15 December 1989 - The Namibian

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SWAPO President Sam Nujoma yesterday signed the Swapo Book of Condolences. John Walenga photographed him with Mr Martin Andjamba and Mr Moses Garoeb as he paid tribute to Cde Nauyala with the words: "On behalf of the Swapo Central Committee and in the name of all Namibian patriots I would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family of Comrade Nicki Kapuka Nauyala who was a.tireless freedom fighter of our time. I wish he could live and witness the day when the flag offreedom is raised up and colonialism will die forever in Nam ibia. May his soul rest in peace". Photograph by John Walenga.

NAUYALA FUNERAL

THE funeral of the late former Swapo Chief Representative to Zimbabwe and member of the Namibian Constituent Assembly, Mr Kapuka Niki Nauyala, is set for the weekend at Ongwediva in the north.

The body of Mr Kapuka was flown to Windhoek from Cape Town yesterday from where it will be taken north. The Swapo leadership is expected to attend the funeral which is scheduled for Saturday at Ongwediva.

Messages of condolences have already started pouring in from as far as Europe, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe as well as locally.

Mr Nauyala is a graduate of the University ofIbadan in Nigeria from where he was made Swapo's representative at the African Association of Students Union in Ghana.

After completing his studies, Mr Nauyalacame back toZarnbia where he was made an education officer and later promoled to Acting Secretary for EducatlOr.

He was appointed personal secretary to the Swapo President Mr Sam Nujoma in 1976 and also became member of Swapo's Central Committee the same year.

In 1983, he became an alternate member of the Swapo politburo and later chief representative to Zimbabwe in 1986.

He was badly injured in a motor car accident recently and died in Cape Town while receiving treatment. With him at the time was Dr Nicky Iyambo and his wife. The couple have three children.

CTIO BY DAVID LUSH

THE PEOPLE have spoken: not only should the new Namibia have an army, but there should also be conscription.

This was the overwhelming view of those who responded to The Namibian's ballot in response to the suggestion by Namibia's Association for the Handicapped that the future government should scrap plans for an anny and form a "development force" instead.

A staggering 78,3 per cent of the vote was in favour of afull time anny with conscription while 9.7 per cent wanted no anny.

A further 9,7 per cent voted for a full tim,e anny but no conscription, and the NNF's idea of a People's Militia took the remaining 2,3 per cent of the polLIn all, 175 people had voted by the time the poll closed at 14hOO ye~tetCliry . '

The response to the ballot surpassed all expectations and some voters were so keen to make their point that they marked double, treble and even quadruple crosses against the selection of their choice.

And a good number of voters enclosed letters giving reasons for their vote .

* "Swapo's victory will not be effective without the aid of the army," says Naame Munacho from Windhoek. "It is total madness to say Namibia must not have an army while

Walvis Bay is still under captivity. South Africa won't give up this piece of land if we don ' t fight for it."

* People must realise "you can't eat, plough or live with guns," writes one Windhoek voter who called on TheN amibian to' 'educate" its readers into accepting that Namibia does not need an army.

* The signatories of a collective letter - Alfred I1ukena, L. Hamutumua, E. Imene, Clau Iikela, Levy Nakatana, Peter Shiyamba, Ami Kaume and M. Nambina - believe an anny should be seen as part of the nation's development. The idea would be to have a defensive anny: "The situation in Southcrn Africa speaks [tlr itself. Without an anny to protect Namibia, Namibia will become a playground for those forces whose objective is to destabilize other nations. Remember that Botswana had no anny in the beginning but was forced to have one as a result of the Smithregirne in the then Rhodesia as well as South African invasions. We will be stupid if we don't learn from other countries' experiences".

* In its editorial of December 2, the Windhoek Observer newspaper

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MARTTI PREDICTS MARCH

INDEPENDENCE THE top UN official in Namibia said yesterday the territory'S Constituent Assembly might be able to complete a constitution during January and declare independence in March. .

Briefing reporters on the situation after the UN-monitored elections last month, Mr Ahtisaari said: "If we are very lucky they might tie up the constitution during the month of

Mr Ahtisaari.

January". He said the general feeling in

Namibia was that "sometime in March we will see independence" before the expiry of the 12 month mandate of the UN operation launched last April!.

Ahtisaari, who heads a UN team of 7 000 troops, police and civilians overseeing the transition from South African rule to independence, said the atmosphere in the Assembly had been helped by all parties' acceptance of constitutional Jrinciples drawn up in 1982.

"I am looking forward to a vcry democratic constitution emerging out of this process' he said.

Ahtisaari said he hoped Namibia could join the United Nations during the current 44th session of the General Assembl~. which will adjourn later this month but is expected to resume during 1990.

2 Friday December 15 1989 THE NAMIBIAN

Boat people strongarmed out of Hong Kong MORE than ' two million reJugees Jrom Indochina, mostly Vietnamese, have sought asylum abroad in the last 14 years - and they are still leaving. With almost2(}O 000 still awaiting resettlement in south-east Asia, Hong Kong has created a bitter controversy by adopting a policy oJsending boatpeople back to Vietnam.

After more than a year of growing pressure over the presence of the Vietnamese in that country - 57 000 at last count - the government has made up its mind to defy international opinion and send them home.

The decision to repatriate the boat people will go down well in Hong Kong where the Vietnamese have never been popular among the territory's 5,5 million Chinese who see them as interlopers accorded better treatment than illegal Chinese immigrants from the mainland who are immediately returned home.

But for the boat people themselves, many of whom will be herded onto ships or aircrafts for forcible repatriation to a country where they endured so much hardship to escape, the decision is certainly not welcome.

Over the past year, violence has erupted repeatedly in camps. There have been injuries on both sides, and dark rumours of stashes of homemade weapons.

Security officials control the camps rigidly, with the result that few outsiders really know what goes on inside.

hospitals in Hong Kong . They say they want to have them here," said an international aid worker.

There were demonstrations in various dete~tion centers on Wednesday , none of them violent.

Said a camp worker of Thursday's protest at the Sham Shui Po Centre: " It is very well organised. People are marching round, then come sit down in rows . But there is no violence."

Britain decided to send back boat people against their will -despite severe international criticism because officials said the situation had become critical.

Government officials have forecast that unless radical action is taken, up to 30000 more could come when favourable sailing weather arrives next March.

Although officially recognised as refugees, a tough screening programme was introduced in June last year and now boat people are held as illegal -immigrants unless they can prove their refugee status.

Some 6 500 have already been screened and only 400 granted refugee status. Those who fa il to qualify face imminent deportation.

Camp workers said most inmates had seen reports of the compulsory repatriation programme on television or radio.

"They are scared, very .scared. Some have reacted by demanding to go back under the voluntaryrepatriation programme, others seem to think if they stay put in their camp, a miracle may happen," said one worker.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) operates a voluntary repatriation programme under which some 630 people have flown back to Hanoi since March.

And on Thursday, thousands of Vietnamese boat people callirig out slogans demonstrated against deportation at the Hong Kong Detention Centre.

Prison officials guarding the centre watched as virtually its entire poyulation, about 5 000 men, women, and children, circled the compound waving banners and chanting.

Vietnamese boat people : Hazardous journeys in flimsy , overcrowded vessels

Vietnam has promised they will not be punished and they are given cash grants by the UNHCR to reestablish themselves. The international body monitors their progress.

On Tuesday, Hong Kong authorities flew 51 Vietnamese refugees back home against their will, the start of a controversial repatriation programme the boat people have long dreaded. .

Wearing white headbands, a traditional colour of mourning in Asia, the protesters shouted" death before repatriation" and "forced repatriation is inhumane". Camp workers

said there was no violence. Workers and residents of nearby

office and apartment blocks watched as the protest, which started around breakfast-time, carried on through the morning at the centre in the heart of the busy Kowloon district.

The people sent home from the British colony this week were taken from their beds at night, ordered outside, and made to move if they resisted.

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of a high-security police operation. The Vietnamese had little time to collect their belongings, to dress or to find out what was going on. There were scuffles and, later, reports of injuries.

A senior British official told Reu-

ters a second flight was planned for next week after British parliamentarians debate the issue on T~esday.

"The atmosphere in the camps is now really tense. People are worried. Women who are due to have babies don't even want to risk going to the

Vietnam has given similar pledges under the deal between London and Hanoi, but Bri tain has been unable to persuade an independent b9dy to monitor the scheme. The three-man British Embassy in Hanoi is responsible for checking on the progress of those who return.

sPECU LATIO-N ABOUT MANDELA

RELEASE INCREASES SPECULATION is mounting that the announcement of Nelson Mandela's release is imminent - possibly as early as this weekend.

of justice is also in charge of South Africa's jails, as well as being Free State leader of the National Party, is

A series of developrnenis this week has added up to such a scenario being quite within the bounds of possibility. Firstly, on Tuesday, Mr Mandela's lawyer announced the jailed ANC leader wanted, contrary to a belief in many circ~es, to be released now.

Then, on Wednesday, President F. W. de Klerk and two of his senior aides - minister of constitutional development Dr Gerrit Viljoen and minister of justice Kobie Coetsee -new to Cape Town for a meeting with Mr Mandela in the presidential office at Tuynhuys.

On Friday Mr De Klerk is due to meet a senior southern African leader, President Joaquim Chissano - in

. Maputo. At a joint press conference in July after the two leaders - when Mr De Klerk was still only National

.. Part}: .leader - ~adJI1,et in Maputo, President Chissano said if there was

a definite move away from discrimi- due to be present on the stage. nation in South Africa, the country In the light of the recent statement could become part of aregional group by Mr De Klerk that there was no of southern African countries. further fundamental impediment to

He said he believed the "problem Mr Mandela's release, and his brief-of discrimination" would be solved ing of President Chissano the previ-during the term of office of the next ous day, a momentous announce-South African state president, Mr De ment seems possible on Saturday, Klerk. On Mr Mandela, whose re- some observers believe. lease is generally seen as the key to It would be. a move of extreme getting' 'real" negotiations between political symbolic significance that white and black nationalists in South Mr Mandela's release be announced Africa underway - Mr De Klerk told on the Day of the Vow, marking the the press conference at the presiden- battle ofB lood River, one of the most tial palace in Maputo Mr Mandela's important Afrikaner commemora-position was discussed "in general lions. An observer asked: "What more terms, and we had the opportunity to appropriate day to anno.unce the final exchange views in th,is regard". beginriing of reconciliation between

On Saturday. President De KIcrk - black and whi'te in South Africa?" in his last major scheduled public The white right-wing might in-appearance this ycar - is due to ad- deed be outraged - but Mr De Kkrk dress a Day of the Vow gathering in has signatted his unequivocal rejec-BI<l<ernfQnt~in, ____ _ ___ _ ____ ,.,_tion'-Lli :_their .. .\tiews-,-- the observer

And Mr Coetsee, who as minister remarked,

Plan fighters training in Lubango

AN ARMY MUST SERVE AN ARMY of an independent Namibia must be a "servant and protector of the people" and not the country's ruler, says the Council of Churches.

"Given our neighbour South Africa's history of medling in our affairs and in those of other countries in the area, it is probably inevitable that an army is needed for Namibia, ' , said the CCN in a message to members of the Constituent Assembly.

"We call upon the government and people of Namibia to ensure that a Namibian army is indeed the servant and protector of the people.

"We do not want to fall into the trap so many countries have, where the army takes over' control or the

nation either directly, through a coup, or indirectly, when an inordinate amount of the nation's resources are devoted to 'national security' ."

True national security came about with a "prosperous, well-educated, healthy, free and democratic populace", said the CeN.

Calling for the right of conscientious objectors to be respected, the CCN added: "We call upon all Namibian to ensure that not too many of our scarce resources are drawn away to the army."

Women Plan combatants prepare for action.

THE NAMIBIAN

THE MAN behind the 'develop men t-force-notdefence-force' campaign remains undeterred, despite the resounding vote against his plan in our readers' poll. "It shows how much the parties have to do to get the people right on this issue," says Mr Cees Strijbis, Director of tbe Association for the Handicapped. Mr Strijbis feels more time is needed to convince people of his argument, which is that mooey for a defence force should instead be channeled into development projects on which conscripted Narnibians would spend a period of time working. "Most people who are au fait with worldwide politics would go along with my thinking, " says Mr Strijbis. A standard fighter jet cost about US$ 25 million, and for the same money the government could build a 10 hectare hothouse and grow 4 million kilograrnmes of tomatoes a year, says Mr Strijbis. "With the' money from three jets we could feed the nation. We cannot fight poverty unless we leave arms behind. " After Christmas he and his association will continue to campaign on the issue, holding seminars and talking with politicians. Already, the Director says, he had received a positive response from many, including one representative of the United Nations, whom he did not wis to name. , 'This person said that it would be a victory for the world to see the UN leave Namibia and the

, government declare a development force and not a defence force," says Mr Strijbis.

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ARMY SANCTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

says Namibia would never be invaded, not by South Africa, nor Botswana nor "bleeding Angola". And of course the Atlantic Ocean could not attack "other than a freak tidal wave washing across the pier at Swakopmund" , the paper argues in favour of the 'no army' lobby.

* Sophy Ngenohawo Shaninga of Katutura points out that Namibians by nature were not "wl\I'lllongerers" . "If an army is based in Walvis Bay, how can we feel comfortable iri our country with our new government undefended?

An aggressive army was demobilised and a national one should fill the gap."

* "We cannot work in the farms, factories and industries, we cannot go to school, hospital etc freely if there is nobody responsible for our security," · says Ekki Kuume from Onaule in the Ombalantu district.

* " Even in the Bible it is written that peoplemusthave an army so that they can defend their people from ,a,nyaggression," says K.K. Kenny.

* Slavko Filipovic from Okahandja

calls for a three year period of conscription and for military advisers from friendly nations to be called in at independence to help plan a defence system. "A strong army of 50 000 should serve our needs."

* The 'no army' suggestion was "destructive" says RastaNendongo from Ondangwa, and it was up to the Constituent Assembly to make such decisions on behalf of the country.

* Another Windhoek voter argues that "given the present banditry by Unita in northern Namibia", it was necessary to have both a full time army and conscription.

The aim would be to "defend the Namibian revolution and all its gains" with a "small, inexpensive but effective" defence force .

At the Commonwealth Summit in Kuala Lumpur recently, British Premier, Margaret Thatcher, promised assistance with the training of Namibia "s armed forces if necessary.

She said this was in line with the British assistance to both Zimbabwe and Mozambique as well as to other Commonwealth countries.

WHY?

PACiFISTS may well ask why so few people voted in favour for the Association for the Handicapped's proposal that the new government scraps any plans it might have for establishing a defence force and channel the funds into a development force instead.

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The South African Interests Office in Namibia is to take over the issuing of passports from the Department of Civil Affairs and Manpower as from Monday.

The acting head of the mission, Mr John Sande, said the issuing of passports was a service which would be delivered in Namibia until independence. ' He pointed out that South Africa remained responsible for foreign affairs until independence.

iehahn says school syllabus ·s inadequate for labour 'market

The Department of Civil Affairs and Manpower had already made personnel available for the transfer of the service, he said.

Mr Sande said there was no liaison at the moment between his office and Constituent Assembly on passports. Namibian passports would only be issued after the Assembly had decided on citizenship, a national seal and emblem.

A spokesman for the department said all applications already handed in at the office would be processed before the transfer of the service.

THE PRESENT school syllabus is not aimed at preparing schoolleavers for the "labour market" and gave very little attention to the question of schoolleavers and is too "academic and theoretical". This is the opinion expressed by the commission of inquiry into labour matters in Namibia in its second report. The Commission is headed by the wellknown South African labour expert Prof. Nic Wiehahn and has just completed its second report.

Enquiries about applications and passports not dealt with yet must be directed to the S.A. Interests Office from Monday.

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"The system (school) is geared rather for South Africa's Cape Province, and not Namibia," the report said.

Irrelev::.nt subjects which have nothing to do with the labour market are often a major part of the syllabus.

" ... the vast majority of school leavers entering the labour market are largely ill-equiped for employment."

The report specifically mentioned two technical training colleges, Augustineum and Okakarara Technical Institute where education provided is 'unsatisfatory' . "It was suggested that the trainers at these institutions should approach commerce and industry so that they may be exposed to, and become acquainted with the requirements of the business industrial world," the report suggests.

The state also had been very reluctant to formulate a " national strategy " in terms of the present and future needs of the country.

Even the training schedules Apprenticeship Ordinance of the Department of Civic Affairs and Manpowerwas "outdated" and needed to be replaced by different legislation which will be more flexible.

The commission recommended that a National Council for Human Resources Development for Namibia should be established.

Such a council should inter alia

investigate and analyse the human resources development needs and formulate plans and strategies as to how best it could be realised.

"It should advise the government, employers arid trade unions on human resources development on the widest possible front."

An incentive scheme' 'by way of tax" should be introduced to employers and approved training organisations as an "encouragement" for the training of people in Namibia.

The commission report also criticises the existing labour legislation and says that its language is too 'difficult' . There is a need for more clarity regarding the legal interpretion of "statutory rights" and requirements among both employers and employees.

The commission also found that labour matters in this country did not enjoy priority in the country 's administration.

In this regard it is recommended that the existing Directorate of Manpower of the Department of Civic Affairs and Manpower be abolished and a ' fully-fledged' department for the administration of labour matters be created on the establishment of the government service of Namibia and that the new department be name the Department of Labour.

The Department of Labour should be accorded equal status with other government departments and func-

Former detainees seek asylum at West

German embassy The West German embassy in South Africa has confirmed that 11 Namibians had applied for political asylum.

The firs t secretary for media liaison and information at the embassy, Herbert Quelle, said the people were former Swapo detainees who left Namibia recently in fear of their lives.

He said their applications were being considered by the West German Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Mr Quelle said details about the applicants, who are currently in S.A., were being withheld in their best interest.

A spokesman for the West German observer mi~ssion in Windhoek also confirmed several members of the Parents' Committee of Namibia -which campaigns for the release of detainees it alleges are still held by Swapo - had applied at the office for protection against possible political persecution.

k:cording to the spokesman, the requests were channelled to the office of the Administrator General.

Parents' Commiuee spokesman Phil

Ya Nangoloh said the group of former detainees who had applied for asylum with the West Germans had been warned during their detention by Swapo that action would be taken against them if they publicised details of their detention after their release.

Mr Ya N angoloh said the Parents' Committee had already informed the SW A Police of threats agains the lives of former detainees. He said members were concerned about their personal safety, especially after independence.

The U.S. and Candian missions in Windhoek said no applications for political asylum had been received.

The Australian and British missions said no details of such applications would be announced, since asylum was regarded as a confidential matter between the government and the applicant.

tion under a separate labour portfolio with direct ministerial liaison.

A suitable legislation which provides a statutory framework for the rendering of oc'cupational services should be drafted. Furthermore, ~ a matter of urgency, all outdated labour legislation should be revised and be consolidated in a single labour code, the commission recommended.

The National Labour Council Act of 1986 should also be amended and a separate tripartite (government, employers, employees) be established on a national level under the auspices of the Department of Labour to coordinate and promote all forms of training and manpower development.

THE offices of The Namibian will be closed from Friday, December 22 to Sunday, January 6. Next year The Namibian will be bigger and better and announcements in this regard will be made in the New Year. We also take this opportunity to wish all our supporters a very peaceful Christmas and New Year .. Editor and Staff

A memorial service is to be held for Comrade Kapuka Niki Nauyala, a

member of the Constituent Assembly, who died tragically in a car accident.

All the diplomatic corps, members of the Constituent Assembly and the

general public are invited to attend.

The service will be held at the Lutheran Ctiurch in Katutura at 4p.m.

on Saturday, 16 December 1989.

A book of condolences has been opened at the Swapo head quarte rs.

All diplomatic corps, members of the Constituent Assembly and the general public. are invited to sign the book from Friday morning until Sdturday afternoon

by Gwen Lister

PERSPECTIVE THE Police in this country want a new image, and millions have been spent by the office of the Administrator General on both a recruitment campaign as well as a public relations campaign for the police. The issue of a police force is probably more crucial than that of an army. After all the latter are usually dormant except in times of war. But it is the police who are responsible for law and order and the protection of fundamental human rights. Why then does it sometimes appear as if incompetence is the order of the day?

