foe-~. Nakufya Kapuka Nauyala ota Natango oosa noku fudikwa mongula pOshigambo ha uva ombili OMBELEWA yoSwapo oya shiivifa kutya, efudiko lomushamane oshilyo oshikulunhu shoSwapo eed Nicky Kapuka Nauyala, otali ka ningwa mongula pOshigambo. ul~ dihapu, nokwa long a onga ha mushanga womupresidende omanga mOmudingoloko Omushamane Nauyala. okwa hu moshipangelo shaConradie moKapa, ina tumwa a ka ninge omukalelipo lifa oweenda waye ongula yoSoon omo a xulifila. wongudu koZimbabwe. daha konima eshi a ehamekelwe Efudiko laye otali hove1e potundi Pefimbo lokuxulifa kwaye okwa moshiponga shoshihauto popepi 10 yongula mongula mongerki yaSh hangika e Ii oshilyo shonguduyokun gwOmungwelume naLuderitz petameko lomwedi ou. ingambo nokonima otaka fudikwa yola omafinamhango a Namibia la Konima yoshiponga. omushamane pOnamukulo. manguluka. Nauyala okwa kala ta mono ouhaku Omushamane Nauyala okwa kala KU OSWALD SHIVUTE MOSHAKATI Omukulupe Matheus Kalunga natango ondyembo ye mu falele, go omaliko gaakwashigwana taga yiwa nago. Pienaar na Ahtisaari va' Omukulupe a tseyika nawa Okwa kundanwa wo kutya omaliko gwomomukunda Oshindobe popepi gaakwashigwana komahala ngoka ~oongamba dha Namibia na Angola otaga yiwa nago. kutya nee uusiku muwnbangalantu wOmungwelwne omanga ya kothanenge omutenya ye indilwa va ninge po sha gwedhina Matheus Kalunga wete ko iinima yawo mwa kwatelwa gwomimvo tadhi tengenekwa dhi Ii unene iimuna yawo ota yi yiwa nayo Onghalo yeameno mowambo unene tuu momukunda Omungwelume 00 uli popepi neengaba dAngola lwopo 60 nenge70 okwa dhipagwa kookalyamupombo mboka unene taya nodaNamibia oili yanyelevala, omukalelipo wowina wOiwanahangano omushamane Martti Ahtisaari kaantu kaye shiwike, uusiku weti tengenekwa kutya oya UNIT A mboka opamwe naNgoloneyandjai omushamane Louis Pienaar ove Ii tava kundafana kombinga yonghalo ei. 11.12.1989 na 12.12.1989. Oshoka pethimbo Iyongaashingeyi ta ku tiwa Omupopindjovo omukulunhu moule womafiku adjako. opo i kale ya katuka onghatu yomeen osha ningwa pokati lela kuusiku. oyiihanena pooha dhoongamba mombelewa yOiwanahangano Eenghundana dikwao odo da dja delelo. osho omushamane Eckhard a Pahokololo otaku tiwa kutya. okuukakuuzilo, ano IwokOkavango. omanga omusamane Matheus naan Oshigwana shaahoka omathimbo omushamane Fred Eckhard. okwa keembinga neembinga odi nasha shivifa ngaho. egwnbo lye ya lala, megumbo omweya ga pita osha pulile egameno Iya shivifa moshiongalele sheenghunda nomatilifo nomadengo 00 ta ningilwa Omushamane Eckhard okwa shiv fana onghela mo Venduka ta ti omu ovakwashiwana kengangala edi ka ifa yo ta ti opolifi yoOiwanahangano aalwnentu yahamano ya homata UNT AG ngeno Ii kale pOmungwelume na osha Ii sha ningwa, lwnenhu wnwe okwa dipawa. keen Unita. Omushamane Pienaar okwa oya shivifa kutya onghalo moNamibia nokOO1ayego. Oya tameke okukonkola gangala daUnita okudilila moAngola. indilwa opo, a kale ashiviflla opolifi oili ya mwena. pondunda yomusamane Kalunga noye nOmbelewa ya UNT AG oko yi Ii mu pendula mo moomposi. Omusa kOmungwelwne. Konima okwa ka mane Kalunga sho e ya pondye, tulwa natango yoPolisi (SWAPOL) aadhipagi mbaka ina ya popya oya ndele nande ongaho inashi kwatha patulula ow ala omulilo koautoma sha,omatilitho onkee ngaa taga londo. Would the following candidates tika nokuyaha omukulupe nguka Omasiku sho ga Ii 9.12.1989 pwaana ohenda yasha noku mu thiga omusamane Andreas Simon a lala mombinzi ye ndele ta hulitha. gwomomukunda Omatangela popepi please phone the Minen Hotel Omukuluntutaleli gwOpolisi ya nOmungwelwne, iikombo ye 35 oya Shakati omusamane Van Zyl kepulo hingwapo omutenya gwaankala, ye in Tsuxneb, tel. (0671) 3071, okwa ti kutya Omusamane Kalunga yi wete, kaalwnentu ye Ii meuni okwa dhipagwa shili kaalwnentu ye foloma dhafa omafo gomakaya ya li yaali uusiku weti 11-12.12.1989 homata nokomayego ndele taya yi and ask for Jenny Hogley, from noondyembo dho AK-47. naadhipagi nayo koAngola. Omuntu iho popi ko r --.- mbaka oya taaguluka oongamba ya nge wa popi ko ongulohi tayi landula ya ku Angola. kukowe. 14-16 December, or at the Okwa kundanwa wo kutya aaka Oshigwana otashi lili notashi pula limo yokomikunda dhoka dhokuwn: kutya Oshigongi shono tashi ningi guest house in Oshakati, 17-19 bangalantu wOmungwelwne. Eeng Ekotampango nashi pe Ongundu hoshi. Oshali, Okalyafengwa, Osh yoSW APO ndyoka ya wina me- indobe, Oikokola nosho tuu oonkwawo . hogololo oonkondo dha gwana po December 1989. oya tameka okutauka mo omolu opo yi tunge noyi tulepo Opolisi Omatilitho nomadhipago taga holoka yaNamibia meendelelo yi gamene momikunda moka kehe ehu oshigw ana manga inashi hulithwa po Inpinge Ndapewa Oshakati liloshiwike. kaatondi yasho. Tsumeb Jason Kombanda * AG se hulp ingeroep ... Shoopapa Rakkel Oshakati Oshakati Selma S. Hamata J.N.lmbili Oshakati UNITA ERG Ondangwa -- Oesiderius E. Hamayula Ongo Josef Ingo Oshakati IN NAMIBIE Ongandjera DIE veiligheidsituasie in die Omungwelume-wyk in Owambo naby Augustus P. Elago die grens tussen Angola en Namibie is steeds kommerwekkend. Die Petrus Rasalia Oshakati aangeleentheid is vandeesweek deur die Verenigde Volke se Spesiale Oshakati Gesant, mnr. Martti Ahtisaari, met die Administrateur-generaal, Christine Shikalepo adv. Louis Pienaar, opgeneem. Volgens 'n Untag-woordvoerder. mnr. Fred Eckhard is 'n man na bewering Hilja N. Ngonga Oshakati deur elemente van Unita vermoor, wat van Angola die land binnegesypel het. Vroeere berigte wil dit he dat voorvalle van aanrandings en molestering van Oshakati burgerlikes, ook deur Unita-rebelle voorkom. Absalom Hannykwayo Adv. Pienaar is gevra om in te gryp en polisie-patrollies in die gebied te Temus liyambula Oshakati gelas. Mnr. Eckhard het gese Untag-polisiemonitors het berig dat die res van Ongandjera Namibie betreklik kalm was en dat net enkde voorvalle aangemeld is. Ephriam K. Shimana Untag-polisiemanne het Dinsdag en Woensdag 373 patrollies landwyd Titus S.H. Hasheela Oshakati ondemeem. waarvan 96 saam met die SW A Polisie uitgevoer is. * Intussen het mnr. Eckhard ook bekend gemaak dat twee vragmotors vol Oshakati wapens en ammunisie, wat aan die berugte en tans gedemobiliseerde SW A Olavi K. Angula Gebiedsmag-eenheid 32 Battaljon behoort het. uit die Kavango-rivier herwin Gabes Amupolo Uukwlundhi is . Die wapens is sowat een kilometer suid van Buttalo deur die polisie gevind. Dit volg nadat The Namibian vroeer oor die vreemde verskynsel berig het. THE NAMIBIAN Friday December 15 1989 17 * Skole-debakel in AGS ... Wittes antwoord DEUR PIUS DUNAISKI DIE Apostoliese Geloofsending (AGS) in Namibie is nie deel van die oon dat ons niks meer wou se nie as regse Interkerklike Vereniging vir C hristelike Opvoeding en dat ons onderhandeling vir die pri v a Onderwys (IVCOO) nie. tisering van onderwys steun vanwee ons bekommemis ooT die toekoms S6 se dr. Nico Horn, onderhande die privatisenngsprogram sal deur van moedertaal-onderrig en 'n Chris laar van die wit afdeling van die die kerke self gefinansier word. Op te1ike onderwys-filosofie. Apostoliese Geloofsending (AGS), 'n verdere eksplisiete vraag of die "Nie ek of die AGS (SW A-Dis in 'n verklaring wat hy gister vanuit privatiseringsprogram daarop gerig trikraad) kan instaan vir die OMAHOOLOLO a ningwa moNamibia muNovomba neudo metonatelo Swakopmund uitgereik is, waar hy is om skole eksklusief wit te hou, het werksaamhede en besluite van die IOiwanahangano (UNT AG) paKakatokolifo 435,itashi ti Namibia okwa tans met vakansie is . ds. Opperman ontkennend IVCOO en die g«stigte privaatmaat manguluka. Oshoyo efindano 10SWAPO momahoololo atya ngaha, Dit volg nadatdie twee swart afde geantwpoord. Hy het my meegedeel skappy nie en betreur die feit dat die itashi ti ehangano eli (SWAPO) ola tameka okupangela oshilongo. lings van die AGS Dinsdagaand 'n dat die enigste basis van die privatis ondertekening van die Verlclaring van sterkbewoorde verklaring uitgereik eringsfilosofie daarop gerig is dat Voomeme die indruk. geskep dat die Ngeenge osho hatu diladila ngaha, ohatu twala omeva oko itaku het waarin die koppeling van die die onderliggende 0p,!oedingsftlosofie afdeling van die kerk deel van die dungwa. naam van die kerk met die regse 'n Christelike basis sal he, dat moe IVCOO se onderhandelingsprogram Omahoololo atya ngaho okwa patululila ashike Namibia omivelo IVCOO skerp veroordeel is. dertaalonderrig in Afrikaans beskerm is of was. delipangelomwene. Opo Namibia a mone enianguluko, na SW APO a Die wit afdeling is daarop gewys sal word en dat hoe standaarde ge "Die AGS is tot op hede nog nie pangele oshilongo eshi, tete okuna okulongekidwa Efinamhango laNamibia dat hy troubreuk gepleeg het omdat handhaaf sal word. Ek het ditook aan amptelik genooi om deel van die a manguluka 010 ole lipyakidilwa nalo paife keengudu dopapolotika 7 hy deel is van die uiters omstrede hom gestel dat geintegreerde skole IVCOO te word nie. Ek het dit egter mOshoongalele mOvenduka. Nongeenge ola pu nola tambulwa ko poging om skole voor opnafban vir my geen probleem is nie en dat ek van die begin af duidelik gemaak dat keengudu adishe odo, nena otaku tokolwa ashike efiku letyapulo klikheid terwyl die Suid-Afrikaanse persoonlik by geen proses betrokke toetrede tot enige liggaam s1egs loshivilo shemanguluko loshilongo shetu, Namibia. verteenwoordiger en Administrateur wil wees wat daarop gerig is om moontlik sal wees as die hele kerk Moule woivike itatu Iwaapo ya pita po paife, oshiwana shaNamibia generaal, adv. Louis Pienaar, steeds skool-segregasie te bevestig nie. gekonsulteer is en die aangeleen osha kala sha tl;!elela netumbaumbwile la kula okuuda ngeenge in die stoel is. "Na aan1eiding van hierdie in theid goedgekeur is. Efinamhango ola pwa nefiku lemanguluko laNamibia otali ka kala ko Die swart afdelings het ook gedreig ligting het ds. Opperman my gevra of " Ek het geen oomblik gedink dat naini. om kop uit te trek uit enige verderer ek bereid sal wees om 'n memoran ons ondetekening van die Verklaring Nande pwa kala okaendanhamhadi nehumokosho la nyika oivinga yodi onderhandelinge om moontlike een dum te onderteken as 'n basis vir van Voorneme so belangrik is datdit kombinga yelongekido IEfinamhango, Osoondaha ya dja ko, wording met die wit kerk weens hul onderhandeling vir die latere stigting hoegenaamd in die media genoem omupresidende woSW APO, omusamane Sam Nujoma, 00 a teelelwa koppeJing aan die planne van IVCOO, van privaatskole. wou word nie, Omdat ek nie bewus yoo aka ninge omupresidende wotete waNamibia a manguluka, okwa wat as sinister beskou. word. "Ek het my daarvan vergewis dat was van die voorafgaande onderhan shilipaleka oshiwana shaNamibia ta ti: "Fye otu na elineekelo la kola Dr. Hom se in sy verduidelikende die Verklaring nie aanspraak maak deiings of die onmiddeliike planne kutya, Efinamltango laNamibia otali ka pwa nokutambulwa ko mefimbo verklaring dat hy jammer is dal die op blanke eksklusiwiteil nie en die van die IVCOO nie, net ek nie voor lihupi tali landula." verkeerde indruk geskep is dat die aangeleenthcid met beskikbare sien dat die kerk by die kontroversie wit AGS wit eksklusiwiteit voorstaan ampsdraers van die SW