SWAPO's Deputy National Chairman, Mr Dan .. Tjongarero, was admitted to the Windhoek State Hospital {)n Wednesday 'night with apparent kidney failure. Mr Tjongarero, under armed guard in the hospital, is preseptly being detained under Section Six of the Terrorism Act. Mr T.jongarero, who: has a private Tjongarero permission would first room on the fourth floor, was yesterday have to be obtained from the chief seen briefly by reporters from this medical superintendent, Dr Andreas newspaper. Obholzer. He was being guarded by tw,O Dr Obholzer's secretMY saidyester policemen, one of whom was wearing day that the doctor had informed her a camouflage uniform. that all calls regarding this patient The Swapo leader was lying on top of were to be directed to the Deputy Com the bed and appeared drained and missioner of police, Lieutenant tense. He gave a thumbs-up sign and General Koos Myburgh. smiled. The high-ranking police officer was, Nursing sisters on duty told however. unavailable for comment at reporters that it was a "special case", and in order to be able to visit Mr Continued on page 3 NINETY PERCEN,T KAYE REAPPLIED SltYS MEIRING --~------STAFFREPORTER------
THE GENERAL MANAGER of Tsumeb Corporation Limited (TCL), Mr Bob Meiring, claimed on inquiry yesterday that "more than 90 percent of the dismissed workers from the three mines have reapplied" for jobs on the mine following a recruit- ment drive last week. . Responding to queries by The Nami percent ofthe dismissed workers from bian concerning the recruitment drive the three mines had reapplied, Mr which followed the dismissal and evic Meiring said that "their applications tion of several thousand workers who are currently being reviewed in con went on strike on July 31, Mr Meiring junction with the other appIlcations said that already applications for jobs received from throughout the country. A PICKET on Friday August 21, outside Consolidated Goldfields in London for the reinstatement on the mIne in terms of the new drive These applications are now in excess exceeded 10 000, oflO 000", of the workers of Tsumeb Corporation Limited. Picture courtesy of The Morning Star', London. 'Concerning the cfaiin that over 90 . ontinued on page 3
OERMANN BROCK Tel: (061) 32391 ~----- 2 Friday September 4 1987 THE NAMIBIAN
ECC CALLS FOR
SADF WITHDRAWAL( FROM NAMIBIA
BY TOBIAS MBAKO MEMBERS OF THE END Conscription Campaign in South Africa, this week made a call on the South African Defence Force to withdraw immediately from Namibia. The call was made while they were on a "fast, which began on August 3, and ended on Namibia Day, August 26. _Members of the End Conscription about the repressive role which they Campaign, which also incorporates are playing there:' The activists in the the "Apartheid Out- SADF Out Cam campaign also said that they were ac: paign;' said that they have been pray quainteed with the role played by the ing for the SADF to leave Namibia SADF in Namibia because most of because they are "deeply concerned them had visited the country and had first hand accounts of the situation there. "We have been praying and fasting Mother's appeal because we have wanted to show our care, concern and support for you Oranjemund celebrates Namibia D~y MR JULIUS Eino Shigwedha N amibians, in a concrete and practical WORKERS at Consolidated Diamond Mines in Oranjemund celebrated Namibia Day with a rally in the way," the group said in a statement. town over the weekend. Pictured above are some of the workers who attended the meeting. Story on who was allegedly taken from Namibia Day elsewhere in this edition. his home by members of To the South African Government, whose fOLces the statement said, are il Koevoet on Friday-14 AugUst is legally ocupying Namibia, "we say still missing. hear the cry of the majority of His mother Frieda Nakadhilu, and Namibians:' Mystery of teenagers held sister Helena Shigwedha, have ap "Show your sincerity i~ wanting an pealed to Koavoet to release him. end to the war and establishing a true They allege that on the day in ques just peace by lifting the curfew, tion members of Koevoet arrived at withdrawing the occupying SADF in Grootfontein at hostel their home at Elombe in the Ondonga forces and moving towards a swift im tribal area and asked where her other plementation of UN Resolution 435. RAJAH MUNAMAVA. A Spokesman for the SWATF Major ing guarded by white soldiers only, and sonlsmael Shigwedha was. Ismael was We all know that this is what will end Fanie Krige, denied knowledge about are often under armed escort when away in Ontawanga where he attend this wasteful and unnecessary war and RELIABLE sources in Grootfon the children when approached for com they move on the premises. Some ofthe ed school. Not able to find hiJIl th!:li know 'that this is the solution which tein report that close on 160 ment. He said that the army would not children are believed to be from On then made the accusation that Ismael children, mostly teenagers, are be most N amibians want, so why are we keep children in a camp unless they dobe in the U ukwanyama area in nor had left the country in order to be train ing held at army premises under waiting?" the statement said. were there for a purpose such as a thern Namibia while some are ed as a Swapo guerrilla. guard by armed soldiers in this The statement further extended school tour. thought to be Ovimbundu' speaking They then allegedly turned on the solidarity and fraternal greetings to northern town of Namibia. from Southern Angola. other son Julius and first hit him very Namibians. The children, who are believed to be Major Krige . however confirmed hard. They took him a short distance "Toyou,Namibians, we say, we share from northern Namibia as well as that SWANLA was used as a transit The children who arrived with worn· from the house and continued to your longings and frustrations and southern Angola, are being held at camp for troops to and from the opera out clothing have been issued with assault him there. Mter that they commit ourselves to continuing to SWANLA,formerlyahostel,nowturn tional area and added that there as brown shirts and shorts from the army brought him back so that he could col pray, fast and work until the SADF is ed into an army building near the continous movement of troops there. and are walking with bare feet and lect his clothes and then drove off with withdrawn from your country and un black township of Grootfontein. He further said that the camp had not some of them are bound with chainS on him in a Casspir with registration til your inalienable right to be free has The children were first seen a fort been used in the past week. their arms and legs. They are all boys. number 58316/594831. His been achieved," the statement night ago and more were brought in on whereabouts are still not known. concluded. Thursday last week and last Monday. The sources say the children are be- On -bureaucracy and education
'ding approximately 14,6% ofthe total nisation." The development plans of Frequently, universality is claimed ~~-...... - BY JERRY K TOBIAS --____ expenditure on education. Other virtually all developing countries lay because of high levels of enrolment - developing countries at the same level great emphasis on the pre-eminent im· yet attendance may be at a very low BUREACRACY, IMPRESSIVE in its own right, has done little to of development as Namibia are spenm portance 6f education. level. "Universal" may therefore apply negate-educational injustice. The educational system in Namibia ding 20-30% oftheir national budgets Namibians are only debating the to very high levels of attendance in a on education. In line with the Unesco issue of Universal Primary Education compulsory or voluntary system; a remains unequal, its facilities have never been on a par with that POlicy on Education, the biggest pro right to access only; an unfulfilled but of our white colleague~, and per capita, expenditure has always now, in 1987, whereas the great inter portion of the educational budget is national conferences of the 1960s in statutary aim; high enrolemtns with been non-compar~ble ~ say the least. The Deputy Minister of supposed to be used on primary - Karachi, Addis Ababa and Santiago, low attendance rates. Mining, Mr Emil Appolus, gave the following figures in the sometimes called basic - education. had given impetus to and provided ara PRIMARY: . Serious rethinking must be done, if "Windhoek Observer" of July 11, 1987: "For everyRl~ spent tionale for the "Rush to Schooling", Again, such terms as "basic educa on a white scholar, Rl00 was' spent on a black child!' < way back in the 1960s. tion" , "first level", "first cycle" etc., Targets were set; JJy 1980, it was have been added to, primary and In short, in the entire educa the rise of meritocracy; all from part of recommended that, "Primary Educa elementary in-describing the young tion shall be universal, compulsory tional expo~ure jn Na~i~ia. the. ' the expectatio!lS of people more able to child's first experience or organised, blacks have been made to climb a determine their own future. The plan and free:' The view was, that education for~al schooling. ning of development and change has under appropriate conditions, is gain . The classical model of a seven year ,wall which they could not see. ful to 'economic investment and can .. - ~ :.:" become a major preoccupation of ' cycle of primary education conducted "'new" governments. ' , con~ri?ute to economic growth. in a special school building by fulltime , In my' first , irticle , o~ "l e ~~ci~s--(~r , This' pressure to -:'develop" h; s The Nature ofUPE - some teachers within a system of schooling Namibia;' I giiVe an example which I become intensified as gaps between distinctions to be made ... is now open to considerable variation. _ would like to repeat again. The total rich and poor countries have increas The plans for a great spread ofiiteracy educational programme for blacks has ed. For example, between 1974 and Allow me at this point, to make some and numeracy, life· skills and been analogous to a 100-metre race 1975 the average increase in per capita distinctions concerning the overall awareness expressed by the interna with the white compatriots at the income in the rich countries at US ' concept ' of universal primary ' tional experts are largely envisaged in education. 50·metre mark. . .,- ~480 exceed the average total income terms offormal school systems. The dangers of generalising from And notwithstanding an this, some per head in the developing countries at EDUCATION: of us have in the enc;i,breastedthe-tape preconceived notions of what mayor simultaneously. US $416: , may not constitute UPE are clear. It Last, to say that education equals . ,Even amongst the poorer countries Having said that, let me share with may' well be that no ' all-~mbracing schooling may be a good rule ofthumb you some ideas about Universal disparities have grown. The better dfi definition exists, or even needs to be when reading national development Primary Education, which was a topic saw their average annual incomes sought. However, some separating out plans. However, the difference between . debated in the National Assembly grow at seven times the rate of some ofthe PQssible'ingredients ofUniver the terms are well'documented. poorer countries between 1960 arid recently. . U ' ~ sal provision may still be helpful. In-any discussion ofUPE, it may well 1975. ' Jerry Tobias be a formal system of primary school -'Namibia is a classiCal example of UNIVERSAL: The Natiil-e ofU~versar -~ .. ing, a variety of multi-media ap what I have tried to explain in the Namibians want to equalise education At its most simple, this term may mean Primary Education proaches or adult literacy drives which ~ abovementioned paragraph, a blend of , opportunities and redress the im· th!!ta,l,target populations actually at are under discussion. Certainly. one , SinceWorldWarilmost~markable a first and third world societies. For ex Qalances of the past. Allow me to say te~d scJ:1 DeV:eloprri~nt" has R2 000- 'apiece,' and 'approximately Education, in the sense of for~al legislation into practice. This is citizens. become a priority - a riSIng standard 1 500 new teachers each year. schooling, has long been viewed as th!l sometimes called "universality on Namibia has adopted a bill ofhuman _of}ivi~ g, i!ld~strial an~.w'p'~n &rowt]?, ~_ ~~~~ibia i!! currently (1981l..spen· "key that unlocks the door of moder- paper, ~~t not in fact." rights, why not put this into practice? Q Sst
Friday September 4 1987 3
BY MARK VERBAAN
THE CHAIRMAN of the Ovambo Administration, Mr Peter Kalangula, has called a mass meeting tomorrow for the residents ofth e Uukwanyama region in order to test public opinion on whether or not the security forces should be withdrawn from the area. . Several weeks ago it was reported meeting iI\ Oshakati, wher e that tribal leaders from the region, in thousands ofr esidents demanded that cluding Mr Gabriel Kautwima and Mr police and army troops leave northern Immanuel Nghixulifa, met with police Namibia immediately. and army at Ohangwena to request Because of the tribal leaders' ap that the security forces are not parent reluctance to hold their own withdrawn from the region. public meeting, Mr Kalangula has The request was made to Brigadier gone ahead and done it for them. Erick von Mollendorff, the District He feels confident that the pepple of Commissioner of police in northern the region will be unanimous.in their Namibia. ' demand for the security forces-to be At the time, Mr Kautwima Claimed. withdrawn. that the Kwanyama group was the The meeting will be . h.eld at largest in the north, and therefore had Ohangwena during the course of the authority to speak on behalfofthe tomorrow (Saturday). entire region when it was requesting Mr Ralangula also expressed his sur that army and police bases remained prise at being' approached yesterday in northern Namibia. morning by a Tsumeb magistrate who He stated that the decision regar enquired why Mr Kalangula 4ad not _ ding the withdrawal of security forces notified him about the meeting. .~ could only be taken by the traditional Mr Kalangula said that Etango leaders. . "regularly holds meetings in villages", Mr Kalangula pointed out that Mr and he was not aware thatthey inform Kautwima could not ask the army to ed-a' magistrate every time they had stay, as he had not held a public one of these meetings. meeting to obtain the opinions of the He confirmed that he had then sent people. , a letter to the magistrate informing Mr Kalangula recently held a him of the meeting. F·ather calls· for an· inquiry i~to the' death of. hi's son 'at crossing THE FATHER of a 6-year-old The next day the man responsible for boy kil~~d 1:lY a motorist at a the death turn'ed up with a police pedestrian crossing on the sergeant from _Ondangwa. The main road between Ondangwa Sergeant, he all~ged, right there'and then delivered the verdict that his son and Oshivello, has demanded had been in the wrong and that the that the death of his son be pro driver was not to blame. perly investigated. Mr Hilondwavali said that he did not ULENGA OF MUN MEETS Mr Hiskiel Hilondwavali alleges feel the police officer had shown good that after the accident had occured the judgement in coming to such a hasty white man responsible had told the conclusion. The fact that t4e Sergeant WITH WILLIS OFTUC daughter of his wife who had accom decided who was right and who was wrong before the matter had been panied his son, to remove the body from BEN ULENGA, General Secretary of the Mine Workers Union of Namibia, who is presently detained brought to.the attention of, the At the road and take it- to the nearest in·terms of. Section Six of the Terrorisnf Act;-pictured on "'is' recent· visit to London with Mr Norman torney General made him doubt house. The girl, Fresiana Baptista, had Willis, General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress, at a press conference on August 20. Picture refused and the man then simply drove . whether the death would ever be pro- courtesy of TheMorning Star. LondQn. . " -'. off. perly investigated he said.