THE police liaison division seems to be in a mess at present; one officer on leave and the other booked off sick. It is therefore very difficult for the press to make, and receive prompt replies to, queries right now. This, despite the expensive public relations campaign. Little was said by the police themselves following the apparently well-planned escape ofthe Outjo Three. It is still incomprehensible to many people how three men, due to stand trial for murder and various other offences, and described as 'dangerous', were taken by two policemen from Otjiwarongo to Windhoek - a few hundred kilometres - without handcuffs or additional security. The magistrate, -bless his heart for his concern, told the police that they should allow the accused to 'stretch their legs' or 'relieve themselves' along the way! And the three managed to get out of the van, shoot one policeman, lock another in the van, and make off to destination unknown. The police didn't say whether they conducted both air and ground reconnaissance for the three; and the SWABC, on the night of the escape, merely said that the men were 'armed and dangerous' , that people should not approach them, but they failed to even show the public what they looked like! . Is it any wonder then, that many of our black compatriots feel there was police bungling, or possibly even complicity, in this case? Is it also any wonder that the public are generally not yet impressed by the ' new face' of the police force? And right now, the police don't know where the three are - could be South Africa, Botswana, or even in Namibia itself. Roadblocks or not, they've probably already made their escape; and its unlikely, in view of amnesties granted to ex-policemen facing charges of murder, that the three will be returned to Namibia to stand trial even if they are found. These things have to change ifthe police force is to gain prestige in the eyes of the people. In the wake ofrevelations of police 'death squads' in South Africa; the refusal of the SA State President to appoint a judicial commission of inq uiry into the matter; the police generally have a lot of work on their hands to improve their image. Announcements on progress in the Lubowski assassination investigation are being made from South Africa, and not Windhoek. And when approached here, the police simply refuse to confirm or deny police links with the Irishman presently being held for Lubowski's

. murder, saying that the press are hampering, rather than helping, their investigations. The case of the Outjo Three was postponed time after time. This is also hard to understand. It is equally incomprehensible to try and figure out why police would transport 'dangerous criminals' several hundred kilometres, rather than both holding them, and hearing their cases in Windhoek itself. <s

We hope that the present attitude of the authorities is not one of 'well, Namibia is nearly independent and why should South Africans stand trial and be convicted and perhaps jailed in this country?' Before Namibian independence comes about, the South African Government, and their various departments in Namibia, including the police, try and vindicate themselves in the eyes of the people.I trust they are not hoping these cases (the Outjo-Untag attack and Lubowski assassination, among others) will merely die a natural death, or that the people will forget. They will not. The tend·ency to protect members of the p'olice and army for contraventions against the people of this country, has been evident in the past. There are enough examples in the case of the murder of Immanuel Shifidi and others. There is also the case of the 'missing tapes' on which army intelligence recently found alleged inc0ntrovertible evidence of an imminent PLAN invasion - another incomprehensible matter, obviously aimed at protecting those responsible for faking the tapes in the first place. Let's have some action from the police in regard to the crimes perpetrated in particular, by white right-wing elements. Then they may find they don't have to spend millions to im prove their image; it'll happen by itself.

THE NAMIBIAN

A -. CHANCE TO TURN AT LEAST

SOME SWOROS INTO PLOUGHSHARES

Afterthel\1a]~a sU,~nijJ,Sovietspokesperson , Gerasimov . declared the Cold War offiCiaIIY;'dead>lJilshgave the thumbs up sign when reporters asked whether he agreed. Tbelrhe qualified the poinCIt looks,reports Gemeni News Service,asifar~r~opportunity hasarisent~sWitCh some military expenditure int9m:oduc~iye devel()pment.Butitwill notbe easy. The danger is that current geopoliticaLs~iftsmighteve~Jeadtopressures.toboostweaponssales . .

BY GEOFFREY TANSEY

The dramatic changes in Europe offer a unique opportunity to cut the $34-billion currently spent every year on global military expenditure and redirect the money to more productive use. The danger is that the changes in the north will so preoccupy the superpowers and Europeans that their attention is switched away from the developing countries of the south.

In the European Community (EC), the pressures are already mounting to switch money from development aid budgets to Eastern Europe.

Already a number of European Commission staff have reportedly been moved from working on food aid for developing countries to food aid for Eastern Europe.

One encouraging sign from from the United States is the proposal by the US Senate foreign relations committee for a $I,25-billion package to help Poland, to be paid for from the defence budget. But the idea is a long way from acceptance.

In the south, the greater uncertainties of a new world order with superpower rivalry being replaced by wha:t the specialists are calling a multipolar world could actually increase pressures to spend more on defence, promoted by the northern arms dealers, and so lead to a reduction of spending on the poor.

Another twist to arms sales may come from Europe, according to Jane Sharp, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Successful arms reduction talks

could leave a lot of overcapacity in Europe and thus increase pressures to sell arms to developing countries, unless plans are made for conversion of these defence industries to civilian production.

Pressures from the European Community single market of 1992 and from Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the West's main military alliance) for more standardisation of equipment will mean rationalisation of European defence industries, in which trade union estimates suggest there is already 40 per cent overcapacity .

Without conversion, this could mean maSsive job losses and pressures to develop arms export markets, especially in developing countries.

Already the bad news is that a fall in world military expenditure in 1988 has not brought a decrease in militarisation in the Third World, according to SIPRI's 1989 review of World Armaments and Disarmament

There has been a shift from the Middle East as the junior market - it accounted for 48 per cent of all Third World sales in 1984 but 39 per cent in 1988 - to Asia, with South-East Asia

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accounting for 22 per cent of the Third World sales in 1988 against 12 per cent in 1984.

The debt crisis threatens increased militarisation, internal upheaval and moves away from democratisation, the report suggests. As countries struggle to repay debt interest and ~apital, it says, governments must cut expenditure, increase their in.comes or finance a budget deficit.

If they cut expenditure - the route favoured by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank - cuts in military budgets might cause discontent in the armed forces and result in military coups.

But reductions in housing, health and education, wHere most. governments make cuts, may lead to popular discontent and greater militarisation to control the population.

Increasing incomes through cash crops and primary commodities is subject to fluctuating international markets, and some countries, like Brazil and China, have turned to a new cash crop - arms.

Printing money to finance the deficits creates hyper-inflation which also causes discontent and brings pressures for military takeovers. The report says: "More important, it casts aspersions on the organisational ability of clviilan governments to look after the country; the military stands to look more 'efficient' ...

The whole idea that military power can offer security is attacked in a report from the Washington-based environmental think-tank, the Worldwatch Institute. This sees the present levels of military spending and research in rich and poor countries as a major threat to the environment.

Greater militarisation weakens a country's economy, says author Michael Renner, drawing on Israel's example. "The armed forces of many countries are feeding on their civilian economies," he says, citing ex amples in Indonesia, Thailand, Guatemala, Egypt and Turkey.

The report calls for a move to make environmental security the basis for cooperation and security between nations· and for an abandonment of the notion of national security which in today' s world means greater insecurity for ordinary people the world ovet.

Concern about sustainable devel opment and environmental matters may not be good news for the poor if it is expressed through traditional northern perspectives. The danger is that the rich, north and south, will blame the poor and that the north will seek to rrr.,.ose standards on the south

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THE NAMIBIAN

CHURCHES APPEAL FOR A

OF WEALTH THE Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN), in a strongly-worded appeal to the Constituent Assembly, called on this body, which had been given the mandate by the Namibian people, to embark on a programme of redistribution of land and the country's resources. .

"During the occupation of our country, fIrst by Germany and then by South Africa, Namibian people were dispossessed and locked up into reserves, with their land taken away by foreigners. Today this land is in the hands of a very few people, as socalled private property," the church statement says. \

The churches further expressed their disappointment in what the starvation W:lges workers are being paid by their employees. The greed of ti:le employers, the CCN says, caused misery and suffering among the majority of Namibians.

"The church demands an end to salaries based on ethnicity, sexism, and cheap labour."

A CHANCE TO TURN AT LEAST SOME

SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES

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it has not had to bear. In addition, the north may not take

the costly measures to control environmental impacts at home and fail to transfer technology to the south to allow Third World countries to develop in an environmentally friendly way.

In the technology area, where renewable energy sources are vital, the north could have a role to play if, in recognition on its own long-term security interests, itsaw that defence was not just about war and armies but also about the environment and justice.

This would require a switch of resources from military research and development - which accounts for between one-third and a half of all scientific activity in the world - to means of sustainable development using environmentally friendly technologies, including those developed by human societies over thousands of years.

A new Europe with lower conventional defence needs could facilitate that. Not only debt/environment swaps are necessary but also defence/environment swaps. Western governments might also take President Mikhail Gorbachev at his word in proposing that some of the savings from disarmament go into international developmentratherthan only intorevitalisation of northern economies.

For the first time in 40 years, there is the prospect of a complete rethink of what, why, and how much is devoted to defence and the chance to redirect resources to development both in the north and south. It will not happen automatically or easily.

It will require a willingness for western politicians to grasp a new vision, as those in Eastern Europe seem able to do. The doubt is whether they have the ability to do so without strong public pressure.

In this regard the church calls for a general minimum living wage which would cover all workers, including farm workers , casual and domestic workers.

The church further appeals to the government to create job opportunities and also to establish an unemployment fund for those "unfortunate ones in the society who have no work" and no means to support themselves.

A law governing the exploitation of Namibia's natural resources by multinational companies should be introduced, so that the country's riches were applied for the benefIt of its inhabitants, the CCN reiterated.

A free and compulsory education should be introduced by the state.

Education in an independent Namibia should be geared towards

. making students independent and to "resolve problems in a democratic way".

Students should also be taught and made aware about their rights so that

they could stand up for themselves when their rights were being threatened.

The government should put emphasis on community-based primary health care and should embark upon public health education programmes.

The CCN statement also addressed the question·oftne rriisuse of alcohol. . "The government must take measures to combat the abuse of alcohoI." There should be strictly-enforced laws against giving alcohol to children.

Corruption in the government service should be combated vigorously .

The church also called on the government to abolish the death penalty. "In Namibia, the death penalty has been a tool against political opponents ... The churches recommend the abolition of the death penalty as an important sign that the new Namibia displays a reverence for life, a respect for humanity and a rejection of vengeance," the statement concluded.

Bang Namibiers hardloop

DIE Wes-Duitse ambassade in Suid-Afrika het bevestig dat elf Namibiers reeds vir politieke asiel aansoek gedoen het, berig die SWAUK. Volgens mnr. Herbert Quelle van die media-skakelkantoor by die Duitse ambassade is die mense gewese Swapo-gevangenes, wat Namibie onlangs verlaat het uit vrees vir hullewens. Hy het gese hulle aansoeke word tans deur die Wes-Duitse ministerie van binnelandse sake. Die elf vlugtelinge, wat klaarblyklik tydens die verkiesing meegedoen hetaan die veld tog teen Swapo oor gewese gevangenes wat na bewering gemartel en gedood sou word, is tans in Suid-Afrika. Maar die WesDuitse ambassade weier om hul identitiet en besonderhede openbaar te maak. . Intussen is ook berig dat die Wes-Duitse waarnemersending in Windhoek bevestig het dat verskeie lede van die Ouerkomitee - wat die veld tog van gewese Swapo-gevangenes gelei het - aansoek om beskerming gedoen het ingeval van enige politieke vervolging. Vol gens die woordvoerder van die Duitse sending in Windhoek is die versoeke van die mense na die kantoor van die Administrateur-generaal, adv. Louis Pienaar, deur gekanaliseer. Sapa haal mnr. Phil ja Nangoloh van die Ouerkomitee aan as sou hy gese het die groep wat nou in vrees in SA sit en aansoek om asiel gedoen het gewese gevangenes is wat glo gedreig is voordat hulle deur Swapo vrygelaat is. Vol gens hom het die Ouerkomitee reeds die polisie verwittig van dreigemente teen die gewese Swapo-gevangenes, wat glo besorg is oor hul perssonlike veiligheid, veral na onafhanklikheid. Die Amerikaanse - en Kanadese sendings het gese geen aansoeke is in die verband ontvang nie. Die Australiese - en Britse sendings het op hul beurt laat verstaan dat sulke aansoeke as hoogs vertroulik beskou word en dat hulle nie inligting sal bekelld maak nie.

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Free the Walvis Bay Five THIS newspaper joins the call for the release offive Namibians who are being held in jail in Walvis Bay following convictions on charges of public violence. We also strongly urge the United Nations to take the matter up with the Administrator General, Mr Louis Pienaar. Mr Pienaar recently unanimously decided on amnesties for exKoevoet members who were to stand trial on serious charges of murder of civilians, and his decision was made on the basis that they had done so 'in the heat of battle'. Yet the five Nanso members, who were given varying jail sentences for actions which resulted in minimal damage to school premises 'in the heat' of the 1988 school boycotts, cannot be reprieved. One would hope that the Administrator General, of his own accord, would note the serious discrepancy between granting amnesty to those who' faced charges of murder and refusin,g those whose actions resulted in minimal damage to property and none at all to persons, and therefore decide to release the five. This week the Legal Assistance Centre confirmed that it had made representations to the UN Special Representative concerning the five. But UN sources are at this stage uncertain as to whether the call for the release of the five is within their mandate. In the present climate of politically 'one-sided' amnesties, we join the call for the South African representative here, to release the students. The plight of Namibinns in Walvis Bay cannot simply be ignored because South Africa reaffirms its ciaim to that enclave. The protection of human rights of Namibians in that area, must also be guaranteed. Although sources were uncertain as to whether the release of the five Namibians could be effected before Christmas, we hope that in the present spirit of reconciliation, this will be made possible, so that the five can be rejoined with their families at this time.

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OUERKOMITEE 'n MAN van Windhoek, mnr. J.R. Gebhardt, het gister sy prokureur instruksies gegee om regstappe teen die Ouerkomitee te neem oor beweringe van 'n moordlys van Swapo.

Dit was 'n ontstelde rnnr. Gebhardt wat hewig gereageer het op 'n berig in 'n Windhoekse dagblad na aanleiding van 'n mediaverklaring deur die Ouerkomitee, wat Swapo beskuldig van moordbende-bedrywighede en dat lede van die Ouerkomitee soos mnr. PhiljaN angoloh, mnr. Joseph, mev. Anna Taukondjo en andere op die moordlys is.

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THE MESSAGE to an independent Namibia was clear: "If you want to develop, you must have free press."

The place was Botswana's picturesque Chobe Game Lodge, not 30 metres from Namibia on the banks of the Chobe River. The event was a seminar, 'Democracy and the Media in Southern Africa', a rare coming together of journalists from the SADCC (~uuthern African Development Coordination Congress) region and the campaigning democratic media ir. South Africa.

South African'mediaterrori·sts' and campaigning journalists from theSADCC r~gion recently met on the banks of the Chobe

River and discussed democracy and the media in southern Africa. DAVID LUSH jOined them.

dom of association, a closed society, is developing backwards and is doomed to fail," said Michanek.

His views were echoed by conference organiser Patrick van Rensburg oj the Botswana-based Foundation for Education with Production (FEP), who pointed to the way the media in the industrialised world was used to shape people's views and distract them from the real issues affecting their lives.

Delegates from the latter came with tales of their struggle against the ~epressive apartheid regime and left wondering aloud that perhaps, after all, South Africa had one of the freest presses in the region.

The people SHALL be informed

"But it is not only in the industrialised world that this happens," said Van Rensburg. "Power ·structures elsewhere also rely to a greater or lesseI extent on controlling the flow of information and presenting news in a way that they want ...

As for the SADCC delegates, their advice to journalists in a free Namibia was this: "Learn from our mistakes and don't let your government do to you what our governments have tried to do to us."

The tone of the seminar was set by the keynote speaker, the pioneer of Swedish development aid to Third World countries and veteran antiapartheid campaigner, Dr Ernst Michanek. "If you are denied access to information", said Michanek, "you are denied the opportunity to take part in the discussions on your own country ' s development.

"And if this happens, you will not only be the poorer in the cultural sense, but you will remain poor in the material sense as well . "

Michanek pointed to recent events in the region - Namibia's pending independence after democratic elections and the rallying of the South Africa's Mass Democratic Movement - and the triumph of the people in Eastern Europe in drawing back theiron curtain as proof that the desire for basic freedom s will never be suppressed.

"A society not based on a rich and free flow of information and on free-

"Development requires a free press" - Dr Ernst Michanek (centre) delivers his keynote address at the

Chobe seminar, whiie a representative of the Botswana government (left) and seminar organiser Patrick van

Rensburg (right) listen in.

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Van Rensburg recognised that there could be concern among delegates about the constraints on the free flow 01 information in SADCC countries, as well as in South Africa.

"We have to look at the vibrant and dynamic alternative press in South Africa forinspiration and to understand its vast potenti3.I as an educative, informative and liberatory force."

Recalling the words of Chilean writer Juan Somavia - " Under the guise of democracy, different forms of private and public authoritarian poweI structures room the world" - Van Rensburg highlighted the following argument: "Real democracy requires democratic content and not only forms, and requires a high level of mass consciousness and awareness, and o j knowledge, to which the process oj communication and the free flow of information, as well as an appropriate mass education, are crucial. "

And education was a force for deve!-

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ignores the masses IN 1988, Geoff Nyarota, then· editor of the Bulawayo Chronicle, rocked the Zimbabwean government with his paper's expose of cabinet ministers' involvement in corrupt second-hand car deals.

Leading politiciartS involved in what became known as the Willow gate Scandal lost their jobs. But for his role in Wlcovering the corruption, Nyarota was "promoted" - againsi his will - to the post of public relations officer at the pro-government Zimbabwe Newspapers. while his colleague, who was also involved in bringing the scandal to the public's attention, was made deputy editor of government "mouthpiece" , the Zimbabwe Herald. _

"The Willow gate Scandal was what the people already knew," says Zimbabwean journalist Peta Thorneycroft who works for the independent Parade magazine. "The people knew the.ir leaders were up to no good and Willowgate proved this to them.

"Through the Chronicle's expose of the scandal, the people saw their own newspapers had clout and they want their papers to have clout. But they didn't want to overthrow the government, they just wanted their leaders. to .Qc<have properly. " . Nyarota is reluctant: to talk 'abou1 the scandal, bdt there is little doubt he was forced to leave his job at the Chronicle and is far fn;>m happy with his well-paid "promotion", w,hich is wid~ly recognised as a · government ploy to get him out of the way.

"The mass media in Zimbabwe is not reflecting the views of the masses," says Nyarota. The government argues that newspapers must act in the 'national interest' , but the politicians never define what they mean by the national interest."

Editors and journalists holding other key positions in Zi mbabwe ' s major newspapers and broadcasting corporation were government appointees, says N yarota, and as a result all the country's credible journalists had left the mainstream media disillusioned

and opted for jobs as private public relations consultants instead.

They were replaced by young people with no training in the ethics and principles of journalism, and so the rot continued_

"If there is a Wlity of purpose amongst journalists, then it is very difficult for governments to interfere," says Nyarota. "As far as the Zimbabwean government is concerned there is freedom of the press, but there are different interpretations of that freedom. The more anxious JOUrnalists are about keeping theiI jobs, the less they are worried about the freedom of the press."

Bomwell Chakaodza is one of those Zimbabwean journalists who have left the mainstream media for private enterprise. As far as he is concerned, "information is just as important as food, shelter and education".

"When the leaders in Africa complain about the lack of social cohesion, it is possible that they do not realise that it is an absence offree expression and freedom of the press which makes the situation more frag

·ile arid lead·s 10·a lack of cohesion_ "A government'can guarantee jobs,

houses, et cetera, but still people want to express themselves. And there

,. is a correlation in Africa between . Wlderdevelopment and the lack of information . "

The number Of publications in Zimbabwe have quadrupled since independence nine years ago, and the expansion of these 140 different newspapers and magazines is held in check by a shortage of paper.

Chakaodza agrees that the press in Zimbabwe is freer than in some African countries, a view echoed by Parade ' s Peta Thorneycroft. "The press in Zimba~we is struggling, " she says . " But freedom of the press is not given, it is earned."

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TANZANIA:

Bring back the 'guerrilla typewriters' which fought for Uhuru

Publisher and journalist Ndimara Tegambwage

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 opment achieved through "promoting a ' tonscious, aware and informed population that wi II make democracy real and not just formal".

For five days, the debate and conversation raged inside the conference hall while the Chobe river glided by outside and smoke wafted over the Lhatched rooftops of a Namibian homestead on the opposite bank.

While the subjects. covered were varied, the tonsensus was clear: the media in southern Africa was far from free, and countries - and in particular their people -suffered as a result.

. South African publisher/editor Raymond Louw compared independent African states now with Lhe United States ofthe 1790s when the now western superpower was a fledgling nation yvhich _ had just come through a bitter liberation war.

Then America had all the constraints of, for example, a modem-day Zimbabwe or Zambia, but right from Lhe start the American government made freedom of speech a fundamental right through what was Lhen, and remains, the First Amendment.

"And it has been proved right," said Louw. "The First Amendment is one of the reasons why the US is the powerful country it is now. You can't have reconciliation among people unless you have a free flow of information.

"It seems thaI every government in this region thinks that revolution will spread from every word penned by the journalist, but wo~ds ~ancel each other out .

"Introduce press controls at a political level, then you are introducing a form of apartheid - you are allowing a privileged few to have access to information which is denied to others."

DISTINGUISHED publisher and journalist Ndimara Tegambwage is saddened by the state ofthe media in independent Africa, and in particular his own country, Tanzania.

