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11 January 1990 • , / HALF THE NEW POLICE RECRUITS ARE WOMEN - INSIDE TODAY \\ () AN ~(j ---- '--- Bringing Africa South Union body calls for public comment on draft constitution BY DAVID LUSH NAMIBIAN workers have called for the draft constitution to be made public and open to comment before it is finally accepted. In a statement issued yesterday. the NUNW, Namibian workers had the union umbrella body. the Na­ no basic and fundamental rights and tional Union of Namibian Workers freedoms, a system of "colonial (NUNW). demanded that 15 "fun­ , exploitation, suppression and oppres­ damental rights and freedoms" be sion" which the NUNW and'its af­ included in the cbnstimtion. filiates fought, ' ~ and --eontinueto By allowing the public to com­ fight". ' ment and debate the constimtion, the The union body recognised that" a Constituent Assembly would give fair number" of these basic rights people and organisations a chance to appear in the draft constimtion under take part in formulating the laws the article on Principles of State Policy which affett.them, said the NUNW. - freedoms such as the right to a "These are legitimate demands in living wage. keeping with the fundamental prin­ But the NUNW said it had fought ciples of democracy," the statement for these rights to be "automatic and SW APO President Mr Sam Nujoma yesterday chaired the first meeting of the recently announced added. ' shadow cabinet. Mr Nujoma said the shadow cabinet was to start work immediately on the process of Under the colonial regimes, said CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 structuring the ministries. See article on page 3. BE A PART OF NAMIBIA'S HISTORY! Your chance ,to create the country's flag, coat of arms, or national anthem ORDINARY Namibians are national anthem will be accepted after carded, thus explaining the limited "As a member of the Constituent mittee on Rules ~d Orders; MI: going to be given a once-in-a­ that date. time for entries to be sent in. Assembly I am not aware of the fact Hamutenya said the committee con­ lifetime opportunity to go d()wn Mr Hamutenya said the Constitu­ He surprised members of the press that the date for independence has sidered it of outmost importance that ent Assembly considered it vital to by hinting that independence might been set for two months ahead," he there' be maximum public participa­ in history by designing a flag, have a national flag ready to be raised come much sooner than the.oft-quoted said. tion in the design of national sym­ coat of arms or writing a when the South African flag is dis- two months time. Speaking for the Standing Com- bols. national anthem for their "Thus even though the time avail­ country. able for this is extremely limited, This exciting news was announced members of the public are encour­ by the Sub,committee on National BRITS TO TRAIN ARMY aged to participate in the design of Symbols yesterday when it invited ' the symbols," he said. members of the pu~Iic to submit BRITISH MILITARY advisers will be in Namibia next week to investigate assistance which could The sub-committee laid down two guidelines for participants: the de­ designs for national emblems. be given to a future army, writes David Lush. - In making the announcement the sign of the flag should promote na­ chairman of the sub-committee, Mr Itappears the decision has already Owen said yesterday a military train­ pared to give military training for tional unity and it should be simple. Hidipo Hamutenya, stressed that been taken that independent Namibia ing "force" would be arriving in independent Namibia's armed forces Any member of the public should although members of the public were should have a defence force and the Namibia next week, and this was "as we have done in Zimbabwe, be able to reproduce it using simple invited to participate it was not a , news has dealt a blow to the cam­ confirmed by diplomaiic sources. Mozambique and other African coun­ equipment and materials, and even a competition, and there wouid be no paign for an' alternative "develop­ The sources said a small team of tries" . child should be able to recognisably prizes. ment force". betweijl three and six military spe­ Dr Owen said assistance would draw it. He said the real reward for those , While accepting the i~evitability cialists was coming out on a "pre-' also be given to the police force and Although the nag may contain the whose designs are adopted would be of Namibia having an army soon liminary, exploritary mission" to ci vil service. colours of a party which took part in national and international recogni­ after independence, Mr Cees Strijbis, ' gauge the needs of a future army and In the meantime, Mr Strijbis said the elections it may not necessarily tion. who heads the development force the training it will require. he hoped the army would be "the be a reproduction of