DUMENIDEATHSUMMONS Widow sues Minister of Defence . and Cabinet for nearly RtOO 000 ------STAFFREPORTER ______ATTORNEYS for Mrs Shinene Dumeni, widow of the late Mr Josef Dumeni, have confirmed that summons has been issued f h. to the South Mrican Minister of Defence and the interim government Cabinet, for damages in the amount of nearly Rl00 000, for the death of her husband. She claimed that he was "wrongfully killed" by members ofthe SADF or SWATF or SWA Police at Xangongo, in Angola, on June 14 this year. At the time ofthe death ofMr Josef Dumeni on that date, his brother, ELCIN Bishop Kleopas Dumeni, claimed that he" had not been killed in Namibia after curfew, as the army had claimed, but that he had been shot.on Angolan territory. Police remain cagey on the question of the investigation into the cir­ cumst an ces surrounding Mr Dumeni's death, merely saying to reporters of The Namibian that "see­ ing you allege that the incident in question took place in Angola, then you must contact the Angolan police. The J3WA Police has no jurisdiction over another country's territory". But attorneys fgr Mrs Dumeni said that she was suing the Minister of Defence and interim government Cabinet in her personal capacity and. as natural guardian of five minor The late Mr JosefOumeni children: Aune Ndimbulukweni, Ester Ngamwenyo, Maria Ndapundula, for his death, he would have continued Martha Oshowuli, and Ndaitavela to support the family. Tateati . . Attorneys for the family confirmed She said she married JosefDumeni that summons had been served on the on November 20 1976, and in his Minister of Defence as the First Defen­ lifetime he was obliged to support both dant, and the interim government her and the children. Had it not been Cabinet as the Second Defendant. THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL

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Aimablaagte in th e south, h ave expressed anger over what they The Municipality was at present consider unjustified and exorbitant increases in rents and rates dealing with the toilet and water problem. introduced by their respective municipalities in Keetmanshoop Mr Boonzaaier said the cost for in­ and Mariental. stallation ofwater meters waspaidfor In Tseiblaagte township just outside of tenants. by houseowners in every town in this Keetmanshoop the dissatisfaction led In the past the cost of services like country, and Keetmanshoop was to the formation, on July 19, of a body water, sewerage, and rubbIsh removal therefore not an exception. known as the Rent and Consumer was included in the rent. The total The increases in rates for water, Pressure Group of Keetmanshoop. monthly payment, including rent, at sewerage, and rubbish removal were The group recently issued a state· that time was R16,OO. fair, because residents ofTseiblaagte ment in which it listed several com· The group said that, now that the now paid the same amounts as plaints against the Keetmanshoop . Municipality levied payments for ser­ resiaents in other parts of Keetman­ Municipality. vices separately, the total monthly shoop. The whole issue ofthe levy paid The Municipality wants to sell . minimum had risen to R33,70 which by employers as a contribution towards houses it builtin the early sixties to the amounted to an increase of almost their employees' rent was irrelevant as occupants. But before selling the 110%. this only applied to a very small houses they want to repair them, but Another complaint is about the percentage of residents. the buyers are expected to carry the Council's treatment ofpensioners and The statement, that the Council had cost of any necessary repairs. the unemployed. not informed pensioners and the However, the consumer's group The group said that the central unemployed about the policy decision claimed that since building the houses government had promised to assist taken by the central government to pay the Municipality had not done any pensioners and unemployed people their outstanding rent was incorrect maintenance work on them, and they who owed rent. But these people were he said. A TSEIBLAAGTE resident sits outside his house which shows distinct therefore felt that the Council should never told by the Council about the pro­ The Council had sent out letters to signs of disrepair. The Keetmanshoop Municipality means to sell the mise made by the government. Instead everyone informing them of this deci­ pay for the repairs. houses built in the early Sixties, but the buyers are then expected to Similarly, the group stated that a they were constantly being told about sion. The problem he said was that this sum of R45,00 the Municipal the large amounts of credit they had only applied to outstanding rentfrom carry the costs of the repairs. authorities charged for the installa­ built up. 1984 onwards. There were large tion of water meters should have been Replying to these accusations the amounts outstanding from the period paid for by the Council. 'Ibwn Clerk of Keetmanshoop, Mr PJ before 1984 and this amounts were not West Germany on the defensive These meters they said, had been in­ Boonzaaier, said that it was simply not covered by the new dispensation. stalled not for the convenience of true that no maintenance work had Furthermore, the policy only applied tenants but for the convenience ofthe been done on the houses. Ifit had been to outstanding rent for the current on nuclear waste issue Municipality. true he doubted whether any of them month, and tenants did not seem to The consumer group said that rates would still be standing. understand that they had to apply for AT A meetingofthe UN Council for took the issue very seriously indeed. charged fo r. services had risen Most of ofthe houses he said, were in the exemption each month. The Coun­ Namibia this week, a specialinvita­ He stated that it was a mistake to say astronomically and the increases were a reasonably good condition and the cil had written to the central govern­ tion was extended to the represen­ that the information provided was unj\lj!tified as the Council also levied only complaints he had received were ment asking them to include unpaid tative of the Federal Republic of mere Swapo propaganda. Various a payment ofRS,50 from $e !lmp)oyt;lJ'S abo.ut the toilet hloclj;s a,nd the laclr, of rent from the pre-1984 period, but they Germany, in order that it couId res­ sources had also raised the same issue, were still waiting for the government's poria to allegations that if intend­ and those sources were not controlled reply. ed to dump nuclear waste in bYSwapo. . In the 'Ibwnship ofAimablaagte out­ Namibia. , There was, he said, a serious and siqe Mariental, residents signed a peti­ The allegation had been recorded in dangerous possibility of nuclear waste tion which they sent to the Municipali­ the UN Council's Luanda Declaration being dumped in Namibia, and this ty. As in Keetanshoop, their main com­ and programme of action, from its had to be prevented. He informed the plaint was about the steep rise in rates. plenary meeting in Angola in May. Council that only recently members of Rates had risen by much as 120%, they In his letter of August 31 to the the Greens Party of West Germany had said. representative of West Germany, the researched the very same issue. Fur­ The reason given by the Mariental President of the Council for Namibia ther, it was clear that there was col­ Council was that there was a R50 00 invited him to address the Council on laboration going on between West Ger­ deficit in the budget·. the Luanda Declaration. many and South Africa, as reflected in Spokesmen for the Aimablaagte In his reply, the Permanent the issue of development aid. residents said they could not unders­ Representative of West Germany, Mr In recent years, he said, the interna­ tand how this deficit had come about Hans Werner Lautenschlager, said tional community had witnessed in­ because the Municipality had spent that his Government would like to ex­ creased collaboration between West absolutely nothing on improvements plain its position before the Council in Germany and the Pretoria regime. Mr for the township. a detailed and well-founded manner. Asheeke made clear to the Council The only work that had been done Mr Luatenschalger said he had was a new sewerage system for certain made it clear to Swapo President Sam that Namibians were facing a war parts ofthe township. But this project N ujoma the Federal Government had situation and Germany's socalled development aid or other assistance had been funded by the central govern­ no plans to establish the nuclear waste aggravated the situation. ment, and furthermore residents ofthe depot in Namibia. He said Swapo had township had each been charged a also been informed that no private Other members ofthe Council join­ R2,00 levy for the ·system. companies intended to export nuclear ed the debate included Chile, Colum­ Maintenance work on the houses waste to Namibia, and that the Federal bia, Australia, Turkey and Belgium. A was the responsibility ofthe Council, Government would in any case pro­ numberofthesefelt itwasonly wiseto but since the Council neglected this hibit the export of nuclear waste to express reservations on the original responsibility, tenants were forced to Namibia under the provisions of the Luanda Declaration following the Am­ pay for repairs themselves. Foreign Trade Agreements Act. Mr bassador of West Germany's state­ Residents of Aimablaagte they said Lautenschlager said the cooperation ment. The Belgian representative, Mr want the Municipality to show how between his country and the Council Delfoss went so far as to propose that they had incurred the deficit. for Namibia had always been good and all passages in the Luanda Declara­ A TOILET BLOCK in Tseiblaagte, showing an advanced state of As far as they could see the only the objective had always been to lead tion concerning allegations against det~rioration . Residents of this blacktownship are angered at having development undertaken in Mariental Namibia to independence based upon West Germany, be withdrawn and if to pay for renovations to their houses, which, they claim have not been in recent times was the new house of UN Resolution 435. this was not possible, the statement of maintained at all by the Municipality since they had been built in the the 'Ibwn Clerk, and they did not see It was therefore important that the the West German Government made why residents of Aimablaagte should early Sixties. The residents feel that the Council should be held liable campaign ofSwapo against his govern­ to the Council should be included in have to pay for this house. ment, which was based on false asser­ the Council's annual report to the for the costs of repairs. tions and was not supported by any United Nations for 1987. evidence, be stopped. He said that Concluding the meeting, the Presi­ those false assertions neither enhanc­ dent ofthe Council said the statement ed Swapo's cause nor its credibility. made by Mr Lautenschlager could not Headmaster taken to task for trip_ In response, the Deputy Permanent form a part of the Council report to the Representative ofSwapo to the UN, Mr General Assembly but would be THE Headmaster ofthe Rietquelle School in the Gobabis area. Mr Karamata said he would oppose Pius Asheeke, said his Organisation reflected in its-internal records. Secondary School in Aminius, Mr Upon their return to Aminius, any attempt by the school committee William Karamata, was confronted students had apparently chanted to remove him since he had been direct­ a fortnight ago and called before a slogans which they had learned from ly employed by the Department ofNa­ public hearing by the school com­ their N anso collegues in Gibeon. This tional Education and not the school MEMORIAL TONAMIBIAN MARTYRS mittee to explain about a trip his came to the attention ofthe school com­ committee or anyone else. He said fur­ school b.adundertaken to the AME mittee upon which Mr Karamata was ther that he wondered why the dif­ THE Methodist Church of Southern Africa is to unveil a memorial in Community School in Gibeon. called to a meeting with the commit­ ference in politics was being brought h onour ofits first martyrs in Namibia, Messers William Threlfall, Jacob Mr Karamata was accused ofha ving tee including members of the public. into play in this matter while he paid Links and Johannes Jager who were killed in August 1825 near Nisbet taken the students to a Swapo school He refused to discuss the matter in tax just like anyone else irrespective now known as War mbad. and threatened with expulsion. Alter­ public and said that he was only of hislher politics, to the same The unveiling of the memorial takes place at the graves ofthe three men on natively sections ofthose who attend­ prepared and willing to discuss the gover nment. the farm Dabakabis, some 40 kilometres from Warmbad. Speakers will be Rev ed the meeting threatened to remove issue with the school committee and J Gribble and D Palos and choirs will participate in the proceedings. The event their children from the school. the relevant educational authorities of The Director of Education for the will be part of a large rally by Methodists from all over Namibia and the Cape. Mr Karamatasaid this week that the the Herero Administration. Herero Administration, Mr Minnaar, Although killed in 1825, it was only in 1986 that the graves ofWilliam Threlfall, whole issue had political undertones At this stage, the matter was refer­ confirmed this week that the matter Jacob Links and Johannes Jager were rediscovered. Rev. Petrus Beukes under­ and that it was a question ofhim being red to the chairman of the Executive was enjoying his attention and that as took investigations for the location ofthe graves and aided by an aged resident a Swanu (P) member as opposed to the Committee ofthe Herero Admnistra­ far as he could see, it was 'nothing to ofWarm bad Mrs Dierstaan as well as a retired evangelist Mr Petrus Adam, Rev mostly Nudo members in the school tion, Mr Gotlib Mbaukua, and its upset anyone'. He added that the mat­ Beukes re-discovered the graves in May 1986. committee. Director of Education Mr Paul Min­ ter was not purely professional. Mr Missionary William Threlfall undertook to explore the Fish River area and He explained that his school had naar. The two went to Aminius where Minaar said that he would be submit­ beyond as a mission prospect for the Methodist Church in 1823. Accompanied undertaken a trip to Mariental in the Mr Karamata gave them a full written ting a report on his findings to the by two Khoisan converts Jacob Lnks and Johannes Jager, the three were south and Gibeon to stage a beauty statement about the purpose of the trip school"committee and the Herero Ex­ murdered near Nisbet now called Warmbad by their guide. contest to raise funds for a trip that was and anything connected to it for co who would make the final decision According to Wesleyan Missionary Notices, Jager was the first to be killed when planned for Driomopsis Secondary consideration. in a fortnight. he was struck with an arrow while Threlfall and Links were stoned to death. Decision pending on Shifidi murder case IT IS likely that the Attorney General, Mr Estienne Pretorius, will decide next week on whether or not to prosecute the man or men who were respOlisible for killing a Swapo member at a rally last year. This week Mr Pretorius confirmed morate the International Year of that he had received the results of an Peace. identification parade held recently in The soldiers ferried to the meeting northern Namibia. in Katutura were dressed in civilian "I am very close to making a deci­ clothing and had come armed with sion. There are still some aspects bows and arrows, clubs and knives. " which I want the investigating officer, Their attempt to disrupt the meeting Brigadier Fouche, to tie up;' said Mr failed, as they were put to flight by sec­ Pretorius. tions ofthe crowd and members of the It is believed that the identification Swapo police. . parade involved certain members of It appeared that Mr Shifidi, ex­ the SWATF's 101 Battalion. Robben Islander and Swapo na­ During the inquest in July into the tionalist, died when the soldiers at­ death ofMr Immanuel Shifidi (58), at tacked people standing on the edge of a Swapo meeting in November 1986, the crowd. it was revealed that more than fifty Magistrate Frikkie Truter found at members of that Battalion were the inquest that Mr Shifidi's death had A VERY graphic picture of Mrs Taimi Namashana of Etunda in the Ongandjera area. Mrs Namashana claimed that soldiers transported from northern Namibia to been caused by an assault by an last week forced their way into her home and searched it completely, saying they were looking for guerrillas. In the pro­ Windhoek the day before the rally was unknown person or persons. cess the soldiers broke herclaypots in which she kept her seeds_ The soldiers promised her that they would come back to take place. The long-time Swapo member died for her the next day_ It was Swapo's last rally for the year from massive bleeding caused by a stab - and was being held to commem- wound in the chest. TeL miner killed Soldier caught red·handed A TSUMEB Corporation worker, Mr Ruben Shapange, died in a with stolen money in shirt groundfall accident atthe mine's 37thlevellast Friday, and another worker sustained a broken leg in the same accident. ------BY TOBIAS MBAKO The Tsumeb Corporation said in a been fired with the restofthe workers A SOLDIER attached to Bat­ "bushes:' When the Captain said that The same spoke~man also asked press release on Tuesday that it regret­ during the strike. He had been re- talion "101, stationed at Om­ he had no vehicle, Mr Mukulu offered whether the security forces are in nor­ ted to announce that Mr Ruben employed recently. _ balantu, was caught red­ When the captain ordered the soldier thern Namibia to protect the people or Shapange had been fatally injured in He said that the aspect of safety was handed with huge amounts of to unbutton his shirt, dozens of Rand to steal their money and belongings. the ~ine on September 11. one of the main concerns of the workers notes fell out to the ground. He said that one thing was clear The release said the accidentoccured at TCL;-and that it had formed part of money he had allegedly stolen The embarrassed soldier apparent­ about the security forces, and that is on the 37th level ofthe Tsumeb riIine, the workers grievances at the time' of from an-· Ombalantu ly started to scream that he had not their continued harrasment of the some 1 200 metres underground, and the strike. businessman. stolen the money. When the money was people. _Mr Ulenga said accidents of ~ uc~ a was caused py a fall of ground. The soldier, JosefShikari was caught counted, only R4 150 was recovered in­ Meanwhile the office ofthe Ovambo It added that one other worker suf­ nature occured where the company did with the money by the captain of his stead ofthe R8 000 which Was stolen. Administration has reported two rapes fered a compound fracture of the left not apply maximum safety measures, JosefShikari was arrested and taken alleged to have been committed by such as providing basic safety equip­ base, who together with tribal fibula and tibula and that he was authorities went to look for him after to the army base. He is facing charges members of the Defence Force. recovering. ment, and Iurther accused TeL of of theft and attempted rape. he had absconded with the money. - Magdalena Haininge and Ndapan­ General Secretary of .the Mine negligence ill this respect. JosefShikari, 23, allegedly went to A spokesperson from the Ovambo He said that his Union planned to dula Haininge of Uutapi in the Om­ Workers Union of Namibia, Mr Ben Mr Shimhulu Lisias' home on Administration confirmed the inci­ balantu area were allegedly raped on take the matter of safety equipment Ulenga, said Mr Shapange had been September 11, and stole monies dent, adding that he was happy that September 6. The soldier who raped a member ofhis Union, and that he had further with the Tsumeb Corporation. amounting to R8 000, after attemp­ the soldier was caught in that way. them both was identified by the Om­ tingtorape Mr Lisias's wife, Katrina. "We are happy because we receive balantu Tribal Authorities as Petrus The next day (September 12), Mr too many complaints about thefts by· Goliath, who is attached to Battalion Teachers and Co mops Lisias went to the local senior head­ security forces, and in most cases the 101 at Ombalantu. man, Mr Oswin Mukulu, to lay an off­ culprits go unpunished. to use his own. The captain, Messrs COMPLAINTS from several teachers employed by the Ad­ cial complaint. Mr Mukulu decided to "Last year, a woman from Okankolo Mukuklu and Lisias then left to look ministration for Whites concerning compulsory "orientation" to go and see the Captain of the local in the Ondonga area lost R6 000 which for the soldiers. (' "'urses have reached the offices of The Namibian. army base and raise the issue. she said was taken away by soldiers. , When Mr Mukulu, who left with Mr Up to date the money has not been They found the group of soldiers at These courses, which are apparent­ tion referred reporters to the Executive Lisias, wanted to see the soldiers ofthe recovered and the case was closed. We Okapanda, also in the Ombalantu ly conducted by a Major Visser, are in­ Committee for comment on the base, the Captain told them that all the hope that the apprehension of soldier area. After a thorough search of the tended to create a "security courses, while members of the Ex­ soldiers had gone to the "bushes." Josef Shikari will serve to show that soldiers' bags, and nothing was found, awareness" in the teacher. ecutive Committee professed to know Mr Mukulu apparently requested the soldiers do those kind of things;' only one soldier's shirt looked bulged, One teacher, who had attended a "very little about it", and suggested the army captain to take him to the the ~pokesperson said. that of JosefShikari. course described its objectives. that comment be obtained from the "We are taught about the dangers in Department of Education. our society today. It is an orientation course and we are presumably meant to pass on this knowledge to our ' pupils;' said the teacher. The courses are held during school Refugees or eaptives? holidays and have a duration ofapprox- . imately five days. They are held in the south at a town ------RAJAH MUNAMAVA - ...... ------______near Mariental. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Missionin Grootfontein is seeking to Spokesmen at the Department of h d I Red Cross to take them". Ruacana in search offood and shelter. Education of the White Administra- an over ten Ango an captives into the custody of the Interna­ He said further that according to the "The local army unit took pity on ______---'j tional Red Cross, from its Mariabron Church station (Grootfon- children themselves, they had been them." tein), where they were brought last month by an army Captain of told that they were going to a carpen­ The help of the Red Cross organisa­ Ruacana. try school. The children were also com­ tion was obtained in an effort to re­ plaining about food, apparently prefer­ unite the children with their families Unexploded homh The ten Angolan teenagers, ranging since been working for the army at ring the good meals provided by the acording to Major Krige. . in age from ' 14 to 19 years, were Ruacana. army. He said that after a long process most brought to the Mariabron Catholic After their capture, the children The Angolans came without THE OFFICE of the Ovambo Ad­ Church SChool by a certain Captain De were trained in intelligence and had of the children were returned to their blankets but are in sound health, ac­ families, but that the parents of the ten ministration has reported that an undertaken several intelligence­ Beer ofRuacana, on or about August cording to Father Mokhatu. could not be traced. unexploded bomb ,was found at the gathering missions into Southern 18. Major Krige denied that the army house of Mr Johannes Amakali, the According to a Church official in Angola, collecting information on Approached for comment, the had made arrangementsforthe enlist­ secretary of the Tribal Authorities in Grootfontein, Father Mokhatu, his Swapo bases and PLAN troop Catholic Church Vicar General Father ment ofthe children at the Mariabron the Ovambo Administration. church was approached about two movements in Southern Angola, Bernhardt Nordkamp said if it was Catholic school. Mr Amakali, whose house is in the months back with a request to enrol reporting back to Ruacana. true that the children had arrived at Ondonga area near Oshivelo, said that ten refugee children from Southern Father Mokhatu said a stage might the Mariabron Catholic Church under The head of the International Red Cross in Windhoek could not be con­ the bombs were found at the drinking Angola. have been reached where the children such circumstances, they would have were of no use owing to the danger of to leave the church premises in two tacted for comment at the time of go­ place of the cattle. The church officials were made to ing to press. The bomb was apparently placed believe that the children were school­ operating in Southern Angola for too weeks. there by the army, who were seen by going and that they needed a safer loong, hence they had been dumped 'A SWATF spokesman, Major Fanie workers when they arrived in two ar­ place for learning. somewhere. Krige, confirmed that the army had my vehicles, a Buffel and a Magirus After an agreement was re1,l.ched, Father Mokhatu said contrary to brought the Angolan children to the REACH Deutz. Captain De . Beer delivered the what they were made to believe, the 'Mariabron Catholic School. He said The registration number of one ofthe children at the Mariabron church Angolan could not read or write. He that had been requested by the Red THE PEOPLE­ vehicles was taken down as R104 308. about three weeks back. said the children were bored and show­ Cross to provide transport for the The vehicles reportedly came from Sec­ It had however, come to light accor­ ed no interest in schoolwork. children to the Mariabron school. ADVERTISE IN tor 10 which is stationed at Oshivelo. ding to Father Mokhatu, that the . "They say that they don't want Major Krige said "In 1984/85, thir­ Two beds and mattresses were also children had been capturl:ld by the ar­ school and that they want to go back to ty Angolan children who became THE NAMIBIAN! stolen at the time the soldiers arrived my in one of the raids in Southern the army or get some other jobs. They separated from their parents i.n strife­ at Mr Amakali's home. Angola in 1981, and that they had are just idling here and we want the torn Angola'arrived in the vicinity of 4' Friday September 18 1987 .' THE NAMIBIAN

