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* TODAY: LCA UNVEILS ELECTION MANIFESTO * STRANGE TWIST IN EXAM SCAM * ANGOLA UPDATE * Bringing Africa South Vol.3 No.55 ht hits 1 DrOll / Court d ecides t oday TODA Y will tell whether -j KATE BURLlNG I Nl!1l1ibians go to the polls a week on Monday to vote in political campaigns are .; the country's first local and underway, an urgent appli health cation in the High Court ki regional elections. While the registration of this morning may stop the voters officially closed last ~ clock on the elections. month, lists of candidates The application has been ~ Malnutrition· levels rise have been compiled, and brought by UDF leader Justus Garoeb and NPF leader Moses Katjioungul'- , STAFF REPORTER who argue that Presidei1t SIGNS THAT the drought is now adversely Sam Nujoma acted outsirie his powers (, ultra vires') affecting the health of small children are re when he set the same dates ported in the Ministry of Agriculture's latest for the loc\ll and regional Food Security Update. elections. According to the Namib Figures for the North-East tics. Six per cent of babies ian Constitution, the regional Health Region (covering between 6-11 months fall elections should be held on Kavango and Caprivi) for into the same category, while a date AFTER the local cb.i1dren under three-years four per cent of babies elections, not at the same old show a steady increase younger than six months are time. in cases of severe and mod also listed as suffering from Sources involved with the erate malnutrition reported severe malnutrition. planning and timetabling of between June and Septem The same survey reveals elections say regional and ber this year. that 18 per cent of children local voting had been done Five per cent of children aged between one and three hand-in-hand to save money between one- and three are said to show moderate and time. TIle cost of mount years-old are suffering from . malnutrition, with 14 per ing two separate voting severe malnutrition accord ing to the September statis- CONT. ON PAGE 2 NAMI8IAN-A REGIONAL NEWS __,,",, __ Spaniards' arguments areSUNK ROLAND ROUTH I THE Windhoek High KATE BURLING ! Court yesterday dismissed a claim by three Spanish THE PRINCIPAL ofOkahandja Secondary School was ! fishers that Namibia does yesterday found guilty of stealing examination papers, not have a 'legal' north in a strange twist to this year's 'exam seam'. ern sea zone border with Gawie Bruwer, 53, was sentenced to three months' Angola. imprisonment, with two months suspended for three years, Judge Theo Frank said for his part in stealing biology papers from his own school. that in terms of interna His accomplice in the theft, a 17-year-old student who tionallaw it was possible apparently lives with the bachelor teacher, received the to determine the northern same sentence and is cl;lrrently imprisoned in the Oka border. handja police cells. Spaniards Augustine Bruwer, however, walked away from court on R200 bail Diaz Curracelas, the cap pending an appeal against his sentence. He appealed on the tain of the Xeitozino, his grounds of his age and his position as principal of the first officer Manuel Verte school. Curras and engineer Fran Meanwhile, Education and Culture Minister Nahas Angula cisco Perez Perez argued said yesterday that his Ministry was still awaiting a police in court last week that they report on further investigations into examination malprac could not be prosecuted tices, said to focus on a few invigilators in the Windhoek for illegally f"lShing in area. Namibian waters as there "We are eager to know what they have found. Obviously CONT. ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 2 Tuesday November 17 1992 THE NAMIBIAN PEOPLE Spaniards lose bid PSUN defends subject ~dvisors BB overdoses Cont. from page 1 gality of Namibian lawmak- I I THE Public' Service Union of Namibia Ministry of Education investigate a case ST TROPEZ, France: For- ers. was uncertainty about Frank said that in cases has expressed concern about allegations of misconduct and inefficiency against mer movie star Brigitte them.' Bardot was hospitalised Namibia's sea border. where there was a dispute aimed at subject advisors in the Ministry briefly to have her stom- . Defence counsel for the between two countries over of Education. PSUN added that despite the allega ach pumped after taking three men argued that the the boundaries of their EEZs Reacting to a report in The Namibian tions and 'harassment', the subject advi an overdose of tranquilis- northern border had been such disputes should be quoting the permanent secretary of sors had acted professionally through ers, medical officials said authorised by the Namibian settled between the two Education as referring to the advisors the right channels by requesting infor on Sunday. Bardot, 58; Cabinet. It