other prices on page 21 AG 8 to stay Death in detention: No talks between for another Inquest to start Chamber of Mines two years? in Otjiwarongo and Swapo , says - Diergaardt next week Mining Chief See page 6 - Inside - Inside MPC 'JUDGE ' UNDER FIRE Law profession up In• arms BY GWEN LISTER THE LEGAL PROFES~ION is up in arms about the proposed appointment of a legal adviser from the Department of Justice in South Africa as a Supreme Court Judge to chair the Constitution­ al -Council. The Proclamation providing for the formation of the Constitutional Council stipulates that a Judge must chair the proceedings,' and to date the interim government has been unable to find a presiding official. Approached for comment, 'I don't think there's a crisis'. the interim government's Another legal source pointed out Minister of Justice, Mr Fanuel that the concept of the Constitution­ Kozonguizi, affirmed that he al Council pre-empted United Na- had 'heard the rumblings' but Continued on page 3 Q;j BIG = SPRING COMPETITION! UNITS OFT HE SWA Territory Force pictured in last week's operation , which took place both in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Swapo has denied that any of its fighters were killed or captured in Angola. Swapo deniesSADF 3rd draw - September 28 1st prize- A 22-plece dinner service by Seltmann Welden. value R283.45 2nd prize- Bedllnen - 2 sets by Irlsette. value R149.80 3rd prize- Black & Decker hammer-drill H554 Angolan raid claims 350 watt. value R8G.OO 4th prize- Balmaln spray mist. value R40.00 OWN CORRESPONDENT THE'SOUTH WEST African People's Organisation (SWAPO) has denied South African claims that KewUtW~ 15 PLAN fighters were killed and 49 captured during last week's strike into Angola; Air-cushioned A statement issued by the week that there was 'absolutely 'There has not been a single en­ South West Africa Territory no truth to the South African counter between SWAPO forces Lawn Mower Force (SWATF) after the raid, claim that its forces fought nine and South African troops inside 1 000 watt power claimed there had been nine armed encounters with com­ Angola during the past week', the * armed encounters with insur­ babatants of PLAN inside statement said, adding that 'there * 300mm cutt ing gents during the air and ground Angola'. was not one person that South width strike conducted in the vicinity of The statement discounted the Africa could present to the press NehoneandEvale, l00km inside SWATF claim that 15 PLAN as a SWAPO fighter captured in Angola. combatants had been killed, a Angola in the last seven days'. R199~o , __~ SWAPO Secretary of Infor­ SWAPO base destroyed and large The SWAPO statement says mation, Mr Hidipo Hamutenya PO Box 86 quantities of ammunition Continued on page 3 said in a statement issued this captured. Tel. (061) 26232. Kaiser Street Windhoek \ ' ' ~2 ____T~H~E~N=A=M~IB~I=A~N~~F~R=ID~~~~~S~ep=te~m~b=e~r2~7~1=98=5 _______ ' _ ._. ,__ ._ . ________________-, ________________________________________ _ "An order is an order' - the world this week MEXICO CI,TY: MAPUTO: EXPERTS SAY many survivors of AT LEAST four people were killed evidence in murder trial the earthquake that killed and 68 injured, when an army am­ thousands of people a week ago, m un itions dump on the outski rts of By Christoph Shipanga left the country as unsophisticated today face a threat of severe men­ Maputo in Mozambique was blown young men, Nghitewa, 16 years old tal disorder. up. in 1976wh~n he left, and Mundjin­ 'We are seeing the mass sym­ Five of the injured were in a THE WINDHOEK Supreme dji, 22, in 1977. toms of a population under siege: critical condition after being hit by Court will rule today whether Both were in their first years of said chief psychiatrist, Mr Ruiz shrapnel. Defence Counsel, Mr David high school, and left with the pur­ Flores of the Social Security In­ Mozambican right-wing rebels Soggot, for two SWAPO in­ pose of education and also that of stitute Hospital. claimed responsibility for the blast, surgents, Veiko Nghitewa and liberating Namibia, as a result of 'The survivors have a sense of and warned it was the first of a Sam Mundjundji, may con­ their perception of the ill situation having lost control over their lives', series of planned attacks on the ci­ he said. tinue to lead expert evidence in their country, and also as they ty, until it was finally taken . Police say over 4 500 people in mitigation of sentence. were influenced by the picture A spokesman for the Mozam­ died in the quake, which injured Earlier, State Prosecutor, Mr presented by the 'Voice of Namibia' bican National Resistance that Swapo was 'the liberation more than 8 000, devastating the Estlenne Pretorius, question­ (RENAMO), said