"In SADCC and Frontline states, as in the rest of free Africa, the 'guerrilla typewriters' are no more," he laments. "Those journalistic ambuscades that kept the fire of the struggle for Uhuru burning have lost the staccato frequency that characterised the radicalism of the nationalist press. "

Instead, governments, realising the power of the press, have taken control of the electronic and printed media, and where this "nationalisation" has not taken place, the politicians have created legal barriers - "all in ah effort to create what rulers call 'one voice, one country"', says Tegambwage.

"But 'oneness' during the time of struggle for independence did not mean all people had surrendered, once and for all, their interests, and social and economic status.

"No, they had responded to dialects of struggle that demanded unity for elimination of colonial rule which interfered with or affected various groups and classes in varying degrees. Nor did the coming of independenceniberation mean those in power first were the best, rulers who must clamp down on opposition, on free expression, and who must, singlehandedly define the way new nations must be governed.

"For men and women ofreputethose with babels of coostructive ideas, even when they do not necessarily agree with policies of the day - all belong to one roof under which they

need to live in peace. "And how about the millions who

require constant education and reeducation; who need systematic flow of information in order to enable them to know and grasp the mechanisms of governance so that they can contribute effectively to the system of the day - or reject it?"

With a literacy rate of 85 percent in TanzaJ}ia - almost unrivaled in free Africa - the people thirst for reading, a thirst which Tegambwage says the existing private and public press has far from satisfied.

"This is not because the copies do not get to the people, but because there is no coverage of the things the readership expect to see in newspapers . Or there is little, and that little is poorly treated."

III or untrained journalists fail to probe even the most basic of stories, be they political ornon-political, and they ignore glaring breaches of human rights clauses writen into the country's very own constitution.

A frustrated director of the stateowned Radio Tanzania once summed up the situation when he protested to former President Julius Nyerere: "Even when we had established the truth, we continue to be told: don't armounce, don't announce, don't armounce at all ."

Nyerere himself gave an indication of things to come several months before his country became independent. "Too often the only voices to be heard in 'opposition' are those of a

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few irresponsible individuals who exploit the very privileges of democracy - freedom of the press, freedom of association, freedom to criticise -in order to deflect the government from its responsibilities to the people by creating problems of law and order.

"The government must deal firmly and promptly with the trouble-makers. The country carmot afford, during these vital early years of its life, to treat such people with the same degree of tolerance which may be safely allowed in a long-established democracy."

Almost three decades later, an increasing number of privately-<>wned publications - including Tegambwage's Radi (meaning lightning) -have battled to meet the growing need among the people for infprmation which the loo-plus state-owned publications fail to meet.

But the rocketing cost of newsprint and continued government restrictions make it hard for the independents to publish regularly and make any kind of a profit.

However, Tegambwage says publishers can and must "stand firm" and rely on the readership's trust, truthful reporting, professional integrity, freedom of mind and " the democratic principles and rights enshrined in the fundamental law of the land".

"The press carmot fight it alone. It requires co-operation with other conscious members of the community, and human rights activists, to protest.

"When one case is won, one human right is secured and some freedom of press is achieved ."

Their AIM is true IT IS always difficult to have a free press when a country is at war, particularly when the conflict is on the scaleofthat in Mozambique.

Nonetheless, the Mozambican media is experiencing a slackening in government control despite the continuation of the war, says Paul Fauvet of the official news agency AIM (Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique).

During the time of war there was always the problem of the military

interfering with journalists' work, the former using the argument that adverse coverag e •• could damage the war effort" .

But Fauvet argues there are "very few genuine military secrets", so media coverage of military operations is unlikely to give advantage to the opposition army.

And the Mozambican government never gives casualty figures for its own Frelimo forces despite the fact that "no one believes in an army which does not suffer", says Fauvet.

Besides the war, there is a tendency for government officials to be suspicious of journalists and refuse to give comment, an attitude which Fauvet believes only has adverse effects on the government in the long run.

Freest press. but thanks to who?

"Governments in the SADCC countries should treat the media as an asset," says Fauvet. "Any reasonably democratic government can gain a lot of mileage out of its media ifit lets journalists do their job rather than perpetually interfering."

It was impossible for a national news agency in the SADCC region to make a profit. so agencies like AIM were dependent on state funding . But

BOTSWANA probably has the freest press in the SADCC region but this is du-e to the journalists rather than the govern~ent, say Botswana media representatives.

Before independence, the media was the friend of the now-ruling Botswana National Party, but once the country was free, it became the enemy of the government, says Mr Andrew Sesinyi of the state-run Botswana Broadcasting -Corporation.

"Unless checked, most African governments become hypocritical and make a m~)cke-ry of statements about democracy and freedom of the press made when they first come to power.

"The government should get out of the media and let the professionals do their jobs. The government is not allowed to interfere with medical surgery, so why should they mcddle

with the media?" Journalists like Sesinyi are deter

mined to keep Botswana's media as . free as possible, but the government makes it tough, particularly for the handful of independent newspapers which have set up in recent years.

The government owns the only newspaper press in Botswana but refuses to allow any publications other than its own to be printed there. Editor of the independent Meggi newspaper, Tony Leepile, and founder of the Botswana Gazette, Al Osman, say they constantly-made offers to the government for the use of press, but were turned down every! :me_

So for long periOds of time, the press remains idle and a drain on the government's fmances while" the

' newspapers have to make the highly expensive trip to neighbouring South Africa to be printed; a farce considering the Botswana government's avowed opposition to the apartheid republic.

As Leepile points out, the Meggi is constantly critical of the South Africans and there could come a day when Pretoria bans the paper from being printed in the country.

The government, however, does have a role to play in a free press, says Sesinyi, and this was in the training of journalists. "In Africa there is the problem that people don't know the ethics of journalism.

"Therefore, just as the govern-

ment has a role in training medics and engineers, so it should be invovled in the training of journalists. The government should be acting as a trustee in establishing the facilities for training journalists."

Sesinyi adds: "The Botswana government would love to control everything and ensure that the opposition doesn't make any headway." But thanks to the persistence of the likes of Sesinyi, Leepile and Osman, they have not yet succeeded.

"Now the government trusts the media to the extent that, around the election time, we received,criticism from both the opposition and the ruling party that we were being biased," says Sesinyi . "As long as both sides are dissatisfied, then we know we are on the right track."

. this did not necessarily mean state control of the flow of information, says Fauvet, and AIM was acting with more and more autonomy as time went on.

And the privately-owned media was beginning to establish itself too. "In Mozambique, the government wants state control for the sake of 'national unity'. But as some journalists point out, there are alternatives to capitalistic, privately-owned m~dia such as co-operatives, et cetera."

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Highly esteemed French monk Father Pierre is photographed 41t Fouquet's in Paris. Father Pierre was present at the famous Parisian establishment earlier this year to help launch his biography 'L'insurge de Dieu', written by Pierre Lunel.

Actress Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of renowned writer Ernest Hemingway, has starred in Woody Allen's 'Manhattan', 'Personal Best' and 'Star 80', a film concerning the the tragic rise and fall of a Playboy model. Mariel underwent silicone implant surgery on her breasts for the role.

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Lundgren juts out the jaw which made him famous. The muscular Scandinavian actor had the lead role in the ill-fated movie 'Red Scorpion' which was filmed in Namibia. The production company left the country heavily in debt but at least local Windhoek residents were often treated to the sight of Dolph's girlfriend of the time, Grace Jones. '

Susan Sullivan, one of the stars

The dynamic duo of narcissism, George Hamilton and Joan Collins, flash their brilliant teeth for yet another photograph. Hamilton, who has been romantically linked with Elizabeth Taylor, appears to have dropped acting almost entirely in order to pursue the perfect tan.

Charlie Sheen faces the Hollywood paparazzi with girlfriend Kelly of the long-running TV soap Cheryl Tiegs, once the highest paid model in the world (the reigning Preston with swaggering self-assurance. Sheen comes from a famous opera, 'Falcon Crest'. Namibian queen of the beauty scene is Czechoslovakian Paulina Porzikova), family of actors which includes his father, Martin, and brother, fans of the programme breathed still radiates glamour. She is seen here with Tony Peck, son of Emilio Estevez. Charlie first critical and popular success in the film a sigh of relief when SWABC Academy Award-winning actor, Gregory Peck. Cheryl first made business was in the gripping Vietnam war movie, 'Platoon', directed decided to air the series again waves in the modelling scene when she appeared in a fishnet by Oliver Stone. after a four month long hiatus. bathing costume for an American fashion magazine.

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UNICEF REPORT:

Focusing on the plight of

today's children The Deputy Special Representative of !he United Nations In Namibia, Mr Joseph Legwalla, yesterday introduced the latest edition of the United Nations Children's Fund publication "The State Of The World's Children". At the launch Mr Legwaila said that the release of the Unicef report had become an annual milestone event in the calendar of the United Nations. He said that Unicef had produced a comprehensive document on the welfare of children throughout the world every year for the past decade. In this report Unicef presents the results of its monitoring of the status of the world's children, focusing on their physical, mental, economic and political well-being. Mr Legwaila said that the central theme of Unicers message this year was that children should be protected from the consequences of the adult world's excesses and mistakes. This meant that they should be protected, whether one was talking about violence or war, or the cumulative effects of economic mismanagement. He pointed out that the report stressed that human capital was a far more Important factor In economic growth than physical capital. "Investment in human capital In the form of nutrition, basic education, and health cannot be postponed: It either takes place at an appropriate age when the need is present - or it does not," he said. The under-pmphaslsed tragedy of the disinvestment In human capital in the 1980's would be carried forward in stunted bodies and deficient education well Into the 21st century. Turning to the Namibian situation, Mr Legwaila said that the 1990's would be a decade of hope and formidable challenges for the country. The unfolding challt:nges that faced Namibia and the world would pose new demands for the development of effective country-specific and global . strategies for the benefit of children. Today on this page we publish a short summary of some of the sad statistics found In the 102-page Unicefrej>ort.

The governments of the developing world as a whole are now devoting half of their expenditures to debt servicing and military spending. These two essentially unproductive activities, states this year's State of the World's Children Report from Unicef, are now costing almost one billion dollars every day - or approximately 400 dollars a year for every family in the developing world.

Meanwhile, says the report, nearly 8000 children are dying every single day because they have not been immunized, nearly 7 000 are dying daily from dehydration caused by diarrhoea, and approximately 6 000 are dying every day from pneumonia.

Making available today's low-cost solutions to all of these child health problems would cost approximately 2,5 billion dollars per year. "It is a great deal of money," says Unicef, "it is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka. It is as much as U.S. companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes . It

. is as much as 10 percent of the EC's annual subsidy to its fanners. It is as much as 2 per cent of the developing world's military spending."

A SUMMIT FOR CHILDREN

If present trends continue more than 100 million children will die in the decade ahead. "They will die in the sunken-eyed coma of dehydration," says Unicef " or in gasping extremities of pneumonia, or in the iron grip of tetanus, or in the fever of measles, or on the rack of Whooping cough",

These five common ilnesses - which can all be inexpensively treated or prevented by vaccines, oral rehydration therapy, or antibiotics - account for over half of all child deaths and malnutrition cases in the modern world .

Arguing that only high-level political commitment can put today 's low-cost solutions into practice on the necessary ",~ aJe, Unicef has called for a World Summit for Children to

be held in September 1990, at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. It would be the first time that heads of state would meet to discuss a major

social issue. The summit would also give a boost to the new convention on the rights of the child, which Unicef says "should become the standard below which any civilised nation, rich or poor, will be ashamed to fall" .

"It is time that the needs of children were given this kind of priority," says Unicef's Executive Director James P. Grant. "Protecting the physical and mental development of the children is the most important of all investments in the social and economic development of our societies. Doing what can now be done to achieve that goal is therefore an issue worthy of its place on the agenda of the world's political leaders, the world 's press, and the world's public."

ACHIEVEMENTS

The achievements of recent years have shown what can be done if the will is there. Immunization, which protected fewer than 10 per cent of the developing world's children a decade ago, now reaches 70 per cent of those in need and is saving approximately two million lives yearly. Oral rehydration therapy,litLle known outside scientific circles until the early 1980's, is now being used by one family in every three in the developing world and is estimated to be preventing one million juvenile deaths each year from diarrhoeal dehydration.

In addition, says Unicef, there are an estimated 1,5 million children who are "walking, running, and playing normally in the villages and neighbourhoods of the developing world today who would be crippled by polio were it not for the immunization efforts of the last decade" .

Achievements of th is kind, states , Unicef, show that it is possible - in practice - to prevent the majority of illnesses , malnutrition, and early deaths among children of the 1990' s.

"These breakthroughs have meant mobilising today's new communications capacity to put science at the disposal of the majority of the human family," says Grant. .. A further

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EVERY struggle . demands constant re-evaluation of strategies employed. The confirmation and endorsement of some and criticism and rejection of others.

CNFA:THE Such a reassessment can only take

place under circumstances conducive to an objective consideration of diverse and challenging ideas. The launch of this workshop provides such an opportunity.

ROAD AHEAD Black unity and liberation is a yearn

ing common to all who suffer the slings and arrows of oppression, slavery and exploitation. So much is being dOlle, or is being said to be done, in 'a bid to acquire unity and liberation. Yet, what is unity and liberation without self reliance? How can we begin to talk unity w hen we lack self reliance- major cause of our present disunity. There are many reasons and excuses for the lack of self reliance among our people. That we are the dispossessed and have no control over the means of production is one; that in commerce we are not part of the decision making process is yet another - let alone the fact that we are not represented in parliament.

The road to liberation and national unity was long rough. As long as we stay divided, the longer it will take us to get to bur destiny. When people talk of freedom and liberation some talk of the seizure of power and others speak of the freedom of the mind.

W-:, at CNFA as sponsmen have for far too long labelled ourselves or arrogated to ourselves the exclusive right of being the only socalled non racialists. Unfonunately this is no longer true and we must today examine a perspective which would open new doors in the world of soccer in Namibia.

We must conclude as a matter offact that our people and cenaill organisations have been talking past each other - not with each other. We must therefore also conclude that soccer rights and individual soccer organisations have been talking past each other and

not with each other. Whilst the CNFA must in no way usurp the task of the broad liberation movement, we should believe that we can playa meaningful role in getting everyone ~o begin to understand one another; to be able to criticize and be criticized without having to reson to any other form in order to settle problems.

We are painfully aware of the extent to which the ruling class has succeed in destroying unity and in the process reaping a harvest of disunity which is today terms is simply death of comrades.

It was frightening and it was destructive. The only winners were the colonialists. We at the CNFA must believe that we cannot stand by and watch, thus we have adopted a non-sectarian stance in the past in the hope that we could act as brokers in helping political organisations with different ideologies to understand one another on the spons field. It is a responsibility we believe that should be borne by any person who professes to be engaged in the struggle for freedom.

Unfonunately in spon and particularly in soccer no one has seriously taken the steps to bring people together and that is why we as spons-administrators should take on this responsibility. We will not expect to win overnight - we know it will be a long hard road;

Bobby Sissing

that suspicion and mistrust will make our task even harder.

That we shall be reviled by all those who - pretending to speak in the name of the struggle - act as counter revolutionaries. The fifth columnists are'legends in our midst. But we shall not be deterred. We believe that it is historic task that cannot be ignored - indeed, the eminent uniting of Namibian soccer organisations signifies that we are right; that, if we are to win the struggle then we must work tirelessly for unity.

In soccer we need to produce a par-

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ticular type of leadership if our goal of freeing the mind is to be achieved.

Leadership has been described as an exercise of power and power is the ability to achieve purpose - it is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic changes. But the common goal of freeing the mind is still unable to unite us. Some of us will object to being referred to as blacks, Africans or Narnibians because we use these labels to divide sons and daughters of common soil into different political labels. We spend all our effons looking for everything that . divides rather than unites us. The agenda of the spons struggle has been marred by the inclusion of divisive items which could be dealt with once the common enemy of the oppressed has been defeated.

This means that there is something utterly wrong with our leadership.

Our leadership is wasting a lot of time bickering over a meatless bone while our common enemy gets all the time it requires to entrench its domination over us.

We also need to produce a leadership that will have respect for democracy or the right of the people to accept or reject that which they like to dislike.

We have developed a tendency to label those who disagree with us as counter revolutionary or as identifying with the common enemy.

BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed

It is utterly wrong to suggest that a slave cannot criticize the actions of a fellow slave. There is no way we can train people for democracy if we believe that our leadership is immune from criticism. We must stop hiding behind the racist Spons Council.

The demands of any other document seeking to give us guidelines on the future of Namibia cannot be treat~d as holy cows. All documents must be placed on the table for a critical public analysis. Our leadership has to know that the more deeply people are affected by a decision, the more important it is for them to share in the making of that decision. This is a consciousness we need to cultivate amongst sponsmen.

We need spons leaders who will help us to develop a consciousness of freedom and development. But freedom and development cannot be attained through passive self pity, sloganeering and time wasting and mudslinging among victfms of apartheid.

Freedom and development require hard work, sacrifice and commitment. My challenge to all Namibians today is to take another look at the rational behind the dependancy complex of sponsmen on the liberal establishment.

The N.R.B. must find out why things are the way they are and train OUI sponsmen to understand that the way things are is not the only way things should be and can be. The system is not invisibl~.

It can' and must be changed. But it cannot be changed by members of a group that created it, maintained it, and benefited from it materially and otherwise over the years. Changing the system can only be done by the victims if that change is to be genuine, effective and everlasting. In dealing with the aforesaid. principles what is being urged here to today is more democratic approach to determining policy that also ensure that issues of tactics are not made matters of principle. We must

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AFRICA sank deeper into poverty and political chaos during the 1980's, but as the decade came to a close there were hopes of a negotiated end to several regional conflicts and apartheid in white-ruled South Africa.

South African-ruled Namibia was finally put firmly on the road to independence in 1989 and negotiations began to end the long-running civil wars in Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia.

In South Africa itself, a new president promised further moves to dismantle apartheid, racial segregation and free veteran black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela after 26 years in jail.

But for sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, the 1980's were bleak as living standards fell and famine spread.

"The 1980's were a wasted decade for Africa," said General Olusegun Obasajo, who ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1979 before handing power to an elected civilian government that collapsed four years later.

"Politically we have something to show in that the decade began with independence for Zimbabwe and looks like closing with the take-off of an independent Namibia," Obasanjo told Reuters.

"B .. t economically in sub-Saharan Africa we have regressed, " he added.

According to the World Bank, most Africans are almost as poor today as they were 30 years ago, when the continent was still under colonial rule.

Countries bordering the Sahara were repeatedly hit by drought and starvation during the 1980's.

Famine in Sudan, EthiOpia and Mozambique was aggravated by civil war. Up to one million people starved to death in war-tom northern Ethiopia during the great drought of 1984/85.

The economies of most African countries remained dependent on the export of agricultural commodities while wars raged across the continent from Angola and Mozambique in the south to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia in the east, sending floods of refugees into neighbouring countries illequipped to receive them.

Chad and Ubya pursued their war over the Aouzou border region, but agreed in Augustto end the 15-year-old conflict with a pact to solve the territorial dispute by political means within a year.

Governments squeezed by mounting foreign debts and falling export revenues found it impossible to satisfy the demand for education and medical care from Africa' s rapidly increasing population.

Social pressures mounted as living standards fell and a series of military coups swept the continent.

As the decade ended, only four of Africa' s sub-Saharan countries - Senegal, Gambia, Botswana and Mauritius enjoyed full multi-party democracy.

But Nigeria's military rulers had launched a programme of political re-

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avoid being rigid and inflexible - this is not to say that we must abandon all our principles but be absolutely flexible in tactics.

To use a very suitable example in our society the emergence of unions - intially they had reservations about registering with the state but they did so despite these reservations only because they saw it as a tactical necessity. They used the space created by registering to strengthen themselves and advance their cause - by no means have they . abandoned their commitment to the creation of a wider working class movement and a society by registering in fact what they have achieved is that they have faciltated these objectives by registering.

Cert ,inly the CNFA cannot only just go into the townships with predetermineci set of abstract principles and arrogantly insist that soccer rights conform to these before CNFA will have anything to do with them. CNFA should go into the township with only the most basic set of principles - all other matters should be negotiable after all soccer rights in the township who


FOCUS ON AFRICA IN THE EIGHTIES: ANC guerrillas.

FEW HOPES IN A WASTED DECADE

A Commonwealth study by Hararebased r~searchers Phyllis Johnson and David Martin puts the military and econmic cost of South African policies toward its black neighbours at 45 billions dollars and the number of warrelated deaths at 1,5 million.

"No development can take place in a violent unstable environment such as that in which we are forced to live," Mugabe said in 1988.

form to return the country to civilian rule by 1992 and Guinea's military leaders had promised to do the same by 1996.

African governments became increasingly dependent on western aid to survive and many countries now receive two or three times more in aid each year than they earn from exports.

"Genuine structural reforms are urgently needed to end Africa's total dependence on foreign aid. We are talking about a whole continent surving on an (intravenous) drip," said Joseph Ki:Zerbo, a history professor from Burkina Faso, one of Africa 's poorest nations.

