* TODAY: EIGHTH MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTI0N 'WI:rH ARMS HAUl* PETROL HIKE TO HIT CONSUMERS * Vol.2 No.16S SOc (GST Inc.) Wednesday September 5 .:t......... I , 'tlidsca.ses :';Sh'ootup' OUTRAGE AT 'LEAK' . by 178% * Confusion' between govern~ent and '-FNOC" THERE WAS a 178 per cent increase in the number of new * '.Mystery' OTA, extreme right-wing link Aids cases reported in July .;: compared with the same month last year, latest figures reveal. STAFF REPORTERS Fifty people tested positive for the Aids virus in July (a 43 per OUTRAGE and shock were chain of communications following cent increase on the 35 cases an investment enquiry initially made reported in June), taking the the reactions of Permanent Secretary for Trade and to the Ministry of Trade and Indus­ total number of reported try. Namibian Aids cases to 395. Industry Tsudao Gurirab last In mid-July, Permanent Secretary Of these, 207 people. (52 per night to a series of incidents Gurirab received a telephone call cent) were diagnosed in the in which Namibia's First from a British-based firm of consult­ first ,'leven .months of tbis year National Development . ing engineers for livestock indus­ alone. Corporation (FNDC) risks tries, Intertan, expressing an interest Medical experts believe tbat in investing in Namibia's tanning ' the actual 'number of people being accused of betraying industry. <# infected with the Aids virus in government confidence. ' As his Ministry had not yet been Namibia is two to three times able to establish its own investment higher tban the figures A two-month-long chain of events promotion unit, Gurirab referred reported. has led to confusion between the intertan's managing director, Allan The new cases reported in July Ministry of Trade and Industry and Collins, to the parastatal organisa­ were divided evenly between the FNDC' parastatal over the han­ tionFNOC. dling of investment projects. the sexes: 52 per ceilt were On Gurirab's advice, Collins faxed H~wever, FNDC crnutperson Bob men and 44 per" ~ent were an enquiry to the FNDC on July 23. " Meiring contacted The Namibian late but never received a reply. Then, out women, with tbe gender.of tWo last night, after an e~rlie r enquiry, oi tlie blue on August 29, Collins cases'(fol]r per cen~r unknown , and maintained that an investment receive'd a .faxed message from an To date, 41 people are kpown ., propqsal which has 'sparked the con- . organisation called the International to bave died from Aids in fusion was part of an "open file Freedom Foundation (IFF) in Lon­ Namibia. report - available to anyone who don. The average age of all reported requested it" . The IFF's self-styled UK director, - male Aids cases, is 32, while Full details were not available last Marc Gordon, has a history of far tbat of women diagnosed to be night because of the story breaking right-wing involvement. In the past infected with the virus is 26, late. he.ran a London-based pro-Contra highlighting President Sam Also emerging from the saga is (the US-backed Nicaraguan rebel . Nujoma's fear tba.t the most hard evidence that the DTA is using .group) outfit and was a member of a eCOl,lOmically active sector of a far-right American organisation in section of the Federation of Conser­ , Namibian society could be , London to reRresent its political inter- vative Students - so extreme that it devastated should Aids be . ests and hijack legitimate business was denounced by British Prime allowed to spread. MOSES Shomawe whose taxi shuttles between Katutura and contacts fonned by the Namibian Minister Margaret Thatcher. * See grapb, page 5 government. ,Windhoek: There's not much option but to increase fares. The story came to light through a Continued on page 4 C'onsumer to shoulder increased fuel costs ALL prices fo r furniture removal Namibia, he went on. "The 'golden representative admitted. "We've been Meanwhile, the road haulage s.ervices will go up following this egg' of Untag has vanished and.the KA TE BURLING waiting for the increases to be im­ company F P du Toit said it was week's petrol price. increases, ac­ demand for things to be taken back to nounced after what's happened in taking stock of the increases and cording to a leading furniture re­ South Africa has also dried up ...' "We're in a bit of a decline at the . other countries and, frankly, I think . working out their implications. "We . moval company in Windhoek yester- Apparently business had taken an moment, with only internal moves we've got off lightly. I really don't heard rumours about .the price rise day. upward turn last year with SADF llJld being made, so these increases have knOw. how bu sinesses in Zambia are but hoped for the best. It's quite an .. Our main cost is fuel," said a railways ' employees moving back not come at a particularly good time. " going to keep their heads above water . enormous increase to absorb and. representative of the company yes­ south, as well as private individuals The petrol price hikes which were with 50 per cent increases." tliere's little doubt it will be shoul­ t erda y .