A-·Distri],;. betrek sou word nie. Ek betrel..r die Omushamane Nujoma okwe slti popya poshoongalele shoSWAPO endalhy vooronafhanklikheid skok raad (blanke afdeling) opgeneem. feil dat di e onderlekening ton veral moKatutura Osoondaha ya dja ko. Osha Ii edimbulukwo lefiku (10 wouhelpprivatiseerdeurmidde1 van Omdal ons van mening was dat daar die ongeluk.kige assosiasie di>! kerk Desemba 1959) ledipaolOvanamibia 12 nelemaneko lovanhu vedule50 die regse pogings, wat ge1ei word weI onder ons gemeente-Iede groot in 'n verleentheid gestel net en span eshi kwa Ii tava fininikilwa konhele hai ifanwa Katutura (Ovenduka) deur voorste Afrikaner-Broederbon sleun vir die privatisering van on ning in die AGS-familie vemorsaak okudja k"Olukanda Likulu" eedula 30 da pita po paife. ders. derwys is, het ons besluit om die he!. Oshoongalele kwa Ii sha kalwa kengafifi lovanhu vaha pu, ovalaule Hy spreek ook sy spyt uit dat sy Verklaring van Voomeme te teken. "In die lig van die feit dat al die novatilyane, ounona nova kulunhu. Osha li yon shotete shoSW AP O ondertekening van die Verlclaring van "Ek het nooit te kenne gegee dat" partye in die G V private onderwys in konima yomahoololo omo SW APO a yauka noshishani shefi ndano Voomeme spanning in die AGS- ek namens die hele AGS teken nie. beginsel aanvaar, is ek van mening komutwe. ) familie gebring het, maar hy vol Inteendeel, ek het baie uitdruk.lik dat die Verklaring van Voomeme Omushamane Nujoma okwa paka yoo eemwenyo doshiwana shaNamibia staan dat hy en die wit AGS die gemeld dat ek net namens die SWA weI een van die belangrikste vrae vim mohondeeshi e shi lombwela vali ta ti: "sw APO okwa teelela Namibia beginsels vap private skole onder Distrikkomitee (blanke afdeling) ons lidmate beantwoord het. Die AGS a ka mone emanguluko moshikako shotete shodula tai uya (1990)." steun, waar onderrig in Afrikaans bptree. Met al die inligting voor my ·(SWA-Distrikraad) wil dee41 van Oshiwana shaNamibia inashi hala ashike shi dje moupikakoloni moet wees en die Christelike opvoed het ek afgelei dat die Verklaring as 'n hierdie gesprek en latere proses wees. wovanailongo, ndele osha hala yoo unene shi mone ehulepo loilonga ingsfilosofie die grondslag is. onderhandelingsdokument sal die met " Ek hel geen mandaal van die bree yomahepeko noyekun~ nomafyo oipundjamenhe 00 taa ningilwa oshiwana Die volledige verklaring lees as die AG, Grondwetgewende Vergad AGS of van die AGS (SWA-Dis shaNamibia, unene tuu moitukulwa yokoumbangalanhu woshilongo, volg: ering en eindelik die Regering van 'n trikkomitee) gehad om gesegregeerde ngaashi Okaoko, Owambo, Okavango nOkaprivi. "Ktpant\;jerigte die afgelope week onafbanklike Namibie. Op geert sta onderwys of voo'r :. onafban Kakele kaasho, oshiwana shaNamibia osho sha kala efimbo lile oihakanwa het die indruk geskep dat die AGS lid dium was dit my of die komi tee se klikheidsprivatisering le ondersteun yefiniriiko noukoloni wOvandowishi oshoyo noweembulu dokatongotongo . is van die sogenaamde Interkerklike voomeme om die toekomstige reger nie. Ek het wel ,o n mandaat gehad om ing te systap nie. namens die Distrikkomitee die be depangelo laSouth Africa, osha hala yo unene onghalo yombili, youkumwe Vereniging vir Christelike Opvoed ing en Onderwys of aktief deelgeneem "Indien daar weI sodanige pog ginsel van geprivatiseerde onderwys nouyuukl yi ule noi pangele moNamibia. het aan die beplande privatisering ings was, distansieerdie AGS-SWA te steun. Omuvalu muhapu woshiwana shaNamibia 00 wa hoolola SW APO opo van sestien blanke skole in N amibie. Distrikkomitee hom daarvan. Net so "Oeur die ondertekening van die a findane momahoololo a dja ko, osha diladila noshe lipula tete kutya, "Die feit van die saak is egter dat was dit geensins ~ns bedoeling om Verklaring van Voomeme wou ek kapena vali ongudu imwe tai dulu okunawapah!ka nokuyukipaleka die AGS nooit lid van die komitee deiIr' die Verklaring blanke eksklu- · uitdrukking gee aan ons gemeenskap nokumbilipaleka onghalo yaNamibia, kashi shii oSW APO yaNamibia. was nie en dat die sogenaamde blanke siwiteit te steun nie. Indien dit 'n se bree steun aan moedertaal-onder Mefimbo lopaife otaku kundanwa noipala tal limemesha kehafo kutya, Distrikraad (AGS) ook nooit enige verskuilde agenda is distansieer ek rig en 'n Christelike onderwysfilosofie. elongekido IEfinamhango laNamibia mupe otali humu' nawa komesho. besluit geneem het om deel daai.Y.an my daarvan. Dit was al watds. Oppermannamens Shaashi oinima ihapu yEfinamhango oya pwa noya taambulwa ko yoo te word nie. "Ek het nooit die indruk. van ds. die IVCOO van ons gevra hel en dit kOshoongalele ashishe. Okwa tokolwa nokwa hangwa yoo etwokumwe "Die AGS (blanke Distrikraad) Opperman gekry dat die komitee hom was die enigsle bydrae wat ons ge- kutya, elaka IOshiingilisha otali ka kala lopambelewa muNamibia a het die eersted keer kennis van 'n: tot blanke eksklusiwiteit verbind of . lewer het. mangulukaj Namibia ota kala oshilongo shimwe ashikej omukalo kerklike komitee se bestaan gekry onderhandelings wil systap nie. "Die doelstellings van die komitee, womahoololo 00 tau ka longifwa monakwiiwaj oshikandjo shehongo toe ons op 7 Desember 1989 na 'n "Indien die ondertekening van die soos dit in die pers weergee is, was otashii ka kala shimwe ashike muNamibia alishe la mangulauka. vergadering genooi is, wat niemand Verklaring 'n verkeerde indruk gewek nie die indruk wat ek gekry hel in my Kakele kaasho, ope na elineekelo kutya, itapa ka holoka vali naanaa van die betrokke afdeling kon by het, vra ek verskoning. Ek wi! beklemt- gesprekke melds. Opperman nie." unene okuhatwa kumwe moinima ihapu. Eengudu 7 odo di li woon nie. N Ii die vergadering het ds. mOshoongalele osho, oda dimbulula kutya ode lineekelelwa Callie Opperman my geskakel en * Beweringe oor moordlys... oshinakuwanifwapo sha kula nosha finiana unene okulongekida meegedeel dat die Susterskerke nokumana diva Efmamhango laNamibia, opo ku monike diva enianguluko, . onderhandeinge met die oog op pri vatisering van die onderwysstelsel noilonga youkolonipika i hule po diva. aan die gang wil sit. Op geen stadium STAPPE KOM TEE ElongelokuD;lwe pokati k~paa~i 7 mOshoongalel,e shokulongekidila Namibia Efinamh'ango" okwa . 'Ii ' Ia ' holoka vali ' potiyell!le; eshi' ~ is die kerk ingeli~ . ooc die v~g~~ " gesprekke met dleAG of eruge plantte -r omunashipUrfdi :wOshion-gfQsfio, Hage Gei~gob (SW'APO),li ' pitifa: om sekere skole voor onafhanklikw.or- , OUERKOMITE-E- omushangwa porihele' yeengudtradishe-'7 inOsl)iongi. Oniushangwa'ou: ~: ding te privati seer nie. ota pangula noriyariya notau 'ekeleshi kokule omadiladilo Eengeleki. "Inteendeel, ds. Callie Opperman 'n MAN van Windhoek, mnr. J.R. Gebhardt, het-gister sy prokureur dovatilyane odo da hala di ninge eefikola doviltilyarie 'di kale dopaumwene' :. het op 'n ekspli~iete vraag van my I' iristruksies gegee om regstappe teen die Ouerkomitee te neem oor nelalakano lokuhumifa Komeslio' okatongotongo. '. _. Maartl990 as die datum vanprivatis- . beweringe van 'n moordlys van SwapQ. -"".', 1 . Kakele kaasho, omafikameno aSW APO' okudiminafana po' ering genoem. Daarbenewens het Ope brief aan die Moderator van die die mense bevredig. As jy 'n mens vir Nederduits-Gerefonneerde (NG) Kerk die mense is, dan sal almal na jou toe in Namibie, Ds. Kobus de Klerk. FOCUS on letters /briewe / eembilive 'Stroom, maar as jy ' n mens is vir jou eie 1. Oit is nie met verbasing dat ek die belange is, dan moet jy maar vergeet. afrikaanse Kerke se jonste stappe tot Julie het kans gehad om hierdie versteweging en voortsetting van hul nie. (onbepaalde) verskillende vonisse was nie. Net die hof het die reg om 'n Namibie te regeer, maar al wat julle vir basiese lewensuitkyk, naamlik die 12. Hoe die eksklusiewe en verhewe uitdien! Slegs een keer was e: k deur die vonnis te wysig of op te Ie, nie die ons gebring het is net dood, verval en eksklusiwiteit van die afrikaner, en ook beeld en siening rym met die woorde hof gevonnis, die ander twee Kere is ek gevangenis nie! agteruitgang van die bevolking. Julie andere wat op hul beurt in die' 'voor van die Meester: "Hy wal onder julle deur die gevangeniswese gevonnis. lndien hulle dit doen, dan is dit mos het die mense van Namibie gekolonial regte" van die eksklusiwiteit wil deel, die grootste wil wees moet die gering Vol gens my, het die gevangeniswese 'n misdaad wat hulle pleeg, want hulle iseer. Daar is geen rede hoekom julie aangehoor het nie. ste wees" en "Hieraan sal die wereld geen reg om die vonnis wat ek deur 'n neem die gereg in hulle eie hande. nog hier moet staan en probeer mense 2. Truuens, toe die afrikaner nog weet datjulle my volgelingeis, datjulle hof opgele was, te wysig of by 'n nuwe As die wet hulle dus toelaat om dit te omkoop nie. vasgevang was in die greep van die mekaar liefhet" , is moeilik te verstaan. wetgewing in te Iyf nie. Daarom beskou ,doen, dan is hulle mos ook geregtig om Nou eers skrik julie wakker, omdat destydse "arm-blanke milieu, het hy 13. NOli onstaan die volgende klomp ek my straf as onderdrukking, korrup die doodsvonnis op te Ie en te volstrek. julle gesien het dat die regte leiers die ten spyte van sy armoede, geloofin die vrae by my. sie, vervalsing van straf en slawe aan Die gevangenis is nou besig om my trone oorgeneem het. Genoeg is Ware God beoefen en tereg sy kop 13.1 lndien die motiewe om eie pri houding. Elke keer se die gevangenis teen die polisie op te steek, sodat ek by genoeg, ons wil niks meer oor julie se opgelig en die lang pad tot selfver vaat skole daar te stel uit suiwer mo raad vir my, "Jong, jou straf het die hof skuldig bevind kan word en kommentaar hoor nie. wesenliking op sosio-ekonomiese, po tiewe voortgespruit h<;t, is die gevolge gedraai, dit loop nie meer so nie, maar hierdie onwettige parool waarmee Julie het die regering in julle se litieke en elke ganse terrein van sy wat die ontneming van die groot aantal so". hulle my gelos het, kan verlooren weer hande gehad, maar jul eie belange hel bestaan aangepak. skole as · staatsskole vir die ge Wat hetdan geword van diestrafwat onwettig vir drie jaar weggebere kan daarin geslaag. Julle het nie na mense 3. Soos hierdie strewes vervul is, het mee05kappe waarvoor hulle beplan en die hof my in die eerste plek opgele word. • se behoeftes gekyk nie. Ons mense was 'n gees van selfverhewenheid in hom opgerig is; in ag geneem? het? Waarom was ek nooit toegelaat om Ek vra weereens vir regshulp. Ek sal roekeloos as gevolg van armoede. Ons posgevat. 'n Super-afrikaner beeld is 13.2 Watter alternatiewe fasiliteite my straf uit te dien soos wat die hof dit self terugbetaal as ek vrygelaat word en mense was lafhaarte as gevolg van soos 'n kombers oor die yolk versprei, sou die Administrateur-generaal vir my opgele het nie?Waarom plaas fondse ion die hande kry. apartheid. daama doelbewus opgebou en voorge daargestel het om voorsiening te die gevangenis dubbelle standaarde Vra tog vir Adv. Louis Pienaar Nou, vandag streef ons nou na 'n hou in Kerk, skool en huis. Dit het 'n maak vir daardie ouers se kinders wat toe? Moet ek nou twee verskillende waarom die toestande in sy tronke so nuwe Namibie. ineengestrengelde deel van die afri nie die hoe koste van die privaatskole strawe uitdien ooreen misdaad? Strawe is? Hoekom word daar slawe aangehou Ons is nou uit die land waar ons kanerdenkwyse gevorm en op verskeie en of koshuise sou kon bekostig nie, of wat ek nie deur die hof opgele is nie. terwyl die wet nie so se nie. geween en getreur. wyses na buite geopenbaar. wie se kinders nie sou kwalifiseer om in My lewe is gesteel deur die My gevagenis nommer is: 1736/84, Down Apartheid!! 