Hundreds Hit in Divorce 'Chicken Run'
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* Farmworkers under siege * Pension row at TransNamib * ~ ---~ -- ---- Th 17 * Women, children facE.! financial misery HUNDREDS HIT TIlE FORMER leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) in this country, Hendrik van As, said yesterday an attempt had been made to trap him into buying illicit diamonds worth about R90 000. Van As said someone who had comment on the training of A WB showed an interest in buying his truck, militants from Namibia which was IN DIVORCE had asked to borrow some money, reported in South African Sunday newspapers. He said he had decided to disband the A WB here last year because of the way they had been discredited through the activities of the secret 'CHICKEN RUN' army hitsquad, the Civil Coopera tion Bureau (CCB). · ------------KATE BURLING----------- Van As said he had been horrified over the incident last year when po THE dawn of independence has brought nothing but financial misery·for scores of liceman Ricardo van Wyk had been divorced women in Namibia whose ex-husbands living in South Africa have siezed the disarmed and shot in the back by "cowboys", and there had been opportunity to stop paying alimony. suspicion that the culprits were from Of 850 court orders for alimony Among the cases piling up in the This is then made an order of court the AWB. presently being dealt with by the Windhoek magistrate's office is one and there should be no further prob Van As added the A WB had al Windhoek magistrate's court, 177 of a woman whose alimony pay lems. But others need the threat of a ways been very strong in Outjo, where cannot be pursued because the men ments stopped virtually on the stroke fine or a suspended sentence before an attack had been launched on Un Hendrik van As involved are technically now living of independence. TIlere is little doubt they will face up to their responsi tag offices last year, killing a secu in a foreign country. that her ex-husband took legal ad bilities," said one person at the of and offered to leave the diamonds as rity guard. He felt this" amateurish" Apparently all warrants for these vice on the situation and made a fice. surety that he would repay the money. attack had been aimed at discrediting men's arrest or court orders demand carefully calculated decision to stop A Mrs Armstrong, also working He said he had immediately told the AWB. ing payment, are being sent straight payments. on the problematic alimony cases, the man \0 take the djamonds away as Van As could also shed no light on back from South Africa. Such readiness to exploit legall~ said South African Police to whom he was not interested. whether the A WB had been fe-acti , 'At the moment we're completely holes over the matter of alimony warrants had been sent to be issued, Van As revealed this when he was vated in Namibia this year, and if so, stuck. There's no legal machinery does not augur well for the govern had not been particularly helpful in approached by The Namibian for who its new leadership was. for bringing these people to justice. ment's success in sorting the matter their response. TIle warrants had been They can't be arrested or brought to out swiftly. returned with a curt official commu this country from South Africa," But Ruppel is confident thatnego nique that no action could be taken. said a source in the magistrate's of tiations between Namibia and South And the problem was probably Dramatic turn in fice. Africa will go smoothly. "Having a much worse than figures so far sug Meanwhile a growing number of reciprocal arrangement over alimony gested, she said. "There are plenty women are becoming increasingly cases is in the interests of both coun more women whose ex-husbands have desperate, particularly those Who have tries and I cannot see it creating not been making payments but who cop murder case been trying over a long period to get much controversy." are not yet bound by court orders. ' , their ex-husbands to pay up. Some He said his office was preparing Some of the women were at their ------RAJAH MUNAMAVA------ are now in the process of issuing something for the approval of the wits' end, she said.• , Many are strug their third summons and are in dire Cabinet which would then form the gling with rent payments and are THE Windhoek High Court case learned that four policemen have been financial straits. basis of discussions aimed at a bilat having difficulty paying for thdr concerning the murder of police arrested in connection with Khama' s Namibia's Attorney-General, Har eral agreement between the two children's education." Sergeant Edward Khama from Ka death, including a warrant officer. mut Ruppel, ~aid yesterday the mat governments. But the magistrate's In cases of .extreme hardship the tima Mulilo could take a dramatic According to information supplied ter was "of great concern'" to the office, which is holding the fort against women are referred to the Social tum with the news this.week that four to The Namibian, the four are being . government. a stream of complaints from anguished Welfare department, but ·until there policemen have been arrested in held at Rundu. "It has cut the lifeline for many women, is more cautious. is recourse to proper legal channels - connection with his killing. The sudden arrest of the four po- young children in this country and .. Some men are perfectly willing . which according to Armstrong will Khama was shot dead last Decem we are trying to sort it out as quickly to sign a form accepting paternity probably take two or three months - ber by an unknown gunman, and two CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 as possible," he said. and agreeing to an alimony figure. the women have no case. men already face murder charges arising from his death. On Tuesday the trial of Damanian Tonchi and Sadrick Mwilima, who were arrested after the incident, was President's men come under fire postponed to August. Mwilima is a returnee and during MONDAY, May 21, will be D-day ing the composition and conduct of the issue which has been questioned ity?" . his incarceration in December, the for the air to be cleared over the the security guards and the Ministry by many Nanubians through the press. 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MOSCOW· The Communist Party newspaper Pravda said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had fallen outoffavour with the people because his reforms had not Improved their lives fast enough. BERGEN, Norway. Environment ministers from 34 Industrial states finally agreed on a declaration on fighting pollution but were accused by activists of seUlng out to the United States. GENEVA· The Soviet Union, stepping up Its drive to Integrate Into the world economy, took a seat as an observer at GATT for the nrst time since the 96. nation trade forum convened more than four decades ago. W-ASHINGTON· The US presidential commission studying the bombing of Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerble, Scotland, has urged .the use of military force against terrorists and sharply criticised US aviation security. EAST BERllN • East Germany Is asking Syria to extradite suspected Nazi war CLiCRY-SOUS-BOIS, France, May 14 - A man cries after.vandals desecrated his family's grave and criminal Alols Brunner, accused of deporting thousands of Jews to death camps, 31 others in the Jewish section of a cemetery in the Paris suburbs at Clichy-sous-Bois on Sunday night, the East German Foreign Ministry said. May 13. Gravestones were daubed with red swastikas. The incident follows the attack on a Jewish BRUSSELS • The European Community will re-examine its antl.apartheld cemetery at Carpentras in the south of France last week when 34 graves were damaged and a corpse policy at a meeting In Dublin next month, Irish Foreign Minister Gerard Collins impaled on an umbrella.