E EPISCOPAL CHURCHPEOPLE for a =REE SOUTHERN AFRICA 339 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012·2725 C (212) 4n-0066 FAX: (212) 979-1013 S A #103 25 October 1990 MEANNESS and MURDER

Wesselton township residents desperate for water dug up pipes after Ermelo city officials terminated essential services to the 'impoverished African corrmunity which had been on a persistent rent boycott. Families in Cassim Park, classified Indian under apartheid, of­ fered water to their neighbors two miles away, but police set dogs on mothers and child­ ren seeking water at taps. White cops roamed about, crushing buckets under the wheels of their Casspir armored vehicles, laughing. At Toekornrus, another of the eight boycotting townships in the Johannesburg area, police shot dead a protester. The threat of epidem­ ic hangs over all these corrmunities.

The Separate Amenities Act of 1953 empowered local authorities to enforce separate (but of course unequal) facilities for the four apartheid classifications of South Africans. The law was allowed to expire in mid-October 1990, another rnaneuvre by the De Klerk 'government to appear to sacrifice substantial power in the process of negotiations and to bedazzle the world into believing change is irreversible. Local white officials reacted instantly, instituting charges for the use of libraries, swirrnning pools and public lavatories. Sorre town councils closed them down. Others hesitated because African consumer boycotts were biting into white merchants' trade. Pretoria oomes off as earnest in its anti-apartheid efforts and local rednecks can be pointed out as difficult obstructionists.

General Jannie Geldenhuys, chief of the South Afric~ Defence Force, announced 31 July that the SADF I S secret assassination group, the Civil Cooperation Bureau, had been disbanded. Yet rrembers say to press and in court that CCB still exists. An officer disclosed he and others had been advised they would be on full pay until at least March 1991. Of the some 250 'conscious' members only 10 are known and they by code names. SADF generals have stone­ walled the official Harms Corrmiss ion, saying the CCB membership lists have disappeared. Death squad attacks and killings are surging. The chairman of the ANC-affiliated Western Cape Civic Association and his wife were gasoline bombed from their home on 19 October;she was shot dead, he badly wounded. A hooded gunman strode into an ANC meeting,:in Mdantsane township outside East London on 9 October and shot dead an official. On 12 October, Job Sithole, who works for Johannesburg's Human Rights Corrmission, was cilmost killed by gunfire while returning to his Alexandra township home. Joyce Mabudafhasi, HRC official, was ha­ rassed at night at home by men prowling and inquiring of neighbors. She narrowly escaped being burned alive three years ago when her house was petrol bombed. These instances oc­ cur srortly after President F. W. De Klerk promised to investigate ANC charges of security force involvement in the August-September bloodbath in and around Johannesburg.

