'I'm Not God, I Can't Remember'

'I'm Not God, I Can't Remember'

'* TODAY: HISTORIC DEAL FOR PALESTINIANS * WORLD PRESS'i FREED'QM DAY * YQUR MONEY * ,'Arsenal last night won the European Cup Winne~ Cup, ,beating Italian team Parma 1';;0 in the ftnaU~ Copenha- g~; De~~f~ . ·' ..... , , . ANC acts swiftly on THE JOY OF VICTORY ... Johannesburg-ANC leader and South Africa'sPr:esident-elect Nelson land issue Mandela dances during victory celebrations here on Monday night. The 75-year-old hero of the struggle against aparttleid hailed an overwhelming triumph for his African National Congress before thousands of cheering supporters. Photo: Reuters via Nampa JOHANNESBURG: The Af- ments. Settlements agreed to will be sub­ ;:=============================:;1 rican National Congress will ject to scrutiny by the commission to propose that the first session determine their fairness. ofthe new South African par­ A Land Claims Court will be asked 'I'm not God, I can't remember' liament deal with a Bill for an to ratify any settlements reached and also to judge disputed or c~plex /" person who would be blamed for the murder. He Act to redress the Claims of GW£NLISTER cases. _ . said former police officer Riaan White and Staal people who lost land through Some landowners in the Eastern Burger, notorious CcB operative, and another apartheid laws. Transvaal were already negotiating ON the eleventh day of the inquest into the person whom he could not identify, were in­ death of Swapo activist, Anton Lubowski, Unveiling its agricultural policy at settlements with dispossessed com­ structed to wait outside the Swapo Headquarters, a Johannesburg Press briefing yes­ munities and labourer tenants, the former special constable Romanus Frans and when Lubowski left, to follow him and shoot terday, the ANC said the legislation Munango described the planning on' the ANC said. him outside his home. Munango, with Pedro should be considered in the first sit­ It said the proposed Act would pro­ ~ght of the murder. d' Almeida and Francisco Gonsalves, were in­ ting of parliament because of the mote the reasonable and constructive structed to wait at the bottom of Sanderburg Road " However cross-questioning was marred by al­ urgency and emotions attached to settlement of claims by all the parties and Theuns van der Merwe was to be on standby tercations between Munango and Hennie Barnard, land claims. involved, in the hope of discouraging at the top of the road in case Lubowski drove past who is acting for several police officers impli­ The proposed Land Rights Resti­ landowners from thwarting claims by the ' house. It was further arranged, Munango cated in the Lubowski murder. tution Act is intended to deal with evicting claimants and selling the ,'. claimed, that police officers WilIiarn L10yd and On several occasions Barnard referred to the claims arising from the disposses­ land. Van der WaIt would be on standby with cars and witness as a "liar" also accusing him of being sion oflandowners caused by, among . In the·event of pre-emptive action would be first on the scene of the murder. evasive after pointing out discrepancies in his other things, forced removals. by landowners the dispute would be There ensued lengthy and rather tedious cross­ ev idence. Munango responded with comments of The proposed Act will require referred to the Land Claiiris Court, it examination on a number of issues, inclJ.iding his own. claims to be lodged within three years said. whether Munango had been a member of the 1 Asked by Judge Harold Levy ' about the plan­ of the establishment of a government As for people who had claims based military or not, and on entries in his day-to-day 1\ ning for the night of the murder and the role of the of national unity. on their exclusion from land rights, . diary, among which' were certain discrepancies. different people involved, Munango said it was The ANC proposes ~laims be they would be subject to a policy of Barnard also pointed out inconsistencies be- decided that Deputy Commissioner Jumbo Smit lodged with a Land Claims Commis­ land redistribution backed by a fi­ would investigate the murder and would arrest a CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 sion, which will investigate them and nancing mechanism. - Sapa I try to negotiate and mediate settle- J SA vote delayed from Wecke & Voigfs JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's long-drawn­ with Love out election count remained on hold yesterday, after allegations of electoral fraud ang a case of tampering with the computer collating the results. for Mother's Day No results had been announced 24 hours after the - e- Independent Electoral Commission running the '"~" historic all -race elections put reporting of the count on hold. Figures released on Tuesday night with 53 per­ Sl.