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- 1t INSIDE TODAY: MUN SIGNS SEVENTI-J AGREEMENT * WIMBLEDON LATEST-" SOc (GST Inc.) Wednesday June 27 ENGLAND last night sent Belgium tumbling out of the World Cup, when substitute David Platt blasted home the only goal of the match in extra time. In an earlier match, Yugoslavia went PLAN CLAIM through to the quarter-finals when they beat Spain 2-1. See stories, pics, pages 14, 15 and 16. SHOTD'OWN Army responds to TSins:abis base 'occupation scare' . ~ THE Ministry of Defence yesterday denied ~hat 60 armed men emment to disarm the men, adding operating from a former SADF base near Tsinsabis in that "private armed groups affili ated to a political party constitute a Bushmanland belonged to a private army. serious threat". A local resident reportedly told Defence spokesperson Paul According to the NSHR the men, another journalist the men did not Kanyemba made the denial in re wearing Fapla, Soviet and Cuban interfere with local farmers but that sponse to a Sapa report based on a uniforms, stopped an NSHR delega residents were still uneasy about their statement issued by the National tion with AK-47 rifles and light presence at the base. Society for Human Rights. machine-guns near Tsinsabis at the In a related incident, Major Taylor The NSHR alleged that about 60 . weekend. of the British Military Assistance . armed men had occupied the former The NSHR further claimed the Team (BMA1') denied that four BMAT SADF base near Tsinsabis. armed men interrogated members of officers were held at gunpoint by Kanyemba confirmed the presence the group in a provocative manner. former Plan combatants in the north of the men at the base but he categori Sapa reported that the police at last Wednesday. cally stated that they were members Tsumeb, apparently. incorrectly, .Major Taylor said the men were of the Namibian Defence Force, and •• confinned ' , that the men at Tsinsa only temporiuily detained by mem not a private army of a particular bis were neither from the police nor bers of the new Defence Force while political party. the n1ilitary. In its statement, the their identities were being established, The group at T~.nsabis was a pla NSHR appealed to the Nanubian Gov- and theyhad been treated well. toon of the special Plan battalion from Angola that entered the country on April 16 together with military hardware donated by Swapo. " Key Angolan meeting today Before being deployed to Tsinsa bis, members of the platoon were LUANDA: THE Angolan Government will hold a key policy inducted as fully-fledged members meeting today before an expected resumption of talks with Unita of the new Defence Force at the rebels early next month to end the country's 15-year-old civil Grootfontein n1ilitary base. BELGIUM ON THE ATTACK: Sap a reports that Belguim . Kanyemba also confirmed that the war. provided much of the best attacking soccer in last night's men wore uniforms manufactured in State television announced details of the long-awaited three entertaining and abrasive World Cup encounter with England, the Soviet Union but he explained day meeting of the 74-strong central commit,tee, which was due but were unable to end a 55-year run without a victory over the that this was because uniforms of the to take place last month but was postponed indermitely without English. Above, defender Stephane Demol moves on the attack. new'defence force had.not yet reached any reaSon being given. Photograh by Agence France Presse. them. Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, in a newspaper The new uniforms were manufac interview last week, was optimistic that the central committee , . ~ ' . - . tured in the United Kingdom and not all theunits of the new army had been meeting would help further negotiations between the govern $WavleisworJ(er$ issued with the uniform. ment and rebels. - Sapa-Reuter ,:c:'dig in (~)vern~w .. .·. wage' ·nike. demai'1~ '/ . • " . ... J.; • • > SW A VLEIS workers have applied for an arbitration board to settle a "dispute" with management following a refusal to give them an increase at the beginning of next month. After receiving a 18 per cent hike He said workers also felt there had at the beginning of March, the work been a communication problem with ers felt it was in line with the rising the management for the last three cost of living to ask manage~ent to years. look into the possibility of granting If their problems were not given another increase in July. due attention, Mbazuvare threatened, The management explained that they would -take industrial action. the March increase was the annual Swavleis's personnel manager, increase and that it was budgeted for, Andreas Pienaar, yesterday told The but that no budgetary provision had Nan1ibian that an across-the-board been made for a second increase. wage increase was granted to all The workers would