Pretoria and its friends and allies continue to benefit from charges of 'tribalism' as ap­ plied to the violence in South Africa. Hear Archbishop Desmond Tutu: 'Here in Soweto.... people who speak different languages, Zulus, Xhosas, Sotro, Tswana, have lived harmoniously together. There has never been any threat even of ethnic factionalism. Aroillld my house in Orlando West, we are surrounded by Zulus, Sothos and Tswanas, and nobody has ever brought up even the rerrote possibility of tribal warfare. ' De Klerkmagic turns white black for the schizophrenicMrikaners AS CONVERSIONS go, there dropped yet. Not judging by itself at the congresses, such as has been nothing like it since Pretoria these four congresses. when Julie Coetzee, of the Saul of Tarsus. Since its forma­ .All that has caught on is the Women's Action group, spoke tion 76 years ago, South Africa's slogan. De Klerk embellishes it of the 'wonderful new spirit' ruling National Party has been a little. He speaks of 'the new, infusing the National Party as a dedicated to racial exclusivity. just South Africa'. But if that result of De Klerk's reformism. But in the seven weeks since implies that the old South Africa 'It reminds me,' she said, 'of President F. W. de Klerk sug­ was in any way unjust or when I was a young girl and the gested it should prepare for the wicked, he does not say so. wonderful spirit I felt when I New South Africa by opening Another feature of this mass joined the crowd at the airport ranks to black members, there conversion is that it is not to welcome Dr Verwoerd back has been a mass conversion to accompanied by any repentance from the Commonwealth con­ the idea ofracial integration. of the past. Apartheid may have ference in London,' That was in Not just by most National­ been a political mistake, a policy 1961, when South Africa left the ists, but by all of them. The last that proved to be unworkable, Commonwealth rather than of the party's four provincial but there is no acknowledgment abandon apartheid - highpoint congresses, here in the deeply that it was immoral. ofAfrikaner chauvinism. conservative Transvaal, gave its As Information Minister Then there was Mr Willie unanimous endorsement to the Stoffel van der Merwe put it Breedt, an elderly delegate from President's idea on Friday. Allister Sparks when asked to explain the a Transvaal country town, 'I Only at the Orange Free State unquestioning acceptance of welcome this move (oPening congress, where there were But do the people who such a dramatic policy turn­ the party to blacks) because it is three dissenting votes, was enthuse about the New South around: 'The idea ofa just soci­ the right thing to do. We in the there any questioning of this Africa really know what it ety is not new to the Afrikaner. National Party have always renunciation of everything the implies? Black government per­ That was our motive for trying done what was right, even when party stood foi-. haps? Or is it just a magic catch­ to have separate States for the it was unpopular,' Instead there has been enthu­ phrase that seems to be bringing different races, and when it At the Cape congress there siasm. The Transvaal delegates South Africa back into the proved to be unattainable, the was Frikkie Botha, of Queen­ gave the endorsement of an world, that is getting the Presi­ search for justice remained.' stown, who proposed that there open party a standing ovation. dent invited to lunch at Che­ De Klerk has sometimes been should be a law entitling the Like born-again liberals they quers and dinner with the compared with Mikhail Gorba­ police to shoot any black person made speeches of saccharine Quayles (surely the only place chov for the way he has tried to who picked up a stone to throw praise for De Klerk and his on earth to regard that as a liberalise a failed authoritarian at them. He, too, applauded the vision of the New South Africa. social cachet), that is opening system, but there is one impor­ idea of the New South Africa, as That is the latest phrase. It is on up the prospect of sanctions tant difference: South Africa has did another Cape delegate who everyone's lips. A slogan emba­ being lifted, and perhaps even a had no equivalent of de-Stalini­ pleaded for a special law that zoned on banners and posters, rugby tour before long? sation. Hendrik Verwoerd, would enable the police to get even stamped on bottles of wine But a change of government? chief architect of apartheid, rid of blacks in small towns bearing pictures of the party A change in the white-privi­ remains an honoured figure. 'who are not actually commit­ leaders which were sold in the leged lifestyle? A change ofany­ This has led to a certain ting any crime but are being, foyer of the Pretoria City Hall thing very much? If so, that schizophrenia among loyal shall we say, a nuisance.' As the where the congress was held. penny doesn't seem to have party followers which revealed French say, plus ~ change ... National Party in SA .confirl11s open door