Structural reforms are in progress since most western aid to Africa is now linked to government compliance with economic reform programmes stipulated by the IMF and World Bank.

Even Marxist Slats such as Ethiopia and Congo are liberalising their staterun economies and adopting free market reforms which promote private enterprise.

But many African economists question whether the IMF and World Bank are giving Africa the right medicine to cure its economic ills.

"The monetarist approach of the World Bank and IMF programmes, theirinsensitivty to social, cultural and political realities in Africa as well as their adverse effect on the majority of the population, especially the poor and the vulnerable, have created widespread dissatisfation," Adebayo Adedji, head of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, said earlies this year.

Events in southern Africa during the 1980's were dominated by the situation in South Africa where the white minority retained power in the face of world hostility and an increasingly restive black population.

Pretoria tried to dissuade neighbouring blacks states from giving military suport to the African National Congress (ANC) black nationalist guerrilla movemnt by supporting rebel movements in left-wing Angola and Mozambique.

Butit also compromised by agreeing to give Namibia independence under black rule in return for the withdrawal of an estimated 50 000 Cuban troops from Angola.

U.N.-supervised elections in Namibia in November 1989 gave the black nationalist movement, Swapo (South West Africa People's Organisation), a comfortable majority in the

constitute the overwhelming majority have not had a say in determining CNFA policies.

The soccer writers in the township themselves be given the opportunity to express themselves on this .

If N.RB. takes this approach it is then likely to alienate soccer rights there who must be given the space to develop a sense of identity with nonracialism and feel that they will have a say in determining CNFA policy and direction rather than having CNFA policy thrust down their throat. There is nothing to replace physical contact.

N.RB. affiliates must establish links with both players and officials. This brings me to the means of contact with political organisations that exist. N.R.B . affiliates are often called upon by unions and community organisations to take part in consumer boycotts and campaigns in the community. It is my view that these links should be established because they not only popularise N.RB. in the townships and pro-

. vide access to sports people there but they establish firm and clear working links with community and political organisations.

(Compiled by Bobby Sming)

BY ROBERT POWELL, SAPA

Constituent Assembly that will draft a . constitution for the territory to become independent in April 1990.

During his 11 years in office, which ended in August 1989, President P. W. Botha dropped some of the most despised aspects of apartheid, such as laws restricting the movement of blacks and inter-racial marriages.

But he also imposed a tough state of emergency to contain mounting black unrest which allowed even children to be detained without trial for political agitation.

Alongside the anti-apartheid campaign, battles between rival black groups erupted in the townships, where burning tyres placed over the heads of selected victims gave a new and sinsiter meaing to the word "necklace."

Botha's successor, F. W. de Klerk,

has promised new reforms and has already relaxed curbs on black opposition demonstrations and the media.

De Klerk has released eight of South Africa's best known political prisoners and it is widely expected that ANC leader Nelson Mandela hemself will be freed soon.

" We are deadly earnest about rebuilding South Africa," De Klerk told foreign journalists recently.

Nevertheless, De Klerk's reforming zeal is tempered by the possibility of a backlash by extreme right-wing whites who oppose any relaxation of apartheid.

The independence of neighbouring Zimbabwe under black majority rule in 1980 proved that a black take-over need not end in a bloodbath or political chaos and that whites can be accommodated under black rule.

Although President Robert Mugabe preaches socialism Zimbabwe's 100 000 whites still control most of the country's economy and have not seen their lifestyle eroded.

But economic development throughout southern Africa has been blighted by the shadow of apartheid.

South Africa remains the economic giant ofthe region and controls most of its trade routes to the coast.

In the past it has been accused of fuelling civil wars in Angola and Mozambique and has not hesitated to carry out military strikes against other countries suspected of harbouring

Western nations reluctant to i~pose ful.! economic sanctions on South Africa helped southern Africa's black states reduce their economic dependence on Pretoria during the I980's by developing alternative trade routes for them via the Mozambican port of Beira and the Tanzanian port of Dar Es Salaam.

Looking to the future, there is some hope that the recent slackening of super-power tension will lead in Africa to a negotiated end to civil war in Ethiopia and Angola.

Diplomats say the Soviet Union want to reduce its military aid to these two Marxist governments to concentrate on reforms at home.

But the future pace of political reform in South Africa is uncertain and the economic outlook for the continent as a whole remains grim.

The World Bank says sub-Saharan Africa's 450 million population is growing by 3,3 per cent a year, but without a massive injection of foreign aid, economic growth will continue to lag behind.

In a special report on sub-Saharan Africa published on November 22, it caHed for a massive aid package for Africa similar to the U.S. Marshall Plan, which helped western Europe's economy recover after World War II.

The World Bank sees agriculture as the main engine of economic growth in Africa and Nigeria's Obasanjo agrees.

"For the 1990's it goes without saying that agricultural development is crucial and we have to reduce population growth," he said.

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A BAHA'I VIEW -- No. 45

The Purpose of Life Since the beginning of time,. God has sent His Messengers with guidance as to the purpose of life. Their messages have been the cause of progress for the planet, as well as individual salvation.

Man is created to know, love and workship God; and to recognise and obey His divine Manifestation or Prophet. The greatest attainment for man is service to other s and the development of spiritual qualities.

We have been created with the capacity to reflect the attributes of God, such as mercy, love and truthfulness. Our purpose in life is to aquire these virtues. Success in this endeavor enables man to carry forward an advancing

civilisation, where ultimately, the oneness of mankind will be recognised. When we understand God's purpose for man we are able to determine, through our actions, our own spiritual destinies.

Baha' is remind themselves daily of their purpose by reciting this prayer revealed by Baha'ullah: .

"I bear witness, 0 my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. 1 testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth.

"There is none other God by Thee, the Help in PeriL"

THE NAMIBIAN Friday December 15 198915

THE BROWNIES THAT ARE CIRCULATING HAVE GOT AIDS There's a strange feeling in the air these days.

It's been a long time since I caught a strong , heady whiff of good clean madness.

Several key organs in my body get uncomfortable when too much sanity creeps in . My mind imd body sucked on the lunacy of the old Namibia, and thrived on it. Now I'm beginning to feel like a lemon sucked d.-y by two burnout tequila drinkers from the Barrio Chino in Barcelona.

Deranged politicians, economists with the instinct of a lemming, and security force officers with the tact of a jammed G-5 gun have all contributed to a certain balance being maintained in that inverted pickle jar I call a cranium.

Suddenly the scales have savagely and without warning tipped to the wrong side.

Why has everything become so god damn normal?

IfI wanted this sort of atmosphere I would go and live in Switzerland where the most dangerous thing to wake me at night would be a bloated cow overdosing on fresh lucerne and swinging its embroidered bell from a flower-box around its fat brown neck.

In Windhoek we miss everything. Even in Okahandja you get violent shootouts between the good guys and the bad guys . In Oshakati you get to watch grudge fights between excombatants and 101 soldiers using fresh UN -issue machetes down at the market before breakfast. In the south you can watch the razor-wire being rolled out around the white schools, and in the east you can report every white man as being an escaped Outjo bomber. Even in the west you can go and spend a weekend on the beach lying in the middle of a state of emergency .•

Here in the central part all we have are bad drugs, foreigners, war-damaged psychotics and the Constituent Assembly.

But where is the action? Why aren 'thitsquads from the UN

Council for NllI1libia prowling the 'streets delivering 12-figure invoices to companies which violated their impressive Decree Number One all these years?

Why, at cocktail parties, do we see Moses "Oath" Katjiuongua slapping Hage "Grizzly" Geingob on the back and laughing uproariously?

What, in the name of all that is holy, is going on?

Can it be this new beast called reconciliation which is steadily gnawing away at our hearts and minds?

I fear for this thing they call reconciEation. It has the rank smell of ' decaying hypocrisy .

Or maybe I'mjust being paranoid. Perhaps Chris Shipanga really

should seek out Kierie du Rand and take him for a beer at his favourite hotel. After all, our Kierie really was

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ajournalist's dream when it came to phoning him for a comment.

And perhaps Kierie would like to reciprocate and take Chris for a triple scotch with a gin chaser at the Chief Atrocity Reporter's favourite shebeen - where he could get his back firmly against a wall and tell Cde Chris that, in his capacity as police media liaison officer, his comment on that hot Thursday afternoon in 1987 wasn't really meant for publication.

"It was a joke, Kris'" Kierie would explain.

"You don't really think I would say 'You Swapo clowns are full of shit' and put the phone down if I meant it to be my official comment?" he would ask before insisting 00 paying for the next round of triples.

And then perhaps Gwen Lister will send around printed embossed invitations to Colonel Willem Nel and Werner List to attend a private cocktail party at her office. Field Marshal Lister could tell the Colonel what it felt like to be arrested by him, and then slung - four months pregnant -into a police cell for nearly a week. Yes, they could both get quite a giggle out of that. Not to mention a bit of banter about the Colonel's arresting companion - a man who claimed to be from the police legal division but who in reality could fracture your fingers at the second knuckle just by silently looking at them for three minutes. But then, who did you expect the Colonel to take along when

' going to arrest Cde/Mrs/Ms Lister inside the very lair of the Gaddafi of Journalism .. . (which is a private joke between Madam Editor and Cde Lord List, and only to be used at parties as one of those light-hearted throwaway stories).

In fact, Werner List could throw a picnic at Daan Viljoen for all his workers he fired, and then tell them a short satirical story of why he set a squad of heavily-armed police on them when they came back the next day to get their wages. Bound toraise a laugh.

And to get really into the spirit of reconciliation, Dirk Mudge could pay the dentist bills of all those poor sods whose teeth rotted away from months of eating cheap white brotchens and stale Elolo salt beef.

Let's leave the reconciliation up to

men who own at least two SUitS . To put it another way, they are best

suited to deal with this sort of thing. That is also the first pun I have ever written.

The spinoff of a showdown between the suits is bound to filter down to us sooner or later, whether it be starvation or shooting each other. And we will comply ... we will starve happily and kill each other gladly. It's always been that way.

But none of this explains why I live like a recluse. I am always reminded of this fact because the epileptic neurons in my frontal lobe get agitated if the eyes stare for too long at a white wall.

I feel like a Guru with no devotees. I am a psychological expatriate

from Nowhere. My neighbours sense I don't care

anymore, and are so afraid of going up in a ball of flame one night that they can't sleep and instead spend their evenings watching the street. Every morning I am faced with horror tales across the fence of silver Cressidas/blue Mazdas/yellow Mercedes' driving slowly up and down past my house between the hours of 1.27am and 3.22am.

And once you start hearing things like that - no matter what you might like to think - you instinctively know that any lost motorist will not trace the same route 120 times in as many minutes.

I know there are people who would like to kill me.

Buy a postcard and write down what you think people want to do to you and send it to Dr Gonzo's private bag. Then we can have adraw and the first 400 000 readers will participate

in a group therapy session using linkedup television monitors and cordless microphones. No doubt some joker will stand up and say all mellow-like over the PA system: "Just a warning people ... the Brownies that are circulating have got Aids."

Naturally nobody under 30 will understand this, and a race riot will swiftly develop.

All this therapy will have to be done on the day after Independence Day - a glorious memorable autumn day bound to be commemorated as Knifing Day, now that Boxing Day has become obsolete. Or perhaps it will become Blood-Running-In-TheGutter Day, or may be even Nauseous Hangover Day.

But, of course, the people might declare it Where's-My-Living-Wage Day, or Howzabout-Some-SeriousRetribution Day.

From next year I refuse to write this column anymore. I foresee an imminent collapse in the Funily Things market. I will be conducting interviews for a successor shortly after we have a 1990, and preference will be given to applicants who bring sisters over sixteen and a bottle or two.

Although a fmely-hooed razor blade would probably do.

The Annual Regional Consultative conferences will be held from 11-14 January 1990. The venues will be as

follows:

1. Oshakati (for Tsumeb and far-northern students) 2. Rundu (for Grootfontein and north-eastern students) 3. Katima Mulilo (for far north-eastern region) 4. Keetmanshoop (for the southern region) 5. Arandis (for the west and north-western regions) 6. Katutura (for the central ~eglon, including Otjiwarongo) 7. Gobabis (for the eastern region) All students are welcome to attend.

For further information, contact,the head office at 061-62187 (during office hours) or your regional organisers.

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lets vir' alIDal in The NaDlibian Foe-~.

Nakufya Kapuka Nauyala ota fudikwa mongula pOshigambo OMBELEWA yoSwapo oya shiivifa kutya, efudiko lomushamane Nicky Kapuka Nauyala, otali ka ningwa mongula pOshigambo.

oshilyo oshikulunhu shoSwapo eedul~ dihapu, nokwa long a onga hamushanga womupresidende omanga ina tumwa a ka ninge omukalelipo wongudu koZimbabwe.

Omushamane Nauyala. okwa hulifa oweenda waye ongula yoSoondaha konima eshi a ehamekelwe moshiponga shoshihauto popepi naLuderitz petameko lomwedi ou.

Konima yoshiponga. omushamane Nauyala okwa kala ta mono ouhaku

moshipangelo shaConradie moKapa, omo a xulifila.

Efudiko laye otali hove1e potundi 10 yongula mongula mongerki yaShingambo nokonima otaka fudikwa pOnamukulo.

Omushamane Nauyala okwa kala

Pefimbo lokuxulifa kwaye okwa hangika e Ii oshilyo shonguduyokunyola omafinamhango a Namibia la manguluka.

Pienaar na Ahtisaari va' indilwa va ninge po sha Onghalo yeameno mowambo unene tuu momukunda Omungwelume 00 uli popepi neengaba dAngola nodaNamibia oili yanyelevala, omukalelipo wowina wOiwanahangano omushamane Martti Ahtisaari opamwe naNgoloneyandjai omushamane Louis Pienaar ove Ii tava kundafana kombinga yonghalo ei.

Omupopindjovo omukulunhu mombelewa yOiwanahangano omushamane Fred Eckhard. okwa shivifa moshiongalele sheenghundafana onghela mo Venduka ta ti omulwnenhu wnwe okwa dipawa. keengangala daUnita okudilila moAngola.

moule womafiku adjako. Eenghundana dikwao odo da dja

keembinga neembinga odi nasha nomatilifo nomadengo 00 ta ningilwa ovakwashiwana kengangala edi ka Unita. Omushamane Pienaar okwa indilwa opo, a kale ashiviflla opolifi

opo i kale ya katuka onghatu yomeendelelo. osho omushamane Eckhard a shivifa ngaho.

Omushamane Eckhard okwa shivif a yo ta ti opolifi yoOiwanahangano oya shivifa kutya onghalo moNamibia oili ya mwena.

candidates Would the following please phone the Minen Hotel

3071, in Tsuxneb, and ask for

tel. Jenny

(0671) Hogley, from

14-16 at the December, or house in Oshakati,

December 1989. guest 17-19

Inpinge Ndapewa Oshakati Tsumeb

Jason Kombanda Shoopapa Rakkel Oshakati Oshakati

Selma S. Hamata J.N.lmbili Oshakati Ondangwa

Oesiderius E. Hamayula Ongo Josef Ingo Oshakati Ongandjera

Augustus P. Elago Petrus Rasalia Oshakati Oshakati

Christine Shikalepo Hilja N. Ngonga Oshakati Oshakati

Absalom Hannykwayo Temus liyambula Oshakati Ongandjera

Ephriam K. Shimana Titus S.H. Hasheela Oshakati Oshakati

Olavi K. Angula Gabes Amupolo Uukwlundhi

Natango oosa noku ha uva ombili

mOmudingoloko gwOmungwelume

KU OSWALD SHIVUTE MOSHAKATI

Omukulupe Matheus Kalunga natango ondyembo ye mu falele, go omaliko gaakwashigwana taga yiwa nago.

Omukulupe a tseyika nawa gwomomukunda Oshindobe popepi ~oongamba dha Namibia na Angola muwnbangalantu wOmungwelwne gwedhina Matheus Kalunga gwomimvo tadhi tengenekwa dhi Ii lwopo 60 nenge70 okwa dhipagwa kaantu kaye shiwike, uusiku weti 11.12.1989 na 12.12.1989. Oshoka osha ningwa pokati lela kuusiku.

Pahokololo otaku tiwa kutya. omanga omusamane Matheus naanegwnbo lye ya lala, megumbo omweya aalwnentu yahamano ya homata nokOO1ayego. Oya tameke okukonkola pondunda yomusamane Kalunga noye mu pendula mo moomposi. Omusamane Kalunga sho e ya pondye, aadhipagi mbaka ina ya popya oya patulula ow ala omulilo koautomatika nokuyaha omukulupe nguka pwaana ohenda yasha noku mu thiga a lala mombinzi ye ndele ta hulitha.

Omukuluntutaleli gwOpolisi ya Shakati omusamane Van Zyl kepulo okwa ti kutya Omusamane Kalunga okwa dhipagwa shili kaalwnentu ye li yaali uusiku weti 11-12.12.1989 noondyembo dho AK-47. naadhipagi mbaka oya taaguluka oongamba ya ya ku Angola.

Okwa kundanwa wo kutya aakalimo yokomikunda dhoka dhokuwn: bangalantu wOmungwelwne. Eenghoshi. Oshali, Okalyafengwa, Oshindobe, Oikokola nosho tuu oonkwawo oya tameka okutauka mo omolu Omatilitho nomadhipago taga holoka momikunda moka kehe ehuliloshiwike.

Okwa kundanwa wo kutya omaliko gaakwashigwana komahala ngoka otaga yiwa nago. kutya nee uusiku omanga ya kothanenge omutenya ye wete ko iinima yawo mwa kwatelwa unene iimuna yawo ota yi yiwa nayo kookalyamupombo mboka unene taya tengenekwa kutya oya UNIT A mboka pethimbo Iyongaashingeyi ta ku tiwa oyiihanena pooha dhoongamba okuukakuuzilo, ano IwokOkavango.

Oshigwana shaahoka omathimbo ga pita osha pulile egameno Iya UNT AG ngeno Ii kale pOmungwelume na osha Ii sha ningwa, nOmbelewa ya UNT AG oko yi Ii kOmungwelwne. Konima okwa ka tulwa natango yoPolisi (SWAPOL) ndele nande ongaho inashi kwatha sha,omatilitho onkee ngaa taga londo.

Omasiku sho ga Ii 9.12.1989 omusamane Andreas Simon gwomomukunda Omatangela popepi nOmungwelwne, iikombo ye 35 oya hingwapo omutenya gwaankala, ye yi wete, kaalwnentu ye Ii meunifoloma dhafa omafo gomakaya ya homata nokomayego ndele taya yi nayo koAngola. Omuntu iho popi ko nge wa popi ko ongulohi tayi landula kukowe.

Oshigwana otashi lili notashi pula kutya Oshigongi shono tashi ningi Ekotampango nashi pe Ongundu yoSW APO ndyoka ya wina me-

. hogololo oonkondo dha gwana po opo yi tunge noyi tulepo Opolisi yaNamibia meendelelo yi gamene oshigw ana manga inashi hulithwa po kaatondi yasho.

* AG se hulp ingeroep ...

UNITA ERG --IN NAMIBIE DIE veiligheidsituasie in die Omungwelume-wyk in Owambo naby die grens tussen Angola en Namibie is steeds kommerwekkend. Die aangeleentheid is vandeesweek deur die Verenigde Volke se Spesiale Gesant, mnr. Martti Ahtisaari, met die Administrateur-generaal, adv. Louis Pienaar, opgeneem.

Volgens 'n Untag-woordvoerder. mnr. Fred Eckhard is 'n man na bewering deur elemente van Unita vermoor, wat van Angola die land binnegesypel het.

Vroeere berigte wil dit he dat voorvalle van aanrandings en molestering van burgerlikes, ook deur Unita-rebelle voorkom.

Adv. Pienaar is gevra om in te gryp en polisie-patrollies in die gebied te gelas.

Mnr. Eckhard het gese Untag-polisiemonitors het berig dat die res van Namibie betreklik kalm was en dat net enkde voorvalle aangemeld is.

Untag-polisiemanne het Dinsdag en Woensdag 373 patrollies landwyd ondemeem. waarvan 96 saam met die SW A Polisie uitgevoer is.

* Intussen het mnr. Eckhard ook bekend gemaak dat twee vragmotors vol wapens en ammunisie, wat aan die berugte en tans gedemobiliseerde SW A Gebiedsmag-eenheid 32 Battaljon behoort het. uit die Kavango-rivier herwin is .

Die wapens is sowat een kilometer suid van Buttalo deur die polisie gevind. Dit volg nadat The Namibian vroeer oor die vreemde verskynsel berig het.

