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NanIibians mark WOlpen's Day HUNDREDS of tan dies flickered In the dusi.. last night as around 300 women gathered on the st~ps ofthe Tlntenpalast to mark International Women's Day, the flrst time It bu,been officially c.elebrated In Namibia. ' Tbe women sang, pt3yed and expressed messages' bf solidarity wltb all women at tbe landmark occ~lon. "Long live Internath~n~1 Women's Day. Long live progressive manklnd,"was how one woman art.lculated ber feelings. Full report on Monday. ' . . .

. , ., NOT only will the entire Kenyan contingent currently in Namibia with the United Nations peace-keeping force stay on after independence, but more Kenyan troops -including air suppo~t - are to be brought in. .

This was confinned yesterday by both Nanubia's Defence Minister Peter Mueshihange and Kenya's Brigadier Daniel Opande . .

"The whole Kenyari battalion. logistics troops, HQstaff and mili­tary observers will remain, ' • Opande told The Namibian last night.

"What we w"ill be bringing in are additional logistics troops and air support." he added.

Opande. presently also second in command of the Untag military component, said the air support de­tachment would be brought in , 'because the UN air support wiJl no longer be h~re, and it's a big coun­try".

As far as the role of the Kenyans was concerned, he said it would be discussed with the future govern- . ment - .' 'until then I won't be able to comment···.

Opande added they had been asked to remain in Namibia by the incotn­

. ing government, "and the Kenyan government agreed".

Defence Minis ter-designate Mueshihange last night said one of

the roles the Kenyan contingent would fulfil would be to assist in the train­ing of the new army "and they will continue after the graduation".

"They will assist the British." he added.

Opande told The Namibian the Kenyan operation would be fman­cially underwritten lOOper cent by the Kenyan government, "not by the United Nations, nor the Organisation of African Unity". The Kenyan con­tingent consists of a military battlll­ion of 850 men, less than 20 military observers an<;llessthan 20 Kenyans attached t9 Untag headquarters.

The Kenyan commander said con­trary to rePorts 'in a local Afrikaans newspaper, which mentioned 2 000, the Kenyan troops in Namibia had never exceeded the limits set by the United Nations.

"It is a big. big lie (to say other­wise), ,. he added.

"Our total number, including all civilians, is below 1 000."

Although the full role of the Ken­yans has not been outlined yet, it is

. believed one reason they have been'

Tanzanian. pilot .seeks asylu¢ at Walvi's 'B,ily .

A TANZANIAN Air Force pilot, wbo claims to have- deserted, Is-. currently .at Walvis Bay and bas requested political asylum In South: Africa, according to radio reports. ' " Tbe,pilot bas obtained a temporary resident Permit wblle tbe autborl~ ties study bls reQuests for asylum and permanenneslde~ce. . , Tbe radio said tbe pilot - not named - de.sertedab~ut l(!nonths ago a~d travelled tbrougb Zambia and Zimbabwe to Botswana.' ~ From tbere be bad apparently tried to enter Soutb d,frica but had .been refuse-d entry at tbe Botswana border witb Soutb Africa. ' . ';. He tben went to Namibia, wbere be ~as arrested and beld at Katima Mulilo for being an iUegallmmigrant. " -He was taken to Wlndboekand tbl!D to Swakopmund. He managed to slip Into Walvis Bay, wbere he banded bimself over to tbe autborltles and bas now asked for asylum. - Sapa

asked to stay was because of fears of a vacuum after the departure of the 3 OOO-plus uN troops. . . With the dismantling of the former

Territory Force and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia there appears to be an unspoken fear that the country will be left vulnerable after independence.

The country's new army is still only in an embryonic stage and only 500 troops have so far been enlisted for a training programme which hu only been in progress for thfee weeks..

At the same time the war in Angola is threatening to spillover into Nanubia and the question of who will protect the country's borders has so far not been satisfactorily answered.

Namibia's President-elect Sam Nujoma this week told The NamibJ

ian' the work of training the "na­tional unity army" was continuing and pr6gressinJ well. ··. .

He, however, also ackhQwledged it was no easy task to join together former adversaries and it would take time for them to complete their train­ing and take up therr new task .

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TWELVE people were Injured wben a pbospborousgrenade ex­ploded near Oshakati in Namibia on Wednesday night, tbe Namib­Ian' Broadcasting Corporation reports. According to a police spokesperson quoted on the radio,

' tbe Injured, Including a police constable, were bystanders at an argument between a man and a" woman. Tbe man activated tbe grenade after be was attacked, and some ofibe bystanders were seriously Injured, tbe report said.

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WASHINGTON - The United States is seeking international pressure on Libya to end chemical arms production, the White House said. Spokesper­son Marlin Fitzwater urged' 'heightened international vigilance" against a Libyan government with' 'a history of terrorism activities and a history of erratic military behaviour' '.

MARIE, a three-year-old inhabitant of France's Zoological Park Thoiry, is here undergoing a successful operation on her trunk to remove a tumour. Doctor Hugues and assistants performed the operation on Marie, one of the 800 animals who live in the park in the Vincenne region of' Paris.

ISLAMABAD - Afganistan's sacked defense minister Shahnawaz Tanai has enlisted some Pakistan-based guerrillas to help him overthrow the Soviet-backed government in Kabul, a Pakistani Foreign Ministry official said. He said Tanai, leader of an attempted coup with President Najibullah says has been crushed, met the Western -backed Mu jahideen guerrillas near the Pakistani border.

SEBE NO LONGER WELCOME IN CISKEI, SAYS GQOZO

BEIRUT - A pro-Iranian Moslem group has thrown cold water on hopes for the imminent release of Western hostages in Lebanon, saying it will not free two Americans unless it"demands are met. The Revolutionary Justice Or­ganisation (RJO) has demanded the release of more than 400 Arab prisoners and Sheikh Abdel-Karim Obeid, a Shi'ite Moslem cleric of the pro-Iranian Hizbollah (Party of God) seized by an Israeli commando unit last July. The RJO was apparently responding to Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who said earlier ·the crisis ov~r the 17 Western hostages was

CISKEI'S military leader Brigadier Oupa Gqozo and South African Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha agreed at a meeting on Thursday that former President Lennox Sebe sliould be advised not to return to Ciskei at present. '

- "moving towards a solution".

JERUSALEM - Israel said jts troops killed five gumner(in a clash at the edge of Israel's self -declared border security zone in south Lebanon. ,

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NEW DELHI - Leaders of India's main political parties, including former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, were due to fly to Kashmir in search of a political solution to a Moslem revolt against Indian rule.

MANAGUA · Nicaraguan President~lect Vileta Chamorro has called on Central American countries to reduce their armies to bring political stability and economic growth to the region, La Prertsa newspaper reported.

Botha said in a press statement after the meeting he had advised Brig Gqozo the ex-Presidwt would be allowed to stay in South Africa if he so wished.

He said Brig Gqozo had expiained the circumstances that led to the military takeover.

"He said that his action was essen­tiill to pre-empt a coup which was already being implemented by an­other branch of the security forces who intended to entrench the rule of President Lennox Sebe.

His interest, he said, was to save the Ciskei from a corrupt and repres­sive regime."

B otha said he haa indicated to Brig Gqozo that the ·maintenance of sta-

bility and peace 4t Ciskei was 'of paramount importance.

The first priority should be the implementation of programmes di­rected at relieving poverty and pro­moting economic upliftment.

Education, training, job creation, health facilities and the development of agricultural and industrial proj­ects should receive urgent attention.

Botha said Brig Gqozo had as­sured him he intended appointing expert~ in government to ensure reconstruction in Ciskei and creation of confidence in the competence and integrity of Ciskei.

"He said it was not his intention to form a military government.

"He had only acted at a critical

moment in history when the wrong elements were intent 00 seizing power, Which would have plunged Ciskei into chaos."

Botha said all leaders in the region should agree on the need for re-es­tablishing stability in Ciskei, and S6\1.tI:l , , Africa was prepared to provide 'thc " necessary security aSs'istance to en­'sure no further lawlessness and dis­turbances took place. .

Brig Gqozo said that Ciskei would ' honour all commitments and COIl­

tracts, the inde~nde~e o~e judi­cial system~d courts would be re­spected and freedom of expression would be ensure."

Former President Sebe would be arrested if he returned to Ciskei. HA VANA - Cuban President Fidel Castro bitterly attacked four former

communist allies - Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia - for backing a U.S.-<lrafted human rights resolution against Cuba at the United Nations. In his strongest criticism yet of East European nations who have moved away from communist rule, Castro described their action as repug­nant and said they would be responsible for the bl,ood spilled if the United

No more putting all eggs in the oil basket for Libya

, States invaded Cuba.

, LIBYA'S government wage bill was eating up nearly three-quarters of all state revenue, the Finance Minister told parliament.

DAR is SALAAM _ Nelson,Mandela is headed for an unscheduled visit to Libyan treasury secretary Mohamed "It's impossible to go on spending AI-Madani AI-Bukhari said without at the same rate while revenue is

Ethiopia to confer with Organisation for African Unity (DAD) officials on urgent tax reform civil servants could shrinking ... there have to be changes tbe situation in South Africa. African National Congress officials said not expect to receive salaries on a in the tax system and ~ plan to limit Mandela, 71-year-old ANC vice-president, is going to the Ethiopian capital regular basis. spending. starting with reductions in of Addis Ababa at the invitation of the OAU and the Ethiopian government. Revealing startling figures on the the burden of the civil service," he

country's economic crisis, he told said. CAPE TOWN - Early rail commuters watched horrified on Thursday as a the General People's Congress (par- "Without that, delays in paying man was struck and killed by a suburban train near <;ape Town station. liament) on Wednesday that wages salaries will continue and the prac-South African Transport Services public relations officer Brian Lotter said cost the government the equivalent tice will become inescapable," he a Cape Flats train pulling out from the s~tion about 6.15am struck the man ~ of $55 billion a year in dinar, or 70 to added.

earnings to development but had to abandon this when oil, and tax in­come s'tarted to decline in the 1980s. , "Oil has no become the principle source for financing salaries ... dependence on oil must disappear completely from our think­ing from now on and we must think how to keep oil orily for strategic projects." Bukhari said.

The government em'nIO'v9'11ndrt

500 000 people. 65 workforce, and 400 000 people public "UIIII"!II1<;~ as he crossed railway lines near the Oswald Pirow road bridge. ' 75 per cent of all revenue; including In the 1970s Libya passed a law

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Sexual equality reaches the farm GOODBYE to the shepherds and milkmaids enshrined In English lore

and welcome herdspersons of the 1990s. The drive for ~exual equality and professional standards has finally

reached men 'and women who look after cows, pigs, goats, deer, sheep, chickens, - and even lamas. .

The Professional Herdspersons Society, launched Friday at the palace of Westminster, hopes to attract 10 000 members in Its first year.

Sir Richard Body, a Conservative Party lawmaker, former chairperson of the House of Commons select committee on agriculture and onetime pig breeder, said the society's aim was to put men and women who manage animals "on the pedestal where they belong". '

"They do a marvellous job In all sorts of weather, seven days a'.w~ek, and their role must be more professionally recognized," he said. >

The society plans to set standards of care for various animals, and provide a ' monthly journal, life and accl~ent lnsuranc and medical

, coverage. Body, who will be adviser to' the society, said: "My only wotr . the

word herdsperson." , At the launch, several officials.of the new society slipped up at times by

referring to the " men" and the "chaps" on livestock farms. But all agreed women played a vital role in tending livestock, especially

as the number of workers on farms has shrunk dramatically with agricul­ture becoming increasingly mechanized.

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WOMEN'S campaigner and HouSing and Local GoverJ!lllentMinister-designate ~ Libertine Amathila (left) with a fellow activist,Anna Frank, a1 yesterday's International Women's Day meeting held in . Katutura. It was the first time Namibia officially marked the day. Photograph by Jean Sutherland. Full report ,on'Monday..· . ,,'

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Judgement in triple killing case today '

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JUDGEMENT will be given today in a case in which a 27-year-old man is being charged on three counts of murder and one of robbery .

Former SADF member Reinhold l ohannes is accused of having shot :md killed Stefanus Mueshihange and David Hamalwa on February 12 last yellT at Ondobe. The same night he allegedly robbed George Nelulu's shop.

He is also accused ofhaving killed Erastus Nekomba in the Onamukulo area on March 14. All three men were killed with an AK~47 assault rifle. ,

Johannes-has,pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

He also claims he was not trained • ';"'1. I •

as a soldier and could not use a fIreann. Yesterday he told the court he had no know ledge of the incidents in question.