:-O'-- ...... - ...-.Io-rd----- Iisions, to consider the _!bU· terday beard a passionate speecb caJllng for national and In _" ity~po~~:~t;~~~ve not racial reconciliation from Presi· specified what alliances will be dent De KJerk's wife, Meme, HE declalon by South considered. But the IJ4Jty Is be­ who embarraosed her husband Africa's ruling National lieved to be oeeking links with several years ago wben caught . Pariy to throw member­ the niling parties in the two rnakine ofT·the-cuff remarks Tship open to all races subsidiary Houses of Parlia­ about the Inferiority of other was oonllrmed by its Transvaal ment - the C410und Labour races. provlndal oongreas yesterday. Party and the Indian SolIdarity Mn De KJeri< said yesterday , "Our house as a party Is in Party - as well as with the rul­ that a M new South Africa" had order'flow and .....dy for the ing parties in non·lndependent to be created, because the new South Africa," said a trI· homelands. notably Kwalulu, country oould no longer afford umPhant State President, F. W. Qwaqwa and Gazankulu. It is Its people living "in hatred and de Kletk, given a slandlng ova­ assumed that the ruling parties dlsiust with one another"_ . tlon by about 1,000 delegates. In the other three non-indepen­ The majority population "The Nalional Party and dent homelands - KaNgwane, could not be left "to be lnOu­ 'South Africa Is now on the KwaNdebele and Lebowa ­ enced' by radlcals", she said. moral high ground . _. I can will support the ANC. "We cannot win their bearts now deflllld it In every country In another development at ",d minds by aheer force. In the world and with every the Nationalist congress yester­ eitber, 'We need to work at 01:> South African leader. We are in day. the government's constitu­ taining their tnLst." atep with the best vaiues which tional supremo, Genit Viljoen, TIle Transvaal oongress and have proven themselves rejected ANC demands for the the vote on non-rt=ia..l member­ throughout history." election of a oonstituent assem· ahlp sets the stage for a particu­ The unanimous endorsement bly and an interim administra· larly emotional breakthrough ofthe open-door rule by all four tion to handle the transition to In international relations for of the federal party's proVincial majority rule. He said the gov­ AtrIkanerdom next week, when ernment favours the creetion of President De KJerk makes the :~~ry ~~~ar:h;~w ~c;:;: a negotiating forum but be­ flnt pool'WIIT visit by a South Cia! policy. But the signiflcance lieves that elections ..hould be African head of state to the of thls._ beyond President De held only once a settlement has Netherlands, where Queen Bea­ Klerk's claim to the "moral been reached. The whole lrix will receive him. high ground" - II unciear. a oountry could then be oon­ Relations between the two mass membership drive in the suited through a referendum. oountrles deteriorated steadily black population being In his opening speech to the from the 19608, the Dutch tak­ regarded as unlikely. congress on Thursday night, Ing something of a lead in the SignificanUy, howevar, the President De Klerk said the Internalional antl·apartheid party leadership also an­ government would give whites Itrunle. But recently, the nounced yesterday that a high­ an opportunity to pa$S judg­ Dutch have argued that the pro­ level committee will be set up, ment on a new constitution cess of change should be en­ comprising gentor representa­ through a referendum. couraged by a relaxation of in· tives of the four provincial aiv- The Transvaal congress yes- temational pressure. .­ ------=== - --- . ---- :1 == - = - === 55 --- /./ === --- == ! - --======-===== - ~=== 1. . - ---- SEE --==='==' ==-'= .: == s-- 55 - - .~-.. === =.. ='=' ------= -= - ---- ======-- - iii.==: === !E!E THE WEEKLY MAIL, September 21 to September 271990 :::1 ..=i .f ­- !. - - .- -- :•-== === I --i..- 5 55 ~ ~

EXPOSED: Caprivi base where SADF officers gave lessons in guerrilla tactics tha's secret t~ gbase AN elite unit of lnkatha fighters has been trained in guerrifta warfare by South AI­ rican;army officers at a secret base in the Cap,wi Strip. This base, called Hippo am located on the banks of the Cuando River 801an west of Katirno Mulilo, fell under the control ofOtiefofStaff Intelligence. This division of the South African De­ fence Force took over control of the Mo­ zambique guerrilla group, Renamo, from the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation in the 19705 am turned it into the clamestine force that it is today. The lnkatha training base fell uOOer the command of Colonel Jan Breytenbach, founder of the SADF's 32 BanaJion that specialised in cross-border operations in Angola. Second in charge was a Colonel Sachsen, who commands the Fifth Re­ cormaissance Commando in Phalabor­ The secret bases in Caprivl ... the trainees thought they were in zaire wa. This commando unit has, in the I EDDIE KOCH reports on evidence of aRenamo connectio6] post, been involved in support for Rena­ At least two batches of Inkatha fight­ mo and has recruited M0zambican8. An­ ers, each about 100 strong, were trained golans and former Zimbabwean 4issi- to use AK47s, RPG7 rocket launchers, dents inlO its ranks. - 03 submachine guns, Browning ma­ The Hippo base lrained at least 200 In· chine guns and anti-personnel mines. katha guerrillas in 1986. The SADF offi· The course ,,_t Hippo lasted seven cer in charg~ of training was Major months and included lessons in urban "Jakes" Jacobs. He was assisted by a and guerrilla warfare, use of explosives lieutenant, a sergeant and another offi­ and demolition, and contra-mobilisation cer. Some recruits remember being met - a form ofmilitary intelligence work. by four white ijleIl who slapped them on The recruits were never told where the the back am joked about how they were base was but remember seeing elephant, going 10 make soldiers of them. giraffe and lion. Some were led to be­ A training base for Unila fighters, an lieve that they were in Zaire. administrative centre for Chief of Staff After training was completed the unit Intelligence and a military airstrip were was divided into four divisions - called located some lOkm sooth ofHippo. Per­ "offensive", "defensive", "ministers' -sonnel at these bases were instructed not aides" and "contra-mobilisation intelli­ to go near the lnkatha base. gence" - before returning to UJundi 2 THE WEEKLY MAIL, September 21 to September 271990

