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~< TODAY: THAT MAN CLEARY * CDM SET TO CUT BACK * SUPER WEEKEND SPORT * Bringing Africa South Vol.3 No.49 Monday November 9 1992 Own Correspondent According to sources , i among the local UTA, A MAJOR squabble is D~A accused of 'dirty politics' Riruako tried to allay reported to have broken fears about Davids and out within DTA ranks at charges of underhand posed to the fielding of . dacy has ~llso led to accu hers threatened not to vote tried to have him accepted Otjiwarongo over the dealing and dirty politics Davids as a regional elec· sations of racism from DT A if Davids remained the as the candidate, but to selection of white DTA in the town. tion candidate. members. candidate,. Herero chief no avail.· member Abraham Davids, a long·standing The Herero.speaking One source said promi· Kuaima Riruako was The opposition to Davids as the party's crony of DTA leader Dirk DT A members, who make nent local DT A member forced to rush to Otjiwar Davids was reportedly candidate for the regional Mudge, represented the up the majority of DTA Mbuerendende Tjipura ongo to try and calm the , overwhelming, and DTA elections. DTA in the interim gov· supporters in Orwetoveni had, in fact, questioned why storm. members made it clear Both the Davids' nomi· ernment parliament, but township, apparently re· they should be bulldozed An emergency 'meeting that the candidate of their nation, and the nomina· then faded into obscurity. ject Davids selection be· by white party members took place on Thursday choice was Albert tion of DTA supporter According to reliable cause they consider him when Namibia had become night which apparently, Katjiuongua, a former Staal Burger as a UDF sources in the town, Her· right.wing. a free country. continued weD into the DTA representative in the candidate in the munici· ero·speaking DTA memo The heated debate sur· The rift became so seri· early hours of the morn pal elections, has raised bers are particularly op· rounding Davids' candi· ous that after DTA memo ing. CONT. ON PAGE 2 LAND HUNGER ... An old woman points at her dying goat which recently arrived at pesp.eration drives Damaras the makeshift settlement near~ D.aan Viljoeh from drought.hit Damaraland. In the background the hills of the Khomas Hochland stretch far away· an area the people at D,aan Viljoen d~m as their ancestrlll homeland before they were forced to move bac'k to old ancestral areas , in the 1950s , 60's. Pho((n Graham Hopwood . , " " GRAHAM HOPWOOD , , "WEWANT our land back';.is the straightfor '~U~_Bia~ 1~lnjdist -: , wa,rd demand"o( some 6'0 people' who have set , " ui> : homes ' on. the . roadsid~ ' next , to th,e entranc~ to 'the Daan,ViljO'en wiidlifeparl<. ', ,' :. g~ts~ .... , Perched. on the roadside the area in 1956 and taken 'verge the makeshift houses in cattle trucks 'to the Dam -: . are testament to the level of ' araland reserve, and their Angelan'boot ~speration am~mg commu· ' lands were ' transferred to nal fanners in Damaraland, white commercial farmers, A .SOUTH Afric~ ~cting a$' consultllDt' to Jonas Most of the residents of the Now they wan! their land Savimbi's'(JnitamovenientsaidonFriday that np Augeigas (as the ar(!a is back, Those wbo 'spoke to ~;==1:;:I!~-:llhltenfoj hi~arre~art~ expulsion traditionally known) settle· The N amibian yesterday ~ent, some 18lcm , from morning made it plain that ' Sean Clew'Y, a form~SoutJl)AJr~ca.i 4iplornat, and Windhoek, have traVelled ' they want to able to fann a person weIi·knownto mosfN3J6.~i3Ils , 3jiprieoftbe " from the '\Pi cinities of SOT.· again on "the' land , wper~ , " 'behind the throneoftl1e ~ toHrierPTA.·dorrii. • :iis·So'rris, Okanibahe, and ourgrandparent'i lived '~ : ' , , ',' ' g~vemriieJat(TG),)e£tNainibia to other parts of Damaraland ' }-Jemmed in between the 1-b4~come actively ' inyoiv~i.r prorn';tfug , tbe South which b&ve been worst bit road and the fence of a white Africanhomelan«ts..:. "., " by the drought. , ' farm -the residents of , CleatYt , during1ji~timem Nalnibia; 'alSo created The' people at the'settle- , Augeigas ,remember' thl! unops offices aIJr~adWitbthe purpose ofpromotmg ment who spoke, to The land<;cape they grew' up in, andpropag3Q'disiilg the interim government in the Na.mibian yesterday grew Poi!1ting towards atree'over, international cOll1inuriity. , , up ' as children in the ' the fence into the whitefrum ,lie'arrived back in South Africa on: Friday after· Augeigas distriCt" They say noon on one oftwoairdaft chartered by the Govem they were 'removed' from ment to rescue South ,Atricansfrom war.rav;tged Angola: ' ' Cleary denied reports that he had acted as a 'stra· PURE MAGIC .