Continued from page 1 tHE NAMIBI~N is published by the j:m)prietors, the Free Press .of Namibia (pty) Ltd, with tiffice's at 104 L~utw.ein S~reet Windhoek, Meiring says the time of going to press. and printed by Jot:'" Meinert (Pty) Ltd, Stuebel Street Windhoek. Also approached, Police Public Rela The copyright on all material iii this edition, Unless otherwise workers back tions Officer, ChiefInspector Kierie du specified, rests with the .Free Press of Namibia (Pty) Ltd. Rand, dismissed the report .on the en masse at grounds that there were "always wild rumours", but said he would contact Tsumeb mine the newspaper if he obtained any confirmation. Continued from page 1 When Dr Obholzer was contacted·· personally later in the afternoon, he said that Mr Tjongarero had the option of being treated by either a hospital doctor or his own personal physician, ifMr 'IJongarero was prepared to pay for the treatment. When reporters spoke to Mr 'IJongarero's house doctor, Dr Zandile Erkana, at the Windhoek Hospital We can proudly claim to have late yesterday, she confirmed that her the widest selection of patient was suffering from an extreme Mr Tjongarero was arrested, ar fashion fabrics under one roof ly serious kidney disease. rangements were being made for him She said the disease was diagnosed to travel to Durban for "specialised in the country. a month ago. . treatment" at the Kidney Unit in a Reporters waited while Dr Erkana local hospital. went to the fourth floor to visit Mr The medical authorities in Durban, 'IJongarero, but she returned with the she said, were currently awaiting com news that she had been refused permis prehensive details of his medical sion to see her patient. history. Mr Bob Meiring She said that while she was waiting The Swapo leader's wife, Mrs Agnes upstairs, nursing sisters had spoken to 'IJongarero, who is in America at the the hospital authorities who said that moment, was also contacted late He added that "though we do not she was not permitted to visit Mr yesterday. plan to engage in numbers until next 'lJongarero. She sounded shocked when told of week. we already have so~e 350 men She added that she had spoken to the her husband's hospitalisation. back in the hostels!'. 'doctor who had been trea~ing Mr "Ifanything happens to my husband "We plan to be at full strength for 'IJongarero in prison, and had explain in that socalled prisonoftheirs, I hold practical purposes, by September 11", e.d to him the !?eriousness of his them responsible. I have tried to tell the General Mana,ger added. condition. them that they should allow my hus Officialsofthe Mine Workers Union She felt that this could have been one band to be seen by his private doctor, of Namibia (MUN) were not available of the reasons why her patient had who knows exactly what is wrong with for comment at the time of going to been transferred to hospital. him. Ifanything happens, I hold them press. Dr Erkana added that a week before responsible:' she said. - --7'
• ,RPt !l. 1Q rimQtOA? vRbi,:j Friday September 4 1987 Couneil ealls for release of detainees and Bothaeondemns their statement OWN CORRESPONDENT THE UN Security Council and the apparent attempt to establieh the Council for Nanribia, through their facts. respective Presidents, responded Foreign Minister Botha said that this one-sided action on the part of ------BY TOBIAS MBAKO ----- pressed people. sharply to the arrests of 19 August During the Assembly, Archbishop .of senior swapo and trade union members of the Security Council "cer AT THE FIFrH All Africa Conference of Churches, which ended leaders in Nanribia by condemning tainly did not assist in removing the Desmond Tutu of South Africa was on August 25 in Lome the capital of Togo, church leaders from all elected President of the AACC. Also, SA's actions andcallingfor''theim impression that the UN simply do not over the world pledged full support for the liberation movements mediate release of the detainees". act impartially in respect ofthe parties Rev Jose Belo Chipenda, the leader of ofSouth Africa and Namibia, both inside and outside their coun the Protestant Churches in Angola rep~ese~~ing the people of the The Security Council statements of terntory. tries and called upon all Christian people and governments of was elceted as the new General August 21 expressed "grave concern" In making the statement, the African states to do likewise. Secretary. at the continuing deterioriation ofthe members of. the Security Council The Assembly further expressed The Assembly, attended by over 500 The conference Assembly also anxiety about "the total strategy ofthe situation in Namibia, which it said recalled the numerous previous resolu delegates, called on the "illegitimate' resolved that it was "seriously disturb resulted from the "increasing repres South Mrican regime to coerce and tions of the SC "affirming the primary apartheid regime of South Mrica to ed and dismayed at the notice of deten sion" of Namibia's people by SA's oc and direct responsibilityofthe United distabilize the Frontline and enter into meaningful "dialogue with tion of our brothers in Windhoek, neighbouring states· of Angola, cupation-forces throughout the ter Nations over Namibia". They therefore accredited representatives of the black Namibia:' and called for their im r!tory, incluqing the socalled opera called once again on SA to comply ful Botswana, Mozamique, Swaziland and population with a view: to establishing mediate release or trial before a court · ~imbabwe:' and declared that a com tional zone in northern Namibia. ly with SC Resolutions 385 (1976) and just and equitable political systems ac oflaw. The statement by the President of 435 (1978) and to put an end to its il .prehensive economic emargo on Soth ceptable by the majority ofthe South The AH Africa Conference ofChur Africa is a non-violent way of ending tlie Security Council, who for the legal occupation an<:l admini~tration African arid Namibian people. ' -ches. (AACC) is a fellowship of 118 month ofAugust wastheAmbassador the apartheid regiII1ll. It called upon of Namibia. . Des'cribed by Dr Abisai Shejavali of member churches and approximately of West Germany, further cal1ed upon A further statement by the UN. itself and the International Communi the Council ofChurches in Namibia as 20 associate -Christian Councils ty to do all efforts to ensure that. South Africa "toputanimmedia~end > Coiuncil for Namibia on September 2 "a successful meeting where we were founded in 1963 at a cOilference held in The lives of the people in Namibia to the repressi~n ofthe Namibian peo '~strongly condemned" the arrest on bound together by the Christian Kampala, and has headquarters in ple and to all illegal acts against return to Windhoeki from abroad of and South Africa, the Assembly noted, Faith", the conference devoted most of Nairobi. This year's Assemly meeting are in perpetual danger and therefore neighbouring states". _ the General Secretary of the its time discussing the crisis in was the fifth, and it is held every five Responding to t.he statement. on _ Mineworkers Ullion of Namibia, Mr need their -honest prayers and southern Africa. years. . attention. . August 24, South African Forelgn Ben Ulenga, on August 26. The Assembly also commended and At this year's conference, Namibia Minister Piok Botha expressed "his The Council also condemned the ar It appealed to the International praised Swapds readiness to sign a was represented by the General Community to give economic astonishment" that the President of rest under the 'Terrorism Act of senior ceasefire at any time with the South Secretary ofthe Council of Churches the Security Council had issued such trade union official, Mr Asser Kapere, assistance to frontline and neighbour an "emotion statement" WIthout any" made in early August. ing,states whose economies are con sIstently being threatene"d by South Africa's destabilisation process. Assembly commends Swapo readiness The Assembly condemned "the to sign a ceasefire systematic imposition of apartheid • laws and abuse of human rights of the ME) TIGERS KOMPETISIE majority population in SA and African g~vernment to end the conflict in Namibia, Dr Abisai Shejavali who Namibia unjust, heretic and immoral", in the country, and rejected the linkage was accompanied by the Rev Zedekia and made a stern call to release all of the independence of Namibia with Muyoro, the Principal oftlie Paluinum political prisoners of conscience in INSKRYFVORM the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Lutheran Seminary. Also attending Namibia and South Mrica. Angola. was Rev Peter Lamoela of the United A call was made to to delegates atthe The conference which was opened by Cogregational Church of SA , which is Assembly to recommend to their Ek wi! graag inskryf vir die Dr Emilio Castro, the General also a member church of the AACC. respective Churches, Councils, and Mejuffrou BS Tigers Kompetisie. secretary of the World Council ofChur Also addressing the conference was governments to establish a formula ..\ ches, expressed solidarity with the the President of'lbgo, General Gnass i9n liaison with creditable leaders and \MY NAAM: ...... struggling people of Namibia and ingbe Eyadema, who affirmed the role Councils in Southern Africa so as to South Africa and resolved that it was of the church in nation building. He enable the reccommended exceptional "concerned with the deteriorating said that the AACC had an arduous sisters and brothers from SA and ADORES: ...... situation in South Africa al1.d Namibia task to help eradicate social, economic Namibia to enter into their respective occasioned by the increase in immoral and political problems facing the countries.
...... ~ ...... and unjust Laws of the illegitimate African continent. He urged the white minority regime of SA, and in church not to ignore the fundamental ...... Poskode ...... cesant Police brutality which terrorise problems of man but to strife hard to and oppress the majority black provide a better spiritual and material population." assistance to the suffering and op- SA involved Telefoon (huis): ...... in push for Telefoon (werk): ...... Unita bandits are aid to Contras Deelnemers moet ongetroud wees, tussen 18 jaar en SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT in Zaire to see to DISCLOSURES from declassified 25 jaar wees. documents from the Iran-Contra hearings in Washlngton have shed US ·arms shipment further light on the Reagan Ad OUDERDOM: ...... ministration's support for Unita. In attempting to obtain SA military aid for the Nicaraguan Contras, the MY BEROEP: ...... to Angolan rebels CIA was prepared to send telex data to Pretoria on Angolan military STOKPERDJIE: ...... IT has been cOnIrrmed that a the documents "information note to movements that could be used by ...... detachment of12 Unita bandits are the President", continues to advise Unita. Testimony to the hearings by ., at the Kamina base in Zaire to assist that ... "the operation is directed by a CIA officer Clarridge revealed that on with the US military supplies to white CIA officer with the rank ofMa ly because of "hullaballoo" over US Unita bases in Angola. To cope jor;' mining of Nicaraguan harbours, was with the Central African heat, a The second document headed the decision on SA military aid to the "Security Measures", is dated Ek sluit twee swart/wit fotos van myself in, een kop en swimming pool has also been built Contras dropped. However, a former at the base by the team of February 10 1987 and reads: " .. . the US government official confirmed on Americans that are coordinating CIA will regularly furnish informa August 19, that the talks were part of skouers, en die ander vollengte in 'n baaikostuum of the arms supply operation. tion of all journalists in Zaire". a complex negotiations between the The second memo coincides with the CIA and South Africa at senior levels. kortbroekie. Skry asb. baie duidelik leesbaar u eue Although Zaire President Mobutu first in depth report ofthe CIA-Unita Since there was nothing to stop SA has denied his country's involvement, arms traffic filed from Kamina by from sending sensitive intelligence in it has been revealed by the New York James Brooke in a special to the New formation to Unita, the CIA would naam en adres agter op die fotos. Times that two typewritten memoran York Times dated February 1. Follow send such information to SA in return da in French were almost certainly ing the story Brooke has been refused for SA military aid to the Contras. sent to the President regarding the re-entry to Zaire. Brooke was inform Recent details on the package of US MY NAAMTEKENING: ...... supply chain through Kamina. ed by US Ambassador to Zaire, Bran aid to Unita for 1987 are stated by an The information was sentfollowing don H Grove Junior, that ifhe filed his official conversant with the arms sup the first reports in February of the US February article, the Zairean plies as being "when the shopping list DATUM: ...... arms shipments via Santa Lucia Air authorities would never again grant is completed, it could be between $15 ways to Kamina and onto bases in him an entry visa. million and $17 million". This is pro Angola. A Western diplomat station The Ambassador was reported as vided direct from the CIA budget and ed in Zaire, has stated that he believes making clear that he was merely pass formal congressional approval is not Pos aan: Mejuffrou BS Tigers, Posbus 2130, both memoranda to be genuine. One of ing along the message. required", Windhoek, 9000 Shivifa or:nashivifo oye moNamibian ~~------~~------~~~~~------~--~------~------~-~~--~~------~~~~--~~~-
, THE NAMIBIAN.... Friday September 4 1987 5 Youngholidaymakers accosted by ALLEGED ASSAULT " BY 'KOEVOET' TWO MEN returning from a a certain Eliaser Tuhadeleni's home,
Unita guerrillas while' on acanoe . Swapo braai last Friday were and were about 50 metres from the severely beaten up by a group braai, when a group of eight to nine of men they alleged to be unknown men, dressed in civilian members off'Koevoet!' clothes split into two parties waitedfor trip down the Kavango iver them to pass through. As they passed between the two ------' BY FRANZ KRUGER in East London ------ groups of men, one ofthe men took out a pistol and ordered them to remain FOUR YOUNG holidaymakers were held up.by a band of Unita guerrillas while they were silent, after which a shot was fired in canoeing down the Kavango River, on the border betwee~ Angola and Namibia. One of the to the air. ' party, Dr Mike Dreyer, told of the incident this week when he returned hom to East London A heavily stitched up Gerson, who from his Namibian holiday. was interviewed on Saturday morning after 'the incident, said one of the Dreyer said that he and three ed them, and set off after us, bran happen to us", assailants then grabbed him by his friends, two brothers and a sister ofthe dishing their guns". After about an hour of arguing, lumber jacket whilst another beat him prominent Namibian Woermann "Under' normal circumstances, we Dreyer said they had convinced the on the side ofthe head with a stone he family, intended canoeing down the would have been able to outdistance guerrillas to call their commander, hadjust picked up, after which all hell Kavango River from Rundu eastwards them, but our canoe got stuck in a who was fetched across in a. canoe. The, broke loose, with them being assaulted to Andara, a distance of some 200km. sandbank, and they caught up with commander, who did not have rank in by the ~tt acKers. The three others with him were Isa, In us.". - signia, took names and addresses~ and Guenya also received a stab wound go and Jesko Woermann. The sandbank was right on the questioned them about about the in his head during the assault. On the second day oftheir trip,they Namibian side, and one of the Unita reasons for their canoeing down the During the assault a Police pickup saw armed menon the Angolan bprder, men had sat onthe Namibianbank of border river. drove up, and the police alleged Ger waving to them, and shouting that the river while talking ,to the The holidaymakers all "told them son, who now had blood streaming in they should come across to the holidaymakers. The men had been we were students of philosophy and his eyes made no attempt to arrest the Angolan bank. On occasions when the armed 'with what· appeared to be suchlike", Dreyer said, J{e had been assailants, but inste.adtook him by his holidaymakers,came within earshot, AK-47 rifles, one had his bayonet fix afraid that if they found out he was a wrists and threw him and Guenya in the men could be heard to shout '\:lns ed, and wore military uniforms, parts medicfll doctor;t~ey might have more Mr Shidute Gerson to the back of the pickup, and drove will praat" (Afrikaans for 'we want to of which seemed to be 'the "same as reason to abduct them. - them to hospital, were they received talk'). SADF uniforms. "At one point we'were asked whether Mr Shidute Gerson and Mr treatment. They had been hailed about five 'The guerrillas ' had "clearly iden we were spying'for Swapo", and after Shikokeni Guenya s~d they were . A policespokesm~n confirmed that times duripgthe-neJd.two days, Dreyer .tified themselVes as Unita" Dreyer a longtime ()f"haggling, argu~ng and returning home from aSwapo braai 'at no charges have been laid. said. "They didn't seem to be threaten said. "They first spoke PortugueSe, and bargaining, they let us go". ing us,- we were just scared because used the local guy as an interpreter, The four had bro,ken off their trip they had gun~ who spoke bad Afrikaans: They after the incident, 'partly also because "On the third day while we were pad wanted us to go to the Angplan side, the rive!;, was getting very shallow. A Wellknown Darnara dling along, it was near where the, which we refused to do. friend had been following them by road Quito flows into the Kavango, about,10 "We thought we would be abducted and they drove the rest of the way to men jumped out of the bush and , into the middle of Angola and we told Andara in the car. headman dies shouted at us to stop. Two ofthem got them it was illegal to cross the border Asked why the group had chosen to Mr Eddie Thurob, a wellknown seeds. In 1934 Mr Thurob joined a into a canoe, while a local guy paddl- and ifwe did go across, anythingmight paddle down the Kavango river, in the Damara headman of ward no 3 in german prospecWr and worked for middle of a war zone, Dreyer said: "It Damaraland passed away on a sikspens per kilogram of tin !lUP was relatively safe, in that there is no 18/08/87 and was buried at Uis on plied, after which he worked on the real guerrilla activity by Swapo. We on August 30. mines for years. didn't realise Unita was active so far Headman Thurob who was born During 1946 Mr Thurob married south. at Ue-Gams in the region ofUis in MsAuloria Guriras who gave birth " Ifwe had known that, I don't think 1926, moved around DamaraHmd to seven children. Ont he 16th April we would have done the trip". They said quite frequently in his early years 1971 Mr Thurob was chosen as they had not reported the incident to in search of grazing for his cattle Headinan and held the position un any official quarter, Dreyer said. whilst he livedoffberries and grass till his death. ABSO UTELY UNIOUE! ____ OUR SPECIAL OFFERS FOR SEPTEMBER 1987 ____ METJE & ZIEGLER DOES IT AGAIN! A STUDENT aged 19 years, who miraculously escaped being shot by white soldiers - who he said, were "very drunk" - told how on Tuesday this week, his mother and three btothers were shot and seriously wounded in front of him.
