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Reagan Decree on apartheid enforcing agencies in SA Sanctions bite.hits Namibia BY GWEN LIST~R and KEVIN TOOLIS STUDENT GRIEVANCES and subsequent police action resulted in the closure of the Augustineu'm College IN A CRIPPLING BLOW to the South African Polic~ this week. Full'story inside. ' and military, ' 350 United States companies operating Above, interim tovernment Education Minister, and acting Cabinet Chairman, Mr Andrew Matjila, as he in South Africa and Namibia, are threatening to stop addressed students before the closure. - supplying even the most basic components, including Picture by John Liebenberg. tyres, as American sanctions legislation begins to bite. In terms of a September'1985 Presidential Executive Order and the Breman Amendment, US companies may no longer' supply S~apo will take in - part . any goods or technological knowhow to apartheid-enforcing en tities, including the Police and Military. The l,egislation, although enforceable in late 1985, contained anumher of complex technical CCN pro-435 conference clauses which delayed its full implementation to date. Key areas which are affected by the Reagan Administration's 'limited THE JOINT Foreign Affairs Namibia Women's'Voice and others. sanctions' include computer hard BY GWEN LISTBR ware and technology (IBM) and even Secretary for Swapo, Mr Niko Although the agenda for the the most basic technical data used by Bessinger, has confirmed that meeting has not yet been determin Swapo will take part in the pro ed, P'lrties and groups have been in posed conference of pro vited to forward ' suggestions. The Resolution 435 groups and par meeting will also discuss the situa ties to be sponsored by the Coun- tion in Namibia, and there will be THE CASSPIR - one of the report-backs from various regions of • CCNExecutive ratifies vehicles of' the South African cil of Churches in Namibia. He the country. ' dismissal of two - Page 3 Police which will be affected by the said that Swapo's agreement to - Should the conference come out embargo. participate, was bowever, subject with a strongly-worded document • SADF 'educational' ac to ratification of an agenda for condemning linkage and calling for tivities in north - Page .4 the South African Police and the planned meeting, and to tbe the immediate implementation of Military and otller ap~rtheid f~1I participation of tbeniember Security Council Resolution 435, it • Tips for the enforcing institutions. ' will be the first time that parties and Under specific clauses, cburtbes of tbe,CCN. ;; punters - Page 18 The conference was due to take groups opposed to the interim auto'mobiles and watercraft and . government, wilfhave come together parts and accessories, are subject to place this weekend, hut has been • Former 'detainee gets , postponed to a date still to be on a mutual concern about the UN a case by case examination to test settlement plan for Namibia. R30 000 - Page 5- whether the supply of-such goods determined. ' function', according to a spokesper groups and parties invited to the con~ Foreign Namibia are son from the US Embassy in ference by Dr Abisai Shejavali, Secretary, Mr Niko Bessinger. government, their combined stand Pretoria. General Secretary of the Council of on Resolution 435 would be hard to It is understood that US com Churches, have accepted the invita the Namibia Independence Party, ignore. panies both in the computer and in tion. Thegrotips, all of which are op Damara Council, Christian It is believed at this stage, that the the tyre fields, in the latter case, posed to the South African- Democratic Action (CDA) of Mr CCN will chair the meeting, , sponsored interim government, in Peter Kalangula, the Mbanderu although this has not been co nfirm ~ Continued on page 3 clude Swapo, Swanu Progressives, Council, Nudo Progressives, the ed by the organisers. .. To please a famHy is no easy chore, but w,ith Hartlief products'you'ltbe sure! ...-::= . 6.. J 2 THE NAMIBIAN FRIDAY March 14 1986 WORLD FLASHES 'Progress on independence' - Botha SOUTH AFRICA'S Foreign A statement released by the US , 'We are ready to release Mandela CHIRAC FOR PRIME MINISTER Minister Mr Pik Botha describing consulate spokesman Mr Thomas for Sakhorov and our soldier, he told the mood as 'better' for negotiations Johnson said the US-SA talks lasted reporters. PARIS: Gaullist RPR leader, Jacques Chirac, was expected to reply to Socialist on Namibia's independence met US 'a couple of hours over lunch: Mr Botha dismissed speculation, President Francois Mitterrand on whether he would form a new government envoy Mr Frank Wisner in Frankfurt. however, that Mr Mandela would be following a slender right-wing victory in Sunday's general elections, political Mr Botha also repeated his offer released on health grounds. 'He will sources said. Speaking to reporters 'at an im to free ANC leader Nelson Mandela not be released on health grounds. 