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THREE arm~a men mdved into Modern Supermarket in Katutura last Sunday evening, fired ·sllots and injured one of the shop assistants before getting away with abo1,lt RlS.000 in cash. The three robbers were armed with a pistol and rifles and had their heads covered according j;o eye witness ac­ counts. The men ordered people in'the supermarket i19t'to move. '-' -, ~.. They fired a/ few shots onto the ground floor ofthe supermarket, inj\U'- ' Ingone ofthe snop aSsistants and when" the manager of the shop came from " behind his office, they ordered him back and followed him into the.office where they found a,lump of money. They they ansacked the tills before.: they disappeared with the money in- . to the darkness. , . A Police spokesman"ChiefInspector Kierie Du Rand, confirmed the inci­ dent this week. He said that no one had been arrested in connection with the incident. He also" disclosed that catridges of a 7.56 calibre rifle were picked up at the scene by the police. Pavement art prIzeWInners. , -

NAME PRIZE R,anel Schaeffer 1st prize Margot Gephaid 2nd prize Ulrike Irlich . , 3rd prJze, ~ " Linda Rust . 4th prize EldaHenno . 5th prize' - , Sabine Irlich - 1st prize - Rene Gray 2nd prize Zelda Nolte ;3rd prize' Richard Drayer 'j 1st prize Vanessa Katsch 2nd prize Branches 'ordered ~to hold ·NUM.funds Yolande Kruger 3rdprize Jerome Mondzinger 1st prize RAJAH MUNAMAVA Marco van den Reever 2nd prize Tanja Truter ,3rd prize STANDARD Bank SWA Ltd in South Africa, or the Mine Union of release all funds for the credit of the. African Department of Finance and Windhoek issued a directive to Narrllbian Workers. The directive to hold funds or foreign not the Reserve Bank. its respective branches on A spokesman for Standard Bank's exchange transfers for the 'National A spokesman for the South African August 25th instructin g Johannesburg Head Office would not Union of Mine Workers' suspended Finance department, Mr Fred Brown, comes in the wake of mining labour said the Treasury which was an in­ authorised dealers not to ac­ say which one of the two was the af­ PUBLIC fected union. unrests both in South Africa and stitution responsible for exchange con­ cept any transfers from abroad Namibia. trol gave instructions to the South The spokesman said however, that fo r "credits of or intended for, About 280 000 South African gold African Reserve Bank to monitor all Standard Bank was an agent of the the benefit of the National and coal miners went on strike at the funds from abroad for the National 'RALLY South Afrcan Reserve Bank in foreign Union of Mine Workers". beginning of August in one ofthe coun­ Union ofMine Workers of South Africa THE Swanu P rogressives will exchange dealings, and that it acted on try's biggest work stoppages. (NUM). . The directive stated that should any instructions from the Reserve Bank hol~ a public r ally on Sunday InNamibia, closet04 000minersof such foreign exchange transfers come and had no discretion. the Tsumeb Mining Corporation This was in turn passed to all foreign September 27 at the Katutuura to the notice of authorised dealers, Sta ndard Ba nk SWA General downed tools on July 26 and subse­ exchange authorised dealers in South Junior Sports Ground to mark such funds would be held suspended Manager, Mr Karl-Heinz Schneider, quently the Corporation and the Africa including Namibia, by the the or ganisation's 28th and that details ofthe transfers be fur­ said that the issue was a "group mat­ workers became involved in a legal bat­ Reserve Bank. Buthe added that at no anniversary. nished to the exchange control depart­ ter" and referred this reporter to the tle in court. stage were any funds witheld. The meeting will start at 14hOO ment of the South African Reserve Bank's Johannesburg Head Office. Mr Brown said that the directive had hours and will be addressed by Bank in Pretoria. The bank order for funds ofthe "Na­ South African Reserve Bank nothing to do with any union Messrs Kuzeeko Kangueehi, Ger­ It was however not clear or stipulated tional Union of Mine workers" was General Manager of the Exchange anywhere except the National Union son Veii, Usiel Tjijenda, J efta whether the union referred to was the cancelled early this month and Control Department Mr JH Postmus, of Mine Workers (NUM) of South Tjozongoro and Ms Kaveri Kavari. National Union of Mine Workers of authorised dealers were instructed to said it was a matter for the South Africa. BE YOUR OWN BOSS - WORK FOR YOURSELF! No re·detention says Cabinet We arrange credit and all kinds of stock for yOU . . Exclusive services are now available. -....:..------By Mbatjiua Ngavirue We can help to start your own home-based business, THERE WAS no question ofthe Cabinet wanting to re-detain the The government, he said, wanted to or from a shopping centre, released Swapo leaders and union officials, according to interim "trim the laws so that they conformed and also part-time work for ladies. government Minister of Justice, Mr Fanuel Kozonguizi. with the Bill of Rights". We are looking for reps countrywide with a basic salary The Standing Committee on securi­ He said yesterday that the decision sion, appointed by the Admiriistrator ty legislation had received recommen­ of RaOO,OO per month. Send RS,OO and 16 stamps to: by the Cabinet to appeal against the General to revise security leqlation, dations from its legal advisers, and had Supreme Court judgement ordering had completed its work before the Bill almost completed its work. HAVEN CENTRE BOX 302, ONOANGWA 9000. the release ofthe detainees was mere­ of Rights was written. It was difficult, however, for Mr ly an "attempt to gain clarity on a point Many of the Commissiods recom­ Kozonguizi to say when new legisla­ of law". mendations were in conflict with the tion would be introduced, as some Judge Kenneth Bethune said last provisions of the Bill, and the process members of the Cabinet still wanted Friday that the arrests were not in of revising security laws had to be re- clarification on a few of the legalities BAUINGENIEUR UNO BAUTECHNIKER strict accordance with Section 6(1) of started. . involved. the Terrorism Act, and therefore the Wir suchen dringendst fur unser Buro in Windhoek einen police had no reasonable grounds for Bauingenieur und Bautechniker/Zeicher. detaining the six people. The Cabinet, said Mr Kozonguizi, Treten Sie in Verbindung mit 061-34081, oder bewerben now wa.nted to know from the Court under what circumstances they could sich schriftlich bei folgender Adresse: in fact detain people under Section 6. The Cabinet was harshly rebuked by Myburgh, Lund & Partners, the Cowt for having detained people VIEW - Consulting Civil, Hydraulic & Structural Engineers, under the provisions of a law that was in conflict with their own Bill ofRights. PO Box 3106 When asked what the Cabinet felt Windhoek about this, Mr Kozonguizi said that the 9000 government was faced with a problem. He said that the Van Dyk Commis- THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 18 1987 5 PURSUING 'PEACE' PURSUING BY PROPAGANDA? PEACE ------By GWEN LISTER ------

THERE HAS been some public interest recently in the ac­ fund-raising or other such activities. Wt!! salute the pellll:e He said Frontline Fellowship was keeping rorces in Sooth tivities of certrun organisations which appear to playa major w ..t Africa ro. Ib<;, 'multi-racial' and he also described it role in what ,some refer to as the 'political brainwashing' of devotion. oommitment f as a 'faith mission'. countie Jlnd rortiiude in youth serving in the South African Defence Force. Two of He said that while there may be upbolding the prillciples these groups which have become active in Namibia are of peace Old rreedom. similarities between Frontline In their ~Ie u peace Veterans for Victory and Frontline Fellowship. Fellowship and Veterans for Victory, kee,en the, are protectiRx lb. Io

THE CCN INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS

1. WELFARE WORKERS in the Social Services Unit. ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu made a fleeting visit to the offices of The Namibian this week, shortly Duties: Work to provide assistance to the needy in Namibia. after he held a, press conference. Pictured above with members of the staff, is Archbishop Tutu Co-ordinate self-help programme in the Unit, and more. (centre) with other members of his delegation and visitors to the offices at the time. Bishop Kauluma Salary negotiable. . is pictured second from left. To start any time. 2. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT in the Social Services Unit. Duties: Assist with admin work in the Unit; receive guests; co­ ordinate correspondence; be responsible for filing and records. Storm of protest about SWABC Salary negotiable. To start any time. TOBIAS MBAKO 3. HEALTH WORKER in Health Desk. A STORM of protest has erupted in the Ovambo Administration what is happening here. They sit there Duties: Work as health educator. Help to assess community over comments made in a SWABC radio broadcast yesterday, to and make comments that the people health needs; draw plansfor proper services. Visit Health the effect that the people of northern Namibia are satisfied with are satisfied with the army. No, the peo­ and Welfare Committees and help with Community the security forces in the region. ple actually have every reason to hate Health education. it because it makes the people cry every Salary negotiable. The Secretary of the Ovambo Ad­ Mr Shivute also said that his office day:' Mr ~hivute said. To start any time. ministration, Mr Oswald Shivute, was now no longer concentrating on yesterday said that his administration the work it was supposed to do, because According to Mr Shivute, the securi­ was extremely shocked by the com­ people were streaming in daily in great ty forces are not wanted in the regiqn. Closing date for applications: OCTOBER 8,1987. ments made on the Afrikaans service numbers. He added they.should be withrawn im­ ofthe propaganda mouthpiece ofthe The people come to his office, he said, mediately because the people were interim government. to complain about misdeeds commit­ tired of atrocities. Inquiries to: "Let me put it this way to the ted against them by the army and Those who doubted that fact, he said, Mr P Aluteni should come to pulic meetings, for ex­ SWABC - You seem to be ignorant of other security forces. PO Box 41 the situation in northern Namibia, ample the one held at Oshakati on Ju­ Windhoek 9000 therefore you better keep quiet about "Let institutions like the SWABC Iy 2, and hear for themselves what the it:' Mr Shivute said. .../ come to Ovamboto see for themselves will of the people was, he said. Tel: (061) 62187/8 or 37510/1/2 6 Frjday September 18 1987 TfiE NAMtBIAN Story by Tobias Mbako

UNDERI , ...... SI"EGE Ongandjera residents tell of ,ONGANDJERA is under sIege again. Only a few weeks waterf~r drinking ;ko ses:'theresi - ago this newspaper reporter on a group of soldiers who dent said. VirtuaUy held the entire region under siege, moving from Mr Jafet Pelema was not the only one homestead to another, assaulting local residents at ~~~~t:~~to have been assaulted by the will. Once again a group of soldiers, reportedly from It would appear that during the Battalion 911, are 'oil the rampage' in the area. whole week, the soldiers moved from one homestead--to another at night, later if they found out that he had A disorderly group of drunken allegedly assaulting people. soldiers at Okahao, the main town of reported 'the incident to a newspaper. At the home of headman Moses Ongandjera, their fil'earms slung to "Every time tliat the soldiers come' Namalenga of Etunda, also in the one side, last weekepd proved beyond to my shop, I'm alway in"t ensioii as I Ollgandjera area, the soldiers alleged­ doubtthe present state of affairs, as far alawys expect them to do something to ly assaulted and badly injured his as troop control and mll.nagemeI)t is me:' Mr Pelema said. •. 20-year old son, Abraham. concerned in northern Namibia. Anhis stage the owners and visitors Reporters arrived at Okahao laf1t to the cuc'a-shops had all hidden The headmanwas away on Wednes­ Sunday and found a number of local themselves and none could be seen. day night when the same band of residents all claiming to have been However, when the soldiers left, the soldiers arrived and demanded to see assaulted and beaten by soldiers in one residents came ciutofthe homes, heav­ the licarice of a gun wb,ich they found way or another. There were alleged ing sighs of relief. in the house. The gun apparently cases of rape attempts and petty thefts. belong to the headman who had hid­ While talking to some of the vic­ den the licence before he left. tims, it transpired .that the group of When the soldiers discovered that approximately six soldiers were in a the licence was not available, they nearby cuca shop, about 500 yards blindfolded Abraham Namalange and from where reporters were speaking allegedly started to beat him severely. to the victims. Still at the home of headman One of the victims pointed to them Namalenga, the soldiers entered a saying, "there, they are the ones who room in which a young girl of 14 was beat us:' sleeping. The soldiers entered a cuca-shop The young girl, Johanna lita alleg­ owned by Mr Jafet Pelema, 27, and ed that,the soldiers ordered her to sleep ordered liquor. Mr Pelema himself on the floor and attempted to rape her. claimed that the previous Thursday he She managed to sneak out ofthe room was beaten severely by the same band and ran to her grandmother's bedroom of soldiers. where she hid until the soldiers had Mr Pelema recounted .that the. , left. soldiers arrived late at night, woke On the Thursday morning, the RACHEL SHIGWEDHA, 70 years, of Etunda, Ongandjera, who alleges that him up and o~'dered him outside the mother of the house, Mrs lili soldiers arrived at her home and cut open the fence of her home, on house. They demanded to see his Iden­ Hamunyela went to visit the cuca­ ,September 11. They allegedly pulled her out of the house, beating her tification Card, whereupon they ask­ shops at'Evululuko' where she found severely, aHe,r asking her the whereabouts of Swapo guerrillas. She alleges ed him to show them guns. When he the soldiers who had visited her home that R180 was also stolen from her. replied that he had no guns, the the previous night. Mrs Hamunyela soldiers allegedly started to beat him asked the soldiers what their names until he was barely conscious. were, whereupon one ofthem said that Mr Pelema said that one of the AlLY Shaanika, a teacher of Olutei he was 'Ambrosius Five'. Afer an ex­ soldiers drew his gun and wanted to School, whose brother was alleged­ change ofmore words, the soldiers ask­ shoot him, but he was saved by another ly severely beaten. ed her to buy a drink for them. When soldier who ordered the one not to she did so, one of them said to her that shoot. , Still at the same cuca-shop complex, she is a very 'stout' (naughty) woman The same soldier who wanted to the soldiers, without any consideration because she wanted to poison them shoot him then produced a mortar for the few children who had been left since they had 'visited' her home the which he used to hit Mr Pelema in the outside by their parents, started to un­ previous night. stomach. dress, and when nude, proceeded to On the Saturday morning, the same take baths, using water belonging to They then started to beat her, most- soldiers came toMr Pelema's cuca-shop local residents. ' ly slapping her in the face, scolding her and allegedly started tOlassault him A local resident said that the people and saying that she must drink first - again. They alsQ beat up one of his had nothing against the soldiers before they could drink. When she friends who was visiting him at the washing themselves, but were con­ drank and nothing happened to her, time. The soldiers also took away a col­ cerned about the water which the the soldiers then proceeded to drink lection of tapes, which Mr Pelema said, soldiers were using. and left her alone. he had collected over a long period of The resident said that the water was Mrs Hamunyela said that the time. collected from far, and that the people soldiers had also beaten other people On the Sunday, reporters from this found it difficult to fetch, thus it was at the cuca-shops. newspaper found the same soldiers at very distressing to see their water A school-teacher, Ms Aily Shaanika Mr Pelema's cuca-shop.. When the wasted like that. of Omuthite, also in the Ongandjera reporters arrived, Mr Pelema gestured "Sometimes the soldiers climb into area, said that the same soldiers at them not to ask him any questions the drums to wash themselves, and we visited her home on Tuesday night and as the soldiers could come back for him find it a health hazard as we use the took away her brother Jonas

MR JAFET PELEMA, 27, a shopke~per of Etunda, who was allegedly beaten after being threatened with death. He claims he was hit in the stoma"h with a mortar. He is pictured with the drums which the residents claim were used by soldiers when washing themselves. Residents are complain­ ing of the use of their hard-to-come-by water, which is used by soldiers.

DRING END: PERSON EEL VAKATURES

Dept. van Nasionale Opvoeding, Sekondere Skool Otjikoto Privaatsak 2003 Tsumeb9000

* Engels of Afrikaans: Std 6-10 * Voorligting en Afrikaans of Enge.ls: Std 6-10 * Wiskunde en Natuur en Skeikunde: Std 6-10 * Tik en Rekeningkunde: Std 8-10 * NaaldwerklKleding en Huishoudkunde en LO: Std 6-8

AanvangsQatum: 1 Januarie 1988 SOLDIERS, reportedly from Battalion 911, pictured by John Liebenberg as they left the town of Etunda after Navrae: Mnr J Molebugi tel: (0671),2391 of having spent several hours drinking in a cuca shop. Residents allege these soldiers were some of those r~spon­ Mnr JH Steyn tel: (061) 293911 sible for holding the'region under siege. BI :1"" THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 18 1987 7 ' . Photographs by John Liebenberg BY SOLD·IERS rampages by members of 911 Shaanika. and that that his .deputy was also not tjon, an army base had been removed They allegedly beat him and return­ available. from Okahao, the main town of ed him the next day. MsShaanika also Consequently no comment could be Ongandjera. . said that the five soldiers were led by obtained from higher authority as to A hospital and a church situated a whiteman who was giving orders all whether the drunk soldiers where in about 300 metres from the army base the time. - Ongandjera for a pw:pose, especially have also been regular targets of at­ The soldiers came back to Ms after an undertaking intermsofwhich tacks by soldiers. Shaanika's home the next day and·took all security forces had been withdrawn away a saving's pot, which she said, from the area. The pastor of the Lutheran Church at Okahao showed us around where contained 'a ~ot of money'. The residents of Ongandjera have From her home, the soldiers ap­ bullets had penetrated the walls ofthe been the targets ofincreased assaults church. The altar of the church had parently went to a neighbour's, Mr by members ofthe secJJrityforces inre­ Conias litembu and stole R20. No one also been shot at through what ap­ cent months. It is believed that the peared to be a side window. had been assaulted at Mr litembu's responsible members of the security home. forces are acting in retaliation against Similarly, the local hospitalis full of On the Sunday afternoon, reporters the local residents who, at a public bullet holes on the side adjacent to from this newspaper went to the meeting on March 26 this year, called where the army base once stood. For­ Oshakati army headquarters to report for the withdrawal of the security tunately the windows of the hospital the drunken soldiers. At the head­ forces from the area. have all been reinforced with protecive quarters, a soldier told the reporters As a result of this lind other calls by grills, preventing the bullets from hit­ that the Commander was not present, authorities of the Ovambo administra- ting the patients. -

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TOP right picture: Young Johanna lita, 14, who was the victim of a rape attempt by soldiers, reportedly of 911 Battalion. Pictured with her is her mother, Mrs liIi Hamunyela, at whose home the soldiers also beat and took away her son, Abraham Namalenga. Top left: Angry residents of Ongandjera who emerged from their homes where they were 'in hiding' while the soldiers were drinking, and who told of many assaults by the soldiers reportedly of 911 Battalion. Right: A pastor of a local church indicates the bullet holes in the Lutheran Church at Okahao, Ongandjera. The building was shot at, reportedly by soldiers, shortly before the base was moved. Left: Ms Eveline liIeka, who together with five other women, were asSaL!lted by soldiers who also attemped to rape them. This occur­ red on September 9, also in Etun­ da. She said she and her friends managed to run away as the soldiers were drunk at the time.

BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed

SEe ' Cl/5H fJONlITftJN5 ()f(, /Jfd7THCI( IIJImrJY./ 1If(~ 5fDI/N ANIl me UH OH . M I'f(rJ6I(U5 ~r CO/?/?C5P'ONf1fNfJ f'!(06R€55 OF 5WIl&6IiKT'5 F~ 7H€ 17K'" 81U­ tJfllJTlfef(5 !!f1KKCf(, FIlt.MLf., I7f((}fPfN& MfN15T1?le5 HA5 C~ IN / ~ IlNfl f(tIK/(f5 IN 8£HfNJl ... I(;(lT /' GemNfI ' 'HOMe ' lIf(~ CW/f(f.Y I '13 (. o. \ {lf1lRK£(Jl J 8 Friday September 18 1987 THE NAMIBIAN WOMEN OUTRIDERS LEAD THE WAY

BEFORE CAPrAIN Thomas SaQ,kara came to power in depends on the labour of his three BurkinaFaso, talk ofwomen in the army was considered ab­ wives and his children, none of whom attend school. The unequal divide surd. Four years later, the women's unit is recognised as an A public debate on the status of efficient and disciplined force. Gemini News Service looks women is in full spate. The enthusiasm at the way women are seizing opportunities offered by the generated by the debate, which is in­ government in the West African Republic. tended to culminate in a Family Law, indicates the seriousness of the at­ From the motorised female constantly reminds us that the revolu­ tempt to fashion a new deal for women. presidential guard to the five tion cannot succeed without female cabinet ministers, the everybody's participation - and I do Sailkara has taken a personal in­ enhanced public role of women is not think we have disappointed him." terest in women's rights and condi­ one of the most striking features When the new government started tions. He and two women ministers its policy of women's liberation, critics recently held an open forum for 500 of Captain Sankara'sfour-year-old referred to it dismissively as a populist prostitutes at the military barracks in Hours worked egime in Burkina Faso. ploy. Ouagadougou, expressing concern at Women The female outriders provide the This is unfair, for much has been their plight and urging them to take most vivid illustration of the new ' done to demonstrate the sincerity of advantage ofthe opportunities offered policy. A member of the guard said the government's Intentions. ' by the revolution. "The training we go through is Women's organisations and medical In the two-hour session the Presi­ rigorous and I know many men can't personnel tour the countryside cam­ dent, Josephine Quedrago

o plaints received by the depart­ ment indicates that there are people who keep these wild Mini Film pets without the necessary A WU permits. Festival In a statement to the press, the Direc­ torate emphasises the fact that a per­ THE Department of English at mit is a prerequisite to catching and the Academy will be screening a keeping wild anim;:tls, including birds number of f"Ilms during next and reptiles. In addition, it was stress­ week. ed that no animals may be exported The programme runs from Monday from, or imported into Namibia September 21 to Thursday Salute and congratulate NAFAU without the Directorate's approval. September 24 between 17h15 and Any people or organisations keeping 18h30 in Room 207 of the Academy wild animals, birds or reptiles, and Lecture Block. Some of the films are on it's,f irst anniwersary, who are unsure whether they are com­ by courtesy of the British Informa- plying with the legal requirljments, tion Service. ' and' offe,r ',good wishes for are askl'ld to report to th{ nearellt . ' The pro~amme includes films on Nature Conservation office before 'Oc­ , Dickens, Lawrence and Hardy as tober 31 to obtain the necessary -well as topics of general interest. The · t ~ e Se, ~on~ National. Congress. information. public is welcome to attend. For the ,After October 31, anyone found • I ~ daily'prdgramme, call 307-2300 . • unlawfully keeping a wild animal will _'" ~ H tl- be penalised. Wild animals are a serious health hazard in built-up areas and must therefore be strictly LESA controlled, The Directorate also stressed the fact that baboons or monkeys, despite their ONGORAMAMBO popularity as pets, may not be kept for '"~n injury to one health and various other reasons. JO TJIUANA LS an injury to all~~ The statement concluded by express- THE NAMIBIAN is published by the proprietors, the Free Press of Namibia (Pty) Ltd, with offices at 104 Leutwein Street Windhoek, and printed by John Meinert (Pty) Ltd, Stuebel Street Windhoek. The copyright on all material in this edition, unless otherwise specified, rests with the Free Press of Namibia (Pty) Ltd. THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 18 1987 9 MPLA government recruits

More talks predieted regional·defence forces · LUANDA: Angola and the United States will soon holdfurthertalks on tp.e LUANDA: Angolan Defence Minister, Colonel-General Pedro Maria Thnha, has said that rebels of stalled independence plan fur Namibia and the withdrawal of an estimated 35 000 Cubantroops from Angola, Angolan Foreign Minister Monso Van­ the National Union for the Thtal Independence ofAngola (Unita), were active in almost all ofhis coun­ Dunen told reporters. . try's eighteen provinces, and were crossing into Angola through Zairean Territory. He also said the But Van-Dunen, who last week held talks with United States Assistant Secretary government was recruiting regional. defence forces among local people in the provinces, to help the of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker, did not give a date for the negotia­ regular army in its fight against Unita. tions, saying they could be held within the next 15 days to a month. The right-wing Unita, led by Dr Asked about reports of successIve of­ 'the Angolan state-run news agency, Change of heart Jonas Savimbi, and ba~ked by fensives by government forces against Angop, unidentified military officials South Africa, and recently the Unita during the dry season, Thnha were quoted as saying MPLA troops KING WILLIAMS TOWN: An armed policeman stormed into achurchfilled United States, has waged a guer­ said these reports were usually pro­ captured 30 tons of rebel arms and am­ with mourners for black South African civil rights activist, Steve Biko, but pagated by Unita to obtain more arms munitions in the Cuando Cubango a confrontation was averted when the policeman suddenly knelt down and rilla war against Angola's Marx­ from South Africa and the United town of Cuito Cuanavale "this week." prayed. ist government since Angolan in­ States. The Angop report said ten rebel Witnesses said policeman Popo Blom defied Anglican Church Bishop David dependence from Portugal in "Our troops don't just carry out com­ fighters were captured in the same Russel, who asked him not to bring arms into the church. Blom then startled the 1975. bat activities during the dry season, operation and 20 others killed in mourners when halfway through the service, he went down on his knees and began but all year round:' he stated. praying. HO'I,,,-ever, he added that the Angolan He was joined by other P9licemen, who sang hymns and took Communion with army often had to use guerrilla tactics the mourners who were commemorating the tenth anniversary ofBiko's death. against Unita because the terrain in many parts of the country was not A new and glorious era suitable for armoured vehicles. Thnha said South African air and ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia, c~lebratingthe country's return to civilian rule ground forces had been making fre­ after 13 years of military government, showed offits military might to about quent incursions into ,Angola's 100 000 people packing Revolution Square in the capital Addis Ababa. southern Cunene province, particular­ The parade of heavy Soviet-made arms ended atwo-and-a-halfhour mass march ly in the Xangongo, Mongua and in which about 20 000 men, women and children and about as many members of Cahama areas. the armed forces, goose-stepped through the sqaure to fete the occasion. "We have had heavy battles!' he com­ Military ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam, elected civilian President ofthe newly­ mented. But he said the South African named People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, said the country was entering penetrations stopped short of a special a new and glorious era. line of defence in southern Angola', 'Not for m.e to deeide' where Cuban troops, part of an Jose Eduardo dos Santos Colonel-General Thnha, in an inter- estimated 35 000 strong contingent in fighting from September 9 at Lucala view withforeignjournalists in Luan- Angola, were stationed. ZOMBA: Malawi life President, Kamuzu Banda, denied reports that he in northern Lunda province. da said "They (Unita), are in almost all "The Cubans occupy this ... ' if might name a successor to rule his Central AFrican nation on his death. This report also repeated Angolan the provinces, acting in small groups." fighting reached this point, a confron- charges made last week, that South "The question of who succeeds me when God takes me away is not for me to He identified the main areas of tation would be unavoidable:' Thnha decide," he said to 500 delegates at the annual convention of Malawi's ruling Con­ African forces had crossed the border Unita activity as the nothern frontier said. from neighbouring Namibia to fight gress party. "It is you, the convention, who will decide." with Zaire, the southern provinces of Meanwhile, from Lisbon it was Banda, who has ruled Malawi with an iron hand since independence from Bri­ alongside Unita. Cunene andCuandoCubango, and the reported that both sides in Angola's Unita has charged that the govern­ tain 22 years ago, specifically denied reports in several newspapers recently that central provinces ofHuambo, Bie and civil war claimed they had secured ma- he was grooming his official hostess, Cecilia Kadzimira, to take over power. ment forces targeted on Mavinga in­ Cuanza SuI. jor battlefield victories in heaving clude Cuban support troops and Soviet Can for m.iUtary aid Thnha added that groups of Unita fightingoverthepastweek-especial- military advisors. rebels were also operating on the froIi- ly in the south-eastern province of Last month Dos Santos offered a two­ tier on Angola's northern enclave pro- Cuando Cubango. . MAPUTO: President Joaquim Chissano has appealedtoforeigncountries year phased withdrawal of 20 000 vince ofCabinda, which is sandwich- In separate dispatches, the Popular to provide military aid for his government's fight against guerrillas of the Cuban troops presently stationed in ed between Zaire and Congo, which Movementfor the Liberation ofAngola Mozambique National Resistance. Angola in exchange for a pullout of produces nearly 70 percent of the coun- (MPLA), party government of Presi- South African forces from Namibia. Chissano, in a speech to the National Assembly, said shortages ofmilitary equip­ try's main export oil. . dent Jose Eduardo dos Santos, and ment was a "chronic problem" for government forces. Last week United States negotiators "We have very few doubts that they Unita each indicated their own units met with MPLA leaders in Luanda in Addressing foreign diplomats attending the speech, he said countries which had (U nita), have to pass through Zairean were pressing back the other's forces helped Mozambique combat food shortages should also be willing to provide the latest round of southern African territory ... we have tried to inform our in al} annual government offensive regional peace talks. military aid. if" _ • neighbours and have taken steps to try against the rebels' traditional Chissano said civilians should be more organised to assist more effectively in Western estimates put the total and prevent this:' he said. stronghold. number of Cuban troops in Angola now the war. He said defence plans should be drawn up at workplaces, schools, hospitals He declined to confirm whether and other possible targets of rebel attack. Angola had proof that the United According to two statements issued at 37 000. "Every Mozambican should have a concrete task to carry out:' he said. "We can­ States was using an airbase in in LLisbon by Unita, rebel guerrillas . .M eanwhile, in a separate develop­ not sit and wait for instructions to come from above." southern Zaire at Kamina, from which haa killed 178 government troops,twO' ment , Angop also said eight comman­ Mozambique's Marxist government contends that the rebels are supported and to fly United States arms to Unita in uI}identifiedSovietmilitary advisors, do "frogmen", whom it did not identify, controlled by South Africa as part of an effort to destabilise Mozambique. South south-eastern Angola. . ,and destto)red 17 Soviet-built T-55 partially blew up a strategic bridge Africa has consistently denied any aid to the rebels_ But he said "It is possible that this tanks in fighting from September over the Cuito River in Cuando could be happening ... the Kamina base 10-14 in the towns ofKuzumbbia and Cubango province last month. Britons reJeased could be used to help Unita." Nguenje, and along the bank& of the The Military sources quoted by Thnha said that Zaire had denied -Lomba River, 60km from Mavil}ga, a Angolan State Radio, said that in LUSAKA: Zaire has released three Britons detained a week ago when their that its territory was being used by strategic rebel-held city: operations carried out in "the lastfew boat strayed ~to Zairean waters on Lake Tanganyika, the British High Unita, but added that the·Zairean ·Thel.!nita statement; signed .by d~ys", government troops in Cuando Commission in the Zambian capital of Lusaka said this week. Government had said the Kamina -. :Chief o(Staff General Demostenes - Qubango seized various mines and captured inflatable dingies following Britons, Ian Craven, Michael Angliss putof the East base was being used by the United . AmosChilingutila,s~idtheguerriUas ~e andSNtcklin,il~w the sabotage attack on the Cuito River Zalrean town of Kalemie on Saturday and weFe back with their families in the States to train Zairean forces. surrounded the Angolan army's 47th Bridge, which is a key supply link for Zambian copperbelt town of Ndola, a spokesman said, ' . -. "We have tried to avoid any kind of Brigade at the Lomba battle, cutting the government forces operating The three men were on their way to the Central African state of BUrundi to pick break in our relations with the Zairean off survivors from remaining govern:. against Unita positions in the Mav- ' up a fishing boatfor Zambia's Mpulungu Fisheries, when currents swept them government:' the Angolan minister ment forces in the area. into Kalemie. . said. And in a dispatch monitored here of inga region ofCuando Cubango. Suspeeted arson LUSAKA: The Zambian authorities suspect that a fire at the future head­ quarters ofthe country's ruling party on Monday night, was the result of Sanctions 'counter-productive' -US arson, the Secretary of State for Defence and Security, Alex Shapi saidthis week. WASHINGTON: The United States State Department said this Rehabilitation Commission and "There is no headway in the investigations to determine the cause of the fire, week on Tuesday that it opposed a bill urging sanctions against private voluntary groups to assess the but we suspect arson:' he told reporters. Ethiopia's Marxist Government for excessive human rights outlook. Shapi declined to estimate the value ofthe damage to the 14-storey building, violations. - . "We cannot yet estimate the full but said it was not as extensive as the authorities had initially feared. response which may be required:' he A Chinese construction company has been building the complex in central "Sanctions have rarely achieved rights violators on the African told the hearings, held by three house , Lusaka for the ruling United National Independence Party (Unip), since 1985, their purpose," Robert Gribbin, Depu­ continent." Foreign Affairs sub-committees; and had planned..to complete it by 1990. ty Director of the Office of East African Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had Human Rights, Africa and Interna­ Affairs, told a Congressional hearing. been ruling by decree as Chairman of tional EconOlnic Policy and Trade. Barraeks town hom.hed A written statement said the propos- a military administra~ion since 1977, In Rome, the United Nations Food KAMPALA: An unidentified warPlane bombed a barracks town in western , ed banning of coffee imports, prohibi­ was sworn in last Thursday as presi­ and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Uganda near the border with Zaire last week, but it was not known ifthere tion ofloans and revoking of Ethiopia's dent of a newly-created People's said in a report released on Tuesday were any casualties, Focus newspaper reported. "most favoured nation" trade status, Democratic Republic. that Ethiopia would face critical food would be "counter-productive." Ethiopia received about one million shortages by the end ofthis year unless The bombs fell near the N yakigumba army outpost on the outskirts ofFort Por­ tons offood from the west in 1985, in urgent measures were taken to deliver tal, a mountain town about 300km west of Kampala, and it was not known who It said the United States needed ac­ the biggest relief operation of its kind, additional supplies. was responsible for the attack. cess to existing resettlement camps to but is again facing famine after light . Millicent Fenwick, former United For Portal is about 25km east of Uganda's border with Zaire. Fighting between monitor developments, but "Ethio­ summer rains. States envoy for FAO, told the panel she government troops and rebels opposed to Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko, pian backlash from a sanctions bill Crops have failed almost complete­ backed continued humanitarian aid has forced anestimated 3 000 Zairean refugees across the border into Uganda. could destroy this access." ly in the far north and south, and the for Ethiopia, but wanted it to be given In this case, we would also lose our situation is aggravated by government to people who were free to come and go Kenya in hot water ability to keep track of any other ideology and policy, Schifter said. from feeding centres, not forced into NAIROBI: Kenya, troubled by falling prices forits DUrin exports of coffee groups or areas of special concern to us The United States Agency for Inter­ resettlement camps. and tea, and rising prices for oil imports, was expected to seek increased in Ethiopia:' it said. national lJevelopment (Usaid), has She accused the government of ex­ economic aid from Western nations at a Donors Meeting.' The State Department said it be lip", already provided 20 000 tons of ploiting the "charitable instincts of the ed there was "no chance" that any of emergency relieffood and 22 000 tons world in general and the United States Government documents circulated to donors ahead ofthe.one-day talks this week, the bill's objectives would be achieved of pre,programmed humanitarian aid, in particular." showed a growing need for external support ofthe economy. A North American Aid official, referring to the slump in the coffee and tea prices, and the rising oil by the proposed sanctions. he said. Ethiopia, one of the world's poorest Assistant United States Secretary of bill, said "According to the. World Bank, they are hitting A balance ofpaynients He added that United States countries, has asked Western donor na­ gap about 12 months earlier than antiCipated." . State for Human Rights, Ri.chard agricultural experts had just com­ tions for about one million tons offood; pleted a field study of crop prospects The deficit is forecast at 3,9 per cent of gross domestic product in the current' Shifter, testified that Ethiopia's only slightly less aid than the West and a mission in Addis Ababa was 1987/88 financial year, 3,4 per cent in 1988/89 and 3,2 per cent in 1989/90. Soviet-backed government was delivered in 1985,. the largest food "among the most egregious human working with the Ethiopian Relief and relief operation in history. . ______~ ______~ __~ ______~ __~~~~--~ __~ ______~~ --~~--__~ __~=_~--~2 __ __-.p~-.~~. ~_A~_~~~~,_~ ______~