4. Andervolkere watookdiepad van die privaatskool opgeneem te word en gevangeniswese onder leiding van die Dennis Saayman. Namibie is die land vir die me05e, die verhewendheid voor die bestaan van weggewys sou word en desnoods AG en as ek dit praat, dan word ek Help my tog asseblief! land vir hulle wat omgee. Viva Swapo! die afrikaner gevolg het, se uiteinde het aangewese sou wees op die volgende vervolg. 005 is trots om Sam Nujoma die Presi nie die afrikaner weerhou om soos naaste staats.kool, maak nie saak hoe Ek is 'n Swapo ondersteuner en be dent van Namibia Ie sien. hulle, steeds die gekose weg te volg nie ver daardie skool van sy woning gelee rus my ten volle by die beleid van my Long live Sam Nujoma! en, soos hulle, uiteindelik by die sou wees nie. organisasie. Ek het ook niemand wat 005 voel tuis om in onafhanklik Liewe Namibiane kom laat ons die "Groot Hond, Baasskap en Ekslu 13.3 Aan hoeveel swart kinders sal my kan help nie, daarom skryf ek na die Natnibie te bly onder die leiding van land opbou. siwiteit", noem dit soos jy verkies, moedertaal onderrig verskaf word en in Namibian. Swapo. Gei.kryf deur G. City Moses van gebring. welke tale? Of sal die "moedertaal" Vandat Wet 51 van 1977 in werking Swapo is die menseen die mense van Rundu Senior. 5. Vanself~prekend het die gees van beperk wees' tot Afrikaans? getree het, word ek as 'n slaaf van die Namibie is Swapo. Hierdie is a statiese baasskap geIei tot waar elke ander 13.4 Om welke redes moes u die Windhoek gevangenis aangehou. feit. 005 wat die Namibiane is, is trots groep of persoon vera! die swart- en ekslusiewe reg gehad het om aIleen Ek is op die oomblik op parool vir om in Narnibie te bly onder die regering FOCUS MOEDIG bruinman, aan die mees onchristelike aansoek te doen om staatskole te ver drie jaar vrygelaat onder wet 51 van vanSwapo. UAANOM staatsvervolging , vernedering, pyn en huuroftekoop. Wat van ander kerk en 1977 omdat die gevangenis my die Ek is maar jammer vir die man wat leiding denkbaar onderwerp is. ander instansies wat ook van die voor DTA se onbepaalde straf opgele het - nou die dag in die Radio van Nasionale . GEREELD BRIEWE 6. ill: glo vas en die bewyse is daar reg gebruik sou wou gemaak het? die minimum sewe jaar. Daar is egter diens geprat het en gese " AI wat die TESKRYF: vir almal om te sien, dat die Ware God, 13.5 Was die hele plan nie 'n geen lasbrief wat dit kan bekragtig nie swartes ken is net om ver Swapo te RIG BRIEWE AAN (eenmaal wei gevolg deur die "arm selfsugtige oefening nie? en dit verskyn ook nie op my rekord stem. Wat het Sam Nujoma wat laat al afrikaner") die duisende gebede, ver Vriendelike groete. nie. die swartes agter .hom hardloop?" THE NAMIBIAN sugtinge en hulpgeroep van die ellendi E.R.Liiff Asseblief, help my tog met regshulp. Liewe broer, dit gaan nie om kopery FOCUS ges, verdruktes en vervolgdes wat diep Die gevangenis moes my in 1977 sodat die mense jou moet volg nie, uit die hart na bo geklim het, gehoor en onvoorwaardelik vrygelaat het, toe maar dit gaan om die waarheid en POSBUS 20783 verhoor het tot waar Hy sy regterhand Wet 56 van 1955 geskrapis,omdatdaar mense se regte. Dit maak nie saak of hy 9000 uitgesteek en verlossing gegee het. Ek is op die 09-12-1969 tot 'n ge geen verdere lasbrief -vir inhegtenis iets besit of nie. Die Namibiane het die 7. Al die slegseery, verdaagmakery, woonde misdadiger verklaar met onder name onder die nuwe Wet 51 van 1977 Organisasie gekies' wat die regte van WINDHOEK kon die verdruktes nie van 'n oorwin andere 'n onbepaalde vonnis. Onder ning beroof nie. Verby is vir hulle die daardie Wet, waaronder ek gevonnis dae toe hul geliefdes wat in hul ~tryd was, Wet 5(jvan lOSS was dit9 -15jaar r---~------. ·gesneuwel het soos vervloektes op tronkstraf. Kaspirs op onmenslike wyse vertoon is Op die agste j aar van die 9 - 15 jaar sonder dat een stem van teenstand deur gevangenisstraf, dit wil se in 1977, SECRETARY WANTED enige kerkman van die drie afrikaanse Junie 30, word ek meegedeel dat ek kerke gehoor is. moet vergeet van die ou straf, want daar 8. Die voorbeeld van die Iyke op die is nou 'n nuwe Wet wat ingetree het met Kaspirs wordjuis uitgebeeld, omdat na 'n nuwe straf. Oie nuwe wet was Wet 51 We are a very busy office ~ith a great many my mening dit die logiese kulminasie is van 1977 met 'n wysigde tronkstrafvan van die eksklusiewe en verhewe lewen 7 - 15 jaar. people coming and going and we need a swyse wat deel vonn van die tot dusver Ek was nog nooit deurenige hofso 'n regerende afrikaner. gevangenisstraf opgele nie. Die secretary to look after the daily running of 9. Waar geen respek vir die dooie is gevangeniswese het my gedwing om nie, is ook geen eerbied vir die lewende die straf uit te dien. the office. nie, hy is juis 'n vertoonde lyk omdat Oit kom ook nerens op my misdaad daar geen eerbied vir lewe is nie. Al mal rekord dat ek onder die nuwe Wet 51 wat die "baasskap" teenstaan moet van 1977 'n onbepaalde vonnis opgele uitgewus en stilgem~ word as hulle was nie. The main task will be typing - aild experience hulle nie dan wil onderwerp nie! Die detde keer word ek op 31 Julie 10. Bogestelde siening is deur bele 1987 vertel dat die straf gedraai het na in using a personal computer would be an wenisse en gebeurtenisse wat ek oor die sewe jaar minimum. Hierdie sewe jaar afgelope 40 jaar as lidmaat van die minimum is deur die kabinet van die advantage, reception work - both personal and N.G.Kerk moes beleef en voor my oe destydse oorgangsregering opgestel en I sien ontvou het. op my uitgevoer en dit is die straf on the telephone and filing. 11. Daarom dus, geen verbassing oor waarmee ek nou worste!. die jongste skuif om die status quo van Vir een misdaad wat ek in die jaar eksklusiwiteit te behou en te verskans 1969 gepleeg het, moet ek nou drie The secretary we are looking for must be a Namibian and has to be proficient in English I and speak ~t least one Namibian language~ . and Turkey R6,50 should preferably have some knowledge of per kilogram Afrikaans. ~xperience from work~g to improve the efficiency of our office will': be preferred. X-tnas Ham R8,99 ' We would ·want you to start your work here at the beginrii~g of January 1990 per kilo.gram .~:. ,~ . If you tbi~~ this job might be what.' ', you are.. . GST excluded looking for, please apply in writing to: T.O. Dix I r. harf/ietA, I P.o. Box 9965 Eros 9000 "I Windhoek ~------~ · ,4 II If ~'ll '''''1., t 20 Friday December 15 19i.~ THE NAMIBIAN .... -- - .. - __a_ ----Quick Curl * Perfection----- 47 Stanley House CI1ASSI~~~iJS:: i\~: ;i;f~: Bulow Street P.O. Box 3145 Windhoek WHAT'S ······ ON ...... -TO----:A--D-VE-R-TI-SE-C--A--LL--,: Tel: (061) 22-8795 (061) 36970 etc. etc. etc. Quick Curl - Perfection for all seasons. Contact Juliana at tel. (061) 22-8795 1-_____. _.J ~--~------. - ~, ------~ T EFRIENO The Sparkle III URGENT SALE -----l 1970 VW Kombi 1975 B.M.W. (061) 63028 Namibia 11ft you in good . mEHOTIEST 3.0. Engjne in Your friend in ENTERTAINMENT 1977 120Y course condition. New IN TOWN III very good crisis Datsun thejob." motor, radio The ENTERTAINMENT OpeD: condition. COMP LEX that do.s not Wl:DNUDA YS, for sale Help as close r WOl~""~to~ I R4 5001 Airconditioner stop. ~aI""'I~ I ralDAYSA e..co... 01 ..... ~ond ..... For mor. Information CJlII SATUIlDAYS. lIQnng~ l .... atJNllo I as a telephone Please phone ·s..""'owPtcac.."....fttc:Ic...cI~ ~ and radio. 21 6684 o-n PCII:..--"'Ql(1J'\.~ Please contact Mr ,Phone between for mo~ info call: 38628 (w) ' ''''''~ Ringhofer . --~ (061)211706 • COWVIIIt_ at tel. 22-5541 (w) I 10hOO-23hOO or 211741 22-3059 (h) • _COOIIUI Price: R5 000 ~~ KATUTURA @J~Y-./ URGENT FANIE SUPER PIKUE Windhoek MARKET MINI -.--.. - ...... IHn'~ ====..... Brick Paving SALE T.. : 21Ji&U MARKET FUN.-- FAIT. Tin I"; l :n :flY COLLEGE ii D.n .\1 .\1.1. '0"'''''T.I, .1 .... Suiderhof 1" II 1("; F(I'1( Precast Walls • ",,""H eE AHR \ LE#Xt.o R140000 • !. PIiA'f P ""I,...lING GENERAL DEAlER I It It -"I ' U T\! 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We are II Old Compound. • Threeships Wiskey - NEXT EDITION Ple~ call at Birdy'S , :-{0-4 52309 after hours RI6,99 4------~ NEEDED TO RENT ONE FLICK AND THEY One-bedroomed flat or a Red 80B Bomber smaller house near city ARE GONE (Mountain Bike) urgently needed to rent Mice, rats, cock for sale as good by the representative of developmenl aid from roaches, termites as new Denmark For efficient pest control Phone: FLICK PEST Please Phone Please phone 32556 in the morning and after CONTROL Estelle 307-2412 (w) - 17hOO (Q6)) 222549. THE NAMIBIAN Friday December f5 '1989 21 VIENNA - The Warsaw Pact Gustav Husak, the hardline president thousands of fellow inmates in camps presented a draft treaty forreducing installed in the wake of the 1968 throughout Hong Kong conventional forces in Europe (CFE), Soviet-led invasion, resigned on demonstrated against repatriation, beating NATO's version by a few Sunday and the Czechoslovak the government said. The protests hours. In Brussels, NATO foreign constitution says parliament must have escalated in the two days since ministers said they had agreed on choose a new head of state within Hong Kong started deponing boat their draft treaty and it would be 14 days of the post becoming vacant. people it views as illegal immigrants tabled later in the day. NATO wants back to Vietnam. a CFE treaty signed by the end of BELGRADE - Serbia, Yugoslavia's next year. biggest republic, looked increasingly DZAOUDZl,MAYOITEISLAND isolated in resisting democratic Mercenary leader Bob Denard said PEKING - China and the Soviet changes in the communist world he and his comrades would leave Union are planning high-level talks after Croatia joined Slovenia in the Comoro Islands in a day or so if next week which diplomats expect supporting free multi-party elections. they were permitted an honourable will tackle their shifting relations exit with a ceremonial han'dover to with Washington and a brewing MANILA - Attackers used grenade French officers. Denard, whose men ideological row over the demise of launchers to blas t the home of a seized control of the Indian Ocean communism in eastern Europe. U.S. diplomat and an American islands after the killing of President Diplomats said the meeting in Peking embassy housing complex in the Ahmed Abdallah on November 26, could provide the first oppon unity Philippine capital, police said. A said in the Comoros' capital Moroni for substantive talks between the Filipino carpenter was wounded. that the mercenaries should not face two communist