He said he was on his way to buy meat at certain cuca shops in Oshi­gambo when he was approached by a certain Nampala w.aNangolo, who asked him to accompany him (Nam-

. pala) to his home. Johannes refused and said he was later forced into Nampala's bakkie. He told the court there were more than 10 men anned with 303 rifles and knives in the balckie.

Namibians against Miss Independence contest

He was taken to N ampala' s home near Ondangwa and was chained to an old machine.

Johannes said he ~as then told lie would be taken to Onamukulo be­cause there were people who claimed that he (Johannes) had committed ;1'

murder there. He slept m Nampala's home and

the nextday was taken to Onamukulo to be identified by the people who witnessed the murder. On arrival at Nekomba's home he was again chained to a pole, and questioned by several people about the murder of Nekomba. He said he told them h« knew nothing

"IT just doesn't suit the occasion." That was the general response of many Namibians to the planned beauty contest, Miss Inde~ndence, set to be staged at independence. .

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The Namibian yesterday conducted a snap survey after'Swapo WOf!1en's Council Secretary ~d deputy Minis~1 ter-designate Peildukeni Ithanaori Tuesday described , the beauty cOn­test as "in bad taste n ~ ;

The Miss Independence beauty competition was announced by the DTA's Andrew Matjila, who heads the sub-committee on Hospitality and Entertainment. He, on the other hand, thought it was a good idea. .

While some of those spoken to by The Namibian totally deplored the idea, others felt it was definitely not

. the right time. "I just don't think its on," Rauka

Hamgula said shaking her head. "I don't think its a good idea on such an important occasion. ' ,

Her view was backed up by count­less others ~

A very definite no came from well­known politician, Anna frank. "I just don't think its dignified," she told The Namibian. She felt it did not tie in with the occasion, saying it was more suited to carnival time.

"Independence is a solemn occa­sion, a happy time, a thrilling time, but above all a dignified time, " Frank added. ".'0 have a beauty contest at this time was "in bad taste", she said.

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. "I don't know how people could even have' conceived of having att~ event like this at suchan impertant historical time," FredeiikaMureko said, t1irowing her handS' into the air in disbelief. . ,

Nelao Kondombolo 'said she was tota.lly against the idea:.

"They should try and do some­thing else more fitting." She added that "this type of thing" would not enhance the dignity 'Of women.

"I honestly find it difficult to be­lieve that people can come up with this sort of thing at this particulilr time," said Joey Swartz.

"It doesn't fit in with these 'mo­mentous days in our country's his­tory." The baffled young woman

_ said it was h«yond her that some

p$XJple could think that a beauty contest \Y3S "i~P9rtant at a time like this".

Jonny Davids told The Namibian he was a great admirer of women, "but, man - even to me - I don't know ... you know there's a time and place for everything, but this is not the time for women to expose their bodies in this way ."

Gerard Jacobs felt even this argu­ment was out of touch with what women in Namibia were fighting for. "So-called beauty competitionS are sexist in their very nature.

I agree with what Pendukeni Ithana told The Namibian, but she could have gone further by pointing out the discriminating qualities of any com­petition of this sort."

about,it. . . ". ' . .TwIJ young menw'ho allegedly

said they ';Viinessed the murder were called, but neither identified him as the murderer. _ •

Johannes . told the coUrt he was. forced to admit that he had killed Nekomba. Wh~n he denied the alle­gations, he was assaulted. He claimed his left ann was nearly broken, while his face was swollen afterwards.

The case continues this morning, and it is expected that judgement will be given today.

Although Johannes has denied all the allegations against him, he was positively identified as the perSon

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THE opposition in Namibia ' was there as a watchdog and to make sure the government acts .in comfonnity with the constitution and in the interests ofthe people of the' country as a whole. This was said by a DJ'A member pfthe Constituent Assembly, Jariretundu Kozonguizi, at a meeting in ~babis on Wednesday night.

The opposition has to be suffi­cien.tly equipped for its role in an

, alternative government and must be ready to take over in the event of the government not being capable of ruling, Kozonguizi said ,

"Bui the opposition must have their own platform as embodied in their election manifesto, they must

-spell out what they intend io do as a ' government should such an opportu­ni ty arise,"

In the final analysis, the opposi­tion has to define its political objec­tives, Kozonguizi stated.

And these objectives must neces­sarily reflect the interests of that particular section of the community from which tbey received their mandate to sit in parliament.

The DTA man said ,during the elections ~uch int!!re~ts ~ere related to the form of struCture and the con-' stitution~l framework the party in-tended Jor the ~unti'y . .

, , But in 'a p<\rliamentary SUuation;' the opposition musiillso promote the interests of the people. '.

"The question then is what ihter~ ests are represented by the DTA and what objectives are the DTA aiming at achieving," he asked.

He said differences between Swapo and the DTA were such that today it had become difficult to define.

In the past Swapo had been seen as an organisation which stood for sci­entific socialism and the introduc­tion of wholesale socialism in the

country. It was also seen as standing for a

one-party system, and as an organ­isation which relied on socialist countries led by the Soviet Union and in particular Cuba in their for­eign policy approach.

But, said Kozonguizi, the main ' and actual differences between Swapo and the DTA was that Swapo be­lieved that freedom in Namibia could be achieved through the barrel ofthe ' gun' while the DTA believed that independence could be secured through negotiations with South Africa.

All these differences were now irrelevant. "Swapo will be the gov­ernment and the question is how the various and varying interests are to

. be 'promoted by SW!,lpo." On the other hand, said the DTA

'man, it was for h'is party to define the interests it was prepared to promote or defend. .

. ~e said ~eing an alliance the DTA logicall{ repre$ented differing inter­ests. This was why the leadership of the DTA,was searching for a com­,m0n platform which can be repre­sented through forging the different alliance parties into a single party.

On the role of ordinary DTA members, Kozonguizi told the meet­ing that a distinction had to be made between a political appointment and a government appointment.

The former, he said, depended on the whims of the party in power while the latter was a public service

appointment which depended on merit and experience. '

Kozonguizi also addressed the question qf ethnic governments, saying in certain areas government officials at local level could easily carry out the functions of administration un­derthe central poli tical authori ty, for example, in the cases of Ovambo, Okavango, ,Rehoboth, Caprivi and Khorixas.

This was so because these areas could geographicall y be determined .

"But in the case of the administra ­tion of whites, coloureds, Hereros and Tswanas, po Ii tically they have to disappear although they may con­tinue as cui tural bodies."

The principle underlying the abo­lition of AG8 ~as that , one could politically lump the administration of Hereros in Okakarara together with those in t\minuis and of theTswanas in.Aminuis with those in Epukiro.

, The constitution, accol'ding to Kozonguzi, was silent on the issue as long as regional governments remained undetel'mined.

Until ,the status of traditional au- ' thorities was decided upon, it was to be assumed that politically the Tswanas in Epukiro will be administered to­gether with the other groups in the area and the Hereros in Otjimbingwe together with the Damaras in the same area. ' •

But all these were matters to be decided upon by the government after it tpok office, he said.

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YOUNG and old attended a meeting arranged by Namibian women's groups to mllrk International Women's'Day which was held at the CCN offices in Katutura .. Photograph by Jean Sutherland.

UN':praise for work of women in N'amibia

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General. Javier Perez de Cuellar yesterday lauded the work of women in special UN missions in Namibia and Nicaragua, and said more must be done to promote women in the world body. In an address to mark International Women 's Day, the UN chief said women working in the UN in Namibia made significant contributions "often in difficult and sometimes in dangerous situations" . " These women acquitted themselves in a manner in which should once and for all erase the doubts, which I for one never had regarding the ability of women to perfonn as well as men in any and all areas of United Nations activity," Perez de Cuellar said. The Secretary-General said there was " now a mqre widespread and clear recogni­tion that far more needs to be done" for women working in the United Nations. " In the period ahem:!, it will be important to esnure that the career advancement of women staff members is given the serious attention which 'it merits and that decisions on assignnlentS, placement and promotion are untainted by prejudice or attitudes that are clearly out of date," Perez de Cuellar said. • At a special meeting in ~~utura yesterday to mark International Women's Diy, 'a senior liaison offlcef with pntag, Rachel Mayanja, said the situation of women in the UN reflected, the international situation. ".Women are found mainly in the

, service centrts, ~ ' Mayanja,lI ,Ugandan-born lawyer, told a packed meeting. Very, -few were found in decision-making posts. '.' ~ "This si tuation cannot be ac¢epted by women)'.' she em phasi~ed, urgfng women to

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Windhoek restaurants and the feeding

of the five thousand Doors to remain open at independence , FEARS that Windhoek's smaller restaurants will not be able to cope with the flood of overseas visitors at independence because their employees will stay away appear to be unfounded.

Although some, restaurants have indicated they will be closed for part of the celebrations, the majority say they will remain open.

Most top VIPs will be catered for by hotels and in private residences, but there were some worries about the feeding of "less illustrious" visitors. . Restaurant owners themselves seem

to have been worried about worker absenteeism and at least one man­ager approached the govemment about the problem.

Thomas Rechter 'of the Gourmet Inn said'he had suggested to Andrew Matjila of the Hospitality Commit. tee that an advertisement should be placed in newspapers appealjng to restaurant employees to come to work.

He had, however, also talked to his own employees. Most had assured him they, would be prepared' to help ou t during the iildepe!,1dencecelebra­tions. '

Rechter said although most VIPs would be looked after he wondered what would happen to the large number of journalists and security personnel expected in the capital.

The manager of the Kaiserkrone Restaurant said his ' establishment would be closed on 21 March be-

cause they wanted to give thei r staff the chance to celebrate independ-ence.

The restaurant would, however, be open on 22 March and although it did not nprmally open on Sundays, it would serve meals on 25 March.

The Kaiserkrone manager indicated, however, that the restaurant might sti ll stay open on 21 March if they received a large party booking.

Ebby Gottsman of the former M&Z Restaurant, now known as The Front Page, said they would try and man- , age with ,a skeleton staff on inde­pendence day.

Staff w,ould be allowed to go home early ori the evening before the big day to celebrate and those who "greed ,to work on independence day ,would be given double pay. . •. " .

The menu would be smaller than usual 'and with the help of students they would try and please eyery-body. '

Similarly, the manager of Gathe­mann's Restaurant said as far as he knew all of his staff were prepared to work during independence.

He expected a busy time for the restaurant and he remarked that the famous 'Gathemann's balcony might collapse under the weight of visi tors.

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"FIRST wine, tit en oil" . A member ofthe Angolan trade delegation (right) which visited Namibia this week discusses matters with Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Minister-designate Gert Hanekom at a reception at Namibian President-elect Sam Nuj oma's home on Wednesday night. Photograph by Stanley Katzao.

B t ' . '··t C·· -0 swana· n,o ... · o . ap.rlV·l . THE 'Boiswlllla goveiiimeilt~ yes~

terday strongly denied that it has made 'any claims on t tle Caprivi . ,

, In a stateriledt'yesterday ; head of the'BOtSwana Observer Mission; Otis Tebape, respol)ded to art article in yesterday 's The N ami bi an head Ii ned "Botswana eye's Caprivi " . .

Tebape categorically said there was "no intention on the p'art of the Botswana government to claim the territory of any of its neighbours under any pretext" .

The article carried a report about Botswana member of parliament

. MaitshwareloDabutha's intention to

introduce a motion in parfiamerit pressing Botswana 's claims to the Caprivi. .

Tebabe', however, pointed out that Dablitha belonged to the opposition Botswana National Frontand that his views tnerefo're did not reflect those of the government.

He stressed that the Botswana government subscribed to the prin­ciples of the Organisation of African Unity which obliged member states to respect colonial boundaries.

The planned motion by the Botswana parliamentarian was first reported in the Botswana Guardian and it imme-

diilteWdfew atrangty rest>Qnse from residents of the Capdvi.

Minister of ' Transport-designate Richard Kapelwa yesterday . added his voice to the general feeling of outrage at the Botswaila parliamen­tarian's claims.

Kapelwa said any claim by any neighbouring ,.auntry to "an inch of our ierritory" would be regarded by

_ the entire revolutionary Namibian people as an insult.

He added that whoever had that kind of ihinking at the back of his mind was absolutely ignorant of Namibia's history.

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PERSPECTM MANY Namibians are presently wondering whether President-elect Sam Nujoma, in the spirit of 'reconciliation',

- will ~ant a conditional amnesty for certai~ 'priSoners at independence. While there is no clarity on,his subject as yet, the only amnesties ,granted so far, have been those of the South African Government which has reprieved a number of ex-Koevoet members who were guilty of war crimes against Namibians. But there has been no indication from Swapo ranks whether they are to grant reprieve to some prisoners or not.

