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A.S Controversy .Rageson> J * TODAY: 'DIE KAPENAAR' RAIDED * NEW-SYL EXE-CUTIVE * COMMUNITY COURTS PLANNED * } '. Bringing Africa South Vol.2 No.603 Nam warning World Cup Wins for u-19s THE Namibian nationalu nder~19 soccer team, playing in their rll'st international competition, yesterday did the nation proud, winning both their opening matches at the World Youth Cup played in Helsinki, Finland. The Namibian juniors defeated hosts Finland . 3·1 in their openiogmatcb and continued their for Koevoet devastating form in the second match which saw them maul Denmark 4·0. It is the rrrst time that a Nandbian national ­ t~am ' has-represented the country in a World a.s controversy .rageson> Cup so~cer event. NAMIBIAN Home Affairs Minister, Hifikepu­ ~--------------~ nye Pohamba, said yesterday that Namibians now.serving with Koevoet in South Africa and. who try to return home on South African passports would be refused entry at the bor~ der. Pohamba said the details of these expatriates constitution forbade dual -so they could be stripped of citizenship and Namibians their N amibian citizenship. from 'Serving in the anned Pohamba said that the forces of another country. Namibian constitution and Anyone found guilty of ei­ the Citizenship Act stated ther would have to answer that no Namibian citizen, in a court oflaw. by birth or descent, could The presence ofKoevoet have their citizenship re­ elements in South Africa has voked. They could, how­ come under the spotlight ever, renounce it and apply with allegations that they to have it reinstated at a were involved in the recent later stage. ' Boipatong Massacre, in Pohamba added that the which 42 people, including constitution forbade dual a nine-month old baby, were citizenship and Namibians killed. from serving in the anned According to an NBe forces of another country. news report in Windhoek, Anyone found guilty of ei­ Pohamba denied reports that ther would have to answer the Namibian Government had asked South Africa for RAMBO AT WAR •.• Slavonski Brad, Croatia • Croatian soldiers from Virovitica proudly display a 'Rambo' flag on a trudc. taking them to Slavonski Brod to reinforce local units after recent Serbian attacks. Photo: Agence France~Presse Tuesday July 7 992 THE NAMIBIAN Basic- - health" CANADlAN HIGH COMMISSION HAS A . ., VACANCY FOR A.SECRETARY thrashed out Applicant should be fully billingual EnglishlAfrikaans with good writing skills. Woi1<ing' knowledge of French language 'would be an asset. Ability to function independently, operate .in ~ the. north- - wo~d pr,ocessor / personal computer using Word Perfect 5.1, telex and fax machine. Application together with. current OSWALD SHIVUTE IN OSHAKATI references should be addressed to Administrative officer, PO Box 2147, Windhoek. Starting salary will be in range of A 'five-day workshop on t~e control of diseases related to R2208 - 25S2 per month, depending on 'experience and diarrhoea took place at Oshakati State Hospital. qualifications. Stenlming from this, recommendations will be made advising primary health care workers·in the region how to be most effective against these diseases. Opening the conference, hospital superintendent Dr Nafta1i Hamata said PHCworkers had achieved good results in the villages and that in some places, missionaries and other tlpt church workers acted as 'general health assistants' on top of their usual duties. BRANCH MANAGER Hamata said a big post-independence effort by health workers in the Omikundas (villages), districts, and the CONSTRUCTION· ZIMBABWE region as a whole had brought increased health awareness. "The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) is Salruy vexy neg, housing, school fees, . continuing, with children immunised against measels, whooping cough, TB, tetanus, diphtheria and polio," said car alow. Must have mini-mum 10 Hamata. years electrical cqntracting experi­ But he warned that no effective -vaccines against di­ ence on large commercial buildings, arrhoea! diseases had been developed. Only 'on the ground' hospitals etc. and good commercial _ training of mothers could prevent unneccesary deaths from diarrhoea. background for position in Zim­ THE Namibian is published by the Free Press of This was currently being done by some 32 bicycle-riding babwe. Must have Zimbabwean village health workers in the region. Namibia, 42 John Meinert Street, Windhoek. passport, good prospects for the fight Hamata also pleaded with the Ministry of Education and Editor: Gwen Lister. Printed by John Meinert Culture to help provide health education to youngsters, man. (Pty) Limited, Stiibel Street, Windhoek. and with the Agriculture, Water and Rural.Development Telephone: (rJ51) .36970/1/2/3j4; Fax: (061) 33980; Ministry to ensure sufficient fresh, local water. Phone Maurice ' He also asked the Ministry of Local Government and Tefex: (~1) 3032,. Housing to build suitable, affordable houses prevent (Olll4,63 -.1712/6 8 am ~ - 8p~ to ~ostal AdQre~s: PO Box ~0783, Windboek, diseases caused by overcrowding, and