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Bauermeester, Kobus: Director of the Administrator-General's Office, Seconded from the Ekandjo Bauermeester, Kobus: Director of the Administrator-General's office, seconded from the Ekandjo. Jerry: internal SWAPO leader. office of the South African State President. Eksteen, Riaan: South African Ambassador to the UN. Beavan, Keith: UN staff member, UNTAG Regional Director at Tsumeb. ELCIN: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia. Berker, Hans: Judge President of the High Court of Namibia. Engelbrecht, Angel: retired Windhoekjournalist. Bessinger, Niko: internal SWAPO leader, designated principal SWAPO Liaison Officer Eros airport: small municipal airport serving Windhoek (much of UNTAG's flying was with UNTAG until the return of the external leadership in June 1989. done to and from here). Bilger, Joachim: a politico-legal adviser in the SRSG's office. FAA: Forfas Armadas Angolanas/Angolan Armed Forces (replaced FAPLA in 1992). Bjurner, Anders: senior official of the Swedish Foreign Ministry. Fanning, Steven: UNTAG Police Commissioner. Botha, PW: South African State President until August 1989. FAPLA: Forfas Armadas Populares de Liberlafiio de Angola/Massed Popular Forces for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA military wing and official Angolan army up until 1992 Botha, Pik: South African Foreign Minister. when it was transformed into FAA). Bugaev, Oleg: UN staff member; Director of Internal Audit. FCN: Federal Convention of Namibia, a Namibian political party. Bushmen: or San, an ancient people living in and on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, Felsinger. Heather: UN staff member in the SRSG's office. legendary hunters and trackers whose skills were much used by the South African Defence Force in the border wars of the 1970s and 1980s. Fitzgerald, Peter: UNCIVPOL Police Superintendent in northern Namibia. Bwaklra, Nicolas: UNHCR's senior representative in Namibia. Frangipani Campino, Anna: UN staff member, political officer in the SRSG's office in Namibia. CCN: Council of Churches in Namibia. Frontline States: loose association of some of the African states bordering on South Africa CDA: Christian Democratic Action for Social Justice, a Namibian political party. (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, later joined by Zimbabwe and Nigeria. Ciss, Abdou: UN staff member, UNTAG Director of Administration. not including Lesotho or Swaziland). CIVPOL: also called UNCIVPOL, United Nations Civilian Police, a component ofUNTAG, Geingob, Hage: SWAPO Election Director, President of the Constitutional Assembly, first later becoming part of most other peacekeeping and peacemaking operations. Prime Minister of Namibia. Code of Conduct: Code of political behaviour drawn up jointly by UNTAG and the Namibian Geldenhuys, General Jannie: South African Chief of the Defence Staff. political parties proposing to participate in the election, signed by the SRSG and the parties Glittenberg, Hans: UN staff member, UNTAG Regional Director at Keetmanshoop. on 12 September 1989. Goldstein, Mitchell: UN staff member, UNTAG Chief of Security. Coetzer, Piet: Deputy Director-General ofSWABC. Gomez, Luis Maria: UN staff member, Assistant-Secretary-General for financial matters, Cohen, Linda: UN staff member, Regional Director of the Kavango region. acting Under-Secretary-General for Administration and Management at UNHQ during Crocker, Or Chester: Assistant Secretary of State for Africa in the Reagan government of Ahtisaari's absence in Namibia. the USA, author of the concept of 'constructive engagement' with South Africa. Goulding, Sir Marrack (Mig): UN official, Under-Secretory-General for Peacekeeping at Dayal, Vlru: UN staff member, Chef de Cabinet of the UN Secretary-Genera I in New UN HQ in New York. York. Gouws, General Dolf: head of the South West African Police (SWAPOL). De Klerk, FW: President of South Africa after the resignation of PW Botha in August Guerassev, Vladislav (Slava): UN staff member, Police Liaison Officer in the SRSG's 1989. office, all-purpose troubleshooter. De Rougemont, Nicolas: ICRC representative in Namibia. Gurirab, Theo-Ben: SWAPO Foreign Secretary. Diallo, Binta: UN staff member, UNTAG District Chief in Katutura. lIalim, Omar: UN stalT member, Deputy Director of the SRSG's office from April to Dibuama, Major-General Timothy: Military Adviser to the Secretary-General of the UN. November 1989. Diergaardt, Hans: Namibian Baster Captain. Hamutenya. Hidipo: SWAPO Secretary for Information. Dobson, Sue: ANC 'mole' who infiltrated South Africa's information services and, after ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross. being assigned to its operations in Namibia, sought political asylum when an internal International Commission of Jurists: Geneva-based lawyers' organisation dedicated to investigation seemed to put her at risk. the rule of law throughout the world. Dodson, Christine: UN staff member, head of UN Staff Training. Irwin. Michael: UN staff member, head of UN Medical Services. Dos Santos, Eduardo: President of Angola. haac, John: UN staff member, professional photographer. Dreyer, General Hans: Koevoet Commander in northern Namibia. Jobarteh, Ebo: UN staff member, UNTAG Regional Director at Outjo. DTA: Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a Namibian inter-ethnic political party, principal Johannes, Axel: internal SWAPO political organiser during 1973-90, often imprisoned rival to SWAPO. for his political activities. Eckhard, Fred: UN staffmemb.er, UNTAG spokesman from June 1989 to March 1990. 