was. contended countries through agree- being 'holed up' in the Marie Neefbuild mation and dialogue, but that nothing overdosed on the pills on that only the National As- ments. ing, the PS UN said this could be inter had been said apart from what appeared Saturday evening at her semblycoulddeterminethe Insofar as Namibia preted as harassment. in the press. Mediteranean villa where border. claimed an EEZ that did not The report in The Namibian, among "The Public Service Union of Namibia she was with her husband, Bertrand O'Ormale, and Judge Frank said that the cutintoAngola'sEEZthere others, stated that most of the advisors humbly requests the Ministry of Educa- . friends.lt was not clear if United Nations Convention could be no disputed over were 'disgruntled', that there were 'good' tion to publicly or professionally inform the subject advisors of what their future it was a suicide attempt. QD tOO Laws of tOO Sea (1982) where the zone ended and and 'bad' subject advisors, and that 'The health of Brigitte Bar- did not apply when Na- began. 'redundancy packages' were being pre in education is. Nuances and newspaper dotisnotacauseforwony," mibia'sExclusiveEconomic This made it clear that pared for them. clippings could be interpreted as one the Oasis Clinic said. It Zone became law (in 1990) Namibia not only had an . PSUN said if the subject advisors were wishes," the statement by Sammy Law said her stomach had been as Namibia had not signed EEZ, but that it was also "shiftless spongers and living offtaxpay rence, Secretary General of PSUN, con pumped and that she re- the convention. The con- possible to determine its ers' money" then it recommended the cluded. turned home on Sunday. vention could therefore not border. O'Onnale told reporters ~ be used to disprove the le- The case continues today. cently thatBardot was under ..;- ___________________.....:~ Exam scam 'not widespread' stress because of her work small area, the Minister said down by untrustworthy of as France's leading animal Elections go to court I Cont. from page 1 I rights activist. "There may be a need for ficals. They blame poor commu- I am worried that unless this some students to rewrite if '''Ire questions were hand 1 Borg and coke I Cont. from page I nications, insufftcient infor- situation is handled prop- we find the problem has been written onto papers, arxl trere rnation and lack of transport erly, it will discredit the serious in one particular may have been some attempt STOCKHOLM, Sweden: exercises would have been for the registration failure. Ministry ," said Angula. school. In any case, cases of to sell them." Tennis player Bjom Borg prohibitive, they say; oppo said he tried cocaine, "but nents argue that the dual They also cite long queues of He was keen to allay fears cheating will show in the The whole matter would I'm not a cocaine user". elections are guaranteed to unregistered voters. being that the investigations could examination results." hopefully be dealt with "I'm not doing drugs and cause confusion. turned away from registra- result in a massive rewrite Angula added that whereas quickly, with no question I'm not a drug dealer," he The bid to stop the elec tion points on the [mal day of of examinations as happened last year's exam scam had of it stretching into 1993. said in an hour-long inter tions - currently due to take the extension as proof of last year, disrupting the study involved the widespread "We will weigh our actions view for Swedisb.1V broad place from November 30 to people's continued desire to plans of thousands of Na- leaking and selling of printed very carefully to minimize cart on Saturday night. The December 3 - is also an at be counted in the elections. mibian students. papers, this year's seemed the effect on innoCent stu interview made the front The application has been Current investigations to be more a matter of memo- depts," he said. pages of Swedishnewspa tempt to re-open the regis pers on Saturday. In 1990, tration period, which, claim lodged against President Sam I ~w~e:re~co~nfine~~d~to~a~re~l~atI~·v~e:ly~~ri~re~d~q~u~e:s~ti~o~n~s _s~c:n~'b~b~le=d~~~~~~~~~~~ Borg won a law suit against Katjiuongua and Garoeb, Nujoma, Swanu, Swapo, the t the Swedish magazine 'Z', was unreasonably short. DTA, the WRP, and four in Kids suffering which published allegations Even 'with the two-day dependent candidates stand by Jannike Bjorling, his ing in the elections extension, they say, poten Cont. from page 1 Okakarara and Khorixas and Tsumeb districts have former girlfriend, that Borg tial voters - particularly in (Peter Kalangula, Elifas I I districts. No statistics exist been particularly affected used cocaine numerous the rural areas - did riot have Kanime, Victor Samuel and cent for the 6-11 months to compare these levels with while there has also been an .:, times after they met in 1984.