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Tit-For-Tat in the Great Letter-Leak Dobra reception centre overflows - INSI.DE TODAY Bringing Africa South Vol.1 , Thursday June, 22 but teenagers from reception centre foil their abductors BY CHRIS SHIPANGA A FAILED attempt to abduct two returnee teenagers from the DObra reception centre by DTA members was eventually unmasked when the teenagers out-manoeuvred their abductors and immediately reported the matter to RRR and Untag personnel at the centre yesterday. Teenagers Paulus Hamukoshi and the reception centre at DObra, in order Theodor Amupolo, both 18, were to identify other returnees who were lured out of the reception centre on also from the same village. Monday by an acquaintance from On arrival at the centre, however, Olupandu village in the far north. the teenagers seized the opportunity The acquaintance, a Mr Paulus to run to both RRR and Untag per­ Namhindo, reportedly promised the sonnel to report the attempted abduc­ youngsters food, clothing, accom­ tion. modation for the night and a free lift A source at the centre confirmed back to their home village on the that this was not the first lime that following day. DTA members attempted to abduct The man's true intentions, how­ returnees from the reception centre, ever, became clear when he failed to pointing out that a similar incident fulfill his promises and instead took occurred on Tuesday, when there was ------fueteenagers to the homes and of­ an attempt to abduct another.returnee_ fices of the DT A where he intro­ Yesterday, the teenagers expressed duced them as " lost sons, wanting to their delight and joy at eventually return to the DTA." . 'being re-united with fellow return- An agreement was reached that the teenagers would be driven back to continued on page 3 ERASMUS CONDEMNS A TOP Swapo delegation led by Director of Elections, Mr Hage Geingob (middle) met with old time arch rival Administrator General and South African Governor, Mr Louis Pienaar, in his office in t~ e Tintenpalast yesterday afternoon for approximately 30 minutes. The two sides posed br iefly for some 'SECRET' MEETINGS photos. From left is Dr Ernst Tj'iriange, Mr Hidipo Hamutenya, and Mr Theo-Ben Gurirab at the far right. Also attending the rrrst meeting were Dr Mose Tjitendero and Mr Nahas Angula of Swapo and WITH SA NURSES Mr J.S. Bauermeester and Mr Gerhard Roux of the AG's office. The controversial and burning issue of the removal or Koevoet from the SWAPOL were probably discussed at yesterday's meeting. (Photo: BY GWEN LISTER Pius Dunaiski). TH.E SECRETARY of Health, Dr Louwrens Erasmus, approached for comment on a 'secret' meeting at the home ofDTA leader, Mr Andrew Matjila, with South African nursing staff recently, said TIT-FOR-TAT IN THE he strongly dissociated himself from anything of this nature. The Namibian reported last week that Mr Matjila had called a meet­ ing of South African nursing staff GREAT LETTER-LEAK working in the state ho.spital, osten­ sibly to discuss their pensions, but THE South African Administrator-General, Mr Louis Pienaar, yesterday announced his flat refusal actually to remind them of their to purge the SWA Police (Swapol) of former Koevoet members - in spite of growin'g demands by 'obligations' to the DTA. It was Namibians as well as by the UN Special Representative,Mr Martti Ahtisaari, that Koevoet members reported at the time that a similar be removed from the ranks of the police force. meeting was to be held with South Mr Pienaar's sentiments on the one reporter to remark: "It's like set up another joint committee "to African teachers in Namibia, and in Koevoet issue unexpectedly came to something out of a Walt Disney establish whether the counter-insur­ fact such a meeting took place, also the fore at his press conference yes­ movie." gency unit has been reintegrated into at the home of Mr Matjila. on June terday, and took journalists by sur­ In his belated letter to Mr Ahti­ the normal constabulary and whether 9. prise. saari, the Administrator-General the heavy armaments have been There are a number of primarily By all appearances, the matter of pointed out that "the special units to removed from Casspirs". Xhosa-speaking Sooth African nurses Koevoet members in Swapol had been which you refer no longer exist. ,. The Administrator-General sug­ at the Windhoek State Hospital, and raised in a confidential letter from Mr Pienaarpointed out in his letter gested that the mass schools boycott most of them, according to sources, Mr Ahtisaari to Mr Pienaar as long that Koevoet members were re-inte­ are eligible to vote in the coming aimed at getting Koevoet personnel Dr Louwrens Erasmus - strong ago as June 9. Mr Ahtisaari's con­ grated into Swapol as from Septem­ out of police ranks was "an orches­ elections. Mr Matjila's meeting with condemnation of the 'secret' cerns, expressed to