TIlE amnesties granted to certain ex-Koevoet members have unfortunately , not set a healthy precedent. Most of_these men were guilty of 'capital

crimes, and yet they still received amnesties; , ~ This has not escaped the attention of otbers, who are serving varying prisOn terms for less serious offences. Only ~ntIy; a fonner pOliceman who was given'ten years impriionment

,. . fol-diamond tbeft,jumped bail, pending tmappeal, on the grounds that " lfotbers could be reprieved for crimes Such as murder~ then why not he

'himself, who had committed a less serious contravention? Two women reamdy contacted me about the ~ thing. ,1beir hUsbands were serving sentences in ·tbe Windhoek Central Prison for tbeft and housebreaking respectively, aDd they wondered whether efforts could ,DOt be initiated to similarly grant amnesties to certain offenders in tbe spirit of 'reconC~tion'. , . . , While one woman accepted that the ~~rd -' 'reconciliation' did n~t simply mean forgiveness for ,any criine, She nevet1heless argued that Swapo ~uld, &9 a gesblte of~ towards,Namibiam on Independence Day, grant reprieve to certain types of prisoners. Those serving terms for what she called minor offences, she said,cCOuld' be freed; and those wbo were serving lOnger terms and had perhaps' a yearofibeirsentence to go, could also be reprieved. She suggested that capital offenders and convicted rapists should not be freed. Wbile this is entirely up to Namibia's President-elect to decide; the qaestion does bring to mind once again t~ dermitiOn of tbe word 'reconciliation'. It is a word wbich has and will be consistently ' IBIsinterpreted; as well as used and abused in different quarters. Some see the word as a eupbeniiSm for retafuing the status quo; otbers'

. believe it means unity between opposingcpolitical forces; but in effect, I don't think it means either of tbese two. ' -" 1he dictionary gives'the term 'recODdIe' a number of dilJerent definitions: _ is to make friendlyafter estrangement; another is to make a«:quiescent or contentedly submissive; and ' a third .is to hannonise or make (IOmpatible. It is evident that people see different dermitions inberent in'the tenn, but as far as I'm concerned its one of those words that tend to get used and abused until it loses meaning. Something like tbe word 'democracy', for instance. People must, purely and simply, learn to live with one another and in partiCUlar, in our instance, learn to live witb a Swapo government. There is no reason why they should, in the dictionary definition, become "acquiescent or contentedly submissive". I don't for i,nstance see why there should be 'reconciliation' between opposing political forces; after all, they can agree to disagree, and do so in a verbal, rather than physical manner. DTA leadership may be practising 'reconciliation' with Swapo at present, but deep down they want to challenge Swapo at every turn, and certainly at the next election in five years time. The ~reconciliation' at cocktail partIes therefore, is

,purely superficial, and does not necessarily reach down to grassroots society. But neither does 'reconciliation' mean that we must become a nation of sycopbants. It doesn't mean we must free all manner ofnasties from our jails, either. Sw~po cannot for instance, 'reconcile' with the whites of this country at the expense of the black ml\iority. Its the whites who must finally 'reconcile' themselves to living under a Swapo government. Neither bas Independence anything to do with 'reconciliation'. There are several isOlated pockets of people-in our country who believe that independeDa! is. 'Swapo celebration'. 'Ibi'i is quite untrue. Independence is for all Namibians, irrespective of political affiliation; and its surely Something that all patriotic Namibians have wanted for a long time now. It is not 'Swapo's independence' but ~independence for all', and tbe party-political connotation , must be removed from this day of celebration, otherwise many .will miss what is probably thusfar the greatest day in our country's history. For lack of a better definition though, let.us take it that 'reconciliation'

THE NAMIBIAN

Frenchman speaks on Lubowski connection

~ter: Wh~ are you?

Guenon: I am 41 years old. I am' a" " French citizen, establisheci in South .Africa since 1984. I started as,a tele- . vision producer and through the company J direct (Ubeck-nic. pty Ltd) I have produced'approximately 2SO hOurs of1V programmeS, among

, them-the famous 1V series' Treasure , Hunt' (Skallejag) whic~ won the Star

award in 1988. I am a businessman - a capitalist - I run'small businesses, such as a trans­port company, Cijtma Express SerV'­ice Pty Ltd, of which I am the' sOle owne, I am also the oWner ofthe.business­information agency, Adage News~ 'acting as a consultant for various companies abroad .~ I am ilpolitieal i~ , tlte sense that I support no particular political party .

Lister: How did you meet Anton Lubowski?

Guenon: I met Anton ' through a common friend, a French diploml,lt, -at tire beginning of February 1989. The meeting was in connection'with «.

a conference in London which took ,­place at the end' of March last year. where Swapo revealed its economic policies for the future.

Lister: There's been some speculation about you as the 'mysterious Frenchman'. Can you tell us a little about yourselr?

Guenon: I am not 'mysterious', al­though I am French. I am one of the Directors of the French Chamber of Commerce in South Africa. I ~m basically a television producer arid consultant for big corporations willing to invest in the southem hemi­sphere .. I also run other businesSes like service companies in Johan-' nesbll;rg and in Namibia. . I am in the telephone book an~ my phone number has not changed since 1985. -

Lister: Can you tell us about your business dealings with Namibia?

Guenon: I started by providing Swapo Properties (Pty) Ltd with furniture

and hou"seholli fjlli!lgs. I also act as a consultant (or, corporations willing to i'nvest in Namibia. '

Lister: There have been a number of accusations against you in the South African and Namibian press - amo"g others, that you are a personal hunting companion orthe Defence Minister, Magnus Malan; that you gave Anton Lubowski money; that you made a film for the SADF, and even the.allegation that you are a memberoftheCCB?

Guenon: Firstly, the main accusa­. tion has been made by the Weekly Mail against which I have issued a Wr'i t of summons for damageS resul t-

, ing from two articles in that newspa­per. One, I have never met Magnus Malan in my life; two, I think it has been proven that I never put a cent of my personal money in Anton Lubow­ski's account;, the fact that my name was mentioned by WeekI y Mail in connection with the CCB is defama-

, tory al!d pure nonsense. Yes, I· knew Anton--Lubowski·. I hope I could have been counted amogg his friends. Yes, I stayed a 'couple of times at his home. As the one-time representative of Swapo Properties (Pty) Ltd, I was in business contact with Anton, not with Anton per se, but as a representative ofSwapoProperties(Pty)Ltd. Yes,-I do hunt, once or twice a year, alone, or with selected friends.

- Yes, I did a film three years ago on the South African Defence Force for French television - Channel 5 - and French-Swiss Television, in connec­tion with the French newspaper, Le Figaro.

, The .programme 'has been, broadcast, the article appeared in the newspaper in May 1988, sO anyone can get access to what I've done. The allegation was that I made a film FOR the SADF (meaning that I was paid to do so by the SADF), but in fact I made the film ABOUT the SADF, which I believe, is objective, imdeven very critical , of the Defence Force. I also made, as a television pro-

.ducer, a film on N'elson Mandela in 1988 (or Sigma Television and after having shown the film personally in Lusaka to Oliver Tambo, I got per­mission to start a documentary on the African NatioRal Congress (ANC) -not FOR the ANC, but ABOUT the ANC, which was completed in De­cember 1989, and,o[whjcJt distribu- · lion started earlier this year qn Euro-pean i~levision. . The other accusation. 'made by the (WeekI y Mail }n~sp{lper is that one of the cOmpanies I have, Adage News . (Pty) Ltd, is a 'front' company deal­ing with millions . The truth is that this company is an infoimation news agency for big corporations making feasibility stud7 ies before making investments in the region and invoicing out for the consultancy work. Adage also hasan office in Paris, for the simple reason that most of the companies I repre­sent are French. In the last We,ekly Mail (Friday last week) it was alleged that I was in New York two days before Anton's death, and Anton called me to tell me to come quickl y. I did not receive any phone call from Anton Lubowski, and I was in Europe at the time with another prominent Swapo member. Regarding the supposed 'Mafia con­nection' and casinos, I want to state clearly that I am not at the origin of these rumours and my feeling is that it is pure rubbish.

Lister: Where do you think these rumours and attempts to discredit you emanate from?

Guenon: I am starting to have aD idea who might be behind this story, and the fact that I am a close friend of Winnie Mandela is not far removed from this defamatory campaign against both me and her.

Lister: Will you still con tin ue busi­ness dealings with Namibia in the future?

Guenon: Of course, the companies I represent are willing to help the new independent Namibia in the areas,of investment and development.

Central Kaiser Street to be closed as it is practised today, should mean that we all accept that a Swapo ,ALTHOUGH March 21st and 22nd have.been declared public holidays, the celebration conunittee for independence government is the choice of the ml\iority of the people of Namibia and yesterday appealed to all peqple employed in the hotel and other accommodation-related establishments to report for iftbere is to be a challenge, it will be at the ballot box; that we all accept duty at their workplaces for the two days. one another as Namibians, regardless of political or other affiliations. This appeal was made yesterday by Vezera Kandetu at a press conference. It does not mean that we should retain the status quo, for we should not; "N amibia will be hosting important representatives of the international community" and without hotel staff working it does not mean that some should become opp,ortunistic members of the celebrations could be regarded as a failure, Kandetu said. the bandwagon or sycophants either. He also announced that the central section of Kaiser Street between Peter Muller and Kurt Von Francois streets would

be closed to public traffic from'Monday-;March 19 to March 23. It would only be opend to pedestrians and the vehicles

II ; II of identified guests, he said. '--,K ,

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~~ij~i~i~~ij, ~i~MMnm ~C_~_~_ti_ng_fu_nd_S_fu_r_ili_ei_~_epe_n_d_enc_e_~~~_~_d_~_m_w_~_O_d_the~aU_ili_on_~_dw_· n~o_ft_he_n_d_~_na_ls_te_~_·ng~ro=~, Ih ·, . _ ••••••• 11 ................. _'11 ••• _ •• , •• , •• ,._ This was illegal as " all fundraising is coordinated by the national fund raising committee" , he,said. ,

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No 'houses from heaven' after March 21 ,

INDEPENDENCE will come on March 21, and with it, high expectations. Namibians must bear in mifidthe words of the President-elect, Sam Nujoma, whu-s8fd recently that the months and years ahead will be demanding, and will necessitate a lot of hard wor.k and sacrifice on the part of this nation, for Namibia to be a 'success story'. Lately, it has become evident that there are extremely high expectations among ~ople of this country. Now that Swapo i.s

, aboutto come to power, there is an anticipation that 'all wrongs will be righted' after independence - that there will be 'houses from heaven' and jobs for all. Thi~will not be the case. For decades Namibia was occupied by South Africa, and ruled from Pretoria, and the apartheid system created an infrastructure and divisions among the populati~n that '

'\;:. will take years to eliminate. Independence will probably me;n that THE incoming government will be faced with a lot of challenges, of which a 'mlljor one will be economic' Namibians win-h~ve to work more, rather than less, .r they want growth. Coupled with 'this, people will be expecting eledion promises to be metd~eople like 'those . : their country to set an example on the A,frican contintmt. '" '.. , pictured here will be looking for immediate benefits: This group of inhabitants are residents p'fthe '. We have a gooo foundation in 'ajust constitution, apd we will aU·"-Rehoboth squatter camp. They are people with definite expectations. They told "The Nainibi~ri"their ~ave to build on that. Governmentitselfmust make sure, it-does no1. ·'1 first requirements were housing and work. ~o one in this family of eight had work. Photographs by ~~etuate the octopus-like s,tructure.o~ AG.8 - with thousands ~f Da'oud Vries;";;'}" n ,,' , " .. , '.i '''' ,d,;",,,, ," ; "", , ' ;"', "-,, W' 'f .', "",. ; Clvil.5ervantsJ andbureaucrnts; ,Namlb,a .. wdlalso"ha,ve to adopt '"

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WE President~iect:Sam Nujoma, has urgedal\ Namibians topositively take part in the country's independ­ence celebrations to ensure success.

He stressed that independence, for which the country's forefathers and many others sacrificed a gr.ea~ .deal, did not belong to any specific politi­cal party. Hence the need for all Namibians to participate.

The Namibian President-in-wait­ing said the time had come to forget all the ills of the past and unite in efforts to restore peace and tranquil­ity to the country.

He appealed to the nation to be calm and foster a spirit df national reconciliation. He added that at this point in time, when Namibians were about to rid themselves of the yoke of colonialism, we could not afford to be disunited, '

The indepencience celebration was a national event that had nothi~g' to do with inter-party politics, There­fore we had to brush aside differ­ences and create an atmosphere con­ducive to nation-building.