giants on the historic The blasts hit Manila the day after criminal proceedings. As a French changes sweeping eastern Europe. defence secretary Fidel Ramos naval task force cruised off the former warned that army rebels who staged colony, Denard made itclearhe and NEW APPROACH PRAGUE - Czechoslovakia's new this month's coup attempt could his 30 comrades did not intend to president will be chosen by launch a series of "terrorist attacks." skulk away furtively. parliament and not by a nationwide FOR VINTAGE WINE vote, according to a deal struck HONG KONG - A Vietnamese man TUNIS - The Palestine Liberation between communist pany leaders locked up in a Hong Kong detention Organisation (PLO) condemned an and the civic forum opposition. centre tried to hang himself while attack on Syrian soldiers in south DISTRI BUTION Lebanon and said it was trying to IN A UNIQUE scheme, Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery is releasing find out who was responsible. a limited selection of its top vintage red wines which have now Security sources in the southern reached their optimum drinking age. town of Sidon said fighters from Under this scheme, which is not designed to compete with auctions or any Fatah, the main PLO group, opened other vehicle for obtaining red wines, the wines will not be sold by tender but fire on Syrian soldiers manning a rather at set prices to retailers, restauranteurs and hoteliers. checkpoint. At least 13 people were The wines, which will be priced at \Ulder R30 a bottle, will be released killed am 19 wounded in the clashes, annually. the sources said. Once the wines have been sold out, no further wines will be released \Ultil the following year. JERUSALEM - Israel's central bank Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery has also said that it is "aiming for equitable chief ignited controversy by calling distribution" , meaning that the wines will be available in the major centres of for cuts in the country's massive South Africa and Namibia. defence spending, citing evidence The first release of the company's Reserve Cellar Wines will include limited that Syria and Jordan had reduced quantities of the 1979, 1980 and 1981 vintages of Zonnenblom Cabernet their military outlays. Defence Sauvignon, Shiraz and Pinotage, and 1980 and 1981 vintages of Chateau officials retoned that it was too Libertas. early to judge and demanded an extra 150 million dollars next year to cover the cost of fighting the TODAY'S WEATHER Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. THE Weather Bureau's detailed forecast for the rest of today for Namibia: PARIS - Li bya has cut shipping and • Hot but very hot in the north. It will be cooler in the south today_ communications links with France Isolated thundershowers can be expected over the Caprivi and in s surprise move reflecting SATURDAY night's feature mm, 'Mercy or Murder?', stars Robert extreme north-eastern areas. Coast, cool with fog overnight but worsening political relations, the fine in the south. Wind, moderate south-westerly but fresh southerly Young in this pOwerful, true story based on the celebrated and French foreign ministry said. controversial case of Roswell Gilber, a senior citizen who took the in the south. life of his terminally ill wife and was later tried and convicted of murder. On at 20h25...... ···.·Re·i·o·r·n··e·es.· ••• ··wi·i ··f1 ··· ••· .• ce ·ff·i·'i·cs·tes WEEKEND'S TELEVISION '...... / ....y: ... :<> .. ' •••...••.•••.•• .. '...... ' ...... ••.••.. . ' 22h20: Spenser for Hire FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15 23h06: Dolly Parton ai·pl.af!1a§:·.. p · ~ : ~~gre~S · il1agrlculture , 23h52: Epilogue 17h58: Programme Schedule le:attlerwork,s·h:ge-maki ng, .weavi ng, 18hOO: Weet J y Nle SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 18h07: Alvin and the Chipmunks 18h15: Mysterious Cities of Gold 16hOO: Programrooster tailoring, ·brickpaving, carpentry and 18h43: Educational Programmes 16h03: Educational Programmes " Let Me See: Ants and "With Patsy at St Worms" Vincent" breadmakihg are kindly requested " Maths for beginners: "Manufacturing Games: Addition" Stockings" to filliQ/f()rmsfQrprojE!cts at the 19h10: McGyver "Parents Prepare: Music 20hOO: Suidwes-n uusIW eerberig and the Pre-Primary 20h27: Feature Film Child" ·i i()llc:)wir1gpla¢.~s: ·· "Hot Shot Sports Movie" "Science Topics: Electro- 22hOO: NewslWeather Report Magnetic Spectrum" 22h20: Sport 17hOO: Programrooster 23h20: The Forum Presents: 17h02: The Arabians (New) "Tavares" 17h27: Soekl1g op 435 (Herhallng) RRR offices in Windhoek, 8 Mont 23h08: Dagslulting 17h47L Wild Country 18h17: Beyond 2000 B,lanc Street, Eros; I SATURDAY,. DECEMBER 16 19h03: Food for Faith 10hl5: Charls! 17h58: Programrooster 19h30: Christen Forum 18hOO: Children's Bible 20hOO: Nuusoorslg 18h05: Miena, Moe & Kie 20h20: The Scheme of Things SwapQ(!jfficesi "Every single one of the 40 000 from contributing fully to, or bene continued from page 23 day night when a hat-trick by striker continued from page 11 I children who die each day," says fItting fully from, the development Vata Garcia helped them to a 5-1 win sustained effort to support fami Unicef, • 'was a child who had a per of their communities and their na furt take on Bocr ' ~m, while Leverkusen over Setubal. lies everywhere in using new knowl sonality and a potential, a family and tions; face what should be the easiest of the The victory helped the champions edge about the importance of timing a future. And for every child who has * hopelessness and the denial of three matches against next-to-bottom maintain third place, one point behind births, about exclusive breast-feed died today, several more are living opportunity erode self-respect and Homburg. leaders Porto who have 19. Second ing for the fIrst few months of life, on with malnutrition l\lld ill health, sow the seeds of almost insoluble Bayem and Frankfurt have, how placed Guimaraes are also on 19 points and about how to actively promote a unable to fulm the mental and physi social problems for future genera- . ever, looked more impressive this sea but have played and extra match. child's nutritional health, could trans cal potential with which they were tions; son than Leverkusen. Benfica and Porto both face easy Benfica maintained their challenge matches at home this weekend against form the well-being of millions of born". * entrenched injustices, and the in the Portuguese league on Wednes- lowly Madeira and Feirense. children in the decade ahead". "Death and suffering on this scale," parading of unattainable wealth be states Grant, "is simply no longer fore the eyes of poverty, provoke an OUTBREAK OF PEACE necessary. It is therefore no longer instability and violence which often acceptable. Morality must march with take on a life of their own; Pointing out that military spend capacity." * deprivation precludes environ ing has been cut or frozen in the But there is also a practical argu mental sensitivity, forcing millions United States, USSR, China, India ment. The long-term consequences to over-exploit their surroundings in and Pakistan, and that there are now are well-known says· the State of the the name of survival. fewer wars being fought than at any World's Children report: For these practical and long term time in the last 50 years, Grant be * malnutrition means poor physi reasons:Unicef concludes that a major lieves that an outbreak of peace could cal and mental growth, poor per renewal of effort to protect the lives reJRsent an oppornmity for the world's formance at school and at work, and and the developmmt of children would children. the perpetuation of poverty from one be • 'the greatest long-term invest The sums involved are so huge - generation to the next; ment which the human race could with the world's military spending * high child death rates mean high make in its future economic prosper now exceeding the combined incomes birth rates and rapid population growth; ity, political stability, and environ of half of humanity - that even a * lack of education precludes people mental integrity". partial escape from today' s levels of military spending could bring new vistas of human achievement sud denly nearer. ,. Assuming some prog ress in resolving the debt crisis," GELDING WINS KIM says Grant,.' 'then even a 5 per cent or I 0 per cent diversion of military spending could provide an additional HUGHES HANDICAP 50 billion dollars or so each year which is needed to end absolute poverty THE four-year-old Gelding Pass The Line ran a gallant race for on the planet within the next ten years, enabling people everywhere victory in the R28 000 Kim Hughes handicap, run over 2000 to meet their own and their chil metres at Clairwood Park Racecourse yesterday. dren's needs for food, water, health Carrying a hefty 59,5kg, Pass the Line made all the running then care and education' , . fought on gamely in the rwish when challenged by favourite "It is Unicef's concern to argue," Olden Times to win by a head. says the report, "that the needs of Pass the Line moved over from his outside stall to take the lead children should become the new soon after the start with Dei Tem pestad moving into second place preoccupation as our world struggles ahead of Classic Lady and Olden Times. free from its long and wasteful pre This order remained the same into the home straight where Pass occupation with war." The moral argument for this 'new the Line first shook off a raced last, came through in the staright preoccupation' is an obvious one. to take third place ahead of Morning Drive. " ! " I I I , , I', . 'I"" ,I.II ' 1 , Departures - Lusaka For further International Airport details, contact Zambia ~-irways .at t~t .··22~~62.3 ' '2Z-3748 22-3930 22-3840 or your nearest I , II travel agent. II I· tZ) Zlimbia Airways We're getting better all the time I THE NAMIBIAN Friday December 113 1989 23 EUROPEAN SOCCER: ....;,. As the l.talianJran~fer " mani~ hots IUp . 't· .. FIRST THREE , , BAG~IO BECOME'S , GROUP~ - PREVIEW -' GROUP A . -' (Playing in Rome and Florence) SU ~BJ ECT OF GROWl NG ITALY - The hosts have shown mixed form in friendly matches and coach Azeglio Vicini cannot be too reassured. They are strong at the back but far from lethal CONJECTURE in attack. ITALY'S brightest young striking star, Roberto Baggio, is the subject of growing conjecture as the seasons. AUSTRIA - Tony Polster Italian league transfer merry-go-round gathers pace with barely half the season gone. Second-placed Barcelona also play signalled his pursuit of the away in Malaga where they have not Golden Boot award in Italy with Baggio, Fiorentina's creative inspi. top clubs next season if the team con up a side able to take the title or I shall lost in 12 seasons. ration and the country's joint leading tinues to languish near the bottom of find a team who can ... potentially PS V Eindhoven should have little a hat-trick in Austria's final sco.rer with eight goals, has told club the table. Fiorentina could be among the league trouble in disposing bottom-of-the qualifying win over East o.fficials he wants to move to one of the "Either Fiorentina's manager build leaders, " Baggio told reporters. table Haarlem at home tomorrow. Germany. "I'm not interested in the UEFA Thew Dutch champions have striker competition or the Italian Cup. Wim Kieft under treatment but he is CZECHOSLOVAKlA - The expected to. recover to resume his pro Fiorentina should be fighting to win the Czechs, runners-up in 1934 and league. " lific partnership with the Brazilian SOCCER Baggio said the uncertainty about his Romario. 