A shaken Gabriel Jona, a student of on the scene and wanted to take the vic the Onyeka School related how five -tims to hospital His request was refus drunk white soldiers arrived at his ed by the soldiers who allegedly said home early Tuesday morning, and vir that the family should be left there to tually held the area ofOshuushe under die. siege. The soldiers also shot bullet holes in to his car in an apparent attempt to ,They had apparently brought prevent him, from transporting the enough liquor to last for the whole day victims. and started assaulting people in the . When the soldiers turned for more li area. quor, Mr Andreas managed to sneak Gabriel Jona, his mother, Mrs Mar away and notify a nearby army base tha Jason, and four younger brothers about the incident. That base is ap had left earlier by carto collect water, proximately 500 meters away from the and when they returned the soldiers place where the shootings took place. LASHER' ~:~1sening apparently asked them for matches. Meanwhile the victims were ap When they said that they had no parently bleeding profusely. The black Spade No. 145 R12!9 matches, the soldiers allegedly open soldiers from the nearby base brought ed fire, seriously wounding Mrs Mar a first-aid kit with them in order to at tha Jason and her three children. tend to the injured. Rake No, 092 R12!9 The children whose ages range bet When the soldiers from the nearby Compost ween nine and fifteen years, are base arrived and wanted to apply first Silvanus Jonas, Elia Jonas and aid, this was refused and fighting en Fork No, 110 R12!9 Angula Kakololo. They are all receiv sued between the two groups of ing medical attention in the Onand soldiers. They opened fire on each jokwe hospital. A spokesman for the other, but no one was seemingly hospital confirmed on Thursday that wounded. ~ the patients were all in a satisfactory Last year, corpses of unidentified SOLE AGENT IN condition. people were found in the Oshuushe SOUTH WEST AFRICA A spokesman of the Ovambo Ad area, and'reports at the time indicated ministration said that the incident had that security forces had shot those peo STANDARD already been reported to them, and ple. A spokesman of the Ovambo ad that the marauding soldiers were iden 00 ministration said that ever since, the ' oanlyl R329 • tified as being attached to the 101 Ar people of Oshuushe have lived in my base at Oshigambo. Their numbers ' perpetual fear of the security forces. could apparently not be taken down Also a few weeks ago, a senior head because the soldiers were all bare- manfreom the same area, Mr Michael chested. ' Abisai:, had called on the security Gabriel who was dri ving the vehicle forces to to withdraw from the area at the time of the shooting was not because they were engaged'in what he wounded, although when he spoke to termed a "campaign ofterror" against The Namibian yesterday, he W PICTURED at Sunday's Namibia Day r.ally by John Liebenberg: on the left Mr Joshua Hoebeb, Swapo Secretary for Education; top, part of the crowd which attended the meeting and below, crowds march through Katutura when the proceedings. came to an end. . BY RAJAH MUNAMAVA THE SWAPO MOVEMENT commemorated the 21st anniversary of its armed struggle with a mass rally in Katutura last Sunday amid heavy police presence and the arrest ofseveral ofits members at the meeting. Camouflage police in two vans sped to fight for their freedom was onto the meeting groundjust before the unbreakable. start ofthe rally in Katutura, chased Mr Ekandjo called on the West Ger a number of people and arrested a man ambassodor to South Africa Mr school girl and two other people. Immo Stabriet, who was said to have Seven others were arrested in attended the rally, to .convey to his government as a demand of the Nami- _. ~ ______various parts of Katutura while on their way to the meeting. bian people the immediate implemen Two of those detained on Sunday, tation ofUNSCR 435. Mathews Erastus and Phillip Swapo's Acting President, Mr Nathaniel Maxhuilili appealed to Nepembe appeared in the Windhoek whites in· Namibia to join their black Magistarte Court on Monday morn compatriots in Swapo and fight for ing, on charges of possession of total liberation. He said that Swapo dangerous weapons. Their case was postponed until September 14. knew no colour. He further called on The rest were expected to appear in those in the interim government to Court this week on similar charges. resign while there was time. . Namibia Day was also com Swapo's Secretary tor Education, Mr memorated on August 23 by workers _ Joshua Hoebeb told the Sunday rally, at the diamond mining town of Oran attendedbycloseon4 000 people, that jemund. Swapo branch Secretary Mr the decision by his organisation to take I Kalenga, in an address to the up arms in 1966 was a most difficult workers, said that they were under a one. "labeurcode akin to slavery" of which "We are gathered here not to glorify the chiefoperative concepts were coer in Perspective the armed struggle. We know that once cion and control. Workers in Namibia you direct a gun at someone else, it he said were brought into the labour NAMIBIA IN PERSPECTIVE isthe productof24authors from different walks of life, in and outside Namibia. results in the spilling of blood. We are market not as free, but forced Among them are academics, researchers, trade unionists, educators, community workers, journalists, lawyers christians and we are not insensitive labourers, where they were subjected and students. - - to brutal and ruthless exploitation. to human life, but we also have a duty The fundamental idea ofthe book is to provide an avenue for Namibians to make themselves heard, to show to liberate our country". Under such circumstances, there was no room for fence sitting or any that the struggle is also waged inside the country. The book thus complements personal testimonies of life He said that after many years of peti ground for neutrality. in Namibia with academic analyses of the Namibian political, economic and social situations. tioning and attempts at bringing Workers had to choose sides between South Africa to a negotiating table for Contributors look at issues such as the strategy of colonial powers in Namibia throughout the decades; the the system which oppressed them and role of Namibia in global politics; the disputed legitimacy of the interim government; and prospects for in the resolution of the Namibian pro the Namibia masses who were victims gependence. They look at the role colonial education has played through the decades. They discuss the blem proved futile, Swapo was left with offoreign exploitation and oppression. no option but to take up arms. effects ofthe South African legal system in Namibia; the kind of justice meted outto Namibians; and finally, Mr Hoebeb reminded the crowd that they summarise the current state of affairs and examine the prospects for a negotiated settlement in the August 26 or Namibia day as it is com light of recent developments. monly known was a day in which to honour God for sustaining the armed Ex-publisher R16,QO struggle, as well as to remember those Sales Tax . 1,44 who had lost their lives in the struggle Postage/Handling 1,06 for freedom. Youth Secretary Mr J er~y Ekandjo, Overseas US $15 or £10 Postage/handling included said South Africa had failed to defeat Bulk purchase (30 copies and over) less 20% Swapo militarily in the past 21 years NOW AVAILABLE AT~ despite the heavifire power atits com mand. He said that South Africa had Council of Churches in Namibia even gone to the~xtent of using foreign PO Box 41 mercenaries in the war with Swapo'but Windhoek 9000 . -! " • -~ had dismally failed. Telephone: (061)· 375101112 This he said showed that·the will-of the people ofNamibia and theil-resolve A FULL BENCH of five Judges of the Windhoek Supreme Court this week refused an applicationforformaljoinder by the SWA Ad ministration for Whites, in an inquiry to establish whether the Ter ritory'sProclamation AG8 is in conflict with the Fundamental Rights Bill in the South African State President's Proclamation RIOI. . Counsel for the Administration, The Court indicated that it would Mr Wim de Villiers, earlier sub- ask other parties with "a friendly in- mitted that the second tier ethnic terest" in the subject to submit argu- authority should be cited as a ment and data. respondent in the hearing. OnMonday,athirdSeniorCounsel, Remarks from the bench were MrWimdeVilliersofJohannesburg, that if the application succeeded addressed the Court, submitting that . I N b the ethnic repreSentative authority for every smg e citizen of ami ia whites in Namibiahadanessentialin- _ would be entitled to the same terestintheoutcomeandhadtheright privilege. to present legal argument to the Court. The Judge President, M~ Justice Interjections from the Deneh were Hans Berker, said that the Judges that the judges were merely requested ': were unanimous. that therll ,wall ·no to 'express a legal opinion and riot to room for a fornIaljoinder, QutthePourt ·make findings or dispute the facts. would wap.ttohewargumentfrom·the '-" Mrd~ ViUiers said ifthe CoUrt's opi white administration on j&sue.s.that -- nidh;·went 'againstthe~ 'retention of would help .it fprmulate an opinion. AG8, the consequences 'Would ·be·far .' hIh tli'e \i.rt\istial Courl -pr!>ceiilings, ." reaching; ! j C, ,> , • 'rr!" ,; j.' P t he NaI;iIibi'an tr ansitlQ1ialGabhl~f is 'J" ' It: -woutai ~i.rect:tlie ej:'i~te rl:ce ofihe "'askinglhe Winllhdek~up.reme Court South Afridan Parliament's Reqoboth to express a legal opi'nici'n on'whether .,- Self-GOvernfuent Akdh976 . . r : the pb1'iqCi.llY controvei-sfat ~i~~a- ~'lr, A1tRouglftife clfUit'W-I{i:'rloJ;'as'ked to '·-tl'''nAG· QI·'s· co··m· p"a' ~ I; b· "-" u;'.· :.!Lt' h'i!,.'t'\\ n- 'I"" k '- :t ~' -," - 'r;' t' ;(;:;-;r.:t~' · r·-di · ·· t ,.. 1-' L 1t: , ,,Ln ..~ ~ - . ~a e - ~ ~ ~.Jtl1 ~~6I.V~~ ~ ..1~ -" ", s~)l .e, ,', ailmental Rights 131'11 of:P;~Iiifuiition . )'commuruheS'With vestea mterests m RIol'.· .:." ""lV'l!, ,.,,;!,,:, ~~.j'Jl"w ," .o:-'AP'8 :?a'd'i! 1~~~"figl.itt~;Se:irellJd : The first procl am~iifilI{'e sfa\)~ished . ':' Mrae'Vi1ti.ers-satd:lfewasreIiTesen- · "N amiO'ia'r; II sec'iiha ~ {f.l'er ''''e'thnic -:','" ~!rig, The Rossing Foundation , I LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP RossinSf agreement sparks The Trustees invite applications for a post-graduate Scholar ship tenable at an overseas university or institute as from controversy between 'the October 1988. • • • • The purpose of the scholarship is to select young people who through their qualities of character, ability and in various·mining unlo 5 telligence, show that they have the potential to take their place as future community leaders. RAJAH MUNAMAVA. The main conditions of th e scholarship are: -Applicants must hold a Bachelor degree and must be prepared to the status of each one. take a post-graduate diploma or degree. THE RECOGNITION AGREEMENT conclu ded last week MUN regards the RMWU as its - Applicants must undertake to return to Namibia on completion of betweeen the ROssing Mine Wor kers Union and the ROssing Com branch and some RMWU officials are their stud ies. pany, has sparked controversy between the ROssing Union and the in the executive of MUN, including - Applicants must be permanent residents of Namibia. Mine Workers Union ofNamibia.(MUN), the biggest and strongest Asser Kapere, who is chairman of the RMWU as well as Deputy National The value of the scholarship will be: union in the mining industry. Chairman of MUN, Winston - The direct cost of travelling to and from the institute, board and Gronewald, secretary for RMWU and lodging, and cost of tuition. . Top MUN officials were baffied this that people on its executive and branch National Treasurer for MUN. - An appropriate a llowance will be paid to the scholarship holder week when they learned that the positions could issue such statements In a statement on Monday, ROssing to pay for personal expenses. . recognition agreement signed last Fri saying they had no ties with the union. Public Relations Officer Mr Clive The scholarship will be awarded for one year or longer, but will be sub day was only a matter between the One officials who declined to be nam Algar said his company "recognises ject to review at the end of each year. ROssing Mine Workers Union and ed at this stage said that it was the right of employees to associate free Persons who are interested in this scholarship, should apply b.lfore ROssing and that it had excluded hypocracy that the RMWU could claim ly as well as the right of the ROssing October 15, 1987. All applications should be made in writing and should MUN. that it was not affiliated to MUN when Mine Workers Union to represent the include: A Spokesman for the ROssing Mine they wer.e using MUN and NUNW best interests of its members within - Curriculum Vitae Workers UnionMr Julius Kunuchab membership cards. the agreed bargaining unit at the - Photostat copies of appropriate certificates and diplomas. said this week that the recognition He said further that those members mine". - An indication of the applicants' future intentions and aspirations in .. agreement was salely a matter bet the ROssing Mine Workers Union The company agreed that the educational and vocational terms. ween his Union and ROssing and MUN claimed to represent were holders of recognition agreement represented a was not part of the deal. He further MUN membership cards. The official - Names and add~sses of three referees milestone in industrial relations disclosed that the RMWU was present declined further comment and said within the mining industry in Correspondence snould be addressed to: ly not affiliated to any national trade that the matter would be thoroughly Namibia. He said that the negotia union or federation but did not rule out investigated by the National Ex tions between the two parties had been The Director, future affiliation to any union of its ecutive committee. underway for the past 12 months and The Rossing.Foundation, choice. Confusion seem to centre on the rela that the agreement was the first one to PO Box 20746 t 'J MUN officials expressed surprise tionship between the two unions and be signed by the company. WINDHOEK 9000 tfttit KWAFELA OSHIFO SHO SHIWANA Friday September 4. 1987--9 'The signs of battle are MANDELA~KESTHELEAD JOHANNESBURG: Blac,kactivist Winnie Mandela, led about 300 people almost unbearable ...' at a memorial ser.vice for two South African blacks who were hanged for the "necklace" murder of a black town councillor. BEIRUT: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has urged Arabs to develop nuclear weapons Moses Jantjies and Wellington Mielies, were found guil,ty in a South African as a protection against Israel.-"I would say ... the Arabs should possess the atomb bomb", Court of murdering the town councillor by the notorious "necklace" method, in he said in a televised speech on Tuesday night this week, markingt4e 18th anniversary of which a tyre is put around the victim's body and set alight. The two convicted. the bloodless coup which toppled King Idris and brought Gaddafi to power. murderers were executed on Tuesday this week, despite several pleas for clemen· ~ .. ... - - - ~ :- cy, including one from West German Foreign Minister, Hans·Dietrich Genscher. "NoV'{,.Jh atth~ Isra~lis possess Gaddafi said Tripoli was working 'to vehicles, others torn to pieces . by And in Cape Thwn, the police clashed wit4 some 3 000 students protesting against the atomic weapon,' the Arabs reconcile rival forces in the Central bombs, dismembered with theIr guts the hanging of the two men in PretOliia. have nothing before them except .. African State. "" hanging out, releasing a smell of death to work day and night to possess He said the United States was i Il;tbe4Qdegree heat ~ I' ' .... "HORROR' CELL (jPENE~ behind what he Galled Chadian aggres- . " !laski, Africa editor for "Liberation" the atomic weapon in order to de sion and was stirring up·internal con· . 