hoped the Ministry ·~rupibia. • of Information and Broadcasti~g'Yoqld ~o its bit to en,sure the spr~~ of healthjnformatioJlo throughoufthe region. PR~STI :G~ . ~'- REALESTATE . - . Tel: 224656/224153 City Office • • 212640 Khomasdal Office "The work is not .yours to in i court of law. Foreigners and former mer­ complete and you are not free to cenaries who served in Koevoet ,. could be declared undesirable if they attempted to return to desist from it. " Namibia. Over 1 000 members of the former police counter-insur­ gency unit, Koevoet (which means c~owbar in Afrikaans) that viciously opposed Swapo's nationaIliberation struggle, re- . portedly moved 'to South Af­ rica just before and after Na­ mibi.an independence in March 1990. News reports have linked both Koevoet, as well as 32 Battal­ ion, to violent incideots in South Africa. Last week the Namib­ ian Govemrnent crodemned the involvement of people ofNa­ mibianorlgininSouthAfrican affairs. Annelise Meanwhile the African ~a, tionaI Congress (ANC) stand HOCHLANDPARK on Koevoet is well-known. 1hey Marianne have called for the demobili­ PLOTAND PLAN sation and 'disanning of the police unit, and requested that Hurry!! Hurry!! Hurry!! they be confined to bases. Only five plots' left Vivienne The ANC has also queried the numbers of Koevoet members presently in South * Luxury three bedroom houses with b.i.c Christiane .Africa, where they have come * 2 Bathrooms '- Colour suites from and the modalities sur­ rounding their presence in thAt * Lounge / Dining . Katja country. * Fully fitted modern kitchen Last week Pan Africanist Price R132 500 - R154 500 Congress (PAC) Deputy Presi­ In lieu of flowers you may contribute to the dent, Dikgang Moseneke, called for the immediate expulsion Contact your friendly agents fund for the promotion of the education of law from South Africa of what he Gert, Mona, Annelise and Nimrod referred to as foreign merce­ students in Namibia. nary annies, ~ch as 32 Battal­ ion and Koevoet. - Sapa and Own Reporters. THE NAMIBIAN Tuesday July 7 19923 Ref(irming a giant The debate KOSIE Pretorius (ACN) started debate in tones of national reconciliation as he said he is moving ever , Tea~her: pupil ratios range saw school authorities as part , closer to Minister Angula and quoted the Swapo TOM MINNEY from one for every 4is~~ of the colonialists, they are manifesto. dents in the Ondangwa re-~ginning to realise that However, Pretorius slammed the changes as "revolutionary NEARLY a fifth of all the Government's spending gion to one for 22 at Keet- education is for them. not evolutionary" and accused education of being a R700 goes on education including providing public schools ' manshoop audone for 23 in Scbools have to play a part million luxury jet to be flown through stormy weather without for 456353 students, more than half oftbem girls. Windhoek. Two out of five in helping develop demo- a pilot's licence. Festus Kamburona (DTA) called for more Yesterday Education and many hours., non-teaching staff and two cratic citizens through en- classrooms and teachers in the east and for crash courses for out of three music, guid- couraging students and teachers in English, particularly for mafuematics and natural Culture . Minister Nahas The total vote for educa­ rep_ Angula gave a progress tion is R695 million, some ance and remedial teachers resentative councils to play science. and librarians are in the a part' in solving- school Anna Frank: (DTA), a keen promoter of national literacy .report on how he had pro­ 19 per cent of all the Gov­ Windhoek region. problems. programmes: spoke of the late arrival of textbooks and said gressed in "lifting educa­ ermilent's spending. Of this The Ministry is striving In the next 10 years all while she fully supported the Government's high ideals these tion out of the apartheid R462,3 million is for pay, were often not lived up to. Frank: said an earlier ministry report to change the language of textbooks and many ~econ- morass and placing it into pensions ~d other service, had admitted that nine out of 10 schools were ''unsatisfactory''. the limelight of enlighteQ.­ while R53 million subsidises instruction to English. It aims dary schools built of pre- Moses Katjiuongua (NPF) suggested Namibia should not ment and true learning." 55 000 hostel boarders (R964 to change the whole style of fabricated materials must be follow other countries and create "a huge army of educated All sides in the National each). ' teaching from the. system replaced and all teachers will unemployed" with inappropriate qualifications to the jobs Assembly seemed to feel Angula explained there are inherited from South Africa' have to be retrained. The · available. lie urged more discipline and that students be education is top prionty and 1 314 public schools with to one of focus sing on the Ministry is trying to involve involved in cleaning schools and again sparked debate on debate was generally care­ 12 682 classrooms and 14 children's development and communities, SUCLl as the Namlish.
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