where some of them were required to ' A member ef the kwaZulu Police has How likely, then, is it that networks ot train other Inkatha members. One of madeat affi~vit stating that one of the the rebel movement which still exist in these units spent two weeks at a farm camps wher~ Inkatha "hit-men" are South Africa are now being called on ­ north of Pretoria, where they went on a trained is located at Mkuze about 60km either by Inkatha or members of the se­ refresher course. , from Ndwnu. lJb.is camp, the affidavit curity establishment - to carTy out simi­ These details have been denied by the .~'." say,- was~'. deMozambique and in­ for contaet and collusion with Renamo. of the SADF who served in the Caprivi i ternicine war in the Transvaal when he The ANC has statements from town· Strip region at the time, and by Inkatha told reporters at a p-ess cooference in Jo­ ship residents that contains more sub­ members who were trained at Hippo and hannesburg last Friday that the "third stantial suggestiorts of Renamo in the have made statements to lawyers about force" involved .in the Reef violence Reef violence. Accounts abound of Mo­ their experiences. marked the beginnings of a Renamo zambicans supplying AK-47s and train­ There are also reports that there was, at movement in South Africa. ing in how to use the assault rifles to In­ least until last year, a training camp for He made it clear he meant this in more katha combatants. Hostels rooms in Renamo members at Lake Sibaya near than a figurative sertse: the Reef killers Vosloorus and Watville on the East the border between Mozambique and were well-trained, ruthless and profes· Rand are said to have been converted Natal. Prior to that a supply base for Re­ sional, he said. They may have come into arsenals for these weapons. namo bands operating in southe~ Mo­ from a foreign state and it was signifi· According to statements from ANC zambique existed at Katwyn Village, cant that they did DOt speak when carry­ supponcrs on the fa<;t Rand, fonner Re­ which is in Ndwnu game reserve. ing out the attacks. But the comments , namo members are living in the area and Both of these bases are in kwazuJu lIll(l were left vague and MandeJa refused 10 arc using the hostcls to sell AK-47s and falls under the control of U1undi. Inka­ elaborate. Oearly the ANC did not yet othcr weapons to lnkatha supporters. tha officials would have known of these have enough evidence to firmly indict eToPAGE2 camps. This wou!d have provi~ed ex­ Rename and its backers. tensive opporturnty for collUSIOn be­ tween members of the Zulu ocganisation and the MOzambican rebels.

Patrick, vice-chainnan of a street commiuee inVosloosrus and a Bolcsburg factory worker, said residents feared the fighting in the area would continue, despite a peace rally there last cqui~ with AK-47s. villagers who move in weekend: "We have some young comrades and out ofrebel ranks have access to arms. ,

