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 (middle) met with old time arch rival Administrator General and South African Governor, Mr Louis Pienaar, in his office in t~ e 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 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. 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 , 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 , 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 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 SWAPOL: " 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 , 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 's Foreign Minister, , 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 . 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. Neusel said. northindicated that they wanted to 19h36: T and T back to the north," he noted. "Having them in one exc"ius',ve area come to Windhoek and did not want 20hOO: South West News According to him the general out­ will make them vulnerable to attacks. We to go back to the north," the Rever­ 20h20: Supercarrier flow of returnees from the reception want to have as many erfs as possible end said. Tonight 21h08: Schw arzw aldklinik was "satisfactory." ' everywhere to promote our objective of The situation was now getting out reintegration," asserted the reverend. 22hOO: NewsIWeather The RRR committee maintained of hand and the centre at Dobra was Recently the RRR commiuee consulted 22h20: Insektegedrag that it was not in a position to solve packed to capacity. " Instead of four with the municipality on the details of the 22h50: Sport . problems which were arising from people in one tent we now have five project, said rev. Neuse\. 23h20: Face to face the security situation in the north, the in a tent," he added. The municipality' s response was tha chairman asserted. they could not discuss it then for there The comminee was in the process were still some legal aspect pertaining to of negotiating with the UNHCR on land allocation to returnees to be sorted low cost housing for those who want within the municipality, said the reverend. TRANSITION ASSISTANCE GROUP to stay in Windhoek. He then went on to say that the security "Our aim is 'to get the UNHCR problem in the north was s}ill no saUslae-­ tory. ANNUAL TENDER FOR THE RENOVATION AND involved in the provision of houses," The administration of the country, he ,. said rev. Neuse!. said, was responsible for the heavy pres­ MAINTENANCE 'OF EXISTING BUILDINGS AS WELL AS THE Three weeks ago, he said, senior ence of security forces in the north of the COMPLETE.CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL NEW WORKS FOR officials of the Windhoek munici­ country. pality offered the RRR committee a "The UN Secretary General's Special UNTAG large strip of land stretching from Representative in Namibia should move Hochland Parle to the Goreangab dam. for the removal of the threatening units in TENDER NO. 9-00443 The land is the size of about 2 000 the north," rev . Neusel concluded. Tenders for the above contract are invited for the period 1 July 1989 to 31 March 1990.

• Tender closes 1600 hr 1 July 1989

Contract will include: ANNUAL TENDER FOR THE 1. Kitchen/catering equipment RENOVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF 2. Air conditioninglRefrigerationNentilation plants EXISTING BUILDINGS AS WELL AS THE 3. Steam boilersIHot water Boilers/Calorifiers/Steam and Condensate COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF SMALL Lines and fittings NEW WORKS FOR UNI'AG 4. Industrial L.P. Gas Equipment 5. Gas meters 6. Electric Generating Sets TENDER NO. 9-00463 7. Control PanelslDistribution Boards 8. High'Low Tension SupplylDistribution 9. Transformers/switch Gear Tenders for the above contract are 10. Armatures invited foc the period 1 July 1989 to 11. Sharpening of Sawblades, Knives, Tools and Implements 31 March 1990. 12. Pumps, electric meters, pipework with fittings and steel structures 13. Water softners and filtration plants 14 . . Manufacture and/or installation of new equipment on above Tender closes 1600 hr 1 July 1989 headings. Documentation can be obtained from: Documentation can be obtained from: Chief Procurement Officer UNTAG Chief Procurement Officer UNTAG Attn: Mr Alex Yakovlev Attn: Mr Alex Yakovlev Troskie Building Troskie Building Leutwein St Leutwein St WINDHOEK 9000 WINDHOEK 9000 Telephone: (061) 229220 (Ext: 2258) Telephone: (061) 229!20 (Ext: 2258) THE NAMIBIAN Thursday June 22 1989 3

