• TODAY~ MORE BATTLEFIELD SUCCESS FOR UNITA· WOMEN ON THE MARCH" SAN'LAM NAMIBIAT-URNS 50'· '-' Bringing Africa South Tuesday June 1 1993 * Lubowski issue • rl e ATTORNEY-GENERAL Hartmut Ruppel yesterday confirmed the Government's re­ fusal to take up the cases ofseveral police and one army officer for an action against The Namibian. Recently The N amibian published a report citing two sw'om affidavits which allege that several high­ ranking police and one anny officer were present at a meeting at which the assassination of Swapo activist Anton Lubowski was discussed. sentence -for One ofthe officers named. the CID's lwnbo Smit, was in ' fact the chief investigating officer in the Lubowski murder. He recently placed his docket in front of the Olief Magistrate for a decision on an inquest date. It is believed that his investigation finds unknown elements of the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) in South Africa, responsible for the • • killing. Last week a local newspaper reported that Smit, and the other officers named. Flip Nel, Riaan White, Daan Oberbolzer, as well as Colonel Des Radmore an SlaVln ofthe NDF, had approached the Government Attor- cont. on page 2 Namibians TYAPPA NAMUTEWA in Cuba to ANDRIES Ei-Aseb was yesterday given a triple life sentence for the come home brutal murder of three young San ALL 325 Namibian stu­ children, who were gruesomely dents and teachers pres­ ently in Cuba are to return hacked to death near Tsumeb last home at a cost of RI,45 million, Cabinet an­ Ei-Aseb's co-accused in the San slaying case, nounced yesterday. Johannes Kooper, was given an effective sentence A Cabinet statement of 27 years and six months imprisonment by the said due to "the personal, Windhoek High Court. flnancial and administra­ Passing sentence, Acting Judge Louis Muller said tive circumstances per­ ifhe had had the authority he would have gi ven both taining to N amibian learn­ the accused the death penalty, which he re garded as ers and teachers at the UP IN ARMS •.• Some of the Nanso group who have just visited Walvis Bay and claim that all is not the only fixed sentence for them. Hendrik Witbooi school what it should be at the port town. See report below. They are, from left: Tobias Iyambo, Colin "Only animals could have commitedsuch crimes," in the Republic of Cuba" Kamehozu, Isaiah Kavendjii, secretary for community and political affairs, and Ivan Lombardt. Cabinet had decided that Judge Muller said preparations must com­ The three San children, aged two weeks, three mence to ensure their safe years and five-years-old were coldbloodly hacked repatriation. Troubled teachers at Walvis to death with a panga at the farm Wagon' -Bietjie Provision for the near Tsumeb on May 23 last year. Their parents Rl,45m cost of the repa­ were also attacked with a panga and narrowly people were simply told that our (Namibian) IGCSE triation is to be made un­ CHRISTOF MALETSKY escaped death. derthe 1993/94 budget of system is useless compared to the Cape system but, after meetings with both pupils at Kuisebmond I cont. on page 2 the Ministry of Education NAMIBIAN teachers employed at Walvis and Culture. Secondary and De Duine School, everyone wants to In addition Cabinet in­ Bayschoolsfacethepossibilityofbeing'elimi­ reap our good fruits," he said. structed the Ministers of nated' from their positions in the near future, The Nanso representative claimed that Barnard Foreign Affairs and Edu­ according to the Namibia National Students' had tried to block both Nanso's meetings. Accord­ JOB HUN'l6R8 cation to approach UN Organisation (Nanso). ing to Kavendjii, Barnard first argued that Nanso EMPLOYMENT AGENCY agencies and church or­ Speaking to The Namibian yesterday, Nanso representatives could not meet either the pupils or The dynamic team is offering the ganisations for fmancial community and political affairs secretary Isaiah principals of both schools in his absence, and later help for the return home. Kavendjii charged that the future of Namibian "because we are apparently nothing more than a services of top positions, recruitment Cuba's economy is in teachers employed at Kuisebmond and Narraville Swapo Youth League". ' and applications. We also urgently dire straits due to a US schools was under threat. However, Nanso had called a well-attended pu­ require one top trade embargo and the loss Kavendjii referred to some recent adverts in local pils/community meeting at a local church where executive secretary, trilingual, ten of aid and trade from newspapers, placed by area manager for schools, everyone had had the chance to