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Ratel Rinkhals Nationalise the laws notthe land AND refonn? "Nationalise!" urges singles out for special examination the arrangements - albeit a very unequal African National Congress consti­ Existing land Acts notion of freedom to contract in relation sharing. tutional expert Albie Sachs. Nation­ to property - and demonstrates how The mechanism which Sachs - along alise not the land itself but the law should be replaced with apartheid has perverted this. with oLhers - advocates, is the estab- that governs land occupation and "The principal objective of Lhe Land lishment of a Land Court which would use, and strip this law of the notions a 'property law' which Act was to lRvent blacks from entering ".meaiate contending rights for ownership·' of race privilege and sovereign­ into contract!.Q[~ ltase. COIJI:l:llaS and· occupancy. make awards in thcse .. ty. embraces human rights which blacks r,,~riinly made-witft ,.t9~~J.Uld ruie on compcnsatioc for~- "For those who quake and shake mere­ white landowners, such as share- ties with lesser claims, ly at seeing the word nationalisation, let principles, argues ANe cropping arrangements or agreements 'The fundamcntal question, Sachs ob- it he stated finnly that nationalising the for labour tenancy - tenacious attempts serves, will be to set up critcria which land law does not presuppose either na­ constitutional expert under conditions of unequal bargaining the Land Court will use when adjudic,ll- tionalising the land or nationalising the power to establish continuing legal con· ing claims. And alLhough self-interest legal profession but simply .ensuring that Albie Sachs. nection with the land - were later delib- might blur the vision oHarmcrs in at- South Africa has a single, or national erately and directly lindermined by sue- tempts to elicit criteria from them. "it is law governing the question of land By JO.ANNE COWNGE cessive apartheid statutes." not impossible to conceive of farmers rights. so that issues are looked at not in The same government which did all agreeing to a kind of compact which cor- terms of race but in terms of interest~ and reignty is to be got out of the way and the this, now seeing a possible threat to responds to Lha.realities of a country III values of importance to the country as a real question of how the land should be white-owned propeny, invoked the vir- transition, seeks to minimise unneces- whole," he explains in a recently pub­ owned and worked reached", national i­ tues ofrespccting vested propcny rights sary disruption, gives everybody some- lished paper, "Rights to the land: a fresh sation of land law is necessary. and Lhe "neutral" processes of the "free" thing and is consistent with widely ac- look at the property question". What he refers to is a law which goes market. cepted values in relation to propcny," Sachs points out that South Africa infinitely further than abolishing racial This paradox is but one aspect of the 11- Factors such lIS birthright, occupation, presently has two completely different land restrictions, such as the Land Act legitimacy of the present land-holding productive use of the land, inheritance and unequal sets of land law. "Land law and the Group Areas Act. It is a code of pattern - and the basic challenge at this and tItle - both ancient and current­ for wh,ites ~a~ based on private proper­ law which reaches beyond the "hard le­ time, argues Sachs. is legitimation of could be weighed in Lhe ba1ance. ty. reglstrallon of transactions in relation galism" of English law and embraces a to land ownership proved by certificate humane concept of rights, embmced in a land-holding, not one of collcctivisation "Thus, in a case where a white farmer, of title and demarcated plots. Land could Bill of Rights, or parcclisation. born and bred on the farm and dedicated be leased or used as security for loans by "The whole question of property as a "Security, indcpendence, the binding to its development, is awarded full tille, means of mortgages. The owner as human right has been turned inside out nature of contracts and continuity of black claimants would receive compen- p:operty-owner was sovereign, a little in South Africa, The issue is presented rights - this is what black farmers are sation which could take the form of oLhcr king or queen over such land as was reg­ as though the one fundamental human demanding. The i~sue they are raising i3... I~dorof~suppon for the acqui- istered in his OF.ReI' name. right in relation to property is the right not whether· to have large traditionally ~SIUon of.lllI1d, """,., ." ",," In fact, this eontrol over land also loot to have your·title deed impugned. All organisethlOlftlMnal farms, or modom.... "~:wJ1@fe··Na'ClrNl'mers - p6l1'r'a!"s la­ meant control of people on the land, other aspects, your right to a home, to type cooOperatives, or small family - bour 1enants'10r·generations - were granting to white landowners a "double security, to independence, are ignored if farms, but whether to acknowledge their awarded a fann over lhe claim of Lhe sovereignty", you do not possess the title deed," concrete and usurped rights to prope:- white title holdcr, the latter would be In contrast, black land "was state­ In sum, says Sachs, "In South Africa, ty," . compensated. owned and controlled. Access to such property law is completely out of tUlle The issue is to delve beyond the title The finiteness of land (which unlike land was governed by a system of with human rights principles. In fact, far deeds and,to look at Lhe historical and VOtes cannot be extended in accordance grants, rigid laws of succession and su­ from property law being one of the foun­ present cl~ people haye to the land in with demand) and the intensity of flXlling pervision by government-appointed Ot dations of human rights, it is one of the tcnns ofabldlllg values, l!! terms of con·. (in many cases) lhat both the owners and recognised chiefs. Occupiers could bastions ofrighllessness". tracts ruptured by apartheid. the dispossessed feel for the land makes grow food there, erect huuses and, sub­ He plcads Lh:lt "all those most directly "Where shared values exist and a imperative an answer which avoids the ject to controls, keep livestock on it," connected wiLh the land should be givcn shared commitment to and involvement recreation of a cycle of dispossession. the chance to participate actively in Lhe Black people on white land remain with ~ particular ~iece, of,land exists, "True sharing of the land," observes • there at the precarious goodwill of the processes so that those who are serious' there IS no reason III prlllciple why Lhe Sachs, "as in the case of true sharing of owner, at whose whim a black fanner Iy committed to maintaining good farm­ ~o C,~teT born on the land (as his parents before ing, whatever their background, have law should not be adapted as to the country or of power, is not .:sscntial. him) can be turned into a squatter or the chance to make their contribution", for and prOtecl such sltm'Cd Inlerests. Iy a spatial or·quantitative matter, an is- trespasser. Of the enduring social values en­ Share-cropping and labour tenancy sue of quotas, but a question of values Argues Sachs, if the "issue of sove- shrined in the notion of property, Sachs were in the p:l~t examples of such shared and interests," - ~--"'.....H,-=£__1''-J1--,-,M~E:-=5,---"".@=-f---<·N9M'~IA ~ 1ul,':1·~o. BoldA,ngola/N,amibia transport plan

