,.•. .' * TODAY: NEW EVIDENCE"INOSHAKATI SHOOT-OUT CASE * CENSUS COMPROMISE ON WALVIS? * I~ I/I"'-a--f~ -- 50c (GST Inc.) Friday October 251991 IN THE NEWS TODAY * 'JOINT ADMINISTRATION OF WALVIS A SHAM' * KOEVOET ALIVE AND WELL IN SOUTH AFRICA * NAMIBIA'S YOUNG SCIENTISTS DO WELL ••• * ZAMBIAN ELECTIONS GET A ROCK BEAT * COUNTDOWN TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE SUMMIT * GUITAR .GURU, MISS SA DUE IN NAMIBIA * READERS LETrERS, FULL TV GUIDE Refugees on SWINGING SISTERS ... Step back Pointer Sisters. Watch it Sisters Sledge and check ' it out Ritchie Family· this is South Africa's own dynamic sister trio· the sizzling Syndicate Sisters of Every Song fame. Namibian groove~s will surely see and hear edge as they more of the electrifying Sisters. All tracks will lead to the one and only Independence Arena in Katutura next Saturday, November 2, when this hot trio will be turning the tables upside down. See also report, p32. Photograph: Stanley Katzao. New evidence wait for news Owambo school emerges in . -, trial of . ' . • ~: - ,,, ••. -, .... ~ c· ... ~.:, .• - t; -."" 'floats' in a ~Pfan fi'ghters'" elr .ate COURT REPORTER THE FATE of three political refugees living in STAFF REPORTER sea of.sewage SOME witnesses in the Os­ Windhoek was hanging in the balance yesterday my two colleagues away with hakati shoot-out case maybe after a mysterious train of events which they al. recalled to give evidence again them but I explained that they after the Windhoek High Court leged was harrassment by Namibian immigration had both gone through the Health problems feared yesterday heard that a R5 rifle officials. official UN channels, " he said. was found next to the body of One of the refugees is fully . Katutura. At that point, the police, who TOMMINNEY Sergeant Daniel Francois van recognised by both the Minis­ Without showing any iden­ Kitonga said were armed, der Westhuizen. try of Home Affairs and the tification. the men made their decided to leave the men at the MORE THAN 900 cbildren at a secondary school have Van der Westbuizen was shot United Nations HighCommis­ way into the house and began house, but said they must re­ to walk, eat and sleep among lakes of stinking sewage in and killed on April 18 last year sion for Refugees (UNHCR), rummaging through the refu­ port at the Ministry of Home a crisis that began several weeks ago. But the problem at a house in former 'white one has been endorsed by the gees' belongings, said the Affairs the followiIig mom­ seems common in 26 or 27 overcrowded northern schools o shakati', after he, another UNHCR, while the third is woman. ing. registered but has not yet been They told her they were When the refugees arrived and could escalate into a serious health risk when the policeman and Hendrik Louis Botha wentto ahouse toinves­ interviewed by the UN. searching for illegal refugees at the immigration offices rainy season begins. tigate a report of alleged ille­ Problems reportedly began and that they would retum at . yesterday, they saw David The sewage at Nujoma Sec­ worsened in northem hostel gal weapons stored there as for Peter Kitonga from Kenya, 2OhOO to pick the men up. At Shimwino, Deputy Director of ondary School in Oshikuku, schools since independence. well as the alleged illegal Joseph Makoye and Mosi Noti, 21hOO, when the refugees were hnmigration. According to Owarnbo, backs up from man­ Schools built for 500 or 600 ocupation of the house. both from Mozambique, when back at the house, seven men Kitonga, Shimwino said his holes in the donnitories and pupils are now accommodat­ Two former Plan fighters, they were visiting friends on did indeed retum and entered department had heard stories hostels, floods out into the yard ing up to 1 200 and sewage Matty Heita and Michael Ka­ Wednesday moming. the house through the back and of refugees in Namibia doing and even seeps into the donni­ facilities camot cope and flood lenga, are accused of having According to their landlady, front doors. bus~ess by selling goods in tories. With 936 students there, rapidly. intentionally killed Van der about 20 men, claiming to be They asked to see the refu­ South Africa. aged between 13 and 22 years, Permanent Secretary Vitalis Westhuizen and of trying to police officials and 'private gees' documents, but were only He reportedly cleared it starts as soon as they are in Ankama of the Education and kill Opperman and Botha by investigators', arrived at the satisfied with those of Kitonga. the hostels. The latest floods Culture Ministry acknowledged' detonating a handgrenade near house where the men stay in .. At