* Inside today: A'buddi'ng Namibian artist * lng Africa South UNION LEADER ANDCDMIN BITTER CLASH A MAJOR row is looming between as it requires you to display a greater NUNW President John Shaetonodhi RAJAH MUNAMAVA sense of commitment to the country and CDM management over ' the the company you work for operates unionist taking leave to attend May your other interests, " Bath wrote. in - or leave Namibia in order to Day activities in Windhoek. Bath said as head ofCDM's opera­ pursue your anti-union activities A bitter war of words has already tional section he was deteImined to elsewh.ere as it appears that you have erupted with the top union leader and create it team ofcapable and commit­ no capacity to subject yourself to the CDM personnel operations manager ted employees to deal with the many interests and directives of the Na- E Bath both coming out firing from and varied challenges that faced . mibian people. " the hip. Namibia today. "Whilst I would like He wrote that as NUNW president During the week of May Day. Bath to consider you as a member of this he was determined make sure that the wrote to Shaetonodhi expressing team, I am at this stage unable to do trade union leadership, and indeed dissatisfaction about his leave. so as a result of your own actions." all the workers, were respected even Shaetonodhi responded by lashing the CDM manager said. by "unscrupulous managers". out at the CDM operations manager, In his letter of reply, Shaetonodhi Shaetonodhi said while the man­ accusing him of anti-union activi­ challenged the manager over what he ager by his own admission conceded ties. tenned his " emotional reaction" over Namibia was faced with many and ROSALINE Namises, supervisor of a Uriicef food and health In his letter, the CDM manager his taking leave to carry out legiti­ varied challcnges, he failed to realise security survey ip Katutura, weighing a baby on thejob. See report 'Jaid by insisting on taking leave during mate trade union activities. that one such challeng~ .was trade . _ tOlnor. row. •.I~b~10 ,. .~apb.;by . K!lt~ B)1.ljjng •. a period in which he bad been asked He wrote that while he accepted ,. umollrreeaoii'tllll:d orgfurl!llluoiL' -, - i-~'-";;- --.--'--' ~---~------.--------- to perform the duties of the training that Bath was entitled to his personal "You seem to attach more value to superintendent on an acting basis, it views, he did not appreciate his threats golf - as the incumbent training super­ had become apparent that Shaeton­ under any circumstances. intendent left on a golf tour - than to Acheson takes Swazi break odhi attached no value to or had no The unionist said he had taken the ,issues that are crucial to the workers, MBABANE· Irishman Donald Acheson, released from jail In Windhoek after understanding of the long-term de­ threats contained in the letter in a thereby arrogating evil motives to murder charges were withdrawn, arrived In Swaziland on Tuesday after being. velopment intent of such an appoint­ serious light as they constituted a the workers and their leadership," refused entry Into South Africa, his legal representatives said. Charges against ment. violation of the country's constitution Shaetonodhi said. Acheson were dropped because two co-accused and four crucial witnesses "I believe that this is an untenable which enshrined fundamental rights Trade unions were here to stay and refused to travel from South Africa to Windhoek to testify. The two co-accused situation and that the seniority of and freedoms. what was required from the manager have been Hoked to an laqulry into death squads controlled by South Africa's your substantive position within the In a tit for tat response, Shaeton­ was, that when union leaders were shadowy CIVIl Cooperation Bureau (CCB), which is suspected of assasSinating training section requires you to dis­ odhi said in his letter to the manager: engaged in legitimate trade union opponents of Pretoria. Acheson, who looked pale and drawn, refused to talk to playa greater sense of commitment "This is an untenable situation and activities, they should be respected reporters when he new In from Johannesburg with his girlfriend Cynthia Leo. to the position you hold or to relin­ the position you hold in the company and be granted paid leave and not just BlJt one of his legal representatives, Pierre Botha, said Acheson needed rest quish that position in order to pursue operating in Nanubia requires no abuse sporting activities. while he awaited the outcome of an appllcatiol) for a South African work permit. Worker