394 395 Joint Commission: group of five countries which negotiated the south-western Africa peace Muchimba, Aaron: brother-in-law and aide to President of SWAPO, Sam Nujoma, political agreements, thus enabling the Namibian settlement to go ahead (Angola, Cuba, South Africa, organiser for internal SWAPO during 1974-5. US and USSR; UNTAG also attended its meetings). Mudge, Dirk: politician and farmer, former leader of the DTA. Joint Commission's Intelligence Committee: committee of the Joint Commission created Mueshlhange, Peter: SWAPO Secretary for Defence. in July 1989 to facilitate assessment of reports of military activities along the Namibian­ Angolan border. Mulsvangwa, Christopher ('Frontline Chris'): Zimbabwean diplomat in Namibia. Joint Committee on All Aspects of Impartiality: joint committee, chaired alternately by N,,,,,,b'an, The: Windhoek English daily newspaper. the directors of the AG's and the SRSG's offices, with a membership which depended on NCDP: Namibia Christian Democratic Party, a Namibian political party. the agenda. Set up by the AG and the SRSG, it held 18 meetings altogether, mostly weekly, NDI: National Democratic Institute, Washington DC-based NGO working for democratic between May and November 1989. Its flexible agenda included all and any matters which elections worldwide, international wing of the US Democratic Party. were considered by both parties to have possible negative consequences for the SCR 435 Negga, Blandina: UN staff member, Regional Director of the Gobabis area. process. NNDP: Namibia National Democratic Party, a Namibian political party. Kaiserstrasse: Windhoek's main city street until independence (now Independence Avenue). NNF: Namibia National Front, a Namibian political party. Kalahari Sands: international hotel in the centre ofWindhoek. N6rgaard, Carl Aage: The 'Independent Jurist' of the Namibian Settlement Plan, President Kandetu, Bob: Assistant Secretary of the Namibian Council of Churches. of the European Human Rights Commission. Katjavivi, Peter: senior member of external SWAPO. NPF: National Patriotic Front of Namibia, a Namibian political party. Katutura: Windhoek's black township. NPP-43S: Namibia Peace Plan 43 5, all-party lobby group campaigning for the Kaunda, Kenneth: President of Zambia. implementation of Security Council Resolution 435, which contained the Namibian Kelley, Peggy: UN staff member, senior officer in the SRSG's office. Settlement Plan. Koevoet: means 'crowbar', the counter-insurgency wing ofSWAPOL. Nujoma, Sam: President of SWAPO, ultimately President of the Republic of Namibia. Komati, Thomas: plaintiff in legal action brought against the Namibian authorities as a OAU: Organisation for African Unity. result of the public flogging ofhimselfand many other SWAPO members for their political Okun, Herbert: US Ambassador to the UN, Deputy Chief of Mission. activity, 1973. O'Linn, Orian: Senior Counsel (SC), later High Court Judge, Chairman of AG-appointed Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, of Washington DC: NGO maintaining a close commission dealing with allegations of intimidation. watch on events in Namibia. Omayad, Hisham: UN staff member, UNTAG's Director of Elections. Legwaila, Joseph (Joe): Deputy SRSG (from June 1989). Ombili Foundation: unexplained armed group with advanced communications apparently Liebenberg, John: photographer and journalist. working to support the DTA and UNITA in late 1989 from a base in the bush in eastern Lister, Gwen: Editor of The Namibian newspaper. Ovamboland. Lubowski, Anton: Chief Legal Adviser to SWAPO, member of the Windhoek Bar, Omega: one of a number of camps strewn along the Namibian-Angolan border set up by assassinated September 1989. At the time of his assassination he was simultaneously the SADF for the Bushman soldiers and their families. Secretary of Finance of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), Director of Omotoso, Edward (Ed): UN staff member, senior official in the SRSG's office. NAMLAW (a legal research group) and Assistant Director of Finance and Administration for the SWAPO Election Directorate. Ondangwa: large town in north-central Namibia. Opande, Brigadier-General Daniel (Danny):
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