MURDER DOSSIER OPENED Police claim they tried to 'restore order' and arrest four friends of the deceased A MURDER dossier has been opened by the R undu police following a shooting incident in the town on Monday which claimed the life of I BY DA'OUD VRIES a civilian Mr Marcus Siwarongo. Shikukumwa," said Mr Ambrosius This was confirmed yesterday by a Smuts, who is also acting for the Haingura of the Legal Assistance spokesman of Swapol, chief inspec­ family of the deceased, said that this Centre in Rundu. tor Kierie du Rand. latest incident strengthens the point Mr Haingura further said that the Inspector Du Rand in quoted in a of view held by many that Koevoet policeman responsible for the death Sapa report yesterday that police were elements should be withdrawn from of Mr Siwarongo had still not been investigating the alleged shooting. Swapol. "The former Koevoet mem­ arrested but the deceased's friends Paulus Hamukoshi, left, and Theodor Amupolo, described their In the report Inspector Du Rand is bers are essentially military people who were with him at the time of the ' abduction from the Dobra reception centre by DTA members on quoted as having said that the inci­ and have never been trained as po­ shooting had been arrested yesterday Monday as 'a nightmare'. ' dent occurred during a routine foot licemen" , he said. morning at about 101100. patrol when the police tried "to re­ A spokesperson at Legal Assis­ According to him they were still store order" during a fight at a drink­ tance Centre in Rundu which is han­ under police custody at the Rundu 1 ing spot. dling the case told The Namibian Police Station. The four are Jakob IKIDNAp ' He further alleged that the deceased yesterday tha.t Inspector Du Rand's . Hamukanga. Gerhardt Shikukumwa, rushed at a policeman who fired two version on the issue was devoid of all Johannes Hihemba and Modesius waming shots into the ground while truth. Daniel. Inspector Du Rand conflrmed The teenagers were also asked continued from page 1 retreating. "The truth is that the men were the arrest of the four. He said two whether it was true that Swapo lead­ "The man continued to advance stopped by a police patrol on their were held for attempted robbery, one ees in the centre after what they ers took away food and clothing from on the policeman who fired a third way home. The policemen accused for assault with intent to do grievous described as a nightmare. exiled Namibians. - time hitting him in the stomach," the them of having assaulted another bodily harm and the other one for "We would not like in :my way to One of the white men then in­ report, quoted the inspector, said. policeman at the cuca shop. They obstructing a police officer in the , be associated with the DTA . When structed Mr Namhindo to take about The facts with regard to the inci­ denied having assaulted someone and execution of his duty. we went into exile, we fled from 15 DTA members, including the two dent published in The Namibian said that the policeman referred to It is not known when the four will colonialism and the DTA." returnees, to Brakwater and Dobra so yesterday do not correlate with those was looking for trouble. One of the appear before a court. The Legal They said that they had no reason that the returnees could identify more of the police. The Director of the patrolling security force member just Assistance Centre would be repre­ to believe that the acquaintance could people to be taken out. Legal Assistance Centre, Mr Dave started shooting next to Mr Gerhard senting the four. be harbouring "such sinister plans "When we arrived at Brakwater, against returnees," and that they eight people got off, and we drove considered themselves very lucky that further to Dobra.. On arrival, Mr TIT-FOR-TAT IN THE GREAT LETTER LEAK the worst did not happen to them. Namhindo ordered us to mix with appear increasingly to, be in a posi­ "Mr Namhindo told us that he other people and to pinpoint certain continued from page I ' I Koevoet carries out the same intimi­ would feel honoured to do us. the returnees whom we know." tion to playa key role in the success dation missions it always did. They favour of taking us to our home vil­ "We instead decided that that was render its members, in my opinion, or failure in ensuring free and fair have only changed their uniforms to lage, and for us to be re-united with our chance, and ran off to Untag unfit for continued service to the . that of police. our parents." personnel to rePort ~e matter. The police during the transition period, in UNTAG's 180-odd police moni­ "They are beating people, ripping "Instead, he took us to several of priest in charge of the centre, Father view of the need to ensure the neces­ tors in northern Namibia are over­ Swapo T-shirts from people who wear his DT A friends claiming that we are Franz HoubeJi. was called and he sary conditions for free and fair elec­ stretched and under-equipped, par­ them, crushing cornfields at night in lost sons wishing to return." arranged that we be escorted by Untag tions." ticularly with vehicles - and espe­ their Casspir vehicles," Hammock The teenagers said that Mr to the Swapol so that they could go In his reply, Mr Pienaar said: "I cially with mine-proof ones. _ said. Namhindo arrived at the centre in a with us to fetch our belongings from respectfully suggest that only after Swapol is supposed to be supply­ He said a UN military observer micra bus with registration numbers the DT A man's house, ' , reported the CUlprits have been adequately identi­ ing UNTAG with Casspiis which told him: "At night we just watch SW 58697, and initially drove them teenagers. fied, can one consider their fitness will enable them to go where police them go. We don't have mine-proof _--JQ..W s house in Katutura to drop off They said that initially, after col­ for continued service in the police. " do, particularly in those areas - often vehicles." ' '- luggage, and to tell a woman to pre­ lecting their personal belongings, Pretoria's governor also said: close to the Angolan border - which Hammock concluded that the UN pare some food while they were going Untag personnel refused them re­ "Accusations which are general and may still be mined. was in command in the north during into town. admittance into the centre saying they wide-ranging cause me some diffi ­ Sources in the north say that UNTAG the day, but not at night He then drove the bus to the D