not accept the workers in March. However, no pro explanation anel argued that the vision had been made in the com company could afford an increase. pany's annual budget for a second According to the chairperson of ll1crease. the Swavleis workers' conmuttee, "I am not aware of any company John Mbazuvara, the workers de undeJtaking expenses such as increases THE Namibian Police this week started wearing their new national uniforms. Pictured here are, from cided to apply for an arbitration board whicharenotbudgetedfo~," Pienaar left, Constable ~arl Eiseb and Constable Raymond Isaaks (right) sporting the new uniforms. In the as they felt the issue had not been centre is Constable Paul Ruiter in the old uniform. The uniforms were manufactured by a Namibian resolved. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 company. Photograph by John Walenga. Curfew in Lusaka after 14 deaths in food riot LUSAKA - The Zambian government, struggling to quell food riots raging in the capital Lusaka YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO EVENTS WORLD. WIDE imposed a nightly curfew last night as the death toll from two days of disturbances rose to 14. ' Crowds of people from the sub- A government spokesperson an- police' stations, burned military ve- urb s are reported to have tried to loot nounced the curfew, effective from 'hicles and looted shops in several shops. Gunshots have again been heard 6pm, on state-controlled radio and areas. Central Lusaka was sealed off Pik Botha,optimistic and the United Nations is reported to television as hospital sources said by police. have ordered its personnel in the city the death toll from the unrest had "They seem to be shooting people to evacuate their offices, reports SABC risen to 14. at random," one staff member at aboutEC declaration radio news, which monitors African The sources said 150 people had Lusaka's University Teaching Hos- radio stations. been treated, mostly for gunshot pital said. The riots were sparked by PRETORIA - The declaration by the European Community on Heavily-armed regular and para- wounds. the doubling in price of imp over- Southern Africa on Tuesday meant that in practical terms South military , police have sealed off the ' Thousands of police and soldiers ished Zambia's staple food, maize Africa's isolation had ended, Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha city centre. Shops and petrol stations patrolled Lusaka all day after four meal. said. have been closed and school pupils people were killed in rioting on President Kenneth Kaunda's one- have been sent home. Monday. time home in the Lusaka township of "On the basis of information avail initiatives. A report says President Kenneth Police and soldiers patrolling yes- Chilenje, about three kilometres from able to me there was, with few excep "Emphasis is placed on the neces Kaunda has cut short a holiday to terday fired guns in the air to disperse his present home and office at State tions, a consensus that President (F sity to achieve a solution to South return, to Lusaka for talks about the angry crowds. House, was among the sites reported W) de Klerk had already crbssed the Africa's problems throughpeaceful violence. Butthe rioters attacked at leasttwo burned by rioters. threshold," Botha said in a state means. The use of violence is re ment to Sapa on Tuesday. jected. By implication this means "What the declaration says, albeit that the ANC's adherence to the anned not in so many words, is that South struggle is unacceptable." Africa has regained international He said it was important to note No meeting the press respectability. One man has done that the EC supported the idea that that: F W de Klerk." respect for universal human rights The EC decided on Tuesday that would be guaranteed. sanctions against South Africa would "This implies that the' future be 'relaxed only when " clear evi constitution would have to contain a for SA Police's spy dence" emerges of continuing pr.og mechanism which would make it ress towards removing apartheid .. impossible for a simple majority to The decision of the 12 EC leaders violate or infringe those rights. had chosen to remain in the employ JOHANNESBURG -Mystery surrounds the release two weeks ago at their two-day meeting was seen as "Protection of minority rights is of the SAP and was still being de of a South African police spy who was held for about four years by a compromise, Britain's Independ~ not explicitly dealt with, but the briefed. the ANC in Angola. ent Television News reported yester concept is certainly not excluded." Constable Van Zyl was met in day. Botha said the declaration acknowl Law and Order spokesperson Briga standing in an elevator in Port Eliza Lusaka by two senior police officers British Prime Minister Margaret edged that conditions should be ne dier Leon Mellet said Constable Billy beth, his home town.