1962, are in the finals for the future had affected his performances PS V are a point behind joint leaders first time in 24 years but they recentl y. "I'm still at ease and the nerv- Ajax Amsterdam and Volendam with look short on firework. 0usness is affecting my game. It's bad two games in hand, but may not be able SAFARI for me and bad for the team" to close the gap this weekend as Ajax UNITED STATES - As hosts In response to suggestions that hi s should also pick up two Po.ints at home for the 1994 World Cup, the BY agent was already negotiating a deal to lowly NEC Nijmegen. The struggle between Bordeaux and Americans badly needed to CONRAD ANGULA with AC Milan, he said: "I don't know whether that's true, but it could be." Marseille at the top of the Frenck qualify and only just made it. Elsewhere, numerous other clubs are league comes to a temporary halt on already falling over themselves to Sunday when French clubs play their GROUPB NON-RACIAL strengthen their squads for 1990. last games befo.re the six-week winter (Playing in Naples and Bari) Apart from Baggio, one of Napoli's break, two Brazilians, Alemo.a, is reported to Top of the table with 34 points, three heading for Sampdoria and may be ahead of Marseille, Bordeaux should ARGENTINA Diego SPORTS IN SIGHT replaced by his international colleague celebrate the New Year with a victory, Maradona will be delighted the Bebeto, a player highly recommended as they play host to middle-of-the-table holders are based in his adopted and the "white" Sports Council's days are by Argentine World Cup captain Diego Lille. home town of Naples. Much numbered Maradona. Marseille also look set for a comfort will hinge on Maradona's fitness Baggio will have a good chance to able afternoon against bottom-placed though Jorge Valdano' s Nice. Along with their rivals, they will WITH the historical multi-racial meeting of sports persons, addressed display his talents when Fiorentina comeback with Real Madrid play second-placed Internazionale ori resume after the break on Febraury 4. by Mr Buddy Wentworth -a Swapo member of the Constituent A~sem after retiring in 1987 is a big bly - at the Roman Catholic Church Hall in Khomasdal on Wednesday, Sunday, the weekend's m'ain attraction The West German league lies dor mant until Febraury 24 after this week boost. Namibian sport is slowly moving towards forming one sports control aside from AC Milan's televised ap end, which sees joint ·Ieaders Bayern ling body only. pearance in the World Cluli Champion ship in Tokyo earlier in the day. Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt and ,Bayer There will be difficulties, .howeyer, Mr Keith Allies, national organizer SOVIET UNION - The solid Inter 'fans are hoping for the long Leverkusen making a final bid to estab· base which helped the Soviets of Nanru, stressed to The Namibian. "We will have to sit down and lish a temporary advantage over their awaited return of West German captain to the European Championship draw up a constitution that wil1 ~e acceptable to the majority of the and mid-field dynamo. Lo.th~ Mat- ' ·riyals. ' people," he said. theus, missing for six 'weeks with an . Bayem meet Karlsruhe .and Fran~- final is still there and the team If the idea to form a non-racial spOrtS council ever 'comes to. fruition, ankle injury. has grown in confidence over continue~ on page 22 Namibian sport will, for the first time in its history, be controlled by,a Spanish league leaders Real Madrid, I the last three years. single body that will operate in the interes~ of everyoqe involved. in majestic form at home, will be look And all sportS, persons will be abl~ t9 loo.k forward to 'a healthy and ing for similar fireworks in their away RUMANIA - In the finals for entertaining time playing their spOrt. . clash against Logrones, a side they the first time since 1970, the have comfortably beaten in the past two Black Namibians have been taken for a ride in the past, but will benefit Rumanians are quick and skilful together with their white fellow Namibians in the future. as they proved in the shock The standard of black sports -except soccer'and rugby to an e~tent - has dismissal of Denmark. deteriorated drastically and this condition is also caused by the fact that there are many types of sport played in the white towns in which blacks CAMEROON - All the way do not participate. from Africa A surprise in 1982 "The apartheid laws that were implanted on us and prevented us from when they were unbeaten in using the better sports facilities in the white surburbs - that were built their three group games, with the government's money - will disappear once and for all in the Cameroon should benefit from not-so-distant future, and we will also be able to use the facilities that the European experience of their were built with our tax money," said a top Otjiwarongo tennis player. top players. The tennis players of Orwetoveni, the black township of Otjiwarongo, have to play their game on a gravel court. "There are no standard facilities for the blacks, so we have to battle it out on the ground, for the GROUPC love of the sport," said the furious player. (Playing in Turin and Genoa) Mr Wim Lotter, director of the SW AlNamibia Sports Council, when approached to comment on. the initiative to form a non-racial sports BRAZil. - The South American council, said he was not approached by the people involved. "So I don't champion have gone really know what their motives and intentions are," he stressed. "We • 'European", introducing a (the SC) are a very big body with SS controlling bodies, and are not sweeper system. They look feeling affected by the idea. But ifthey want to invite us for talks, we will balanced and dangerous as they certainly accept their move but I am really in the dark as I don't really pursue their fourth title. understand their initiative," Mr Lotter said. Hopefully soccer, being the most powerful sport in the country -like SCOTLAND - The Scots everywhere else in the world - will gain its rightful place ' as the struggled through their three '~people's sport", and get all the credit it deserves from the still-to-be- , final qualifying games before launched sport body. getting the point they need to Soccer, with all the support it enjoys is undoubtedlY the most neglected reach their fifth consecutive sport in the country,.and it cannot even boast it.. own stadium . . place in the finals. They have Meanwhile, Mr Hendrick Christ.ia~ns, deputy PR 0 of the NNSL, told never sl)rvived the opening The Namibian Sport that NSF, NNSL, ASA and CNFA - the existing groups section. soccer controlling bodies - should try and sort out their differences before going on holiday in order. to reach. a compromise' on their SWEDEN - They pipped unproductive unity talks. "I think that the soccer administtatorsshould 'solve this 'l'lligging England to win their-qualifying problem and enter the new year with one soccer cQntrolil1g bQdy a~.a group and reach their first finals Christmas bonus tathe hundreds of soccer-loving people oilHherej" he : s~nce 1978. , ' said. "We owe itto our fans. and players, and ,should ,stop fooling ;' ourselves as it.'Yi!1 only, be s,9.cce_r that will !>e ~~e loser;,!' ~r Ch ristlaans :~ , , " Eindhov.en striking star; ROniario, is one of' .' CO~T A RIt:A - Ih t~e n~als added. the 'most pr'olif'ic' goal-scorers' iii the' butch League. N for the first lime: - 24 Friday December 1~ 1989 TH,E NAMIBIAN YESTERDAY'S HEROES MEMBERS of the steering commit~ee of the new Namibian National Sport Council. NEW SPORTS COUNCIL FOR FULL NAME: Oscar Konguavi Mengo. NICKNAME: Silver Fox. NAMIBIA? FORMER CLUB: African Stars. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Okahandja, April 14, 1956. BY SARA BLECHER JERSEY NUMBER: Number 10. POSITIONS: Striker-cum-mid-fielder. prepared to act as mediator between OTHER FAVOURITE CLUB: I fancied Black Africa for their A STEERING committee was elected yesterday at a meeting of 15 the different councils if it was "in splendid blend of football. I consider the BA squad of the seventies non-racial sporting unions to draw up a constitution for a new sport council. the interests of sport in Namibia". as one of the most entertaining ever. With this in mind, representatives CHILDHOOD FAVOURITE CLUB: I always had a great admiration The new constitution is to be pre In the case of a sport where more from the non-racial sport unions for African Stars. sented at a meeting in three weeks than one national body existed, the decided that it was essential that the~' FAVOURITE PLAYER: So many but I will always take my head time, and will form the fOlmdation on choice for national recognition would remain open to all other existing off for former Black Africa's mid-field masetro Albert 'Boetie' which a new national Sport Council be based on adherance to the relevant sport bodies who decided to join Louw. It will be unfair to the guy not to lable him as one of the finest will be established. provisions of the bill of rights and them and therefore extended an open mid-fielders Namibia has ever produced. Currently, national recognition has Swapo's directive principles of stale invitation to any union who was inter TOUGHEST OPPONEN,T: Spokes Tibinyane, former Black Africa's been bestowed upon the SW A Sports policy. ested in establishing a new non-ra Council and its 55 controlling bodies These are as follows: cial Spat Union to attend their meeting star defender. which include the SWA Tennis As * No person may be discriminated in three weeks time. WHEN STARTED TO PLAY: I started to play organised soccer as sociation and the SWA Parachute against on the grounds of colour, The meeting of non-racial sport a striker with the now-disbanded Flames FC in 1969. Association. ethnic origin, sex, religion, creed, or unions, many of whom did not have MOST MEMORABLE MATCH: I will never forget the 1984 Both of these bodies have consti social or economic background, and the mandate of their respective un Mainstay Cup final at the Windhoek Stadium when I scored the only tutions which limit their member • every individual shall be entitled ions and were present at the meeting goal of the tie against traditional rivals Blue Waters to win the cup ship to whites only. to enjoy, practise or promote such with observer status only, included for Stars. But with N ami bia 's independence sporting activity as desired, provided representatives from rugby, netball, BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: When Stars lost to Orlando Pirates just around