September-18 1987 THE NAMIBIAN p Pienaar on 'abusing by Gwen Lister PERSPECTIVE labour relations for OMINOUS quiet characterises politieal gain' the interim government at pre­ sent. This is probably due to a THE Administrator General, .Mr "Just looking at the complaints rais­ to free criminally convicted prisoners Louis Pienaar, in addressing the ed on behalf of the strikers in the with a political tag and to impose sanc­ variety of reasons: in the first Tsumeb Show, referred to what he· Supreme Court, it is my respectful tions on the RSA" . place, they're trying to .escape called labour unrest and said that assessment that none of those com­ He added that the decision of the in­ the reality of having to agree to he was pleased that the "disrup­ plaints were so urgent that it could not terim government to appoint a com­ ethnic or regional elections, and tion" at Tsumeb Corporation have abided the process of negotiation mission of inquiry into labour legisla-. are postponing the 'moment of Limited had subsided and that and the ruling of a Conciliation tion was to be commended. It was in­ reckoning' in this regard; and matters were returning to normal. _ Board". cumbent on "all of us to assist by sub­ secondly, they're in all probabili­ missions on the improvements to the He said he had to "congratulate present legislation". ty feeling somewhat embarrass­ those who were saddled with the try­ . The commission, to be chaired by ed about their very confused ing task of managing the strike and Professor Nic Wiehahn, should give at­ stand as far as human rights specially that they took recourse tothe tention to the following matters, Mr issues are concerned. There's protection ofthe civil law instead ofbe­ Pienaar said: certainly very little going for ingprovoked to use the sledgehammer o internal work committees that them at the present time. of the police power ofthe state". could give rise to participation in "Iknowthatyourpatience was sore­ management accordingtothe German AG 8 - A CONVENIENT EXCUSE lytested and your indignation roused system; by reports of violence and intimidation o strengthening internal workers THE INTERIM government Cabinet, which has yet finally to answer perpetrated against unwilling representation to avoid over­ to Mr P W Botha's demand for ethnic or regional elections to elect strikers. One cannot condemn these dependence on external politicised 'leaders' in Namibia, is trying to postpone the moment of reckon­ .acts strongly enough. In the name of trade unions; ing by saying they're first waiting for a court decision on the ques- collective action, in the name ofprotec­ o establishing a special labour court; tion of AG 8. . ting the rank and file, people are sub­ o extending the criminal sanctions jected to degrading, inhuman treat­ against illegal strikes by exposing the As far as I am concerned, they're playing for time. It seems quite ment by politically-inspired persons evident, to even the most conservative political observer, that AG offending trade unions or strike who have the arrogance oftaking the leaders to civil claims for damages; 8 is highly discriminatory in character - both as far as the separa­ law into their own hands". o extending the law on unfair prac­ tion of ethnic groups are concerned; as well as because the system Mr Pienaar accused the strike tices to expose likewise persons or represents an unequal distribution of finances to the authorities in organisations interfering in . question. leaders of "aiming at provokingviolent confrontatIon". Otherwise, he said, employer/employee relations to civil claims for damages; Already some time ago, a Select Committee of the National they would have made use of conflict Mr Louis Pienaar Assembly determined that AG 8 was in conflict with the Bill of Fun­ management provisions in Ordinance o declaring sympathy strikes illegal. damental Rights, but apparently the interim government chooses 28 of 1953. Mr Pienaar said that l,lnfortunately not to believe its own standing committees, appointed by itself, and In terms of Section 33 any dispute the practice of abusing labour rela­ consisting of its own members. could have been referred to a Concilia­ tions to achieve political ends was a Socalled reporters I am quite certain that the interim government parties, whatever tion Board at the request of the parties world phenomenon. "Thus in the case their stance has been up until now, will eventually agree to the without resorting to work stoppage, of SA work stoppage is being exhorted may be police I holding of ethnic elections, or regional elections as some choose to ~ call them. so be on guard :: AG APPOINTS A NEW STAFF at the Onandjokwe Lutheran AN EVEN MORE DISTURBING TENDENCY Hospital in northern Namibia were ap­ BUT WHAT is more disturbing than the probable agreement of the proached in late July by two women, Cabinet to such elections (because they could not afford not to con­ LABOUR COMMISSION the one posing as a 'freelance jour­ A COMMISSION of Inquiry into existing machinery for the preven­ nalist' from Cape 'lbwn, who gave her test them) is the attitude of other parties, parties which until now, address as POBox 703 Windhoek. have remained outside the interim government laager. Labour Matters in Namibia was of­ tion and settlement of disputes which ficially announced this week. Pro­ changing needs may require; the The 6ne woman, described as under As yet, final decisions on the part of many parties, concerning par­ 30 with dark hair, and who gave her c1amation(AG32ofl987) by the Ad­ elimination of bottle-necks and other name as 'Cinthia Burgh' (undoubted­ ticipation in such envisaged ethnic elections, have not been taken, ministrator General is the relevant problems which are at present being mainly because they have not been informed officially, and also proclamation and Government experienced in the sphere of labour; ly .a false name) claimed that Gwen because the elections have not yet been set down for a specific date. Notice (AG 1 of 1987) provides the and methods and means by which a Lister of The Namibian had referred But there is no doubt that certain parties are 'waiting in the wings' terms of reference of the Commis-. foundation for the creation and ex­ her to the hospital. and several are believed to be 'interested', some of them using dif­ sion ofInquiry. pansion of sound labour relations She wanted to know about the disap­ may be laid for the future Namibia. pearance of a man nam,ed Shikongo. ferent j\lstifications for partiCipation in ethnic elections to which they The, Commission, chaired by Pro­ The Namibian had'reported shortly are reportedly opposed. . fessor Nic Wiehahn, is as follows: Mr The press release by the Chairman before that Shikongo, who was being Some of the stances are somewhat ambivalent: 'we don't in prin­ C V Kauraisa; Mr GJ C Kirsten; Mr F treated at Onandjokwe, had been pull­ UMuundjua; Mr HPSchoeman; Mr J said that the Commission "has a most ciple support the holding of ethnic elections, but will participate significant and exceedingly wide­ ed from his hospital bed by 'Koevoet', because this will show the interim government's lack of support'; CBSchoeman;MrDFSmuts;MrJW and police later confirmed they were F van Rooyen; and Mr A F Yon. ranging rask, which has far-reaching and 'parties already in power on the second-tier level, and which The CommisSion has been directed implications for the future pattern of detaming him. A hospital spokesman has asked the are in opposition to the interim government, cannot afford to lose to inquire into and to report and make labour relations in Namibia". woman why she did not approach their power-base'; and 'we can use the elections to call for support recommendations on all aspects con­ Persons and organisations which Gwen Lister for the facts concerning for Resolution 435' (!); 'if we win a second-tier election, we can scrap ceming labour matters in Namibia. had a contribution or suggestions per­ Shikongo's disappearance, but the the second tier government, as would be our right'. . Special attention would be given to the taining to the labour situation were in­ woman replied that Lister 'wasn't very These are but some of the arguments of groups which consider Wage and Industrial Conciliation Or· vited to submit memoranda to the dinance of 1952; the Apprenticeship Secretary, Commission ofInquiry in­ friendly to her'. themselves 'anti-ethnicity' and yet are-prepared to participate even toLabourMatters,POBox23132Win­ The Onandjokwe spokesman said at the risk of giving such elections some form of credibility in the Ordinance 1938; the National Labour dhoek9000;oratRoomlO, Turnhalle she had then.become suspicious, and eyes of the international community. Council Act 1986, and others. Building, BahnhofStreet, Windhoek. the woman had also asked her the Important features of the Commis­ Inquiries can be directed to Mr A J names of the staff who were on duty PERPETUATING AN UNJUST SYSTEM sion's terms ofreference include the ad­ Kotze, at tel: 3982018. Dates and when Shikongo had been removed by justment of the existing system for the venues at which oral evidence will be police. She had also questioned BUT THEm participation will amount to their support in regulation of labour relations in heard will be announced in due course, hospital staff about cooperation with perpetuating an unjust system in terms of AG 8. Their participa­ Namibia with the object of making it but the first meeting of the Commis­ The Namibian newspaper. tion will give -a measure of credibility to Mr Botha's insistence on provide more effectively for the needs sion would be provisionally held on When the spokesman would not help minority rights. Their participation will also serve to entrench the of changing times; the adjustment of September 30. . her with her queries, the woman ethnic system, which would be far more difficult to disband, once became aggressive, saying that the other parties have tasted the 'power of the second tier'. Coneern ahout AG 9 detainees staff were unhelpful. She and her col­ Given the interim government's dismal record in several areas, league had beaten a hasty retreat CONCERN HAS been expressed involved. when the hospital spokesman was go­ including human rights; the retention of AG 8; tJ;1e continuation of ing to make a telephone call to try and apartheid and discrimination in Namibia; and what amounts to a about the fate of two residents of It is believed they are being held at Rundu, Mr Nimrod Muremi and the Mururani checkpoint between . verify the identity of the woman. sanction of what is happening in the far north of Namibia; the par­ Mr Abby Kavara, who have been We can assure the hospital ties outside the interim government would be giving some credibility Grootfontein district and the Kavango. detained in terms ofProc1amation One of the reasons for the concern is authorities at Onandjokwe that at no to a system which would otherwise receive no mandate. AG 9. that Mr Kavarais believed to be ill, and stage did Lister refer such a person to them, and neither has she any If all opposition parties were to call for a boycott of the envisaged Friends of the two. men allege that doubts have been raised as to whether knowledge of such a person. We also ethnic elections; this would leave interim government parties in they were arrested as a result of Mururani, which is said to be 1m ex­ solitary splendour; and would render Mr Botha's idea as laughable rumours to the effect that they were tremely unpleasant place, is a suitable call on people in the north, who are ap­ in the eyes of the international community and the country as a organising a strike among govern­ location for him to be detained. . proached by people claiming they were ment workers in Rundu. Mr Kavara who is a businessman in referred to them by The Namibian or whole. its staff, to contact us telephonically (at To encourage people to vote in such elections is to give credence A third person who was also im­ Rundu, was arrested on August 21 , plicated in the rumours, managed to while Mr Muremi who worked for the Windhoek 36970/112) before speaking to the system in terms of which such elections are held. to such people who could possibly be avoid arrest after apparently having Department of Forestry was detained The interim government has no credibility: of this even the South police posing as reporters. convinced the police that he was not on August 25. African Government is well aware. The demand to hold ethnic elecc tions is Mr Botha's 'back-door' to boot out the present interim govern­ f:.::ittIVIf'U KAAi..IMO YOMU NORTHERN NAMIBIA: ment. Are these other parties really keen to take the places of the present rulers without mandate? Are they prepared to be part of Ngele wa endelwa komuntu tati ye omushangi woshito sho Nami another internal settlement attempt on the part of the South African Government, which will not give up this idea and instead implement bian, nenge tati oshito shoka osho she mutumu eku popite, alikana 435, for as long as other parties continue to play their game. dengela 0 Namibian ko 36970 opo u mone uuyelele. Opuna ovantu Namibian parties should think more carefully before hastily deciding to participate for whatever reasons of their own, and no va piyaana tava longo iilonga yakaka, nde ta vati ohava longele 0 matter how commendable they may sound. Namibian. Ina popya novanhu va tja ngaho nande. - Gwen Lister. THE NAMIBIAN SWAPO CHALLENGE TO SA TO 'SHOW COlJRAGE' Pontius Pilate and the Cabinet SWAPO has challenged the South African Government to show its still trying to impose on the Namibian LAST Friday the Supreme Court ordered the' Cabinet to release four courage and political will to sign a ceasefire with Swapo "as the first people "jts evil scheme of a puppet con­ Swapo leaders detained without trial for a month in terms of Section step in triggering the process of implementing Resolution 435". This . federationofbantustans which will en­ 6 of the Terrorism Act. This is just one more of a series of Court ap­ was announced in a .declaration released in Luanda this week. sure that Namibia becomes a South plications seeking protection by the Court of fundamental rights which African neo-colo"ny". the Cabinet has seen fit to oppose - and has lost, Katofa, Akweenda, The declaration condemned the Swapo sa,id thaUnstead of South The declaration stated that in even the application by this newspaper last year; each testi~ony to South African Government for its cur­ Africa initiating a genuine process of rent "manoeuvering to impose a Pogtl$ perpetuating its widely condemned il­ the role of the court as watchdog and not a lap-dog, to borrow the decolonisation, leading to the in­ legal

12 Friday September 18 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

I . BISHOP TUTU pictured while on a visit to the war-torn north. Above, he is seen with Bishop James Kauluma inspecting the bombed buildings of St Mary's at Odibo; on the left he is pictured with his press officer, John Allen Oeft) and Mr Matt Esau, his private secretary (centre); bottom left, with Bishop Kleopas Dumeni of ELCIN at St Thomas Church, Oshakati; and below, with Bishops Dumeni and Kauluma at Oshakati.

Pictures by John Liebenberg THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 18 1987 13 TUTU IN NORTH Impressed by the commitment of Christians allover Namibia

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu left in the far north. crowded into StMary's -situated in an health, education, water supplies, tar­ eight of every 10 Namibians. They said Windhoek on Monday night after a "It is very sad to see that most local area which has in the past seen heavy red roads and other development". . Swapo is not a communist organisa­ week-long visit to different areas of people are afraid not of Swapo but of fighting -was incredible. I was deeply Saying he was impressed by· the tion but a nationalist body which is Namibia, including the war-torn the security forces, especially the unit distressed to see the derelict hospital quality ofleadership in the churches, supported by most Christians. I was north. A few hours before his they still call Koevoet". and high school at St Mary's, as well with special reference to Bishop told that Swapo has clergymen departure, he held a press con­ "People told us that they want these as the seminary and other buildings Kauluma,. Archbishop 'futu added ministering to those in its camps out­ ference in Windhoek, where he forces out ofthe north, that they want which have been destroyed by war. God that there was a tremendous sense of side the country. The leaders said there supported the call by the Council South Africa out ofNamibia , and that must weep to see his children misus­ un.ity among the churches in the face were some communists in Swapo, but of Churches in Namibia (CCN) for they want free and fair elections on the ing the resources he has given them, of oppression, suffering and danger". that the communist tag that it has the implementation of Security basis of UN Security Council Resolu­ and spending such enormous amounts He added tghat "the Christian been given is simply a South African Council Resolution 435. tion 435", the Archbishop added. of money on sophisticated instruments leaders of Namibia told me that they Government smear. One leader said The Archbishop ofCape Thwn said he "The faithfulness ofthe people who of death and destruction instead of on believe Swapo has the support of about that Swapo has accepted help from the had received a warm welcome eastern bloc because Christians would wherever he went in Namibia while on not help -it is like the stategic alliance his his Archiepiscopal visit em the in- betweJln the Western allies and the . vitation of Bishop James Kauluma. Soviet Union in World War II". Archbishop 'futu said he had travell­ He added that church leaders ed from Oranjemund in the far south wanted implementation of Resolution to Odibo on the Angolan border in the 435, the withdrawal of South Africa north, as well as to areas such as and the holding of free and fair Liideritz, Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, elections. Oshakati, Oniipa, Tsumeb and Win­ dhoek. Nearly all the churches were "On the 21st anniversary ofthe war packed to capacity for the services even -a very sad anniversary -and on behalf in small towns where clergymen of the Anglican Church in southern feared that black members of the Africa, !support that call", Archbishop church would be too worried about the Tutu said. "Let people throughout repercussions with their white southern Africa mark next year -the employers to attend church. 10th anniversary of Resolution 435 -by "The only small flies in the ointment celebrating independence and were the harassment of our priest at . freedom in Namibia". Walvis Bay -which appeared to be link­ In conclusion he asked the sup­ ed directly to my visit; some unwar­ porters of SA Government policies in . ranted security police interest; and the Namibia: "Why should you want to be desecration of a church. The desecra­ where you are not wanted by the ma­ tion of St Boniface Church, Swakop­ jority of the population? You have not mund, was carried out by people who won the hearts of the people. Why be ·obviously know what they seek to de­ regarded, like Hitler in Europe half a fend is indefensible -for who else would century ago, as a feared foreign op­ have to skulk round at night, operating pressor, occupying another country by only under cover of darkness?" he force of arms?" asked. . Saying he had been deeply impress­ "Namibia will be free. It will be in­ ed by the commitment of the Chris­ dependent. Those who are obstructing tians all over Namibia, Archbishop the process should know they have 'futu said this was particularly evident already lost". t t 'Namibia will be free. 'People told us they It will be independent. want these forces out Those obstructing the of the north and they process should know want South Africa out that they have already of N ainibia, and they lost', Archbishop says. want free elections'. t t t t t t ARCHBISHOP Tutu, in typical pose, at St Thomas in Oshakati. Speaking to paeked ehurehes throughou·t the far north -- "NOT TOO many people from ou~ ly Eucharist service last Saturday chbishop Tutu at Oniipa, the head­ military build-up in terms of per­ world? We have been telling evil side NaMibia have the courage to which was attended by close on quarters of the Evangelical sonnel and armaments caused governments like South Afiica that enter this region known as the 1000 people. Lutheran Church in death and suffering of innocent there is no way evil can overcome operational area, where war has For many years, St Mary's at Namibia(ELCIN). people on a daily basis. The desired the Kingdom of God:' Archbishop been waged for many years. We are Odibo has been a highly active During the service, Bishop Resolution 435 had not yet beenim­ Tutu said. proud to list Archbishop Desmond center of the Anglican Church. At Kleopas Dumeni congratulated plemented, while people were On Sunday morning, an Tutu among the braveonestocome one stage it was the only English Archbishop Tutu on his election to longing for peace, freedom and ecumenical service was held at the and visit us here," said the head of medium school for blacks. The the post of President of the All justice. Anglican cathedral in the center of­ the Evangelical Lutheran Church center also housed a sophisticated Africa Council of Churches Oshakati. Attended by about 1,500 in Namibia (ELCIN), Bishop hospital and a pastoral center. (AACC), and also for his appoin~ In return, Archbishop Tutu com­ people, the service was conducted Kleopas Dumeni. . Some years ago, the mission was ment as the Anglican Archbishop mended the leadership qualities of by Archbishop Tutu with the aid of Bishop Dumeni was speaking in attacked and destroyed, allegedly of Southern Africa. Bishops Kauluma and Dumeni, in Bishops Kauluma and Dumeni. a welcoming address to Ar­ by the South African Defence a war situation which was chbishop Tutu, who was accom­ Force. The Archbishop said aftet: In giving a brief of the current ecalating day by day. He said that During the service, Archbishop panied by Bishop James Kauluma his visit of the destroyed buildings situation in Namibia, Bishop he was impressed bythe strongwill Tutu expressed his admiration for ofthe Namibian Diocese, and who that God must weep to see his Dumeni said that no change has of the Namibian people to attain the unity shown by the churches in visited various places in northern children using huge amounts of been made during the past years, . independence. Namibia, in particular by ELCIN Namibia. He went to the destroyed money to destroy valuable services and that the people's ~spirations and the Anglican Church. He said Anglican mission of St Mary's at like that. were being destroyed by "What chance has Botha against that unity was one ofthe strongest Odibo, near the Angolan border. On Saturday afternoon, a special frustration. the strong will shown by the people weapons to fight evil forces like There, Archbishop Tutuheldaho- service was held in honour of Ar- Bishop Dumeni also said that the of Namibia and also by the whole Apartheid. ""

