•• • DAY: BUDGEl'.PREVIEW· D-DAY FOR SKELETON COAST ' NEW US VISA DEAL ' • • £ Friday May 21 1993 In The Weekender • Namlblan film wins prestigious US award • Beauty or business? • Our History: . the Basters arrive • Mlchelle bows out • Plus regular features: TV, arts, music, etc. AND more chances to WIN ace • R150 Is Up for grabs In Spot the Word; and • two music cassettes. High Court interdict issued CHRtS NDtVANGA US first ELEVEN membersoflhe 'vigilante' group, for Nam Epaogo, have been ordered by the High Court to immed ia leJy release suspected stock President thieves whom they have u nlawfull y detained. UNITED State. An interdict has also ventioo secured the re­ President Bill been issued against the lease of the suspects. ClintOD ba, invited self-styled ' community Namiblan PreSident Sam toprotection/action' stop them from group as- rr.:c~on:,. ~p~a~g'~2:'1 NuJoma to meet saulting and detaining AN w1tb hlm ID suspects. NAMIBIA WashlngtoQollJOIle Epango was formedio 16. tbe; White. House the Okakarara area after announced 00 dissatisfaction amoog Wednesday. residenls over official A OS Information handling of stock thefts. Sen1ce .tafernut, TIle grouptookthelaw iototheirownhands and Il!uedln Wlndboek, over the Easter weekeod said President Namibia 1991 1991, apprehended and held NuJoma wow.d be UNIVERSAL APPEAL ... Tomorrow Miss and Miss Universe MicbeDe hostageanumberofsus­ the first Afrh:aa McLean, will hand over her croWD, as Miss Universe. to somebody else at a glittering occasion in Mexico City. Above: Some ofthesemi·ftnaUsu who will be bidding tor the Miss Universe 1993 title. pected stock thieves. Head of State to be The event will be screened OD NBC tomorrow (Saturday) night. Photograph: Agence France·Presse Only high-level iDler· received "In tbe White Hotl.St by tlafll Admlolstratfon". "The meeting 'S · , wltb NuJoma, tbe tamp out racism ftrst ejected presi­ dent otalllndepcnd­ wife and friend, staff refused to serve ent Namlbla. under· TOM MINNEY them preferring to serve other custom· FOREIGN Affairs Minister Pik Botha will scores tbe Presl· ers. The atmosphere allegedly became dent 's (C IIDton) THE Government has condemned hostile, including an ice-cube being meet his Angolan counterpart Venancio de wmmltmtnf to sup­ racism, which continues in thrown at hi.~ friend and people refus· Moura for talks in Windhoek on June 4, port democracy Namibia, and has called on all ing to let them sit down . .- Namibian Foreign Affair s officials througbout Africa who run restaurants, hotels, or "I was shocked 10 find this level of confirmed yesterday. and elsewhere," the clubs and ot her places or racia! harassmenl in Namibia after in· Foreign Affairs permanent secretary Andreas US statement said. entertainment to join rorces in dependence. ls !hi s activily lcgal? Whal Guibeb said he would meet SA representative to It added that the com bating it. This was one of the do your readers think about litis?" a.~ked Namibia Stephanus Aldrich and Angolan Ambas· .AFRICA,VGEMSTONE two leuders were resolutions or the Cahinet meeting the letter. sador A1berto Ribeiro today to discuss details ofthe EXCHANGE TI" Queen of Namibia expected to ~$CUla on Tuesday. The President and Ministers replied, meeting and finalise the agenda. developments in saying: "Cabinet emphatically disap­ Proposals would then be forwarded to Botba and "., .. ,.,......,--. The move was sparked by aleUerin 1IIo .. ~ ___. ,... southern Atrf(jl.ltI~ proves of tile intermittent incidents of De Moura before fina1 anaogemenls were con­ The Namibiao last week, alleging rac· • ..,.. .. (lII0I01.,. It'" eluding Angola aDd racial discrimination and apartheid. fumed. ism 00 May? at a re5tauranl/barcalled lET us lit YClJiHAST progress to.,..ard" The deep concern on the part o f Gov­ Namibian Foreign Affairs Minister 1beo-Ben ... -. The Blue Marlin in Windhoek:. The ernment culminated with the case of Gurirab said earlier this month thalthe taU:s would OIJOTE . SHOI' HO 11 7, democracy In South letter·writer said everyone inside was MRNfI PARK. m l27735 Africa. white, and when he came with a black conI. 1 cont. 2 2 Friday May 21 1993 THE NAMIBIAN Getting NPF stalls to know R500 million owed to SA congress the Nam A R500 million increase in net debt abroad and cashed immediately and year. ment deposits at the com­ THE National Patriotic a sinmilar rise in Government debt to the banks the cum::ncy in circula­ Domesticcredit rose 59 mercial banks fcll 43 per Front (NPF) has economy in March have one explanation. book.keeping tion is used as one meas­ percent 10 R3 815 million cent to R132.2 million p ostponed its changes. According to centraJ Bank of Namibia ureofmoneysupply. This allheendofMarch 1993, (from R231,S million). ExtraOrdinary Congress T HE research director of reselllrch Esko Aurikko, some of roseby21 per cent to RI reflecting rises of