the comer, the new Sport that in so doing, the right of others, or soccer, weight-lifting and athletics. during a semi-final tie of a tournament at Tsumeb in 1975. I had to Union, which will adhere to the inter the national intrest, is not impinged Also present were representatives leave the field through injury. nationally-recognised sport code of upon. from the Namibian Primary School non-racialism, is an attempt to create BEST GOALKEEPER: Former Namib Woestyn Eddy, he was one He also said that any body which Sport Union, Namibian Senior School an alternative to the SWA Sport received national recognition from Sport Union, Namibian Sport and of the bravest and most reliable keeper in the game. Council (which has over the years the new government would have to Recreation Club and sport for the BEST STRIKER: I regard Pius Garincha Eigowab - also known as been accused of racism). ensure that provision was made for physically disabled. Pele - the fonnerBlack Africa and Kaizer Chiefs (SA) striker, as the Representatives of the non-racial the inclusion of everybody. Although some of these sport un hottest of all time. He was one of the deadliest and polished shooters unions, many of whom have been Stressing that "sport 'will be for ions are currently affiliated to the a striker in his own class. fighting the racial policies of the sport women and men and not politi SWA Sport Council, many of the CURRENT FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL PLAYER: The SW A Sport Council for years, also cians", Mr Wentworth said that it representatives present said that they Argentine and Napoli international star, Diego Maradona. Macadona adopted a motion that called for the was therefore very important that would consider breaking ties with is absolutely superb and gifted with a brilliant left-foot. abolition of all sport links with South "sport people get their own houses the national body if a viable alterna HOBBIES: To relax at home with my family and watching a good Africa. in order". tive could be presented. video movie. Opening the meeting, Mr Buddy But he added that Swapo would be Wentworth, a Swapo delegate to the INFWENCE ON CAREER: Stars official and senior radio announcer, Constituent Assembly, said that he Kuiri Kahorongo. considered this meeting as one of DISUKES: To see young players drunk in the streets and bad "the most promising proofs of com POLICE FOIL KIDNAP PLOT refereeing. mitment to the formation of one BEST FRIENDS: Blue Waters stalwart Ranga Lucas and I regard national sport body". ON PLATINI'S CHILDREN anyone who is friendly to me as my friend. He said that up until now, sport in EMPLOYMENT: Senior Clerk with the SWABC. Namibia had contributed to the divi POLICE foiled a plot to kidnap the children of French national AMBITIONS: To become a professional and intemationaly recognised sions within the country and to a soccer team coach Michel Platini, the interior minstry confirmed coach. large extent "only highlighted the yesterday. abnormality of a sporting commu One of the suspects also was involved in the kidnapping of industrialists FAVOURITE GROUP: SA·baqanga group, the Soul Brothers. nity designed by the colonists to Baron Edouardo-Jean Empain in 1978, police said. CAR: Mercedez Benz. subscribe to their policy of racial Though the suspects were identified, none has been arrested. HONOURS: Too many to mention as I have won every available discrimination and the practice and Platini's two children, Laurent, II, and Marine, 9, attend school near their award in Namibian football. ideology of apartheid", but that the home in Central Nancy, a city of 250,000 in eastern France. PERSON WISHING TO MEET IN THE WORLD: Former time had now come to "bury the past Police were tipped to the kidnap plan by an informer who provided the names undisputed world heavyweight champion, Mohammed Ali. He is and dedicate ourselves to a truly non of the suspects. Officers put Platini's home, along with his children and wife, the most polished boxer this world has ever produced. racial sporting body". Christelle, under surveillance. Outlining Swapo's policies in terms The would-be kidnappers then disappeared. of national recognition of a sporting Platini, 34, a longtime star and captain of the French team before becoming council, Mr Wentworth, who is also coach, was in Barcelona, Spain, yesterday and could not be reached for FOR NATIONAL AND a member of the standing committee comment. on sport of the Constituent Assem One of the three suspects was identidied as a man who had served tinle in INTERNATIONAL SPORTS bly, said that Swapo would only prison for a role in the kidnapping of Empai~ recognise one national body from Another suspect identified with certainty was previously convinced of 14EWS - READ THE NAMIBIAN each sport. armed robbery, police said. CCN/RRR NEWS Friday December 15198929 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION NEXT WEEK NEXT Friday, We bring YDU a special 16 page Christmas editiDn Df YDur CCN/RRR Newsletter, the last Dne to. appear this year. There will be sDmething fDreveryDne: news and messages frDm YDur churches, REPATRIATION . Christmas messages, year reviews. Dn the wDrk Df the churches, the RESETTLEMENT hiStDriC- repatriatiDn in pictures, RECONSTRUCTION· the future Df the RRR, the Church in the 1990s and much mDre. So. \ don't miss YDur exciting newslet ter next week Friday. . CCN I-RRR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 1989 Wishing you a pleasant weekend - Editor and staff of CCNIRRR News --~ -- "'-- _.-...-.. .. CHURCH ·LEADERS IN ·ASSE BLYS,PEAK NAMIBIA's newly elected Constituent Assembly has six churchmen representing SWAPO. Rev Hendrik Witbooi, Rev Zephania Kameeta, Rev Matti Amadhila and Deacon WiIIem Konjore have been giving the Namibia Communications Centre their views on their role in the Constituent Assembly and on future Church-State relations. The other two who could not be reached at the time of going to press are Mr Danie Botha, derBY and lecturer in literature and theology at the University of Namibia and the Rev M. M. Arisiku, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia • • WliD will take the leadership in the HENDRIK WITBOOI gGvernment to break down those walls Pastor Hendrik Witbooi, head ,Df dividing us, the structures and sys the African Methodist EpisCDpal 'terns which have been explDiting and Church and Vice President Df Swap(>, Gppressing us," he said: isnumbertwGonSwapo's list for the . Constituent Assembly. Pastor Witbooi MATTI AMADHILA said he was nDtgDing to the CGnstitu Rev Matti Amadhila, Vice B ishDP ent Assembly as an individual but as Gf the Evangelical Lutheran Chur.:h "part Df a team.'""We'll be led by . inNamibia (ELCIN), expressed great the wishes Gf the peGple and we will si!rPPse when he was tDld he had '''Play Dur role in the interests Gf the _ : been electe1hD the CGnstituent As people Df Namibia, ' , he commented. sembly. He;as "happy that Swapo "I will strive to. find ways and has seen it fit to. include people frDm means Gf ensuring that the ideals and the ranks Df .the church in its list Df principles we had stood fDr all these candidates," he said. have the wellbeing Gf Gur CGuntry at years guide us and that we continue "All these years" , he added, "as heart. " with Gur commitment to the upliftment the church, we have sen Dur role as a Gf Gur people and the prGtectiGn Gf spokesman fGr the vDiceles~, which WILLEM KONJORE human rights," he said. we have done ... NGw the church will Mr Willem Konjore is a RGman CathDlic deacon and principal Gf the KhDichas Ecumenical Community School, one Df the independent church schools sponsored by the' CDWlCil Df HENDRIK WITBOOI Churches in Namibia, in the SGuth Df the COWltry. He was 41st on Sw apo' s Asked abDut the poor shGwing Df parties to reach the farm wGrkers and listGf candidates anq so. was last tobe SwapoinsDmep~ofthesDuth,Mr thus to. get their message acrGSs. selected asa representative in the Konjore replied that, accGrding to. He hGPed that church and State Constituent Assembly. -- him, the mainreasGn for this was the would wDrk hand in hand in the new Deacon Konjore said that as a per fact that large areas Df the SGuth Narrubia in order to "promGte a fuller SDn invGlved invGlvedat the grass consisted Df farms Wlder the control life fGr the pl;.Opl~ia." roots, he felt he could represent the Gf white farmers. It had nGt been (The Namibia CGmmunications real needs Gf the people in the As- possible during the electGral cam Centre is a news agency working sembly. . paign, he said, fDr all the political with Christian churches in Namibia.) ZEPHANIA KAMEETA continue to give its contribution and Speaking about his invDlvement in to. work hand in hand with the State, the Assembly, Pastor Zephania . to. help develGp Namibia fDr instance. Kameeta Df the Evangelical Lutheran in the field Gf education and health, Church in SWA, said he was in the .to. help the new State to achieve its Assembly "as any Dther Namibian Dbjectives in making Namibia a home there, to help and serve." He added fDr its peDple.' , that the presence Df Dther pastDrs in The ,"prophetic role" Df the church the Constituent.Assembly "will make he said, "wGuld continue in Drder to. the presence ·and invDlvement Df the . help the politicians gGvern the CDun Church a reality thrDugh Dur cDnvic try fDr the benefit Df the peDple and tiDn. " . nDt fDr the gGvernment's Dwn gain. Asked about his thDughts on the We have been divided fDr so. IDng by role Df the Church after the elections the cDIDnial pDwer, we have been and after independence, PastDr made to. fight each Gther amDng Dur Kameeta said the Church wDuld selves." continue to. raise its vDice against "NDW, he appealed to. Christians . injustice and be engaged in the proc arDund the wDrld and in Namibia to. ess Gf nation-building. "I think that cDntinue "to. pray that recDnciliatiDn rGle will continue, that we point DUt be a reality in this country and fDr all the structures which must go., the Namibians both black and white to. Danie Botha, member of the Constituent Assembly, pictured early this year at a demonstration of oppressive structures, reminding those fcrget the past and start a new era .. and University of NalJlibia students. 30 Friday December 15 1989 CCN/RRR NEWS qHURCHES INFORMATION AND MONITORING SERVICE TH.E C.HURCJ:fES I~for'!lati.