~riT~ger cent of ballots counted gave Nelson Mandela's ,~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~ I t ~J S African National Congress 62,5 percent of the C I l£ national vote. FEINSCHMECKER Jndependent Electoral Commission chairman Justice Johann Kriegler says the IEC computer NUT SELECTIOt,t I SUNDOWNER system was sabotaged but this had had only a WAS N$15.15 for 250g "minimal effect" on the vote tally in South Africa's firs t all-race election. now only N$10.99 Speaking on SABC-TV last night, Kriegler said .-- -- there had been "some tampering". shortly after 06hOO on Tuesday with the IEC's main computer ~~~ CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 " ~ Thu~~~ May ,5, ~ .,~~4~!;IJ~l~~M I"~ I ,AN 1: ..~ ...................... ~ ..- ...- 'l.;",..t: .. "!I .~_.. _.. ........ ,~~,. ... _".'lIt _( ,... ~_,, _... ,.. ..••'II: ~ ....."I"~ ....~ - .. .- .f: . "t.. _ •• ~»~~.~~~~ r_ •• ~ Lubowski Journalists 'in historic meeting inquest ment to media freedom "nauau HOPWOOD since independence. M'membe's newspa­ per has come under fire for its crusade against corruption within Presi­ dentFrederick Chiluba' s administration. Since the independent news­ paper started in 1991, the Weekly Post has faced over I ()() law suits Doneoi' which have been successful. Last week M'membe and a colleague, Bright Mwape, were charged with defaming Chiluba after the newspaper quoted a former Cabinet Minister as saying 'Chiluba Is A Twit' in a headline. * The Namibian will publish M 'membe' s ad­ dress at World Press Freedom Day in Friday's paper. SA vote delayed still not being released. Cont. from page 1] He explained to the me­ system . dia that results had been "It was undoubtedly stopped after "pollution" sabotage ... It made only a of the data was discovered. trivial difference to the in­ The results would now formation put out by the be issued from a second, system." slower, manually-fed Speaking at a press con­ back-up system which he ference in Johannesburg claimed was free of these earlier, Kriegler said the errors. He said it was not lEe would resume issuing known who was responsi­ vote tallies at about 19hOO ble for the computer inter­ last night. By the time of ference. Investigations going to press results were were continuing. - Sapa FW'S FAREWELL ... Pretoria - President FW de Klerk waves goodbye to supporters after From conceding victory to ANC leader Nelson Mandela on Monday. On the right is De Klerk's wife Marike. Photo: Reuters via Nampa Wecke & Voigts with Love for Angolans killed in crime chase bearing the stamp of the Oshakati Revenue Office, Mother's Day OSWALD SHIVUTE AT OSHAKATI dalUl November 27 1993. This means that this Bakkie was already sold. It is also understood that most of the ,f, TWO Angolans were shot and killed near Toyota Bakkies in the North are on a list to be sold to Omweelogwakasamane, a Namibian­ people in Angola after they have been stolen from -.-of" Angolan border post in the Okalongo dis­ their legal owners. all PerfuTnes trict early on Sunday morning as they tried On Tuesday Dumingo Almando and Thomas lafet to cross that border to Angola with a stolen appeared in the Oshakati Magistrates Court charged bakkie. with theft of a motor vehicle. Their case was post­ less 200/0 poned to June 20 for further investigation. ,f, Police said the men ignored police warnings and This is the second time this year that Angolans have -.-of" tried to flee. \ been shot dead at the border by the Namibian Police Pottery & Ceramic gifts The two Angolans wt... 1amed ~y the l-0i'ice as while trying to cross the border with stolen Ballies Emiliano Navaya, 34, from Chikomba-Huila Prov­ from Namibia. ince and Joachim Miguel from Lubango. Julia Nepembe told The Namibian she had gone less 300/0 The stolen Toyota ballie belongs to J ulia Nepembe, shopping last Saturday afternoon. When she finished ,f, a Swapo Women's Council Co-ordinator and a Vil­ her business, she found her bakkie had vanished. -.-of" lage Health Project Co-ordinator, from Ongwediva. Nepembe appealed to the police to patrol the a FREE panty with any Claims are rife about the two dead Angolans. Some Namibian Angolan border "properly". She also said Angolans at Oshakati said tJ'Iey were Angolan gov­ botsotsos should not be granted bailor that bail should purchase of ernment soldiers, while others said they were soldiers be set highter. but had been demobilised in 1992. Further, the Government should create a fund to Triumph Lingl!rie A third man, Dumingu Almando, who was with the enable the building of a separate camp where botsotsos ..--.---- two, survived the shooting and was arrested by the could be rehabilitated. -- ........ police. The Commissioner of Police at Oshakati, Eliaser --- ~ An Oshaka:i resident Thomas-Tommy Jafet was Haulyondjaba, told The Namibian there appeared to later arrested in connection with the same car theft be a syndicate operating between Namibia and An­ ~L~ Police are still looking for another two men from gola, involving Namibians and Angolans botsotsos.

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