* TODAY: ALCOHOL .. NAM NATIONAL PROBLEM * NANSO IN' FIGHTING FaRM * SPORT * -, Vol.3 No.4 , IN THE NEWSPAPER . • San community's new struggle . • .. ., • WEEKEND SUPPLEMENT: • City's desperate, 'battle' begins , Readers write about heroes, • The great pornography debate Academy 'paranoia'. scramble for Namibia; full TV guides, arts. ustlce. • That jet. the people, the elite entertainment and social pies for 70 rights abuse victims KATE BURLlNG A MAN who was convicted of rape received a shock SOME 70Namibians from th'e North will be yesterday when a i:~urt interpreter misquoted the judge and told the accused that a proper sentence for him was presented with cheques totalling R160 000", "castration". tomorrow in compensation for damages Judge Pio Teek was sen­ a proper sentence for him arising out of the war prior to independ­ tencing Hendrik Kennedy, was castiation. ence. 25, who was convicted of The accused was shocked having ' had sexual inter­ and only calmed down when The payments will be assaults on civilians, to the destruction of mal.angu course with a woman with­ he was told that he was made at a function organi- crops, mortar attacks on out her pennission near sentenced to nine years in ' • sed by the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC). houses and unlawful shoot­ Tseiblaagte, Keetmanshoop, prison. ings. in November last year. ' Kennedy raped a H,-year­ They are the result of According to LAC direc­ When judge Teek came old girl whom he grabbed claims made by tbe LAC on behalf of residents ' in the tor Andrew Corbett, assault, to the end of his summary, and dragged into the bushes. year following the establish­ unlawful detention and the re told the accused that "after He threatened to slit her ment of a human right'> centre destruction of property were taking all the circumstances throat before he brutally at Ongwediva in July 1988; , the most common com- -i surrounding the crime into raPed the young girl. Though many abuses took plaints handled by the or- j consideration, I have come The court heard how the place prior to that date, the ' ganisation. to the conclusion that a girl was found badly injured centre could only deal with "It has taken a l'ot of time __ l proper sentence for you is a with her clothes tom. the more recent incidents. and a lot of hard work to custodial onc". Kennedy tried to mislead The claims cover a wide settle the.claims, which is The interpreter, 'i\'ho was the court by putt~g the , range of human rights one of the reasons we Qe­ translating this into Afri­ abuses, including renewed cided to have a fonnal han­ kaans, told the accused that To 2 problems in the months dover of the cheques. We ' running up to Namibia's felt the victims should have WAR HERO ... ~ohn Nangllndhu (right), commander independence election. a sense of a chapter having of the historic Ongulumbushe battle, took part in He­ They mainly deal with been closed and an expla- -l Alaobol abuse: roes' Day celebrations at .Katutura's Independence actions perpetrated by the nation of why the process Stadium last week. On the left is Minister Nico Bessin­ South African Defence Force took so long/' Namibia's national problem ger. The subject of heroes is the subject of a number of and SWA TF - everything readers' letters in today's newspaper. from tom t-shirts and minor To page 2 KATE BURLlNG 1. The Namibiao Community Security Co-operative is an initiative, by e)(ooCombatanl$who JUST-PUBLISHED results of a CCN survey on alcoh.ol use fpught on opposing sides of the IDeration war. Among the 30 members are., also school leaver5. RecenUy, eight, (8) of the members underwent a three months training course in and abuse in Namibia reveal that 40 per cent of drinkers the running and management of a security co-operative in Zimbabwe. Thos trained in rely heavily on alcohol and regularly spend up to R70 a Zimbabwe are continuously training those of their members who do notalready have some week on their habit. previous training in security related activities. " In the MaltaMhe region, 32 per cent of those interviewed 2. This is a ~und breaking initiative by young men and women who seek to take responsibility adinitted being unable to stop drinking, though people for other peoples security whilst ensuring thier own. ,,' generally said they drank to relax and socialize. 3. We are competent In: (Services offered) , Almost I 600 people in five regions of Namihia took part • Day and Night Security (24hrs) coverage for shops, factories, houses & schools, in the survey. Just over half were men. Most linked their NGO's, Embassies & Government property. drinking habits to stressful personal lives and unemploy­ • Security Survey and Advice. ment, whi!