other prices on page PolitBuro reshuffle -linked to Namibia leadership changes SWAP 0 CONGRESS-CALL BY GWEN LISTER TilE SWAPO NATIONAL EXECUTIVE meets this weekend in Windhoek~to decide whether a Congress should be held to,,-elect new leadership. Following on the -heels of a Politburo reshuffle abroad, local Swapo leaders are faced with a choice -- on the manner in which to fill vacancies in the Executive Committ~, which have a~n as a result of people leav­ ing the country. The last Swapo Congress in Namibia was held in Walvis Bay in 1976, and since that time, vacancies in the Executive Commit­ tee have been filled by co-opted members. There is however, a strong feeling in Swapo Youth League ranks that a full Congress should be held in order to elect the leadership. But in terms of the Prohibition and Notification of Meetings Act, such a Swapo Congress would be 'illegal'. The meeting of the National Ex­ Secretary. ecutive coincides. with ihe recent The main item qn the agenda of ' , the Executive Committee this weekendi~ the election of new office­ bearers in order to fill vacancies which have arisen in the Legal Affairs -and Publicity and Information portfolios. ' The Legal Arfairs position has been open since Ms ' ,Lucia Hamutenya left the country some POLICE MOVED IN and stopped a Swapo restival to commemorate the International Year years ago, and the vacancy in Infor­ of Peace in Katutura over the weekend. r mation andPublicityis as a result of Full story inside. Pictures by John Liebenberg. the departure of Mr Philip Tjerije, who went to study abroad. - - The Executive is this weekend fac­ youth of the organisation. ed with a number of choices in elec­ Swapo Joint Foreign Affairs ,ting new office-bearers. They could Secretary, Mr Niko Bessinger, con­ decide once again to co-opt members firmed that the National Executive CREDIT CARDS into these positions; or they could get would meet this weekend, but wOjlld the various branches to nominate not give further 4etails. SW APO Foreign Affairs candidates; reshuffle the present Na­ At present, the Executive is as Secretary, Mr Niko Bessinger. , tional Executive; or opt for a total re­ follows: I election of leadership. o Acting President: Mr Nathaniel Politburo reshuffle (see report in- While it is not known which choice Maxuilili ' .. side) which came about as a result of will be opted for, there is a strong call o Vice President: Pastor Hendrik . ... .... .. the death of Mr Peter Nanyemba for a national congress among the Witbooi ..... ...... who held the portfolio of Defence membership, particularly in- the .. .... '. .... .. ... .. -, . SWABC-TV 'censors' Uys ~~.;;.::.::::::.::: ..... ::.::::.::::.::.:.... '. STAFF REPORTER television ' licence-holders, we ap­ rumoured, been deliberately 'drop­ ""'4, .... , .... /u ~ proached the SWABC to find out ped' from Thesday night's news ~+ , ..... ", Have you heard? .. SEVERAL MEMBERS of the whether the coverage of Mr Uys's prog~mme. r~)- , lib ··.. , Convenient shopping .-.. public have expressed , anger and news conference had, as was A few hours later, we were told that ;,., -T"'I' '. I . d' d ~ (. "C .. ~ with ere It ear sat disappointment at the failure of the a decision had indeed been taken not )-~ ~.D :- WOERMANN. BROCK / SWABC TV to screen footage of a to use the material, on the basis that press' conference given by actor 'it was of lower news value than ~C~ & CO. " Pieler Dirk Uys before the opening general'. However, the SWABC ~ . " I 0/, '-_ -- - - ~ ' night of 'Adapt or Dye: Beyond the assured us, Pieter Dirk Uys would be Rubicon'. accomodated on the magazine pro­ I The cameras were. all there, the gramme !Land en Sand~ due to be I sound recording equipment, the in­ screened-sometime next month. / . terviewers ... and of f:QUrse Pieter This decision, which SWAPAC Dirk Uys in person; the master­ spokesmen have described as 'sca n~ satirist who.is possibly funnier off dalous; raises several questions. stage than on, who delivers a quote Firstly: is this the way to treat a per­ a minute and has been described as former who has Oiterally) gone 'out an interviewer's dream. of his' way' to bring his extremely And yet by Wednesday night, the popular show to Windhoek? man who had already delighted (and Secondly, can television viewers shocked) Windhoek audiences for who are paying exorbitant license two nights, had not yet been seen by fees be expected to sit back and ac­ i the thousands of television viewers, cept this kind of arbitrary censorship WINDHOEK mllny of whom would be unable to of material which is of human in­ P.O. BOX.86 I travel to Windhoek to see the show terest -never mind the day to day cen- on stage., Pieter Dirk Uys Continued on pa9'-" Z TEL. 26232 In re5It.onse to several queries from , ... '\ !< ~ '. 