OMAHOOLOLO a ningwa moNamibia muNovomba neudo metonatelo IOiwanahangano (UNT AG) paKakatokolifo 435,itashi ti Namibia okwa manguluka. Oshoyo efindano 10SWAPO momahoololo atya ngaha, itashi ti ehangano eli (SWAPO) ola tameka okupangela oshilongo. Ngeenge osho hatu diladila ngaha, ohatu twala omeva oko itaku dungwa. Omahoololo atya ngaho okwa patululila ashike Namibia omivelo delipangelomwene. Opo Namibia a mone enianguluko, na SW APO a pangele oshilongo eshi, tete okuna okulongekidwa Efinamhango laNamibia a manguluka 010 ole lipyakidilwa nalo paife keengudu dopapolotika 7 mOshoongalele mOvenduka. Nongeenge ola pu nola tambulwa ko keengudu adishe odo, nena otaku tokolwa ashike efiku letyapulo loshivilo shemanguluko loshilongo shetu, Namibia. Moule woivike itatu Iwaapo ya pita po paife, oshiwana shaNamibia osha kala sha tl;!elela netumbaumbwile la kula okuuda ngeenge Efinamhango ola pwa nefiku lemanguluko laNamibia otali ka kala ko naini. Nande pwa kala okaendanhamhadi nehumokosho la nyika oivinga yodi kombinga yelongekido IEfinamhango, Osoondaha ya dja ko, omupresidende woSW APO, omusamane Sam Nujoma, 00 a teelelwa yoo aka ninge omupresidende wotete waNamibia a manguluka, okwa shilipaleka oshiwana shaNamibia ta ti: "Fye otu na elineekelo la kola kutya, Efinamltango laNamibia otali ka pwa nokutambulwa ko mefimbo lihupi tali landula ." Omushamane Nujoma okwe slti popya poshoongalele shoSWAPO moKatutura Osoondaha ya dja ko. Osha Ii edimbulukwo lefiku (10 Desemba 1959) ledipaolOvanamibia 12 nelemaneko lovanhu vedule50 eshi kwa Ii tava fininikilwa konhele hai ifanwa Katutura (Ovenduka) okudja k"Olukanda Likulu" eedula 30 da p ita po paife. Oshoongalele kwa Ii sha kalwa kengafifi lovanhu vaha pu, ovalaule novatilyane, ounona nova kulunhu. Osha li yon shotete shoSW AP O konima yomahoololo omo SW APO a yauka noshishani shefindano komutwe. Omushamane Nujoma okwa paka yoo eemwenyo doshiwana shaNamibia mohondeeshi e shi lombwela vali ta ti: "sw APO okwa teelela Namibia a ka mone emanguluko moshikako shotete shodula tai uya (1990)." Oshiwana shaNamibia inashi hala ashike shi dje moupikakoloni wovanailongo, ndele osha hala yoo unene shi mone ehulepo loilonga yomahepeko noyekun~ nomafyo oipundjamenhe 00 taa ningilwa oshiwana shaNamibia, unene tuu moitukulwa yokoumbangalanhu woshilongo, ngaashi Okaoko, Owambo, Okavango nOkaprivi. Kakele kaasho, oshiwana shaNamibia osho sha kala efimbo lile oihakanwa yefiniriiko noukoloni wOvandowishi oshoyo noweembulu dokatongotongo . depangelo laSouth Africa, osha hala yo unene onghalo yombili, youkumwe nouyuukl yi ule noi pangele moNamibia. Omuvalu muhapu woshiwana shaNamibia 00 wa hoolola SW APO opo a findane momahoololo a dja ko, osha diladila noshe lipula tete kutya, kapena vali ongudu imwe tai dulu okunawapah!ka nokuyukipaleka nokumbilipaleka onghalo yaNamibia, kashi shii oSW APO yaNamibia. Mefimbo lopaife otaku kundanwa noipala tal limemesha kehafo kutya, elongekido IEfinamhango laNamibia mupe otali humu' nawa komesho. Shaashi oinima ihapu yEfinamhango oya pwa noya taambulwa ko yoo kOshoongalele ashishe. Okwa tokolwa nokwa hangwa yoo etwokumwe kutya, elaka IOshiingilisha otali ka kala lopambelewa muNamibia a mangulukaj Namibia ota kala oshilongo shimwe ashikej omukalo womahoololo 00 tau ka longifwa monakwiiwaj oshikandjo shehongo otashii ka kala shimwe ashike muNamibia alishe la mangulauka. Kakele kaasho, ope na elineekelo kutya, itapa ka holoka vali naanaa unene okuhatwa kumwe moinima ihapu. Eengudu 7 odo di li mOshoongalele osho, oda dimbulula kutya ode lineekelelwa oshinakuwanifwapo sha kula nosha finiana unene okulongekida nokumana diva Efmamhango laNamibia, opo ku monike diva enianguluko, noilonga youkolonipika i hule po diva. ElongelokuD;lwe pokati k~paa~i 7 mOshoongalel,e shokulongekidila Namibia Efinamh'ango" okwa . 'Ii ' Ia ' holoka vali ' potiyell!le; eshi' omunashipUrfdi :wOshion-gfQsfio, Hage Gei~gob (SW'APO),li ' pitifa: omushangwa porihele' yeengudtradishe-'7 inOsl)iongi. Oniushangwa'ou: ota pangula noriyariya notau 'ekeleshi kokule omadiladilo Eengeleki. dovatilyane odo da hala di ninge eefikola doviltilyarie 'di kale dopaumwene' nelalakano lokuhumifa Komeslio' okatongotongo. '. Kakele kaasho, omafikameno aSW APO ' okudiminafana po' nokutambulafana ko oku Ii taa udika ko kOvanamibia ovo va kala va pofipalekwa nokulongela ouwa wovakolonyeki novanakatong"tongo efimbo lile. Omukal" ou otau udika ko notau tambulwa ko, shaashi owo ash ike wa talika ko tau hanganifa oshiwana shaNamibia sha kala sha tukaulwa moukwamunghoko kokatongotongo notau dulu kutungifwa nao oshilongo. Ngeenge elongelokumwe pokati kovakalelipo veengudu 7 mOshoongalele shokulongekidila Namibia Efinamhango osho tau i ngaha komesho, ohatu ka tyapula Okrismesa nehafo linene konima yeedula dihapu doukoloni, eshi h~tu ka shiiva kutya kape na vali endangalati tali imbi elongekido IEfinamhango loshilongo shetu Ii pwe diva!

LESHA OSHIFO SHOSHIWANA ~


* Skole-debakel in AGS ...

Wittes antwoord DEUR PIUS DUNAISKI

DIE Apostoliese Geloofsending (AGS) in Namibie is nie deel van die regse Interkerklike Vereniging vir C hristelike Opvoeding en Onderwys (IVCOO) nie.

oon dat ons niks meer wou se nie as dat ons onderhandeling vir die pri v atisering van onderwys steun vanwee ons bekommemis ooT die toekoms van moedertaal-onderrig en 'n Christe1ike onderwys-filosofie.

S6 se dr. Nico Horn, onderhandelaar van die wit afdeling van die Apostoliese Geloofsending (AGS), in 'n verklaring wat hy gister vanuit Swakopmund uitgereik is, waar hy tans met vakansie is .

Dit volg nadatdie twee swart afdelings van die AGS Dinsdagaand 'n sterkbewoorde verklaring uitgereik het waarin die koppeling van die naam van die kerk met die regse IVCOO skerp veroordeel is.

Die wit afdeling is daarop gewys dat hy troubreuk gepleeg het omdat hy deel is van die uiters omstrede poging om skole voor opnafbanklikheid terwyl die Suid-Afrikaanse verteenwoordiger en Administrateurgeneraal, adv. Louis Pienaar, steeds in die stoel is.

Die swart afdelings het ook gedreig om kop uit te trek uit enige verderer onderhandelinge om moontlike eenwording met die wit kerk weens hul koppeJing aan die planne van IVCOO, wat as sinister beskou. word.

Dr. Hom se in sy verduidelikende verklaring dat hy jammer is dal die verkeerde indruk geskep is dat die wit AGS wit eksklusiwiteit voorstaan endalhy vooronafhanklikheid skok wouhelpprivatiseerdeurmidde1 van die regse pogings , wat ge1ei word deur voorste Afrikaner-Broederbonders.

Hy spreek ook sy spyt uit dat sy ondertekening van die Verlclaring van Voomeme spanning in die AGS-

) familie gebring het, maar hy volstaan dat hy en die wit AGS die beginsels vap private skole ondersteun, waar onderrig in Afrikaans moet wees en die Christelike opvoedingsfilosofie die grondslag is.

Die volledige verklaring lees as volg:

"Ktpant\;jerigte die afgelope week het die indruk geskep dat die AGS lid is van die sogenaamde Interkerklike Vereniging vir Christelike Opvoeding en Onderwys of aktief deelgeneem het aan die beplande privatisering van sestien blanke skole in N amibie.

"Die feit van die saak is egter dat die AGS nooit lid van die komitee was nie en dat die sogenaamde blanke Distrikraad (AGS) ook nooit enige besluit geneem het om deel daai.Y.an te word nie.

"Die AGS (blanke Distrikraad) het die eersted keer kennis van 'n: kerklike komitee se bestaan gekry toe ons op 7 Desember 1989 na 'n vergadering genooi is, wat niemand van die betrokke afdeling kon bywoon nie. N Ii die vergadering het ds. Callie Opperman my geskakel en meegedeel dat die Susterskerke

. onderhandeinge met die oog op privatisering van die onderwysstelsel aan die gang wil sit. Op geen stadium

~ is die kerk ingeli~ .ooc die v~g~~ " gesprekke met dleAG of eruge plantte -r

om sekere skole voor onafhanklikw.or- ,

die privatisenngsprogram sal deur die kerke self gefinansier word. Op 'n verdere eksplisiete vraag of die privatiseringsprogram daarop gerig is om skole eksklusief wit te hou, het ds. Opperman ontkennend geantwpoord. Hy het my meegedeel dat die enigste basis van die privatiseringsfilosofie daarop gerig is dat die onderliggende 0p,!oedingsftlosofie 'n Christelike basis sal he, dat moedertaalonderrig in Afrikaans beskerm sal word en dat hoe standaarde gehandhaaf sal word. Ek het ditook aan hom gestel dat geintegreerde skole vir my geen probleem is nie en dat ek persoonlik by geen proses betrokke wil wees wat daarop gerig is om skool-segregasie te bevestig nie.

"Na aan1eiding van hierdie inligting het ds. Opperman my gevra of ek bereid sal wees om 'n memorandum te onderteken as 'n basis vir onderhandeling vir die latere stigting van privaatskole.

"Ek het my daarvan vergewis dat die Verklaring nie aanspraak maak op blanke eksklusiwiteil nie en die aangeleenthcid met beskikbare ampsdraers van die SW A-·Distri],;. raad (blanke afdeling) opgeneem. Omdal ons van mening was dat daar weI onder ons gemeente-Iede groot sleun vir die privatisering van onderwys is, het ons besluit om die Verklaring van Voomeme te teken.

"Ek het nooit te kenne gegee dat" ek namens die hele AGS teken nie. Inteendeel, ek het baie uitdruk.lik gemeld dat ek net namens die SW ADistrikkomitee (blanke afdeling) bptree. Met al die inligting voor my het ek afgelei dat die Verklaring as 'n onderhandelingsdokument sal die met die AG, Grondwetgewende Vergadering en eindelik die Regering van 'n onafbanklike Namibie. Op geert stadium was dit my of die komi tee se voomeme om die toekomstige regering te systap nie.

"Indien daar weI sodanige pogings was, distansieerdie AGS-SWADistrikkomitee hom daarvan. Net so was dit geensins ~ns bedoeling om deiIr' die Verklaring blanke eksklu- · siwiteit te steun nie. Indien dit 'n verskuilde agenda is distansieer ek my daarvan.

"Ek het nooit die indruk. van ds. Opperman gekry dat die komitee hom tot blanke eksklusiwiteit verbind of onderhandelings wil systap nie.

"Indien die ondertekening van die Verklaring 'n verkeerde indruk gewek het, vra ek verskoning. Ek wi! beklemt-

"Nie ek of die AGS (SW A-Distrikraad) kan instaan vir die werksaamhede en besluite van die IVCOO en die g«stigte privaatmaatskappy nie en betreur die feit dat die ondertekening van die Verlclaring van Voomeme die indruk. geskep dat die afdeling van die kerk deel van die IVCOO se onderhandelingsprogram is of was.

"Die AGS is tot op hede nog nie amptelik genooi om deel van die IVCOO te word nie. Ek het dit egter van die begin af duidelik gemaak dat toetrede tot enige liggaam s1egs moontlik sal wees as die hele kerk gekonsulteer is en die aangeleentheid goedgekeur is.

" Ek het geen oomblik gedink dat ons ondetekening van die Verklaring van Voorneme so belangrik is datdit hoegenaamd in die media genoem wou word nie, Omdat ek nie bewus was van die voorafgaande onderhandeiings of die onmiddeliike planne van die IVCOO nie, net ek nie voorsien dat die kerk by die kontroversie betrek sou word nie. Ek betrel..r die feil dat die onderlekening ton veral die ongeluk.kige assosiasie di>! kerk in 'n verleentheid gestel net en spanning in die AGS-familie vemorsaak he!.

"In die lig van die feit dat al die partye in die G V private onderwys in beginsel aanvaar, is ek van mening dat die Verklaring van Voomeme weI een van die belangrikste vrae vim ons lidmate beantwoord het. Die AGS

·(SWA-Distrikraad) wil dee41 van hierdie gesprek en latere proses wees.

" Ek hel geen mandaal van die bree AGS of van die AGS (SWA-Distrikkomitee) gehad om gesegregeerde onderwys of voo'r :.onafbanklikheidsprivatisering le ondersteun nie. Ek het wel ,on mandaat gehad om namens die Distrikkomitee die beginsel van geprivatiseerde onderwys te steun.

"Oeur die ondertekening van die Verklaring van Voomeme wou ek uitdrukking gee aan ons gemeenskap se bree steun aan moedertaal-onderrig en 'n Christelike onderwysfilosofie. Dit was al watds. Oppermannamens die IVCOO van ons gevra hel en dit was die enigsle bydrae wat ons ge-

. lewer het. "Die doelstellings van die komitee,

soos dit in die pers weergee is, was nie die indruk wat ek gekry hel in my gesprekke melds. Opperman nie."

* Beweringe oor moordlys ...

STAPPE KOM TEE OUERKOMITE-E-

~: ding te privati seer nie. "Inteendeel, ds. Callie Opperman 'n MAN van Windhoek, mnr. J.R. Gebhardt, het-gister sy prokureur

:. het op 'n ekspli~iete vraag van my I' iristruksies gegee om regstappe teen die Ouerkomitee te neem oor _. Maartl990 as die datum vanprivatis- . beweringe van 'n moordlys van SwapQ. -"".', 1 .

ering genoem. Daarbenewens het <Is. . Dit was 'n ontste1de mm. Gebhardt wat hewig gereageer he( or 'n berig in Opperman ook op 'n eksplisiete vraag 'n Windhoekse dagblad na aanleiding van 'n medlllverklaring deur tlie of spesitieke skole in· die privatis- ' , Ouerkomitee, wat Swapo beskuldig van moordbende-bedrywighede en dat eringplan geidentifiseer is, gese die lede van die Ouerkomitee soos mnr. Philja Nangoloh , mnr. Joseph, mev. Anna sensitiewe punt is oop vir onderhan- Taukondjo en andere op die moordlys is. deling . Mnr. Gebhardt se naam is glo ook op die Iys .

"Die kwessie van spesifieke ge- Mnr.Gebhardt se regsverteenwoordiger, mnr. Hosea Angula, het aan Focus boue wat dade1ik geprivatiseer sopu bevestig dat hy instruksies ontvang het om 'n verduidelikende brief in die word, is nooit genoem nie. Die AGS openbaar te skryf en regstappe teen die Ouerkomitee te neem. is ook nie in kennis gestel dat die Volgensmnr.Angulab<!hoondielyswaamaverwyswordaan 'nvriendv m opstellers van die Verklaring van mnr. Gebhardt. Hy het die Iys van name opgetrek wat hy wou sien voord:u hy Voomeme die voortsetting van 'n naOwambosoureis. Dielys soudienomhom blootte herinnervansyprognrn . ander komitec (byvoorbeeld Cultura) - ,

. is nie . "Daarbenewens het hy ook gese

LEES THE NAMIBI~N FOCUS VIR pllj:.lN NAMIB~- t , L.:t ......... ·' 4 '<


REUSE· BEDRAG GEPRIVATISEER

NAGENOEG 233 Miljoen rand is reeds in die eerste drie maande alreeds privatiseer en is nog in die proses van bewerking voordat dit uit Owerheidsinstellingsfonds binnekort ~erewig vervreemd sal word, aldus die Sekretaris van Finansies, dr. Johan Jones gister.

Hierdie geweldige bed rag verteenwoordig net minder as 'n kwart van die owerheidsinstellingsfonds, watnetoordie een biljoen rand sterk is - meer as die helfde van Namibii! se jaarlikse uitgawe begroting.

Hy het gister by navraag kortliks verduidelik dat die ou statutere instellingsfonds vervang is deur die nuwe owerheidsinstellingsfonds.

Volgens dr. Jones word hierdie fonds de'ur 'n raad van trustees bestuur en deur Sanlam, 'n groot afrikanerversekeringsmaatskappy. op 'n tenderbasis administreer. Die staat het nie meer enige se oor die fonds nie, dit is total uit hul hande.

Dr. Jones het twee redes aangevoer waarom die staat nie verder die fonds kon onderhou nie. Eerstens het hy gese die departement van Finansies het nie die kundigheid gehad om die fonds verder te adminstreer nie. "Die fond~ het te groot geraak", het hy gese en bygevoeg dat dit dus .... . meer gespesialiseerde kennis verei s het' , om meer as een biljoen rand te hanteer. Hy· het gese Sanlam is kundig op daardie gebied en het ondervinding omdat hulle baie sulke fondse reeds hanteer.

Prof. Fanuel Tjingaete het by navraag gese die redes wat aangevoer word is "skoon nonsens" en dat hulle net nie vertroue het in 'n toekomstige regering nie. " Bulle wil nou die geld plaas waar geen regering dit kan bekom nie" her hy bygevoeg. Hy het egter die afwesigheid van 'n kapitaalmark of ander sinvolle belegingsgeleenthede plaaslik blameer vir die rede waarom die land se geld hoofsaaklik Suid Afrika toe uitgedra

word: Tweedens se dr. Jones dit was minder

kostelik vir die staat dat 'n private maatskappy dit administreer, veral in die sin dat dit 'n besparing van R70 000 per jaar beloop. Hy het ook verduidelik dat dit die staat nagenoeg R400 000 per jaar gekos het om die fonds te administreer terwyl hulle nou vir Sanlam R330 000 per jaar betaal om die taak te verrig.

Op 'n vraag of die regeringsamptenare, wiese pensieongeld ook in die privaatadministreerde fonds is, nie die reg het om te eis dat hul geld deur 'n tenvolle staatsbeheerde instelling hanteer moet word, het dr. Jones gese "almal is ten volle ingelig" en dat dit onmoontlik sal wees om enige geld nou daar te onttrek. Hy het verder gese die amptenare het geleentheid tot September aanstaande jaar om die opsie uit te oefen, en vir solank sal die geld in San lam se administrasie bly.

By het ook gese die term privatisering word verkeerdelik gebruik en dat ons eerder moet praat van pensioene word " uitgekontrakteur" . Heelwaarskynlik omdat die term privatisering hewige teenstand veroorsaak. veral uit besorgde kringe.

Verder het dr. Jones ook bevestig dat twee af rikanerversekeringsmaatskappye, Sanlarn en au Mutual sowel as Southern Life die alleenmandaat gegee is om amptenare se pensioene te privatiseer.

Alhoewel die hele privatiseringsgedagte in beginsel onaanvaarbaar is, is dit egter netso onaanvaarbaar dat die maat-' skappy wat die meerderheid van die swartes op versekeringsgebied in hierdie land

verteenwoordig. nie in die proses geken was nie. Die redes waarom Metropolitan Lewens geregverdig is om in die omstrede privatiseringswedloop deelte neem kom nie alleenlik uit sy steun in die swart . gemeenskap nie. maaromdat die meerderheid van die regeringsdiens uit sy polishouer~ bestaan.

Metropolitan Lewens het, vol gens sy taksekretaris in Windhoek, mm. Gertze. 15 000 aftrekorders van regeringsdienspersoneellede en verdere 6 000 bankdebiedorders van staatsamptenare.(Dit sluit getalle van die tuisdiensafdeling uit, wat gister nie beskikbaar was nie}.

Vol gens 'n verkoopsbestuurdervan die maatskappy het mnr. Truter, wat in beheer is van die pensioene. gese hulle doen nie sake met Metropolitan nie. Gisteraand wou mnr. Truter nie enige komentaar daarop lewer nie. Terloops. hy is spesifiek aangestel om "beter weivelde" vir die fonds te soekl

Dr. Jones het Focus meegedeel dat die prestasies en plaaslike belegings van die maatskappye as kriteria gebruik was. 'n Persoon wat al sy versekeringssake met Metropolitan doen. word nou dus onregstreeks gedwing om sy pensioen by die ander maatskappye te privati seer. As die norme nou in aile gemeenskappe dieselfde word. Seker mense voel dat hul versekeringsaangeleenthede net deur een maatskappy hanteer moet word, dus. gun hulle dus die geleentheid om so te maak. Oil is met inagnome dat die hele proses van privatisering nogsteeds onaanvaarbaar is.