•• U nforhmatel y the increases who decided to leave Namibia flfter announced on Monday in response to Even for a private motorist, the dered by the customer. " will be passed on directly to the Independence. Now the southbound' the Middle East crisis, will put 10. increases would hit hard, he con­ F P du Toit is Namibia's biggest customer.' , traffic had stopped and there were cents on a iitre oil petrol and 1,6 cents cluded. "It won't be bad around town roa~ haulage company as well as Times were not good in general for few people wanting to move in the a litre on diesel. Nevertheless, the but it will put about Rl000n the cost the furniture removal business in opposite direction,.s aid the company'. hike could have been aloi worse, the of a holiday and that's a lot of money. " Continued on page 3 1 HOUR SPECIAL f~~~:i is all we need to christoJ<l~?sber9 @ OFFER !~i ~. ., ~'~\!' process KAISER STREET ' FOR ;EVERY COLOUR FILM II ; "·1 . ~\, ",1 & pr."nt TEL (061) 3-292213-2947 HANDED IN FOR .' . .., ' ~ ~ ' lk. \~. ~; your COLOUR PO BOX 500 PROCESSING & PRINTING .> 11 Yy FILM in our WINDHOEK' GET A FREE ", II /. ~ ~.Jt.> / modern ENLARGEMENT FOTOLAB . OF YOUR CHOICE r \ First Iraqi shi-pimpou~ded b'Y US JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The US Navy has intercepted and impounded an Iraqi ship carrying tea into the Gulf in the tirst seizure of Iraqi-bound cargo under a UN trade embargo, Western diplomatic sources said. The sources said the ship Zanubia, versal addiction. States will stili attack him, Abu Iyad which was laden with Sri Lankan tea, The sources told that Western in­ said in the newspaper's Tuesday :, was taken to the Omani port of Muscat. telligence had been tracking the edition. "The Americans have intercepted Zanubia as it made it way towards the Abu Iyad, whose real name is Salah an Iraqi vessel, the Zanubia, and are Gulf from Sri Lanka. ' Khalaf, said the Iraqi leader wanted Rebel fire drives peace force taking it into Muscat," one of the * Meanwhile, Iraqi President Sad­ to keep the border strip he named Western sources told reporters in dam Hussein is ready to quit Kuwait after hinlself when Kuwait wa:s de­ Jeddah on Tuesday. and release all hostages'provided he ' clared the 19th province of Iraq a from Sprigg'S Payne airport The ship apparently left Sri Lanka gets a guarantee , the US will not week ago. some tinle after the UN Security attack him and he can keep a strip of The strip, which Saddam attached Council inlposed the sanctions against Kuwiti ferritory, a Palestinian leader to the Iraqi province of Basra, is FREETOWN: The West African peace-keeping force in Liberia Iraq in a bid. to force Baghdad' to · said, .,. called Saddamiyat al-Mitlaa. He would has been forced .to withdraw from Monrovia's Spriggs Payne, withdraw its troops,f(om Kmyait and "Saddam Hussein is ready to also insist on keeping the Gulf island airport under rebel tire, African diplomats in Sierra Leone said. restbre the Einirat.e's ruling fan1ily. negotiate and to withdraw from Kuwait of Jazirat Bubiyan to increase Iraq's They quoted General Arnold Doe, also welcomed the white-hel­ The sources said the Sri Lankan · if he <;>btains certain guarantees," access to the sea. Quainoo, commander of the force, as meted peace-keepers, but they have government J:tad assured the Western Palestine Liberation Organisation "He is convinced that the United saying his troops pulled out over the been fighting against Taylor's guerril­ countries enforcing the blockade on (PLO) number two Abu Iyad told the States did not mobilise all its forces weekend under attack from the main­ las ever since they arrived. Baghdad that no further shipments to French newspaper Liberation. for Kuwait alone, but that it intends stream rebel movement of Charles On Sunday Taylor formally declared Iraq would be pennitted. One oilier condition was that Kuwait to profit from the crisis, to weaken Taylor, after capturing the aiqJort on war on the peace-keepers, calling them The sources made clear that al­ ruler Sheik Jaber AI-Ahmed AI-Sabah the Iraqi army as much as possible, Friday, foreign mercenaries who had come to though a seizure of tea may seem did not regain power. destroy all the non-conventional arms Quainoo was speaking as he passed prop up Doe's beleaguered ' govern­ minor to the world community, it The Iraqi leader feared that even if ·in its arsenal, and stop it using oil as through Freetown on Monday 0;1 his ment.