that the blasts at movement. centre of this capital of 18 million the arsenal were set off by ex­ ed the qualifications of one of Professor Helm continued that it people. plosives planted by a RENAMO the expert witnesses, Mr An­ was there that they started con­ Other estimates putthe deathtoll command. dre du Pisani, to express an trasting history at school, which at 12 000. A Mozambican Armed Forces opinion on the international dealt with characters such as Jan 'From Golden, Colorado, it is communique however, quoted by MR ANDRE DU PISANI of reported that the Mexican earth­ struggle for Namibian Unisa, who is one of those van Riebeeck and others while out­ State Radio, said the explosions independence. side they for the first time heard of quakewas upgraded from 7,8 t08,1 were started by a fire. called upon to give expert on the Richter scale, making it Nghitewa, 25, and Mundjind­ the black struggle as was led by Meanwhile, a report by Por­ evidence in the trial of two almost three times stronger than ji, 30, were convicted of Swapo member convicted on Witbooi, Jonker and others. tugal's News Service in Maputo, originally estimated and more Noticias de Portugal, said the murder with extenuating cir­ a charge of murdering a She said that the two told her that powerful than the most lethal quake cumstances, abduction and sound of small armsfirecould also SWABC announcer in 1983. it was during their stay in Angola in history. be heard in the city. theft. The trial arose from the that they were persuaded to opt for The blasts took place on the 21st death of a Radio Owambo an­ perienced by blacks, the massacre military training, rather than pursu­ PARIS: nouncer, Mr Martin Shan­ of black inhabitants at the Old Loca­ ing their original ambition namely FRENCH PRIME Minister, Mr anniversary of the start of the Mozambican war for in­ jengange in the North of tion in 1957, followed by the forced that of education. Laurent Fabius, said last night, that dependence from Portugal. In the Namibia in 1983. removal to Katutura, the 1971 local former Defence Minister, Mr resistance in the north, the 1972 kill­ She said that they therefore Charles Hernu, and dismissed In­ past, the date has been marked by Acco«Jing to evidence, the ings of people by police at a village opted for the only alternative to telligence Chief Admiral Pierre threatsofsabotagefromRENAMO, two men were members of a called Ipinga in the north, and the them then and joined the military Lacoste, were responsible for the but these threats have never been three-man reconnaissance 1971/72 general strike for better wing of SWAPO. order to sink the Greenpeace pro­ carried out before. mission, which left Angola for wages and work conditions. She said thatthe two you ng men test ship, Rainbow Warrior. LARNACA, CYPRUS: Namibia a week before the She said that all these happen­ were completely 'taken over' by the Mr Fabius denied that he had death of Mr Shanjengange, ings influenced the two accused Organisation, and developed that advance knowledge ofthe plans to THREE Palistinians were remand­ in custody as police investigated with the orders to kidnap the and eventually culminated in their unquestionable solidarity and sink the Greenpeace vessel. ed the murder of three Israelis on a deceased, but if cir­ being tried at this pOint. commitment towards the Namibian 'I was never told by the Minister yacht here. cumstances would not allow, She said that she noted that both cause. of Defence about preparations for men were quite ambitious at Professor Helm argued that 'an An armed group killed a woman to kill him. the attack until last Saturday. When school, and felt themselves at a order was an order', and that in any I asked whether French people and took two men hostage in a Evidence for the Defence was disadvantage with English, as the military organisation there was no were involved, I was told no: he. dawn attack on an Israeli yacht given earlier this week by Professor medium of instruction was such thing as the disobeying of said. here, security sources said. Brunhilde Helm, from the Depart­ Afrikaans, and English was the orders, and that the carrying out of It was also reported from Paris, The group left the woman sprawl­ ment of Sociology at the Universi, general accepted language in their orders were indeed one's own that General Rene Imbot, Chief of ed on the deck, apparently dead tyof Bophutatswana, and also from community and the world at large. safety. Staff ofthe Frency Army, was nam­ and by the time they gave the School of Social Work at the The-Professor here mentioned The trial took place amidst tight ed as the new head of France's In­ themselves up, police found the University of Cape Town.