Ca:nada 'to provide' aid

CANADA is to provide abOut R340 000 for drought aid in Namibia, according to a press release issued by the Canadian Observer Mission in Windhoek.

'The assistance, in response to an appeal by President-elect Sam Nujoma, and United Nations Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari, would be provided through UniCef and be spent on health and water access programmes.

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,I i~troduce conScription, it wouhhilso make longterm'financialsense-,d ,. to have a '$trong standing armY' based on voluntary 'rather"ttlat', r " compulsory military service; 'iIi' general the government wi'll also " have'1:optune the:s.ahiries 'ofth'e past; parth:ularly thdse 'ofto~ .f ranking I civW'servaifts; for if ' the--pebplit are ;ex~t'e(l ·to : inake<-'+~

, s~crific~~,. then, the leadership must set an example. ,;',' " , r" " ;-:\"­. Nariji,?i~nS ~ill all;have to worK hard, and Ih:e fniga]ly, hi oider t~i" assis-fthe govermneht in bringing iibout.eqdaHtYin 'edrlcaiion; a;'d 1

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, r Fre~oin~lld 'inde~n~ei(cewill ~ring>bOfh n;wardingyet tough ." , times: ~Jwan;ling.iQthe seI];se that N~mibi~ns can at I~~t ma~e their ' !

' own decisions, a.lJrl, ,choic~;;and probably ' mistake~ hs weIJ; and : ': tough because irlor(}erto reach the lofty goals we have set ours,el ves, "~ . we will have to sacrifice to ,achieve this. " , " .-. " '. , ~

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,We ~ilD an~ lI,I,yst e~su~.t"at the populat~on otNamlbia - ~hichis .,. , I~ss t!tan hvo mill~on people - can all have acc~s t9 schoolillg, food, ,. '. , , a roof over tlJ~ir h.ead~~lld the exerciseoftheir fundamental rigbts • . ", , If th~ peopl,e sUpPQI1 the government Ilnd the government in tum ,;

. keep ~onstantly , in touch with the will of the people they were :, elected to represent, we feel sure that these,ahns can be ,achiev.ed • . ~ But.they willnotbe:achieved overnight"arid not without sacrifice, on the part of everyon'e. False illusions about the future will not ' contribute,to reaching our goals, for they will merely contribute to :

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Credit vvhere credit is· due WITH INDEPENDENCE about to dawn, many Namibians - in particular the poorer members of the community - believe life will

, improve for them almost overnight once the new government is in power.

MAKING things happen - the homeless and those with housing problems are now coming together to form credit unions in order to help themselves improve their lives.

BY DAVID LUSH

While overseas aid will be avail­able; the new goverment isinheriting huge problems which, as many fu­ture ministers have already admit­ted, will take 'many years to over­come even with the international assistance being offered.

Therefore poverty, poor housing, unemployment and education will not disappear on March 22; change will only come gradually.

Realising this, some Namibians are now looking to help themselves, forming what are known as credit unions or "people's banks".'

A credit union is a group of people who join together to save money and make loans to' each other at low ratc;;s ' of interest. ' , Many Namibians do not eam enough

i money to borrow from or have an accountatthe big commercial banks, so credi t unions are aimed at hel ping these low-income earners.

Those forming the credit union usually have something in common­be it living in the same area, wOiking in the same'job or sharing the same problems - and save through the union in order to improve themselves ~oth

GIFT Kazombaueand Sophy Sh_;ni~gw~ --hvo ofthe drJ.ving forc.es-behind lh'~ c~~it union ~qve~~~t. -,... , _ - .- ,_ J.~"" ~ ('o. .' • I

economically and socially. But what is important is that those

using these people's banks also own and control them. Credit union,S are run democratically on a non-profit­making basis.

To join, members invest a small amount in the union - known as buying a share - and then deposit regular Savings. When members borrow from the union, they make regular repay­ments and are charged interest at a rate much lower than the commercial banks.

"People helping people" is the slogan of Namibia's Credit Union Leaguewhich is being established to help guide the growing number of credit unions which is springing up throughout the country.

"The aim is to help people help themselves," explain Gift Kazom­baue and Sophy,Shaningwa, two of the guiding forces behind Namibia'S credit union movement. "People have ' very high expectations of the new government.

They think houses and things will fall from heaven. We are telling them this is not the case and that people must start from scratch and build

,things up for themselves." For example, in Okahandja squat­

ters and those living in new site and service (very low-income) housing got together to form a credit union so they can buy material to improve their self-built homes.

Meanwhile, residents in Katutura's Hakahana district have come together also with the aim of improving their living conditions.

And there are plans to organise Katutura hawkers into their own credit union to enable them to buy goods and do better business.

Membership of some existing credit unions is aro!lnd, Rl While sh~re~ are sold ip the region of ~3 each. "We

, want ,'to start with the grl!ssroots , people," says Kazombaue.

. "But there, is a lot of misconcep­tion (apout w,hat the future govern­men t will do), not onl y among ill iter­ate people but.even among the likes oftel!~h<;.rs . It.is the duty of everyone to spread the message that there are

alternatives, that the posibilities are there."

Kazombaue and Shani ngwa find that, once initial suspicion was over­come, people were very ent-husiastic about the credit union idea. A work­shop explaining credit unions and forms of co-operation held in Wind­hoek last month attracted people from all over Namibia and ended in the call for more projects of this kind to be set up in Namibia.

Co-operatives and credi t unions have been seen to work elsewhere in the developing world and links have been made with the African Confed­erati on of Co-operati ves and Savi ngs and the World Council of Credit Unions who provide guidance to new Namibian groul's.

Inspiration for this do-it-yourself attitude has come from the Saam­staan (Standing Together) Housing Co-operative which is made ,:,p of homeless and low-income people who - unable to find a home of their own in this time of hc~sing shortage and high prices - have come together to build their own homes.

The co-op has battled for years against town couricil stubborness which has made the going tough, but nonethel ess Sa'amstaan currentl y has more than 460 members and mem­bership is increasing all the time. '

With the arrival of a new and hopef~1 I y more sympatheti c govern­ment' co-operatives and credit un­ions will inevitably find it easier to operate than they have during the rigid regimes of the past.

Organisers say future ministers have given their backing to the credit union mov~ment and development aid will be avaifable to help such projects get off the ground.

But Kazombaue and 'Shaningwa are adl!mant lhat the people .should not just-take with0ut giving- a-..great deal first. ... ~. ~ ,i . '

"Wermust build ourselves -up," they say:' ',' We W0n 't appl y for money for nothing . fe0ple must be involved ... so that they can feel proud.

"hi the same way, the credit union is not a hand-out; you must be part of it before you can. getJoans."

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TIlE commandist and bureaucratic awroaches which took root during Stalin's time affected communist parties throug~out the world, including our own. We cannot disclaim our share of the · responsibility for the spread of the personality cult and , a mechanical embrace of Soviet domestic and foreign policies, some of which discredited the cause of socialism. We kept silent for too l ong after the 1956 Kruschev revelations.

It would, of course, be' naive to imagine that a movement can, at a stroke, shed all the mental baggage it has carried from the past. And our 7th congress 'emphasised the need for ongoing vigilance. It noted some isolated reversions to the past, in­cluding attempts to engage in in­trigue and factional activity in frater­nal organisations, sectarian attitudes towards some non-party colleagues, and sloganised dismissal of views which do not cmnpletel y accord with ours.

The implications for socialism of the Stalinist diStortions have not yet been evenly undetstood throughout our ranks. We need to continue the search 'for: a better balance between advancing party policy' as a collec­tive and the toleration of on going debate and even constructive dis­sent.

We, do not pretend that our party's changing postures in the direction of democratic socialism are the results only of our own independent evolu­tion. Our shift undoubtedly owes a prime debt to the process of per­estroika and glasnost which was so courageously· unleashed under Gor­hachev's inspiration. Closer to hmne, th.!= . democratic spirit which domi­nated iIi 'the re-emerged trade union movemept frmn 'the early 1970s

l'nI~W.RTd~, also maoe its impact. " But we can legitimatelydaim that

in certain ,fundamental respects our indigenous' revolutionary practice long ago ceased to be 'guided by Stalinist conceptS. '.,; ,

tion. But in our case, the shift which has taken place in our conception of 'vanguard' is by no means a post­Gorbachev phenomenon. The word­ing of this question in our new ,pro-

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The substance of this approach is reflected in the way our party has in fact conducted itself for most of its underground existence.

Our 1970 extended Central Com-gramme is taken almost verbatim mittee meeting reitciated the guide-from our Central Committee's 1970 lines which inform our relations with report on organisation. fraternal organisations and other social·

The 1970 document reiterated the forces. 'Special emphasis was OIIce need to safeguard, both in the letter again given '~o qte need to safegu,ard, and tht: spirit, the independence' of both in the letter and in the spirit, tht: the political expressions of other sbcial ~p.deP!1ndence of the politi~al exp!e~-forces whether economic or national. sions of other social forces, whether It rejected the old purist and dOjlli- economic nati~nal. , . , ". ' neering concept that all those wh9 do We d() not rygarq the trade unions not agree with the party are necessar- or the ,natiOhalII),ovement as mere ily .enemies of the w(jrkin~ class. cqnduits f9r our wlicies. Nor llo w,e And it saw no conflict lX:tweeJi our attempt to ~dvance our-Ix)licy posi-understariding of the ' concept of tlons 'throughintt:1,gue ,or manipula-

'vanguard and the acceptance of the tion. Our relationship with these African National Congress as the head organisations is ' based on complete of the liberation alliance: respect for their independence, in-

Despite the inevitable limitations tegrity and inner-democracy. In so which illegality imposed On our il1- far as our influence is felt, it is the ner-party democratic processes, the result of open submissions of policy principles of accountability and elec- positions and the impact of individ-tivity of all higher organs were sub- ual communists who win respect as sequently adhered to. Seven under- among the most loyal, fue mos't de-ground congresses of our party have voted and ideologically clear mem-been held since 1953. The delegates bers of thes~ organisations . to' congress from the lower organs Old habits die hard and among the were elected without lists from above most Pernicious of tifese, is the purist and always constituted a majority. concept that all .those who do not The incoming Central Committees agree with the party are necessarily were elected by a secret'ballpt with- enemies of socialism. This leads to a out any form of director mdirect substitution of name-caliing and jar-"guidance' to the delegates: In'other gon for he~lthy ciebate with non-words, the Leninist concept of demo- party activists. As. already mentioned, craticcentralismhasnotbeenabused our 7th Congress n~ted some iso-to entrench authoritarian leadership latedreversions along iheselines and practices. ' < .' resolved to cpm\'at sy:~h tendendes . .

Our structures, down to the lowest But, in geneal, the IOng-establi~hed , units, have been increasingly en~Ur-' and appreciable move away Jrom" , aged to·assess and question leader" . old-style commandismanO' sect3J;i~

tionship which evolves between po­litical parties and state strucnires must not, in any way, undermine the sov- ' ereignty of elected"bodies. ,

We als? believe that if th!!re is real · democracy in the pOSt-aplijtheid state, the way will be open for a peaceful --' progressi~n towards our ·ultirnate objectlve "- a sOcialis.t South Africa. Tttis:approach is consistept with the Marxist view - not alwaysaQhered to in prac,tice ,- that the worki!1gclass must wi'll the majority to its side; as lqjlgas ,no vip~e!l'2e is us~d agaipst th'~ .. ¢<>.ple there. is no other road to power.

It follows that, in truly. democratic conditio,n.s; it is ,perfectly legitimate i and desirable for a party claiming to be the political instrument of the working class to attempt to lead its constituency in democratic contest for political power against other parties and groups representing 'other social forces. And if it wins, it must be

. constitutionally required, from time to time, to go back to the people for a ,renewed. mandate. The alternative to this is self-perpetuating pOwer with all its implications for corruption and dictatorship.

We dare not underestimate the damage that has been wrought to the cause of socialism by the distortions we have touched upon. We, how­ever, continue to have complete faith

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that socialism represents the most rational,just and democratic way for. human beings to relate to one an­other. "

- Humankind can never attain real freedom until a society has been buil t in which no person has the freedom to exploit another person.

- The bUlk ofhuffianity' s resources will never be used for the good of humanity until they are in public

. ownership and under democratic control.

- The ultimate aim of socialism to eliminate all social inequalities oc­cupies a prime place in the body of civilised ethics even before Marx.

- The all-round development of the individual and the creation of oppor­tunities for every person to express his or her talents to the full can only find ultimate expression in a society which dedicates itself to people r.ather me profit.