14 Friday September 18 1987 THE NAMIBIAN DISTORI(! SE(!TION 6 RELEASE THE SIX Terrorism Act detainees were released by a Supreme committed under the 'Thrrorism Act". tivities and objects ofS.\Vapo, and the. and that the detainee is withholding Court order which will go down in history as the first of its In one letter, the country-wide connection of each of the detainees information with regard thereto from strikes are also mentioned, and in the the police. . ' in with that organisation to explain why kind ever to be made Namibia. The unprecedented ruling, other the recent bomb blast at the he believes that each ofthe detainees "On considering the Colonel's af­ made on Friday by Judge Kenneth Bethune, shocked the right­ Gustav Voights centre in Windhoek. 'is in possession of knowledge concer­ fidavit as a whole, it appears that the wing but received praise from every other quarter -locally and In his affidavit, Colonel Badenhorst ning the illegal acts performed in main reason for the arrests and deten­ internationally. ,. gives details ofhis knowledge of the ac- South West Africa by the organisation, . tions was that he believed that the de­ -The Judge postponed until Monday tainees had information concerning to give his reasons for the-decision. various crimes, which information During the course of his address this they Were withholding from the police, but he does not say that he ever ques­ . week, Judge Bethu~ne ppintedout that many ofthe provisionsefthe'Thnprism ,.. , tioned any ofthem before their arrests, Act were in "clear coriflict" with the or even that he believed that they were Bill of Fundamental Rights. questioned by the police before such ar­ rests:' said Judge Bethune. "Under th~circmx'lst8nces, o~e is fill­ ed with dismay that our Legislative He added that, on the "undisputed Assembly has still not made useofit's allegations" concerning the arrest of powers under Proclamation R101 of Mr Ben Ulenga, it was "very unlikely 1985 to repeal or amend the Terrorism that this detainee was questioned' Act ," said the Judge. before his arrest". Attacking the Terronsm Act, Judge "Under the circumstances I am not Bethune said: "It is incomprehensible satisfied that the (Cabinet) or the Col­ that citizens of South West Afl'ica onel has proved on a balance of pro­ should still be subject to the draconian babilities that Colonel Badenhorst provisions of a South African Act of had, before the arrest ofthe detainees, Parliament which was repealed in reasonable grounds for believing that South Africa fifteen years ago, and they were withholding the alleged in­ which is moreover in conflict with our formation from the police;' Bill of Rights." He stressed that Section 6 ofthe Ter­ He said that the Supreme Court had rorism Act required the Colonel to in the past refrained from adopting the believe that the person being arrested procedure of American Courts of was withholding the information. "striking down" legislation which con­ flicts with fundamental constitutional Judge Bethune said that neither the rights: co'mmon law nor the Terrorism Act "We have done so because the Court compelled a person who had know ledge of an offence to report such hoped, and indeed expected, that the a crime to the prosecuting authorities. National Assembly would itselftake the necessary steps to repeal or amend "Itfollows that without at least caus­ such laws, but the time might come ingthe detainees to be questioned, Col­ when the Supreme Court of South onel Badenhorst could not reasonably West Arica has to reconsider it's at­ have believed that they were titude in this regard." • • withholding the alleged information "" ,.. from the police;' He said the question to decide in this ~ te Ie.. i'4rt case had been whether the actions of "Under the circumstances, the ar­ Colonel Gerrit Badenhorst were in rests of the detainees were not strict­ strict compliance with the provisions ':1.:.' ~,' ly in accordance with the provisions of of Section 6. ft. l . • t.' Section 6(1) of the Act. For these j. . reasons I ordered that the detainees be Colonel Badenhorst was the police • released." officer who ordered the arrests and .' ~.'.. The Cabinet of the interim govern­ detention of the six men. ... I • ..• • •• . The judge then deals briefly with the ment was ordered to pay the costs of the II • • • II facts surrounding the matter. ', , application. " . ... Counsel for the applicants was Mr On August 28, 1987, the Deputy \. .. Jeremy Gauntlett instructed by Mr Government Attorney wrote two let­ ( ' . ters in which he informed the ap­ . ." Hartmut Ruppel of the law firm ' plicants' attorneys that the .' . . .. Lorentz and Bone. ! . • ". Appearing for the State was Mr JH "reasonable grounds" for the arrest ..' • ~ :j: ~ -- Combrinck SC and Mr JJ Swanepoel, and detention of the detainees were TRIUMPHANT after the ruling of the Supreme Court that the Section Six detainees be freed. - on the left Mrs that they were "withholdinginforma­ instructed by the Government At­ Paulina Witbooi, wife of the Swapo Vice President; and on the right, Mrs Gaby Lubowski, wife of trade unionist torney, Mr Chris Brandt. tion from the police relating to offences Anton Lubowski.

ADMINISTRATION FOR OWAMBOS Detainees freed to

ADMINISTRATION FOR OWAMBOS TENDER AVO 157187-88~ rousing cheers and SALE OF NCR 8250 COMPUTER Tenders are invited from interested buyers for the purchase of the abovementioned computer. Tender documents at a non-refundable fee of R5,00 are available from: welcome on Friday The Secretary, Owambo Tender Board, Private Bag 2032, Ondangwa, tel: (06762) 1 x 189 SIX SWAPO leaders and trade BY RAJAH MUNAMAVA behind you, then the truth is on your ' unionists were freed last Friday side." Telex 3534WK {Mrs vd Merwe~ afternoon to rousing cheers and a By 18hOO, the detainees had still not It was not only a day of happy reu­ Sealed envelopes clearly marked with the tender number, name of . colourful welcome from several arrived and an obviously worried Mrs nion for the families and relatives of tenderer and closing date must also be directed to the Secretary at the hundred well-wishers, supporters Hermine Bessinger unsuccessfully the Swapo detainees, but also for the abovementioned address. and members of Swapo. tried to contact the security police by workers who saw their leaders, John The computer can be inspected at NCR, Windhoek (Mr Bretschneider). The crowd, dressed mainly in the telephone. Pandeni and Ben Ulenga, back once blue, red and green colours ofSwapo, again. -Closing date: October 7-1987 at 11hOO. At exactly 18h20, a white security" ,.- waited at the home of Joint ForeignAf­ police car pulled up. Sitting on the back The two former Robben Islanders ap­ fairs Secretary Mr Nico Bessinger, who seat were Nico Bessinger, John peared in good spirits. Vice President was one of those detained under Sec­ Pandeni and Ben Ulenga. Hendrik Witbooi and trade union tion 6 of the Terrorism Act last month. The crowd surged forward and leader Asser Kapere, who were releas­ ADMINISTRATION FOR OWAMBOS Displaying a poster marking thronged around the car waiting to em­ ed with the rest, were transported back Swapo's 21st anniversary ofthe arm­ brace the three men. It was a moment to their respective homes in Gibeon ADMINISTRATION FOR OWAMBOS ed struggle, Swapo Youth League of great joy and emotion as everyone and Arandis. Dan 'lJongarero and An­ members performed the thrilling and scrambled for the three detainees to ton Lubowski, who were in hospital at TENDER AVO 35188-93_J famous wi wi -dance while singing greet them. the time ofthe court order, were told of Tenders are invited for the supply of household gasin bulk for the period freedom songs. When the bearded Mr Bessinger their release and were discharged from Initially about 50 youths gathered hospital at the weekend. 1/4/88 to 3113/93. I stepped out ofthe police car, he raised before the offices of the law firm a clenched fist in the black power The detainees were held incom­ Tender documents at a non-rflfundable fee of R5,00 are available from: Lorentz and Bone in Windhoek's main salute and roared "AI uta". The en­ municado at the Osire base and never The Secretary, Owambo Tender Board, street, after word had spread that the thusiast crowd responded with a saw nor spoke to each other until the Private Bag 2032, Swapo leaders would be handed over thunderous "continua!"~ day of their release. Ondangwa, tel: (06762) 1 x 189 to the lawyers who had acted in the One woman broke down in tears as The Namibian Woman's Voice held Telex 3534WK (Mrs vd Merwe) urgent application for their release. she clung to Mr Bessinger's shoulders a service last Sunday to pray for the de­ When the detainees failed to show -overcome with relief and happiness. tainees, the dismissed TCL workers ~ealed envelopes clearly marked with the tender number, name of up, the people proceeded to the home Mr Bessinger then thanked the and for peace and freedom inNamibia. tenderer and closing date must also be directed to the Secretary at the ofMr Bessinger in Khoniasdal, where Swapo members in a short address. The service described the system of abovementioned address. they stood outside 'singing freedom "We had no doubt in our minds while apartheid as a sin, and that its moral Closing date: October 7 1987 at 11hOO. songs and chanting slogans in praise in detention that the entire nation was and theological justifications were a of their leaders and comrades. behin,d us ... and when a nation is travesty and heresy of the gospel. ______~ ______~ ______~----.------~s------~.,-~-~.~--.~?6~--~>~~ __ ~_. ____ ~~------~~--~----~.. ~----~------~~~--____,

THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 18 1987 15 CABINET WANTS TO APPEAL THE INTERIM government Cabinet issued the following press release this week: "The Cabinet, after considering the judgement of the Supreme Court in the application made to the court for the release of the six detainees in terms of Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, has. decided to apply for leave to appeal. . "Pending the final result of the application and the judgement of the court of appeal, if leave is granted, the Cabinet shall abide by the judgement as it stands".

-Ecumenical Youth Conference

Venue: OTJIMBINGWE Date: Sept 28 - Oct 4 1987

The OtJimbwe youth invite the Western region and all Namibian youth for an ecumenical youth conference.

All students and interested members of the community are welcome to attend.

For further information phone before September 23, SWAPO supporters welcome the release of Section Six detainees last Friday. In the centre, Mr Dan Tjongarero. 1987: 3531 (Office hours) SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 3513 (After hours) for: A Boois G Gurirab Pula Vilander 'T e wors .as ect of al ' J Frederick SWAPO's J oint Secretary for hospitalized several days after his ar- - Foreign Affairs was sitting inside a BY MARK VERBAAN rest. Mr Anton Lubowski was also ad­ Otjimbingwe Youth, cramped corrugated.iron cell last His release late on Friday afternoon mitted to the Windhoek State Hospital Private Bag 1005 Friday mentally preparing himself came as an unexpected and welcome on the day the application for their forDO days of incarceration and in· surprise. _ release was being heard. Karibib terrogation when a court order for Four of the six detained Swapo The four who remained at Osire for 9000 his release came throu gh. leaders and trade unionists were the entire duration were Mr Bessinger, The Swapo official, Mr Nico Bess­ released from similar iron hokke at Mr John Pandeni, Mr Ben IDengaand inger, said in Windhoek this week that Osire - .a security police 'detainee Pastor Hendrik Witbooi. At the security base the men were he had psychologically prepared holding-tank' roughly 200 kilometres placed in separate corrugated-iron himself for at least three months north of Windhoek. cells out in the open. detention, possibly followed by a five All six were originally detained at year jail sentence. Osire, but Mr Dan 'lJongarero was The only 'furniture' tliey had were thin horsehair mattresses and several coarse blankets. B·JA Y Motor, Spa'res Mr Lubowski described the heat in-. side the hokke during the day as in- .* tense and severe. . and Accessories All were 9uestioned about various speeches they had made during the past few years. Both Mr Bessinger and Mr Lubowski agreed t~at the worst aspect oftheir detention had been the solitary confinement. . "It is terrible not knowing what is go­ ing on in the outside world -expecting each moment to be released. You have no idea ofthe time and the days and nights feel like weeks:' said Mr Lubowski. Sources said that Mr Pandeni and Mr Ulenga were, of the six, the least af­ fected by the period of incarceration. Both men were guerrillas with the People's Liberation Army ofNamibia, and have spent time on Robben Island after being convicted under the very same Terrorism Act. All the detainees lost considerable LEFT, Mr John Pandeni, pictured after the three·week ordeal in SOlitary amounts of weight during their confement, who was given a rousing welcome. Picture by Rajah detention. Don't believe it's not available, Munamava. We will try our best to obtain it if we cannot supply it. We are keen to dobusin .e~s . .- Army confir.ms another death Our prices are very, very competitive. Our service is excellent. - Try us - you will like us. after curfew in north Rememberwe sell parts for all vehicles from 1939 onwards. SWA Territory Force Head· escaped with wounds. quarter of the year in order to in­ Try us for T.R.w. American parts - performance ~ quarters reported on Monday A school was badly damaged in an timidate civilians. that a civilian was killed and act of sabotage in the early hours of These acts were being carried out by Saturday morning at Etayi, about a small group because the majority of one man injured in a shooting 16km south-east ofOkalongo. guerrillas had retreated deep into Contact: incident outside the On· Two of the school's six classrooms Angola for "socalled retraining:' Ben Kanga - all parts Tel: (061) 215426 dangwa airbase on Friday 11 were left in ruins. About five kilograms The Territory Force said that earlier Paulus - Tyres and rims Tel: (061) 215426 September, after they had of explosi ves was apparently used. this year several schools in the violated the curfew. . An army patrol in the vicinity heard Ovambo-speaking region ofthe coun­ Hedwich - Accessories Tel: (061) 215426 the explosion at about 04h30 and at try were destroyed by Swapo. Tsumeb: GS Karuuombe Tel: (0671) 2309 The incident occured after daybreak set out to investigate. As far as the Thrritory Force could see Oshakati: C Nunes Tel: (06752) 479 suspicious movements were noticed However, thetracksofthoserespon­ this was an intentional attempt to Ondangwa: K Kalangula Tel: (067652) 1 near the perimeter fence of the base. sible could not be found but investiga­ destroy the educational system in the Otjiwarongo: E Katjatenja Tel: (0651) 2080 . The usual warning procedures were tions are continuing. region so that hundreds of school followed after which the suspects at­ According to the news release, it was children would then beJorced to stay Gobabis: U Karuuombe Tel: (0681) 2645 tempted to nee. They were shot at . the Territory Force's opinion that this at home where they would become The name of the deceased is Mr P was typical of the terror and sabotage easier targets for Swapo's recruitment A THOUSAND PARTS Ayhonja, while Mr Sakaria Davis campaign waged by Swapo in the last drive. ____FOR A MILLION CARS.---- 16 Friday September 18 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