a party flag. Entrants who want to make their lobby, remains undeterred. And an anouncement to this effect smallest one possible", and that Designs should be submitted on a claim to fame face areal challenge as "We will carry' on to try and con" was made in the British Parliament thought would also bC given to the single sheet, A4 size, depicting the they will only be given eight days to vince people to think more wisely," yesterday, it was reported late last, setting up of a development force. colours of the flag, together with an submit their designs. said Mr StriJbis. "I don't expect people night. ' Hesaid that when the British train­ explanation of the symbolism of the , The closing acceptance date for to change that soon and I think most, British Prime Minister Mrs Mar­ ing team revealed the "billions of colours and design. flag designs is January 19. However, people need time to get to grips with garet Thatcher said at last October's Rand" it would ,cost to set up an The' sub-committee also said en- entries for the design of the coat of , tile thought that an army is useless." Commomyealth Conference that, "if ami.y, "that will frighten people off arms and the composip,on of the Visiting British politician Dr David asked", her government was pre- .. a bit", CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 . , . ~ 2 Thursday January 11 1990 THE NAMIBIAN BLOODY EPISODE IN SATS STRIKE YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO EVENTS WORLD-WIDE AT LEAST seven people are believed to have died following Tuesday's ing the clash between pro- and anti­ clash between South African Transport Services (SATS) workers and strike SA TS workers in Germiston was strikers at Germiston station on Tuesday morning. an "infamous lie,'~ police said yester­ day. Striking railway workers and ordi­ workers . •• The organisation also ac­ Police added in a statement allega­ nary commuters were apparent! yatc cused the South African and municipal tions that there were elements in SA TS tacked by SA TS-uniforrned men carry­ police of failing to intervene,.thus pas­ and the SAP who did not ~ant to see the VILNIUS, SOVIET UNION - Moscow showed signs of increasing ing pangas. knives; spears and steel sively showing support for the so­ strike resolved through negotations readiness to,accept a formal break: by its Lithuanian communist comrades pipes as approxim'll,ely 100 police offi- called "vigilantes" wh:o incited the were "ridiculous". and even to exploit the seeming rebuff in its 'perestroika' reform drive. In cers stood by. clash. .Cosatu said SA TS had deployed "There were only a few members of a report on Moscow Radio, a oorrespondenr in the Lithuanian capital, A spokesman for the South African anti-strike SA TS employees to foment the force on each platform when the the violence. Vilnius, told Soviet listeners an opinion poll showed overwhelmirig support Railway-and Harbour Workers' Union fighting broke out. With the arrival of (SARHWU) confiim6d the union's fig- , "This massacre has taken plaee'-ori for last month's move by the Lithuanians'to establish a separate communist reiilforcements, effec'~ve steps were ures iridicate~ . seven people 'haP di¢d. the very day that . SARHWU had immediately implemel.:~d in order to p~y. " At least 67 peopJ'e were injured, ! 2 . planned to report back to workers '~ ,end the fighting," reaa the ~,;.p state- criticiilly: and' the toll may 'still rise. around the country on SA TS latest of­ ment. _ , " " NI C'OSIA -Iran hanged 23 ctnig-trafflckers, the national news agency Ima . Thousands of SATS"employees have fer. Clearly there are element( inSATS Allegations made by ' Cosatu were said. Tehran hanged mbre than 900drug dealers in 1989. been on strike the past 1 0 weeks for .'and the SQuth African pOlice who_do called " propagandistic'! and "un­ 'increases in wages. not want to s ~ e the strike 'resolved truthful" by thepolice'and it was sug­ SOFIA -Comecon members worked on a form~la to salvage the Soviet-led The Congress of -South African througb n!!gotiations.·· read a state­ gested that the organisation' s state­ trade group which many accuse of stifling their'economies during four Trade Unions (Cosatu) called the inci­ -ment iS8uedpy CosaJu on Wednesday. ment to the media" may lead to further dent "a carefully orchestrated cam­ decades of rigid central planning. Prime ministers of the 10 Come~ori states, . Cosatu' s allegations that police viol~nce". , " • , paign of violence against the striking helped non-striking "vigilantes" dur- meeting for the second day in Sofia, were due to agree to the composition r of a special commission to rewrite the 40-year-old bloc's statutes. CHANDIGARH, INDIA - A Punjab police commandant high on the hit­ list of Sikh militants was killed when a bomb ripped apart his office, a senior DEMOCRATIC· police source said.
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