air their views. former Eastern bloc coun­ years experience, top salary, debt­ Willem Bamard, which allegedly stated that no According to Kavendjii, everyone to to whom tries. Recently some 26 non-South Africans would be considered for jobs they had spoken had been optimistic and eager to be ors and creditors, coded welders, ()()() people have been af­ part of the new t'Aiucation system in Namibia. teachers, civil engineers, qualified flicted by a mysterious eye there. Despite repeated efforts, Bamard could not be disease believed to be A Nanso delegation has just been to the coast' 'to tour guides. reached for comment by the time of going to press. linked to a vitamin defi­ find out more about our student colleagues", he According to Nanso, Narriibian teachers at ciency among many Cu­ said. Tel: 223903 bans, some of whom are Kavendjii also claimed that Barnard was trying to Kuisebmond schools account for 86 per cent of the now resorting to wild , 'lead pupils in the wrong direction" and that people teaching force, and N amibian pupils 99 per cent of 224719 plants to survive. knew little about Namibia's new education. "The the school-going population. 2 Tuesday June 1 199'3 THE NAMIBIAN Lubowski issue from page 1 Friend or Foe? THETOURISMAND SAFARI mby to take up their case but had been refused. ASSOCIATION OF NAMIBIA In re sponse to an inquiry , An easy way to see if your salt pot Ruppel said that until the is a healthy thing to have around (T~~A) Government can assess the merits of the case inde- -. HEREWITH pendently of what the-ef- uring. WANTS TO REMIND THEIR MEMBERS ficers the~elves sai.d, i,~ KATE BURLlNG And though some of the milder symp- ONCE AGAIN OF THE AGM MEETING. ~oUld ~ d:ppropnate toms may be reversed by improving the ocomnut ve~entre- THE bag of salt in your kitchen intake of iodine once the problem is sources to defending any- b d uld be "il ' . cup oar co your lam y s establIshed, some of the worst effects, ~ ! one. best ti' d 'd ' Date ' 04th June 1993 He added that the a1le- nehn?r an ma ehquate I,m. such a:' those experie!lce.d during preg- Time IOhOO gations-in the newspapers, poster w ,en It co~esto t e queshon -nancy: cann?t be reve~~ed . O~y p~e­ Venue , Strand Hotel Swakopmund withreferencetotheswom of health. v~ntabve actIOn - ensunng adequate m­ statements, are very seri- If the salt contains iodlle, it will be takes of.iodine from the start'- can guard ous ~ and until thoroughly h~lping to guard against a 'wliole range against the problem. - It would be kind investigated, the Govem- of health ~oblems that most people ' As we approach this year's' Day of the ment would find it inap- aren't even aware of; if it doesn't you African Child and foCus 'our attention on' If all members are present propriate to take up the could be missing out on an essential the needs of young people 'alf'over the at this AGM meeting. cases of the men in ques- ingredient for your body's well-being. continent, perhaps the spoonful of salt tion. Iodine Deficiency Disorder (!DD) is which gets added to the family meal Ruppel said there would the general name for the group of ill- should also come under the microscope. be an inquest proceeding, nesses which can result from inadequate And that's not as difficult as you might and that this would be the iodine intake, and it affects about a bil- imagine. Until the day when interna­ place where allegations lion people throughout the world. Itjeop- tional control measures can ensure that should be made and wh~re ardizes physical and mental develop· all table salt is fortified with iodine, there's peopl~ would have the ap- ment at any age, but it is most serious in a cheap and straightforward way to test NAMIBIA propnate forum to defend pregnant women and young children. whether your salt is up to scratch. Form an themselves. The.se ~ould Some 100 million Africans suffer from Simply take a few grains of rice and thenrma1 be dealt Withf . ill the one or more symptoms 0 f' IDD ,wh' lC h grm. d them m. a b ow.I M'IX m. a eoup Ie unbreakable no ~urse 0 mquest can range from slow foetal development drops oflemon and drip the solution onto procHee gS'h dd d th and foetal death, to severe physical and spoonful of salt. If the damp area turns partnership with Afrox owever, ea e, e . al da . ' d' I al " d' d' Operative in the country since the late forties we know the country and its people. men' estion were fully rpent growth retar bon· a lsease purp e, your s t contams 10 me an will Our bywords is fast, cost-effective service - from high-tech medical pipeline entitt:dtlegaladvicepri- known as :retinism.