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* TODAYt WOMEN'S PARTY THREATENED * N'AM ENTERS SPACE AGE * SPORT IN PICS ~ Bringing Afric~ South Vol.3 No.465 N$1.50 (GST Inc.) Tuesday August 02 1994 Koevoets force way into·Namibia Bust across border, cops"in hot pursuit • TOMMINNEY FORMER members ofthe notorious Koevoet unit yesterday forced their way into Namibia from South Africa at Ariamsvlei and started heading towards Windhoek. Home Affairs Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba confirmed last night that about 100 people includ ing women and children had driven into Namibia at about 14hOO while being questioned by immigra tion officers and police. He said Police Inspector-General RaongaAndima had said police were pursuing the illegal border crossing but added he had no more details. According to reports at the time of going to press, police had set up roadblocks. Earlier a police spokesperson said there were reports of people failing to clear customs, but no further details last night from the field. Democratic Turnhalle Alliance President Mishake Muyongo confirmed four of the DTA's members of parliament addressed the returnees before they came across the border. They may also be travelling with them from Ariamsvlei. Muyongo said the four - defence spokesperson SKULL DISCOVERY .•• A human skull was dug Alois Gende, Piet Junius, Dino Stuart and vice up in the centre of Windhoek yesterday by a president Katuutire ~aura - were in the South worker involved in the construction of the new addressing election meetings when they heard about Supreme Court opposite the Kalahari Sands the return. hotel. The worker came across it while digging. The Ministry of Home Affairs was reported ear This is not the first time a skull has been found lier to be processing the papers of some 500 former by builders. Over the last six years similiar members of the SA-led units, after Cabinet agreed skeletons have been discovered on the outskirts they could return to Namibia. Some were due to be of the city. Last year one was found by builders homeless from last Sunday, July 31, after being working on the new extension ofA vis, Didendorf, demobilised from the security forces and then along the Gobabis road. According to Dr John driven off a disused mine site where they had been Kinahan the skull was that of a young female, staying. believed to be between 13 and 15 years and 1,5 There are thought to be another 1100ex-Koevoets metres tall, and had been buried some 250 years in South Africa, but not all had responded to recent ago. The skull will be kept in the museum. Photo: Christof Maletsky . cont. on page 2 '-'\\'U\\\\\uu NUNW wants more say Demands representation in NA • CHRIS NDIVANGA have a reasonable balance which will include work ers' representatives in its structures. THE National Union of Namibian Workers, Asked whether the demand implies that workers which is affiliated to Swapo, is to forward are not presently represented in the National As exinolon, names of members to be included on the sembly, Esau said "we do not say so but at least ruling party's list for the forthcoming Presi within the new NA there should be a sign that dential and general elections. workers are elected and have a say". If the demand to include workers on Swapo's NUNW Secretary General Bernhardt Esau told a national list is not met the federa.tion will consult media briefing yesterday the move had been de RIGGIO TOBACCO OF NEW YORK - MAKERS OF THE WORLD'S ·FIRST KING SIZE members for a fresh mandate, Esau said. Made in South Africa LEX 710/23 EU cided on at a meeting of the governing Central" He said the CEC had reaffifmed its decision on a Executive Committee (CEC) held in Windhoek last political policy resolution taken at the last congress weekend. and had set up a taskforce of NUNW members to Esau said members ofNUNW affiliate unions are demanding that a new National Assembly should cont. on page 2 2 Tuesday August 02 1994 " THE NAMIBIAN Koevoet bust into Nam On appeal From page 1 Namibian has to be TREVOR Rhode, con cleared to come across," victed of defrauding the Ministry of Regional and bids by Namibia's am- he added. Local Government and bassador Joshua Hoebeb Pohamba said he did Housing ofN$76 326, yes to contact' them with a not have precise details terday appealed his sen view to registering their of the role of the MPs. tence . Rhode was sen papers and proving He said he hoped that it tenced to two years'im whether or not they are ' was nQ,t true that MPs prisonment by the Namibians. would be involveo in 'Wrndhoek Magistrate "s The Ministry of Home "obstruction of law' and ' Court .in August 1993 ~ . Affairssaidthemajority order ~ ' and. said if the AcconUngjo the'charges were turning out not to Namibians Rhode pretended to the Peri peoplewer~ U;ban 'Development B,oard be Namibians and not , "they should ~bide by that.he had.pas~ed ,subjeC!s their responsibility. the immigration laws' during a NTC 3 course as Muyongo said last and not force their way follows: engineering Sel night the DTA had ear- in"., ence79%; building science Iier heard "rumours" the The former soldiers 72% and engineering draw ex-soldiers may be com- went to South Africa in ing 81 %. He then applied ingbut had not heeded 1989 and 1990 and there for a position as a Senior them until yesterday. He have been various alle Works Inspector. Accord said the people had ap- gations about their role ing to the State, Rhode ob parently arrived at the . there. Representatives tained lower marks: 30%; 32% and 350/0 respectively. border post at 06h30 and .. ,,said they .do not feel con WOMEN TOGETHER •.. Head of. the Angolan delegation at the Southern Africa Preparatory The appeal hearing was Workshop for the fifth African Regional Conference on Women, Luisa Benadin Cadet, speaking waited al'l morning for 'a ·fidentabout their future pos,tponed to a date still to decision from the Min- with the African Na to a gathering at the National Art Gallery which marked the closing session of the workshop and be determined when the the launch of a photo exhibition on Angola. isterofHoineAffairs. "I tional Congress in defence will amend the don't know whether a power. grounds of the appeal. NUNW demands more say Making waves for Africa From page 1 soci~ted. agencies (in- and .would ?~ screened • GRAHAM HOPWOOD Namibian photographer John Liebenberg by call~ , c1udmg Its government) for fmal declSlon, by the • ,.. ing on Namibians to make concrete steps to assist meet Swapo "soon" and which touches the social CEC, on September 3 PAN African W OIt.ten s Day m NalDlbIa w~s the Angolan people. discuss terms of affilia- and economic well-be- and 4, Esau said. marke~ at the Nat~onal Ar:t Gallery on .Sun- "Namibians should start today and give what tion. ing of the working class." The CEC had set the day with the cIosmg sessIOn of a regional donations they can ... its not the size of the donation The meeting would be , The names ofNUNW protocol criteria that workshop and the opening ofa photographic but the way that you give it that makes the differ- guided by the principles members who should would govern the selec- exhibition on the plight of Angola. ' ence," Ithana said. of "aCtive and broader "enjoy priority" on tion of candidates to be Minister of Youth and Sport Pe.ndukeni Ithana * Namibian Wome? in Soli?arity w!th Cuba, participation of the Swapo's election list considered for the list formally closed the Southern Afnca Preparatory Angola and South Afnca (Nawls-Casa) IS appeal- NUNW in those activi would l-e drawn from aU These included th~t Workshop for the fiftJ:t Af~can Regional Confer- ingtoN~mibianstoassistournort,bernneig?~our. , ' .. ence on Women held m Wmdhoek last week. DonatIons of new or used clothes, medlcmes, ties of Swapo and its as- the federatIOn s atfihates candIdates .should com- The workshop was part of the build-up to the fifth blankets, canned food, and powdered milk can be mand a nat~onal ~harac- African regional Conference on Women which will made as well as funds for the purchase of medicines ter; bear m mmd the be held in Dakar, Senegal, in November and ulti- and other goods. gender of candidates; matelytheFourthWorldConferenceonWomento Donations can be taken to the Namibian Red reflect the skills in rela- take place in Beijing iri September 1995. Cross (in Robert Mugabe Avenue, opposite State BELONING, - . .. ,. ;., ~'" ~ , 'tion to constitutional is- ' The workshop in Windhoek passed a House), any church affiliated to the Council of 'n GROOT'BELONING sues~ ecohomic poI'icy 'groundbreaking resolution calling for the setting Churches in-Namibia, the Rossing Foundation in vir enige inligting wat kan 1ei tot die isues and labour issues. up of a Women's Peace Network in southern Africa Khomasdal or telephone Nawis-Casa for collection "The list should have with the aim of giving women a much more promi- (211721). opsporing van a political stature and nent role in conflict mediation and regional peace M<?netary donations can also be dep~sited in the Rudolph De Wet Moolman h Id hIt I processes. I Nawls-Casa account at the CommerCIal Bank of s ou I .aveban e eC orhea Ithana launched the exhibition by well-known Namibia, Acc No 1609034554. (word genoem De Wet), popu anty eyon d t ID No 580329 01 0031 O. Swapo party's natural constituency," Esau Laaste adres: Potgieter Straat Nr 9, added.