'TOP SA MUSIC STARSIN THE CITY CHIC CO, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Johnny Clegg of Savuka, arrived in Windhoek yesterday to address a press conference to promote the Windhoek Lager Music Festival to be held on October 11 at the Windhoek Showgrounds. Chicco and J ohriny Clegg donned The Namibian T­ shirts to pose for the photograph. The three were only briefly in town btit will return again to feature in the Music Festival. p. ctured from left to right are Chicco; Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Johnny Clegg of Savuka. Only water for nearly 8 days--- BY JOHN LIEBENBERG .",. , TWELVE POLITICAL prisoners at the Windhoek gaol are entering their eighth day o:f a hunger strike, initiated :The·' Namibian to court beeause o:f a nUIDber o:f grievanees whieh inelude the reeeipt o:f only one letter a IDonth and one visit a IDonth. Mr David Smuts of the law firm Lorentz and Bone, who is r~sehting the 12, con­ on newspap'er deposit firmed that negotiations were continuing with the Commis,sioner of Prisons, John Robberts, with a view to settling the matter. He added the grievances of the 12 should AN APPLICATION for the setting aside of a R20 000 not be 'trivialised' but would not comment further. deposit purportedly in terms of the Internal Security Act (44-q.f 1950) imposed on The Namibian newspaper The chief grievances include the It is not known at this stage category of 'c' prisoners, which by the I nterim government Cabinet, will be heard in fact that the prisoners may receive whether the prisoners are in good means that they are only entitled to only one visitor a month and that he.alth, or whether they are being send and receive one letter each per the Windhoek Supreme. Court tomorrow. they may send and receive only one visited regularly by a medical doctor. month, and one visit from family The first edition of The Namibian appeared on August 30 last letter a month each. Other, com­ Approached on the hunger strike, members. year, after the Free Press of Namibia (Pty) Ltd, paid a deposit plaints include the lack of exercise Colonel Robberts declined to com­ Approached for comment on what of R20 000 while reserving their rights to take the matter on facilities and a demand for radios. ment but said that inquiries should the condition of a person who had review. The 12, who have not eaten since be directed to interim government been on a hunger strike for 7 days All other local newspapers, with the exception of The Windhoek their strike began last Thursday, and Deputy Minister of Justice and would be, medical practitioner Dr Observer, paid RIO deposits. who are drinking only water, are Prisons, Mr Katuutire Kaura. Kenneth Abrahams, said that long term political prisoners, with Mr Kaura confirmed that the although they would be showing no Mter consulting legal advice, The Namibian decided to institute jail terms ranging from five to 24 demands included television sets in signs of vitamin deficiency or .review proceedings to have the imposition ofthe deposit set aside ' years. all cells, unlimited correspondence, noticeable weight loss, they wO,uld be on ,the grounds that it is in conflict with the Bill of Rights. The They include Sam Mundjinji, Veiko unlimited visits from family listless and generally weak. proceedings have been opposed by the interim government Ngitewa, Erastus Uutoni, Desiderius members, that they be allowed to buy Cabinet and voluminous papers have already been filed for the Ankome, Vilho Kashilulu, Frans food supplies, and shortwave radios He said that if they had not eaten hearing set down for tomorrow. Angula, Eliakim Shumbe, Ber­ 'because they don't want to listen to after two weeks of a hunger strike, The Namibian will be represented by Mr Jeremy Gauntlett in­ . then force-feeding should be nadinus Shikongo, Josef Sagarias, SWABC ap.ymore'. structed by Mr David Smuts of the law firm Lorentz and Bone. ' Teofilius Jason. All 12 men, he said, fell in the considered. Hartlief announces: ,Hi :111'11. I., E".",.IHI s,,.,,,," oi' J' oi' ...'11 eH. ~ _________ Meat and Polony products available at your locar stockist ________... ..- ...' '. .~ . • 2 f riday September -26 1986 THE NAMIBIAN . Diergaardt 'Sanetions' against Mhanderu and Mudge CHIEF MUNJUKU Nguvauva II of day under the continuing South Swapo. • •• the Mbanderu Council has strong­ African occupation. 'South Africa have denied us water In V'ICIOUS ly reacted to accusations by the He hit out at the Secretary ofHerero and all facilities to pump water. We Herem Administration that he was Aministration for saying that he (the don't receive government subsidies leading an 'unfounded' campaign Chief) had given distorted information and are condemned to severe depri va­ exchange against South Africa following a at the meeting and said the Secretary's tion', claims Chief Munjuku. press briefing he held in London argument was based on parochial Unless these 'sanctions' have been MEMBERS oLthe interim govern­ last month. assumptions. lifted he would continue looking for ment Cabinet are at lOggerheads Chief Munjuku told The Namibian He said South Africa had declared foreign aid and would not bow to South again, -this time the Liberation this week that the meeting he had held 'sanctions' against the Mbanderu peo­ Africa'srequest that he denounce the Front headed by Mr Hans in London was aimed at sharing his ex­ ple because they refused to disavow . Swapo movement, he said. Diergaardt, and the DTA's Mr . perience of the present situation in Dirk Mudge. Namibia with those organisations who·are working to help the country In a press release this week the and its people, and to draw the atten­ The' NaDl.ibian Liberation Front responded to ac­ tion of British aid agencies to the ap­ cusations by Mr Mudge in the in­ palling conditions of poverty ex­ terim government mouthpiece that the Liberation Front and the Na­ perienced by his community and the Chief Munjuku. black people in general in Namibia to- Now available at the CNA tional Party were responsible. for delaying independence. Describing the accusation by Mr Mudge as 'irresponsible', the Libera­ tion Front added that 'if you don't do and speak as Mr Dirk Mudge and the DTA want you to, and if you dare to go . against them, you are quickly dubbed as a skunk and blamed for the delaying of Namibian independence' . The Liberation Front said that its recent Congress had decided that the Party stay in the interim govern­ ment as long as it remained possible for them to do so. Accusations like those of Mr Mudge would certainly contribute to their withdrawal from the government, they said. They criticised Mr Mudge for call­ ing on them to say what their educa­ tion policy ·was, and asked him 'where do your Republican Party's white children go to school?'. They added that Rehoboth schools had bee.n opel). for some_tiI;ill) and race and colour no longer played a role:- As far as the Liberation Front was concerned, they knew of 'no hand of friendship which the DTA has ex· tended to us'. The statement said that when the DTA took the lead in government in want 1978, what had resulting was a -'failure which took the country years back on the. road to independence'. 'But in tr).lth~ DTA is so·slanted that they no onger notice it themselves' the statement concluded . It was signed by the Chief you to know. 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Windhoek THE NAMIBIAN Friday September 26 1986 3 Co~fusion over death in northern Nalftibia POLICE WERE investigating a group of camouflaged men in two confirmed the incident of gunfire at Cuca sentra 'at about 19:00. travened the curfew then they should murder case following a shooting Casspir vehicles indiscriminately the Otshika Cuca complex, near The 'soldiers' allegedly suddenly have been charged accordingly. incident in northern Namibia opened fire on shoppers last Oshikuku, and said a civilian opened fire on shoppers killing Mr He handed his statement to the of­ leaving one man dead and three Thursday.