'Yas on~ of \l small, gr,ouP. o( !Aainly KAMPALA: Officlal~ expecting to find the grislyrem!lins ofpeople tortured fend their existence." flict in Chad. ; French journalists flown;to. the war to death during forl1ler dictator ldi Amin's rule, broke into a sealed "hor- ' "Libya is pushing for nationalrecon- _ZOne on SaturdayJrom the Libyan The official Libyan news agency ror cell" only to' find bags of raincQats. ciliation in Chad and helping its peo- ; ~apital of Tripoli. Jana, monitored in Beirut, also quoted Keys to the cell, believed to have held up to 100 prisoners, were lost after Amin pIe to develop and,rebuild their coun- He said he had seen about 30 Cha- was overthrown in 1979. Human Rights groups say that more than 500 000 U gan· Gaddafi as saying Libya and Algeria try .. . while the Americans are aiming had agreed to form a union from at kindling internal conflict and forc- dian corpses and that the death toll dans were killed during Amin's eight·year rule. was probably higher, but addedthat Li- U ganda'sHuman Rights Commission discovered the sealed chamber on August November 1 as a first step towards an "Arab union". Under this Arab union, ing President Hissene Habre to con- byan reports of 460 dead appeared 14 this year while touring the defunct publi safety unit, where thousands of Amin's tinue aggression:' he said. . exaggerated. ' detainees were tortured and killed. The handmarks of victims are still visible on heads of state would form a presiden tial council, Gaddafi said. Libya said that last Friqay ithad Journalists were also shown .cap- the walls. Efforts to open the two-foot thick.steel door sealing the chamber prov recaptured the . disputed twoll ' of tured Milan anti-tank missiles, made edfutile, until workmen smashed ahole in the cell's brick and concrete wall, and , "Any Arab prime minister in any Aouzou after three weeks of Chadian Arab country, shall become the prime opened the door-~rom the inside, the government-owned "New Vision" reported. occupation. Chad denied the desert by a Franco-German consortium, and But instead of corpses, all that was found:was a "small quantity of rubbish and minister of all the arab prime town had fallen, saying that fighting " American Redeye anti-aircraft weapons. ~ 750 dark-blue raincolits'in plastic bags, which were destined for the police:' the ministers, once very six months:' he wa.s still conti,nuing, ,', , . , , ·said. newspaper reported. .' , r Both Libya and Chad claim France, whichhas1200troopsinthe o "Any aggresslOn or threat of aggres sovereignty oVllr.the border strip an- south of its former colony, and the wEi.OM MINING DISASTER . sion., of any kind that falls on any -nexed by Lioya in'1973. . '- . ' Uniteil States both back President ' member,states should be considered Meanwhile,aFrenchjournalisthas y Hissene Habre. ., . ' WELKOM (South Afric)a: Forty-two S~uth African miners..Jnissing ~r an attack,on all-member states." reP. BIASED REPORTS MAY NOT BE BROADCAST The Policy Statement adds that "biased reports, and out of context reports determined says Nafau .; that can damage South West Africa's image overseas, may not be broadcast". This is censorship at its worst. It also explains why the SWABC has not THE NAMIBIAN Food and Allied . shown its reluctance and arrogance general secretary has nothing to do covered news of national interest (for example, the TCL strike before the Union national executive commit pertaining to the fundamental with the blast at Gustav Voigts. It is court case; several Swapo rallies where chaos has erupted, and numerous tee and shopsteward committees workers rights to organise without another tactic by the state to cripple other reports)for fear it may damage the 'country's reputation'. In addition throughout the country have state interference". the activities of our union". it may be added, one cannot 'damage the image' of a country, but one can strongly condemned the long 'damage the image' of its government. Perhaps this is what they mean. detention without trial of its "The gross violation of human rights Detentions and deaths would never They also state that "unsavoury details of torture, execution and the suf general secretary, · Mr John has been displayed by the security silence the angry voices of the oppress fering of man or animal will not be broadcast". This is quite hon:ific. If a Pandeni, and other members of . forces (in the) disruption oflegal public ed workers, said Nafau, adding that person is tortured and dies in detention, the SW ABC would not report it; Swapo. meetings of the progressive organisa the detention of their general if people are suffering, for whatever reason, they will not report it? In a statement by its Chairman, Mr tionsofwhich the large numbers ofour secretary would not halt ·their ac McDonald k Ntlabathi, Nafau said members belong. This in itself clearly tivities or cripple their organisation, THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE· COUNTRY that such acts would not sOlve existing shows the fact that the South Mrican but would instead make them more problems but would polarise the ex Government and its surrogates are vir determined. Finally the Policy Statement says 'officials' must decide if their reports are isting bad relations and cause un tually not interested in the democratic They appealed to the Administrator "in the best interests of the territory and its constituent population groups". necessary labour unrest. "The socall solution of our country's problems". General to consider the immediate This said at a time when Proclamation AG 8 is being tested in court; this ed interim government has clearly Nafau said that "the detention of our release of the detainees. at a time when the country is supposedly moving away from apartheid; this in a time when the population should have as much access to information as possible. The conclusion to all this is that the people of this country will hear and see only what the interim government and its SWABC branch want it to see and hear. 'Democracy' at its worst. NO KERINA WARRANT SAY T'HE POLICE Silence on ethnic elections AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE HUBBUB about the holding of ethnic elections in N amibia ha~ been followed by a sudden lull. The de _mand by the South African State ' President for such STAFF REPORTER ethnic or regional elections (which .amount to the same THE OFFICE of the Attorney General as w~ll as a spokesperson for cumstances, and it was believed that thing in any case) has met with varied responses from ' the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police, say they have there was a warrant out for his arrest. parties and groups in Namibia. no knowledge of·a warrant for the arrest of prominent Namibian ex However, when approached this week, Altliougli we trust that the idea of such elections has ile, Mr Mburumba: Kerina, who was reported to_be returning. to the office of the Attorney·· General now been dispensed with; we doubt that Mr Botha has N anubia this month. denied any knowledge, and also a bID spokesman. Foreign Affairs also stated abandoned his strong stance on thi,s issue, since it wotP-d Also approached as to whether Mr believed to be opposed to Mr Kerina's that it appeared ·there were 'no im appear as if he considers 'ethnic' elections as one w~y Kerina would be returning to ' return to organise what is reported to -pediments' prohibiting Mr Kerina's in which to guarante'e what he refers to as 'minority Namibia, a spokesperson for the SA be some form ofHerero-based alliance, return to Namibia. rights'. Possibly the South African Government is ' Department of Foreign Affairs said said that they had been asked on Mr Kerina spent some years in exile, awaiting l;"esponses from various parties before announ that according to their knowledge Mr several occasions by South Africa's later returned to Namibia in · the Kerina had not applieq for' it visa to Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr . Pik Seventieswhen he joined the Proswa cing that ethnic elections, as envisaged, will be held. return to Namibia, and they therefore Botha,why Mr Kerina could not Foundation. He thim left Proswa when While the only parties to come out strongly in favour ', presumed he was still in possession of . return. , . he was involved with the Democratic of ethnic elections to date, are the N ationalJ;»arty and a South African passport. Turnhalle Alliance, and then l~ter left Rehoboth Liber~tion Front, it woUJ,d seem that certain Mr Kerina, who has been resident in Mr Kerina has apparently made Namibia for the Uni,ted States. representation t 12 THE NAMIBIAN CHILDREN..~ '\ \ INTH CROSSFIRE A CHILD LEARNS TO LIE HIS way past a roadblock; a ten-year-old is taught ' how to shoot to kill; finding a decapitated corpse, a little girl picks up the h~ad. These are the realities of war for children across the globe. ~ot only as victims, but increasingly as participants, they are learning to accept the horrors of death and destruction as part of everyday life. In this report, Gemini's Markus Schwabe looks at children who go to war, and the pai~ of' those who stay at h6me. . 10':_ ... /: ,'LEARNING-T~nilLL . are his'brothers and comrades;' children'in Burma volunteer rather - ' WITHOUT.FEELING ,-" The adopted children, some as young - . ~- tl).an get draftedlnto the,KaJ.ens's-fight Chlidren :sged 12-17 are pre~8'- "as eigl),t, were given clothing in the for-independence from Rangoon. form of: uniforms, food, shelter and , gangedi~totheEISalvadorarmy. - Children under 16 years carry water In Uganda,-children as young as social guidance in return for their, and mutJ.itionsfo~the KarenNational eight fought in Yoweri Museveni's services. _Liberation Army, At 16, the boys get -guerrilla forCe. In Iran, children " ,. Apart from fighting as guerrillas us guns and become guerrillas. But accor volunteer for the war ag~nst Iraq. ing heavy North-Korean-made rifles: ding-to Dc!, from the age oftwenve Arourid , ~' '' . "Q' ,II' "'Il~ t ·~" ' .Ii ; i'. M',fT iT" HHtI, l: ~ '" -~ Photo: UNICEF madness," happy kids:' says Robinson. But when the effects of violence on children in Even though the Geneva convention their past is revealed they "turn into - Northern Ireland, says "Kids seem to "CH ILD SOLDIERS do not relate shooting a gun to-kill stipulates that children under 15 old people ... . they have lost so much;" be coping remarkably well" with the ing. One of the best fighters of the civil war was a boy of should not bear arms, the massive use One ofthe most traumatic losses the long-term conflict there. She at of children in armed forces continues, children experience is their separation tributes this to the fact that children ten years. He had absolutely no fear because he could causing them harm while they inflict from family members, be it through accept the riots, demonstrations and not relate cause _and effect." harm on others. moving, abduction or death. car bombings in Northern Ireland as normal everyday life. In her words "As they grow up, and begin relating the two they will WHERE A HEAD IN THE YARD Roger Rosenblatt, ajournalist who "The abnormal has become very develop psychological problems. Eithertheyturn away IS pART OF A NORMAL DAY spoke-with war children in several normal." Bribing their way past roadblocks, countries said "I don't think there's Lebanese children are known to pick from fighting and have a mental or emotional breakdown, hiding in tunnels while soldiers anything more devastating for a child up pieces of dead bodies and help carry or else they will notface reality and become real killers." destroy their homes, losing friends than to watch these separations, the dead to the morgue as part of their and relatives to torture - it all because achildisa very self-interested daily routine. ' becomes normal to children of war. creature - as we all are - and wants One Guatemalan girl was found "When it continues long enough, civilians." The psychological effects oflong cohesion;' standing beside a decapitated corpse war even seeps into children's play, as The ultimate effect of war is to term war are devastating an'entire A Guatemalan Human Rights Com- holding the head in her hands. She ex seen in the schoolyard of Kampala, eliminate children's respect for the plained to her father "I am taking the where children play a game called dignity of others and their understan ants out of this man's head." roadblock, The biggest child acts out ding that it is wrong to kill. They Eliminating their sensitivity to war the role of the policeman, the rest ofthe become hardened, growing up too and death helps children cope with the children must try to win-his approval quickly, learning to become the horror of their lives, but the implica to pass. soldiers and authoritarians they see tion for society is a generation ofpeo Some try j;o win his sympathy, others around them. .II~Igeneration of children, teaching . I.mission (GHRC) report titled pie who refuse to deal with the pro claim they are related to a government Mark Schwabe is a Canadian jour them to turn off their emotions, to Guatemalan Children Thday, says blems around them. official or offer a bribe. The policeman Ilalist who has worked for CBC Radio witness death without feeling sor many children seek revenge for what A study in which 79 Ugandan tries to get as much money or goods as Current Affairs in Canada. He is cur row, leaving mental battle Scars has happened to their family children were interviewed by a he can y matching wits with the ! ently based in London. that never go away. members. "Almost all ofthe boys over sychologist says the children "descril;>e The screams of children in war echo the age ofteil said 'when we grow up" the horrible events without aJ&mpa: long after the fightihg ends. Stress, we're going to be soldiers and we're go nying feelings;' separation, malnutrition and physical ing _to kill those woo killed our' The report concludes "This growing + and emotional deprivation contribute fathers.'" a shell isa sign of highly-traumatised A study of30 children in a Lebanese to the psychological C wounds which children who have had little or no op often scar deeper and last longer than war zone found they showed increased portunity of worKing through emo physical injuries. " levels offear and insecurity, regressive tionally what they have experienced;' Fear is the common bpndlinkingwar behavious, problems sleeping and Most professionals agree it is impor , children everywhere. For two years An nightmares. Another study showed tant for children to talk about their ex nabele Robinson worked in a refugee Lebanese war children were depress , periences in order to come to terms and camp teaching and counselling ed, had feelings of guilt and isolation, cope with them. - children. a poor self-image, a lack of self-esteem Studies conducted on the Before she left she asked the children . and had problems relating to others. psychological effects ofwar on children to draw pictures of their homes. The GHRC report says some show that exposure to armed violence Helicopters, explosions, planes, bombs children try to assimilate their fear by on a continuous basis creates feelings and wounded and dead people drawn re-enacting situations in an attempt to ofhelplessness and undermines trust by the youngsters illustrate the real cope, A two-year-old boy, after wat in others. terror in which the children live. ching his father assassinated with a An analysis of a group of Latin They told stories of hiding in tunnels machine gun, had a fixation for American children noted that they ex dug by their parents while soldiers creating machine guns or rifles out of perienced "anxiety and an excessive destroyed their homes above, and wood or any other material he could demand for affection and security from about watching friends and relatives find. their parents, or the adults looking tortured and killed by the army. In the same way, children in after them, strong feelings of revenge Robinson talked to one boy whose Lebanese paediatric wards can be seen and as a result of the latter, feelings of mother was killed on top of him, playing with toy soldiers and machine guilt and depression." Severely disturbed, the boy now ' guns,- Another study conducted by a receives psychological treatment in a Some wars have continued so long psychiatric clinic in the Middle East, hospital. that a generation of children have showed children ten to eleven years old Most of the children do' not have ac grown up knowing only that way oflife. had experienced severe depression cess to such help. "They come across as Dr Liz McWhirter, a researcher on leading to attempts of suicide, - 14 Friday September 4 1987 THE NAMIBIAN Letter t o Pienaar suffering under the colonial army? AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SJKAATOOLE ADMINISTRATOR GENERAL OSHAT THE Interessengemeinschaft. Namibian problem. Concerning language rights of the We have been praying for the SADF Valid grievanees celebrated its 10th anniversary last The 14 convention also discussed Gel:"man minority, it was emphasised THE statement made by the Minister to leave your country because we are week, and at a function over the fundamental aims ofthe organisation at the convention that the IG had in of Manpower, Mr Moses Katjiuongua, deeply concerned about the repressive weekend, the West German Am and the steering committee was ask sisted unequivocably on anchoring the role it is playing there. Some of us have on September 1 i987 concerning the bassadorto South Africa, Dr Immo ed to present a plan of strategy to language rights of all ethnic groups in visited Namibia and seen for refusal by the Cabinet to appoint a Stabreit, was the guest of honour. members within two months. a future constitution according to ourselves, others ofus have had the op Conciliation Board to decide on the