1989 the Namibian

BUY THE NAMIBAIN - PUT YO.- NEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS! Bringing Africa South Tuesday April 25 TWO SIDE DID MEET despite official denials by SWATF that they had met with Plan leaders BY GWEN LISTER DESPITE an official denial from the SWA Territory- Force that a meeting took place on April 18 between officers of the South African Defence Force and Swapo ofrlCials, including two commanders 0( the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), it bas been established that Major General Willie Meyer led the South African delegation which included other prominent military men and Mr Carl von Hirschberg of the office of the Administrator General The meeting was also confirmed by a spokesman from the South African Department of Foreign Affairs. The Namibian yesterday published fused to medi8le between South Africa • front-page report which quoted and Swapo any longer, in view of the Swapo Information Secretary, Mr broken promises, and had encour Hidipo Hamutenya, as saying that aged the two sides to talk to one the meeting between Swapo and the another. South Africans had been prompted The meeting which took place on by the present state of deadlock April 18 on the Namibian border concerning the implementation of with Angola, Mr Hamutenya added, had been attended by two PLAN commanders ~ Mr Nahas Angula, Swapo Education Secretary. The meeting, at which Swapo had spelled out its 'bottom line' , had given the South Africans an ultimatum: either they decided to fight, or they decided to allow the Swapo combatants \Ul hiMcred return to Angola. The meeting of 'April 18, he added', had 'set thi agenda for a meeting of the Joint Military Monitoring Commission on April 20. '. Subsequent to this meeting, South African Foreign Affairs Minister, Pik Bocha, had announced that fran 1~ on Wednesday, South African secu rity forces would be confmed to base in order to allow Swapo fighters 1.ttIJIJf . " unhindered return to Angola dur Mr Hidipo Hamutenya ing the period in question" . The SWA TF yesterday strongly the MO\Ult Etjo Accord. denied that the reported meeting had The accord, agreed to by South taken place.. The spokesman described Mr J Josef with pieces of the shotgun he Africa, Cuba and Angola earlier this The Namibian's report as "nonsense at a local gun dealer. month, effectively provided for a and clearly purposeful disinforma ceasc:frre in terms of which Swapo tion aimed at repairing Swapo's badly canbatants in Namibia would be given damaged international image" . "free passage" back to 'Angola. Mr However it has since been estab Hamutenya said that South African lished that Map' Genenl Willie Meya led the delegation, which included The case of the had reneged on its commitment to the MO\Ult Etjo agreement; had es Mr Carl von Hirschberg of the-office tablished "interrogation" centres for of the Administrator General, Briga Swapo fighters, rather than the prom dier Serfontein, Officer Command ised "free passage" , and had further ing Sector 10, a certain Commandant "shot 18 Swapo fighters in the baclc" Bosler of the JMMC, a Major broken shotgun when they tried k> cross baclc to Angola. Vasaliwo, and another Commandant, ACCOIumg toMr Hamulenyd, ooth believed to be from the intelligence PEOPLE don't usuaUy expect to find goods that they have left for repairs to be sawed up into st>veral the Cubans and Angolans had re- or security section of the SADF. pieces and to be totally destroyed. But this is what Mr J Josef of Oshikuku said happened to a shot gun STOP PRESS .. : STOP PRESS ... STOP PRESS ... STOP he had left for repair at a local gun dealer. The barrel of Mr Josef shotgun thrown out. gun for repairs they had told him that Plan chief's broadcast exploded when it was frred and in ' Two union officials who took up the gun was damaged beyond repair. October last year he took it to The Mr Josef's case told the owner of the Mr Lamprecht said that they could Gun Shop in Gobabis road to have it shop, Mr Joof Lamprecht, that the not destroy a weapon unless they had played from Casspirs repaired. shotgun didn't not belong to him and been given instructiions to do so by a Residents of Oshakatl and Ondangwa were woken late last night by the The elderly Mr Josef bought a new that he must give it back to Mr Josef. customer, In cases were a weapon vob ofSwapo's Secretary olDefence, Peter Mweslhange, being broadcast shotgun from The Gmt Shop in March The two union officials allege that was unrepairable he had to fill in on from security force Cassplrs. of this year. However, when he re Mr Lamprecht had offered to pay Mr official form with the name "Can Sc>ura!s saki the People's Uberadon Army of Namibia (Plan) commander turned to collect his old shotg\Ul, Josef R50 