Ioep replies to Mo I REFER to the reply by Mr Kat­ jiuongua to my previous letter and wish to reply thereto as follows: It is unfortunate that as soon as government officials feel attacked, they become personal. I certainly do not intend to do so. As the letter published was obviously not drafted in its entirety by Mr Katjiuongua, I do not blame him for this, and trust that a discussions shall be able to be held on a general and not personal level. I wish to reiterate that I was inform­ ed'onAugust 241987 that the Cabinet would not consider appointiIlg a Con­ I would like to remind those people in the Koe; oet Koerant of September ciliation .Board. I have furthermore concerned with centenary ar­ 7, while attacking the paper for the established that a reporter made the rangements, that Windhoek is the people (The Namibian). same inquiry to the Cabinet on the capital of Namibia. Everyone would I thInk it would be better to quote ex­ same date and was given the same in­ like to be proud of his or her capital ci­ actly ,what du Rand said so that all formation. As a result ofthis informa­ ty' but definitely not as it stands today. positive:minded Namibians can help tion, I, on August 26, addressed a let­ Very few positive and constructive ex­ me -to analyse. that sentence: "Die ter to the Secretary, Department of amples characterise the city, especial­ polisie is eg~r onpartydig en tree na Civic Affairs and Manpower informing , lywhen one looks at the way the socall­ beide kante op soos reeds telkemale in him that my instructions were to ed Katritura is designed. This is a good die-uerlede bewys is': withdraw the application for a Con­ example of divide and rule. ACcording to my understanding du ciliation Board. This was obviously ig­ In summing up, I would like to say Rand wants to tell us thathls police are noreq as the Cabinet thought it wise that there is definitely nothing to . impartial in their actions. I am sure to make a public statement on this celebrate. Instead let us start to do our . t~at even the'most stupid person would issue. homework -call for immediate and un- -, , not agree. ,Mr Katjiuongua's letter might be in­ conditional implement of Resolution 435. ,- When did the police ~ecome impar­ terpreted as suggesting that I or the tial? We still have the Corpus Christi workers' advocates advised the procession of last year fresh in our workers to go on strike. This is not so. DR S N AMADHILA ,minds. And ifthey are impartial, then We were consulted at atime when the NORTHERN NAMIBIA ,when are they going to act upon that strike was already underway and happening? 'Ib my knowledge the made every attempt to settle the Ovitoto eODlplaint thugs who broke up the procession dispute. Whether such advice by were carrying what the police term as whosoever may have given it, was ALLOW me to express my,views in dangerous weapons, and one wonders short-sighted and misguided, is your newspaper, because since I when they are going to be charged. started reading newspapers I find it is something which those people have to I can cite many 'other similar the only one which prints the truth decide. It was en my suggestion that ~ incidents. about the situation in Namibia, the application f()r the appointment of We are born Namibians and know although it is accused of being a Conciliation Board was made and who our protectors are. 'Ib the nation then only after I persuaded the one-sided. ' As a residentofOvitoto Reserve and I want to say, do not be deceived workers to place their trust in such a because ~he police is not impartial. Board. . a bona fide Namibian, I am disap­ Regarding the interpretation ofthe pointed about what is happening in LAST YEAR'S winner of the Miss Katutura competition, Nancy our hospitals and clinics. ' ' PINEHAS ALUTENI Ordinance, as Mr Katjiuongua is not POBOX41 Boumann (left), with one of the models who will be walking the ramp Recently I went, to the Omaruru a lawyer,.it would be unfair of me to WINDHOEK in the "Africa" Fashion Show. cross swords with him on this aspect. hospital and nurses asked me ques­ I do, however, maintain that the tions about my historical background Cabinet, had it so wished, could have and to which ethnic group I belonged. Anti-f-reedoDl exerted its influence and could have I told them that! was a Namibian and Gala beauty contest they gotjlngry and said that if! don't THE DAILY newspaper in Namibia, helped to resolve this dispute. Possibly WELL YES, and here we go again with the 1987 Miss Katutura the Department of Civic Affairs and specify my ethnic group then I would published in Afrikaans, is the most Manpower, would have been more sym­ not get treated. I asked them why they anti-freedom and most reactionary Competition, which will be the best yet. This gala event is to be stag­ pathetic to the workers' demands, had wanted to know; w:ere they trying to newspaper in the country. This edon October 17 at the Katutura Nurses' Home, and last year's Miss they been represented by Mr A Yon. I find out which 'ethnic' group suffers newspaper does not serve the interests Katatura, Nancy Boumann, will crown the 1987 winner. Prizes have been informed that the much­ from illness the most. ofthe oppressed people at all. amounting to more than Rl 000 will be at stake for the lucky win­ publicised and dramatised decision of Perhaps my fellow Namibians filling It is a propaganda newspaper which ner in this event, sponsored by the South West Breweries, which the Conciliation Board between LTA in the socalled 'health passport' for the serves to destroy the morale of the has indicated that it would be prepared to do so in future. and Mr Yon's Union took place not­ patients in the hospitals don't know N amibiari people, so that they will ac­ cept t he ' Pretoria regime as a 'Ib add to this glittering "happening", the organisers have included a few extra withstanding the fact that the workers what they are doing. Probably they events such as a fashion show, Russel Forray's dazzling dancers and - wait for ofLTA had also gone on strike, and in have been informed by the interim legitimate government in Namibia. government's Minister of Health and It is this newspaper which refers to it - a Miss Fat Competition! - that case a Conciliation Board was ap­ ,So come on all you big mama's, get your tu-tu's out and hit that ramp! pointed within three and a half days: Welfare, Mr Moses Kajiuongua, to do those who are fighting for freedom as so, and if this is the case, he must 'terrorists'. The writers must be made The finalists for Miss Katatura will be chosen on September 30 and ifthere are All other disputes which have receiv­ any more interested beauties out there, enter now. This can be done by contacting remove this policy of ' racial to realise that Namibians are sick and ed wide attention in the media concern show organiser, Mrs Aspara at telephone 216155. discrimination. tired of this sort of imperialist pro­ MrYon. , 'This is the third Miss Katutura Competition and the publc are invited to join On the day in question I was not paganda which praises those who kill I and many other people in the ter­ in the drama and suspense ofthis exciting event. The entrance fee is only R5,00. treated. The white doctor in Omaruru innocent -N amibians. ritory welcome the news that a Com­ The show will start at 20hOO. . mission has been set up to inquire in­ chased me out of the hospital, calling It is this ne~spaper which praises to labour practices in'the territory, and me a 'dam swart ding' and other the notorious idea of dividing Namibia I am sure that land many others wish insults. into homelands; which honours the the Department of Civic Affairs and _. In conclusion, I am appealing to my chiefpuppets in Namibia; which is the Manpower success in arriving at a fellow N amibians not to tell the nurses megaphone of colonialism. meaningful and fair solution to the and doctors in hospitals to which The Namibian nation yearns for labour problems facing this country. ethnic group tney belong. As they all freedom and will never be curbed by know, we are fighting against any force on earth, let alone that PFKOEP discrimination, and how can we unite newspaper., The writers of that POBOX3516 with such things to divide us. If we newspaper will one day find WINDHOEK allow this system of ethnicity to en­ themselves in a liberated Namibia. trench itself, then we will find the Whether that newspaper accepts it situation arise where an Ovambo­ or not, Namibia will soon be a republic Not 100 years speaking nurse or doctor will refuse to under Swapo of Namibia. I WOULD like to make it quite clear to treat a Herero or Nama or Damara­ the people of Namibia in general and speaking patient. K KATILAFITULITUMBA those in Windhoek in particular, that Ifwe keep on like this, it will get us HARARE Windhoek is not going to be 100 years nowhere. ,ZIMBABWE oldin 1990, and to celebrate that occa­ sion clearly means celebrating 100 BETHUEL N KATJIMUNE years of colonial rule. ' MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL Names like Kurt von Francois PRIVATE BAG 2013 Note to readers defiilitely bring back bad memories to OMARURU READERS of The Namibian who those people who happened to have write Letters to the Editor are once anything to do with that man. If the NODltsoub roads again asked to furnish their names Club Namibia Tour Namibian history is written one day, and addresses, even if a pseudonym is then you will appreciate that we at pre­ I WOULD like to draw attention to the state of the roads in the Nomtsoub required. Those people who find that sent have no reason to be proud of him . their letters are not published may find THE EDUCATIONAL TOURING Johannesburg. We can forgive, but definitely not township (in Tsumeb). The roads are Club of Namibia has announced This yeilT's tour will include visits to untarred and pitted with potholes. that the reason is that they have fail­ forget, what happened to our brothers ed to comply with the above. • that this year it will again be offer­ Sun City, Botswana, Swaziland, The After rain, parts ofthe roads are turn­ and sisters who occupied that part of , 'Concerned Reader' of Mariental ing a tour of Southern Africa. University of Zulu land, Durban, Qwa­ Namibia during German colonial rule. ed into a sea of mud in which many Qwa, Kimberley and other places of in­ It is perhaps not good to open old vehicles get bogged down. who has accused Lister of'misleading, The Club has organised tours of terest along the route. wounds, but on the other hand, if is pro­ On behalf of those who have to use deceiving, brainwashing and indoc­ Southern Africa for the past three _ The cost per person for the journey is trinating the majority of ignorant, bably better not to suggest or do these roads daily, I appeal to the years. In 1983 they visited Botswana R300,00 which includes the bus fare anything which may bring back sad authorities concerned to fix the roads naive and uninformed blacks' and who and the trip included stops at the and accomodation, but not meals. memories. as soon as possible and have them tar­ threatens that she may 'lose her head' Botswana Agricultural College and Thirty people have so far indicated should have the courage ofhis/her con­ The Municipality of Windhoek can red before the start ofthe rainy season. the University of Botswana. that they would be interested in going, start to positively influence certain victions to identify him or herself. The The 1984 tour concentrated on the but there are still places available for aspects which affect the daily lives of WORRIED STUDENT newspaper is under no obligation to Cape region and included visits tothe , people who would like to go. its citizens. The diffenmces exifltingto­ NOMTSOUB publish such letters when the identi­ University ofthi! Western Cape, the Anyone interested injoiningthe tour day in the infrastructure ofthe socall­ ty ofthe writer does not accompany the University of Cape town and the should contact Mr Istnael Ishoo ed Windhoek cIty, Katutura and Shoeked by poliee letter in question. Cecilia Makiwane Hospital at-Mdant­ 'Mungunda at 391395 at work, or Khomasdal, cannot be bridged. I do not 'Concerned Reader' of Mariental, sane in the Transkei. 215212 at home. have to elaborate on these differences I WOULD like to express my anger arid and other letter writers are asked to In 1985 the club visited the Univer­ They can also contact Mr Ndjirukira since they are quite obvious to those even shock at what was said by Chief bear this in mind when writing to the sity of Zululand at Kwa-Dlangezwa, Tjipura at 31900x516 or 215878 at who care. Inspector Kierie du Rand ofthe police newspaper. 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No fun on a mini·bus' and the inner conflict of.a shapeless brown blob· IT IS no fun being Ii passenger Just last weekI took such a trip and, a considerable amount of inner Bile rose in my throat. Not surpris­ into his pocket, and brought out a piece on one of the mini-buses believe me, it was hardly a barrel of conflict. ing, considering that the young con­ ofbiltong and a shrapnel grenade. travelling between Oshakati laughs. The other travellers had broken out script had already positioned his By now his red face was turning and Ondangwa. Worse still are A short distance from OIigwediva an in a deafening silence, and it wasn't automatic rifle in such a way that the khaki. He waved the piece of dried those which travel to themore armed, drunk soldier boarded the bus. long before the soldier ordered muzzle was buried three inches into Kudu under the old woman's nose and my stomach. secluded areas like Okahao. The deafening hum of voices ~nded as everyone to begin talking. began sucking on the grenade. suddenly as if someone had pulled the The person sitting next to me realis­ Suddenly Ihad a horrific vision ofin­ Silence again. plug at an Iron Maiden concert. ed that the soldier needed a mortar ex­ testines and other !:loft parts needed in "I say speak! Or do you want me to Now we had a drunk, armed and con- ploding next to his ear every five my body flying around the mini bus. blow you all full oflittle holes today?" fused soldier on our hands. ,', minutes in prder to keep sane, so he "If a man is cheeky he must be shot asked the boss. . First I must say something'about shouted to the passengers to begin immediately:' He was looking at me Again the people resumed their con­ this soldier. Without anyone asking talking. and I suppose he expected me to versation under the not very congenial him, he announced that his name was 'I was sitting nearest to the door comment. conditions. Difficult circumstances, for "Tupista" or something. where the drunk psychotic got on. My Had I spoken, I probably would have the passengers did not even know each According to the weaving, slurring seat was full, but the bantam battler begun babbling incoherently in seven other. man-of-war, it meant "danger:' had set his heart on sitting next to me. different languages before running I suppose that any person in full He had small hands and a dispropor­ The driver, a man who once rode over head first through the bllck window. possession ofhis five senses would have tionately small head that seemed a landmine and only noticed when he An elderly woman sitting near us spoken to trees, dogs or rocks had this apropos to a derogatory meaning reached his destination, told him to sit was reading a copy of the church man told them to do so. which his name actually suggested: on the back seat. newspaper 'Omukwetu'. The next command was to stop at a In Russian, Tupista means "dum­ The soldier gave a savage and Looking at her out of glazed and cuca shop between Ongwediva and On­ my" (not thatI've studied the language twisted grin and shouted that he bloodshot eyes, the soldier ordered her dangwa, where the soldier alighted or anything, Colonel!). wanted to sit next to me ... a man who to close the paper and throw it out ofthe and staggered off ori a mission to detroy His voice was thick and lazy and looks like he is coming from bus. his last remaining brain cells. sounded similar to a body being drag- Windhoek. He started ranting about the evil lies These are the moments when it is fol­ ged across a gravel road. _ "You people from Windhoek are very written about the army by a pack of ly to play brave in northern Namibia. He had a mouth like an oyster cheeky and you talk a lot of bokdrol Communist devils, and threatened to The ego has no actual physical propor­ fighting against being prised apart. about soldiers;' the almighty wielder­ personally deal with them one day. tions. When a drunken man has per­ He used only the center part of the of-the-gun said. The bus fell silent The old lady clicked her tongue in suaded himself that all are his aperture for speaking. again. You could hear a handgrenade­ amazement, whereupon our madman enemies, he will kill at the slightest What worried some of the pin drop. said he would like to explode a han­ provocation. Like the sandstorms passengers was that the shapeless "Thlk, you little ninnies, why are you dgrenade in the bus. which the Arabs calls the 'ghlibi', such brown blob seemed to be experiencing so quiet?!" the soldier barked again. , Nobody believed him until he dipped madmen too strike without warning. Death of Tosh PETER MACINTOSH, otherwise known as Peter Tosh, or the 'Bush Doctor' - is dead. One of the few remaining 'roots rebels' of reggae music, he was tragically gunned down last Fri­ day night in his Kingston, Jamaica, home. The senseless killing appears to have '!bsh and the other victims apparent­ island with a populationof2.3 million. a surface moti ve of robbery, but many ly knew the killers. Police staked out theisland's points believe that his assassins had political Also killed in the hail of bullets was of exit on Sunday in case the suspects motives. Wilton "Doc" Brown, who made attempted to flee the country. Jamaica, a violent place at best, has natural health potions. A third person, SOUrces claim that police know the claimed the lives of many. Six months disc-jockey Jeff"Free-I Thfari" Dixon, identities of the three men. ago, WailersdrummerCarltonBarrett was hit in the head and died at Jamaica's daily newspaper, ' The (40) was shot to death inside his home. Kingston's university hospital on Gleaner, described '!bsh as "one of In December 1976, masked gunmen Monday. J amaica's musical giants" in its Sun­ broke into Bob Marley's Kingston Doctors said he suffered extensive day editorial and said of his songs: home and opened fire with automatic brain damage as a result oftwo bullets "Stark and harsh, they represent in rifles while the band were practicing. lodged in his head. tonal quality the cutting edge of the Marley was shot in the shoulder and The four surviving victims are '!bsh's ghetto. Black, spare, aggressive, swea­ the bullet which lodged in his chest long-time companion, Andrea ty and self-assured, these reggae tunes was never removed. His wife, Rita, was Marlene Brown, drummer Carlton are the marching songs of Jamaica's shot in the head. Santa Davis, musician Michael Robin­ underclass." Reggae fans around the world have son and Jeff Dixon's wife, Yvonne. Peter '!bsh played to an appreciative been stunned by the loss of Peter '!bsh, All are currently receiving police crowd of thousands at Zimbabwe's in­ who had just turned 42. protection, while the hunt for the dependence celebrations in 1980. He Muafangejo's The incident occurred when three killers continues. appeared on stage with a glowing men drove up to the musician's house Jamaican Prime Minister, Edward marijuana 'spliff between his lips - woodcuts - now on on motorcycles and demanded money. Seaga, said this week that police would playing a guitar shaped like a rifle. exhibition at The seven people present were intensify efforts to apprehend the The 'Bush Doctor' is dead-, but the ordered to lie on the floor while the men murderers. words and rythym of songs like Lo'ndon's Royal ransacked the house. When they found At least 300 people have been killed "Legalize it" and "You got to walk and Festival Hall no money, they shot their victims. thisyearinJamaica-atinyCaribbean don't look back" will live on in countless memories.

LONDON: DRAMATIC black-and­ ed the Muafangejo exhibition, with ficulties;' vividly portrays racial har­ white woodcuts by an outstanding financial backing from the British mony with black and white figures Namibian artist , a re n ow on Council and the United Society for the shaking hands. display at London's Royal Festival Propogation of the GospeL From "Adam and Eve" to "Elephant Hall in an exhibition that op ened In one large Autobiographical wood­ Is Killing Lion In A Funny Way;' and September 1. cut the artist depicts his life against from a simple message about marital The Royal Festival Hall is a major the geography of his homeland. The fidelity to "Archbishop Desmond Tutu concert venue on the south bank of the print spans the time from his birth in Enthroned At St Georges Cathedral, river Thames, and for the next five 1943. at Etunda Lo Nghadi, to his Cape '!bwn," he uses his art to convey weeks until 4 October, thousands of childhood in a traditional Ovambo his humanitarian and spiritual convic­ daily visitors to the upper foyer will be kraal in northern Namibia on the tions, often expressed With an engag­ able to admire more than 30 works by Angolan border, to his education at St ing sense of humour. Namibia n printma ker ' J ohn Mary's school in Odibo. The distinguished British art critic Muafangejo. It was at this school, part ofthe large Edward Lucie-Smith , wrote of Prints are on sale at the exhibition, Anglica n mission centre, where Muafangejo's work when it was ex· at prices ranging from R200 to R400, Muafangejo's talents as a print artist hibited at the Commonwealth In­ as are souvenir posters and postcards using the medium.of woodcut was first stitute in London in 1983, that it of Muafangejo's work. recognised and nurtured. represented ". .. consistently the best of The artist attended the opening The London exhibition provides a all the modern African masters ofthis reception at the RFH, where the showcase for the wide range ofthemes medium, and his most ambitious and Reverend J ohn Wheeler, an Anglican explored by the artist in his busy career splendid prints will easily bear com­ clergyman who officially opened the over the past 25 years: Mrican culture, parison with the great German expres­ exhibiton, said ".:.it graphically show­ personal morality, religion and sionist masters of woodcut, such as ed the life of people in Namibia, Their politics. Heckel, Kirchner and Schmid­ social background, religious aspira­ Their titles tell the story, a woodcut Rotluff." lions and striving for freedoom." called "They Are Ready Again At Lucie-Smith concluded that 'The RevWheeJer andMr'!bny B um­ Home" portrays a loving couple. "Mu afangejo tran'cends his PETEF.I TOSH - in typical pose, 'toking it up on a reefer', when in Zimbabwe phries -a former staffmem ber of Lon­ Another print with the text ' ~ Hope And. background, and is a ·printmaker of for the Independence celebrations. don's Africa Center -together organis- Optimism In Spite of Present Dif- world class." "'];HENAMIBIAN - Friday September 18 1987 19 Walkinga""thin line .'.... SEPT 18-SEPT24 THE COUNTDOWN has started ... .only 12 days left t.o get y.our governess to 16-year-old, Laurel into reality. televisi.on licence paid ify.ou want to av.oid "frustration"(to qu.ote (Hayley Mills), granddaughter ofthe The sweep of the series takes the FRIDAY the SWABC), and wasted time in a queue .onSeptember30-D-Day imposing, moralistic Mrs St viewer to four Continents - from a f.or viewers t.o (!.ough up R60,OO f.or the privilege .of having the -Maugham. ' Stone Age settlement in the remote 181127 Prog. Schedllie ,'- . SW1\UC's pJ,'Pgrammes transmittedtoiheirsittingrooms/TV ro.oms The latter's greatest passion is her Highlands ofPapua tothe nightclubs 18h30 Hand in Han d 'garden, but because ofits chalky soil of Greenwich Village in New York; 352 days a year. Of c.ourse, there are the viewers wh.o"plan ahead from the ste!imy.heat of an i<>land in the 18h35 D9ff.eJ ,- Babbel eI;i Bekkie pr.operlY, wh.o renew their licences with.oul' any reminders .or few plants are-able to 'survi've'in it ­ 18h47 Pietie se Verdere Avontllre ' just as it is virtually impossible for ,Ganges Delta tothecoolfoothills of the thr~ats. O{ten,h.owever, th;ey are in the, min.ority and I guarantee 19h07 Filler material Laurel to be a normal person while liv­ Hin1~l ayas; f~op1 th~ Caribbe!J.Il tp the 19h14 Ai'ryvoIUII.;,. . that. .on tile last day..of this 'm.onth there will be a c.oncerted rush ing,with the bitter old woman. Pacific; from Europ'e to Asia, 'the ter­ 20hOO Sui d~e!!NU:us , • t.o p.urcitase the-little square. .ofpaper ·t.o "legaUse" your :viewin g Laurelli ves in a fantasy -world, and ~r ito ries where'medical worKers wage 20h15 Movje Walt Disney - "Th~ . time, in p articular by those wh.o feel guilty ev.erytim~ theysee the suffers delusions,a ser.ene state,out of 11 constant wat on disMse. U ridergrads"" . - C.orp.orati.on's reminder-flashed acr.oss the screen. which she is shucked . when she The series of firins arso tells of the 21h53 Orpen House ' " ' ,medi.cal men " an,d. "Women 'who 22h16 'News/Weather NUlls/Weer sOlIJetiIl1es p'uaheir oWn 1i't-es at risk 22h36 Gillette World Cup SPecial iii~their ' efforts' to wipe,h ut disease, 23h03 Dagsluiting , briHiaht, unusual people who.go to • _'. ~ "; - < ---1(, ull.usU'al lengths to -conttbr'" and eridiootathe infections thaHhreaten life; ~froni Hepatitis · B, Lepiosy, .schi§tosbmi'asis, Sma:llp9X to Kuru .. 18h27 Programrooster · Wedri'~sday~ h!ive definitely taken 18h30 Kompas " on more lustre with the introduction 18h35 Alice in Wonderland . ofth~"Gillette World Sport Special:' 18h59 OpSoekna ~ nReenboog(rtew) and "Ballade .vir 'n Enkeling", 19h23 Riptide ilthough striCtly'S'peiiking, it is still too 20h09 The Bevedy Hillbillies, soon to give an opinion on the latter. 20h33 Feature film "The Chalk . But the inclusion of the "Gillette Garden" World Sport Special': ,is enough for this 22h15 NuuslWeer News/weather particUlar TV-fundi to make time for 22h35 Miami Vice viewing'mid-week. 23h21 Kainolia in Scandinavia t ,And talking about sport - wouldp.'t 23h51 :Epilogue ' - ' it have been great ifthe SWABC had televised last Saturday's rugby match live! I ~ SUNDAY I'll tell you something for nothing­ , , ifthe SWABC wanted to win the hearts 17 h ~" .t'rogramroost€T of the vast majority, all they would have , 17h30 "Buttons and Rusty Holiday to do is televise live local rugby or soc­ Special" cer matches more often. What a treat. 17h53 Pumpkin Patch And all that talk about how this would 18h08 Thy Kingdom Come 18h27 700 Club ' keep the sparse local crowds from at­ tending the matches is a lot of hooey! 19h08 Fi1ler material There will still be the regulars who 19h14 Highway to Heaven wouldn't give up a Saturday after­ 20hOO Nuus/news review noon's attendance at a match for 20h20 Another Life , anything. And the fans who stay at 21hOZ Assignment Adventure home for some or other reason, who 21h53 Nuus/weer - news/weather 22h13 The Classic Touch never get to attend such a match, would be able to see it all while it's 22h36 By Still Waters HAYLEY MILLS and her father John Mills, wh.o portray Laurel and Maitland, the manservant respectively happening. in the feature "The Chalk Garden on Saturday. Imagine red heart stickers blooming MONDAY Naturally, there are the others, who secutions?The State gets a cut, and the discovers ,the truth about Miss' all over Namibia, on car bumpers, on windows, doors, on shirts and caps > feel , they just cp-nnot pass ,)8> this Corporation gets the licence fee plus Madrigal. 18h27 ' Pi-oi Schedule , chance to take advantage of the fact the bit tac'ked on for paying late. "Nawa Nawa" is due on Monday everywhere, proclaiming "I Love the 18h30 Hand In Hand that the SWABC does not have that Well, on to what we're getting to see again, a monthly forum for music and SWABC:' And possibly, there would be 18h35 Lassie vital data "base", containing the for our R60's worth! artists from abroad as well as locally, a concerted rush by listeners to pay 18h57 Filler material' names and addresses of all registered Do you moms and dads remember hosted by Rusten Mogane and Laina their dues every year, filling the Cor­ 19h12 Nawa Nawa TV licencees. The lack of this data, Hay ley Mills .. . who was unforgettable Manasse. There is also a competition poration's coffers, and only a handful 19h37 Better Days they recken, will make it impossible as Pollyanna? She's on the screen in which listeners can participate to of stragglers who are loathe to come up 20hOO Suidwes-Nuus for the Corporation to prosecute those tomorrow night in the feature film win prizes which include portable with the annual licence fee. 20h15 Kay O'Brian , Surgeon who have decided they have better uses radios, cassette-players and records. 20h58 The Last Frontier (final) for their money this year! "The Last Frontier" will be coming 21h45 NewslWeather NuuslWeer And then there is the third group, to a conclusion next week. This four­ 22h05 From the Face of the Earth who fully intend paying for their part mini-series has proved to be documentary (new) licences - but only after the SWABC highly enjoyable, and Linda Evans has 22h57 Dagsluiting has given another month's grace for somewhat risenin my estimates as an the slackers. They're determined to actress. hang on to their bucks as long as possi­ In the last episode titled "On Wings TUESDAY ble, without actually stepping over the of Eagles", the battle between the Sten­ line. nings and the Hannons escalates to 18h27 Programrooster Well, whichever of the last three reveal the truth behind the attempts 18h30 Kompas groups you resort under, the guilty to destroy Kate and her property when 18h35 Wielie Walie ones, the tough cookies or the slackers, Ed Stenning dies. In a final confronta­ 18h50 Educational Shorts just remember that top honcho Piet tionKate proves to herself and the local 19h13 The Wizard Venter will get you one day! It might doubting Thomases, that she is more 20hOO South West News take a bit of time (what with data bases than capable of making it in the 20h15 Falcon Crest being lost and all), but sooner or later outback. 21h02 We've Got It Made the SWABC will have a field day with Another potentially interesting pro­ 21h26 NuuslWeer NewslWeather prosecutions for failure to renew TV gramme is "From The Face of The 21h46 Sport licences. Earth" at 22h05 on Monday. 22h16 Epilogue In fact, it could be sooner than we part of Lena in "Ballade Vir 'n One ofthe oldest dreams of mankind think. Remember, in the court case Enkeling." has been to conquer disease, "From revolving around the loss of the data The Face of The Earth" relates WEDNESDAY _ base the SWABC said it would "face "The Chalk Garden", acting opposite remarkable international stories from her father, John Mills. 18h27 Prog. Schedule severe cash-flow problems" without the past thirtyyears;which illustrate Deborah Kerr, Elizabeth Sellars and 18h30 Hand In Hand the base because renewal notices could vividly how medical scientists with vi­ not be posted. Edit Evans also star in this story about sion are attempting to turn the dream Deborah Kerr 18h35 Groovy Goolies Whatbetter way to recoup than pro- Miss Madrigal, who takes a post as a 18h56 Filler material 19h05 Gillette World Sport Special 20hOO Suidwes Nuus ATTENTION ALL READERS! 20h15 Gunsmoke 21h03 Ballade vir 'n Enkeling We would like to know your views 21h50 Valerie and opinions about The Namibian 22h14 NuuslWeer News/Weather Please use the space provided below to glv,e us 22h34 Pitkos an idea of what you would like to read about in the pages of this newspaper , THURSDAY and post back to us at P.Q.:: Box 20783 Windhoek 9000.