education plan of the interim govern portunity of meeting some of you and grievances of workers employed by He delivered messages of con hearing about your own experiences. ment. They added that such an equa Tsumeb Corporation Limited, should gratulations from Chancellor Helmut tion in lan~a~e _rights had so far not not be accepted by the general public We have been praying and tasting Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans eXIsted in Namibia. because we have wanted to show our as reflecting the only avenue open to Dietrich Genscher. In his speech Dr The Convention said "the planned care, concern and support for you, the Cabinet under the circumstances. Stabreit also confirmed UN Security changes in the programmes of the Namibians, in a concrete and practical It would appear as if the excuse given Council Resolution 435 still to be the SWABC are watched with concern by by the Cabinet for refusing to appoint way. only valid solution for the in the convention, because they could 'Ib the South African Government, . a Conciliation Board was that the o dependence of.Namibia as far as the result in reducing the variety of opi Mineworkers' UnioI\ of Namibia was . whose forces are illegally occupying Federiil Government was concerned. nions in reporting". no longer representing the interests of your country, we say, hear the cry ofthe An invitation by the. Friedrich majority of.t'lamibians . Show your He also mentioned that he had pro the workers as they had been dismiss tested to the South African Govern Naumann Foundation to an interna ed by Tsumeb Corporation. sincerity in wanting an end to the war tional Namibia conference was sub and establishing a truly just peace by ment on behalf of the countries of the This statement could be accepted as European Community, about the re mitted to delegates and participation being correct had it not beenforthe fact lifting the curfew, withdrawing the oc was decided upon without objection as cupying SADF forces and moving cent detention ofleaders ofSwapo and that I was informed on August 24, the the trade unions in Namibia. He this was seen as an opportunity "to date on which the appeal was argued towards a swift implementation of contribute constructively towards for Resolution435. We all know that this demanded that they be brought to trial before the full bench of Judges in the or released immediately. ming an opinion of Namibia". Supreme Court of SWA, that the is what will end this wasteful and un The new steering committee ofthe Cabinet would not appoint a Concilia necessary war and that this is the solu He also emphasised that the West IG consists ofK W von Marees (Presi tion Board. Up to and until August 25 tion which most Namibians want, so German Government considered the dent) and U Eins, H Geiger, A Herrle, 1987 when the Supreme Court of why are we waiting? IG to be an important catalyst in the MHoth, H PLUbl, G ROssler, UVoigts, South West Mrica made known its [j 'loyou,Narril.bians, we say, we share efforts concerning the solution ofthe Dr Imm6 Stabreit . I Weitzel and R Haegele. decision regarding the legality or not your longings and frustrations and of the dismissal of the mineworkers, commit ourselves to continue to pray, the Cabinet could and should have ac fast and work until the SADF is cepted that these workers were in fact withdrawn from your country and un still in the employ ofTsumeb Corpora til your inalienable right to be free has tion Limited. r, been achieved. It should turthermore be pointed out What do .you get that in terms of the Wage and In TALEXANDER PGEERDTS dustrial Conciliation Ordinance No 35 SBRI'ITION JLEACH of1952, it is possible for a Conciliation SGOLDMAN CRICHARDS Board to decide on disputes regarding GCULLEN MGRAAF the termination of employment of an RSTEELE A DAVIES employee. So that, notwithstanding V IRELAND C VAN HEERDEN when two the purported dismissal by Tsumeb TDAVIES AKROMBERG Corporation Limited of the workers, HVARNEY DEDWARDS the Cabinet, had it so wished, and had it had the interests of the workers at No proteetion heart, could have appointed a Concilia THE statement made by two outstanding furniture tion Board notwithstanding the Kwanyama headmen, Messrs Gabriel dismissal of the workers by Tsumeb Kautwima and Godfried Dan as well Corporation Limited. as Immanual Nghigulifua, that the It should also be pointed out that I, South Mrican army and security on August 31987, phoned an official of forces should not be moved from the the Department of Manpower and re area, cannot go unchallenged. 'Ib re dealers amalgamate? quested that the Cabinet act in terms main silent is a crime against our of Section 33(3) of the abovemention right. ed Ordinance in terms of which the There are seven districts in our Cabinet could approve the establish region and each district has its own A whole lot of possibilities ..... An unbelievable ehoice of ment of a Conciliation Board not senior and sub-headman. The truth re withstanding the faCt that application mains that Mr Kautwima has no right quality furniture, excellent advice from experts and easy had not been made for it. This, too, was to speak on behalfof other districts as not done. he wishes to imply, bui-insteiid-Mr From this and from the fact that ap credit terms. plication for the appointment of a Con Peter Kalangula has the right to do so. ciliation Board was made on August 11 We know very well that the men 1987, it is evident that the Cabinet mentioned above are all members of chose not to recognise the urgency of Etango and the DTA, the two organisa Now you get all this at B&N Furnishers - a new name, the matter and chose not to accept the tions which are not wanted by the peo di~putes ofthe workers as being valid ple of the north. The men in question but familiar faces. The well-known Dave's Furnishers and are mere propagandists for these disputes. forces. Otjikoto Furnishers have merged to offer you twice as It would therefore appear as if the Kautwima and his supporters will Cabinet of the Transitional Govern work with South Africa to further op much value for your money. ment seems to accept that the anti press the Namibian people and assist quated 'master andservant' relation South Mrica in its efforts to maintain ship as detennined by the corrimonlaw, colonial rule in order to keep Namibia should continue to be the law of this in subjugation. - Remember, Dave's Furnishers and Otjikoto Furnishers country. There exists no doubt that the We wish to state to Mr Kautwima grievances put forward by the workers and his bosses that we urgently appeal are now B&N Furnishers. Do drop by to have a look. employed at Tsumeb Corporation for the South African forces, along with Limited were valid grievances and this their armaments, to pack up and go was not even denied by TeL. Under the and to allow the implementation of circumstances one would have ex Resolution 435. We don't need their pected the Cabinet to treat this matter protection. not as a political one, but as a matter which could affect the future of the LUCKY SHOOPAL A We have branches in Swakopmund, Usakos, Okahandja, mining industry of this country. POBOX474 The explanation therefore, given by OSHAKATI Walvis Bay and Windhoek the Cabinet, is unacceptable, and is merely an attempt to pardon its deci sion. The fact of the matter is that the mistrust of employees in government institutions such as the Conciliation Board has ,been vindicated. More value for CPFKOEP POBOX3516 WINDHOEK 9000 your money Nandbia ID.eSsage WE, the participants in a fast for the SADF to be withdrawn from Namibia, send warm greetings to all Namibians. Our fast has been part of the End . . ~ Conscription Campaign's Apartheid Out - SADF Out campaign. The fast began on August 3 and ended on Namibia Day, August 26. Some of us have fasted for one day of this period, fURNiSHERS others for longer and some for the en .' tire three and a half weeks. PRONAM 744 KA/ e , . b - ' ... = .... ;;a w" Aut .. 5 • - mber.4,, 1987 THE BIAN FOR SIX moniihs'; a year, Litderitz n~-eds 'men to work , <>'~ the crayfisli boats :" which produce the-vast majorityof Namibia's crayfish""", andto thls L Last year, a pre!seaineifs pilot coUrse t, ~ plenientJa by' 'ho~r-lorii l.'1iiglish " was launched, to give unemployedpeo- literacy classes four evenings a week, MR VEZERA Kandetu, Associate .,,··ple a chancEl to work on the..crayfish where many of the trainees have pro- GeneralSeeretary :Of the CCN has boats, Ten WJJn c,o!llRletep this coU)"se, _,,, gressedfrom being illiterate to bEiJing ,l nineo(whom ~er~ e~ploy'"e~bySw!ifll. able to speak anq write competent Following la,st yea:t;'!3 silcc;:ess, Il}.ore EngJish. Ata later stage, the trainees people are beihg similarly traiiled this will !lpend time at sea on a crayfish -BONOURFOR, ~ -. -' year, The course started on January boat, learning general seamanship, 15,1987 and will be completed at the This project has received assistance ., end of October, 1987: - , from Swafil and Gendev, and 'their -KANDETU, During this period the tramees have assistance in'the provision of boats and been learning many skills they will trained stafffor tl).e practical side ofthe . need as fishermen, These include net course, has been great appreciated. General_Secretary Ge~eral, has 'repairing, splicing, making bait bags, Both companies az:e, to , be con- been honoured by the Columbia how to do knots and rowing. General gratul!lted on their willingness to help University School 'of Social Work skills such as fiz:st aid, fire fi'ghting, in such'a"training programme. by being elected to serve as a , literacy .and numeracy are also taught., In addition to the pre-seamen course, Board Member' of the Columbia University School of Social.Work ~ The majority ~of' these skills :are ' j the RO'ssing 'Foundation is running taught at the Foundat[on centre in - courses for marIne motormen and Numni, .ASsociation. Liideritz, but others suchas roWing re- fishermen Grade 4. This latter course , In a , le~r from the :University, Mr Kandetu was informed that quire ~xtensive practicaf experience leads to positions of greater respon- his ~rm of office began on July on the sea. ", sibility and is the first step on the pro- 11987 and would run until June - Havingspentthelasttew~eekslear- motion ~adder to'skipper. _30,1990. , "D:ing how to repair,crayfish tx-aps,' the, These training programmes ate upi-. , Jane Hausne:F, Chair.person of ' . que in Namil?ia an9- it is.hoped that ,~, traiileesarecurrent1y:involved-inlear- ,the NQ~na,tiD.g Gommittee, said . :: ,nirig aild pra!!tisi ~i~he art'?f di!l~hy ~ ~ thi~ p,z:ograml!le wi I!-.:, .lea'd l? ,' the" th"at the: Annual Meeting of the _ . rowing from the Je~ty of the ~ndev " es'tabhshment of _an mdep(lhdent ' B9Ud,of Directors was schedul : factory. ', . , '~,."..', ,·" .. ~amibi in ' Si!'sfuen"s "training ed for April 2 1988. , " Their aaytime, activities are 'sup- -inst'itute,- . , - _. ~ ~ - . - • ~ . . '''fo;.~ ~ ,"'~-i"t. ~ Y'~' ," ~ _ ~ , _.. ~ '. _:'r ... ' Woermann Brock winner ~' THEO NOISIRO oorhandlg,dle blye Petrlena Gelkhans seeerste prys wat sy In Woermann Brock Groothandel ~ Ovaherero Kompetlsie'gewen het. Die tweede , .' prys Is'deur Mnr J van Stad,8n van Khomasdal gewen; Bale geluk aan hulle albel, eil aan die wat nle die keer $0 gelukklg was nie, onthou: aa,nhouer,wenl ' <' 'Driver of the Year~ -competition ,IN AN ,attempt to counter the high number of road accidents in Nanrlbia, ROssing Uranium haslaunche.d a compaign to imp,rove driving skills among its employees. A defensive driving course, condqcted by a professional instructor fr9m Johannesburg is cur rently in full swing at ROssing Mine, and the next major event is a "ROssing Driver of the Year" competition scheduled for this month. The competition comprises two sec- tend, Spectators-,will be entertained tions-the theory test Cwhich was writ and informed by the exhibits oflocal ten yesterday, September 3), and the ~otor l1idustries advertising their pro practical driving test, to be held in ' ducts, by videos to be screened dealing Swakopmund on Saturday, September with driving skills, and by driving , 26. - simulation machines which they may , tryout, TRAINEES LEARN the many skills that they need as fishermen, such as net repairing, splicing, making bait bags, knots The thirty top scorers of the theory Spectators will also have a chance of test will be eligible to participate in the and rowing. T.here are also general skills taught, including fi'rst aid, fire fighting, literacy and numeracy. entering the competition in the special practical test. Spectators' category, proVided they can The practical test is made up ofthree produce their driving licences, parts - the pre-trip inspection; the Children will be treated to rides in track test and the road test, a dune buggy, Refreshments will be Judges from the National Road Safe provided and the competitiveness and ty Council, in collaboration with a bunting will contribute to a festive ROssing Committee will test entrant's atmosphere, preparation precuations for a long The venue is the Vineta Sports journey, their ability to negotiate GRounds and the competition will erected obstacles, and their actual begin at 08hOO. driving skills in the Saturday morning Prizes have been donated by local traffic. motor companies and Rossing Avis Rent-A-Car has lent six cars for Uranium, An individual winner and use on the morning of the test, the top ROssing divisional team will be , The public has been invited to at: judged among other prize winners. MILK PRICE INCREASED BY 7,70/0 THE PRICE offreshfull creammilkjumped by 7,7 per cent as from Tuesday this week, in accordance with a decision taken by MrGJF Gous, the Price Controller. Fresh milk and brown bread are the only price-controlled consumer.items in Namibia. Theprice qf one litre offresh milk increased from 91 cents to 98 cents, while the 500ml container changed from 49 cents to 53 cents. For a 250 ml container the cost increased from 30 cents to 32 cents. Accorqingtoa briefpress statement from the Department of Economic Affairs, the price increase became necessary after an increase in produc- '~ Rossing reeognis-e-s uni~n on Dline tion costs for milk producers, . ' " .- The price of milk was increased last year in September, At this stage, ROSSING Mine Management signed a recognition agreement with the Rossing Mine Worke'rs' UAlon on August the prices of milk·by-products are still unchanged. '-~ 28. Negotiations .have been underway for the past year, and the agreement, it was saJd by Rossing, recognises the right of employt:!es to associate freely as well as the right of the Rossing Mine Workers Union to represent the best interest of its members within the agreed bargaining unit. .Genel'al Manager, Dr Michael Bates, paid tribute to the 'responsible' attitude of the unions and its members. Pictured above at the signing ceremony: (seated SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS! from left) Mr W Groenewald, Dr M P Yates, Mr J Kunuchab and Dr S B Kesler. Standing (from left) M{ P Rooi, <' Mr L Shapumba, Mr 0 Smith, Mr C Southgate, Mr C V Kauraisa, Ms A fill du Preez, Mr 0 Okamaru and Mr P C Brown.' THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 4 1987 17 The hazards of the autocue and 'live' SWABC broadcasts ADRAMATICsequenceofbip- the newscaster continues: "This making his debut in the civilized saying: "Well, I was thrown out of posfrolicking at the feet of un- state-of-the-heart high- world. the School for Neurosurgeons.. ?' shaven rugby players signals technology is so that our millions He has spent his entire life on a The reporter has been pro the start ofyet anotherSWABC- of subscribers can get tomorrow's farm outside Otjiwarongo and this grammed to ignore answers which TV News bulletin. news today?' is the first time he has ever heard don't match the questions, so he The last remaining viewer in This metaphysical statement is English ... he sees the words as a asks the driver ifhe thinks he will the country, who reslilllbles a followed by a manic stare into the jumble of incomprehensible win. rugby-playing hippo, ' raises a camera, eyes widening like a gibberish. brandy bottle to his lips and passes nagapie on speed in her desperate Fortunately the newscaster has At that moment, somewhere out. effort to keep up with the autocue. had two days to memorise the en near Karibib, a fox-terrier chews Small dogs and children huddl- An up-t9-date-two-week-old in- tire bulletin and ignores what she through the TV cord, instantly ing around the family television terview with one ofthe more ~ac- sees before her. . becomes one of the wire-haired setfor warmth are bathed in a sur~ ceptable' Cabinet mel1 flashes.on- She smiles superciliously in the variety, and sets his owner'sho~ -alight. . f r" real green glow. to the !