for his shotgun as a gesture cellation of Licence To Possess Fire was calling on Swapo combatants to return to Angola. which he thought had ~ repaired of goodwill but that the owner of the arm" which then had to be handed to The broadcast was played continuously through loud speakers attached he was told that he was no longer the shotgun had refused this offer. The the police. to the Cassplrs. The message also reportedly repeated South Africa's owner of the shotgun, \Ulion officials further claim that the He said that once such a form had undertaking to conftne Its security forces to base for 60 hours as from He was told that he had traded the shotg\Ul was destroyed in their pre been ftlled in and handed to the po 16hOO on Wednesday. old shotgun in for the new one which cence, and that the peices minus the lice the law did not allow him to give Some residents seemed uncertain about the authentidty of the broadcast he bought in March, but he denies trigger mechanism were given to Mr the weapon to the former owner. but said the volee appeared to be that of the Plan chief. that he had ever agreed to trade the Josef, with the advice that he could Mr Lamprecht said that he had Spokesman for the omce of the Administrator-General, Mr Gerhard old shotg\Ul in for a new one. go and give them to his children to always tried to look after his black Rom, said in Windhoek that tape recorded messages by Plan commanders He alleged that he was pushed out play with, customers because 95% of his cus calling for the withdrawal were handed over by Angolan officials to of the shop and that an employee of Approached for comment Mr tomers were bl~k and that he could their South African counter.parts at noon yesterday ready for broadcast, The Gun Shop threatened that if he Lamprecht of The Gun Shop aid that not afford to upset them. starting at 6pm. ever returned to the shop he would be when Mr Josef had brought his shot- I ' 2 Tuesday April 25 1989 THE NAMIBIAN A blow(pipe) to SA-UK relations AFRICAN REVIEW MALAWI UNDER WATER - THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS "South Africa is to tbe loyalist paramilitaries wbat Libya is to tbe IRA," said Peter Barry, a former foreign minister of tbe Irisb FRESH noods in nortbern Malawi destroyed the bomes of tens of tbousands of people and brougbt tbe Republic. total number left bomeless by freak rains to more than 200 000. He was responding to scandal deto advanced Starstreak missile, which Many of some 20 000 people in few days. that the floods, two earth tremors and nated when a South African diplomat is made by Short Brothers. one northern district took refuge on Crops of com, rice and beans were a cyclone caused damage estimated in Paris was trapped in the act of The affair is certain to negate any makeshiftplatforrns which they built washed away in Karonga and live- at about 42 million dollars. buying a stolen British missile from diplomatic advantage gained by South on the roofs of their flooded houses, stock was drowned, Banda said. At first, the Malawi Red Cross Northern Irish protestant extremists. Africa after the clashes in northern the State Disaster 'Preparedness Last month, the government said diverted relief food to flood victims Payment, it is believed, would have Namibia this month. It threatens to Committee said yesterday. that 115 000 people, mainly in south- that was intended to replace local coosisted of South African-made arms. embarrass British Prime Minister "People have not fled from the em provinces, were left homeless cassava crops destroyed by pests. British Foreign Secretary Sir Margaret Thatcher severely, since floods as in other areas, but have after torrential rain in January and Banda said the Disaster Prepared Geoffrey Howe summoned the South she has for the past ten years de adapted quite ingeniously," commit- February caused widespread flood- ness Committee was still assessing African ambassador, Mr Peter Rae fended South Africa from interna tee spokesman William Banda said. ing. Those floodwaters destroyed the full extent of the latest flooding Killen, to discuss the matter. British tional sanctions proposals. He said that government officials roads, crops, bridges and rail lines. in the north. Ambassador Sir Robin Renwick also Said Mr Kevin McNamara, the and Red Cross and aid agency repre- The government appealed for 28 Southem districts of Tanzania have raised the issue in Pretoria. British Labour Party's spokesman sentatives visited the worst affected million dollars in foreign aid to pay been affected by the flooding, and in South African Minister of Foreign on Northern Ireland: "It makes (Mrs province of Karonga, bordering neigh- for emergency repairs and relief food.

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