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Trouble at Grootfontein *TODAY: OUR SUPER WORLD CUP SUPPLEMENT -NOTTO BE MISSED* - " Bringing Africa SOUln - ~ .-- FIGHT 'IS ON'OVER NNFSEAT THE stage is set for a legal RAJAH MUNAMAVA showdown between what has inevitably become two Swanu's Nora Chase, Ottilie Abra­ factions within the Namibia hams, Dr Abrahams and others who National Front over the favour getting together with the DT A front's seat in the National to form a new opposition party; while Assembly. Rukoro and Swanu veteran politi­ "The NNF has split irrevocably - cian Hitjevi Veii are for the status for good. It has been inevitable since quo in which the front, through its December," NNF information and president, is represented in the Swapo publicity secretary Dr Kenneth Abra­ government. hams told The NarrJbian last night. Abrahams described the split as , 'What remains is to see who gets " basically a political matter". the seat," he added. " Everyone seems ., 'Some feel they can serve our to want to go to court over it." country best by going into opposi­ He was speaking in the wake of a tion. Others feel they can serve the DAY is World Environment Day. Above: Pushing the limits · press conference by NNF president country best by going into govern­ NNF President Vekuui Rukoro " The quality of human life is inseparable from the quality of the 'Vekuii Rukoro who raised the possi­ ment, " he elaborated. Already there is talk 01 the Abra­ Il'n'vir·onm~·n t." says this year's State of World Poulation Report. bility of legal action over the matter. hamses and Chase taking up posi­ DTA as being discussed, two of the the quality of life for future generations depends on us. To At the centre of the split is the role NNF member parties - Swanu and the NNF, comprising five parties, tions on the DT A opposition benches their options open we must reduce population growth· and in Parliament with the DT A With­ the Rehoboth V olksparty - walked ,nr"'H,",., our planet. See report, page 3. should play in the future. out, the statement said. Key players in the wrangle are drawing such members of Parlia­ ment as Geelbooi Kashe, Chief Voting continued, however, with Constance Kgosimang of the Tswanas 23 votes being recorded in favour of and Dan Gotlieb from Ovambo. the move, one absent and 16 absten­ Dr Abrahams issued a statement at ­ tions. Trouble at Grootfontein the weekend saying -the NNF has The NNF has 40 central commit­ decided to join a new democratic tee members, eight from each of the party which is yet to be established. parties. Guns drawn as tempers flare According to the statement, the At a press conference yesterday, NNF has also decided to break its NNF President Vekuii Rukoro reaf­ 47 assault rifle. alliance with Swapo, in existene since firmed his authority as the front' 8 POLICE at Grootfontein are president and denied that the central RAJAH MUNAMAVA Some white bystanders are said to January this year. investigating charges that a white have been shouting and threatening While voting on the motion over woman from the town and an Another white Homan, Anita van to beat the soldier. Trouble was, forming one party together with the CONTINUEDONPAGE3 ex-combatant, who is now a der Merwe, arrived and reportedly however, averted when Swapo offi­ member of the new army, pulled joined in the exchanges. cials intervened and took the soldiers out firearms and_threatened to She is said to have invited a num­ to the Grootfontein military base. shoot each other during a row ber ofwhite men nearby to come and Commanders of the new army-are said to have accompanied their men last Friday. help apprehend the soldier. ~MINorrA~ The soldier is said to have gone to to the police station where they re­ ~ ' - ~ The station commander of the the vehicle anq returned with an AK- lated what had happened. Grootfontein police, Warrant Officer Lambert, confirmed I PHOTO COPIERS yesterday that the matter- was Run-up to Donors' Conference being investigated but would not give details. FOR THE BEST QUALITY A source told The Namibian yes­ terday that two ex-combatants, now UNDP foots the bill members of the new Namibian De­ AND SERVICE IN NAMIBIA fence Force. made a brief stopover at VARIOUS Namibian Ministers and their advisers will leave Windhoek before Grootfontein last Friday. the end offffis week on a "sensitisation mission" to various donor countries TELEPHONE The men had apparently parked as a run-up to the Donors' Conference to b!:l held in New York from June 21 their vehicle at a parking lot in the to 22. town when a white woman, a Mrs In response to a query, a spokesperson from the United Nations pevelop­ (061) 3-7350 Wilhelm, pulled up in a Mercedes ment Programme (UNDP) said the world body would be footing the bill for air Benz. tickets, daily