>creen. ~ knowledge that sh~.is going out The men of Namibia sti ~ '·._, rThe young reporter, unaware "live". . , , The entire south is plunged ,in restlessly in their beds, sub- , that ·he· is' ~ on 'camera;"shufiles ,.:, H~r ,arr()~IJlIi.c::e l~sE;~~ little ofits ~~ toJ ~.arkI?-~ss ' ahd~ it,is t:wo weeks consciously grateful that they are ~hrough his liSt'ofpre~ribed q\lesj- i ' shin,~" hQwevj:lr" o:wheq she ,says: :~:' b~(9~~ ,~~Y,?~~)Jq'tices. ;' missing yet another fifteen J ions' and" llilin'cliE!s" ii\to ,his " .'~!.Narutusportand.oiJertoyou 'Jan- ,; :p.ietG,oet~er:§ . pleafqq)eople to minutes' of unadulterateg ,>~ ~'Meneer 'die cMthiste?l.l.H : rout:ihe3. ,. nie. .. '~ and gazes to her right. "" come forward, and pay ,.their hogwash. , _' But heytTiifs is · a :, .'liy~;t!i~O:a~- , Jannie appearsoriher left, but licence fees is not heard. "" .. ' But thenl cast ekse. :"',;-.<1. ,nr ~ saves her fat:e by' lookiIIff-at his "For the past decade.. ?' drones ~ ~. In the control room the produce~ sho"'e'S: -n:.:r.e ~G q;:;\', ~~. ~r~... ~/J.f·"'· ',!';. ! 'j,.J ,'FIiFte'l.ls thEf'Pliihfdl 'story'of a . ~,: voice drippjng in lipstick, ".. . TV: "'h ishunchedoverhis'assistant;~u£. ': Tli~spr~~±el!.?~e,rt~4~~~r,~at . ':'jeih'annElsb&' -I:;:a:sedfcbnsprracy ,: }News}:las beenrecprded t,wo wee1cl '., fing'a quarter: ineht'ape dowrihet ,(::tlia}:; ~~!}gel th~~ h~ , ~lll; all:p~ar {.T~liiifii¥J 1. t'u r~-Q.'Eihtirfii:1hE! .i Kor f :1i:b~fttre it i!' broadc~sfardlonight -' '.fhroae ' .... <~'~'><",,;; '\.~, of- ,,~.;C1 l .' ~ 'i ~~,ye'!, st.iGlts, l].il1 , l!licfOpho~~ i~to '"'"po~~~i~ ~fr~ffi : firidi~ ' ~ii~~~ ~ho ;"rol~so~ignars the s~rt c:! a.~~ng , She has put lhe'SWftkoIlIi'i'um! a car window and asks. a'.l'ally ,owns 'ra,dio JI!ld,t~le..visiQA ,sets in ~,'ii "'" i titiativl;l tG"1lriug~fG~th~ ' -~ overlay "on ~the "l\dffilnistrator driver what it was that made him Namibia .,"" ' E'" . '. "eo'" ',~ Y G l' h d h i c· '4; ' . ",. o'{ ';' }:€~, \ >' ... ,'", enera s speec ,an t e deciti,e-to enter the rally. A flash survey by Dr Gonzo ,,-::i<,'f. \~;,; " ewer 0 ens oQe)bloodshot superimposed message has just rpt,ess:lO, rl~'!l rally driver revealed 'that' a massive boycott ¥!" <'.,;"'; o;;;lt" e~~'. ~n..o~s d~risi vely, and goe~ described him as a piece of "crush- being planned in order to )i,,)/ii.· 0 ,Qi'cK'{O sleep.»' ~. ',. v ~ ed lichen". that holy bastio~ofthe --" . Raping t~e Queen's languagJ Theblokerollingtheautocueis ,-. ,'8[M] @@} ~ :: ~:';~ " B[M] @@l [3 . a[M]@~[3 Q U a[M]@~[3 hlgh-powered funk en ~rgy, try IMAGE -' "Idea, conception, creative 'Malebu', 'Gotto give up' andthemov- 'character ofperson as pe~ceived by the ing 'Put the world on sale'. public" Copyright the,Concise Ox- There can be very few bands in South ford Dictionary. Africa who can measure up to !plage live in cohcert. 'The band also feel IMAGE are both idealistic and strongly about their-music; they're creative, a nucleus of five talented ambitious and after all, the big bad musicians all dedicated to the pursuit world needs a new Image! of creating a unique sound. The group Image creates the unique crossover ~ was formed two years ago and has feel and isfronted by lead singer Don- already registered commercial suc- novan Knox. ImaB:e ..buil '. * * 1(ltiE 300 * * Tell: 34155 * * ,;~ Fri & Sat: 10hOO/14h30/18hOO/21hOO Sun-Thurs: 14h30117h30/20hOO Saturday : 10hOO . OVER THE TOP: Sylvester Stallone and Susan Blakely, with David' MJ/ ()(//{ Z!l1fr? Mendenhall ... in a film which presents a total departure from his CHItP !5 pr£ Iff 1lE !1O'r.. "Rambo", "Cobra" and "First Blood" roles. This time he's not arm ''05CAf( MEm{ 5(!I?f(O- ~€'! S()f(f(Y. ed with anything but his self reliance and a beat-up hauling truck. ~ ~:JT17I6e &OI(NA !?6IilLY CANT ~Bf?YO Fl/f(tt1 ',.. 1HINK IiI1 00. Saturday morning 10hOO: &tJ f'K:I( HIM IJfN WHlfP€P, \ OVER THE TOP * * WltlDHOEI( DRIVE-itl * * Tell: 51700 * * 19h15 - LIVING DAYLIGHTS:Timothy Dalton as 007 - James Bond in another adventure packed with beautiful girls and action. plus: SOULMAN: A comedy with C Thomas Howell. :: . ---.:- - = ,'" 18 Friday September 4 1987 THE NAMIBIAN ------~------~i til ~ ~.]~ I ~ t!1 ~1 ~i i i : IN "OVER THE TOP", Sylvester Stallone takes arole representing a mar ked departure from the purely physical roles for which he is famous. This time, he is a struggling independent truck driver named Lincoln Hawk. And this time he is n ot fighting crime, but becomes involved in a struggle to win back his son fropt a rich father-in-law who is determined to hold on to his grandchild at any cost. But there is plenty of action of a different type - namely the world of championship arm-wrestling, a sport that has takeri on more status and greater numbers ofenthusiasts than ever before, changing its former backroomstatus into a world championship sport with massive financial gains. Robert Loggia stars as the father-in men and two women winners, one in law, and Susan Blakely as Christina, each weight class. Hawkis estranged wife, and David Because Stallone plays a trucker in Mendenhall takes the part of Michael, the film, the contests had a special TWELVE-YEAR-OLD military school cadet Michael (David Mendenhall), (centre), on parade - a scene from' 'Over The the son. trucker's division, sanctioned by the Top", Sylvester Stallone's latest movie on circuit. Hawk drives an old, rusted truck, in Teamsters and the Independent which he eats, sleeps, lives, dreams and Trucker'sAssociation, and the winner even works out. And where other in of the competition took home a dependent truckers might sport cen $100 000 Volvo Integral Tall Sleeper trefolds,JIawk has decol'ated his with among the prizes. , . A rollicking comedy pictures of Michael, the son he loves, Nature made no plans for the human the 12-year-old boy he once left behind. arm to endure the sideways pressure, But life is full of quirks and twists, and punishment it gets in arm wrestl -and when Hawk's long-estranged wife ing, and unusual training methods are is dying, he assumes moral respon required to strengthen the small arm addressing racism sibility for Michael, the only person of muscle that wraps down ov~rthe front any real value left in his life. of the elbow. 'Ib this end, Stallone THE FILM "SOUL MAN" is a rollicking "comedy which addresses the sensitive issue of But things are never easy - deter started training sessions in which-he racism, treating the strong feelings gendered in people with subtle humour. The story mined to keep Hawk separated from used a special device set up so that he features a young man who adopts a false identity to gain his own ends. Buthe finds himself Michael is his millionaire faither-in could pull from three different direc law, Jason Cutler, owner of a national tions, duplicating the pulls in arm plunged instead into a snowballing comic adventure that eventually, after some harrow , trucking fleet. wrestling. ing nioments, fosters understanding, b rings him love and ch anges him forever. Starring Cutler has raised young Michael, In "Over The 'Ibp" Stallone in are C Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl J ones and Ayre Gro~s. surrounding him with luxuries his t roduces a very huma n multi own father could never afford, and he dimensional character who survives Bright, well-to-do Sout hern~.~ plete wit h romantic entanglements, "Beyond the welldrawn characters has even changed the boy's surname in Mark is 'confronted with a crisis of and the laughs Ifoundin the script (by by h i:s wits and his willpower - using California college senior, Mark an audacious move to bring his grand conscience when he discovers that his Carol Black), there was also an under- every ounce of 'strength and deter Watson (Howell), and his room: son closer to him. minationhe can muster to meet his for mate'Gordon, are both accepted. to ruse has kept the scholarship,gging to current of good feelings to it. It's a piece Knowing what lies ahead, Hawk has a far more deserving student. --~_ __ ofentertainment , but as with any good midable challenge. Harvard Law School, but" their to find money - big money - to start Of the professional arm wrestlers He resolves his dilemma in public, ' p'i~ce _ Q.f entertainment, if it lingers yuppie dream-corne-true is dash, his own trucking business, he needs to also participating in the film, Bruce ' with a dramatic grandstand gesture with yoU;1hen. all the better. prove himself a responsible father. The ed when Mark's father suddenly that" lampoons prejudice and warms ' "WhatIrespo.;;:aeato'mostofall, was Way as John Grizzly in the movie is withdraws , Mark's financial first step is the hardest .,To get the probably the most interesting. the heart, that the subject was controversi aL.I~ is money he so badly needs, Hawk support. This is a rollicking comedy that is easiertogeta 'safer' movie made, but;... In real life, he ises psychology on his a:ecides to take on an undefeated opponents, Drinking a quart of Unable to beg or borrow the money, grounded in serious issues and the as with 'Risky Business', this film too powerhouse with arms like tree trunks Valvoline motor oil, swallowing a , in desperation Mark chemically filming of "Soul Man" required from was seen by many as being potential- for the World Arm Wrestling darkens his skin, and qualifies for a all involved a finely-tuned sense of Iy controversial." Championships! "'--- __ _ lighted cigar, are just two of the ways he uses to get an "edge" on his foes. minority scholarship. ' humour, coupled with sensitivity to C Thomas Howell's role called for "Over The 'Ibp" uses as its backdi'op '~ ·ae trains two to three hours a day, At Harvard he is accepted as black, the task of keeping narrow- him to appear believably black, and so, the first World Arm Wrestling Cham and he warms to an intelligent mindedness the butt of the joke: before filming began, Tisch and direc- three day5...Jl week. He works on pionships at the Las Vegas Hilton building not arms, but his beautiful black classmate, Sarah, in. Producer Steve Tisch says "The issue tor Steve Miner took the unusual step , Ohly- hi!!. Hotel. mental concentration as well. the criminal law class taught by impos ofracism has not really been address- of "screen-testing" make-up artists, At this stage, arm wrestling matches ing Professor Rutherford Banks. ed in films fora long time. When you who applied make up to their star. And are booming across the United States, "Arm wresthng is a high energy, low And then, what begins as his facile take an issue that brings out strong itwaswithacertainDevorahFischa's ' and over 100 000 men and women now overhead sports. It takes a mental con detaur around an economic roadblock feelings in people, the best way to do it expertise and thorough approach to , compete in tournaments. centration and a desire to succeed .,. oecomes a comic misadventure, com- is with humour, the challenge, that successfully In preparation for the filming of not unlike everyday life:' delivered Howell into the skin of an at "Over The 'Ibp", Cannon Films Inc" Then there is Rand Raney, in the role tractive young black man - an ap and the International Arm Wrestling of Mad DOJir Madison. pearance he would maintain with Council sponsored a year-long series of Raney easily presses 2 000 pounds. growing appreciation, for much ofthe contests around the world in an effort Weighing in at 335 pounds, he once story, to find the authentic arm-wrestlers single-handedly pulled a locomotive in C Thomas Howell, who impre~sed they needed for the film. a scene of a television series. He critics in his fIrst major film in Cop The contests ' were part of a $25 routinely devours a breakfast which pola's "The Outsiders", more recently million promotional programme, the inc.1udes 24 eggs, two pounds ofyogurt, starred as the pursued victim in the largest ever undertaken for a film of five pounds of steak and a gallon of successful thriller "The Hitcher", any kind. Eachegional contest had five milk! which was also screened on the local circuit . And previously-he starred as a high school student fighting off·a foreign invasion in the hit film "Red Dawn". Rae Dawn Chong, who stars as Mark's classmate Sarah, can lay claim to an astonishingly diverse range of roles, Having starred most recently as the flutey-voiced waitress 'Squeek" in the film -"The Colour Purple", she made her first big screen impression as a THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 4 1987 19 LINDA EVANS ~JI']51 SEPT 4 - SEPT 10 Stan~ing up for herself at last FitlDAY PLEASANT CHANGE, seeing Linda Evans in a tougher role than 18h27 Prog. Schedule her portrayal of Krystal Carrington in "Dynasty" - for a change 18h30 Hand in Hand it was nice seeing her stand up for herself as Kate Hannon, the 18h35 Doffel, Babbel en Bekkie (new) 18h47 Pietie Se Verdere Avonture woman who arrives in the outback with her two kids to build a new 19h08 Filler material life. Somehow, it becomes clearer now how easy it is for an actor 19h14 AirwolfIII or actress to become typecast. As Krystal she came over as a bit 20hOO Suidwes Nuus . of a whimp, a goodie goodie whois much too quick to play the mar 20h15 Movie "The Ballad of Hector tyr, while in "The Last Frontier", she shows that she can portray the Stowaway Dog" a stronger character too. Although, quite honestly, I have to make 21h42 Orpen House a conscious effort all the time to see her as Kate - and not Krystal 22h05 NewslWeather NuuslWeer playing a different game! 22h25 Gillette World Sport 'Special ,23h19 Dagsluiting But still, possibly one must just get heart, must also have to rescue him into "The LastFrontier" a little more when his high school sweetheart, before giving any cri~icisms. Brenda, <:pns him into help,ingherwi~~ SATURDAY At any rate, tonight's Walt Disney her solar-powered car project-which Feature Film shouldbe fun for the kids. in turn leads him into a confrontation 18h27 Programrooster"" Titled "The Ballad of Hector, the with mobsters. 18h3(} KQmpas ' The Saturday feature film "The Stowaway Dog'·: it features .,an 18h3p ·. Alice in Wonderland Airedale (named Hector), who earns Public Eye" st{lITingMichael Jayston, 18h59 Op Soek ~a : ~ Reenqoounew) his keep as a mas,cot 9.~ . thE;!Jreighte r:: Mia Farrow and Margaret Rawlings, ,.J.9h22 Rip.ti de .~ "_. ' "Simaloer". He.ist~e per]'ioI:1al pet of , is all a,bout Charles Sidiey, aLondon _ 20h09,.The Beverly HillbilliesJ the first mate, Bill.Mantel. establishment figure and confirmed ~ '20h33'- "The Pul)\ic Eye" ". ; FIRST and CapJain Car.olYIl Engel MD (Shelly But, as life goes, Hector is kidnapped bachEl~or . who _ !l urpri ~ es _ not only • 22h02 NuuslWeer News/weather Smith}, as-they appear in "For Love and Hon9ur," on'Thursday evenings. and ends up in the circus busine,ss. He himselfbut his mother and friends, by 22h22 Miami Vice falling in love with a yo\!,ng American escapes, but unwittingly becomes part 23h08 Carnival International of a jewel-smuggling plot. girl working as a waitress, According Sunday - there is no episode of plenty of drama to the screen again, . OOh02 Epilogue There's a new series startingtomor to the publicity material, "The Public "Highway to Heaven" . • with Lance financing Apollonia's row evening, ';Op Soek Na 'n Refin Eye" is the "last word 011 rove and mar Instead, "SO-By-So" will be screen demo record,. and by outsmarting" boog", which replaces "Dreunkrans". riage, and how to enjoy both;' ed, the monthly look at local events Angela, getting his publisher's posi In this short series of six episodes, the Ifyou 're willing to stay up that long, and people. tion back at The New Globe. SUNDAY problems, frustrations and dreams of "Carnival International" takes oer On Monday, another ofthe monthly Maggie (who has really become a various young people are dealt with, the screen at 23h08. This is a presentations of"Mach 1 ", and episode pain in the necksi~ce amnesia hit her), 17h27 Programrooster Each episode is complete, and revolves lighthearted look at the 1986 Carnival 2 of "The Last Frontier". In this is still quarrelling with Chase' over 17h30 Wonderboek around a certain situation in which a Inte~n,ational held in Johannesburg, episode, Nick Stenning encourages Connie, and Richard, tempting fate as 17h53 Pumpkin Patch youngster finds him or herself, and when participants from overseas and Kate not to leave Larapinta, and it usual, decides to take a desperate . 18h08 Jimmy Swaggart how their decisions have to be made, from various international com seems as though her staunchest sup chance to alleviate his dire need of 19h08 Filler material sometimes pleasant and other times munities resident in South Africajoin porter is taken from her in a financing. 