The opponents of socialism are very vocal .about what they call the failure of sOCialism in Af'?ica. But they say little, if anything, iibout Africa's real failurevthe'iailures of capitalism. Over 90 per cent 'ofour continerit'speople live out ~their ~wretched and oppressed-jIves in stag-­nating and declining capitalist-ori­ented economies. International capi­tal, to whom most of these countries are mortgaged, virtually regards cheap bread, freedom education and full

, ~ployment as economic crimes. .- Western"outcries' against violations

of human rights are muted when they occur in countries with ,a capitalist orientation.

The way forward for the whole of humanity lies within a soci~t frame­work g~ded by genuine 'social hu­manitarianism and not within a capi­talist system which, entrenches eco­nomic and social' inequalities as a way of life. Socialism can undoubt­edly be made to ' work without, the negative practices which, have dis­torted many of its key objectives.

But mere faith in the future of socialism is not enough .. The lessons of past failures have to be learnt. AbOve all, we have to ensUre that'its fundamental terrel sOCialist demOC­racy - occupies a rightful place in all future practice.

Change is the price of survival - read the country's biggest paper, The Namibian.

This is the case particularly in . relation 10 the way ' the party per­formed its role as a working class vanguard, its relations wjth fraternal organisations and representatives of other-social forces and, above all, itS ' approach to the question .of democ­racy in the post-apiu:theid state and in a future socialist South AtTica.

, ship pronoUncements "in a critical, anism has ' won 'for' our party' the spirit and .the views of .the member- acih1itation and suppOrt of growing .' riiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.IiiiIiii •• ::-.,..-::'--:-~--~~-:-1 ship are invariably canvassea before' number ofnon-communist'revolu"' fmalismg ' basic policY 'dOcwnents. tionary' activists in the broad work-Our 7tll'congress, which liaopted'oui': 'ers' arid national movement:We also new programme; The Path to Power, cOnsiderit apprOjiriat~ (0 canvass the ' ~'as;amOdel of dem'ocrarlct:onsulta- ' ;- vi~ws'of such activists in the forniu-

, tion and spirli~ debate~ " , 18tionof c~rtain aspects of bur pOl~ - S~cial procedures .ddigned to" . icy; For example, we s.ubmitted our exchlde' sUs~te«(enem:y agents' as preliminary 'conception of the con-4elegates' to' c<mgiess limited corn- tents ota WOik~rs' Charter for criti-plete free. choice. But, iIi practice, cal 'djscUs'sion not only in our own

We have always~lieved (~d we these limitatlonS mvol~ed" in the :' rallks but ' throughout the natiorial , 'COIitinue t(}dq so) tP:at it is indispen- - clandestiiie conditions, the' wlil of , ' 'and' trade' union nwvementS. ~

sablefor the.wOrking class to have an our membersqip finds denl'ocratic independcilt politiciU iJ'isliumeni which expression: This spirit of deniocr~cy safeguards its role in the, democratic also informs oW-relationship with. revolution and which leads It towards . , '" ' an eventual classless society . . But ' fraternal ~liiical forces ' and our

" approach to the ~liticill fr1Uliework ' such'leadership ,must be 'won rather , ' ." , ~. . O\lrp.!Il1Y's programme holds firmly . of a pOs!,:liberition-Africa. than iJnposeci. qur,c~aimJo repiesent to Ii pOsi-aparth¢id state which will the historic aspirations of the workes " guarantee all citizens·tpe pasic'rights 'does not give. us an aDsolutec.right to , ' " ',. lUld freedoJ:Iisof.organisation, speech, ' lead them or to ~xercjsecontrol-()ver"" glougtJ.t; press, movement,'residCl).ce., society as a",:hole.'iri~tliefr ,parm,-. .> " coriscjence and religion; full trade , ,Our new programfue asserts that a ' ,~., , ' , _. . ' ~"" "" l,Inion,rights for all worker~ includ-comrriun'ist party does. not, earn the " "As we:have already noted, one ~of .; ing the rightto striKe,illl)d one p'ets()fl ~ ;

of v8l\guard ', .: ,the most senous casualties indiviae . ,; ,one vote i1\frec< and democratic el,ec- ~ it. Nor .bwhi~fi, de.\)~loped between dem9c- ' : tioI1s.Theseirt;edomuonstitut~;!h~g

, racy,~d ,s(it;ialism was in the one- _ very ess¢rice ,of our natioriaH'ibeTa~ .1. 'Qra '. ,'sias(t~6f~Q~~blp~~~'!;X~en the ruli!1g' tion and soCialist objectives and they

. parti¢s :1!n~~tJ:(e~,1ila~s~1:)rganisatiol}s. clearly imply political pluralism.

,the true cause of liberation and so­,cililism. And we can only win'adher- , el).ce to our ideology by demonstrat­ing its superiority as a theoretical' guide to revolp tionarypractke.

This approach to the .vanguard concept has not, as we know, always been adhered to in world revolution­ary practice and in an earlier period we too were infected by the distor-

In ord~t~!~~~ ' it ~istortion~in :" Both for these ~istorical reasons apost-apahl.!~_, ",' ' ~ca we ha~e, ,; and be~au.se ~xpe~e~1eth.as-:,~9~;J1;'i' for example, "set- out In our draft that an mstltutlOnallSedone"Party state" ~ Workers' Chart'€!- that: "Trade uh- has a strong propensity for authori-ions and their federation shall be tarianism, we remain prota:goriists; of~ completely independent and answe~- multi-party post-apartheid democracy able only to the decisions of their both in '.the national democratic and members,or affiljates, democratically socialist phases. arrived at. No political party, state We believe tha~P9st-apartheid state . organ or enterprise, whether public, power must clearly vest in the elected private or mixed, shall directly or reprt!sen'tatives of the people and not, indirectly 'interfere with such inde- . directly or indirectly, in the adminis­pendence." trative coinmandof a party. The rela-

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NAMIBIA'S President-elect Sam Nujoma (left) listens carefully to local business person Harold Pupkewitz at last week's Chamber of Mines dinner. Photograph by Lesley Paton.

A GUYANESE police monitor, Carl Wilson, receiving his" peace­keeping medal" from U ntag Police Commissioner Stephen Fanning at a special function this week. Photograph by Stanley Katzao.

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Left: THIS year's A Shipena student council: Filemon Nande (head pupil), Frederick Afrikaner, Laban Hoveka, Ebson Kauba, Edison Tjerije, Ian Brown, Kanam Harney, Sam Tjombe, Eric Clay, Job Katana, Eben Kazapua, Elizabeth Eises (head pupil), Lempie Angula, Isabella Kangueehi" Edith Kauta, Sandra Kuhanga, Charlotte Kanuuaera, Herlinde Glaser, Regina Davids, Jeanethe Tjikuzi, Renathe Gawanas, Uasenina .Kazekondjo, Dina '

. Katataiza, Florence Katuuo, Magdalena Monde and Othilie Owases.

Below: NEW on the block. Some of the teachers who this year joined the staff at the A Shipena Secondary school in Katutura. They are A Roman, English; J Kuvare, Geography and Commercial Science; George Kaiyamo, deputy head; Kat jiuongua, , Gommercial Science; Ziki, English; and Mungunda, Afrikaans.

TRADE unionists are not only involved in the serious fight for the rights of workers. They also sometimes enjoy lighter moments. Here unionists of the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (Manwu) celebrate the birthday 'of Sandra Indonga, in front. Seen with her are fellow trade union workers. Photograph by Da'oud Vries.

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Leonardsville, a 'forgotten town CAPE TOWN - A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a Windhoek woman facing a R200 000 fraud charge for attempting to sell fake diamonds after she failed to appear in the Cape Town regional court.

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THE ABSENCE of job opportunities coupled with inadequate housing lead to poor living conditions and unacceptable social practices. Most of the small towns far removed from the public eye have suffered from underdevelopment from the side of the central authorities.

Development has been geared for tourist attraction and the towns in far-off areas are h:ft to struggle on their own. But, the truth_ofthe matter is that people in these areas stream to the cities in the hope of getting jobs. In turn, the influx from rural areas to the larger urban centres only aggra­vates the existing unemployment crisis there.

Leonardsville, is but one of the small places which can rightly be said to have been ignored by the authorities when it comes to devel­oping rural towns.

There is virtually no employment opportuni ti es in the towl!. As a result the youth just hang around the dusty streets and resort to crime . .

A teacher in the town said they had . a problem keeping unemployed youngsters busy as there wele no recreational facilities.

The community has called on the Department of National Education to build at least one decent recreational hall.

Leonardsville has population of just more than 800 people, bu toni y a tiny fraction of them are employed. Even those who do work labour under outdated labour practices and are subject to daily dismissals by em­ployers. The authorities have only

built 40 houses for the town's i nhabi­tants, which live 20 people per house.

The rent is R27,40 a month, but most people cannot afford to pay this. As a result many people have built shanties from scrap material in the town area.

- Most shanties are not water-resis­tant and during the rainy season, people have to sleep in water.

While donkey carts are the sole transport for the people of Le­onardsville, their animals do not have any grazing. The Namibian was in- . formed that the community had approached the town's authori ties to demarcate a camp for grazing, but that nothing had materialised yet.

"Grazing camps in Leonardsville are onlyJor the better off," a source said .

The Namibian also spoke to a grandmother, Anna Isaacks, who has lived in the town since the late Six­ties. Since her husband passed aw~y three years ago, Granny Isaacks has been surviving with her six children on her pension.

Presently she lives with two of her sons, both unemployed, in a shanty made of plastic sheeting.

Leonardsville should defini tely be put on the incoming government 's priority list for development. ·

STOP PRESS THE theology unit of the Council of Churches in Namibia yesterday announced that the Windhoek pastors meeting which was supposed to be held today at 16hOO will now take place the same day but at 13hOO. The pastors will meet with Paul Gifford, who is presently visiting Namibia on the invitation of the CCN. The meeting will take place at the CCN headquarters in Maseko street, Katutura. For further enquiries contact Willem Danse at telephone 217621, ext 230.

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Helena Faro, 41 of Khomasdal, forfeited her bail of in 000 by not appearing on Wednesday. Charges against her co-accused, Kendry Meyer, 35, ofRocklands, Mitchells Plain, have been with­drawn pending Faro's arrest. The state alleges that on July 28 last year she tried to sell 26 "glassy objects" to aNicholas Visagie for R200 000. - Sapa

THE Force Commander of Untag, Lt-Gen Dewan Prem Chand, and his deputy, Brig Daniel Opande, are on a farewell tour of military bases in northern Namibia, UN chief spokes­person Fred Eckhard said yesterday. With the UN preparing to leave, the level of staff has been reduced to 377 international mem~rs, 350 locally recruited employees, 1 159 civilian police and 3 389 military monitors. Eckhard told a media brierrng Un­tag's Australian contingent was winding up its operation by fencing, and :repairing fences, around 10 minerJelds near former SADF and police. bases in the north. Thi<i would be followed by a publicity campaign 'and a public appeal to leave the fences, parts of which had been stolen, intact, he added.

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LlEBENBERG EXHIBITION:

A document of. the bush .. war

JOHN Liebenberg is Namibia's best-known news photographer, a reputation he has earned through a commitment to the country and its people, and an awareness of and sympathy with the people of the north, who suffered most during the long, drawn-out war years.

His new exhibition of photographs, which opens in the Arts Associa­tion 's gallery on' the comer of John Meinert and Leutwein Streets on March 14, is called 'The Eye of the Elephant' (,eisho londjaba; in Kwan­yama).

'The eye of the elephant' is a phrase that was used by Plan combatants to describe the moments before engag­ing South African Defence Force troops in one of the many firefights during the bush-war.

Liebenberg's exhibition is a pho­tographic perspective on Namibia's struggle for liberation from South

. African rule. The exhibition also includes a range of photographs depicting the social and economic circumstances under which Namibi ­ans lived during colonial rul~ .

The 32-year-old photographer has been documenting aspects of the

liberation struggle for about a dec­ade, not without his share of harass­ment: he was arrested, locked up, teargassed, shot at and numerous written death threats· were always stuck up on his darkroom walls.

His pictures invoke emotions rang­ing from anger and shock to relief and laughter.

While not all may appreciate what he has captured, his work can cer­tainly never be ignored. Liebenberg's previous exhibition venues include The Alternative Space at Swakopmund and the Market Gallery in Johan­nesburg.

He is 'currently a fi nalist in the Viva Art Now 1989 exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and has recently also been invited to exhibit his photographs at an Idasa/SAIIA-

. organised exhibition on the Univer­sity of the Witwatersrand "aIJl1j.1U.".

