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* TODAV: ·PIK·PROPOSES S~ MEET.INGFOR ANGOLANS *'NEW lUBOWSkl POSSIBILITV * R1.00 (GST Inc.) Thursday October 221992 WHEN you buy your copy of The Namibian Join the rontline. tomorrow you will also receive a copy of the new regional magazine Af rica South .& East, . a continuation of the re gion's only current af fairs magazine Africa South. DON'T MISS YOUR COpy - which is completely free. For more details, see pH • • • • 31 In or 3VS ? hat will change on November • TOM MINNEV AS THE days tick past before the November 1 deadline for a Joint Administrative Authority over Waivis Bay, little of the nitty -gritty details have yet been hammered out. A key treaty on joint offshore islands actually Namibian-South African begin. rule reportedly still needs Still to be finalised is the to be signed and a date must question of which offices be fixed for the two coun the joint body will sit in, tries' foreign ministers to and accommodation could meet in the next 10 days if be proving difficult to fmd the deadline is to be met. in Walvis Bay. INNOCENT people are not subjected to police 'sting' Once the treaty is agreed Other questions such as operations to catch illegal diamond buyers, according and signed, both sides should how the business of the port to Namibian police spokesperson, Sean Geyser. be ready to nominate their can be run jointly will take Following allegations on NBC's chat show yesterday chief executive officers and some working on and none morning that the police's diamond branch sometimes members of lOO management of this has been able to begin tries to entice innocent people into buying stolen dia committee. Only then will Overall there has been monds, Geyser made it clear to The Namibian that the the work of hammering out little progress since Septem police only mount such operations when there is a the details of joint admini ber 4 when both sides ini- reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in stration of the port, town, diamond dealing. surrounding desert and 12 The talk show accusations were sparked by Sunday's slaying of two top policemen and Connie ' Babatjie' Campbell in a 'sting' that went wrong. Geyser said yesterday that 'a sworn afTadavit contain~ ing reason~ble grounds for suspicion has to be made before any 'police action' to ensnare illegal diamond dealers is undertaken. Such a statement would nor Jtlally come from an informer who would be involved in the trapping operation. Informers stand to gain a third AIMING FOR THE TOP ... Three-year-old Marieke of the value of diamonds seized during a successful Thomas shows how its done at a display for parents of this pre-school gymnastic group, coached by Jan Hattle. Young Lamb Grade A from CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 J>hotograph Lesley Paton R90.00 each. NEW No charge for for cutting-up. EVI&!NCE Boerewors R1 0.99 per kg INWEISSTER JOHANNESBURG: South Mrican For after Savimbi failed to turn up for planned Pork Chops R1 0.99 per kg . CASE eign Minister Pik Botha has proposed talks in Luanda on Monday. per kg that Angolan President Jose Eduardo Botha ~aid Savimbi had given him the . R7.99 ON SLAVING dos Santos and Unita leader Jonas Savimbi assurance that he was committed to find OF meet in South africa to f'md a solution to ing a peaceful solution to Angola's prob . their country's political crisis. lems and that he was prepared to meet LUBOWSKI, Botha returned to South Africa yester Dos Santos. - Sapa day after reporting to President dos Santos * See page 6 on his talks with Savimbi at Huambo, • See also, page 6 2 Thursday October 22 1992 THE NAMIBIAN / PEOPLE 'Great mali is mourned .Swearing becomes a problem Madonna craze mousANDS of people . LONDON: More than 150 gather~ at 9ndobe on people who stood in line in Sunday to pay their -last for Otjihase mineworkers the rain were 1lIl!0ng the respects to Elcin pastor, first. to buy US rock star Madonna's controversial ViDto Kaulinge, who died book 'Sex' yesterday. At last Tuesday. the stroke of midnight. Kaulinge's funeral cere· BOTH the management and workers at Otjihase mine wJ;1en British sales were mony was conducted by have expressed dis~ay at supervisors continual use of authorized to begin, cus the head of FJan, Bishop swear words against workers· despite mine regulations tomers who had waited up Kleopas Dumeni. banning this. to fopr hours outside Books The occasion was at· OnOctober12themine's pany's Disciplinary Proce- Etc pushed through a crowd tended" by thousands of of reporters and camera Relief Manager, John Stan- dure," the statement said people from all corner:s crews. Some people boogbt dish~ White, issued a notice Apparently the notice