C£C7 I Bringing Africa South Vol.2 No.379 SOc (GST Inc.) Quiet Quayle jets in on Airforce WINDHOEK: US vice-president Dan Quayle jetted The' vice-president did not make any 'conunents upon his vice-president's visit. into Windhoek last night for the start of a two-day visit arrival. Namibia is the fourth country on Quayle' s five-nation African to Namibia. Quayle, on his first visit to Namibia, is the most senior US trip, part of a tour marked by calls for deomcmtic and economic He was met at the International Airport by US Ambassador official to visit southern Africa. reforms. to Namibia Genta Hawkins Holmes, acting Namibian Prime Tomorrow, he is to hold talks with President SamNujoma on The US vice-president, who has been preaching capitalism on Minister Hifikepunye Pohomba, acting Foreign Affairs Minis­ US aid progranunes to Namibia. Afterwards, he will address the his trip, has already visited Cape Verde, Nigeria and Malawi, ter Hidipo Hamutenya and Chief of Protocol Martin Andj amba. media at State House, visit a Katutura School, and in the after­ where he spoke of the :'democmtic revolution spreading all Quayle is being accompanied by his wife, Marilyn, and a noon, head north to visit the Etosha National Park. around" the world and Africa. delegationheaded by US Health and Human Sciences Secretary Also among the welcoming party was President Bush's grand­ On Friday Quayle is scheduled to leave for the Ivory Coast. - Dr Louis Sullivan. son, J onathan, who was part ofthe advance team to prepare for the Sapa, Associated Press Tale of torture Arandis MBATJIUA NGAVIRUE THE three workers who claim they were tortured by police­ fights men at Arandis yesterday spoke out about their night­ marish experience. All three were arrested by the police in connection with the theft of three drums of for life.. uranium oxide stolen from the Rassing Uranium mine in early August. Rassing employees Ewer­ JOSEPH MOTINGA hardt Mokatu, Brutus Bogisi THE death toll in South African townships yesterday rose to almost 100. Above: and Lawrence Debele all claim ARANDIS residents have started drawing up a survival : they were tortured in the po- . THOKOZA: Supporters of Chief Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) march plan to counter the imminent retrenchment of hun­ lice cells at Arandis. through Thokoza township last Sunday after unidentified gunmen killed 18 !FP dreds of workers at the Rossing Mine. The torture allegedly in­ supporters heading to a meeting. The incident sparked off the latest spiral ofviolence Meanwhile the Cabinet has Swakopmund, a move it is volved being repeatedly suffo­ which spread to other townships. See full report, page 7. Photograph: Waiter decided to join forces with thought the mine is planning. cated with a water-filled plas­ Dhl~dhla, Agence France-Presse . Rassing in a bid to keep the * Residents who chose to tic bag over protracted peri­ desert town economically vi­ remain in Amndis after ret:reJ:x:h­ ods, sometimes lasting for able in the wake of the planned ment should be allowed to do almost an hour. retrenchments. so as long as they honoured An additional torture which NUNW urges Government to A meeting of Arandis resi­ requirements by the future Ewerhardt Mokatu says he dents, called by the Arandis administrative body of Aran­ suffered was that of being Residential Committee, re­ dis. suspended on his bent knees ACT NOW on Labour Code solved that retrenched work­ * The Ministry of Trade and on a broomstick placed be­ ers would do their utmost to Industry should promote new tween two desks. hold on to their houses in the conunercial enterprises in This form oftorture was also Blames employer organisations for delay town once they had been made Arandis, and to this effect, it carried out for lengthy periods redundant. was suggested that the viabil- . - allegedly until the circula­ THE National Union of Namibian Workers yesterday member unions oftheNUNW, A member of the Residen­ ity of business in the town be tion of blood in Mokatu' s feet called on the Government to ensure a speedy tabling of the NUNW however strongly tial Committee, Hanns Lessing, investigated and the siting of at one point stowed completely. felt that the Labour Code should told The Namibian yesterday new businesses be approved. Another Rassing employee, the proposed Labour Code in parliament and to ensure its speedy implementation. be tabledinits present form, as that a draft resolution prepared Added to which, the clothing Gregor Simana, was allegedly prepared by the Ministry of by the committee and discussed factory planned for the town beaten by policemen inside the The call was made by the forum in April this year by Labour and Manpower. at the mass meeting stated that: should give employment pref­ Rassing mine. - NUNW at press conference workers, the Government and The code as it stood had * The majority of workers erence to Arandis residents. In at least one incident; four yesterday, which the union employers. been prepared by the Ministry not to be retrenched would like * Schools should be kept policemen, including two white federation held specifically to As far as the NUNW was to remain in Arandis rather officers were allegedly pres­ express its frustmtion at the concerned, they regarded this Continued on page 2 than be transferred to Continued on page 2 ent while one of the victims delay in adopting the code. as the last forum of open par- r-------------1..