R.539 Last year. for the rmt as its President i~ absent division of the Namibia's inherited debt to South Africa is 017 million over the year million in lending 10 the time, banla havcbccnable and the party also tirsl Bank of Namibia is included in the banking system's figures. to March 1993. private sector and R866 to invest in Government wants to conclude gradually building The statistics include million in lending to the securities and stocks while ongoing talks with other its information and Namibia owes South borrowing fromcommer­ not just the Bank of Na­ Government, although previously they had to in­ parties on " bow to resean:h capacity. Africa some R900 mil­ cial banks (usually for pr0- mibia and the five com­ this figure includes some vest in these in South Af­ maintain democracy' 'in Accordingloils di­ lion in inherited debt ductive investments) is mercial banks, but also R500 million ofthe South rica in order to satisfy the country. rector Esko Aurikko, which it will have 10 start still.oaring, up 24 percent five other bankfug insti­ African aebt. banking regulations. TIle congress was due paying back: in the next toR2220millionoverthe tution.: the National The Govemmenl ran a In the year 10 March, in next week'. budget to lake place this week­ fewyean. Housing EntCIprise, the big deficit by March, as commercial banks foreign .peech for the fmt Y<M· end, May 22/23, and A. the Govemmenl" ''TheRi is quite a lot of_ Agricultu.ral Bank ofNa­ outlined in the 1992/93 assets fell from R42S,3 time then: will be bIll­ would have been the agent, the bank has in­ economic activity, even mibia.SwahouandNfU1Ub budget and additional million to R298,8 million anceofpayment. fig­ NPP's first congress cluded some R500 mil­ in Rial terms. There is in­ Building Society and the budget. and their lending to Gov­ ures.PromlOmctimc sinciindependence. in 1992 the balance lion of this in it. fORiign vestor confidence," said Post Office Savings Bank.. From May 1992 it 'cmment- including stoch No dale for the con­ ofpayment. statistics debt and Government Aurikko. Over the 12 months, total switched its deposits oul and TRiasuxy bills - rose will come oul quar­ lending figwes, making a Although there are no assets/liabilities rose 15 of the commercial banks from R38,3 million to gress has been decided on yel, the NPF said in a lerly. big difference in Ihe money supply figures un­ per cent to RI 195 mil­ from and into the Bank of R173,7 million, down a statement. However,the Mosl of Ihe re­ March 1993 monthly til Namibia has ils cur­ lion. Namibia which converted littlc from February' s search work is going monetary statistics pub-­ rency fully established Net assets of the bank­ some of them into foreign R198,3 million after the Front added that it might on lhe Bank of Na­ lished by the bank. and more independence, ingsystemrose27 percent assets such as currency. Govcrnment paid some only be within the next mibia's 1992 annual Locally the amount of deposits which can be to R3 581 million overthe Over the year, Govern- back. two to lhree months. report. which is scheduled to come OUI next monlh. This will provide DTA slam health hikes the bank:' s own ver­ sion of the economy THE DT A has accused some It said the increased tariffs was putting and a second look at hospital and clinical staff of using '·ouryoungdcmocracy' · into reverse in figures which the favour of the wealthy in Namibia" . The Ministry of Finance one needle to vaccinate more than OTA called on President Nujoma to is pUlling oul accord­ three persons at the same time. It intervene" immediately so as to remedy -ing to their calcula­ said this practice would increase, in the rapidly deteriorating situation in the lions. greater proportions, the spreading Ministry ofHeahh and Social Services" . A urikko com- of AIDS. Or Andreas Obholzer of the Ministry "It is Rigreuable that after three years mented that the bank of Health denied the allegations. He told needs very up-to-date of its creation the Ministry of Health The Namibian that he was not aware of and Social Services has dismally back­ andaccurmeinfonna­ any hospital staff who used a needle to lion for its role of flfCd its hopes and strategies of the much declared health and social policy vaccinate more than one person at a managing the money time. "We live in an era of AIDS and syslem. particularly ohhe HEALTH FOR ALL in the year 2000." the OTA said in a press releasc Hepatitis, and it is our policy to use a aftertheNamibiadol­ needle oncc. and only once:' said thls week. lar is introduced. Obholzer. In 1994 the central The party also expressed "shock and bankaims tostal1 pro­ dismay" at the recent i,ncreasc in hospi­ On allegations that health services ducingthree-monthly tal tariffs and "deteriorating heal!h and were dctriorating, Obholzer said thcre statistics of various social scrvices" in Namibia.