=h the survey registered at an (t'verage rate of 43 • Plain clothes security • Patrol of home and Business percent. • Staft searching In a sepa'rate survey of school students, results showed ;( 1 62401' 24 hours Guard supervision that gjrls started dririkingat an earlier age than hoys, hut INDEPENDENCE AVE Service to be offered In the future: that all young people using alcohol thought themselves KA TUTURA. Guard dogs well able to handle the habit. • Cash-in, Transit Nevertheless, 90 percent oflhose interviewe.d willlted to • Alarm Installations sce shebcens and tombo houses c1rJsed down' and a more • High storage facilites strict control on the, 'sale of alcohol. Though the survey 4. NamDia Community Security has any choice but to direct its business towards a reliable and trusted source like the Government and the private sectors. ' questioned ~tudents as young as I n, no one registered any 8y the Community, for the Community 5. Let us worry about your security. we are only a telephone call away., difficulty in obtaining alcohol. a Move by the People. Survey enumerators reserved special comment for Ka- TEl: 62402. WE GUARANTEE YOU AN ENTHUSIASTIC SERVICE. \" Conti nued on p a~l' 2, 2 Friday September 4 1992 ' THE NAMIBIAN tinle it was impossible to sue COMPENSATION In general, the survey re­ -_._----- the South African authorities, ALCOHOL marked that "society faces -----,...... from page 1 as the LAC could not bring a uncontrolable sales of alco­ .............-- --... case against a foreign sover­ from page 1 hol ... shebcens are the order ........... Corbett described the legal eign state. ------_;r~ '~ . ~- of the day". It bllimed alcohol battle, which has already settled In fact, in terms of the tima Mulilo where alcohol 'hot abuse for "about 9.0 per cent __ claims for a further 40 or so Namibian Constitution, respon­ . spots' are rife. Every type of of violent crimes" and said TELECOM NAMIBIA LTO , victims of human rights abuses, sibility for settling the claims alcohol is available, either from "those who sit in shebeens TENDERS as "a long drawn-out affair". fell to the Namibian Defence within Namibia or from Zam­ Originally the LAC sued tne Force and the N amibian Police are involved in theft in order bia, young people heavily then Administrator-General and Force. COt'bett said South Af­ are to buy alcohol". Tenders are invited for the supply of the under-mentioned involved in drinking, and little The survey also quoted material: the South African Defence ricahad paid up on some of the Minister as the people ulti­ claims but that there had been_ control over the situation is police won'ies about "an un­ mately responsible for the a "certain amount of dishonest applied. acceptably high level of TO/2394192 - Lease of Photocopier for cl three year period actions of South African secu­ dealing" and delay which had The survey described the drunken driving". TO/2395192 - Prepaid debit cardphone with Management rity forces. But a series. of left many claimants "at a loss". Piggery, Lewis and old Mu­ In conclusion, the survey T0/2396192 - Microprocessor controlled Airconditioners. deliberate delays, complicated As a result, tbe bill fell to the sika at Katima as "drinking said alcohol abuse was a by the changing political scene Namibian authorities - some­ ghettos", adding that unem- definite problem for Namibia in Namibia, meant that most thing which the LA C had taken . ployment, murder and rape and stressed "how important cases could not come to trial . Closing d~te: 11hOO on Tuesday 6 October1992 into account when settling the are frequent occurences and and urgent it is that this na­ be foie Independence. By that. Place: The Chairman, Tender Committee, Private Bag 13308, claims, said Corbett. dagga is ea$ily available. tional issue be addressed". ' Wlridhoek Tender· -documents are obtainable' from "th, _Stores Manager, .RAPE . Te~ecom Stores, Volgt Street, P.O: B~x ~1~, Telephone 061- from page l ' 2012376, Fax 061-224334, @ RS,OO per.set. I blame on rus victim. He told the court that the girl had made sexual advances to him. He claimed she opened his trou­ NAU Development and ! sers ansi begged him to "have INVITATION INVITATION INVITATION sex" with her. These allega­ Training .Project tions were all rejected b.y the NLU- Ontwikkelhlgs- en ~.~>urt. ,<.- ., ',.-. ,.. MEET ANNE THANDEKA GEBHARDT Before he .passed sentence, Opleidingsprojek IN YOUR OWN TERRITORY - OKURYANGAV A judge Teek warned that it was . the duty of the court to remove THIS WEEKEND - (04/09 - 05/09) criminals from society by TWO VACANCIES FOR FEMALE sending them to prison for a long period. DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS Discuss all your property related queries with her in a relaxed atmosphere without the "Women must feel safe in BOTH IN NORTHERN~AREAS disturbance of telephone calls. This Southern Estate Agent of the Year is prepared to their homes and whereever they give you her undivided attention: are," the Judge stated.