subsistence allowances and hotel accommodation. One of the army men is said to A number of Ministers have already left - the Ministers of Agriculture and have cautioned Mrs Wilhelm' 'to be Housing, for example - and others would leave in the course of this week to careful" as she pulled in next to the various donor countries where they would conduct negotiations on various army vehicle. development projects for Namibia. The Namibian government would decide At this point, the woman allegedly on their representation at the Donors' Conference in New York, the UNDP drew out a pistol and pointed it at the spokesperson said. It is expected that the agenda for the Donors Conference swarite.. soldier, the source said. would be released today. 2 Tuesday June 51990 THE N'AMIBIAN SA heads towards ending its state of emerg~ncy on Jone 12 \f " CA~E TOWN - South Africa's four-year-old general state of emergency may not be renewed when it eXPl~es next Monday. Senior government sources have argument for continued sanctions is clared on 11 June 1986 amid coun­ indicated that circumstances are another motivation to end the state of try-wide unrest eminating mainly from EAST BERLIN - Scores of skin­ favourable for a decision by State emergency now. blacbmd coloured school children. heads armed wUhbasebaU bats President F W de Klerk and his cabi­ Mandela and his negotiating team Among the main features of the un­ and sticks brawled with East Ber­ net to decide in favour of droppulg have ·maintained that the state of rest were the "necklace" incidents, lin police, and 30 people were the state of emergency this week. It emergency is an obstacle to negotia­ people's courts often run by juve­ arrested, the East German gov­ was likely that some refined form of tions. Its removal will not only bring niles and the subsequent "troops in ernment news agency, ADN, said it would be retained in specific prob­ constitutional negotiations a step closer the townships" issue which resulted on Monday. lem areas such as coastal and south­ but may weaken the sanctions case in virtual military government at local About 100 of the young right­ ern Natal. somewhat during Mandela's US visit. authority level in all the major black wing radicals gathered around Althoughthe state of emergency is It is also likely, however, that residential areas. houses where they believed left­ the prerogative of the State President President de Klerk informed Man­ The state of emergency was re­ ists lived, ignored a police order it is certain to be discussed at this dela of the government's intentions newed annually on June 12. to leave and attacked the offi­ week's cabinet meeting. when they met at the Union Build­ It is understood that, as has been cers, ADN said. The decision will be based on rec­ ings shortly after the ANC leader's the case in the past, a security report One officers suffered a bro­ ommendations of, specifically, the discharge from hospital at the start of has been prepared for the State Presi­ ken nose in the Saturday night South African Police and the Minis­ the weekend. There has been a no­ dent's consideration. clash and 30 ofthe radicals, three ter of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok. ticeable shift on both sides towards President de Klerkhas indicated in of them West Germans, were It became apparent at the weekend reaching agreement on the state of his historical February 2 speech and arrested, the news agency said. that both the security situation and emeregency with Vlok predicting an in subsequent statements, that it is The gang of youths, their ages the political climate now favoured a end to the emergency while praising his wish to end the state of emer­ between 16 and 19, also threat­ decision to abandon the state of the ANC's commitment to ending gency as soon as possible. ened passsersby and damaged emergency. Umt:st incidents have violence and Mandela endorsing him Faced with the relatively improved two cars, it said. been declining to a point where they while criticising his own supporters. unrest situation, the Mandela visit The clash was the latest in a are confmed primarily to the Natal A lifting of the state of emergency and the meeting of the European recent series of violent attacks area and considered containable. can therefore also enhance Mandela's Community in three weeks' time where in East Germany by skinpeads, The departure on Monday of ANC status as a ·successful negotiawr, sanctions will come up for review, a youths with closely shaved heads depu ty president Nelson Mandela on claiming credit to the benefit of the decision to renew the general state of who espouse a hatred of foreign­ a visit to the United States where his fund-raising ANC during his tour.
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