18h27 Programrooster We want YOUR views on presen'tation of news! 18h30 Kompas 18h35 Get Along Gang (New) NAME: 18h47 Medieval Society Nobility 18h57 Young People's Specials 19h21 Filler material COMMENTS: '. 19h36 The Cosby Show 20hOO South West News 20h15 For Love and Honour 21hQ1 Krimistunde 21h59 NuuSiweer, NewslWeather 22h19 The Living Body 22h46 Epilogue ALICE AND SOME of her strange friends in "Alice in Wonderland." ~. '. ,. ~...... , """ ..

-~----~~~------.' "Bigger than life and tOllghertha.never! TWO OF AMERICA'S MOST popular act9rs, Kirk Douglas and Burt -Lancaster, whQse '4O-year association includes such classics as "Gunfight at the OK Corral" and "Seven Days in May", have now completed their first action/comedy - "Tough Guys:' and this duo, big­ ger than life and tougher than ever, convincingly portray the characters of Harry Doyle and Archie Long respectively, a pair of notorious train robbers who face the str.ange'new world of Los Angeles in the 1980s when they are released from jail after 30 years imprisonment. ' Doyle and Long, after experien­ Darlanne Fluegel, a shapely aerobics we do to try and bring it about. It isjust cing a variety of comical exploits, ,instructor who gives Douglas a few aspe«;ial chemistry that happens decide to ignore the requirements lessons in the sport of love, and Eli we're working,together. Individually, parole and modern day retire­ Wallach, as the mysterious gun,toting we're one. Together we're not two - stranger who pursues the pair. we're three! to go b~ck to the line ofwork Lancaster and Douglas almost im­ "Portraying the characters of Harry they do best - stealing. , mediately agreed to star in "'lbugh and Archie was like slipping on a cou­ They set out to round up their old Guys" after reading the screenplay. ple of old shoes;' adds Lancaster, gang for one last caper involving the They felt it was tailor-made for them. "In a certain sense, Kirk and I share train (also scheduled for a final run), Douglas was especially impressed by a relationship like an actor usually for which they were sent to jail for rob­ the screenplay's affecting depiction of does with a good director - a rapport bing three decades earlier. the relationship between th.e two cen­ that 'is mutualy supportive and An impressive cast supports the two tral characters. "It's the story of a stimulating. - including Charles Durning as the special bond between two men:' he "The characters of Archie and Harry police sergeant who once jailed them said, "reminiscent ofthe type of bond have a certain respect for the olde­ and has s, burning desire to do so again; you once saw on screen with Cagney world manners. In one sense, the movie Alexis Smith as Lancaster's former and O'Brian or Gable and Tracy. is a return to our heroic personas ofthe girlfriend with whom he rekindles a "Burt and I have a very special in­ past, and has a certain built-in romance; Dana Carvey making his teraction. There is nothing contrived nostalgia" they said. debut as the young probation officer, about it, and there is nothing special Douglas adds "I've always had a theory that the main purpose of a movie is to entertain. A movie is made to let people forget their problems for a while, and get lost in what is happen­ 'ing on the screen. "Tough Guys" is basically a comedy, with lots of humour, excitement and adventure. On the other hand, I feel this movie makes some ofthe most pro­ fou,nd statements of any movie I've ever made. It deals with the impor: tance of friendship in our lives. I CHANDLER JARREL (EDDIE MURPH't'), holds the sacred dagger he remember while filming the climactic plans to exchange for the release of a child with magical powers in sequence on the train, I saw a sign that said 'End ofthe Line: Tough Guys isex­ a scene from "The Golden Child." citing because it deals with two characters who feel that there is no end of the line:' Also interesting is the fact that the train used in the making of this film, Top star Murphy is Southern Pacific's steam engine 4449, an oil-burning locomotive con­ structed in 1940 and designed to power the famous class of high speed the 'Chose'n One "Hollywood Daylight" passenger cars between Los Angeles and San "THE GOLDEN CHILD" is Eddie Murphy'sfirst motion picture under­ Francisco. taken since entering into an exclusive new contract with Paramount Th,e SP4449, renamed "The Gold Pictures, the studio where he made' '48 HRS", "Trading Places" and Coast Flyer" for its screen debut, ap­ "Beverly Hills Cop," the latter ranking in ninth place on the list of all­ pears in the film's finale, as the two cen­ time box office hits. tral characters race the historic red, orange and black train towards the In this film, he stars as Chandler Jar­ the reluctant Chan as the object ofthe Mexican border. "It isn't often that reI, a Los Angeles freelance social Nechung Uracle. ARCHIE LONG, (Kirk Douglas), decides to go back to ng what he Burt and I have worked in a movie with worker who is surprised to say the The celebrated actor Charles Dance does best - stealing - regardless of parole requirements, in the movie a supporting actress that weighs in at least, when he discovers that a group stars as Sardo, representative of the "Tough Guys." nearly 800 000 pounds," jokes offoreigners believe he is the Chosen lowest of all underworld bosses who Douglas. One, sent to save the world for a thou­ spearheads the abduction of the The SP4449 was "retired': in Oc­ sand futUre generations. magical child from Tibet. tober 1957. The train was then donated Jarrel (Chan to his close friends), is Victor Wong plays the Old Man, to the city of Portland, Oregon the the Chosen One according to the whose knowledge is on the side of the following year, and moved to that city's NechungOracle-amanfromtheCi­ forces of good, and the Golden child is Oaks Park for display. ty of Angels, who is no angel; a portrayed by seven-year-old JL Reate, In 1974 the engine was selected to generous man, a man who does what a first-grader from California, who pull the American Freedom Train is right; a brave man who mustremain won the coveted role over hundreds of across the nation to commemorate the pure ifit takes 10 000 lifetimes, and it other applicants. Bicentennial and last year travelled to is his destiny to save the "Golden But back to Murphy, the principal ac­ Vancouver, British Columbia to take Child", and the world. tor ... who was born inBrooklyn, New part in Expo '86. Every thousand generations, a York. -His father died when he was Lancaster and Douglas appeared perfect child is born, a child with quite young, and he and his brother together for the first time way back in magical powers sent to bring good to and stepbrother were raised by his 1947 in "I Walk Alone", followed ten the world. But the forces ofevil kidnap mother, a telephone company years later by "Gunfight at the OK this child, and it is Chan's responsibili­ employee, and his stepfather, a Corral". Then they teamed up for ty to find hiin, something which foreman at an ice-cream plant. "Devil's Disciple;' and again for becomes more important to him than His talent for comedy became evi­ "Seven Days in May" and "The List of anything else on earth. dent at an early age, and by the fifteen, Adrian Messenger", and "Victory at An unusual element of "The Golden he was already writing and perform­ Entebbe:' Child" is Eddie Murphy's battle ing his own routines at youth centres against demonic forces of the super­ and local bars. , natural world. Eventually he made it to a Manhat, This struggle takes place against a ten showcast, called The Comic Strip, backdrop of state-of-the-art special ef­ The owners were so impressed with the fects supplied by Industrial Light & audience's enthusiastic response, that 'f", • Magic, the multi-Academy Award,. t hey agreed to manage his career and winning geniuSes responsible for some._ secured a spot for him at an audition of the most memorable and magical' for the new cast oftelevision's "Satur­ moments in movie history. day: Night Live;" Murphy, since attaining stardom Via . A's one of the bright 1ights of the NBC!J'V's "Saturday Night Live", he revamped "Saturday Night Live", h'as reached the top ofhis profession as Murphycreatedanamazinggallerypf , a stand-up comic, a concert performer, characters, including Little Richard a Grammy-winningrecording artist in Simmons, prison poet Tyrone Green. both the comedy and music mediums, His four seasons on this show and one of the world's most popular brought him three Emmy Award movie stars, nominations. His leading lady in "The Golden A follow-up to "Beverly Hills Cop" Child" is Charlotte Lewis, cast as the (Beverly Hills Cop II), has since also exotic and mystifying Kee Nang, a per­ seen the light of day, and should be due suasive Tibetan beauty who pinpoints on the local circuit in the near future. KIRK DOUGLAS is a notorious train robber in the film' 'Tough Guys." THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 18 1987 21

THE ZULU PART II

The early Bantu tribes ofNatal and Zululandlived close to nature. Every herb and plant had its name, ~dits medicinal qualities were noted. Each wild creature 'Yas'keenly observ­ ed, its habits, remembered and thecsouilds of its language interpreted. The calls ofthe birds seem to hold allarticular fascination for these people, and they haye given many of them imaginative and amusing interpretations. ' .

CALLS OF THE BIRPS Outside swinging on a blade of grass , Wass. little; red; cross bird, crying."Pee- The rain bird is heralded as a eep! Pee-eep!"-' _,.:.' , ,'; celebrated prophet. When his dr.owsy song tumbles down the scale - Wafababa, wafiI.mame, ngafaiszunqu­ nqu-nqu (my father is dead, my mother is dead, and now I die ofloneliness)­ the weather will be fine. Ifhowever, the scale ascends, rain is sure to follow! . The Bateleur eagle, if seen in large numbers, is an omen of war. The emerald cuckoo was 'named uBantwa­ nyana for its rather plaintive cry was said to be "Bantwanyana ningendi" (children, don't get married). THE MARGATE MONSTER The quaint and serious Hamerkop; regarded by the Zulus (lik,e the Hotten­ Fairytafes -and ' legends rustle tots), with suspicion, often stands star­ throu,gh this la,nd ofhills like the wind ing intently at the surface ofthe water. through ~he trees. Water sprit,es and The tribes people say it is not just look­ tokolo'she haunt the pools and every ing for food, but is gazing at its reflec­ waterfall has its own spirit. tion and repeating despondently: Like the waters ofthesea, the waters "Thekwane, thekwane, nganqimahle ofMthamvuna'Riverwere said to hate kodwa ngoniwa yilokhu, nalokhu, an unclean person. Any tl'aveller at­ nalokhu, nalokhu" (Thekwane, tempting to ford.this river had first to thekwane, I would have been a hand­ confes!> his sins, OF the irate current some chap, but I am spoilt by this and would carry him away. that and that). The entire coastline of Natal and The most unattractive and pompous-' Zululana was the playground ofiner­ looking nsinqizi, the ground hornbill, maids and strange sea beings, who has always been a source of amuse­ danced upon the moonlit sands at ment. There is no 'doubt that the night, and lI;ft their footprints there for female has good reason for her cry all to see. _ "Ngiyem uka ngiyemuka, nqiya 'As recently as 1922, a deaj:{ monster kwabethu" (l am going away, going was washed up on £he golden beach of away to my relations). Th this the male Margate. It was a nine-day wonder un­ bird replies gruffiy "Hamba, hamba; til the hot weather accelerateddecom­ kad'usho(go, go, you have been saying position and the stench made its weird so for too long.) , ' bulk unapproachable. Piet-myn-vrou, the red-chested "On the morning oflst November:' cuckoo, announces the approach of wrote Hugh Ballance, a local farmer to spring with the cry 'of the world press "I saw what I took to "Phezukomkhono" (on your shoulder), be two whales fighting with some sea telling the women it istime to pick-up monster about 1 300 yards from the their hoes, put them over their shore. I got my glasses and was amaz­ shoulders and march to the fields ed at what! took to be a polar bear, but again. of truly mammoth proportions. This At the season's end, he calls creature I observed to rear out of the "Khawula kwawula" (end the work, water fully twenty feet, and strike end the work), while the wild pigeon repeatedly with what I took to be its mocks '~mdokweovuthiwe"(thekaf­ tail at the two whales, but with seem­ fir corn is ripe). ingly no effect?' The battle continued for three hours, UMUVELI AND THE BIRD after which the whales swam away, Umuveli Ngqange, while resting leaving their victim floating inert, on from his labours of creation, was the surface of the water. Later that disturbed by a small, continuous night it was washed ashore on the petulant sound "Pee-eep! Pee-eep! beach beyond Tragedy Hill. ' Looking down, he saw an angry red T@ monster's body was 14 metres bird swinging on a long blade of grass. long, three metres wide, and 1,5 metres :~ "What is the matter, Why do- you' high. At one end it had a trunk of about disturb my rest with your crying? Are 35 centimetres in diameter, and 1,5 you not content with this beautiful metres long. At the opposite side was world I have made for you?" a tail half a metre thick, and 13 metres "Oh mighty lord, I am not content for man, hearing all the noise and distur­ "I am just as noble as the king:' he looked up. long. Clothed in snow-white hair, the the woman's cat comes from her hut bance outside, took his spear and hurl­ grumbled "and twice as handsome. "And what about me? I am just as creature seemed to be bloodless. and hunts me, and I am very small and ed it at the aggressive animal. With a Why should I not be king?" And in a great and wonderful. It is to me that For ten days it lay on the beach; even afraid:' roar of pained surprise, the lion com· thrice he was sitting on the royal stool you should ake sacrifices and to me a span of32 oxen failled to move it! The "Oh stop that!" growledlhe creator. plajned "That was not what I wanted, with all his wives and councillors that the world should bow!" stench became more and more putrid "Here turn into a cat yourself and give I wanted to be a warrior, with a tooth around him. Now all his ambition s At that, there was a flash oflightn­ until finally, the spring tide had pity me some peace." Sure enough, in the as sharp as the spear point:' seemed fulfilled: ing, and a roll of thunder which sound­ on the inhabitants of Margate, and bird's place was the biggest and hand­ "Have a care lest you go too far:' "Great Elephant:' said his chief ed like a mighty roar oflaughter. overnight the carcass vanished, leav­ somestcar imaginable, with splendid warned the creator. Nonetheless, in a councillor, "it is time to offer sacrifices -A whistling wind blew through the ing nothing behind but a cloud of whiskers and sharp claws. fl ash he turned the lion into a dashing to our god and creator, the one over us hut, overturning stools, wives and mystery and speculation. The episode "How fine I am:' he said ..Justat that Zulu warrior with plumes and shield, all Umuveli Ngqange, for he is great co uncill o~s alike. When they had pick· was an enormous publicity boost for moment, out rushed a man's dog which and so goodlooking that all the young and mighty and has done wondrous ed themselves up, the king had vanish­ Margate, which was at last put on the chased the 1!ightened cat up a euphor­ women smiled at him. ' things for us!" The king frowned and ed, never to be seen again. map! bia tree. "Yowl! Yowl!wail ed the cat. "This is terrible. I wish to be a dog, not a weak cat." Umuveli Ngqange, sighing heavily, made a quick gesture over the animal and sank back into sleep. A short while later a new dog arri v­ ed in the village. How h~ barked and strutted, waving his"magnificant tail, and bullied and wrangled with all the smaller dogs! When the evening came, his master' shut him out ofthe hut and he was left in the dark, with night noises, black shadows and eyes in the bush. -, He howled "Woo-oo! Woo-oo! The lion is coming to devour me! Why was I not made a lion? Lord, lord, make me into a lion Woo-oo! "By all the stars in the galaxies!" cried Umuveli Ngqange'''Am I never Thiswasjustwhathewantedandfor to have any peace? Here, see how you some time the warrior was satisfied like this!" .- with life. Immediately a huge, curly-maned Then one day, he was summoned to' KWAFELA OSHIFO SHO SHIWANA lion appeared and roared loudly. A the king to ?ring gifts and pay homage. 22 Friday September 18 1~87 THE NAMIBIAN Cricket season's early start Arcb-rivals prepare for with six·a·side competition THE 1987/88 CRICKET season gets off to an early start this year ' with,the plaYing of the second Wanderers/Castle Lager six-a-side crucial weekend clash competition at the Wanderers Pionierspark grounds on Sunday. Wanderers won the inaugural com­ The other teams that winbe playing ------BY DAVE SALMON------~­ petition last year, beating United in on Sunday are United, Tal Park, A TITANIC BATTLE is expected when arch-rivals Black Mrica of confidence they could end BA's the final, and this year will againbe Defence, Police and Westerns. and Mrican Stars meet in the semi-finals of the JPS Knock-out unbeaten run in the JPS to date. one of the favourites. The Wanderers team is: Lennie Black Africa however have indicated Louw, Juri~ Louw, Wynand Low, ' tournament at the Windhoek Stadium on Sunday. they have a surprise in store for Earlier this week Northerns Trevor Britten, Leeba Fouche and African Stars on Sunday in the form of withdrew from the competition and former UPE player CharI vanRooyen. Black Africa, who won the inaugural Snewe apparently injured ligaments a South African who has played in the Wanderers will be fielding two teams The Ramblers line-up is: Jeff Luck, tournament last year, beating Young , in his knee and by the time of going to to make up a compleme,nt of eight National Soccer League. Whether this Chris Myburgh, Anthony Hardwick, Ones in the final, received a major set­ press it was not certain whether Snewe player is registered or notwill probably teams. Andy Fallis, Shaun Fallis, Bobby Crad­ back this week when their national would be fi,t to take his place in the be contested by Stars. ' The other favourites to win on Sun­ dock and Basil Almano. midfielder and leading goalscorer team for Sunday's crucial clash. In the other semi-fhial to be played day are Ramblers who last year won The competition starts at 09hOO and Dawid Snewe was involved in a motor African Stars on the other hand have atthe Windhoek Stadium tomorrow, the Woker Freight Services six-a-side as usual prizes will be awarded for the car accident in Katutura. no injury scares and this week were full Walvis Bay's Blue Waters tackle tournament and won the Premier best bowler, batsman and fielder dur­ Grootfontein's Benficaforthe right to League. ingtheday: play in the final at the Windhoek Stadium on October 4. Bouncing back to the top By the time ofgoing to ress, there was still uncertainty as to where the mat­ SPORT PROFILE RAMBLERS Fe bounced back after their loss to SKW in the in­ ches would take place, the Katutura augural Amateur Soccer Association (ASA), league to beat ROss­ Stadium or the Windhoek Stadium, ing 11- 1 in a the Hansa Cup last Sunday. - but to facilitate press and television coverage the matches will probably be On Saturday; Ramblers softened ROssing for the giant kill when they beat the played at the Windhoek Stadium. miners 5 - 2 in'their last leaiue match of the season. The teams for tomorrow's match Mario Rodriques netted foU; in the league match to win the Hydroweld Cup for were not availabl'e at the time of going the highest goalscorer in the First League. Rodriques netted 20 goals in the 14 to press but Stars and BA did release league matches, four more than SKW's Henning Barth, Holger Gruttemeyer names although withholding their (Swakopmund), and Jorge da Purificacao of Ramblers. final line-ups. Apart from being a prolific goalscorer, Rodriques added a dubious distinction The two squads for Sunday'S match to his season by leading the list ofcautions. He received 6 yellow cards during the are; Black Africa: Metra Toromba, season and was forced to miss two matches after being suspended. Joseph Gaeb, Bigman Schultz, Fighter In other final league matches played last weekend, League champions SKW Louis, Mike Pieterse, Frans Kazumbu, were held to a,two-all draw by Swakopmund FC, DTS recorded their second win Lucky Boonstander, Bernard de Cotle, , ofthe season with a 3 ~ 2 result against Atlantis, Sporting FC defeated Maritimo Carpio Kavendji, Moses Casper, 2 - 1 and Maritimo beat DTS 4 - 2. . Patrick Kazumbu, Boniface Poulino Tonight, SKW play DTS at the Showgrounds in the Hansa Cup and tomorrow's (captain), DawidSnewe, Lucky Richter ,Cup matches sees Sporting playing Tsumeb and Maritimo vs Atlantis. and Rusten Mogane. African Stars:·.Bernard Kaanjuka, Colin Usurur, George Gariseb, Cosmos Final positions 'in ASA Prem;er le.ague Damaseb (captain), NiCo Ndjao, Boys 'lJingaete, Leva Ndjiruete, Jamanuka THE-FINAL positions in the ASA Premier League are as 'I)ihero, Bertus Damon, Tsetse Nerum­ follo:ws, under headings"matches played;' "won;' "drawn;' bu, Joseph Martin, Alfred 'lJazuko, "lost;' "goals for;' "goals against;' and "pointS;' , . Jackson Merero, Clive Namdura, Thmuu Kaurivi, Seven Emdjela and SKW 14 10 3 1 51 9 , 23 Lucky Shipanga: Ramblers 14 9 2 3 54 26 20 Both matched start~t 16hOO. SFC Sport Club 14 7 4 3 37 19 18 The final will be played on October SportingFC 14 7 3 4 44 ' 35 17 4 with the winner to receiveru;Q()() and CSMaritimo 14 6 3 5 29 28 15 the runners-up R2 500. ROssingSC 14 6 o 8 36 51 12 The Player of the Match for the two 14 2 1 11 14 50 5 semi-finals will each receive R200 and DTS the player judged the best inthe final Atlantis 14 1 o 13 18 65 2 will win R250.