'IVAN THE TERRIBLE' IN COURT promptu press conference in a in exchange for Soviet dissident An He will be released once the South Frankfurt hotel Mr Botha said pro drei Sakharov and captured South African government is satisfied that TEL AVIV: Evidence surfaced for the first time in Israel supporting John Dem gress has been made in chances for African recce Captain Wynand du his release will not be accompanied janjuk's denial that he was the brutal Ukrainian-born guard 'Ivan the Terri settling the independence issue. Toit. ' by large-scale vi olence:, ble' at the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. PUNJAB AWASH IN UNREST NEW DELHI: Curfews were declared in two more towns in Sikh-dominated Punjab, while a newspaper said more than 3 000 additional para-military Matjila stands'in for Kozonguizl troops were being rushed to the state to stop escalating sectarian-violence. State officials said curfews were imposed on Nakodar and Mu.kstar towns to MR ANDREW MATJILA has The rotating Chairmanship of the Kozonguizi's return from abroad. deter Hindu-Sikh clashes, while curfews remained in force in the riot -torn cities taken over as acting Chairman of the Cabinet follows in alphabetical of Jullundur and Binala. Cabinet of the interim government, order, and Mr Kozonguizi was to Proclamation R101, which provid A general strike was observed meanwhile in 'the town of Phillaur in response following the announcement by Mr have succeeded Mr Moses Kat ed for the setting up of the interim to a call by the-militant Hindu Shiv Sen a, or 'God's Army'. Fanuel Kozonguizi, Minister of jioungua in this post. government, provides fcir a The Hindu gr6up is seeking the resignation of the five -month-old Punjab Justice, that he would be away Tlie Cabinet this week approved designated Chairman from among g(wiinm:ent run bY'Slkh moderates. It also demanded the arrest ofthose who abroad for some three weeks and for the appointment of Mr Matjila, the ranh of the Cabinet if the Chair stole the ashes of four Hindu's kitled in terrorist shootings from a crematorium. this reason, would become the next Minister of National Education, as man was unable ·'to, exercise his Scores of people have been killed this year in hit-and-run attacks by Sikh ex Cabinet chairman. acting Cabinet Chairman u,ntil Mr powers,AlJties or functions. tremists seeking an independent Sikh nation in Punjab, India's bread~asket state. MARCOS PAID THE PRESIDENTS WASHINGlON: Documents brought to the United States by.ousted Philip pine President Ferdinand Marcos, show contributions of 50 000 dollars made to the campaign presidents of Reagan and Carter, a Philippine official said. UNITA HOSTAGES KINSHASA, Zaire: The 197 foreign prisoners released on the Zaire border' by Angola's U nita rebel movement, will be flown to Kinshasa under the care of the International Red Cross and handed back to Angola later this week" the Zaire authorities announced. ' The prisoners, captured on March 1 in aUnita attack on the Angolan diamond mining town of Andrada, comprised 94 Portuguese, 92 Filipinos, four Britons, two West Germans, one Canadian and four others of unknown nationality, ". the Red Cross reported. ' They included several,women and children and three of them were suffering from injuries, according to the Red Cross. They were the largest group of foreigners ever taken prisoner by U nita. The attack took place about 2 000 kilometres north-east of Unita's head-; '" quarters in southern Mgohi,l\;ndthere liao-heeafears the rebels would force , .. their captives to trek'.there o.n foot throlJg,\t tbebush,4S,was don~ with smaHer - groups in the p-ast ,". ~' - ' - -, > " • Instead, Unita took the prisoners across the nearby Kasai River, which forms the Zaire-Angolan border and handed them over to Zaire authorities at Kapanga, 1'600 miles south-east of Kinshasa. EASTER BUNNY SURPRISE EGG HUNT COMPETITION at WOERMANN BROCK ZAIRE TORTURE Here are the winnersofthe second draw: 1st and 2nd prize - RTrossbach, Windhoek; 3rd - Miss Petra Langner, Windhoek; 4th - Palmhert, Klein Windhoek; Sth - Gerhardine Kavateka, Katutura; 6th - Palmhert, Klein Win LONDON: Government troops in Zaire have ilegally detained hundreds of dhoek; 7th- M Stoldt, Windhoek; 8th - EV LOlsdorff, Windhoek; 9th - FE Isaaks, Rehoboth; 10th - B Knop, opposition party supporters and suspected government opponents in mass Windhoek. arrests, and have tortured and killed some of them, Amnesty International said. The international human rig -ts watchdog urged the Zairean authorities toset up an independent inquiry into what it called continuing reports of ill treat ment, torture and killing of prisoners. 'Coincidence' of the black principal Amnesty said more than 100 government critics were arrested between October THE IN'FERIM Government black teachers, or that the core of the had necessitated that he should be and January in the capital of Kinshasa, and in Kasai Oriental region.