19h10 -So-By-So not so pleasant. ed up for a nine-day festival ofsong and devastating climax to the Hannon Stran,ge, the series tends to irritate 20hOO Nuus/news review And in "Riptide", Cody and Nick not dance. . Stenning feud. at times, and a firm resolve is made not 20h20 Another Life only have to protect Boz from abroken Only one thing worth mentioning for "Falcon Crest" on Tuesday brings to sit glued to the TV on Tuesdays 21h02 Assignment Adventure when it's screened. But, despite carry 21h54 Nuus/weer - ~ews/weather ingthe "soapie" label, it does definitely 22h14 The Classic 'Ibuch have the power to drag , each and 22h38 By Still Waters everyone back for more. Could that be termed the power of e'scapism, I wonder? MONDAY There are some worthwhile points to take note of_for future Wednesday 18h27 Prog. Schedule viewing. First of all "The Kangazoo 18h30 Hand In Hand Club" will be concluded. A pity, 18h35 Lassie because this programme on various 18h57 Filler material animals was one of the highlights of 19h10 Mach I ' the week for younger viewers. 19h35 Better Days Secondly, "Seders van Lebanon" will 20hOO Suidwes-Nuus also be ending, and is to be followed by 20h15 Kay O'Brian - Surgeon . "Balade vir 'n Enkeling". And if the 21hOO The Last FrOntier (new) latter series isjust a quarter as good as 21h50 NewslWeather NuuslWeer the promotion material says itis, we're 21hl0 Auch Ich in Arkadien in for a good treat. 22h54 Dagsl~iting Bugs Bunny fans will also have to bid the spry little guy adieu on Thursday, when the last programme in the "Bugs TUESDAY Bunny Cartoon Specials" is screened. Also on Thursday in "Young People's Specials", a story called' "The Last 18h27 Programrooster Prom" is being televised. 18h30 Kompas 18h35 Wielie Walie And especially at this time of the 18h50 Educational Shorts year, with most ofthe matric farewell 19h13 The Wizard . parties just around the corner, it might 20hOO South West News be a good idea for young people to make a point of seeing this; in particular 20h15 Falcon Crest when one considers to what extent the 21h02 We've Got It Made use of alcohol has become part and 21h26 NuuslWeer NewslWeather 22h46 Sport parcel of the matric farewell party, or 22h16 Epilogue by Berke Breatbed matric dance, as it is known. ,...... ,...... ;...----...;;...-, WEDNESDAY YO(/'!?( me 18h27 Prog.Schedule t.IIir!1I/WY 18h30 Hand In Hand I'Ve &Or, 18h35 Groovy Goolies :J77?le ./ 18h56 The Kangazoo Club (final) 19h22 Sport 20hOO Suidwes Nuus 20h15 Gunsmoke 21h03 Seders van Lebanon (final) 21h29 Valerie 21:153 NuuslWeer NewslWeather 22h13 Pitkos THURSDAY WIIIT;. ''tl€I1K ()f(l.f, 18h27 Programrooster HeK6'5 II I'Ve {'(FT.'r'OII FOf{ A NCNFf{()M ROCKfT MfCHIINlC FKOM ' 18h30 Kompas {..(}("II . m((1o. ' yO(! CfIN 18h35 Bugs Bunny Cartoon Special f?1115e ()(Jt< 23 Y(J(/, BUGS BUNNY 18h58 Ancient Rome 1Vlf6 -&f?OWN KIllS. '" POfJ/ 19h07 Young People's Specials \ "The Last Prom" is the tragic story .19h30 Filler material offour teenagers double dating at their 19h35 The Cosby Show I \\\ senior prom. During the course oftheir 20hOO South West News celebratons, they are involved in a fatal 20h15 For Love and Honour (and senseless) car smash when the 20h59 Krimistunde drunk dri ver loses control. The entire 21h57 Nuus/weer - NewslWeather future ofthese young people is totally 22h17 The Living Body shattered as a result ofthe smash and 22h43 Epilogue' the abuse of alcohol. , , '<4: __ 20 ...,.,ntoIPT'lh.or 4 1987 -THE VENDA PART Folklore and traditional tales form a large part of the Venda culture, and as said before, their daily life was virtually ruled by the pleasUre - or displeasure of their ancestral spirits and a twilight world of magic. The two st9ries in this concluding chapter of the Venda il lustrate once more to what extent they believed in and were influenced by "magic'? . THE VERANDAH POLE "No, no:' answered the youngest There was once a young man whose brother, "but I should like to look. I parents had both died. He lived alone, , have never seen a girl without teeth ." spending the days herding cattle in the The following day the young man lonely bush and in the evenings retur presented the cattle and asked for the ningto the empty, decaying house with girl. The old father, seeing such a only the moaning night wind to keep young man said "You are very young him company. to want a wife, and besides both your As the old hut needed repairs, he brothers tried, and both returned my began cutting poles and reeds for a new daughter to me. However, if you are thatch roof. He builtnewveranda poles willing to try for yourself, you must to support the roof and the last pole of take her." all he carved into the form of a Calling his daighter, he told hetthat beautiful girl. she must go with this new man to his Most (ai~ was she, from her brown home. The girl agreed and after first shapely feet to the neat topknot of hair giving her new husband a meal, they that supported the edge ofthe thatch. left on the road to his home. At the Everyone who visited' him com same place as on the previous occa plimented him on his delightful veran sions, the girl started to sing "I am a dah pole, and he hims,elfoften chatted beautiful girl but I have no teeth." io his creation \ls. he went ~bdut his "Open your mouth", said the youth house. - '. . : ' anxiously, and peered inside. He seem ~ One day, when the young man had ed surprised. "It is no matter:' he said , gone into the bush to herd his cattle, after a pause, "let us go on our way." the pole stirred, shook, and turned in When they arrived at a river they to a real human being. , had to cross, the gjrl began singing She sw~pt the courtyard, smeared again, but the young man 'took no ,the floors with fresh dung and put por notice. In the middle ofthe river he call ridge and water standing ready to ed the girl to come near him, and cook. The young man was quite holding her tightly by the neck with astonished when he returned; the girl one hand, he told her to open her had once more become a pole and he mouth. Then with the other hand he had no idea who the friendly worker scrubbed her mouth with sand. 'Ib his could be. satisfaction he found that beneath the Many times tl)is happened, until one coating of black was a perfect set of day, determined to solve the mystery, white, shining teeth. he hid himself in a bush of ferns near Proudly he led her back to his the house instead of driving out the father's kraal. The girls ofthe village cattle. As he watched, he was amazed gathered around her; saying funny to see the work of his own hands turn things to make her laugh, and all were into a beautiful girl who started to surprised to see her pretty white teeth. move about the house. Then the father called his two oldest He emerged from his hiding place at sons and said "Look what stupid boys once, and taking her hands, declared you are. The girl has fine teeth after all his love and asked her to be his wife. and it has taken your youngest brother She happily agreed and turned into a to find this out and win her for his wife." verandah pole no more, and the two Ii v The two brothers were very asham ed contentedly together. ed, but the bride said "Do no let it Some weeks later, a messenger from worry you, for I have always preferred the chief arrIved With the news that a your younger brother and will be much compulsory working party was to be All the poor fellow's doubts were soon twilight singing, he looked for his wife, disturb them, is illustrated by the happier with him. Let us all be one assembled at the chiefs kraal. "You family together." must come:' said the messenger, "and realized. The chiefhad an eye for beau but she was with them. following story ... ty and as soon as he saw the young "Where is my wife?" he asked them. ' The father ofthree bachelor sons one So beer was brewed and all their you must also bring your wife. friends and neighbours were called to Whoever remains will be liable for a bride, he knew he would not rest until They stopped singing and replied sad day decided that the eldest of them he had made her his youngest wife. ly, "She is not here. Thechiefhastaken should have a wife, and went to look for pay their respects to the new arrival, fine." A feeling offorboding filled the and the old father was very pleased at youngman. "She must not work inthehotsun:'he her to be his youngest wife." a suitable girl for him. . said. "Let her come into the shade and The young husband was quite In the next village he found a most hav~ng such got such good value for his "I have no wife:' he protested at once, be a trench-bearer." distraught and knew not what to do. attractive girl ofmarriegeable age and cattle. "and I will come alone.' The others worked until sunset and Loneliness enveloped him once again, returning home, he said to his son " You are lying", replied the when they left, the chief kept the , only it seemed ten times worse, since "'Ibmorrow you must drive your cattle NEXT WEEK: The Zulu messenger, "You have one. Ifyou leave woman and treated her as his youngest he now kn'ew how sweet the compa over to the village. I have found a wife her behind, you will pay a large fine." wife. Meanwhile, the young man,had nionship of a loving woman could be. for you and you must pay lobola. So the young man gave way and the already left for home, and when he saw He resolved to get back his wife, even So the eldest son drove the cattle over two left for the chiefs kraal. the workers coming through the ifhe perished in the attempt. Taking to the'girl's father, who was only too his musical bow and a gourd with him, pleased to accept them. On the way he went as a wandering singer to the home with the eldest son, the girl chiefs kraal. began to sing, and listening to the At the meeting place there, he dane· words, the boy became alarmed. ed and sang songs to the music of his "What is that you sing?" he asked. QUALITY bow. The words of his song were so "I am a beautiful girl, but I have no haunting that many people stopped to teeth:' she warbled. listen and others called to the wives of "Openyour mouth at once and let me the chiefto come and hear this melan look:' cried the disconcerted suitor. IN PRINTING choly stranger. Great was his disgust when she open When he saw his wife among the ed her mouth to display just a black chiefs women, he sang his sweetest ridge where her teeth should have and she listened with tears in her eyes. been. "I was not told of this. I will In Windhoek, for Windhoek Just then a dust-devil whirled through return yo to your father:' decided the the meeting place. When it cleared, the disappointed man. The cattle were chiefs youngest wife was no longer given back to him and he went home and the entire country there, but a carved wooden verandah in a rage. pole lay on the ground. On his arrival his father looked for The lonely man went back to his hut the bride, and asked "Where is the girl in the bush and the chiefs people my son?" The youth replied "I could not gathered in amazement around the bring her home, she had no teeth." PRINTING WORKS pole. "How odd this is! We must tell the The second son on hearing this ask chief." ed his father "As I need a wife too, may The chief was afraid when he saw I not go myself to see ifit is true that what had happened to the new wife. the girl has no teeth? Perhaps my "The singer must be a powerful brother was mistaken." sorcerer:' he said. "Take the pole and The father agreed and the next day return it to him, for itisno good tome." the second son tried his luck. While the So they carried the pole to the young couple were returning together the girl man's hut and threw it down on the started to sing as before. "I am a ground before him. "Here is your beautiful gir1 but! have no teeth." On verandah pole:' they called: • looking into her mouth the second son At once the pole turned back into his was also disgusted and re'turned her to dear wife and they joyfully embraced. , her father, who sadly gave back the fat The chief, afraid of the young man's cattle. magic, did not try to steal her away The youngest son now rose and ask again, and so they were left in peace. edhis father ifhe might go and see for himself, and the father agreed, The THE TOOTHLESS GIRL 49 Stuebel Street PO Box 56 two older sons were angry at this fol The Venda are a fine-looking people ly. "Do you think we are mad and Windhoek Tel: (061)225411 and take pride in their appearance. stupid because we left the girl?" they ,The fact that disfigurement can asked. =: : : : Friday september 4 198i 21 B&OWELDING BERNDT FRANZINA AND Oorlede Ie Windhoek op 25/8/ffl in die ouder .... dom van 62 jaar. Sy·word oorleef deur haar WINDHOEK IMI! o eggenool, een susler en twee broers. 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NAME: Members of the public are also invited to attend. [imG) COMMENTS: Unipart For a comprehensive range of Enquiries can be referred to the Unipart filters, ignition parts, N.U.N.W. office in Windhoek. spark-plugs, bulbs, sealed beams etc., contact: Tel: 62876 Ronnie, Dieter or George ~t 224541! == 22 be~ 4 1987 NNSL Super League matches spill over to week days WITH MOST of the weekends Only two NNSL Super League mat Un the 1987 soccer season taken ches took place last week with Young up with tournaments, more Ones collecting two valuable points NNSL Super League matches from a 2 -1 defeat of Orlando Pirates in Windhoek will have to be . to move away from the relegation zone at the bottom of the table and in the played on Wednesday and Fri other clash, perennial rivals African d ay nights.- . Stars and Black Africa drew three-all after BA had taken an early 2 -0 lead. On Wednesday this week at the Win- Despite having probably the best dhoek Stadium, Tigers faced Black team on paper, Orlando Pirates are as Africa, African Stars played Sorrento usal having a dismal league season. Bucs and Young Ones and Hungry Their 14 matches to date haveproduc- Lions did battle. ed only four wins and after their This evening, another two Super elimination from the JPS Knock-out League matches will be played at the tournament last week, the star- Windhoek Showgrounds. studded side must resign themselves In the fIrSt match, Hungry Lions will to concentrating on winning one ofthe be determined to register their first two remaining major tournaments, win of the c)l.mpaign against the Mainstay Cup and Metropolitan thirtienth:plac;edSqrrentoBucswhiJ_e - Life Super Championships. . in the se~on4.~tch, Tigers FC ~ill be .' At the top of the table, Walvis,Bays' , THE SEMI-FINALISTS of the Novel Ford League C.\.IP, .PI,rates. a!ld were both last knocked-out out to avenge their defeat in the final Eleven Arrows remain the best placed . Orla~do Tige~, wee~e/ld of. the JPS tournament. Young wllileljJenfi.ca accounted for Tigers. Ben of OP (above) at- ofthe Novel ford Cup when-they plaY" - -team in the league with 19poihtsfrom Ones , defeat~d OP~ .- Q G~~e~ tempts a shot at goal during t~ Noitel Ford final. . '. -Prll,!ndo Pirl!te.s ~·.... e _. '.'-.. ' ': .;,13 ~atcp.es " _ - ,_ ", . • • 4" ~.. • ." • . . \ c ~hould1'i[~~ wi~ t,b.i~ eyeI!~~%, t):1ey '.::" L~ader~ _Ch,iefSap~os ~~e tWf~po~n.tfl . w~ll remam In sttong contentIOn for ahe·ad ofAprows butnave played tnree .. by.Berke B.-eathed league honours, . more matches, ,....------..;;...... , ~.AN ilSANaJN£Il OfI/6 / W~Kt UP/ 5AY 5OMtlHIN&, HI/SeAN/? / .. MI{l(1t£ YOI/'Rf BliCK fiT HONer, .. flLONe WITH 23. fJI181e5 WiI~ wtfJfJlN6/ flNY1HIN(j I WHO I.fK)K VAbl/UY WfiKt I!f.// L/K~ HIM.(/ I \ IlNNI/LMeNr. \ YOI/ M6IlN... 'YOI/ WIJf<€ • HIIVlN& 5£C.ONIl THa/6HT5 ~lJ(}(jT THe Mfl/WII&f, mol', MYIW%laY . aOJeT... /I EJlr.jT!O'l OF M/JT1Ifl{()f(~ IWfJ M6T11fH~/C6 ; .. OF MY RJlBt£~ IINfJ feAK5, {!(Jf){ 5fI6fZ£ !W/? 5fItJtIM6. "'" BOBBY ·SAMARIA FULL NAME: Bobby Samaria. TEAM: Eleven Ar rows. BIRTHPLACE AND- DATE: Grootfontein - 211102/1970. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT: 163cm -55kg. - MARRIED: No. CAR: None. NICKNAME: Bobby Lastborn. PREVIOUS CLUBS: None. TEAM SUPPORTED AS A BOY: Black Africa. FOOTBALL HERO OF CHILDHOOD: Oscar Mengo. . FAVOURITE CURRENT PLAYER: MariUn DanduofYoung Ones. MOST MEMORABLE MATCH: Arrows league clash agaUnst Chief Santos, when they drew one,all. '.. BIGGESTDISAPOINTMENT: LosUngO-2 agaUnst Young Ones in their tournament. SUPERSTITIONS: None. NATIONALHONOURS:Namibian·UI3-1983,NamibianUI6team which ~on the B seCtlon-ofthe Inter-provincial tournament in Johannesburg Un 1986. Chos~n for an Under 20~am which played against Namaquala:rtd Un AUgUst. . . . FAVOURITE OTHER SPORT: Rugby. FAVOURITE OTHER SPORTS STAR: Naas Botha. DD'.I.E.. "" Reading, watching TV and swimniing. 'FAVOURITE ACTORS: Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwartzenegger. ' . . FAVOURITE MUSICIANS: Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder. BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CAREER: Frans 'Killa'Samaria. AMBITIONS FOR 1987/88: To win the NNSL Super League and Metlife competition. rSilfflCE ~fVEr wo~ rigkbs, ThfY art HDt nandta down -rrml a~;, WNG TERM AMBITIONS: Good health and success. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCCER IN tt1fY art forc~d by ~rtssurt from l1f(DVI.' -'ROGER BALDWIN. NAMIBIA: One united soccer body and disciplined crowds. 'THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 4 1987 23 SPORT SHORTS TRIED AND TESTED PLAYERS ENGLAND SOCCER manager Bobby Robson, stood by his tried and tested players for the friendly against West Germany in Dusseldorf next week. With for once, almost an embarrassment ofriches in attack, Robson will choose his strikers from Gary Lineker, Peter Beardsley, Mark Hateley and Clive Allen. Lineker and Beardsley remain the first-choice strikers, butHateleY's seven goals for Monaco may mean he resumes his Mexico World Cup partnership with Lineker, at least for some of the match. The only notable absentee against the West Germans will be Glasgow Rangers centre-half Terry Butcher, ruled out by a back injury. Captain Bryan Robson missed Manchester United's victory over Chelsea this week because of a thigh injury but should be fit to lead the side dn September 9 . . Goalkeepers: Peter Shilton, Chris Woods, David Seaman" Defenders: Viv Anderson, Kenny Sanson, Stuart Pearce, Mark Wright, '!bny Adams, Dave Watson, Gary Mabbutt. Midfield: Bryan Robson, Steve Hodge, Peter Reid, Trevor Steven, Neil Webb, Glenn Hoddle. Strikers: Peter Beardsley, John Barnes, Chris Waddle, Gary Lineker, Mark .' Hateley, Clive Allen. BLACK AFRICA FC will be hoping for similar scoring opportunities his weekend when they play Eleven Arrows in the OUT OF THE BASEMENT quarter-finals of the JPS knock-out tournament on Sunday. This scene, from last years' JPS semi-final, saw BA beat Chelsea 1 - O. SA went on to beat Young Ones in the final to win the inaugural JPS trophy. MANCHESTER UNITED, who spent much of last season struggling to ../ escape from the basement of the English First Division, swept to the top of the table this week with a 3 - 1 win over Chelsea, another of the early ·pacemllkers. . They nosed a point ahead of Queen's Park Rangers and Nottingham Forest, Break-away league not doing neither of whom played this week. Although Gordon Strachan and Norman Whiteside claimed the second-half goals that clinched United's victory, it was Brian McClair, a 1.3 million dollar sign ing from Glasgow Celtic, who captured the hearts ofthe 46 478 crowd with his eye Namibian soccer much'good . for goal and intelligent running of the ball. McClair netted the opening goal, his third in as many matches. BY DAVE SALMON 'CASE FOR LIFTING SOCCER BAN A TEAM REPRESENTING approximately five per cent of ASA, which broke away at the end of Namibia's soccer players, is presently parading around Hoksburg last season to start their own league, THE EUROPEAN Football Union (UEFA) will hear the case for allowing at the Holiday Inns Currie Cup soccer tournament as an official to apply for membership with the Foot English soccer clubs back blto it's competitions at a meeting next March. South West African team - andis doing Namibia's soccerreputa ball Association of South Africa and in· clusion in the Currie Cup. English FA Chairman Bert Millichip and secretary Ted Croker will address tion no good. UEFA'sexecutive committee about lifting the ban on English clubs, imposed after This they achieved, despite not hav 39 people died in.riots at the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and In the past when Namibia fielded ches, losing three and winning one - ing the blessing ofthe Namibian soc· Juventus. their best in the Currie Cup, they were against the SA Police. England has slipped from first to ninth in UEFA's qualifying table of nations always the team to beat and regular· In matches played on Tuesday, the cer authorities but the gripe against since it has been out ofthe competitions and so would be allowed only two clubs Iy featured in the semi-finals and finals ASA SWA XI lost 1- 3 against OFS and the ASA is more the fact that they are in the UEFA Cup, instead ofthe four it had previously, ifthe ~n was lifted next year. .ofthe tournament_ 0-4 against the SA Universities for a pretending to be a representative This year however, the team sent to goal average of 4 for and 13 against, team. That they are not - by any NO STATUE FOR NAAS the tournament by the pewly hardly a proud record_ . stretch of the imagination. established Amateur Soccer Associa Namibia in 1985 decided to break NO STATUE ofNaas Botha will be allowed at Loftus Versfeld. The Northern Eastern Transvaal, who are hosting Transvaal Union decided at a meeting that since rugby was a team game, tionare seen as an easy two points but away from the tougher Currie Cup . the tournament, won all four matches no statue of individual players could be erected. no one is telling the South Africans competition to play in the SASA Im in the Snaier Group, which also in· that the team is made up of smaller, pala '!burnament, a trophy they have cludes the ASA, to finish top of the "It's a matter of principle" said Union manager Mac van Vuuren. "Jfyou allow mostly all-white, clubs in Namibia. won easily in the past two years. group. Western Province, Natal and one statue, you may end up with a lot of statues." By the time of going to press this Namibia's absence from the Currie Northern Transvaal were the winners SOUTH PACIFIC,. TOUR week, the-team had played four mat- Cup tournament paved the way for the ofthe other three groups. THE ITINERARY fo the South Pacific rugby side which arrived in South Africa for a 13-match tour on Tuesday this week has been announced. Toughest 'part of the season still The programme is: S~ptember 9: vs SE Transvaal/North NatallNatal at Wit=' bank. Sept 12: vs Sara at Orkney. Sept 16: VB TvIIN OFS at Welkom. Sept 19: vs W TvllStellalandIBophuthatswana at Potchefstroom. Sept 22: vs EPlBorderlN E Cape at Port Elizabeth. Sept 24: vs SW Districts and Boland at.George. Sept 26: lies ahead for undefeated SWA XV vs SA Rugby Federation at Stellenbosch. Sept 30: vs South West MricalWestern Gerhard Mans (captain), Shaun ... PiovinceIN W Cape at Upington. THE SWA RUGBY side will do well to disregard the fact that tomor McCully, Basie Buitendacht, Casper row's B section Currie Cup match against Western Transvaal in Oct 3: VB SA Feeder team at Johannesburg. Oct 7: vs SA Defence Feeder team Derks, Wally Bredenhann, Manie at Pretoria. Oct 10: vs South Africa (First Test) at Johannesburg. Oct 13: vs SA Potchefstroom will have no l>earing on the final result of the sec Grobler, Satel du '!bit;Jacques Theron, Feeder team at purban. Oct 17: vs South Africa (Second Test) at Durban. tion. Ratherthey should use the match as preparation, for toughest Arra van der Menve, Nartjies Nortje part of the season which stillli~s ahead. and Sarel Losper_ ". MOSES ANDI THE OLYMPICS Western Transvaal: . ',. . , When the team convincingly thrash believe will give Transvaal a run for M Knoetze, PCoetzer, C Labuschagne, ED MOSES, who successfully defended his world crown after the toughest ed a game Vaal Triangle 32 ·13 at the. their money in the semi·final on D Smith~ B Fot/de, .T Marai's: R du test of his illustrious ¢areer, is determined to extend his domin~tion to next South West Stadium last Saturday, Preez, B Buitendacht, N CoHin's, Flip year's Olympic Games'ip Seoul. '. September 19. . • they not only protected theirunbE;!aten The teams for tomorrow are: pie van der Merwe (capta'in), T Moses declared his ambition to complete an Olympic treble after clinging to his record in the sec~ion but, as winners of ; SWA: Andre StooP, . Doug Jeffery, Oosthuizen, K Wie!;e, N van der Walt, World Champion!lhip 400 metre!:! hurdl~s title.in I;l treme.ndous bittle with young the B section also played their way in Danie van der Merwe, Wim Lotter, K Barnard and P.tiebenberg. pretender Danny Harris and perennial challenger Harald Schmidt this week. Only to the semi-finals of the Currie Cup .02 seconds separated him. iz: a photo finish from Harris :;m.d Schmidt. proper. /ilgainst. Transvaal in Win- ·dhoek on September 19. . Bsection Currie'Cup Rugby-Log. RETAINQ'G THE GENUINE AIc:hcLE -: , Added"to this, the . ~eam · has to pla~ . . • - ~. It ~ , against Western Transvaal again, for THE LATEST SANTAMBANK Currie Cup liugby i'og 'oW:.$ec~ion THE SA CRICKET Union this week revealed new.steps taken towards en the honoW' of placing the Santambank .. as compiled by, Teddy Schnapps, 9ffi,c •.a1stati!itici~nofthe ~~outp suring the Castle Currie Cup remains the real thing...... tnlPPy, on the mantle-pie,ce and the African Rugby ' . • Board, . in" . order:- - matches The bonus PQi nts syste~ has been revamped, largely to encourage teaII)s to most >crucial of all, promotio-n- ' played/wonJdrawnllostipoints for/points agMnst/pointSl.and in develope strike bow ling instead ofthe line' and length so necElssary for the limited relegation-matchesagainstNortbern ; brackets tries for/tries against. ' overs game. . . ' . OFS for the right to play' in the' A Bonus points will still on!y be awarded on first innings performances but b~}V 1- . section. - . ;. ,. SW Africa 7 7 . Q .0 1~7;: __ 81.14, (20-7) ing points will now be awarded through the first 100 overs instead of the 85 in the - Through the -season, the · SWA ' _ W Transvaal 7 5 0 _. 2 215 IJ-7 10'(27.10) past. backli'ne havl! proved they c.an hold V Triangle 7 - 4 ' : _0 " . 3. . 114 · .127 ~ (11-11) LIFE BAN FOR FIJIANS. theirownagainstanyte~butthefor, E Transvaa1, - · 8 2 \ 0-...... 6 " • ' l :UjI" _ :202 .4 11J-21) . t · ward&were al_way:s a little suspect. , G West '" 70, " 0 -if • 7_' : 7'1 J84 0 (~~24) ' . However.-Iast Saturday, the packl 11-";;';-' ''';' ';'- ..,;... . _. ...;._...... ;.....;.._.;; ,j;.,._. ___.;... ___ ....;...... _ ...._ .....__ ~.;..;._ THE GOVERNMENT ip Fiji thls week cond.emned FijianpartiCipation i~ a rugby tour of South AtTica and rugbyadminis.tratQrs called on players gave &'ne it's· bestp'eFfor.~ancefl in a ) --. " - . -', ". !. - • .1 . •• to abandon the venture., ! ' . .' ' . .'. .. ' . longt~meandshowedthatapartfrom PI f t'h " , "- ,." t' 'h' '" 'We.will be len.ient with th~m , but ifth~Y playif ne ~at~h :tlie~ th~y ~re comm~t .. gainingtheupperhandin'set"scruins ,.1_ ' '-ayer 0 . ~ 'e-"; m', .on . .. .. _. and line-outs, could even' run like ted' Fiji Rugby.Union acting Chairml;!.n G~orge Picken-ng 1;O1~ Reute\'s: He saId he had sent messages telling tl).e I?layers to re~urn: ' . . ' -' .....:. ( .~. thr~e lluarters as they proved witH I • ' The Union has threatened) ife bans against the 13 past and p~sent national three Scintillating tries, two by flanker NICODEMUS KUNDULU, the EleVen Arrows midtield~r, lias wOP side members who have joilied the 3D-strong South Pacific Barbarians side for the Narties Nortje and the other by Sarel the Castle Lager 'Player of the Mopth"awaI'd from Augu' st'for con- du '!bit. six-week tour. " , ' . Nor.tje's last try, .in the dying sistently good performances-for his club which has seen Arrows The Fiji Minis'£J::y ofForeikn Affairs saidthe government.gre;;ttly rigtetted "Fi, moments of ,the' match, Iltarted 'o~ ' establish a commanding positiOp at tJ:te ~«;>p . of~the : NNSL Super jian participatio!l, which went against Commonwealth cddes'on sJ)!Jrting conta,cts, with South Africfi". : ," ', ., .... SW),(s own·try-line and also had front· : League and last week stee"red his f.ea!tt l~tO t;tie·quarrer-finals df The Fiji Sun newspape~ said this wee~' ,th!! ' players had been offered aboJ~t ,row ,forward . C"~sptlr ' Derk!l featurjp,g the JPS Knock·out tOUrnament with a 2 ! O-·victory'over Bl\JC; ; R160 000 to undertake the tour. .." ; '-' • ;. · lik'e~ a " speedy f1y.b,a)f or ce.ntre .. · : ' . Nic~named'Gryrr, Kundulu was ho~n inN~I-th~I'ANamibia(Owamboland il;l nd '-. '::,"' The 'mostpieasi~gaspectoft~eday i .: played for Blue Waters and Sparta United before'jbining Az:rows:: ,', '. ' ,,", . " ,-Was the performance ofnewscrum half ; Along with team-mates Elvis ~welasi, Bt?~l?Y Samarili·an.li Sa~ikia Gottlieb, LlVER"O_Q" .FANS .ON~~L ...... Basie Bo.itendacht:He looks and pll;!.Ys all of-whom were COnSidered for the prize, EleVE!ri Arrows have marched relentiessl.Y -- HOME SECRETA~RYDo~gla;H~rdh~s signed orders for the ~xtraditi~n • like springbok Garth Wright .and towards'tne NNSt; Supe! League title and 'aftef thirteen inatchiis to'date, har.e of26 Liverpool soccer fans to Belgium to face manslaughter charges in c~m· should he contillUll to play.as he did iri . only 'been defeated once. .' ' . ,- • . ' .. . nection with the 1985 Heysel Sta~'Q.Jn di1>aster:the atWrney for som¢: oft.l,J.~·~. fans said thiS'W'eek. .. ' .' . ':~ ' -. · his debut.; will keep deposed .scrum- Kundulu and his team receive five cases ofCastle Lager-from the sponsqrs,South 'halfLeon Stoop on the sid~lines for Ii African Breweries. . . . " .' , \ . -. .', ..: ' . . _ Sir Harry Livermore s:fiid J:1ehad received 11- phone call from the.Home OffiCI!, .longtime. " -' . . . Th~ reader wno corr~ct ly nomiI).ate(tKUli.du~u a~d wjIf.also receive a. voucher conforming that HUrd had agreed to the fans being sEmt back to Belgium to face · The selectors have retained the same for five cases of~astle Lager; was Nfop's Willi.am Madisiaof:P ,Q Box 1958 Wa:J v-js charges over t ~eir part ~n !he ~} sast,e~ iI!- whi ~ ~ 39 people died.. _ .team for tomorrpw, ,a team which I : Bay: _.- ' :. .' ',_: '.. . : ~ .' .. " .. ' .. :, _". ~ _ " .. ". :,,~ _ ' .. ': 24 Friday September. 4 1987 THE NAMIBIAN Black Africa secures top position in JPSKnock·out BY DAVE SALMON DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Black Africa last weekend secured their place in the quarter-finals of . the JPS Knock-out tournament with a smooth 2 - 0 victory over Pups at the Nomtsoub Stadium in Tsumeb. The elimination of two of the pre-tournament favourites, Tigers and Orlando Pirates, have left Black Africa as favourites to win the tournament for the second year running, but they have a tough quarter-final clash against league front-runners Eleven Arrows, to overcome first. Young Ones caused the major ' The tour matches will take on Ones at 16h30. upset at the Katutura Stadium something of a derby climate in the This is the second year that the.JPS last Sunday when they defeated three centres which are to be used. nock-out is being staged in Namibia Novel Ford Cup winners Orlando In Walvis Bay tomorrow, City rivals and last year was widely regarded as Blue Waters and Namib Woestynmeet the most successful tournamentofthe Pirates 2 - o. at 16hOO at the Kuisebmond Stadium Season. The other Novel ford finalists, Tigers while in Tsumeb, Northern giants The sponsorship this year has been FC, also bowed out ofthe tournament Benfica and Chelsea clash at 16hOO at increased from R15 000 to R16 ,500 early after failing to win a penalty the Nomtsoub Stadium. with the winning team receiving , shoot-out with Benfica in Tsumeb on At the Katutura Stadium on Sunday, R6 000 and the defeated finalists Saturday. After extra-time, the teams defending champions Black Africa R2500. were level at one-all but it was Benfica have a difficult task against Eleven Ar The semi-finals take place on who took their spot kicks with more , rows at 15hOO before the 'derby' clash September 19 and 20 and the final on precision to win 5 - 4. between African Stars and Young October 4. Probably the most fiercely contested battle came at the Kuisebmond Stadium in Walvis Bay where hosts NNSL LOG POSITIONS Blue Waters· accounted for Super League leaders Chief Santos 3 - 2. THE LATEST positions in the NNSL League, are, under The other matches all produced the headings "matches played:' "won:' "lost:' "drawn:' "goals expected winners with Eleven Arrows for:' "goals against:' and "points." downing Black Maroka Chiefs 2 - 0, Chief Santos 16 7 2 7 18 10 21 1986NNSL Champions and JPS semi Eleven Arrows 13 7 1 5 25 15 19 finalists last year Chelsea beat Sorren Chelsea 16 7 4 5 26 21 19 to Bucs 2 - 1 and African Stars easily Black Africa 16 7 5 4 40 29 18 accounted for Explorer Eleven 3 - 1. Tigers 15 5 ' 2 8 22 13 18 In the other first round match, African Stars 15 7 5 3 26 23 17 Oshakati's Golden Bigs were unfor Life Fighters 16 6 5 5 25 25 17 tunate not to make'the quarter-finals Benfica 16 6 7 3 28 24 15 after losing on penalties against Blue Waters 14 5 5 4 21 19 14 N amibi Woestyn after the teams had Explorer Eleven 14 6 6 drawn one-all after full-time. 2 32 37 14 Young Ones 16 4 6 6 26 33 14 THERE WAS no stopping forward Nartjies in this scene during the clos After Sunday's matches, the draw for , ing stages ofthe match against Vaal Triangle last week. The team play their Ilist Orlando Pirates 14 4 7 3 24 26 11 the quarter-finals took place with a section match against W~stem Transvaal at Potchefstroom tomorrow, but Sorrento Bucs 14 4 8 2 18 24 10 some interesting ma~ches in prospect the outcome has no bearing on the section, as SWA havealrea,dyelinched the Hungry Lions 15 0 12 3 22 50 3 a section. . for this weekend. The taste thatS stood the·test of time This is a genuine lager with a distinctive flavour and aroma which is somewhat dry and somewhat bitter. Light in colour, it closely resembles the standard beer of Central Europe. . CONGRATULATIONS TO NICODEMUS KUNDULU - CASTLE LAGER 'PLAYER OF THE MONTH' FOR AUGUST!