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Pasop vir goedkoop versoening VERSOENING, versoenlng, nogmaals versoenlng en naslonale versoenlng ... Hlerdle refreln hoor die Namiblese volk sedert die dae van die uiters ongewilde Oorgangsregerlng, wat op die mense van die land afgedwlng is. Noudat die Internaslonale sklkplan op I April toegepas is, is die woord weer opgediep, blink gevryf en vreesllk In die mode. . Ek het niks teen versoenlng per se nie, want konflik, oorlog en 'n gesindheid van vyandigheld, wat berekenend deur die argitekte en boumeesters van apartheid tussen die verskillende etniese groepe en rasse Ingemessells, is ulters haatlik.Dle fenomenale skade watditdle Namlblese volk aangedoen het, kan nle in syfers omgereken word nle. As Christen is en was ek 'n groot voorstaander van versoenlng en het kolomme op kolomme daaroor geskryf, gepredlk en uitgeleef. Maar ons moet darem nle die woord versoening afwater en 'n versoeningsprogram aan die gang kry wat tot die punt van absurditeit gevoer word nle. Praktiese pogings om versoenlng word reeds In Namible aangepak en hier help Untag taamlik. Op Otjlwarongo, Bethanle en Rehoboth het mense van die onderskele gemeenskappe byeengekom om die warm antagonistiese gevoelens te probeer afplat. Ek glo dat Swapo-Ielers opreg is met hul uitsprake van versoenlng, maar versigtigheid moet aan die dag gele word, want gou (en dis al klaar bewys) sal mense kanse wil vat en die breekbare vrede ontwrig deur regse poglngs om wit eksklusiwitelt en ekonomiese beheermag te wll behou en voortslt. Die President van Swapo, mnr. Sam Nujoma, praat reeds van jare terug oor versoenlng en versoek die wlttes om nli onafhankllkheid in die land aan te bly. Tydens die verkiesings het hy die boodskap van verhoog tot verhoog herhaal. Selfs nou nog word hierdie snaar getokkel. 'n Mens moet egter die regte fliosofle agter versoenlng verstaan om te besef dat hierdie mool Ideaal aileen berelk kan word indien sekere elemente van versoening bevredig word. Die Amerlkaanse burgerregte-Ieier Cone het die volgende te se gehad oor versoenlng: "The difficulty Is not with the reconciliation, forgiveness question itself, but with the people asking it. .. they who are reponslble for the dividing walls of hostility; racism and hatred want to know whether the victims are ready to forgive and forget without changing the balance of power." Die Duitse flIosoof, Bonnhoeffer, was ook die menlng toegedaan dat versoenlng gepaard moe. gaan met 'n bekerlng aan die kant van die partye wat In die v.erlede krimineel opgetree het. Ek het per geleentheld toe ek met die huidlge leler van ACN In die Grondwetgewende Vergadering, mnr.Jan de Wet, 'n onderhoud gevoer het, hom aangespoor om in die openbaar,as leler van die wlttes in Namlble te bely en berou en spyt te betuig oor die verkeerde van wlttes oor die jare. Apartheid Is die grootste mlsdaad teen die mensdom, slaan die dlepste en seerste omdat dit juls die menswaardlgheid van die swartman totaal misken. Selfs diere het en kry nog vandag beter behandellng as die swartman aan die hand van sommige wittes. Om van versoening te praat terwyl die reg nagelaat word, sal geen regerlng help nie. Om van versoening te praat terwyl instrumente van kolonlaliste steeds In duisende rande rol en oor groot hope rykdom beskik en die mense wat opofferlngs In die stryd gemaak het werkloos op die strate met honger mae sit, kan ons in die nabye toekoms vlnnig inhaal. Om van naslonale versoening te praat en die Afrikaner-Broederbond sien dltas 'n gaping om wit skole, wit kerke, wit hospitale en wit klinleke in 'n onafhankllke Namlble voort te sit, kan 'n tydbom word wat groot vernlet1ging aan mooi drome kan meebring. Om van nasionale versoening te praat en die Afrikaner-Broederbond sien dlt as 'n gaping om wit skole, wit kerke, wit hospitale en wit kUnieke In 'n onafhankllke Namlbie voort te sit, kan 'n tydbom word wat groot verniet1ging aan mooi drome kan meebrlng. Om van nasionale versoening te praat terwyl boere op die menige plase In die land steeds hul werkers R60 per maand betaal, maak die woord die grootste klug. Om van versoenlng te praat terwyl daar nle op gelyke voet gestaan word nie en mag steeds stewig in die han de van 'n paar bevoorregtes is, Is om bewustellk 'n gevaarllke virus in jou boesem rond te dra. Bolangse versoening, waar daar nie hard, reguit en eerllk met mekaar gepraat word nle, sal Namibie se toekoms ondergrawe. Ons het alles behalwe goedkoop versoenlng nodlg. Moenle dat 'n tweede Interkerklike Verenlglng vir Christelike Opvoeding en Onderwys, met watter gedaante ookal, weer kop uitsteek nie!

• Prys van apartheid ...

Verbruikers begin voel DIE mense van Namibie moet nie dink dat die huidige tekort aan verbruikersgoedere in die land deur die oorgang na 'n doelftreffende swart meerderheidsregering veroorsaak word nie.

Die politiek van Namlbie het min daannee uit te waai aangesien dit die gevolg is van die kwaai stryd tussen werknemers en werkgewers in Suid-Afrika is .

Yoigens 'n verklaring deur mnT. Pieter Slabber. hoofbestuurder van Sentra-stores in Windhoek, is verskeie verbruikersgoedere nie op wi04elrakke te kry is nie weens die stakings wat die afgelope vier maande in SA groot amok maak.

Yolgens hom kan die rede ook nie by die handelaars gesoek word nie. maar moet toegeskryf word aan die feit dat die fabrieke in SA in die greep van arbeidsonrus vasgevang is. >6

Behalwe die stakings by fabrieke. begin die landwye staking van spoorwegwerkers in SA sy tol cis. Groot vertraging in aflewering van produkte word ondervind.


Ope brief aan die Moderator van die Nederduits-Gerefonneerde (NG) Kerk in Namibie, Ds. Kobus de Klerk.

1. Oit is nie met verbasing dat ek die afrikaanse Kerke se jonste stappe tot versteweging en voortsetting van hul basiese lewensuitkyk, naamlik die eksklusiwiteit van die afrikaner, en ook andere wat op hul beurt in die' 'voorregte" van die eksklusiwiteit wil deel, aangehoor het nie.

FOCUS on letters /briewe / eembilive die mense bevredig. As jy 'n mens vir die mense is, dan sal almal na jou toe 'Stroom, maar as jy ' n mens is vir jou eie belange is , dan moet jy maar vergeet.

2. Truuens, toe die afrikaner nog vasgevang was in die greep van die destydse "arm-blanke milieu, het hy ten spyte van sy armoede, geloofin die Ware God beoefen en tereg sy kop opgelig en die lang pad tot selfverwesenliking op sosio-ekonomiese, politieke en elke ganse terrein van sy bestaan aangepak.

3. Soos hierdie strewes vervul is, het 'n gees van selfverhewenheid in hom posgevat. 'n Super-afrikaner beeld is soos ' n kombers oor die yolk versprei, daama doelbewus opgebou en voorgehou in Kerk, skool en huis. Dit het 'n ineengestrengelde deel van die afrikanerdenkwyse gevorm en op verskeie wyses na buite geopenbaar.

4. Andervolkere watookdiepad van verhewendheid voor die bestaan van die afrikaner gevolg het, se uiteinde het nie die afrikaner weerhou om soos hulle, steeds die gekose weg te volg nie en, soos hulle, uiteindelik by die "Groot Hond, Baasskap en Ekslusiwiteit", noem dit soos jy verkies, gebring.

5. Vanself~prekend het die gees van baasskap geIei tot waar elke ander groep of persoon vera! die swart- en bruinman, aan die mees onchristelike staatsvervolging , vernedering, pyn en leiding denkbaar onderwerp is.

6. ill: glo vas en die bewyse is daar vir almal om te sien, dat die Ware God, (eenmaal wei gevolg deur die "arm afrikaner") die duisende gebede, versugtinge en hulpgeroep van die ellendiges, verdruktes en vervolgdes wat diep uit die hart na bo geklim het, gehoor en verhoor het tot waar Hy sy regterhand uitgesteek en verlossing gegee het.

7. Al die slegseery, verdaagmakery, kon die verdruktes nie van 'n oorwinning beroof nie. Verby is vir hulle die dae toe hul geliefdes wat in hul ~tryd ·gesneuwel het soos vervloektes op Kaspirs op onmenslike wyse vertoon is sonder dat een stem van teenstand deur enige kerkman van die drie afrikaanse kerke gehoor is.

8. Die voorbeeld van die Iyke op die Kaspirs wordjuis uitgebeeld, omdat na my mening dit die logiese kulminasie is van die eksklusiewe en verhewe lewenswyse wat deel vonn van die tot dusver regerende afrikaner.

9. Waar geen respek vir die dooie is nie, is ook geen eerbied vir die lewende nie, hy is juis 'n vertoonde lyk omdat daar geen eerbied vir lewe is nie. Al mal wat die "baasskap" teenstaan moet uitgewus en stilgem~ word as hulle hulle nie dan wil onderwerp nie!

10. Bogestelde siening is deur belewenisse en gebeurtenisse wat ek oor die afgelope 40 jaar as lidmaat van die N.G.Kerk moes beleef en voor my oe sien ontvou het.

11. Daarom dus, geen verbassing oor die jongste skuif om die status quo van eksklusiwiteit te behou en te verskans

nie. 12. Hoe die eksklusiewe en verhewe

beeld en siening rym met die woorde van die Meester: "Hy wal onder julle die grootste wil wees moet die geringste wees" en "Hieraan sal die wereld weet datjulle my volgelingeis, datjulle mekaar liefhet" , is moeilik te verstaan.

13. NOli onstaan die volgende klomp vrae by my.

13.1 lndien die motiewe om eie privaat skole daar te stel uit suiwer motiewe voortgespruit h<;t, is die gevolge wat die ontneming van die groot aantal skole as · staatsskole vir die gemee05kappe waarvoor hulle beplan en opgerig is; in ag geneem?

13.2 Watter alternatiewe fasiliteite sou die Administrateur-generaal

daargestel het om voorsiening te maak vir daardie ouers se kinders wat nie die hoe koste van die privaatskole en of koshuise sou kon bekostig nie, of wie se kinders nie sou kwalifiseer om in die privaatskool opgeneem te word en weggewys sou word en desnoods aangewese sou wees op die volgende naaste staats.kool, maak nie saak hoe ver daardie skool van sy woning gelee sou wees nie.

13.3 Aan hoeveel swart kinders sal moedertaal onderrig verskaf word en in welke tale? Of sal die "moedertaal" beperk wees' tot Afrikaans?

13.4 Om welke redes moes u die ekslusiewe reg gehad het om aIleen aansoek te doen om staatskole te verhuuroftekoop. Wat van ander kerk en ander instansies wat ook van die voorreg gebruik sou wou gemaak het?

13.5 Was die hele plan nie 'n selfsugtige oefening nie?

Vriendelike groete. E.R.Liiff

Ek is op die 09-12-1969 tot 'n gewoonde misdadiger verklaar met onder andere 'n onbepaalde vonnis. Onder daardie Wet, waaronder ek gevonnis was, Wet 5(jvan lOSS was dit9 -15jaar tronkstraf.

Op die agste j aar van die 9 - 15 jaar gevangenisstraf, dit wil se in 1977, Junie 30, word ek meegedeel dat ek moet vergeet van die ou straf, want daar is nou 'n nuwe Wet wat ingetree het met 'n nuwe straf. Oie nuwe wet was Wet 51 van 1977 met 'n wysigde tronkstrafvan 7 - 15 jaar.

Ek was nog nooit deurenige hofso 'n gevangenisstraf opgele nie. Die gevangeniswese het my gedwing om die straf uit te dien.

Oit kom ook nerens op my misdaadrekord dat ek onder die nuwe Wet 51 van 1977 'n onbepaalde vonnis opgele was nie.

Die detde keer word ek op 31 Julie 1987 vertel dat die straf gedraai het na sewe jaar minimum. Hierdie sewe jaar minimum is deur die kabinet van die destydse oorgangsregering opgestel en op my uitgevoer en dit is die straf waarmee ek nou worste!.

Vir een misdaad wat ek in die jaar 1969 gepleeg het, moet ek nou drie

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(onbepaalde) verskillende vonisse uitdien! Slegs een keer was e:k deur die hof gevonnis, die ander twee Kere is ek deur die gevangeniswese gevonnis.

Vol gens my, het die gevangeniswese geen reg om die vonnis wat ek deur 'n hof opgele was, te wysig of by 'n nuwe wetgewing in te Iyf nie. Daarom beskou ek my straf as onderdrukking, korrupsie, vervalsing van straf en slawe aanhouding. Elke keer se die gevangenisraad vir my, "Jong, jou straf het gedraai, dit loop nie meer so nie, maar so".

Wat hetdan geword van diestrafwat die hof my in die eerste plek opgele het? Waarom was ek nooit toegelaat om my straf uit te dien soos wat die hof dit vir my opgele het nie?Waarom plaas die gevangenis dubbelle standaarde toe? Moet ek nou twee verskillende strawe uitdien ooreen misdaad? Strawe wat ek nie deur die hof opgele is nie.

My lewe is gesteel deur die gevangeniswese onder leiding van die AG en as ek dit praat, dan word ek vervolg.

Ek is 'n Swapo ondersteuner en berus my ten volle by die beleid van my organisasie. Ek het ook niemand wat my kan help nie, daarom skryf ek na die Namibian.

Vandat Wet 51 van 1977 in werking getree het, word ek as 'n slaaf van die Windhoek gevangenis aangehou.

Ek is op die oomblik op parool vir drie jaar vrygelaat onder wet 51 van 1977 omdat die gevangenis my die DTA se onbepaalde straf opgele het -die minimum sewe jaar. Daar is egter geen lasbrief wat dit kan bekragtig nie en dit verskyn ook nie op my rekord nie.

Asseblief, help my tog met regshulp. Die gevangenis moes my in 1977

onvoorwaardelik vrygelaat het, toe Wet 56 van 1955 geskrapis,omdatdaar geen verdere lasbrief -vir inhegtenisname onder die nuwe Wet 51 van 1977

was nie. Net die hof het die reg om 'n vonnis te wysig of op te Ie, nie die gevangenis nie!

lndien hulle dit doen, dan is dit mos 'n misdaad wat hulle pleeg, want hulle neem die gereg in hulle eie hande.

As die wet hulle dus toelaat om dit te ,doen, dan is hulle mos ook geregtig om die doodsvonnis op te Ie en te volstrek.

Die gevangenis is nou besig om my teen die polisie op te steek, sodat ek by die hof skuldig bevind kan word en hierdie onwettige parool waarmee hulle my gelos het, kan verlooren weer onwettig vir drie jaar weggebere kan word. •

Ek vra weereens vir regshulp. Ek sal self terugbetaal as ek vrygelaat word en fondse ion die hande kry.

Vra tog vir Adv. Louis Pienaar waarom die toestande in sy tronke so is? Hoekom word daar slawe aangehou terwyl die wet nie so se nie.

My gevagenis nommer is: 1736/84, Dennis Saayman.

Help my tog asseblief!

005 voel tuis om in onafhanklik Natnibie te bly onder die leiding van Swapo.

Swapo is die menseen die mense van Namibie is Swapo. Hierdie is a statiese feit. 005 wat die Namibiane is, is trots om in Narnibie te bly onder die regering vanSwapo.

Ek is maar jammer vir die man wat nou die dag in die Radio van Nasionale . diens geprat het en gese " AI wat die swartes ken is net om ver Swapo te stem. Wat het Sam Nujoma wat laat al die swartes agter .hom hardloop?" Liewe broer, dit gaan nie om kopery sodat die mense jou moet volg nie, maar dit gaan om die waarheid en mense se regte. Dit maak nie saak of hy iets besit of nie. Die Namibiane het die Organisasie gekies ' wat die regte van

Julie het kans gehad om hierdie Namibie te regeer, maar al wat julle vir ons gebring het is net dood, verval en agteruitgang van die bevolking. Julie het die mense van Namibie gekolonialiseer. Daar is geen rede hoekom julie nog hier moet staan en probeer mense omkoop nie.

Nou eers skrik julie wakker, omdat julle gesien het dat die regte leiers die trone oorgeneem het. Genoeg is genoeg, ons wil niks meer oor julie se kommentaar hoor nie.

Julie het die regering in julle se hande gehad, maar jul eie belange hel daarin geslaag. Julle het nie na mense se behoeftes gekyk nie. Ons mense was roekeloos as gevolg van armoede. Ons mense was lafhaarte as gevolg van apartheid.

Nou, vandag streef ons nou na 'n nuwe Namibie.

Ons is nou uit die land waar ons geween en getreur.

Down Apartheid!! Namibie is die land vir die me05e, die

land vir hulle wat omgee. Viva Swapo! 005 is trots om Sam Nujoma die President van Namibia Ie sien.

Long live Sam Nujoma! Liewe Namibiane kom laat ons die

land opbou. Gei.kryf deur G. City Moses van

Rundu Senior.

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VIENNA - The Warsaw Pact presented a draft treaty forreducing conventional forces in Europe (CFE), beating NATO's version by a few hours. In Brussels, NATO foreign ministers said they had agreed on their draft treaty and it would be tabled later in the day. NATO wants a CFE treaty signed by the end of next year.

PEKING - China and the Soviet Union are planning high-level talks next week which diplomats expect will tackle their shifting relations with Washington and a brewing ideological row over the demise of communism in eastern Europe. Diplomats said the meeting in Peking could provide the first oppon unity for substantive talks between the two communist giants on the historic changes sweeping eastern Europe.

PRAGUE - Czechoslovakia's new president will be chosen by parliament and not by a nationwide vote, according to a deal struck between communist pany leaders and the civic forum opposition.

Gustav Husak, the hardline president installed in the wake of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion, resigned on Sunday and the Czechoslovak constitution says parliament must choose a new head of state within 14 days of the post becoming vacant.

BELGRADE - Serbia, Yugoslavia 's biggest republic, looked increasingly isolated in resisting democratic changes in the communist world after Croatia joined Slovenia in supporting free multi-party elections.

MANILA - Attackers used grenade launchers to blas t the home of a U.S. diplomat and an American embassy housing complex in the Philippine capital, police said. A Filipino carpenter was wounded. The blasts hit Manila the day after defence secretary Fidel Ramos warned that army rebels who staged this month's coup attempt could launch a series of "terrorist attacks."

HONG KONG - A Vietnamese man locked up in a Hong Kong detention centre tried to hang himself while

SATURDAY night's feature mm, 'Mercy or Murder?', stars Robert Young in this pOwerful, true story based on the celebrated and controversial case of Roswell Gilber, a senior citizen who took the life of his terminally ill wife and was later tried and convicted of murder. On at 20h25.

WEEKEND'S TELEVISION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15

22h20: Spenser for Hire 23h06: Dolly Parton 23h52: Epilogue

17h58: Programme Schedule 18hOO: Weet J y Nle SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 18h07: Alvin and the Chipmunks 18h15: Mysterious Cities of Gold 16hOO: Programrooster 18h43: Educational Programmes 16h03: Educational Programmes

" Let Me See: Ants and "With Patsy at St Worms" Vincent" " Maths for beginners: "Manufacturing Games: Addition" Stockings"

19h10: McGyver "Parents Prepare: Music 20hOO: Suidwes-n uusIW eerberig and the Pre-Primary 20h27: Feature Film Child"

"Hot Shot Sports Movie" "Science Topics: Electro-22hOO: NewslWeather Report Magnetic Spectrum" 22h20: Sport 17hOO: Programrooster 23h20: The Forum Presents: 17h02: The Arabians (New)

"Tavares" 23h08: Dagslulting

17h27: Soekl1g op 435 (Herhallng) 17h47L Wild Country

I SATURDAY,. DECEMBER 16 18h17: Beyond 2000 19h03: Food for Faith 10hl5: Charls!

17h58: Programrooster 19h30: Christen Forum 18hOO: Children's Bible 20hOO: Nuusoorslg 18h05: Miena, Moe & Kie 20h20: The Scheme of Things 18h15: New Generations (Final)

"Rev it UplFreeway" 20h48: Feature Film 18h39: Spurt "Apache Fire" 19h05: Mach I 21h33: Gloria 19h36: Hooperman 22hOO: NuuslWeerberlg 20hOO: Soeklig op 435 22h20: Educational Programme 20hlO: Feature Film "Pregnancy: Caring for

"Mercy or Murder?" your Baby" 21h42: Filler 23h08: Perspektief 22hOO: NuuslWeerberig

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thousands of fellow inmates in camps throughout Hong Kong demonstrated against repatriation, the government said. The protests have escalated in the two days since Hong Kong started deponing boat people it views as illegal immigrants back to Vietnam.

