-~- * * * INSIDE TODAY: NAMIBIAN FOCUS IN OSHIWAMBO AND AFRIKAANS * *.* TOWAWAY INCUSTO Y ------------BYMARKVERBAAN-----------­ . THE 24-year-old Ghanaian stowaway who was washed ashore on the Namibian coastline after being set adrift from the ship on which he was hiding, has been in the custody ofboth the army and police since being found near to death last Thursday. The Ghanain, Emmanuel Gyani, patrolling Nature Conservation of­ , hadstowedawaywiththreefriendson ficials last Thursday, where he had board a Singapore-registered ship on been washed ashore near Cape Fria - April 21 at Accra harbour, but three 130km from the Angolan border, days later they were discovered, - Mr Gyani was marooned on the - The captain of the vessel ordered bleak and uninhabited stretch of them to be dropped overboard with a coastline the day before, on May 11, in tiny life-r~ in the middle ofthe freez­ an exhausted state of dehydration and ing Atlantic Ocean, exposure, The captains parting words to the A spokesman for the Directorate of four men were that if they reached Nature Conservation said yesterday land, it would probably be Angola, that Mr Gyani had been discovered by Namibia or South Africa,' a two-man patrol in the area, Somewhere in the ocean, however, He said that the place where the tragedy struck and one of the stowaway was found is completely stowaways was drowned, desolate and without water, Soon afterwards, two others were "There are no river courses where he washed overboard and eaten by was found __ , there isjust a seal colony sharks, . nearby;' he said, Mr Gyani was the sole survivor, He was found at death's door by two Continued on page 3 State withdraws charges A LONE TEACHER in a lonely classroom at Ponhofi Secondary School at Ohangwena in nor­ ,against thirty·thre~ -, ~ , thern Namibia. An estimated 7 000 pupils are boycotting classes at1ieveral schools as a result ----------BY RAJAH MUNAMAVA ....----­ of proximity of police and army bases. Now the Administrator General has said the bases will not be moved, and bomb shelters will be erected. This decision will probably only exacerbate THE STATE this week withdrew charges against the thirty the school boycott situation in the north. three people arrested last April in the Rietfontein area - east of Gobabis - for allegedly attempting to leave the country illegally. NAMIBIAN SHOT BY ARMY IN ANGOLA Charges. against three others however who were arrested during the same swoop for allegedly rendering assistance to the thirty three to A NAMIDlAN youth who lives in BY CHRIS SHIPANGA "I suddenly found myself surround­ leave the country, have not been dropped. southern Angola with his family was Katut\lra yesterday, Hangula ed by a group of soldiers, and one told The three - KaveeNdjoze, Veiko Hausiku and Simpson Katjivikua are shot from behind after being inter­ Nghinanamunhu, a teenager from the me to tell them where Swapo was:' he all out on a bail of R500 each. rogated by members of the South Iilondo village, told of how he had been. said, The two vehicles in which the-group were travelling at the time have African security forces on the Angolan stopped by soldiers while herding his Hangula said he had shrugged his side of the border last Sunday, not been returned to their owners pending the case which will be heard father's cattle to a nearby water point Continued on page 5 at a later date. The thirty three people were released last Wednesday Speaking from his hospital bed in on Sunday afternoon, morning. Security Police from Gobabis stormed the group on the early morn­ ing hours of Saturday April 23 on the Farm Rietfontein arresting AtADEMY AND TEAtHERS _TRAINING altogether thirty six people. The thirty six were searched and interrogated before they were taken back to Gobabis for questioning. The large body of the group was later tOLLEGE TO SWOP PREMISES? sent to Buitepos where they have since been held while others were THERE HAVE been reports that the entire AcademylUniversity campus in Windhoek West is kept at Gobabis, SeiHs and JG Strydom. to be transferred to the all-white Teachers Training College on the outskirts of town, and the The detainees told the police at the time that they were going to a party of one member of the group who himself lives in tb,e Rietfontein Reserve. College will move to the present Academy premises. Meanwhile seven of those whom charges have been dropped against The College, near the suburban area of Hochland Park, has been heavily under-utilised since have been subpoenaed to appear in court on August 2 apparently as ' it was was opened in 1979 with 110 students. witnesses in the case against Simpson Katjivikua, Kavee Ndjoze and Since then, the many lecture theatres and auditoriums have stood vacant throughout each year. Veiko Hausiku. The case will be heard in the Windhoek Magistrates The College is run by the Administration for Whites, and therefore student teaahers of race court groups other than white are not permitted to study there. The remaining twenty six, of whom thirteen are women and thirteen It is understood that there are only four final-year students this year, while the .College is capable are men, were told that charges against them have been withdrawn of accommodating 2 000 students. < , -. and that they could go. At the beginning of this year, a mere 35 new students enrolled. Several of those who were detained said they had been subjected to insults and harassment particularly by two policemen whom they iden­ . The sprawling campus has tennis and squash court's, libraries, refectories, a rugby field with tified as B.eukes and Oosthuizen. stadium and an Olympic-size swimming pool. According to Mariam Kahangu, 14, a white policeman slapped her It is anticipated that a campus swap between th~ Academy and the College would be widely face~manhandled her and accused her of telling lies about where they welcomed. " had planned to go. Reports of this dramatic switch come in the wake of numerous c9mplaints by residents living 28-year-old Bertha Ephraim said she was clubbed on her back by a near the Academy hostels, who allege'that the students often create disturbances arid generally policeman who she identified as Burger before she was pushed into behave in an obscene manner: her cell. Others who were assaulted and manhandled were Rosalia It is understood that the Windhoek Municipality is working on a solution to these complaints David and Alfons Ruben. at the moment. Besides physical assaults a number of those who were detained said they were referred to as "kaffirs,liers, Wambos" by the policemen. Food A spokesman for the Academy said yesterday: "The arrangement with the municipality a few was badly prepared and they were not provided with blankets. years ago was that the Academy would use the (hostel) buildings until the end of 1989.'" The police in Gobabis, according to one member of the group, told "We have leeway until the end of next year." them that they knew about their plan three days ahead of their The swop of campuses was, however, denied by an Academy official this week. departure. , The Manager: Development of the Academy Foundation, Mr Johan Muller, said yesterday that A policewoman, identified as a Mrs Pretorius, according to Rosalia the switch was "news to me". .David, told her that 'Wambos' were stupid and that the police had "I have heard nothing about it," he said. known before hand that they were planning to leave the country. Member of the white Executive Committee, Mr Jannie de Wet, hinted that there may be illegally. .something in the report. She said the policewoman had told them that an informer among them had reported to the police long before they left, that they were being "There have been such rumours, but nothing has been confirmed/' he said. monitored on the date of departure and that they had only wanted to "As far as I know, negotiations have not taken place." arrest them at the border. There are at least 200 l'tudents living in the Academy hostel at present, and if the switch were Rietfontein farm is roughly some 20 km from the Namibian border made, the spacious modern complex would at last be utilised to its maximum - as well as used with Botswana. to the mutual benefit of all Namibians, regardless of skin colour. ( . 1.\\ ·2 Friday May 20 1988 THE NAMIBIAN THE WHOLE LOT for R5995.oo! 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TAKES ISSUE which category it might receive a good A FORMER mineworker, Mr HesronSabbatha Garoeb, has accused TCL rating. ofignoring doctors' medical reports, wrongful dismissal, and of treating MATRIX The Namibian public is becoming a him "like a dog".