injured in knife tussle AN employe~ of the Namibia Tan­ for work yesterday morning and got one of the pits; that Zangani asked Zangani's rescue but prevented two Nambahu claimed yesterday it was nery in Windhoek, Lukas Nambahu, down to business as usual. He went to where he was taking them to. other black workers from joining in not the first time the foreman had suffered injuries to his hand yester­ the pits where company employees He did not respond and continued to help their mate. tried to use a knife on someone. day when he had to wrestle a knife nonnally worle to look for some spades: to move away but looked over his Nambahu said yesterday it was A while ago, he said, Zangani had from his white foreman. It is his 'task to lock up spades and shoulder when he saw Zangani briefly turned into a "one against two" situ­ chased another worker, Obed Ma­ The foreman, G Zangani, alleg­ other implements after work and to talking to another white employee ation as he had to try and fend offhis lilia, who fled to the safety of a edly attempted to draw the knife from collect them for distribution to the before charging towards him. two "attackers". room, locking the door behind him its sheath during a scuffle. workers before work every day, he Zangani allegedly went for Nam­ At this juncture, Zangani alleg­ only for his would-be attacker to The matter is apparently a sequel told The ~amibian. bahu and kicked him in the stomach edly tried to draw the knife from its 'stab' the door. to an earlier skirmish whclQ Zangani But yesterday, two spades could before the two men wrestled each sheath. Realising the danger, Nam­ Last Saturday, another black woIker, allegedly kicked Nambahu in the not be accounted for and he went to other and fell to the ground together. bahu set out to wrestle the knife from identified only as Maboto, asked stomach. the pits to look for them. It was at this While the scuffle was continuing, his foreman. Before the two could be According to Nambahu, he reported point, while taking the spades out of another white employee carne to pulled apart, his hand was injured. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 ~ •••••••I ••••••I.I •• I.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.IIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIX. = WE SPECIALISE IN CURRIES, _~ ~~"'ft..~L RES~~~ . We cater for: = INDIAN AND ETHIOPIAN DISHES! ,,~. ~~ 1/1 take-aways, snacks & functions = III beautiful banquet facilities for up to 150 people ill! Come and meet Kenny our Head Chef and Manager, who has had 25 III buffet for the family and friends every Sunday lunch ~ years of hotel and restaurant experience. 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"r... ·.".." ..... r ..·'W ".. 1lIr'1lr ·'1IIrI!r... r:~ 2 Thursday May 10 1990 . :rH-E NAMIBIAN Albie Sachs admits torture but warns against fairy-tales no recently charged they were tortured CAPE TOWN - The African National Congress (ANC) has mistreated YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO EVENTS WORLD-WIDE prisoners and still holds some in detention, a member of the have said some were in Angola, and organisation's legal affairs department said on Wednesday. others are in Tanzania and Uganda. Although the conditions at the "We still have people in deten­ tions which forbid torture of sus­ detention centre were not as bad as he tion, even now, " said Albie Sachs, pects, and allow them to defend them­ had feared, Sachs said he cried after­ adding he visited an ANC detention selves at a tribunal. wards. "It was just sad to see that it centre just before returning to South Sachs did not say where the deten­ was hafpening," he said. "When MOSCOW - Mikhail Gorbachev has publicly targeted the restive Africa from exile, and was moved to tion centre is which he recently vis­ you join the ANC you don't auto­ Soviet armed forces for major reforms as the military prepares for a tears by what he saw. ited, but ANC dissidents who have matically become an angel. ' , show of power to mark Nazi Germany's defeat 45 years ago. "Ifpeople come back and say they have been ill-treated by the ANC, it BEIRUT - Much of east Beirut lay smouldering after two days of is not necessarily lies, but if people artillery, tank and rocket bombardment between rival Christian forces. come back and say that is the ANC, then that is lies," Sachs told 1 000 JERUSALEM -The Palestinian uprising against Israel in the occupied students in a speech at the University West Bank and Gaza Strip entered its 30th month with Arabs saying it of Cape Town.