(>n and ~onito~ing ~rvice (CIMS) was set up by the CCN churches with the main . objective of dlssemmatl!1~ mformatlo':1 durmg.the transitional period, and to monitor the implementation process sothat the letter and ~J?lnt .of Resol.u~lon 435 IS adhered to by bot., the implementing parties (South Africa and S UNTAG) and ~he part.tclpatm~ Namlbla~ parties. : . The CIMS office IS sItuated m Hans Ulrab Street (at old Roman Catholic Kindergarten in Katutura).lt can be reached on telephone number 217441 or Telefax 217444 P.O. Box 60196. . Every week on~his page CIMSbrings you regular information about the implentation of Resolution 435 and how the churches view It. - _ . - . ' CIMS OBSERVERS CONCERNED ABOUT " DISINTEGRATIO.N" OF BUSHMAN LIFE A CIMS Ecumenical Observer group that h~ been ~iting Tsumkwe observed that the Bushman was becoming an endangered species and thatthe traditional way of survival of the Bushman was ending. The group said the situation was instead of making the Bushman self- made critical by the difficulty pre- reliant, it increased her/his depend- sented in transforming the Bushman ency. The group said now that the to alternative ways of survival. The army had withdrawn, the situation of group said disintegration on the cul- the Bushman was retting worse. tural as well as on the personal level The South African army that ear- was in sight while fundamental lier offered to resettle the Bushmen changes could not be effected for in South Africa, the group 'observed, generations to come. was under pressure from the United The group cited as clear symptoms Nations and was steering away from of the disintegration alcoholism among the plan presumably due to lack of INCIDENTS IN NORTH the Bushmen in the area and several housing and employmentopportuni- cases of suicide, murder and mental -ties. They said while many peoPle disturbances occasionaly reported. showed interest in helping the Bush- The group said while the South men, only the Ju/Wa Foundation had Eight year old returnee dies of meningitis African armed forces provided tem- hithereto done anyhting substantial. porary relieve the cure provided by The group said however the ·assis- AN EIGHT year old returnee child of Onamulenge, Nande Elifas, 200 returnee children who repatri the armed forces should be consid- tance of the Foundation was limited on November 26 died of the dreaded meningitis disease. ated end of July from Kwanza SuI. ered worse than the disease since to the area around / Aotcha. Meningitis is a disease occuring in inflammation of membrances enclos He died at the school he was attend ing the brain and spinal cord and is ing Onamulenge. common in Namibia during the Seen here is his casket at his OTAVI FARMERS HAVE CONFIDENCE summer season. funeral procession conducted by The young N ande was among the Bishop Kleopas Dumeni. IN SWAPO GOVERNMENT AN ADVERTISEMENT for the sale of a farm near Otavi attracted the attention of a Cims Ecumenical observer and led to an extended interview with the farmer on his future plans in the face of the new political realities in Namibia. Dispelling all misconceptions about the him. of his parents in the same area. fanners in the area being conservative and He expressed no fear for a Swapo gov Another fanner in the area interviewed as a collary having stronger ties with South ernment and pledged to be "reasonable" also revealed that he had no plans to leave. Africa, the fanner vehemently underlined and "constructive" as long as the govern This transpired to be the mood of most that he would never leave Namibia and ment did not damagingly interfere with his fanners in the area with the excpetion of that he identified more with Namibia and fanning activities. He would sell his fann four believed to have sold their properties that South Africa was a foreign country to because be was going to take over the fann before the elections. The fanners also ex pressed a deep interest in peace and stabil ity which can primarily be linked to their economic interests. The long years of exploitation to con servative indoctrination have, however, established a legacy that will take years to erase. Despite their willingness to remain . in Namibia notwithstanding the n'ew po litical realities, Swapo was still in their eyes the aggressor. Moreover it was obvi ous that conunitment to a future Namibia was far from being absolute if the deposit of about R 20,000 in South African banks Harare, Zimbabwe generally believed to have been stuck away by most fanners in the area, is any FOR AN ECUMENICAL INFQRMA TION CENTRE OF THE CHURCHES thing to go by. IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA WE ARE LOOKING FOR A JOURNALIST South Africans who should be: intimidate - A mature and experienced person Namibians in North - A committed Christian - Involved in the struggle for justice and reconciliation in Southern Africa TWO residents of the North, Armas Kaslta and Absal Paulus were beaten A degree is required and at least five years experience in practical up by two white men who wanted to journalism (different media) with emphasis on following areas: know If they were Swapo members. The Incident happenoo en December - News Agency Journalism 7 on Onilpa main road. - Political and socio-economical analysis. of developments in Southern Kasita and Paulus defended them· and Eastern Africa selves, leadhig·the aggressors to run to their car for their guns. When they - Research retu·rned they found the victims had 8qmb exp · los~on t'1~ts woman - Train\ng journalists fled. Later the same day, Paulus and· - Editing Kasita returned to the scene to col· · on Naimibian - Angol-an' border Only iJyou have the required qualiJications and experience,piease send lect their caps. There they found an indentity card and a bap)( book re your application together with a detailed CV, copies of all usual papers vealing on ofthe a~tackers as Viljoen A BOMB explosion has caused the amputation of Ms Christofina and samples of your work to: Johann du Preez from South Africa. Nghihepa's foot when she walked on it. The incident happened on Before the incident, the two men The Information Officer December 2 at Omulunga inside Angola close to the N~mibian Council of Churches in Namibia were reported to also have intimi· dated Silvanus Shuuya and three border. P.O. Box 41 boys. They fled before they were Speaking from her bed in the Ondandjokwe Lutheran Hospital, Ms N ghihepa Windhoek beaten by the white men. said she strongly believed that Unita bandits had planted the bomb. They had Applications must be submitted before the 1st of February 1990 been there earlier, she said, saying they were looking for MPLA forces. She STORIES BY MIKA ASINO stepped on the bomb while fetching water. CCN/RRR NEWS Friday December 15198931 NEW UNEMPLOYMENT CENTRE Centre will lead returnees an~ other Namibians to gainful employment . " A SECONDARY centre with a mission to empower unemployed returnees and other Namibians with appropriate technological skills that will lead to their gainful employment will open in January 1994) on a plot in Brakwater, 20 kilometres from Windhoek. The Windhoek Circuit of the require a long cooking time such as Methodist Church of Southern Af beans. and thereby contribute towards rica will be nmning the employment the health of the people. Finally. the project. called SIP (Small Industries use of wood-burning stoves will have Project). at the centre. Initially. the a long-term. positive effect on the project will focus on the important environment. issues of the energy needs of poor SIP will be involved in the con people. scientization of poor people towards Preliminary surveys have revealed these issues and will give them the that most poor people cook over open skills and encouragement to become fires. a very wasteful" way of using involved in the wood-stove industry. energy. and that obtaining wood If all goes well'. Namibia will experi represents a significant proportion of ence a Kenya-like revolution as wood the incomes of urban people and of stoves sweep across the land and the effort and time ,)f rural people. raise the standards of living of the Suitable and simple sheet metal. wood majority of Namibians. burning stoves have the potential to SIP willdiversify and expand into reduce the inroads that the demand other areas wherever surveys reveal for energy makes. on the lives of a need for simple. appropriate tech these people. nological skills that will benefit the Such stoves will provide a source poor of Namibia. of income to individuals who choose . SIP will be involved with research to become directly involved in the and development work and will trans manufacture and repair industry. The fer the technology and necessary skills stoves could encourage the use of to interest people via residential essential. protein-rich foods that courses. WORKSHOP ON "NATION BUILDING IN THE " ' SPIRIT OF RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS" FROM 4 to 7 December about 70 representatives of various church congregations in the far-North met for a workshop in the Christian exchanged views on matters of Education apd Conference Centre, Ongwediva, under the theme: "Nation-building in the spirit of reconciliation and forgiveness". The common interest in the homes, vil workshop was organised jointly by the Contextual Theology and RRR Pastoral Councelling and Care Units of the Council of Churches lages, congregations and churches. in Namibia. ' . They agreed to humbly remind the Christian community in Nan'libia to The aim was to draw the attention take the question of Church unity and of the Church in Namibia and com ecumenism from below very seri munity at large to a number of themes ously: the unity of the churches in as the sure foundation for a peaceful our Namibian context is also the unity and prosperous post-independence of our nation. . Namibia. The participants further expressed The keynote address was deliev concern at the reports of fellow Na erd by the Rev Veikko Munyika. mibians leaving the coubtry'into exile organising secretary of the Christian at this time. They urged that the true Student Movement in Namibia (SCM). spirit of confidence-building. recon Other major lectures and responses ciliation, forgiveness and peace be .. were given by variovs speakers on cultivated and nourished amongst our the sub-themes such as "Namibia at people at all levels in church and Crossroads: A Quest for total libera society . tion"; "Obstacles ·on the :road to -' • " The worksnop was ciosed ~ith a unity and national reconciliation"; worship service by Rev Barnabas 0" Fo~giveness in the lightoffaith of the Iileka who urged all Namibians not "Church"; "Hope against hope: An to reverse oppression and victimisa enquiry into possibilities of the fu tion in the new Namibia. ture hope". Two Bible studies were GET YOUR FREE, WEEKL Y CCN offered to reflect on the current situ NEWSLETTER THIS FRIDAY AND ' ation in the country. DON'T MISS YOUR SPECIAL " A group discussion of the workshop_at Qngwediva Participants deeply discussed and CHRISTMAS EDITION NEXT WEEK! GOVERNMENT FUNDING BECOMING A CHURCH ISSUE CHURCH and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the Third World must decide NGO to do its job, including working ing could reflect bad past experi whether and under what conditions to accept overseas government funding directly, rather than via for social justice and structural ences with church or other NGO church partners or other non-governmental, aid-and-development agencies in developed countries. changes. and to critiquing and seek partners in developed countries. ing to influence government devel Participants also noted growing . That was among conclusions of a embassies or local NGOs. Eventu political