was of Namibia as well as three or four coPies. in which he stated that the . issued in the light· of ,re- ' f~om sister churches company would not toler- , peated complaints by em Vote or die abroad. ate the use of derogatory plo~ that they were being Reverend KaUlinge waS lang1,Jage. ', insul~edi ,. ' HOUSTON: "Keep me over 100 years old at the "Supervisors who make MUNshopstewardatthe alive until I can cast my time of his death. He W&'J themselves guilty of such mine, Marco Gerhard, told ~ote." retired physician the father of Ekin's bead negative behaviour will be 'The Namibian that every WORRIED WORKER _ MUNShop steward at Otjihase, George.Doc:Id toldbis wife, of the Eastern Diocese, subjected to discipline in employee was infonned. Marco Gerbard, upset over supervisors who repeatedly Reb&. Dodd, 74, was ad ApoDos Kaulinge. vised by his doctors last acccordance with the Com- when they started wodc, that swear at workers. week be needed to go to things like stealing and hospital for treatment of a added up to 450 109 out of swearing at work were bad relations between the to allow him to be taken to ICVCIe heart condition. B~ 6300000 possible voters. strictly prohibited supervisors and workers was the cIinlc, apparently one be refuled to begin the According to eleCtions PRO Gerhard said. whep he not restricted to swearing. and-a-halfkilometres away. 36(Ian ambulance·trip unI:il Vitura Kavari, the co~para reported the swearing mat Gerhard claimed that the Another worker eventually an absentee ballot could tively' iow registration turn ter on October 19, the writ treatment of sick workers took the man to Katutura be brought to him. "I'm mise could possibly be worked out for the local elections re ten. notice washandeq to was not taken seriously by hospital and had to undergo DOt leaving until I vote for out though." flected Namibia's high rural him. the supervi~ors who were an operation. .Bill amtan. I am not going An acceptable compromise population. "Far fewer people He said that workers were supposed to look after their By the time of going to . to die until·I vote Demo would probably be an exten are entitled to vote in the local powerless and charged tha~ teams. press, Standish-White could cratic/' Mrs Dodd quoted sion of about two days, which elections, since many live i9 nothing was being done to He cited a case when a not be reached for comment her husband as saying. could stop the grumbles of areas which have not been on whether any disciplinary political parties and avoid given municipal designa enforce the mine notice. worker got siclc underground steps could be applied. Royal stroll delays to the election sched tions," h~ said. "Also the , TheMUN man added that but the supervisor refused ule. requirement to produce evi BEiUJN: Britain's Queen By the end of last week; dence of 12 months ~ residence . Elizabeth n walked through 56,2 per cent of the electorate in the local area has put a lot the Brandenburg Gate into 'I won't run'-says Botes Eastem Berlin yesterday, had registered - still far from of people off." her first steps into the for the hoped-for 65 to 70 per Predictably, the Khomas TSUMEB Mayor Tonie Botes Botes says h~ is not a mem- copference at Tsumeb which merly c:onununist territory. cent region reads the table with has issued a statement saying ber of any political party at the attracted a wide range of inter- The.Queenisonafive-day Some 94 884 people have some 78 430 residents regis- he will not run in the forth- moment. est in the idea of promoting visit that will also take her registered for local elections, tered .for either one or both coming local govemment and ' He adds that he will not join ' industry and business in north- to the eastem German city while 355 225 are geared to electlOns" , followed by ,. regional council electioQs. fie" any party or organization be- eniNanubia. of Dresden. which was de vote'in the regional elections. Ohangwena (42 199), says he has been asked many , fore these elections "as it can One of Namibia's other stroyed by British fire Discounting about 50 000 Oshikoto (39 659), Okavango times about his plans and wants be interpreted as being oppor- hardworking and successful bombs during World War residents who are unlikely to (38 303) and Otjozondjupa to clear up what he calls "my tunistic and my bona fides can mayors, Hampie Plichta of II. , vote for various reasons, this (37807). personal position". ' be questioned ... neither am I Keetmanshoop, recently an- prepared to make myself avail- . nOUnced he had joined Swapo Prayers only Soon after the August 21 to who the respective govern able as an independent candi- and attracted some cynical meeting when Foreign Min ments will nominate as chief date".