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DEC "SUE ND .9 D News briefs South Africans Deny Kameeta Passport Dr. Zephaniah Kameeta, Vice-Praeses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in SWA/Namibia, has been refused a pass- port for further travels outside Namibia by the South African government. Dr. Kameeta's passport expired in August, 1983 after he returned from a visit to Lutheran churches in the United States of America. Invited by the West Ger- man Rhenish Church to a special part- nership meeting in October, the passport was denied without comment by the South African authorities. (See interview Events on page 3) Dateline: Namibia Article Banned RETIRED NAMIBIAN EVANGELIST, 71, FLEES By South Africa FROM TERROR An article by Dr. Abisai Shejavali that appeared in the last issue of Dateline: WINDHOEK, Nambia, Oct . 20 (lwi) armed men to the local army camp at Namibia has been banned by the South —Namibian evangelist Timoteus Nakale Nkongo. Apparently unconcerned, the African government . "Repression and and his wife Hilalia had looked forward soldiers said yes, those are the SWAPOs Human Rights Violations in Namibia" a to a peaceful retirement, surrounded by who will kill you . When Trianus pro- speech given at the UNESCO headquar- their children and grandchildren. But tested that the tins were South African, ters in Paris and printed in Dateline, was now, because of the war and terror in the soldiers said yes, maybe they were banned by the government in July. northern Namibia, they have been forced bought in a shop. U.S. Bank Loans to S .A. Increase to flee their home of 17 years . They On July 6, a group of armed men According to the South African gov- are internal refugees with an uncertain came to the evangelist's house looking ernment news review of October 6, U .S. future. Born in 1912, Nakale was sent by for him. Nakale was not home . After Bank loans to South Africa rose from the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambo- asking his wife many questions, the men $1 .8 billion outstanding in June 1981 to kavango Church (ELOC) to the fertile left, heading in the direction of a nearby nearly $3 .7 billion in December 1982. Kongo district in 1966 . His ministry, area where a certain farmer, Immanuel supported by business people active in Shidolo, was killed that night. The wife, South African Says Reagan To Be the church, was to the Bushmen . He afraid, left the house, met her husband, "Even More Sympathetic" lived in the village of Ekoka in the and the two of them took refuge in a According to Dr. Michael Spicer of the extreme northeastern part of Ovambo- village some 30 km (20 miles) away. South African Institute of International land, at the edge of the traditional Bush- During the first week of August, Nakale Affairs, it is likely that President Reagan man area. With their 14 children—some went back to his home. The windows will win the election in 1984 and will natural, some adopted—fully grown, the had been broken, and the interior was then "appoint a new Secretary of State for Nakales retired last year. a mess of broken objects . Neighbors African Affairs who will be even more Their trouble started the last day of reported that the armed men had returned. sympathetic to the South African posi- May when a group of armed men came Nakale then went together with the local tion." Writing in a column in the South to the home of their son, Trranus, a teach- leader to the Ovambo police headquar- African Sunday Express, Dr. Spicer also er. Describing themselves as SWAPO ters at Oshakati . The police told him that stated that there is a growing suspicion (South-West Africa People's Organiza- they were not looking for him and that he in Windhoek, "based on the level of tion) guerrillas, these men stayed around should go home . He went back to his South African military and other invest- the son's home all day, eating food from district, stopping at the police station at ments in Namibia and the lack of visible tin cans. When they finally left, they said Nkongo . The police there also said they contingency plans for a settlement, that they would return . Trranus examined the were not looking for him . But then some- South Africa actually has no intention of tins and saw that they were South Afri- one came from Ekoka, saying that the leaving Namibia:' can. He got into his car and reported the continued on page 6 Editorial!' "However," he continued, "the posi- issue of linkage and the South African Prolonging tion of South Africa regarding the issue occupation of Namibia; "South Africa of the withdrawal of Cuban troops from cannot seek, through its use of force, Namibia's Agony Angola as a precondition for the imple- unilaterally to reshape the region. mentation of Resolution 435 still makes Boundaries and sovereignties must While