the Administra­ ber last year. trated move to reduce Swapol's them, which he asked nurses to keep meeting between Mr Matjila tor-General almost two weeks ago, "Following the incursions of April 'secret', was apparently to remind strength in the event of a further and South African nurses. were leaked to the press inNew York I, most of them were recalled but incursion by PLAN". them of what the DTA had done for on Tuesday night this week. have since again been re-integrated In his June 9 letter to the Adminis­ them in the past, and to warn them those nurses who attended such On Wednesday, Mr Pienaar 'leaked' that a Swapo government may boot meetings that their 'professional in­ into the ordinary constabulary of trator-General, Mr Ahtisaari said that to the press his replying letter to Mr Swapol and do not operate as a sepa­ Koevoet was behind a "terror cam­ them out of the country. tegrity' was at stake. Ahtisaari - dated June 21. Journalists rate unit," he said. paign" . When approached for comment, It would be of interest for readers are speculating that Mr Pienaar had In an effort to reassure Mr Ahti­ Dr Erasmus said the meeting had to know whether the Secretary of The Special Representative called only written his reply to Mr Ahtisaari saari, the Administrator-General taken place without his knowledge National Education will similarly for them to b~emov ed from the yesterday, and immediately released added: "The green uniforms of the and most certainly without his con­ dissociate himself from , and con­ ranks of SW APOL: " The activities this reply to the press in 'retaliation' sent. He did not approve of such demn, meetings with South African former special unit are no longer in in which they have been engaged for the leak in New York. evidence." meetings, and he wished to remind teachers and DTA leadership. This 'til-for-tat' strategy caused Mr Pienaar said he was prepared to continued on page 3 2 Thursday June 22 1989 THE NAMIBIAN ALIVE AND WELL SWAPO supporters In the Caprivl report that members of the DTA are spreading d1slnformatlon that returned Swapo leader, Mr Richard Kapelwa, has not In fact arrived back In the country and that he is 'dead'. Pictured outside the Tlntenpalast yesterday however, was Mr Kapelwa, alive and well, with Mr Johnny ya Otto, who will head Swapo's electoral team In A DTA delegation yesterday ended a visit to West Germany, where Windhoek. Mr Kapelwa told reporters he expected to visit the it met West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher Caprlvl region later In the week. and Minister of Economic Co-operation Dr Jurgen Warnke. It also met Austrian government representatives. The DTA discussed financial aid to Namibia, following up a suggestion made by South Africa's Foreign Minister, Pik Botha, that West Germany should begin aid to Namibia as soon as possible - even before the November election. Namibia's present bankruptstate;according to which it does not know where funds are to come from to cover this year's government expenqiture, may be providing an opportunity for the DTA to claim it has saved the country from administrative collapse - if West Germany consents' to come to the rescue before independence. Meanwhile Britain yesterday became the third European government to agree to meet the DT A. A diplomatic note was handed to the delegation visiting Bonn on the instructions of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It outlined preparations for talks between the party's representatives and returnees who were The reception centre could roughly erven, he said. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. presently at the Dobra recep­ house about 2040 people. This nwn­ The land, according to him, was tion centre "simply do not want ber was already exceeded. offered to them to build low cost to leave" the centre to go back • 'This can cause an interruption in houses. The municipality, he added, to their homes in the far north. the repatriation of other returnees to claimed that it had no funds to build the DObra reception centre," Rev. houses and wanted to hand the prob So said Reverend Wilfried Neusel, 17h58: Prograrnrooster Neusel said. lem over to the RRR committee. chairman of the RRR committee of 18hOO: Lion Bible Stories Already, said the reverend, the The RRR committee in return the Council of Churches in Namibia. 18h05: Cartoon library ablution and kitchen facilities were objected to the large strip of land On the voluntary repatriation forms 18h21: Educational programmes over-burdened. because it would not serve their ob­ the pebple indicated their fmal desti­ 18h46: World of Guiness Records "Maybe the UNHCR was not aware jective of reintegrating the returnees TV nation. "Those originating from the 19h1l: Land en Sand that these people did not want to go into the society, rev.
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