Namibia's indeptnd- Hu vision, supported ab· is presently imp3Jsable for ·Namibian companiel. commiuion and tc.chn.ie.1l ence has freed it to con. sohllely by his Angolan commercial purposes. Another major putofthe unil in Maputo must now' sider plans and projects counlerpartS.hesays. is thll1 Mr Dierks enviuges a scheme. would be tho eon- n:view the project and then with, .. neighbouring the ~slem should not bur· three-phue project: an version of the dcc:p water it will be put to interna. Froqtline states hostile den the Stltebudgct of ei· emergency phase of Itllial port of Sacomar at Namibc tional lender. There is no to Soutb Africa. th!ll' country bUI should be reconstruction over two from a defunct iron-ore conclusive list of the Fro!!· m·lde'.o pay foriuelf on the years; an upgrading and handling facility to ~ oil uctJ that mi~ht be trms· I The new nation under- basis of the' free market rehabilitation phase over p<>rt. This cl)Uld receive ported lllont the network. ~ject I slM

I side has been severly dlm- mbalanlu : Iged bY the war of the put' •. .. \ . . '•.~ 15 ye..c., plltticularly South iN·.A M'I B", IA Ond.ngw. v. Afrjc.a'. invasion of thC$e· .• south'em provinces, '. .,. ::.' ...... '.. ONAWeO . '. ,< Klau. Dictk.s. NlIITlibia's . ' •.·;'c '. KAOKOLI.HD \. .." . ~..:...... M;"'~D"'~$"' --===~)~ ·~.·r.···_·~ Pei't~~lmu. ... ,."'';:''':''':.:.~--..~~-.:: . ..' ". '. ._. _._." ..i._ ...... 0 "".1. ned.',the .route.... ".-.. .. , ,..... •• , ~ , , ETOSt-tA •••••••••••••············'"1·"•••••••••••••••.• , ':~., .- '. ,,: .., .... ~ ~lly with a team' or· " '.,' NATIONAL::.:::::::::...... ron.sUltin~ enl;ineera and ~H:>~~'_: r"", .) PARK :: .::. . .TS}IUE~)' ._.'_ ,." calculat.ed·th't tCe<>ru\nW-.. ~.) . ," .,...... _ •••,._.~._... y'" tion .. ,wouJd COIl .between· . ., ,. .: . ._ S50 mllJion:uid Sl00 mil· .,,' - lion '(RI30 miliion and Grootfontelnt!: R260 million)...... 'UI.... ~ .•· THE' NAMIBIAN panlar s