----------------------­ was being tortured. NUNW General Secretary ticipation by the "social part- One of the victims identi­ Bernard Esau said the absence . ners", Esau said. fied the white officers as a of a labour code was giving a However, the union had now Sergeant Louw and another free hand to unfair labour prac­ decided to bring the issue out officer named Opperman. tises by employers in the coun­ into the open because they felt The actual torture was how-. try .. they had exhausted·all existing WATER consumption in Windhoek has increase in consumption, work on extending ever allegedly carried out by As the "sole and authentic" channels. rocketed this year, and the Municipal­ the Von Bach Purification plant woula be two mysterious black men, one representative and mouthpiece According to Esau, the brought forward. However, this work will not of whom they identified only ity is predicting water shortages during of exploited Namibian work­ NUNW had held talks with the Summer unless people use this pre­ be completed until the end of 1994. as Petrus, and another who they ers, the NUNW wanted to various Governmentrepresen­ cious resource more sparingly. In the meantime, the Municipality has called believe was named Shimuaf­ express its deepest concern tatives, including the Ministry on Windhoek residents to conserve and s.ave The average monthly water consumption in em. about the present labour situ­ of Labour, Minister of Finance water over the next three years and report any the capital between May 'and July was 27,5 per It is still not clear whether ation, and the delay in imple­ Ouo Herrigel and Minister of leakages to the city authority (Tel 391 2402 or cent higher than for the same period last year, the two men who inflicted the menting the Labour Code. Tmde and Industry Ben Arnath­ 391 2408 during office hours, and 61251 after and Municipal officials warn that should this tOlture are members oftbe police According to Esau, the ila. hours). Failure to do this will undoubtedly lead "excessive" use of water continue into the force - or whether they were NUNW had followed all the Esau said that during the to water shortages. Sunmler, demand will exceed supply by as just recruited to carry out the correct channels to obtain the various discussions they had The biggest increases in water consumption much as six per cent. torture. necessary infonnation about the been presented with a variety were in Katutura and Windhoek West where Current water supplies for Windhoekwere According to one of the delay of the Labour Code. of reasons for the delay in 41 and 50 per cent more water was used re- TIle Labour Code issue had implementing the code. Supposed to meet the capital's demand until Continued on page 2 been discussed at a tri-partite After consultations with the 1996, but in light of this year's staggering Continued on page 2 THENAMIBIAN A Tale of torture From page 1 victims, a ~hite police "officer' at one point said one of the two alleged torturers was a former Koevoct member while the other TWO student midwives came into The Namibian office man was a former Plan fighter. yesterday desperate for a delivery - of stolen textbooks On the other hand, another and notes they urgently need to pass exams in five victim said he knew Petrus, weeks' time. Midwives Riana Hamilton ofSwakopmund " and that Petrus was in fact a and Elfreda Xoagus of Windhoek are both students detective with the Swakopmund approaching the end of a lO-month course at the Acad­ police. emy in Windhoek. All threel'however, agreed 'Jky say they need the books, store at about 13hOO yester­ that the torture had been car­ their handwritten notes and the day. When the midwives asked ried out with the full knowl­ registers which show how many nearby newspaper vendors if edge of ·senior police officers, deliveries each has done in the they could help, they were including Inspector Blaauw of past year as part of the exami­ threatened with a knife. "I have the Swakopmund police. nation preparations. An upset searched in all the dustbins in Furthermore, they also al­ Hamilton yesterday appealed the area, and I've cried, but leged that senior security offi­ to anyone who finds the books, nothing helps," said Hamilton cers in Rossing's Protection to drop them at The Namibian a few hours afterwards.