the eyes of the world have been it impossible to launch the United Nations remain inviolate . The first step towards riveted on the recent tragic events in plan :' a settlement must surely be the immedi- Beirut and Grenada, the suffering of the In the wake of Mr, de Cuellar's report, ate and unconditional withdrawal of Namibian people under South African the world has stepped up its rejection of South African forces from Angola. Their rule quietly continues . Unswayed by linkage and made strong calls for an end presence there cannot be justified in international appeals and the prayers of to U.S . support for the South African terms of international law and practice. millions of Christians around the globe, position . On October 26 the Security The Secretary General has noted that South Africa stubbornly refuses to end Council met to consider the Secretary South Africa continues to make the with- its bloody and illegal occupation of General's report, and by the end of that drawal of Cuban forces from Angola a Namibia, and grant the Namibian peo- meeting, had issued an unequivocal and condition for its withdrawal from Nami- ple their freedom. unconditional rejection of linkage and a bia. South Africa cannot, however, legit- In 1981 the South Africans discovered harsh condemnation of the continuing imize its illegal occupation of Namibia a new pretext for keeping Namibia under South African occupation. by raising other issues . Namibia colonial thrall—the presence of Cuban "Gravely concerned at South Africa's should have its independence regardless troops stationed in Angola . The Cubans continued illegal occupation of Nami- of what happens or what does not hap- were called in by the newly independent bia," the Council declared ; "gravely pen in Angola . Our goal must be to Angolan government to repel a massive concerned also at . the mounting threat ensure that [Namibia's] independence invasion of its territory by South African to the security of the region and its wider comes soon and peacefully" soldiers and CIA-bankrolled mercenar- implications for international peace and And so must the quick and peaceful ies in 1975 . There is not a single Angolan security resulting from South Africa's independence of Namibia become our or Cuban soldier on South African or continued utilization of Namibia as a goal as well. As Christians we are called Namibian soil and there has never been springboard for aggression against and to confront evil and aid the victims of any. Indeed, thousands of South African destabilization of independent African injustice, and as citizens of the United troops now occupy vast stretches of states . Indignant that South Africa's States we have both the right and the southern Angola. insistence on an irrelevant and extrane- obligation to accept responsibility for Yet in an act of unparalleled political ous issue of "linkage" has obstructed the the policies pursued by our elected lead- cynicism, South Africa—the aggressor implementation of Security Council res- ers. But particularly since 1980, our gov- —demands that Angola—the victim of olution 435 . Condemns South Africa ernment has chosen to side with South aggression—send the Cubans home as a for its continued illegal occupation of Africa and openly support its criminal precondition for a settlement in Namibia. Namibia . deeds in Namibia and Angola. Not surprisingly, the Angolan gover- Only the United States failed to sup- While closest allies of the United ment has declined to commit national port this resolution. States have tried to distance themselves suicide and unconditionally rejects this It is easy to be cynical about the United from the policies and practices of the demand. In this they have been supported Nations and perhaps it will be said of apartheid regime, our government has by virtually every country in the world— this resolution that it is just another moved even closer to South Africa, coop- with the exception of the United States example of communist and non-aligned erating closely in the fields of nuclear and South Africa. countries using their numbers to "gang technology, relaxing previously restricted In the last issue of Dateline: Namibia, up" on America. sales of high technology and militarily we reported that, in an effort to break But it is not so easy to brand as com- useful items to that country, and protect- this deadlock, United Nations Secretary munist our closest geographical, poli- ing South Africa diplomatically from General Javier Perez de Cuellar was tical and cultural ally, Canada, who world opinion. instructed to submit a full report on the strongly supported the resolution . The This "constructive engagement" pol- stalled talks to the United Nations Secu- Canadian representative, Mr. Pelletier, icy towards South Africa is a compact rity Council on August 31 .