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ABOVE: An old Namibian in front of his bum-out homestead after an attack during the war. On the left, a haunting study of a young Ovahimba girl.

What's··.happening in 'Windhoek?' • At 13h15 this afternoon, Sjorde 90 . presents Jack Francis' The University Sin~ers for a half-hour of "indigenous delight" . At the Space Theatre on the Academy campus. Adults, R4; students and schoiars, R1,50.

• Milly van Niekerk's exhibition of raintings, titled 'The Human Condition 1990' , is still on at the Arts Association Studio gallery on. the corner of Leutwein Street. Van Niekerk says about her work: "I love colour, therefore my works are statements about the present human condition." One will have to see her work to discover the logic behind this ~tatement. On until March 14.

* The display of the Fri tz Gaerdes insect collection has an extended run until April 30. The collection can be viewed in the South West Tower at the AIte Fest. Monday to Friday -9am to 6pm; Saturdays - lOam until 12.45pm. Sundays and public holidays - l1am to 12.30pm, 3pm to 6pm. Closed on April 1.3.

* At the NlN film festival : Tonight at 8pm, Robert Duvall 's' Angelo My Love' ; Saturday al 6pm, 'The Lady Banker' with Romy Schneider; Sat-

urdayat 9pm, Diane Kurys ' 'Entre Nous' (Between Us). Sunday at 8pm, 'I Sent a Letter to My Love' with

Simone Signoret and Jean Rochefort. Entrance R8. ¥ ou cannot afford to miss any of these.

A PERFORMANCE of works for horn, violin and piano of Brahms and Beethoven will be held by three Windhoek Conservatoire lecturers· this coming Sunday, 11 March at 20h30 in the Conservatoire hall. From left to right, Dennis Stander (piano), Rita Kapps (violin) and Boris Mohr (horn). The entrance fee is RS for adults and R2 for children. Tickets at the door.

Book Forum awards literature prizes

THE Namibia Children's Book Forum is an organisation actively promoting a book culture among the children of Namibia .and recently gathered for the second time to present a number of authors with literary awards for juvenile literature. Chairperson Andree-J eanne Totemeyer said in her address if we wanted to hook young Namibians on books, " we must otTer them more books which present the people, customs, lifestyles, history, animals, p lants and scenery of their own country".

NCBF prize-winnes. From the left, Hans Namuhuja, Hans Eichab, Freda Linde, Doc Immelman and

Which is exactly what ,the NCBF did when they awarded pr izes for "a Ndonga poetry anthology to T.K. Kamupingene, titled 'Ozondambo za Tjipangandjara'; an Afrikaam~ award to well-known writer Freda Linde for her book' Die Singende Gras', and an award for an unpublished Nama-Damara manuscript to Hans Eichab, titled 'Hoada! Gommi'. Doc Immelnian and Hans Namuhuja re(eiver' honourable mention for their works 'Die Soektog' a. nd ' Momh,,, ·· Yomukongo' respectively. More about the NCBF 8"; ' Li ld: - ,',

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. Imagine swimming through thick, melted chocolate and you have the feeling of listening to Floating Into The Night. . Floating is certainly the right word, for Cruise's gooey tunes mixed with almost an overkill of echo chamber, and seasoned with. sullen snippets of

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brass and strings are an elevating experience indeed.

As the record company release explains: "There is no way to pre­pare yourself for the strange forces which impel this extraordinary mu­sic. "

It is impossible to label Cruise and her music, but from time to time you get a wiff of Lauri Anderson and a smattering of Strawberry Switchblade.

Cruise claims to have a love for '50s music, but some of her interpre­tations of this classic sound would have Roy Orbison turning in his grave.

This is music for listening to while lying in long grass in the.middle of a field on a sunny afternoon with some boOze and no one arourid. And as invariably happens on such occa­sions, you are soon fast asleep.

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Rock fans might be more f~iliar with Gramm as the lead singer of mega group Foreigner.

On Long Hard Look, however, Gramm escapes from the pomp and overproduction of so much of For­eigner's more recent work and con­centrates on solid, down to earth rock.

Produced by Peter Wolf (who has previously worked with rock outfits The Who, Starship, ani Wang Chung), Long Hard Look is certainly nothing revolutionary, but it should give you

. head bangers past and present some­thing to shake your heads to.

Leather, American beer, Marlboro cigarettes, Harley Dav.idson bikes and macho poses, the age-old formula is still there; Gramm's middle to high­pitched vocals (which never 'quite become a scream), screeching guitar solos, thwnping bass and drwns, interspersed with the odd gentle nwnber making for a b~anced and

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well-prOduced albwn . And there is some variety too, no

doubt due to the different guitarists and guitar sounds used on the album. . Critics have apparently heralded

Long Hard Look as a milestone in Gramm's career. It is certainly not a millstone. (***) .

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James takes 11 songs, . including

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some mediocre nwnbers previously recorded by other artists, and fIlls them with passion, pain, "blood, sweat and tears.

Angry, strong, tender, defiant, all adjectives describing James and her bluesy Billy Holliday-like voice which sent shivers through Western audi­ences duing the '70s.

Deep In The Night was origninally released in the USA in 1978 at a time when so many solo artists were busy recycling old songs and more often than not the end result was both boring and crippling to the music industry.

Not so with Etta James, who mi- · raculously reworlcs middle of the road tunes, such as Kiki Dee's Sugar On The Floor and The Eagles' Take It To The Limit - into classic blues.

While these tracks do not lose all their eontemporaIY glass, songs Laying Beside You and Only Women Bleed

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~~~[;~:i~;~;~~~7. I t is obviously the time for the

singers of famous bands to go it alone, and here we have Kool and the Gang frontrnan James ITTaylor'vith his debut solo albwn.

A combination of soul, funk and disco pop, Master of the Game is predictably slick, though does not smack as muchofKool and the Gang as one might expect:

Instead, there is a definite Michael Jackson flavour to the albwn, in particular the first single release Sister Rosa which is an equally danceable though slightly weary spin-off from the Jackson epic TIrriller.

Master of the Game also includes an obscure and rather forced rework­ing of the House that Jack Built.

Tay lor lacks his own ideas and this weakness becomes all the more no­ticeable as the artist himself pro­duces every track on the albwn. Even involvement in the recording by the likes of James Ingram and Paulinho de Costa fails to instil much original-

. ity into the project. Nonetheless, a smattering of tracks

from Master of the Game could go down' well on the nation's dancefloors . (***)

::::::umak~~i ~· L.ihganiSa ·?: " : t~abafana Bejubane (Soul

/: ~ro~~ers ;~~~)r(iS) .

Such has been the Sl'ccess of the crossover of pop and traditional Zulu music by the Soul Brothers and Madlala Brothers that the award­winning formula is now being pushed to the limit. .

Alas, Umakoti lacks the style and song-writing skill of their mentors and the result is disappointing.

Whereas the inspirators of "Zulu soul music" ?roduce danceable and instantly likeable songs out of the style's limited rhythms, Umakotiis a poor, plodding imitation.

Each track on the albwn starts in the same way and at the same pace which becomes worn after the first three tracks.

Having said this, the albwn is certainly earthy with its accoustic guitar and rustic accordian. No glitzy prOduction nwnber here. (**)

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SICKO WANKERS VERSUS THE TRUE SUFFERERS IN THE GREAT T-SHIRT BATTLE Every time I see one of these god­

damn independence T-shirts on sale I feel a surge of patriotic pride fol­lowed by a wave of irrational hatred. There are those who are working 23 'hours a day, driven like demons, to keep the shirts coming. Beneath piles of invoice books they have dug out small working spaces and their mar­riages are on the point of collapse. ~very time they blink, their eyes roll back in their heads with the sound of a computerised cash register open­ing.

Behind many of these shirts are people who would proudly have accepted a contract to design for the Ku Klux Klan.

Some of these bastards getting rich out of the national flag still believe it is not too late to swop the yellow sun for a swastika. •

Is this why so many whites drive around with cute messages stuck to the bumpers and rear windows of their cars? Have we really allowed them to get away with displaying

. SWA stickers for all these years? But now they are comrades in the

true spirit of independence, working around the clock and neglecting their women in a feverish attempt to print the perfect shades of blue, red and green on a range of garments which can fit everyone from Orphan Annie to Martti Ahtisaari.

Gone and forgotten is the incendi­ary anger they felt when lS-year-old

Jannie came back from Cuito Cuana­vale with only two out offour limbs. Their threats of retribution and vows of revenge still linger somewhere in the ether, but today these same Out­raged Citiz.ens are salivating over bank books being rapidly boosted by col<?urs which not so long ago made them want to grab a fistful of phos­phorous grenades and join their boys on the border.

Now that there is a moratorium on assassinations, even CCB members in South Africa are buying in bulk from Taiwan and sticking Mandela 's face across any fabric that sucks paint.

I've always thought that 'oppor-. tunist' was a dirty word used to de­scribe someone who lurked in dark alleys with One hand down his trou­sers and the. other down his enemy 's trousers.

Now I know I'm right. But to call them a bunch of sicko

wankers would not be in line with The Policy - so I won't. ,

I know a person who looks at the Very Rich and says: "Pity them for they are the true sufferers."

In fact, this person is my father. He has also been known to say things like: "Cui your hair and get a job you lazy bastard!"

Fortunately I sussed out that these paternal endearments were merely a test, and I resisted the urge to become one of the true sufferers.

This is why I never made any

money from Resolution 435, Untag, the elections or the independence celebrations. I also never grew rich from not becoming a stockbroker -and if I ever see my father again he ' can stick his philosophy up his bum.

As a writer, I need to feel the disease suffered by the Very Rich.

I need to know this illness. I need to wallow in a plarinum jacuzzi snort­ing Bolivian cocaine with seven naked women from the East if I am- to understand this affliction.

My father should have realised this.

Instead, I sit here with no drugs, smoking cheap Iranian cigarettes and drinking South African beer because Werner List has not yet rei nstated his brewery workers who were fired for going on strike. Even the al18rchists are becoming millionaires these days.

I have nothing to sell, besides a headful ofideas which nobody would touch for fear of life imprisonment.

Being a victim of suburbia, I tried selling my body to the housewives in the street thisweek. Instead oflucra­tive offers of sexual acr6batics, I got dozens of women in curlers and crim­plene gowns throwin~ themselves at my feet pleading for English lessons.

It was horrible. All they wanted was to be able to

speak the Offici.al Language. They didn't even notice my body, and instead began shrieking about the works of great British writers like Albert Camus.,

Realising that reorientation would involve shock treatment, I recited seven paragraphs from. The Naked Lunch and fled .

But even William Burroughs cpuld not put them off, and they are still beating on my door late at night babbling about adverbs and similes.

My contribution to national recon­ciliation is that the prattling freaks who sweep the suburbs at 7am on Sundays on a mission from God be replaced by sane men wearing noth­ing but latex rubber jockstraps who will issue every household with a Roget 's Thesaurus. The book will pe handed over silently, and fascist dogs

, like Rottweilers, Dobermanns and A1sations will be quietly teargassed to achieve the mission.

There will be no fuss .. . there will be no questions.

I tried this yesterday, and all I got was three invitations to join aerobic classes and some hysterical bitch threatening me in Afrikaans with a court order. .

As you will see .by the close-up of my righteye today, I am in desperate need of help. This is not the ,.glinting eye of a virile athlete about to turn thirty. This is a window to a tor- . men ted soul which has aged beyond redemption in the last five years . .

Every major organ in my body, including all the old favourites, is rapidly approaching this condition.

My brain feels like a giant swollen

prune. I can no longer smile at strang­ers. Tragically, this means I am no longer in the running as a contender for the Mr National Reconcil iation 1990 title.

I could always try shaking hands instead of smiling, but recentl y mine have acquired a tendency to shake violently without even waiting for instruction~ from the swollen prune. .In some quarters this is regarded as unacceptable anti-social behaviour, especially in supermarkets when the shaking is ll<.:COmpanied by mum­bling and spi tting at young couples in love.

I needn 't worry, though, because nobody wants to talk to the unem­ployed an ywa y . Peopl e are too afraid that we will demand money from them. The poor swine have yet to realise what an outdate<l concept this

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DIE Khomasdalse Onderwyskollege (KOK) sluit binnekort vir goed en aile studente en dosente by die inrigting sal aanstaande kwartaal na die Windhoekse OnderwyskoUege oorgeplaas word.

Die besluit is onlangs in Wind­. hoek gen'eem deur die tWee betrokke uitgaande etniese bestelle, die Wit­en Kleurlingeadministtasies.