J'eCQ'ltly caught by Namibia'5 ee- to Guards. The fll'St Spanish boat w.. spotted early this week. When ap­ caught proached by the Coast Guard pa~l. 11 fled to Angolan territorial waf«S. According to information, thit incident could have been taken up with the Spctish government alre.... An even more serious case 1Io-&s when I second Spanish fishing bo. was sighted in Namibian watet'S in the act Sources toldThe Namibian the nartl ~ d the IlCX:ald vessel is Playa de GalW.- Again the Spanish fled when they law the Coast Guard approachin@ According to this newspaper's infor· Drastic action expected mation, in the hot pursuit that fol· lowed, the Spaniards had 'lIatI~· shipped' some 500 tonnes of hale& over plundering of-fish fillet. Translated into money termS this boils down to a sumtantial amol1lt • PIUS DUNAISKI Government officials last nigilt expressed grave concern over t.M A DIPLOMATIC row could erupt between the governments latest violations of the Narrubian EE:2 ofNamibia, Spain and the Soviet Union over what Namibian , and the govcmment has been ,.: quested to take drastic action to stO, government officials yesterday called the "shameless plun­ the illegal plundering of one c1f dering of the much-needed fish resources of a Third World Namibia'i main sources of incom&. country". They also pointed out that \h_ government had already embark•• The Narrubian Ieamed thaI the gov­ mibia. on a cautious programme to restore ernment of Namibia was up in arms Since independence on MITCh 21, Ncnibia'i imporunt marine resourceS. following two recent incidents in Parliament swiftly passed the neces­ As part of this, quotas have ~ Namibia's territorial waters in which sary act in terms ofwhich anew wne reduced. two Spanish fIShing boats were caught was dcclllTCd. The new law lays down Meanwhile, the news that Spain red-handed, further depleting the that boats violating this could be and Russia Ire implicated in the Ia'-­ country's fish resources. rUled up to R1000 000 iffound guilty est incidents. could cause an uproar Namibia was robbed ofbillions of of trespassing. in diplomatic circles in the city, rand during the colonial period when According to The Namibian's especially as the Ioint Commission foreign boats could fish in the Exclu­ sources, two Spanish boats were has been in session in Windhcd' sive Economic Sea Zone of 200 sea 'The Russians are present at the miles. without paying taxes to Na- CONTINUED ON PAGE S Jc. meeting. No offlcial comment o~r whethera complainthad been loo,t6 or not was available late last ni,tl~ from either Foreign Affairs Ministll" Theo-Ben Gurirab or Perm~.~ Secretary Andreas Guibeb. However, the general expectdotl is that the Namibian authorities ';1\ deal fmnly with this situation...... _!'!:;...... ----.....------,q

The Mineworan' Union further The unionwuelpOCially UDhappy COM clclCribed what !be MUN re- eateJed !be "Ihop" uling "emended full cOmpeDAtion for all about tbD fact that memben of tbD called a "aavase aDd UDCalled for minimum force aDd with due regard who lOll mClllleY aDd u a propeny Namibian Police took part in tbD raid" u a aearch ofC1IU IbopIadj. to per-w property. ~ of !be raid IUd mb.equem raid, whichitdelCllbcd u •• dinnay­ CCDt to !be Uubvley aDd North hoi­ Tbe compmy aid although larp "1oocIDa" by COM penoaod IUd ing IUd dilquietins··. ..wbich _eoriJdy.....from qumities ofIUIpOCtOd IItoOlc goodI tbD police. COM also issued a statemem ye.. !be boice.. !bem.e1vel. _ oblOrVed 110 action in rbi. Ie- AJIIlChDr demand wu !he deporta­ teroay deknding the action but the At !be mquett of!be company !be gardwutabD. tieD from Namibia of tbD pre.u delCription of the manner in which aearchwucarriDdout by 19 Nampol CD( ItIIIDd !bat duriDg!be -me. a-ral manager of COM IUd all detectiVOl. blCbdby6S membenof c:c.Iiderab1e evidea:e pertaining to Olbm who _ guilty of 1mmIIIl the raida weIe carried out differ marbdly in the COM IUd MUN a W'mdboekteactionunitauiJtedby il1esal cIiamODd tnding _ diICov- ripu violatiex-. veniOOl. 38 of_~y·. own IOCUrity tnd aDd a munber of Itolen dia­ The Ila/IlIIIaIt i.-d by s-ral COM said in view of the grave aff. mODdI. including one Itone inexee" --wyBeD UIeqa a1.I4called for impactthatdiamoadtheftiscontinu­ A4:c:ordins to lbc company. 20 of 11 carats. WOIC ICCOVeICd. COM'.1eClIrity penoooel, which i. employeetl ~ at tbD cuca IbopI at .Reactingto!be IbiD calledby the beJiewdtoincludea largeIJUJJIber of ing tohave 00the profilability of!be compu1y, it had receatly !be time aDd., although lbcy opted to MUN at the Itart the nigbllbift Soulh~tobe NamibianilOd. embubd of ·1e..e.DOdeof!bemobjec~tobeing early yelter'day moming, COM de­ 1hIyftutberukcdfor a fullexpla­ on a campaign apinlt !beit I1a eo­ tire wtd:furce wu fully bliefed., UIiing aean:bcd befOIC their departure. ICllbcd !be Itrike u illepI. natiooof!beincidcm. IUd UDdertak­ inlemalchamJela, ~IUdpOllen COM claimed !be evening'. IC­ Il aaid mmapmeat cffoI'tI to dis­ ins from COM that thiI tort of at Itntegic locatiOOl. tion was confiDed to the mop aICa. cuu!bematterwi1htl»MUNbnnch "1hugery" would not occur again. The compu1y Aid all perICIIIDd aDd at 110 time WCIe Ierideot. at the committee with a view to eodiDi the The MUN earlier issued a state­ _ made aware of !be ItrinpIIt hoItell ordeIed out of their accom- Itribu lpOedily u poID01e had DOt ment in which it described the raida peoaltieImetedoatby!becoalUfor modation. . beeIllUCceafu1. u "predatory" and a wlUllon viola­ diamODd tbDit IUd _ wamed lb8 While effortl WeIe made to iden­ Tbe company regretted that union tionofhumanrights whichcould not ~IIO*", tify owners. neither the memben had IUOrted to rbi. Ktioo be confu.ed with a lawful search for IlIil:ar IIeCUIiry wouldbe "JhoII" by complIn}'. worken pICleot. nor people who wbich c:onIraveocd the Rec:ogniIioo diamoocil. !be arrived latcr were pICpared to di­ aDd Procedwa1 Agreenv::m IUd coo­ vulge this information. lIic:llDd wiIh lbe compmy'. effort to e:a-.,rnty. inIiemIa oflbcpowas protect a natiooal anet. vOited in them, the relevant .ean:h On 28 April 1990, in HararB, a pa:xel bomb exploded in the face of activist priest MICHAEL LAPSLEY. His right eye was destroyed; his shattered left hand had to be removed; only the thumb and part of the index finger remained on the other. The South African regime's murder and assassination machine claim­ ed another victim.