first they wanted to take Co~tinued on page 2 began two weeks ago. the problem. He said that many them. TIle problem can also be seen schools are overcrowded and Kalenga and Heita have in other parts of the town, which are being upgraded to cope with pleaded not guilty to all seven is near a Lutheran Mission the greater demand. A mainte­ charges andhave told the court station, as the whole town's nance supervisor left this week that they acted in self defence. sewage facilities are inadequate to tour the North and the prob­ Further, they said, they had and floods of sewage can be lems at Oshikuku are known. been placed in the house by seen in several parts of the about. Oshakati has similar their commanders to protect it town. The school's own sew­ problems as there are 1 200 of burglars. age darn is some two kilom- . students in a school built for Kalenga told the court that eues away and although ex­ 700 and Mweshipm:leka SchJol he had shot at a white man tension trenches have been dug is also affected in that area. .. after four armed white men the sewage is flocxfing out before Budget money is already fired shots into the house" . He it reaches the dam. allocated for the capital works alleged that one of the white Time is running out, accord­ including the sewage system man had thrown a handgre­ ing to one recent visitor, as the and estimates are being pre­ nade into the house. rains which are probably due pared but the work cannot be Kalenga, who lost his leg in in December could bring chol­ . done until next year. In the the handgrenade explosion, told .t., era and give more force to the meantime, solutions are only the court that he had then taken North's major killer, dianhoea. temporary. Massive investment an RPK rifle and fired some A business executive who is needed to cope with the extra shots to defend himself. visits the North regularly yes­ demand. Opperman and Botha have terday told The Namibian of Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 NERVOUSLY AWAITING THEIR FATE ... Political refugees Peter Kitonga, the sewage chaos that has Joseph Makoye and Mosi Noti: worried about their future in Namibia. had been attacked by whites lenga to the hospital. office bearer at Oshakati, and that Kalenga had been Asked why he had ordered Holden Ulenga, arrived. injured. the policemen to put down their Bothahad been released and Shiweda said he had in­ weapons, Shiweda said he had the'weapons, anAK-47. RPK, categorically denied that they structed his soldiers to go back regarded them as enemies as RPG-7, two mortar shells, the were armed when they went to to the scene. they had been carrying the same pistol, radio and the R -5 found the house. When they arrived there they weapons which he found at next to the dead man had been Yesterday Alfeus Kalistu had fWlld Van der Westbuizen's Van der Westhuizen's body. given to Ulenga, who handed Shiweda, a former Plan com­ body lying next to the door. He He also told the court that it to the police. mander, was called to the wit­ was already dead. A group of one ofhis soldier had broughl Presiding Judge Bryan ness box. policemen had arrived, but a white man to him, who was O 'Lino indicated that it .was Shiweda told the court that Shiweda ordered them to re­ later identified as Botha. Shiw­ poSSIble to recallColonel Louw he had given Heita and Ka­ main outside the house. eda said he had ordered Botha and police officers to clear up lenga instructions to be in the He said that at this stage his to lie on his stomach next to the matter ofthe R5 rifle found house and to protect it. He said men were on the alert for Van der Westhuizen. next to Van der Westhuizen's that on the day of the tragedy, "anything that could happen". Asked why he had done this, body, the pistol and the radio. Heita and Kalenga had vIsited One of the policemen, W ar­ Shiweda replied that it had been Mzee Simon Kaukungwa, his house, only a few metres rant Officer Simeon Nghoshi standard practice during. the who was Swapo's co-ordina­ from the house where the sboot­ (now dead) then arrived at the war. He testified that another tor at Oshakati at that time, out took place, to get break­ house. Shiweda told Nghoshi soldier had also given him a will probably also be called to fast. to tell the other policemen to pistol and a two-way radio vWllch give evidence as some wit­ Afterwards the two menhad put their weapons in their cars had been picked up behind the nesses told the court that he returned to their house. as he was afraid that they' 'will house. had been the one who handed Shiweda said that a short shoot as they did to Kalenga" .