~.South Afric'ln singer Rebecca Malope tegic consultant' for Un~ta. set the Independence Areml alight on Saturday with he I' He was ar'rested by MPLA forces on Thursday but vibrant dance music. Catch RehecGl with the simj>ly was lat,er released into the custody of the Sout.h Afri· stunning Winnie Khl,malo and Merc,y 'St':\: Appeal' can military co·ordinator in Luanda on condition he Pakela at Gobabis, Liiclel'it'I., Keetmllnshoop. and Oranjemund this week. Photo: Conrad Angula CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 2 Monday November 9 1992 THE NAMISIAN PEOPLE N~w private school DI's dilemma 'in great dem and' LONDON: A statement by A NEW private school will struction, offering German cost R3 600 a pupil. Hostel the Princess of Wales at KATE BURLING open at Karibib in the next and Afrikaans as third lan fees will cost an additional tacking rumour~ that her academic year with an guages and at mother tongue R3 800 a year. relations with Queen Eliza NE~VLY -APPOINTED principal of the Karibib Pri initial intake of between level. The Parents' Committee beth IT and the Duke of v~te School, Chris Sexon, said private schools in Na 120 and 160 pupils. According to the Karibib has established a bursary Edinburgh were souring, mibia were oversubscribed a nd a new institution simi Current head of St Paul's Parents' Committee, the fund, "to be run by a sepa has served only to heighten lar to alread y successful private schools was needed. College , Chris Sexon, will school will be "open to all rate committee to collect the state of her marriage. Se~wn said the new school ceived some R200 million Namibians who meet the and generate money for the The,British popular press take charge of the school, would work together with necessary entrance qualifi was unanimous on Satur from overseas this year. The which will be on the prem sole purpose of subsidising day in asserting the state the Ministry of Education donations to Karibib Private ises 6f Karibib' s old cations" and will be "inde school fees for underprivi ment revealed more through and Culture, and was not School are relatively small." Deutsche Privatschule. pendent, fee-paying (and) leged children". what it did not say, than in intended as a slur on state He added that the addi Catering for grades one multi-cultural". Taken on an initial nine its content. On.Friday Prin provision. tion ofa high quality pri to eight, wit,h a pre-primary Fees for 1993 have been year lease, the school has cess Diana condemned "I think my colleagues in vate school benefited the school built in, Karibib Pri set at R2 400 a year from room for about 300 pupils "untrue and hurtful allega the state sector are doing an whole nation, just as schools vate School will use Eng pre-primary up to grade and boarding facilities for tions" that her relations with excellent job, but I also think: like St Paul's or S t George 's lish as its medium of in- seven, while grade eight will some 200. her parents-in-law were de it is important to have an had done. It is being heavily sup teriorating. Saturday's front alternative to the state sys Apparently the school will ported by donations from pages of the popular press tem," said Sexon, who steps offer a wide range of extra claimed the princess had various companies, includ not denied her marriage had down as head of St Paul's curricula activities such as ing Anglo American and De problems. College at the end of this music, art and drama, as Beers Chairman's Fund year. well as sports like tennis, (R300 000), CDM Namibia SIC burns ... He said the students al golf, squash, athletics, Fund (R148 000), Metal ready enrolled for January gymnastics, horse-riding and Mining Corporation, joint BRlSTOW, USA: · BIC 1993 reflected Namibia's swimming. The school has venture partners with Na Corporation has been or vachab Gold (R60 0(0) dered to pay 22 million multi-cultural make-up and a language laboratory, sci Mine dollars to three children came from many different ence laboratory, computer and the Organisation to burned playing with one of regions. Asked whether he centre and a woodcrafting Support German Private its lighters. A cowt here thought private schools centre. Schools, Karibib (R20 (00). ruled on Friday in favour cream·ed off funds and brain It intends to make envi The largest donor in Kar of the victims' families, power from the state sector, ronmental education a key ibib is the Navachab mine who filed a lawsuit alleg Sexon said state education focus as Karibib is ideally which has pledged money ing that the BIC lighters had been well-funded since situated for environmental for scholarships to mine are dangerous because they Independence. "It has re- study. workers' children. Other sometimes fail to go out, assistance has come from overheating the butane gas Cleary as the man respon the German Embassy which which then explodes.