KHOMASDAL R68 000 MATUNDU MIRIAM 3 bedrooms - bathroom, lounge Oorledete Windhoek in dieouderdom van 43 14/9/87. and diningroom. Open ~ plan jaar op Sy word oorleef deur haar kinders en familie. Begrafnis Sondag om kitchen. 10hOO vanuit Oruuhano Kerk te Amunius. A house as neat as they come! Lukas Hanga Muatunga Begrafnlsreellngs: Unipart KATUTURA R75 600 Nambso/Namlbla Begrafnisdlens For a comprehensive range of FULL NAME: Lukas Hanga Muatunga. Spacious 3-bedroomed house in Tel: 0611224286nt8. Unipart filtars, ignition parts, TEAM: Blue Waters. an elite area, plus study, lounge Na-ure: 061/212253/61964. BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Walvis Bay - 25/9/1961. and diningroom, two bathrooms, Windhoek. spark-plugs, bulbs, sealed HEIGHT AND WEIGHT: 1,71cm - 67kg. kitchen, guest room with bath. beams etc., contact: MABILETSA ROSINA Ronnie, Dieter or George MARRIED: No. Garage. Oorlede te Windhoek in die ouderdom van CAR: None. Don't miss this one! iwee jaar op 15/9/87. Sy word oorlee! deur at 224541"! NICKNAME: McGyver. Phone DANIE VENTER at: haar ouers en !amilie, Begrafnis vind plaas SondagSeptember27, 1987 om 10hOOvanuit PREVIOUS CLUBS: None. 37387 (w) or 226565 (h). TEAM SUPPORTED AS A BOY: Blue Waters FC. die St Peters Apostoliese Kerk te Soulse Poor! Bophuthatswana. FOOTBALL HERO OF CHILDHOOD: Ranga Lukas. Begrafnisreellngs: FAVOURITE CURRENT PLAYER: Joe Shaduka (Blue Waters Nambso/Namibia Player/Coach). Begrafnisdiens: MOST MEMORABLE MATCH: 1986 JPS quarter-final vs Namib KEIS ALBERTINA Tel: 061/224286nt8 Woestyn. Oorlede te Windhoek op 11/9/87 in die ouder- ' Na-ure: (061) 212253/61964. dom van 39 jaar. Sy word oorleef deur haar Windhoek. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Losing 2 -5 against Chelsea in the ouers, 2 susters en familie. Begra!nis vind 1986 Metropolitan Super Championships. plaas op Saterdag 26/9/87 om 14hOO vanuit SUPERSTITIONS: None. die Evangeliese Lutherse Kerk te Okombahe, NATIONAL HONOURS: None (yet). Omaruru distrik. MAKE MONEY FROM HOME! CLUB HONOURS: Player ofthe Year in 1986. Begrafnlsreellngs: Make money from home - or start FAVOURITE OTH'ER SPORT: Tennis. Nambso/Namlbla your own business. Also part-time Begrafnlsdlens. work R1 200,00 per month. Send FAVOURITE OTHER SPORTS STAR: Ivan Lendl. Tel: 061/224286/7/8. HOBBIES: Reading and watching TV. Na-ure: 061/212253/61964. self-addressed envelope with FAVOURITE ACTOR: Sylvester Stallone. Windhoek. stamp, to BK Ondernemings, FAVOURITE-MUSICIANS: Dire Straits and Queen. Private Bag 2059, Gobabis. BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CAREER: Mother and coach. UISES VICTORY AMBITIONS FOR 1987/88: To win theJPS Knock-outtrophy(Blue Oorlede te Windhoek in die ouderdom van 57 jaar op 7/9/87. Sy word oorleef deur haar CHIROPODY Waters meet Benfica in the semi-finals this weekend). susteren !amilie, BegrafnisSaterdag 19/9/87 LONG TERM AMBITIONS: "To improve my game and to play ac­ om 14hOO van plaas Uikrins Usakos distrik. DOES WONDERS tively as long as possible." Begrafnisreellngs: FOR YOUR FEET! SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCCER IN Nambso/Namlbla FOR TREATMENT OF NAMIBIA: The standard of refereeing must be upgraded, coaches Begrafnlsdlens. Tel: 061/224286/7/8 CORNS, IN-GROWN must be qualified and there should only be one controlling body Na-ure: 061/212253/61964 TOENAILS ETC., for soccer in Namibia. Windhoek. PHONE:U077 Frid~y September 1H 1981 23 ' 51A XV stand,spoised .for what could be its greatest , . '\ .. . . ~ ,., .

.' .~. 4 ,.. ... moment in rugby history

------BY DAVE SALMON------

AFTER 71 YEARS, the SWA Rugby Union is on the threshold of the greatest moment in its ,history, when the SWA XV play Transvaal in the semi-final of the Currie Cup tomorrow at the A JUBILANT SWA rugby team after their 24 -12 victory over Western transvaal in the final ofthe B section ofthe Currie South West Stadium to win the right to meet NaasBotha's Northern Cup last Saturday. Transvalers in the final. ~ Although the Southwesters aided penalty against the Shadow start the match as about 10 to 1 Springbok XV in Windhoek and underdogs, in the words of SWA knows that many A section sides have coach, Henning Snyman, come unstuck at the South West Stadium.' 'anything can happen in a game of Transvaal will therefor opt to play rugby:' ten-man rugby and will rely onLiaam With two trophies already in their Kirkham to kick them into the Currie clubhouse-the Simkes Cup, for win- Cup final" despite having a star- ningthe "B" section, and the Santam- studded backline including the Du bank Trophy, which they won by Plessis brothers, Hempas Rademeyer beating Western Transvaal 24-12 in and former Irish international John the final last Saturday - SWA have · Robbie, nothing to lose and a lot to gain, The Transvaal pack is expected to Transvaal, on the other h;md"have dominate set phases in the match only themselves to blame for having to tomorrow, so what possesion SWA do play this tricky semi-finaL gain will have to be distributed down They have not won·the Currie Cup_ the line to artful dodgers Dailie van der since the early Seventies and half-way Merwe, Gerhard Mans and Andre through the season it seemed that Stoop. ' Louis Luyt had purchased the right Whatever tomorrow's result, swA players to break the drought, . have experienced their finest season in ' However, a mid,season slump and a 71 years, and after tomorrow's match nine-all draw against five times cham- will still have promotionirelegation ' pions Western Province at Ellis Park, matches against Northern OFS tolook left Transvaal in second position in the , forward to, ''.N' section, with aresultantsemi-final After dominating the B section'ofthe clash against SWA. Currie Cup for the past three years, Transvaal will no doubt still their inclusionintheAsectionis long remember their slender 12·3 victory overdue. WESTERN TRANSVAAL plaYed a very defensive match in trying to contain a rampant SWA team at the South West stadium over SWA in a friendly at the beginn­ " The teams - fo~ tomorrow are: last Saturday.,Here centre Danle van der Merwe is broughtto ground rather unceremoniously. Van der Merwe eventual­ ing ofthe season, and will be taking no ly scored the only try of the match, while Shaun McCully contributed the other 20 points. unnecessary chances. SWA: Andre Stoop, Doug Jeffery, Danie They rested two oftheir Springboks, van der Merwe, Wim Lotter, Gerhard hooker Chris Rogers, and- centre Mans (captain), Shau1) McCuIJyJJasi&. Michael du Plessis against Eastern Buitendacht, Casper Derks, Wally' Bredenhann, Manie Grobler, Sarel du Province last weekend, but tomorrow Toit, JaCques Theron, Arra van der will be fielding a full strength side. Merwe, Nartjies Nortje and Sarel By mid-week the only doubtful Losper (vice-captain). starter was Springbok winger, Carel The reserves are Leon Stoop and Chris du Plessis, who injured his toe last week and aggravated the injury du Toit. against EP last Saturday. Transvaal: LiaamKirkham, Carel du SWA after a flu scare, threatened to Plessis, Michael du Plessis, Hugo van sideline Narjies Nortje and Andre As, HempasRademeyer,SchalkNaude, Stoop, will also be at full strength and John Robbie, Barabas Venter, Chris will probably opt to run the ball in con­ Rodgers, PietKruger, WahlBartmann, trast to their cautious approach Daan Badenhorst, Andre Skinner, against Western Transvaal last Charles Pieterse and Jannie Breedt Saturday. (captain). The game plan against Westerns The reserves are Mark Fourie, Jannie paid offwith fly-halfShatin McCully Pretorius, Gerald Venter and former contributing 20 ofthe 24 points via five E-ngland international, Peter penalties, a drop and a conversion of Winterbottom. Danie van der. Merwe's try, but The match starts at 16hOO, and a Transvaal are unlikely to make many capacity crowd is expected to attend. By mistakes, especially within goal­ late yesterday (Thursday), there wereno kicking distance. tickets to be had on the main stand, and Transvaal skipper Jannie Breedt seats on the open stands were at a THE SKIPPER of the SWA rugby team, Gerhard Mans, seen receiving the San,tambank Trophy from the President of witnessed McCully's 65 yard wind- premium. the SWA Rugby Union after their 24 - 12 win against Western Transvaal last Saturday. . - helsea FC depose C Ie NNSL Super League Log

THE LATEST positions in the NNSL Super League are as Santos on goal average follows, under headings "matches played:' "won:' "lost:' "drawn:' " goals for:' "goals against:' and"points!' Santos, Young Ones recorded another - CHAMPIONS CHELSEA FC of Grootfontein took maximum Chelsea 18 9 4 5 29 21 23 points from their two NNSL Super League matches last weekend, good result away from home at the Chief Santos 18 8 3 7 22 13 23 to take over at the top ofthe log from Chief Santos on goal average. weekend, when they came back from a 0 -2 deficit at halftime to draw two- Black Africa 19 8 5 6 45 33 22 Playing on their home ground the w,inner in the dying moments of the _all against Benfica. Eleven Arrows 15 7 1 7 28 18 21 on Saturday, the 1986 NNSL -match. ' Some strange refereeing decisions Tigers 19 6 4 9 25 17 21- League champions accounted for The early pacesetters in the league" robbed Ones of maximum points. In . African StarS 17 -8 5 4 28 ' 24 20 Orlando Pirates 1-0 and followed Eleven Arrows, were held to two draws the first half, Kosie Springbok scored Young Ones 19 6 6 7 35 on their home ground in Walvis Bay. for Ones but was wrongly ruled off­ 34 19 it up with an equally impressive On Saturday, they shared the spoils sides. Life Fighters 18 6 5 7 25 25 19 2 - 0 win over Tigers on Sunday. with African Stars after a one-all draw Benfica 18 7 7 4 31 ,26 18 Chief Santos dropped two valuairle and on SundilY shared four goals with The full results ofthe weekend were: Explorer E;. ~ven 15 6 6 3 34 39 15 points in Tsumeb on Saturday when Black Africa. Young Ones 2 -Chie{Santos 1, Benfica Blue Waters 14 . 5 5 4 21 ' 19 14 they came up against' a resurgent - Arrows remain. well-placed. on the . 1 - Hungry Lions 0, Chelsea 1 - Orlan­ Orlando Pirates 17 4 , 9 '4 25 30 12 Young Ones XI, and lost 1 - 2. log, having suffered Qnly one defeat in , do Pirates 0, Life Fighters 0 ~ Tigers 0, Sorrento Bucs 15 4 9 2 Eleven Arrows 1-AfricanSt'ars 1, Ex­ 18 25 10 They made up for their mistakes on 15 matches. Although two points Hungry Lions 18 0 15 3 26 56 3 Sunday, defeating Hungry Lions 3-1. oehind the leaders Chelsea and Chief plorer Eleve~2 -Black Africa2, Benft,ca Lions are still without a victory"after Santos, Arrows have three games in 2 - Young Ones 2, Chief Santos 3 - 18 matches, and seemed destined to ' hand and are still well on course to win Hungry Lions 1, Chelsea 2 - Tigers 0, take the plunge into the First Division their first Super League title. Life Fighters 0 -Orlando Pirates 0 and next season. After a shaky start to the league Eleven Arrows 2 - Black Africa. REACH THE PEOPLE - In their other matchofthe weekend, . campaign, Young Ones have started to . The scheduled Sorrento BucslBlue Lions were unlucky tp lose 0 -1 against find their feet in the last few weeks. Waters clash at the Katutura Stadium ADVERTISE IN THE NAMIBIAN! Benfica, with the home side scoring Apart from their.defeat'on leaders did not take Illace. 24 Friday September 18 1987 THE NAMIBIAN

Cuea Tops and Golden Biggs lead the way · LEADERS CUCA TOPS and Golden Bigs are well-placed to win the NNSL Far North First Division. '!bps have built up a commanding eight-point lead ahead of their nearest rivals Rundu Chiefs, but Golden Bigs, who have a backlog in games after their involve­ ment in the JPS Knock-out competition, have five games in hand over.Cuca '!b~s, and are the only team with a realistic chance of catching the leaders. They wIll however, have to win all their remaining matches (nine in total), and hope that '!bps slip in one of their four remaining matches. With promotion to the NNSL Super League uppermost in the minds of these teams, the remaining matches of the season promise to be fiercely contested. NNSL Far North First Division THE LATEST positions in the NNSLFar North First Division Log, under headings "matches played:' "won:' "drawn:' "lost:' "goals for:' "goals against:' and "points!' CucaTops 20 13 5 2 43 18 31 Rundu Chief!i 19 10 3 6 25 20 23 Royals 20 8 6 6 25 23 22 Rangers 18 7 6 5 34 30 20 Dynamos 18 7 5 6 27 26 19 Golden Bigs 15 8 2 5 26 22 18 Higbland Bucks 18 6 5 7 29 28 17 Benfica S.O. 18 6 5 7 29 28 17 African United 19 6 4 9 22 24 16 Teenagers 18 5 6 7 21 26 16 Oshakati City 17 4 7 6 27 35 15 Sporting Club 18 4 5 8 18 22 13 Black Tigers 19 3 3 11 24 43 9

PLAYER OF THE MONTH BWE WATERS skipper Koko Muatunga will be hoping to lead his team to their first major success of the season when SOCCER COMPETITION he leads his team out against Benfica in the semi-flnalsoftheJPS Knock-outtoumamentatthe Windhoekstadim tomorrow. Win 5 cases of Castle Lager! Star quality of athletes My choice for PLAYER OF THE MONTH is: ......

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NAMIBIA MAY SOON produce another Springbok runner to join an elite group lead by sprinter EXCELLED IN (which match): Frankie Fredericks. At the South African Cross Country Championships held in Pretoria last weekend, it was the Namibians who caught the imagination of sports-writers, after the locals won ...... ~ ...... two gold, two silver and one bronze medal. Andleadingthefield were two girls from Owambo, Anna ...... Maria Aitana and E Iipinge, both gold medalists. Anna Maria Aitana won the section team was not entered in the Cham­ country: _ for Girls Under 19 from a field of 75 pionships, the two Namibian Under 14 With improved training and better THE WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE LAST over four kilometres, with a time of14 girls both recorded better times than facilities, Namibia could soon produce FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH IN THE NAMIBIAN minutes and 46 seconds. the winner of the Under 16 section. runners in the mould of world cham­ Aitana beat Springbok Marjorie van Two boys from Northern Namibia pions Said Aouita of¥orocco, l;IDd Paul der Merwe into second place. Van der also won medals. In the section for Boys Kipkoech of Kenya. . Merwe finished in a time of 14:51. under 15, Johannes Frans ofOwambo Another Namibian, JurgenSpencer NAME: ...... This was the second gold medal collected a bronze medal for his third of ROssing, also did the country proud Aitana won at the Championships, placing, out of a field of 100 runners. last weekend when he gained a bronze ADDRESS: ...... -...... after winning the Under 16 section two Frans recorded a time of 13lminutes medal after finishing third in the ...... years ago. and 45 seconds in the four K,ilometre South African 30 Kilometre Walk ...... The other gold medal for Namibia run . Championships held . in •.Borl came in the section for Girls Under 14, In the section for Boys Under 19, run Elizabeth. Spencer, who was born in Berlin in SEND ENTRIES TO: also over four kilometres where E lip­ 9ver eight kilometres, Marcos Matsuib inge finished in a time of15 minutes J>£ Otjiwarongo 'collected a silver West Germany, finished the gruelling THE NAMIBIAN and 12 seconds. medal, finishing in a time of 27 contest in a time of two hours, 38 PO BOX 20783 Second place and a silver medal also minutes and 13 seconds. minutes and ·30 seconds, only 58 went to a Namibian, with L N unyoma These results have once again prov­ seconds behind former Springbok WINDHOEK one second behind Iipinge in a time of ed indisputably that Namibia posseses Willie Vermeulen. 9000 15:13. a wealth of long-distance running Springbok Chris Britz won the Although a Namibian Under 16 talent, especially in the north of the championship in a time of2:38,30.

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