credit for their money and opment policies. privatisation. For example, some Third consultation sponsored by the World ally. this could notably affect the assistance to the Third World coun Some Third World participants World governments that took over Council of Churches in October in amount of money channeled through tries," observes Huibert van Beek, expressed concern that direct over church-run schools, hospitals, and Driebergen (Netherlands). The meet church-related aid-and-development executive secretary of the WCC seas government funding could have other social institutions in the 1960s ing brought together 35 representa agencies - increasing in some cases, Secretariat for Ecumenical Sharing. unpredictable political consequences and 1970s are now giving them back. tives of funding agencies and ecu decreasing in others. Direct funding allows them to' 'label in their countries. Some expressed concern that NGOs menicalorganisations. Precise statistics are not available, money" more easily, have closer More and more Third World gov might be .. sidetracked" by having to Traditionally, governments in but estimates are that half the church contact with people in developing ernments, it was reported. are more use resources to run such institu developed countries use such church funds for development projects now countries, and implement their own closely monitoring and controlling tions, so that fundamental issues of and other NGOs in their countries to come fum governments. Foc example, policies more directly, he adds. NGO funding. social jus tice and structural changes channel aid to corresponding bodies the Dutch government uses church Over the years church and other But some participants said direct get less attention. Participants agreed in developing countries. More and channels for about 250 million guilders NGOs have developed guidelines financial assistance from the North on the need to intensify such atten more, however, these governments in aid each year (and has said it will which help them decide whether to could liberate NGOs in the South tion; there was a strong call for an are developing direct contacts with not join the trend towards direct accept government funds. Among the fro.m domination by counterparts in ecumenical network to share devel Third World church and other NGOs, funding). most important, van Beek says, is the North. Some said Third World opment information and analyses. offering assistance directly through "Governments want to take more . that the government must-allow the chUr~h support for such di~e.ct; fund- . [EPS] ---: ~ 32 Friday December 15 1989 CCN/RRR NEWS CALL TO RETURNEES English TRAINED.IN TECHNICAL Kwanyama ' VOCATIONS Mathematics CHRI.sTMAs IS COMING General Science/Biology RETURNEES with certificates, di Bookkkeeping THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN NAMIBIA plomas or degrees in agriculture, Physical Science and Chemistry leatherworklshoemaking, weavjng, ALL these years, the birth of Christ was a miracle in Namibia. Economics tailoring, bricklaying, carprentry and Agriculture Nambode THOMAS Namibians had to celebrate in the midst ofsuffering and death. A virgin breadmaking, are kindly requested Naphitaly SIRKA brings forth a -child in. Namibia; knowing that this child might be Geography to fill in foons ,for projects at ·the History . Albertina SIDLONGO crushed by casspirs or kicked by Koevoets. It is a real miracle, because following places: Religious Studies ToiniAUALA God Himself ~me to the suffering ones. Every-year He came in. order RRR Office in Windhoek, 8 Mont Alma EUASER proclaim peace, goodwill to men and glory to His name. he came so Blanc Street"Eros Applications should state academic MaryANGALA Swapo Offices in Keetmanshoop, that men may be reconciled; ' . and professional. qualifications, in Helen ANGHUWO Mariental, Swakopmund, Otjiwar cluding certified copies of relevant Malangu TITUS - A NAMIBIA THAT DOES NOT KNOW HIM ongo, Tsumeb, Grootfontein,Os documents. Selma NAKWATUMBA hakati, Rundu and Katima Mulilo. S NAKWATUMBA Was there-ever room for ' this child to be born? If yes, why did FROM RRR PROJECf OFFICE Namibians take part in evil structures and allowed the devil to rule all Please IRply to; Absalom ANGULA John Shilongo these years? Why darkness all these years, if we have received the light Education Officer LIST OF UNCLAIMED ESPANDENI in our rooms? If Jesus would come to the inn of your heart and asked Diocese of Namibia LUGGAGE AT OLUNO N L SHILIKOMWENYO for a place this year again, would you recognise Him as God's only son P.O. Box 57 Windhoek, Te1-38920 . and bid .Him to enter and stay? Let us receive Him and be sure of a WAREHOUSE Salan' and accommodation negotiable STUDENTS WHO MUST bright future for Namibia. THERE are many returnees who still' have not collected their despatched TRAVElTO SRI-LANKA luggage from the RRR. A list of up to EHIYO KOSIKOLA YOMBIBELI Festus KANGHONDI STAR'OF BETHLEHEN IN NAMIBIA 1,000 people who still have not done Osikola yOmbimbeli mOngwediva Werner SHOOPALA No more Bethlehem, but Namibia. This year"this star comes with so is available from the RRR Head otayi tesyitha etameko lyaalongwa Reinhold JESUS mercy and grace for Namibians. Jesus comes forth with redemption Office in Windhoek (contact Mr aape yomunivo 1-990, Kalungangele David AMADHILA and light, for Namibians to see the way of independence. ·Let the star Mutilitha Kamati). Further lists are e shi hala. Omaindilo naga kale ngeyi: . Imbwasha NGHIYADULWA shine over us and bring light where there is darkness. available at CCN Head Office, Katu Omwiinruli na kale e shi okulesha Salomon KANDllMBI IUra (Ask roc Mr Jasrn. Angula); Swapo nokushanga, onzapo ye, ombapila Ingwa ABSALOM LOVE SONG OF NAMIBIA Head Offfice, Windhoek; 'parishes . yegongalo lyaandjawo, epopilo Israel AMUKWAYA and Oluno Warehouse. kaakuluntu ye, ye na kale e na uukolele. Samuel KAMA11 With all voices we shall sing this year. We shall praise God for being Otwa tegelela wo naagaluki, ningeni Hendrick ISAACK us during the times ,of suffering and dying. We shall do it with OUYELELEKOMBINGA YII omaindilo. Tommy NANGOLO words of dee}> devotion. A love song warm and tender,a story pure and PAKETE NEEKOFA DO VA Omaindilo agehe otaga tegelelwa Andreas llPUMBU true. In our love song we will tell the story: "Jesus in the stable for us; manga Januali inaagu pita, go naga ALUKI Ephraim MUPOLO Jesus on calvary for us; His life-blood for .us." May the birth of Christ 'ukithwe kondjukithi tayi landula: Jason ABSALOM OPUNA ova aluki vedule eyovi na bring new hope to us. May Christ enter all the dark stables. May His Omukulntusikola: E Amaambo Frans SHIMPAMDA tango ina va ka kufa eekofa noipakete birth be our victory! ELCIN Paulus VEIYO yavo ponheleyo RRR pOhmo. Ovanlm Bible School, Ongwediva Philipus MWA TUKANGE avo otava dulu okumona ouyelele P/Bag X5505 David ANGALA .' ~ Fr Jackey Basson kombinga yoshinimaeshi pombelewa Oshakati, 9000 Eliud UUSIKU yoRRR moV enduka (pula omusa CC\' 1<1<1< \n" 1'.1 jlllhiJellillll llilhe CllUIlLlll)1 Churl he' III N.lmil)la (CCN) John MUHEPA mane Mutilitha Kamati). Ouyelele WOMEN OF AFRICA SPEAK our II Il ll (\1 lin;' III \1.I,h"!,!ll Slre,·l. K.Illllllr.1 It I' pnnled h~ Johll :l.klflert (Pl~) 01 Seth HOAEB walya ngaha otau du1u yoo oku'monika is available.from WCC/Women"Box Sluebel Slfl'l'l . •11lt! .Ippe.lr, .I' ,I 'uppkmenllll I he :--I.uTllhl .1 1l nell 'p.lPcr It I' Thigiipe LYCIAS peembelewa do CCN muKatutuara 2100, CH-1211 Geneva 2. it is a eLlned h~ lob!.I' \Ih.lkl) .llld ,lalll.ln he: reached on lelepholle 217021 eXI 22-1 Johannes KANGULU (pula omusamane Jason Angula); ur I' 0 Ill)\ "llo', \Vmdhl1ek.lelc\ -IS, or I.n 2259XS report of a regional consultation on Imman\lelFRANS ombelewa inene yoSWAPO, nosho justice, peace, and the integrity of Samwel SIDVUTE' r.;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .yoomomaongaloeniileeponheleyo creation in Legon (Ghana), 27 March-. N.augha Hubertus UUSIKU t RRRmOluno. 2 April 1989. CHURCHES INfORMATION AND ' The above-mentioned are expected ; ANGLICAN. DIOCESE OF ATTENTION STUDENTS to travel to their respective places of MONITORING SERVICE (Cims) NAMIBIA TRAVELLING TO NIGERIA study. TI.tey should contact, as soon + The Diocese of Namibia is looking Patricia PETRUS as possible, Mr Joseph Nangolo or forIDGH SCHOOL TEACHERS for Erastus IKELA Lebeus N akashole at RRR, 8 Mont St Mary's Odibo High School -at Petrus JONAS Blanc Street, Windhoek, Tel (061) >-z' ~ VID:EO Onekwaya, in the following subjects: MaryHALYA 37510 Shejavali's recommendations AVAILABLE NOW!!! for peace at AFfER an extensive investigative visit to the northern parts of Namibia, the CCN General Secretary, Dr Abisai Shejavali made various recommendations to the CCN Executive Committee, relating to elMS Offices peace in the region. Dr Shejavali, accompanied by his office director· Mr Jason Angula, visited Hans Uirab Street Dainaraland, Kaokoland, Owamboland, Kavango and Caprivi. Katutura Throughout the trip, the entourage be given mandate to retrain and train situation still continues in this way, saw and learned first hand about the all SWAPOL members for police 8. Now that the war is over, ali situation in the area, enabling them work. people in squatters around Oshakati Available by order to make the following recommenda 4. TheSWA Security Police must should be requested to go back to Price R60,OO . tions: be monitored effectively by UNTAG. their homes - this being where vio 1. Since SWAPOL members ig 5. All political parties should be lence emanated from, with health Distribution contact: nored to take impartiality seriously informed that a society ' cannot be conditions deteriorating. Thus, squat in maintaining iaw and order since built on violence. hatred and killings ters must be destroyed after inde Mr Alph~us . Gaweseb the implementation of Resolution 435; but with love, peace, justice and mutual pendence. Ms Sofia Shikwambi the UN Security Council should be respect. Parties should then go and 9. The Church should teach people asked to see to it that UNTAG Police instruct' their people not to dirupt the values of life and importance conti gent be given the mandate to peace and harmony. attached to it, so that people should Enquiries contact: keep law and order. 6. The Administrator General never refrain from using things that de Ms. Susana IIHoebes 2.All SWAPOLmembers should publicly called his men to ooier through stroy precious lives, like the use of be fully under the supervision and the mass media. He should be asked weapons and poison against fellow Mr Jackson Swartz control ofUNTAG Police - all police to do so. human beings. '. Tel: (061) 217441 facilities and personnel be taken and 7. Because DTA ex -Koevoets, army 10. Churches should intensify the put under supervision and control of and army units wanted civil war, message of reconciliation. It should Fax: (061) 217444 UNTAG. they should all hand in their weap be taken as a crucial national. 3. UNTAG Police contigent must onry. We won't reach peace if the