Dit volg na mll,ande se dtuken samesprekingetussen die onder­

. skeie administrasies. . D~e beshlit sal die nuwe inkom­ende1'eg~ring in staat stel om KOK . vir die res van diejaarin tespan om

'. , die 'nypende tekort aan akkommo- . dasie in skole in Khomasdal te verlig.

'nskokkom . N a wat vemeem word, gain prof.

Nel eers Maandag die wit studente inlig oor die dTamatiese verander­inge wat· aanstaande kwartaal by die wit kampus 'sal plaasvind .

Die persaneel van. WOK sal ook dan eers breedvoerig oor ' die aangeleenthc:;id toegespreek word.

Die nuwe studente van KOK sal ook in die WOK-hostel opgeneem word, het :n woord"loer4er van die Wit-administrasie gisteraand gese.

DIE aangewese minister ~ van binnelandse sake, Hifikepunye Pohamba, het gister . ook' die' gevangenispersoneel toegespreek. Hier sit een van die manne wat kwaai aangeval is ·deui' die ' gevangenes. (Foto: Stanley Katzao.) . .

Ni'wat yemeem word ' wil die uitgaande ~eurling-administrasie die~ gebOue van die KOK gebruik om:!'n derde hoerskool daar te stel, maar'besluite sal voortaan streng in ooileg met die inkomende nuwe Depw:tement van Nasionale Opvoed­ing geskied.

Probleme rondom die leerplanne sal met omsigtigheid hanteer word en volgens die woordvoer4er sal die onderskeie leerplanne parallel loop totdat dit uitgefaseer is.

Pohamba besoek gevangenis ... Focus het betroubaar vemeem dat die huidige rektor van WOK, pro­fessor Doc Nel, as rektor sal aanbly terwyl die huidige rektorvan KOK, Cliffie Olivier, as een van die vise­rektore ingelyf sal word.

Dit sal daartoe lei dat diestudentc apart les kry en eers aanstaande jaar sal eerstejaars saam in klasse kill sit . . .

Tronk vol aparth"eid Die vermoede is ook dat die studente apilrt gehou sal word in die hostel.

Volgens die woordvoerder is die wittes in die land voorbereid op die komende veranderinge en "onssal OEUR STANLEY KATZAO

DIE aangewese minister van binnelandsesake, Hifikepunye Pohamba, is oor die algemeen teleurgeste)d 'oor die toestande waarin gevangenes in die Windhoekse Gevangenis leer. ,

Die nUllS da1 die veelbepoke WOK as wit bastion geval het, was gister nog nie wyd bekend nieen kan vir sommige wit studente en d~sente as

dit met verantwoordelikheid han-. -teer".

Dit volg na 'n besoek van vier ure gister aan dietronk, waar hy gese het dat hy die besoek afgele het na ver­sOeke wat deur middel van briewe in xoerante aan hom gerig is.

Pohamba net, vergesel deur . sy adjunk Nangolo. Ithete, eers ' die gevang~l toegeSpreek. Hy het by hierdie geleentheid dit baie . duidelik gesteldat rBssed.iskrim~na- . " sie iets van die yerledejs. 'n Nuwe · . regering, daaigestel deur demokra­tiese prosesse,js ~sig. om die ad­ministrasie van die lan~ oor te neem,

I he.t hy gese." ... en daarom sal geen . _, apartheid in die I'rorike geduld wont · . ' rue". ., .~

Die· vroue tiet eerste die geleen­theid gekry om deur die minister te woord gestaan te word. Kort voordat

. hy nagenoeg 20 v~hulle toegespreek

het,hethy 'nkind van eenjaaren drie maande oud opgemerk. Volgens die konvnissaris van gevangenisse in N amibie, Generaal 10han Robbertse, het die magistrlUlt in daardie siui.k die magtiging .an dIe ge"angerusower­hede gegee om die moeder met die baba ·toe te laat, aangesien. niemand na die kiJid k~Iikyk nie. ·

Pohainba ~~egternie tevindevir die verskoning;nie en het genoem 4at· die onskuldige kind nie dieselfde straf as die ouer behooq uit te dien nie.

ijy het. belowe dat daar dringend iia hici'die gevai· gekyk sal word, om te verseker dat die kipd dl\lUUit ge~ hs.8I en m 'n welsynsinrigting geplaas ' word, totdat die moeder haar straf klaai' uitgedien het. .. ,

Toestande in die vroue-seksie, . waarva,n,die meerdemeid Owambo-

en Xhosa-sprekend is, met betrek - die minister gewag toe hy die mans- Die algemene gevoel was egterdat -- king . tot _ rassediskriminasie was seksie besoek. . daar met amnestie gediskrimineer deurentyd onder die kollig. Eers het hy sowat 775 van hulle word. Sekere kriminele, onder an-. ,Dit het onder die aandag van die toegespreek. Hulle word in die P- dere diewe, rowers enverkragters minister g~kom dat die wit seksie aangehou - meduim tot langter- voel dat hulle ook geregtig is op vrouegevangenes in a~ enkelselle myn-gevangenes, insluitende geharde amnestie, indien dit toegestaan'word bly. Een van die wit gevangenes het kriminele. aan moordenaars soos Dirk Calitz. probecr'verduidelik dat sy in die aparte N adat die mans entoesiasties 'n '. 'n VersOek van die gevangenes dat gedeelte bly oindat sy besig is met . toeskouerskring rondom Pohamb~ hwk graag die -kQJ11ende onafhan-verdere studies. Pohamba het haar gevorm het,het hy begindeurote se . ~idsvieringemethulnaas~taIIl-s~ies verwelkom, verhl omdat 'hy ' datdaar 'p einde' gebring is aan die des'wilqeurbring,hetdieministerin van mening is dat die gevangenes os' 'wit vel' ,. wat vir jare baas gespeel 'n- baie'moeilike posisie geplaas. In beter landsgenote moet uitkom wan- helin die land. Oindat dit 'nregering beginsel gaan hy saam met die ged-neer hulle Ontslaan word, maar genoc:m van die mense"dem die mense, is, sal agte, maar hy het verduidelik dat dit dat sodanige geleentheid ook na die die verskillende etniese groepe, sever . ' . volgens wet verkeerd sal wees van gevangenes van ander kleure in die dit die regering bettef, slegs ecn wees. hOrn om die kommissaris opdrag te tronk uitgebrei moet word. . '. Hy het djt ook baie duidelik gestel gee om hulle,vir daardie tidperk vry

Verdere ontevredenheid in die 4at nasion ale ~ersoening nie betrek - . te laat. Tweedens is daar geen waar-. vroue-seksie was onder andere die king .het op' kriminele gevangenes borgofhullenadielImlcsaltetugkecr

feit dat slegs die swartes was- en nie. "Die regering kanniemetkrim- nie, hethy gese. .. sttykwerk doen. "Dit is ons daaglikse .. inele gevangenes versoen nie/' het Hy het egter belQwe om oorwe-brood in hierdie tronk," h~t eelJ hy g<?se, maar belowe datdllar in- gjng te, skenk aan moontlikhede hoe geprotesteer. . . ' dringend gekyk sahvord na amnestie- . die gevangenes by die feesvieringe

. R ESI DE N,C E EOR ~ SAtE ~. afi~:~:.:!:~~ :~~~nV~~~?:~e~~ =~:~~;~~ v~~~~:e :e~ ' . be~: ::=~at~aj<xr Kleynhans ... . <.. " •• . krY nie: Die wit gevangenes het dit GOr·die res het.hy gese: "Die gereg verlede jaar voor Regter Levy ge-

'. ". . .. . • _ ~ . ·egter. Een ¥an hulle het selfs beweer ·sal oor hullotQepaal." lewer het oor die toestand, waarin " Stately i'E~sidehce with two flats, d6ubl~ dathulledeur die tronkowerhooe .' Eenvandiegevangenespet'nses-, eersteQOf1reders;errminderjarigesin .

- . c.. . . -, - verbiedisomnadie.radiote.Iuister. ' puntklagtelys~amensdiegroepaan dietronkaange~ou .word.het~kop ·garage 'and tWo carports~with"a- beautiful', ". ,,' 'n oproep ~athulle m di~~erband die minister voorgelees, ~at POhamba 'n stadium' in die kollig gekom.

large" la,')"I out garden 'The' e' st· .... :bl'·shment verledejaargedoenhet enweereCns ~-eenvir'· eC(n.bean!wOO{4het .. -';- ,.: .'nGtoepvan,sowat20minderjar- : ' .. . ' . . . u- . • . ~ , .. !:, :., _ '. :vinj~ gedoeri het, het'bp <lowe ore Opdie eerste vraag waarom. swar- igeS wumdie,gro,epyan geharde en

consists .of 12 rooms in total (e?<cll!ding · geval. . ... ,j. ;'1; ~-altyd~m~idinNamibiese 9U gev.angenes~, Majoor .Kleynhans 'b th . . d k't h s) and's completely' Nadat een van die gevangenes; 'n .,tronkejs. het hy dit eetstens 't6eg- het·latervefduide.lik"dat hulle in die .

a roo."1s pn ,c ~n .. ,. ,, ~ , 'r ," . .!" ~ .' ~", .. , bewaarderdaarvart b,eskuldig hetdat .; esbyf a.an\die.~.~kij in ~voIkingsa- .' . aand in a:fsonder~e;~elle .s}aap . . covered with interlocking 6ricks and "slasto'>v sy na hulle as "kaffers" verwys;~en i .mestelbng . • ~ "I ' ;;'" f .,- Volgens·t n .gevangenc,is 'die selle

around the lawn ~' frui1 tl"ees~'ai1Cr 'sHrubs;NEfry' i.;; - > :f!ulle selfs wegwys wanneer h~llt ,:, •..• Hy het:genoem datdie swartes in indie afdeling ontWetp omhoogstens , met probleme na haar gaan, l het ~,"dieJand.meer is endus., .proporsion- 28 mense ,te.akkommodeer, maardit

private. Enclose"d· with 1 ,5."n1ett~ ; higtt brick' '- S; Pohamba die betrokke bewaarfer eel gesproke,in-enige gemengde groep het ook gislet aan dittlig gekom dat . I 0 rI k' h . nadprgeroep Hyhethaarmeegedeel .. f.',meersal,wees. Afgesien·.v .. anditwas selfstot60menseeen.seldeel. _'n. Sel wall and .stee gates: · va 00 , mg'· -t e~centre " ,'< , t " ' . " . ~ dat su1ke optrede 'n kriminele obr~ ,<die vorige sis teem van so ',n aard dat waarin ons gaan loer het, ' het 48

ofWindhoekafle' surro!Jnding ~mountains , tr~ingisendusonmiddellikgest~ak . s·ti'awWcuitgedeelwasopgrondvan mense gehad:" 28 beddens en 20 Inoet word. . velkleur, het hy bygevoeg. matrasse tussen die beddens.

(1500 metres from,centre of town). - Sy hetlater in trane uitgebars. Nog 'n , probleem wat deur die Dit het ook aandie lig gekom dat Also suitable for offices. As hoof van g~vangenisse in die gevangenesin 'nemstiggeliggesien 'n mediese dokter, dr. Rabie, wat " land het hy verder g.emaan dat hy ,was, was die kwessie van die' 'blouc verlede jaar gestraf is om gee

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'n Groot teleurstelliiig het egter op geregtig is op amnestie. VERVOLG OP BLADSY 17

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'Wit NG-Kerk het:,.swak reliord met versoening'

en geregtigheid!' BERIGTE dat versoening tossen die ACN-faksies vaD' Kosie Pretorius en Jannie de Wet sou plaasvind, is oordrewe, het die leier van die NP-SWA, Pretorius, gisteraand aan Focus gese .

OS. DEaN BaTMAN

Albei het bevestig dat gesprekke sedert eergister tussen die strydende faksies begin het, maar' 'daar is nog niks bereik nie".

Dit volg nadat De Wet eergister 'n verklaring uitgereik het waarin hy bekenl gemaak het dat hy die regsaksie teen horn en ander sogenaamde kwasi­ACN-le?e sal bestry.

. , moontlike kompromie bereik kan word. De Wet het gese die hofsaak, wat op 16 Maart besleg sal word, gaan steeds vOOrt, maar dit sal afhang van die gesprekke wat vandag voortgesit sal word. .'

Gisteraand was Pretorius en De Wet taamlik versigtig om iets te se

MY eerste gevoel ~as dat dit 'n baie belangrike en deurslaggewende 'vetklaring is. ' '

Pretorius se NP-SW A het Vrydag 'n dringende hofbeveI in di'e Wind­hoekse Hooggeregshof teen die De Wet-faksie gekry, waarin hulle ver­bied is om 'n vergadering te hou in .) die naam van ACN.