Father Michael, a New Zealander, is in hospital in Australia and has begun the long, torturous process of yet more sur­ gery, recovery and rehabilitation. The New Zealand government has undertaken to meet the medical and hospital costs. But further expenses have been and will be incurred to cover further treatment and rehabilitation.

The Society of the Sacred Mission, the . Anglican religious order of which Father Michael has been a member since 1971, has lssued an appeal for help toward these additional costs. Please make your checks to ECSA and send them to us at 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012, noting they arB for Father Michael. We urge you to send messages to him as well. We will forward both to SSM in Australia.

PLEASURE CRUISE WITH A PURPOSE

South African State President F. W. :ce Klerk spent 36 hours on the 12/13 October weekend aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth II in the company of youthful top executives of outstand­ ingly successful corporations from around the world.

The Young Presidents' Organization was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in New York. Its members must have been elected president of their respective corporations before their 40th birthday and must resign from YPO after achieving age 50. To qualify, a president must head a corporation with annual gross revenues of at least $4 million. A financial institution must have average assets of $80 million for its young chief to be in YPO. YPO stresses its international scope and has offices in such places as Geneva and Hong Kong. Its prospectus reads: 'The process of understanding the complexity of business today is facilitated greatly by the integration of YPO chapters into one worldwide network.' It emphasizes new benefit programs to compensp.te employees and enhance productivity. YPO maintains a data network for its members, conducts seminars, encourages corrmunication c3JIDng similar business interests. Videoconferencing via satellite ties members and their companies rrore firmly together.

D2 Klerk met with Portuguese Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva and upon arriving in the United Kingdom with Prime Minister MargarBt Thatcher. The purpose of :ce Klerk' s brief trip and cruise was of course to push for lifting sanctions against South Africa and to pave the way for an influx of investment, though the issues were handled most coyly. The European Corrmunity surrmit meets in Rome 22-25 October and sanctions will figure on the agenda. Cavaco Silva told reporters: 'Portugal hopes that this matter will be examined again at the next EC surrmit . I believe change in South Africa is irreversible.' Sunday's session with Thatcher produced an official statement that the talks were 'very positive and constructive discussions for the way ahead'. The British government will persevere in trying to persuade the EC to relax sanctions and believes the October gathering will lift a voluntary embargo on investments in South Africa. :ce Klerk flew home from LDndon on the 14th, surely buoyed by his quick and promising foray in Europe.

ecsa l5 Oct 90