2 , THE NAMmIAN FRiI5AyjaIi~ary 31 1986 WORLD FLASHES AG 9 and the 'Bill of Rights' LONDON: A majority of British voters believe that Prime Minister Mrs that admissions obtained from peo­ Margaret Thatcher, should retire before the next election, according to an opi­ COURT REPORTER referred to it as a constitution, giving nion poll published. ple being detained without trial, rights to people. He underlined that The poli gave further evidence of the damage caused to Mrs Th.atcher by the IN A SIGNIFICANT Supreme especially for lengthy periods, were the adoption of the Bill of Rights in frequently rejected by the courts, and crisis over the future of the Westland Helicopter Company that has led to the Court application which couid the Proclamation emanated from a resignation of two of her ministers. ' have far-reaching constitutional were, at best, suspect. decision of the Multi Party Con­ Ainong 1_048 peopJe polled by the Harris Research Centre for Independent ' implications, Mr Ian Farlam Sc, Mr Farlam argued that their in­ ference in 1984. He added that ex­ Television, 55 percent said they did not believe her account of.the leak of a definite detention without trial was isting laws should continue, subject argued that detention without unlawful as it conflicted with the in­ government document in the Westland affair. to thje 'inalienable rights' which were trial conflicted with the Bill of terimgovernment's Bill of Rights. He embodied in the Bill of Rights. fRANKFURT: Two doctors went on trial here, charged with complicity in Fundamental Rights and that as referred to Section 2 of the Bill which To do'otherwise, he stated, would . the mass murder of the mentally ill in Nazi Germany. a result, Proclamation AG 9 is unambiguously provided that no one be to give the important document unconstitutional. shall be detained for an indefinite '. Gynaecologists Aquilin Ullrich 'and Heinrich Bunke, both 71, are alleged to little effect. Mr Farlam added that it ". , have sent 15 OOO,peopleto the gas chambers at 'death clinics' in 1940 and 1941. Mr Farlam appeared on behalf of would be an act of 'legislative Mr John Akweenda ofOniipa, who cynicism' if the Bill of Rights did not '. ,LONDON: British Labour leaders set out to halt truck convoys mobilised by brought an urgent application on have the effect of granting suc-h im­ publisher Mr Rupert Murdoch to keep his strike-hit newspapers on the street. Tuesday against the Cabinet and portant fundamental rights to in­ Reports from around Britain, suggested Mr Murdoch was winning a battle Brigadier 'Tommy' Thomasseofthe habitants and it would be an act of to distribute his two dailies, 'The Times' and the top-selling tabloid, 'Sun', Security Police, for the release of his betrayal should it be construed in a despite a printers' strike. two brothers and two other relatives. way that would not extend rights. The 6 000 printers went on strike on Friday, after the collapse of talks on huge Within days of the application be­ Mr Far lam added further that the job cuts and a no-strike agreement at two high technology plants in East ing filed, one of the detainees, Mr Cabinet, in failing to afford the de­ London and Glasgow. Andreas Immanuel, was released. tainees a hearing when making a Mr Farlam rejected the assertion decision to 'order' their further HAMBURG:The environmental protest ship, 'Greenpeace', will enter Antarctic by Mr Moses Katjiuongua, Chair­ detention, had failed to comply with waters tomorrow, February 1 to declare the frozen southern continent a 'world man of the interim government the rules of natural justice and that park', Greenpeace said in a statement. Cabinet, who filed an opposing af­ the detenlion was also unlawful on A ceremony aboard the ship in the Antarctic Ross Sea, will include the reading fidavit to the application that the that ground. of a declaration signed by 140_env ironmentalist groups from around the world, >, release was not connected with the He stressed that the right to, be it added. bringing of the application. heard was a fundamental one and 'The Antarctic contin en rand surrounding seas as far as the 60th parallel will Mr Katjiuongua, in his opposition that the Cabinet had acted with gross be symbolically declared a world park', Greenpeace said., to the application, admitted that the unfairness in failing to afford the de­ TEL AVIV: An Arab guerrilla shot dead two Israeli soldiers near the banks Cabinet had ordered the further tainees a hearing. , ofthdordan River early ~his week, in the most serious incident on the Jorda­ detention of the detainees and admit­ He also added that the detainees '. nian frontier for years, the Army said. ted that access to lawyers had been Mr Jolin Akweenda were entitled to legal access. He The infiltrator was later killed and two other Israeli soldiers were wounded denied by the detainees.