DZAOUDZl,MAYOITEISLANDMercenary leader Bob Denard said he and his comrades would leave the Comoro Islands in a day or so if they were permitted an honourable exit with a ceremonial han'dover to French officers . Denard, whose men seized control of the Indian Ocean islands after the killing of President Ahmed Abdallah on November 26, said in the Comoros' capital Moroni that the mercenaries should not face criminal proceedings. As a French naval task force cruised off the former colony, Denard made itclearhe and his 30 comrades did not intend to skulk away furtively .

TUNIS - The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) condemned an attack on Syrian soldiers in south Lebanon and said it was trying to find out who was responsible. Security sources in the southern town of Sidon said fighters from Fatah, the main PLO group, opened fire on Syrian soldiers manning a checkpoint. At least 13 people were killed am 19 wounded in the clashes, the sources said.

JERUSALEM - Israel's central bank chief ignited controversy by calling for cuts in the country's massive defence spending, citing evidence that Syria and Jordan had reduced their military outlays. Defence officials retoned that it was too early to judge and demanded an extra 150 million dollars next year to cover the cost of fighting the Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

PARIS - Li bya has cut shipping and communications links with France in s surprise move reflecting worsening political relations, the French foreign ministry said.

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NEW APPROACH FOR VINTAGE WINE

DISTRI BUTION IN A UNIQUE scheme, Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery is releasing a limited selection of its top vintage red wines which have now reached their optimum drinking age.

Under this scheme, which is not designed to compete with auctions or any other vehicle for obtaining red wines, the wines will not be sold by tender but rather at set prices to retailers, restauranteurs and hoteliers.

The wines, which will be priced at \Ulder R30 a bottle, will be released annually.

Once the wines have been sold out, no further wines will be released \Ultil the following year.

Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery has also said that it is "aiming for equitable distribution" , meaning that the wines will be available in the major centres of South Africa and Namibia.

The first release of the company's Reserve Cellar Wines will include limited quantities of the 1979, 1980 and 1981 vintages of Zonnenblom Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Pinotage, and 1980 and 1981 vintages of Chateau Libertas.

TODAY'S WEATHER THE Weather Bureau's detailed forecast for the rest of today for Namibia:

• Hot but very hot in the north. It will be cooler in the south today_ Isolated thundershowers can be expected over the Caprivi and extreme north-eastern areas. Coast, cool with fog overnight but fine in the south. Wind, moderate south-westerly but fresh southerly in the south.

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continued from page 11 I sustained effort to support fami

lies everywhere in using new knowledge about the importance of timing births, about exclusive breast-feeding for the fIrst few months of life, and about how to actively promote a child's nutritional health, could transform the well-being of millions of children in the decade ahead".

OUTBREAK OF PEACE

Pointing out that military spending has been cut or frozen in the United States, USSR, China, India and Pakistan, and that there are now fewer wars being fought than at any time in the last 50 years, Grant believes that an outbreak of peace could reJRsent an oppornmity for the world's children.

The sums involved are so huge -with the world's military spending now exceeding the combined incomes of half of humanity - that even a partial escape from today' s levels of military spending could bring new vistas of human achievement suddenly nearer. ,. Assuming some progress in resolving the debt crisis," says Grant,.' 'then even a 5 per cent or I 0 per cent diversion of military spending could provide an additional 50 billion dollars or so each year which is needed to end absolute poverty on the planet within the next ten years, enabling people everywhere to meet their own and their children's needs for food, water, health care and education' , .

"It is Unicef's concern to argue," says the report, "that the needs of children should become the new preoccupation as our world struggles free from its long and wasteful preoccupation with war."

The moral argument for this 'new preoccupation' is an obvious one.

"Every single one of the 40 000 children who die each day," says Unicef, • 'was a child who had a personality and a potential, a family and a future. And for every child who has died today, several more are living on with malnutrition l\lld ill health, unable to fulm the mental and physical potential with which they were born".

"Death and suffering on this scale," states Grant, "is simply no longer necessary. It is therefore no longer acceptable. Morality must march with capacity."

But there is also a practical argument. The long-term consequences are well-known says· the State of the World's Children report:

* malnutrition means poor physical and mental growth, poor performance at school and at work, and the perpetuation of poverty from one generation to the next;

* high child death rates mean high birth rates and rapid population growth;

* lack of education precludes people

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from contributing fully to, or benefItting fully from, the development of their communities and their nations;

* hopelessness and the denial of opportunity erode self-respect and sow the seeds of almost insoluble social problems for future genera- . tions;

* entrenched injustices, and the parading of unattainable wealth before the eyes of poverty, provoke an instability and violence which often take on a life of their own;

* deprivation precludes environmental sensitivity, forcing millions to over-exploit their surroundings in the name of survival.

For these practical and long term reasons:Unicef concludes that a major renewal of effort to protect the lives and the developmmt of children would be • 'the greatest long-term investment which the human race could make in its future economic prosperity, political stability, and environmental integrity".

GELDING WINS KIM HUGHES HANDICAP

THE four-year-old Gelding Pass The Line ran a gallant race for victory in the R28 000 Kim Hughes handicap, run over 2000 metres at Clairwood Park Racecourse yesterday. Carrying a hefty 59,5kg, Pass the Line made all the running then fought on gamely in the rwish when challenged by favourite Olden Times to win by a head. Pass the Line moved over from his outside stall to take the lead soon after the start with Dei Tem pestad moving into second place ahead of Classic Lady and Olden Times. This order remained the same into the home straight where Pass the Line first shook off a raced last, came through in the staright to take third place ahead of Morning Drive.

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furt take on Bocr ' ~m, while Leverkusen face what should be the easiest of the three matches against next-to-bottom Homburg.

Bayem and Frankfurt have, however, looked more impressive this season than Leverkusen.

Benfica maintained their challenge in the Portuguese league on Wednes-

day night when a hat-trick by striker Vata Garcia helped them to a 5-1 win over Setubal.

The victory helped the champions maintain third place, one point behind leaders Porto who have 19. Secondplaced Guimaraes are also on 19 points but have played and extra match.

Benfica and Porto both face easy matches at home this weekend against lowly Madeira and Feirense.

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ITALY'S brightest young striking star, Roberto Baggio, is the subject of growing conjecture as the Italian league transfer merry-go-round gathers pace with barely half the season gone.

Baggio, Fiorentina's creative inspi. ration and the country's joint leading sco.rer with eight goals, has told club o.fficials he wants to move to one of the

top clubs next season if the team continues to languish near the bottom of the table.

"Either Fiorentina' s manager build

SOCCER SAFARI

BY CONRAD ANGULA

NON-RACIAL SPORTS IN SIGHT

and the "white" Sports Council's days are numbered

WITH the historical multi-racial meeting of sports persons, addressed by Mr Buddy Wentworth - a Swapo member of the Constituent A~sembly - at the Roman Catholic Church Hall in Khomasdal on Wednesday, Namibian sport is slowly moving towards forming one sports controlling body only. There will be difficulties, .howeyer, Mr Keith Allies, national organizer of Nanru, stressed to The Namibian. "We will have to sit down and draw up a constitution that wil1 ~e acceptable to the majority of the people," he said. If the idea to form a non-racial spOrtS council ever 'comes to. fruition, Namibian sport will, for the first time in its history, be controlled by,a single body that will operate in the interes~ of everyoqe involved. And all sportS, persons will be abl~ t9 loo.k forward to 'a healthy and entertaining time playing their spOrt. . Black Namibians have been taken for a ride in the past, but will benefit together with their white fellow Namibians in the future. The standard of black sports -except soccer'and rugby to an e~tent - has deteriorated drastically and this condition is also caused by the fact that there are many types of sport played in the white towns in which blacks do not participate. "The apartheid laws that were implanted on us and prevented us from using the better sports facilities in the white surburbs - that were built with the government's money - will disappear once and for all in the not-so-distant future, and we will also be able to use the facilities that were built with our tax money," said a top Otjiwarongo tennis player. The tennis players of Orwetoveni, the black township of Otjiwarongo, have to play their game on a gravel court. "There are no standard facilities for the blacks, so we have to battle it out on the ground, for the love of the sport," said the furious player. Mr Wim Lotter, director of the SW AlNamibia Sports Council, when approached to comment on. the initiative to form a non-racial sports council, said he was not approached by the people involved. "So I don't really know what their motives and intentions are," he stressed. "We (the SC) are a very big body with SS controlling bodies, and are not feeling affected by the idea. But ifthey want to invite us for talks, we will certainly accept their move but I am really in the dark as I don't really understand their initiative," Mr Lotter said. Hopefully soccer, being the most powerful sport in the country -like everywhere else in the world - will gain its rightful place ' as the '~people's sport", and get all the credit it deserves from the still-to-be- , launched sport body. Soccer, with all the support it enjoys is undoubtedlY the most neglected sport in the country, .and it cannot even boast it .. own stadium . . Meanwhile, Mr Hendrick Christ.ia~ns, deputy PR 0 of the NNSL, told The Namibian Sport that NSF, NNSL, ASA and CNFA - the existing soccer controlling bodies - should try and sort out their differences before going on holiday in order. to reach. a compromise' on their unproductive unity talks.

up a side able to take the title or I shall find a team who can ... potentially Fiorentina could be among the league leaders, " Baggio told reporters.

"I'm not interested in the UEFA competition or the Italian Cup. Fiorentina should be fighting to win the league. "

Baggio said the uncertainty about his future had affected his performances recentl y. "I'm still at ease and the nerv-0usness is affecting my game. It's bad for me and bad for the team"

In response to suggestions that his agent was already negotiating a deal with AC Milan, he said: "I don ' t know whether that ' s true, but it could be."

Elsewhere, numerous other clubs are already falling over themselves to strengthen their squads for 1990.

Apart from Baggio, one of Napoli's two Brazilians, Alemo.a, is reported to heading for Sampdoria and may be replaced by his international colleague Bebeto, a player highly recommended by Argentine World Cup captain Diego Maradona.

Baggio will have a good chance to display his talents when Fiorentina play second-placed Internazionale ori Sunday, the weekend 's m'ain attraction aside from AC Milan 's televised appearance in the World Cluli Championship in Tokyo earlier in the day.

Inter 'fans are hoping for the longawaited return of West German captain and mid-field dynamo. Lo.th~ Mat- ' theus, missing for six 'weeks with an . ankle injury.

Spanish league leaders Real Madrid, in majestic form at home, will be looking for similar fireworks in their away clash against Logrones, a side they have comfortably beaten in the past two

seasons. Second-placed Barcelona also play

away in Malaga where they have not lost in 12 seasons.

PS V Eindhoven should have little trouble in disposing bottom-of-thetable Haarlem at home tomorrow.

Thew Dutch champions have striker Wim Kieft under treatment but he is expected to. recover to resume his prolific partnership with the Brazilian Romario.

PS V are a point behind joint leaders Ajax Amsterdam and Volendam with two games in hand, but may not be able to close the gap this weekend as Ajax should also pick up two Po.ints at home to lowly NEC Nijmegen.

The struggle between Bordeaux and Marseille at the top of the Frenck league comes to a temporary halt on Sunday when French clubs play their last games befo.re the six-week winter break,

Top of the table with 34 points, three ahead of Marseille, Bordeaux should celebrate the New Year with a victory, as they play host to middle-of-the-table Lille.

Marseille also look set for a comfortable afternoon against bottom-placed Nice. Along with their rivals , they will resume after the break on Febraury 4.

The West German league lies dormant until Febraury 24 after this weekend, which sees joint ·Ieaders Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt and ,Bayer Leverkusen making a final bid to estab· lish a temporary advantage over their ·riyals . '

Bayem meet Karlsruhe .and Fran~-

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Friday December 113 1989 23

.. FIRST THREE ,GROUP~ - PREVIEW

GROUP A (Playing in Rome and

Florence)

ITALY - The hosts have shown mixed form in friendly matches and coach Azeglio Vicini cannot be too reassured. They are strong at the back but far from lethal in attack.

AUSTRIA - Tony Polster signalled his pursuit of the Golden Boot award in Italy with a hat-trick in Austria's final qualifying win over East Germany.

CZECHOSLOV AKlA - The Czechs, runners-up in 1934 and 1962, are in the finals for the first time in 24 years but they look short on firework.

UNITED STATES - As hosts for the 1994 World Cup, the Americans badly needed to qualify and only just made it.

GROUPB (Playing in Naples and Bari)

ARGENTINA Diego Maradona will be delighted the holders are based in his adopted home town of Naples . Much will hinge on Maradona's fitness though Jorge Valdano' s comeback with Real Madrid after retiring in 1987 is a big boost.

SOVIET UNION - The solid base which helped the Soviets to the European Championship final is still there and the team has grown in confidence over the last three years.

RUMANIA - In the finals for the first time since 1970, the Rumanians are quick and skilful as they proved in the shock dismissal of Denmark.

CAMEROON - All the way from Africa A surprise in 1982 when they were unbeaten in their three group games, Cameroon should benefit from the European experience of their top players.

GROUPC (Playing in Turin and Genoa)

BRAZil. - The South American champion have gone • 'European", introducing a sweeper system. They look balanced and dangerous as they pursue their fourth title.

SCOTLAND - The Scots struggled through their three final qualifying games before getting the point they need to reach their fifth consecutive place in the finals. They have never sl)rvived the opening groups section.

SWEDEN - They pipped England to win their-qualifying group and reach their first finals

: s~nce 1978. , '

"I think that the soccer administtatorsshould 'solve this 'l'lligging problem and enter the new year with one soccer cQntrolil1g bQdy a~.a Christmas bonus tathe hundreds of soccer-loving people oilHherej" he said. "We owe itto our fans. and players, and ,should ,stop fooling ;' ourselves as it.'Yi!1 only, be s,9.cce_r that will !>e ~~e loser;,!' ~r Christlaans :~ added.

, , " Eindhov.en striking star; ROniario, is one of' .' CO~T A RIt:A - Ih t~e n~als the 'most pr'olif'ic' goal-scorers' iii the' butch League. N for the first lime: -

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YESTERDAY'S HEROES

FULL NAME: Oscar Konguavi Mengo. NICKNAME: Silver Fox. FORMER CLUB: African Stars. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Okahandja, April 14, 1956. JERSEY NUMBER: Number 10. POSITIONS: Striker-cum-mid-fielder. OTHER FAVOURITE CLUB: I fancied Black Africa for their splendid blend of football. I consider the BA squad of the seventies as one of the most entertaining ever. CHILDHOOD FAVOURITE CLUB: I always had a great admiration for African Stars. FAVOURITE PLAYER: So many but I will always take my head off for former Black Africa's mid-field masetro Albert 'Boetie' Louw. It will be unfair to the guy not to lable him as one of the finest mid-fielders Namibia has ever produced. TOUGHEST OPPONEN,T: Spokes Tibinyane, former Black Africa's star defender. WHEN STARTED TO PLAY: I started to play organised soccer as a striker with the now-disbanded Flames FC in 1969. MOST MEMORABLE MATCH: I will never forget the 1984 Mainstay Cup final at the Windhoek Stadium when I scored the only goal of the tie against traditional rivals Blue Waters to win the cup for Stars. BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: When Stars lost to Orlando Pirates during a semi-final tie of a tournament at Tsumeb in 1975. I had to leave the field through injury. BEST GOALKEEPER: Former Namib Woestyn Eddy, he was one of the bravest and most reliable keeper in the game. BEST STRIKER: I regard Pius Garincha Eigowab - also known as Pele - the fonnerBlack Africa and Kaizer Chiefs (SA) striker, as the hottest of all time. He was one of the deadliest and polished shooters a striker in his own class. CURRENT FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL PLAYER: The Argentine and Napoli international star, Diego Maradona. Macadona is absolutely superb and gifted with a brilliant left-foot. HOBBIES: To relax at home with my family and watching a good video movie. INFWENCE ON CAREER: Stars official and senior radio announcer, Kuiri Kahorongo. DISUKES: To see young players drunk in the streets and bad refereeing. BEST FRIENDS: Blue Waters stalwart Ranga Lucas and I regard anyone who is friendly to me as my friend. EMPLOYMENT: Senior Clerk with the SWABC. AMBITIONS: To become a professional and intemationaly recognised coach. FAVOURITE GROUP: SA·baqanga group, the Soul Brothers. CAR: Mercedez Benz. HONOURS: Too many to mention as I have won every available award in Namibian football. PERSON WISHING TO MEET IN THE WORLD: Former undisputed world heavyweight champion, Mohammed Ali. He is the most polished boxer this world has ever produced.

FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

14EWS - READ THE NAMIBIAN

TH,E NAMIBIAN

MEMBERS of the steering commit~ee of the new Namibian National Sport Council.

NEW SPORTS COUNCIL FOR

NAMIBIA? BY SARA BLECHER

A STEERING committee was elected yesterday at a meeting of 15 non-racial sporting unions to draw up a constitution for a new sport council.

prepared to act as mediator between the different councils if it was "in the interests of sport in Namibia".

The new constitution is to be presented at a meeting in three weeks time, and will form the fOlmdation on which a new national Sport Council will be established.

Currently, national recognition has been bestowed upon the SW A Sports Council and its 55 controlling bodies which include the SWA Tennis Association and the SW A Parachute Association.

Both of these bodies have constitutions which limit their membership to whites only.

But with N ami bia 's independence just around the comer, the new Sport Union, which will adhere to the internationally-recognised sport code of non-racialism, is an attempt to create an alternative to the SWA Sport Council (which has over the years been accused of racism).

Representatives of the non-racial unions, many of whom have been fighting the racial policies of the SW A Sport Council for years, also adopted a motion that called for the abolition of all sport links with South Africa.

Opening the meeting, Mr Buddy Wentworth, a Swapo delegate to the Constituent Assembly, said that he considered this meeting as one of "the most promising proofs of commitment to the formation of one national sport body".

He said that up until now, sport in Namibia had contributed to the divisions within the country and to a large extent "only highlighted the abnormality of a sporting community designed by the colonists to subscribe to their policy of racial discrimination and the practice and ideology of apartheid", but that the time had now come to "bury the past and dedicate ourselves to a truly nonracial sporting body".

Outlining Swapo's policies in terms of national recognition of a sporting council, Mr Wentworth, who is also a member of the standing committee on sport of the Constituent Assembly, said that Swapo would only recognise one national body from each sport.

In the case of a sport where more than one national body existed, the choice for national recognition would be based on adherance to the relevant provisions of the bill of rights and Swapo's directive principles of stale policy.

These are as follows: * No person may be discriminated

against on the grounds of colour, ethnic origin, sex, religion, creed, or social or economic background, and

• every individual shall be entitled to enjoy, practise or promote such sporting activity as desired, provided that in so doing , the right of others, or the national intrest, is not impinged upon.

He also said that any body which received national recognition from the new government would have to ensure that provision was made for the inclusion of everybody.

Stressing that "sport 'will be for sport women and men and not politicians", Mr Wentworth said that it was therefore very important that "sport people get their own houses in order".

But he added that Swapo would be

With this in mind, representatives from the non-racial sport unions decided that it was essential that the~' remain open to all other existing sport bodies who decided to join them and therefore extended an open invitation to any union who was interested in establishing a new non-racial Spat Union to attend their meeting in three weeks time.

The meeting of non-racial sport unions, many of whom did not have the mandate of their respective unions and were present at the meeting with observer status only, included representatives from rugby, netball, soccer, weight-lifting and athletics.

Also present were representatives from the Namibian Primary School Sport Union, Namibian Senior School Sport Union, Namibian Sport and Recreation Club and sport for the physically disabled.

Although some of these sport unions are currently affiliated to the SW A Sport Council, many of the representatives present said that they would consider breaking ties with the national body if a viable alternative could be presented.

POLICE FOIL KIDNAP PLOT ON PLATINI'S CHILDREN

POLICE foiled a plot to kidnap the children of French national soccer team coach Michel Platini, the interior minstry confirmed yesterday.

One of the suspects also was involved in the kidnapping of industrialists Baron Edouardo-Jean Empain in 1978, police said.

Though the suspects were identified, none has been arrested. Platini's two children, Laurent, II, and Marine, 9, attend school near their

home in Central Nancy, a city of 250,000 in eastern France. Police were tipped to the kidnap plan by an informer who provided the names

of the suspects. Officers put Platini's home, along with his children and wife, Christelle, under surveillance.

The would-be kidnappers then disappeared. Platini, 34, a longtime star and captain of the French team before becoming

coach, was in Barcelona, Spain, yesterday and could not be reached for comment.

One of the three suspects was identidied as a man who had served tinle in prison for a role in the kidnapping of Empai~

Another suspect identified with certainty was previously convinced of armed robbery, police said.

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SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION NEXT WEEK

NEXT Friday, We bring YDU a special 16 page Christmas editiDn Df YDur CCN/RRR Newsletter, the last Dne to. appear this year. There will be sDmething fDreveryDne: news and messages frDm YDur churches, Christmas messages, year reviews. Dn the wDrk Df the churches, the hiStDriC- repatriatiDn in pictures, the future Df the RRR, the Church in the 1990s and much mDre. So. don't miss YDur exciting newsletter next week Friday.

Wishing you a pleasant weekend -Editor and staff of CCNIRRR News

CHURCH ·LEADERS IN ·ASSE BLYS,PEAK

NAMIBIA's newly elected Constituent Assembly has six churchmen representing SWAPO. Rev Hendrik Witbooi, Rev Zephania Kameeta, Rev Matti Amadhila and Deacon WiIIem Konjore have been giving the Namibia Communications Centre their views on their role in the Constituent Assembly and on future Church-State relations. The other two who could not be reached at the time of going to press are Mr Danie Botha, derBY and lecturer in literature and theology at the University of Namibia and the Rev M. M. Arisiku, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia •

HENDRIK WITBOOI Pastor Hendrik Witbooi, head ,Df

the African Methodist EpisCDpal Church and Vice President Df Swap(>, isnumbertwGonSwapo's list for the

. Constituent Assembly. Pastor Witbooi said he was nDtgDing to the CGnstituent Assembly as an individual but as "part Df a team.'""We'll be led by the wishes Gf the peGple and we will

'''Play Dur role in the interests Gf the _ people Df Namibia, ' , he commented.

"I will strive to. find ways and means Gf ensuring that the ideals and principles we had stood fDr all these years guide us and that we continue with Gur commitment to the upliftment Gf Gur people and the prGtectiGn Gf human rights," he said.

ZEPHANIA KAMEETA Speaking about his invDlvement in

the Assembly, Pastor Zephania Kameeta Df the Evangelical Lutheran Church in SWA, said he was in the Assembly "as any Dther Namibian there, to help and serve." He added that the presence Df Dther pastDrs in the Constituent.Assembly "will make the presence ·and invDlvement Df the Church a reality thrDugh Dur cDnvictiDn. " .

Asked about his thDughts on the role Df the Church after the elections and after independence, PastDr Kameeta said the Church wDuld continue to. raise its vDice against

• WliD will take the leadership in the gGvernment to break down those walls dividing us, the structures and sys'terns which have been explDiting and Gppressing us," he said:

MATTI AMADHILA Rev Matti Amadhila, Vice B ishDP

Gf the Evangelical Lutheran Chur.:h . inNamibia (ELCIN), expressed great si!rPPse when he was tDld he had

: been electe1hD the CGnstituent Assembly. He;as "happy that Swapo has seen it fit to. include people frDm the ranks Df .the church in its list Df candidates," he said.

"All these years" , he added, "as the church, we have sen Dur role as a spokesman fGr the vDiceles~, which we have done ... NGw the church will

continue to give its contribution and to. work hand in hand with the State,

. to. help develGp Namibia fDr instance . in the field Gf education and health,

.to. help the new State to achieve its Dbjectives in making Namibia a home fDr its peDple.' ,

The ,"prophetic role" Df the church he said, "wGuld continue in Drder to.

. help the politicians gGvern the CDuntry fDr the benefit Df the peDple and nDt fDr the gGvernment's Dwn gain. We have been divided fDr so. IDng by the cDIDnial pDwer, we have been made to. fight each Gther amDng Durselves."

have the wellbeing Gf Gur CGuntry at heart. "

WILLEM KONJORE Mr Willem Konjore is a RGman

CathDlic deacon and principal Gf the KhDichas Ecumenical Community School, one Df the independent church schools sponsored by the' CDWlCil Df Churches in Namibia, in the SGuth Df the COWltry. He was 41st on Sw apo' s listGf candidates anq so. was last tobe selected asa representative in the Constituent Assembly. --

Deacon Konjore said that as a perSDn invGlved invGlvedat the grass roots, he felt he could represent the real needs Gf the people in the As-sembly. .

HENDRIK WITBOOI

Asked abDut the poor shGwing Df SwapoinsDmep~ofthesDuth,Mr Konjore replied that, accGrding to. him, the mainreasGn for this was the fact that large areas Df the SGuth consisted Df farms Wlder the control Gf white farmers. It had nGt been possible during the electGral campaign, he said, fDr all the political

parties to reach the farm wGrkers and thus to. get their message acrGSs.

He hGPed that church and State would wDrk hand in hand in the new Narrubia in order to "promGte a fuller life fGr the pl;.Opl~ia."

(The Namibia CGmmunications Centre is a news agency working with Christian churches in Namibia.)

. injustice and be engaged in the process Gf nation-building. "I think that rGle will continue, that we point DUt the structures which must go., the oppressive structures, reminding those

"NDW, he appealed to. Christians arDund the wDrld and in Namibia to. cDntinue "to. pray that recDnciliatiDn be a reality in this country and fDr all Namibians both black and white to. fcrget the past and start a new era .. and

Danie Botha, member of the Constituent Assembly, pictured early this year at a demonstration of University of NalJlibia students.

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qHURCHES INFORMATION AND MONITORING SERVICE

S TH.E C.HURCJ:fES I~for'!lati.(>n and ~onito~ing ~rvice (CIMS) was set up by the CCN churches with the main . objective of dlssemmatl!1~ mformatlo':1 durmg.the transitional period, and to monitor the implementation process

sothat the letter and ~J?lnt .of Resol.u~lon 435 IS adhered to by bot., the implementing parties (South Africa and UNTAG) and ~he part.tclpatm~ Namlbla~ parties. : . The CIMS office IS sItuated m Hans Ulrab Street (at old Roman Catholic Kindergarten in Katutura).lt can be reached on telephone number 217441 or Telefax 217444 P.O. Box 60196. . Every week on~his page CIMSbrings you regular information about the implentation of Resolution 435 and how the churches view It. - _ . - . '

CIMS OBSERVERS CONCERNED ABOUT " DISINTEGRATIO.N" OF BUSHMAN LIFE

A CIMS Ecumenical Observer group that h~ been ~iting Tsumkwe observed that the Bushman was becoming an endangered species and thatthe traditional way of survival of the Bushman was ending.

The group said the situation was instead of making the Bushman self-made critical by the difficulty pre- reliant, it increased her/his depend-sented in transforming the Bushman ency. The group said now that the to alternative ways of survival. The army had withdrawn, the situation of group said disintegration on the cul- the Bushman was retting worse. tural as well as on the personal level The South African army that ear-was in sight while fundamental lier offered to resettle the Bushmen changes could not be effected for in South Africa, the group 'observed, generations to come. was under pressure from the United

The group cited as clear symptoms Nations and was steering away from of the disintegration alcoholism among the plan presumably due to lack of INCIDENTS IN NORTH the Bushmen in the area and several housing and employmentopportuni-cases of suicide, murder and mental -ties. They said while many peoPle disturbances occasionaly reported. showed interest in helping the Bush-

The group said while the South men, only the Ju/W a Foundation had Eight year old returnee dies of meningitis

African armed forces provided tem- hithereto done anyhting substantial. porary relieve the cure provided by The group said however the ·assis-the armed forces should be consid- tance of the Foundation was limited

AN EIGHT year old returnee child of Onamulenge, Nande Elifas, on November 26 died of the dreaded meningitis disease.

200 returnee children who repatriated end of July from Kwanza SuI. He died at the school he was attending Onamulenge.

ered worse than the disease since to the area around / Aotcha. Meningitis is a disease occuring in

OTAVI FARMERS HAVE CONFIDENCE IN SWAPO GOVERNMENT

AN ADVERTISEMENT for the sale of a farm near Otavi attracted the attention of a Cims Ecumenical observer and led to an extended interview with the farmer on his future plans in the face of the new political realities in Namibia.

Dispelling all misconceptions about the fanners in the area being conservative and as a collary having stronger ties with South Africa, the fanner vehemently underlined that he would never leave Namibia and that he identified more with Namibia and that South Africa was a foreign country to

him. He expressed no fear for a Swapo gov

ernment and pledged to be "reasonable" and "constructive" as long as the government did not damagingly interfere with his fanning activities. He would sell his fann because be was going to take over the fann

Harare, Zimbabwe

FOR AN ECUMENICAL INFQRMA TION CENTRE OF THE CHURCHES IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA WE ARE LOOKING FOR A

JOURNALIST who should be: - A mature and experienced person - A committed Christian - Involved in the struggle for justice and reconciliation in Southern Africa

A degree is required and at least five years experience in practical journalism (different media) with emphasis on following areas:

- News Agency Journalism - Political and socio-economical analysis. of developments in Southern

and Eastern Africa - Research - Train\ng journalists - Editing

Only iJyou have the required qualiJications and experience,piease send your application together with a detailed CV, copies of all usual papers and samples of your work to:

The Information Officer Council of Churches in Namibia P.O. Box 41 Windhoek

Applications must be submitted before the 1st of February 1990

of his parents in the same area. Another fanner in the area interviewed

also revealed that he had no plans to leave. This transpired to be the mood of most fanners in the area with the excpetion of four believed to have sold their properties before the elections. The fanners also expressed a deep interest in peace and stability which can primarily be linked to their economic interests.

The long years of exploitation to conservative indoctrination have, however, established a legacy that will take years to erase. Despite their willingness to remain . in Namibia notwithstanding the n'ew political realities, Swapo was still in their eyes the aggressor. Moreover it was obvious that conunitment to a future Namibia was far from being absolute if the deposit of about R 20,000 in South African banks generally believed to have been stuck away by most fanners in the area, is anything to go by.

South Africans intimidate

Namibians in North TWO residents of the North, Armas Kaslta and Absal Paulus were beaten up by two white men who wanted to know If they were Swapo members. The Incident happenoo en December 7 on Onilpa main road. Kasita and Paulus defended them· selves, leadhig·the aggressors to run to their car for their guns. When they retu·rned they found the victims had fled. Later the same day, Paulus and· Kasita returned to the scene to col· lect their caps. There they found an indentity card and a bap)( book revealing on ofthe a~tackers as Viljoen Johann du Preez from South Africa. Before the incident, the two men were reported to also have intimi· dated Silvanus Shuuya and three boys. They fled before they were beaten by the white men.

STORIES BY MIKA ASINO

inflammation of membrances enclosing the brain and spinal cord and is common in Namibia during the summer season.

The young N ande was among the

Seen here is his casket at his funeral procession conducted by Bishop Kleopas Dumeni.

8qmb exp·los~on t'1~ts woman · on Naimibian - Angol-an' border

A BOMB explosion has caused the amputation of Ms Christofina Nghihepa's foot when she walked on it. The incident happened on December 2 at Omulunga inside Angola close to the N~mibian border.

Speaking from her bed in the Ondand jokwe Lutheran Hospital, Ms N ghihepa said she strongly believed that Unita bandits had planted the bomb. They had been there earlier, she said, saying they were looking for MPLA forces. She stepped on the bomb while fetching water.

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NEW UNEMPLOYMENT CENTRE Centre will lead returnees an~ other Namibians to gainful employment

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A SECONDARY centre with a mission to empower unemployed returnees and other Namibians with appropriate technological skills that will lead to their gainful employment will open in January 1994) on a plot in Brakwater, 20 kilometres from Windhoek.

The Windhoek Circuit of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa will be nmning the employment project. called SIP (Small Industries Project). at the centre. Initially. the project will focus on the important issues of the energy needs of poor people.

Preliminary surveys have revealed that most poor people cook over open fires. a very wasteful" way of using energy. and that obtaining wood represents a significant proportion of the incomes of urban people and of the effort and time ,)f rural people. Suitable and simple sheet metal. woodburning stoves have the potential to reduce the inroads that the demand for energy makes. on the lives of these people.

Such stoves will provide a source of income to individuals who choose to become directly involved in the manufacture and repair industry. The stoves could encourage the use of essential. protein-rich foods that

require a long cooking time such as beans. and thereby contribute towards the health of the people. Finally. the use of wood-burning stoves will have a long-term. positive effect on the environment.

SIP will be involved in the conscientization of poor people towards these issues and will give them the skills and encouragement to become involved in the wood-stove industry. If all goes well'. Namibia will experience a Kenya-like revolution as woodstoves sweep across the land and raise the standards of living of the majority of Namibians.

SIP willdiversify and expand into other areas wherever surveys reveal a need for simple. appropriate technological skills that will benefit the poor of Namibia. . SIP will be involved with research

and development work and will transfer the technology and necessary skills to interest people via residential courses.

WORKSHOP ON "NATION BUILDING IN THE " '

SPIRIT OF RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS" FROM 4 to 7 December about 70 representatives of various church congregations in the far-North met for a workshop in the Christian Education apd Conference Centre, Ongwediva, under the theme: "Nation-building in the spirit of reconciliation and forgiveness". The workshop was organised jointly by the Contextual Theology and RRR Pastoral Councelling and Care Units of the Council of Churches in Namibia. ' .

A group discussion of the workshop_at Qngwediva

The aim was to draw the attention of the Church in Namibia and community at large to a number of themes as the sure foundation for a peaceful and prosperous post-independence Namibia.

The keynote address was delieverd by the Rev Veikko Munyika. organising secretary of the Christian Student Movement in Namibia (SCM). Other major lectures and responses

.. were given by variovs speakers on the sub-themes such as "Namibia at Crossroads: A Quest for total liberation"; "Obstacles ·on the :road to -' unity and national reconciliation";

0" Fo~giveness in the lightoffaith of the "Church"; "Hope against hope: An enquiry into possibilities of the future hope". Two Bible studies were offered to reflect on the current situation in the country.

Participants deeply discussed and

exchanged views on matters of common interest in the homes, villages, congregations and churches. They agreed to humbly remind the Christian community in Nan'libia to take the question of Church unity and ecumenism from below very seriously: the unity of the churches in our Namibian context is also the unity of our nation. .

The participants further expressed concern at the reports of fellow Namibians leaving the coubtry'into exile at this time. They urged that the true spirit of confidence-building. reconciliation, forgiveness and peace be cultivated and nourished amongst our people at all levels in church and society . • " The worksnop was ciosed ~ith a worship service by Rev Barnabas Iileka who urged all Namibians not to reverse oppression and victimisation in the new Namibia.

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GOVERNMENT FUNDING BECOMING A CHURCH ISSUE CHURCH and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the Third World must decide whether and under what conditions to accept overseas government funding directly, rather than via church partners or other non-governmental, aid-and-development agencies in developed countries.

. That was among conclusions of a consultation sponsored by the World Council of Churches in October in Driebergen (Netherlands). The meeting brought together 35 representatives of funding agencies and ecumenicalorganisations.

Traditionally, governments in developed countries use such church and other NGOs in their countries to channel aid to corresponding bodies in developing countries. More and more, however, these governments are developing direct contacts with Third World church and other NGOs, offering assistance directly through

embassies or local NGOs. Eventually. this could notably affect the amount of money channeled through church-related aid-and-development agencies - increasing in some cases, decreasing in others.

Precise statistics are not available, but estimates are that half the church funds for development projects now come fum governments. Foc example, the Dutch government uses church channels for about 250 million guilders in aid each year (and has said it will not join the trend towards direct funding).

"Governments want to take more .

political credit for their money and assistance to the Third World countries," observes Huibert van Beek, executive secretary of the WCC Secretariat for Ecumenical Sharing. Direct funding allows them to' 'label money" more easily, have closer contact with people in developing countries, and implement their own policies more directly, he adds.

Over the years church and other NGOs have developed guidelines which help them decide whether to accept government funds. Among the most important, van Beek says, is that the government must-allow the

NGO to do its job, including working for social justice and structural changes. and to critiquing and seeking to influence government development policies.

Some Third World participants expressed concern that direct overseas government funding could have unpredictable political consequences in their countries.

More and more Third World governments, it was reported. are more closely monitoring and controlling NGO funding.

But some participants said direct financial assistance from the North could liberate NGOs in the South fro.m domination by counterparts in the North. Some said Third World chUr~h support for such di~e.ct; fund- .

ing could reflect bad past experiences with church or other NGO partners in developed countries.

Participants also noted growing privatisation. For example, some Third World governments that took over church-run schools, hospitals, and other social institutions in the 1960s and 1970s are now giving them back. Some expressed concern that NGOs might be .. sidetracked" by having to use resources to run such institutions, so that fundamental issues of social jus tice and structural changes get less attention. Participants agreed on the need to intensify such attention; there was a strong call for an ecumenical network to share development information and analyses. [EPS]

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CHRI.sTMAs IS COMING <I> THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN NAMIBIA

ALL these years, the birth of Christ was a miracle in Namibia. Namibians had to celebrate in the midst of suffering and death. A virgin brings forth a -child in. Namibia; knowing that this child might be crushed by casspirs or kicked by Koevoets. It is a real miracle, because God Himself ~me to the suffering ones. Every-year He came in. order

proclaim peace, goodwill to men and glory to His name. he came so that men may be reconciled; ' .

- A NAMIBIA THAT DOES NOT KNOW HIM Was there-ever room for ' this child to be born? If yes, why did Namibians take part in evil structures and allowed the devil to rule all these years? Why darkness all these years, if we have received the light in our rooms? If Jesus would come to the inn of your heart and asked for a place this year again, would you recognise Him as God's only son and bid .Him to enter and stay? Let us receive Him and be sure of a bright future for Namibia.

STAR'OF BETHLEHEN IN NAMIBIA No more Bethlehem, but Namibia. This year"this star comes with mercy and grace for Namibians. Jesus comes forth with redemption and light, for Namibians to see the way of independence. ·Let the star shine over us and bring light where there is darkness.

LOVE SONG OF NAMIBIA With all voices we shall sing this year. We shall praise God for being

us during the times ,of suffering and dying. We shall do it with words of dee}> devotion. A love song warm and tender ,a story pure and true. In our love song we will tell the story: "Jesus in the stable for us; Jesus on calvary for us; His life-blood for .us." May the birth of Christ bring new hope to us. May Christ enter all the dark stables. May His birth be our victory!

Fr Jackey Basson

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CALL TO RETURNEES TRAINED.IN TECHNICAL

' VOCATIONS RETURNEES with certificates, diplomas or degrees in agriculture, leatherworklshoemaking, weavjng, tailoring, bricklaying, carprentry and breadmaking, are kindly requested to fill in foons ,for projects at ·the following places: RRR Office in Windhoek, 8 Mont Blanc Street"Eros Swapo Offices in Keetmanshoop, Mariental, Swakopmund, Otjiwarongo, Tsumeb, Grootfontein,Oshakati, Rundu and Katima Mulilo. FROM RRR PROJECf OFFICE

LIST OF UNCLAIMED LUGGAGE AT OLUNO

WAREHOUSE THERE are many returnees who still ' have not collected their despatched luggage from the RRR. A list of up to 1,000 people who still have not done so is available from the RRR Head Office in Windhoek (contact Mr Mutilitha Kamati). Further lists are available at CCN Head Office, KatuIUra (Ask roc Mr Jasrn. Angula); Swapo Head Offfice, Windhoek; 'parishes . and Oluno Warehouse.

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Shejavali's recommendations

for peace AFfER an extensive investigative visit to the northern parts of Namibia, the CCN General Secretary, Dr Abisai Shejavali made various recommendations to the CCN Executive Committee, relating to peace in the region. Dr Shejavali, accompanied by his office director· Mr Jason Angula, visited Dainaraland, Kaokoland, Owamboland, Kavango and Caprivi.

Throughout the trip, the entourage saw and learned first hand about the situation in the area, enabling them to make the following recommendations:

1. Since SW APOL members ignored to take impartiality seriously in maintaining iaw and order since the implementation of Resolution 435; the UN Security Council should be asked to see to it that UNT AG Police conti gent be given the mandate to keep law and order.

2.All SWAPOLmembers should be fully under the supervision and control ofUNT AG Police - all police facilities and personnel be taken and put under supervision and control of UNTAG.

3. UNT AG Police contigent must

be given mandate to retrain and train all SWAPOL members for police work.

4. TheSW A Security Police must be monitored effectively by UNT AG.

5. All political parties should be informed that a society ' cannot be built on violence. hatred and killings but with love, peace, justice and mutual respect. Parties should then go and instruct ' their people not to dirupt peace and harmony.

6. The Administrator General never publicly called his men to ooier through the mass media. He should be asked to do so.

7. Because DT A ex -Koevoets, army and army units wanted civil war, they should all hand in their weaponry. We won't reach peace if the

situation still continues in this way, 8. Now that the war is over, ali

people in squatters around Oshakati should be requested to go back to their homes - this being where violence emanated from, with health conditions deteriorating. Thus, squatters must be destroyed after independence.

9. The Church should teach people the values of life and importance attached to it, so that people should refrain from using things that destroy precious lives, like the use of weapons and poison against fellow human beings.

10. Churches should intensify the message of reconciliation. It should be taken as a crucial national.

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