, wat die samesprekinge vandag kan beduiwel, maar Pretorius het laatglip dat die toertadering vir moontlike versoening van die sogerJ¥Illde ICwasi­ACN gekom het.

Op 'n vraag of daar enige sukses en oplossing vir die skeuring voorsien word, was ~bei leiers bang om iets te

Die Skriftuurlike basis van die standpunte oor die NG Kerk in SW A as ~p-keddlidmaat, kerkeenheid, diakonale sending, ekumeniese bande met ander kerke en verhouding tlissen kerk en staat is baie stewig en 'n mens, kan in wese nie daarmee verskil nie. Die NP-SW A voer aan dat ACN

bloot 'n verkiesingsfront is terwyl De Wet glo dat hy voorsitter van 'n aparte ACN is met 'n eie regsi>er-

se. '; Tog sou ek graagmy indrukke ten

opsigre van 'n paar dinge wou gee. , Die verklaring (oor tiglyne) gaan op geen enkele punt verder as die vorige dokwnent van die NG Kerk, "KerkenSamelewing" ,nie. Vir my in die NG Sendfugkerk is daar niks nuutnie.

Inteendeel, dit ontbreek steeds aan die erkenning 'dat die NG Kerk in Suid-Afrika en Namibie die bevoor­~gteklasvandiesamelewingwasen dat die NG Kerk in die verlede die teologiese fondering vir apartheid voorsien het.

soonlikheid. ' Die leierstwis het reeds daartoe

gelei dat De Wet verlede jaar in November uit 'n kongres en uit die NP-SW A gestap het met sy g(oep volgelinge I?n 'n ACN met 'n eie grondwet daargestel het.

Gisteris deurdie witleiers gebruik om te gesels om te kyk of daar' 'n

VoigeriS 1'Pretorius is dit moeilik om enig!: voo::spelllng te maak. "Ons probeer deur onderhandeling om piobleme op te los." . De Wet het gese die onderhande­linge is ".sensitief van aard" en dat hy niks wir se nie. . . Pretoriu.s het volstaan dat die ACN

in 'n regsprobleem vasgevang is en nie in 'n politieke een, soos De Wet beweernie.

As 'n mens kyk na bladsy 3, para­graaf 5 in dieriglyne, lees dit as ~olg: "Ten spyte van sy klein getalle is die Ned. Geref. Kerk in SWA waarskynlik

Ds. Deon Botman ... Riglyne het groo~ ruimte ,:ir verbetering!

.TRONKVOL APAR1:H,EID - een van die besgeQrganiseerde en - ontstaan wat gaan die NG Kerk doen

gestruktureerde kerke in N amibie; is dat dit wat in die verklaring in wOOrde dit waarskyrilik een van die kerke staan, deW- alle -gemeentes in die <wat die ' meeste ' elendomme in die piaktyk ,wtgeleef'word? ' ,

I -{ltiicf"6S~it';'besKifCI'dif fela"tief 'oor ' " In die'lig varrdi~ verled~ 'en:die tol I aansienlike fondse; het 'n l'gbeie u, wat die'~G Kerk 'len OJ>sigte van

administrasie; -1ewer,vanuit eie ver-apartheid gespeel, sou 'n mens ver-moens waarskynlik per lidmaat groter _ wag dat die kerk, om ekwneniese 'bydraes op die terreinevan diens van bande met die NG Sendingkerk en barmhaitigheid, sending en jeugbe- NG Kerk in Afrika te vetsterk, die -diening as eriigeandet kerlc in Namibie 'Belydenis van Belhar ' (1986) sou en beskik Oar goedopgeleide teolOO. aanvaaroftenminsteditonderskryf.

' Totnou t~ hehoort!n groot persen- In die Belhar-belydenis-word die " -tas"ie iunpteRate i:en ,', hoo-prodUksie volgende bely: _ : bOCretotiUerdieketk.Namymening * Die sigbareeenheidvandiekerk; '. hcnlie kerk ~n'historieseagtergrond, " * roeping van die kerk·as vrede-

die NG Kerk in SW A hier op die meeskritiesemoment 'nysbrekerter water gclaat het en ons kan r.laar net VERVOLG VAN BLADSY 16,

hulle toewyding aan en opregtheid .waarder voorgeskryf word oor wie siek is en wie nie. met die verklaring to!!ts deur mimte Pohamba het dit as ongelooflik beskou dat 'n professionele persoon hom laat te skep Vir dieheJ'S.tel Van gebroke . ' ., Noorskryf deur 'n_ bew. !l8rder, wat,'n tOtale,l,eek op.med, iese ge,bi¢ is" " 'bande. I, 'J:, '.,"', < , '- _

,<-, 'n Ander groep,vlil} sowat,340 is as g~volg van 'n tekort.aan tyd net koroiks Die NG Kerk s81 egter mOet be'~ toegespreek. Dle·sowatflOOge:angeneswatdeurdieministertoegespreekis,

' gryp en aanvaar dat die verklaring sluit honderde ander uii wat hy nie as gevolg van 'n tekort aan tyd kom deur OIlS as 5w'art -kerke met veel tOespreek nie . . - . J'. ~ .' .' .

wantroue ontvang sal word, aange- Op pad tbrug het die veisldb~ininistermy meegedeel dat daar beslis drastiese sierrdie·NG Kerk ',n swak rekotd ten · stappe geneem sal word om die situasie indieironkvirdie mense 8anvaarbaar opsigte van versOening en getegtigheid te maak. Hy het genoem dat hy oor die algemeen seer voel oor die toestand in ,het. " .. ; ~ . ' , -die gevangerus, 'en veral oor'die'onrusQ@l"ende aantal mense in die tronk.

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r . "wat'in teologieseterme' om skuldbe- ' makers en versoenets, in ' 'il wereld ". ..," .

"'~ ~~~~s ~fe~~~~"~:~:~~ggewende , .v~ ~~:~::~~~~!;~~~~k:;'n :1' ;,,; SE~ELQWE R l~.OBST,ER:',C'O R PO'RATI~ON'J::'TD'" . belimgvirdie,versOOrrln:gs-nasiebou- ,- land w.aar on~g heers, en- . );, .~fl,;~!'\ <,.' .,.1,," -lJ" 3, .';" ',. p" ·O' "i B' O'~ X"" 15 ," ~~"-", ~" '-.. ,,,,~.,' !,' ';.

'".proS'Cs>in Namibie da~,die Modera- : die oproeprv.an aIle gelowiges ' n' 'l ',-::'<J "'." " • , . ' " : ' , n.· ,.~!) 'f .' ;:-. - "~: ";, ,1: ~ tuur .van-die 'NG '~erk aan ' hulle om gehoors!lamfle wees aaJ'l ',God ~ " 'fi. ,~;.. '(~"~. f~ :;:':, . • tuDERITZ ' " "" "" .,'t". '1

. 'gemeentes~'moese;:dat hulle die allee~ ,ai' $ou~ ditLstfaf ':en-" lyding ' , '. ;.' ' '., ·~''? .. 1., <, "1,, :-, :, : ":' .... , •. " .. ' . t' , ." 1. ~ ".! ,:, ,;"r' ij " • !j,,,,::, ,,"~'bew,indsaanvaarding !vanSwapoas , meebring. · ''': 'c~d .~ .. : , .. -.~ ',i .~"1.",J!' ".).~ , < ".;'. " j, -;h :~, f,. "j"

',' 'n; wil&beski~ng'/Vaiv~od" moet Dit sOllek as,j'n'goeieNertrekpunt '. aanvaar; . - "" .1- 'j " beskou,.aangesien ditdie enigste pad "

. "",' Insigselfsou 'n.rnens'ditkoo beskou ,vir,die NG Kerk is om terug te kan ;,. .~ ~. _,I • . , rn as die belydenis dat apartheid nie aan kom na die Wereldbond van . Gere- j, ' .' ."~,

die: wil van~ Godi voldoen het nie. formeerde ~Kerke;" Dit kan-net deur ." "Daami.ee moet die . NG Kerk die swart kerk',geskied eri:dit k~ as j,. gelUkgewens ert aang~oedig word 'n ideale' ver:t1'ekpUfltgesien 'word

om hierdie eerste tree in .die wegna om bande te herste!.', , ' < flasionale versoenmg·met daad ver- 'As dit vir die'NO Kerk te swaar

~. 0{ d.4:r te voe~;.L~( "0~;' ·'J;ii[:' ... ·

1'. J,;. -Dii:!spyt ~rt mens1cgter dat'die NG j.' 'Ker~,;,in ' di ::'Sinv~lle ( prinsipiele :;" .. ookuinent,met·net'di~:praktiese riglyne

volstaan. AllIDewel di~. driepraktiese - .riglyne "'.'I}. '"kemner-ken de koer­

'saanwysing-;a1lJl#i: moet dam: tog ' -tireet .duideiilfu~ie.korp. oor: ' ,

,~ ~~rWat -ga·atniie 'N6' Kerk prakties doen :tenopsigte van die Namibiese

'<RaAd van Kerke (CCN)'l, .en '" wat ,gaan'die NG,Kerk prakties

doen in cdie' binn~kringe van die streeksinode ' so~el as die van die algemene osinode?

Dit is inderdaad ~ dat 'n dokument soos hlerdie en "Kerk en Samele­wing" groot tekortkominge het in­dien 'n mens in ag neem dat in die

. gereformeerde belydenis,die gemeente outpnoom regeer word. So 'n doktiment kan net' 'riglyne" aan die hand doen, wat deur 'n plaaslike kerkraad gevolg, verwerp, geignoreer of ondergrawe kan word. Die vraag

·' was, het 'n,mens,ten minste verWag dat di~ kerk 'die] ' IVerklarit:lg' van V ereeninging'··'SOu. ootlerskryf'waarin onder andere die".oo.rdtll,g 'V.1Ul poli-

, :~ tieke mag aan:ruReerderheidsreger­ing as die enigste,wtweg-vir·vefSoe­ning en vreQe,beskou word;'i:\

Met hieidie,vCrklaring het:die swart NG Kerk(inAft:iIca) 'standplint teen apartheid ' ingeneem en' vir,,',rt ,· nie­rassige en regverdige 'bestehgevra, Die NG Kerk se algemene sinode het . tot vandag toe geweier om ' die dokument te onderskryf.

Ons het al baie verklarings van.die NG Kerk gesien, maar geen wesen­like veranderinge het in die NG Kerk plaasgevind nie. Ons moet nou nog wag vir die sinode van 1990 om te kan weet of hierdie dokument (riglyn~) uit die hart van die NG Kerk kom en of dit maar net uit die pen van die Moderatuur en plaaslike sinodale kQrnmissie. voortvloei.

Al die kritiek ten spyte dink ek dat

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18 Friday March 9 1990 THE NAMIBIAN

Okahandja'skud vere yir vieringe DIE Feeskomitee van Okahandja het tydens sy sitting op Sondag besluit om 'n gemeenskapsfees te reiH vir

Saterdag, 17 Maart, as aanloop tot die gebeurde op 21 Maart, wanneer Namibiii onafhanklik word. Hierdie inligting is gister deur die hooforganiseerder van die komltee, pastoor Corne luis Isaak, in 'n brief aan

Focus bekend gemaak. . Volgens die brief het verskeie leidende ftgure in die gemeenskap bepaalde opdragte ontvang om uit te voer. Die beoogde program vir die vieringe slult onder andere 'n optog van sogenaamde trompoppies, 'n toespraak

van die burgermeester aan die inwoners, 'n onthaal vir senior burgers, verskeie sport-gebeure sowel as 'n landloop-kompetisie tussen Gross Barmen en Okahandja.

Kulturele opvoerings deur verskeie groepe is nie uitgeiaat nie. 'n Ekum~niese kerkdiens salop Maandag, 19 Maart gehou word.

Die hele gemeenskap van Okahandja word dus uitgenooi om deel van die feesvieringe te word. Insgelyks'word die besigheidslui vriendelik versoek om die komitee geldeUk by te staan.

Feesfond~ glip oor R7 miljoen

Begrotihgs mo.,et kpm ALLE streekskomitees wat ,belas is met die reeling van die onafhanklikbeidsfeesvieringe in die onderskeie streke, is g~vra om bul begrotings voor.te Ie. ' .

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Volgens 'n verklaring gister deur Volgens die verklaring moet be-die ~ub-komitee oo:r:, f~ansies moet grotings aan John Pandeni (by tele-hierdie begrotings so gou as moont- foon Windhoek 63108) of 1. Hengari 1* voorgele word. (by telefoon Windhoek 63171) van

Intussen is bekell:d gt:m~ak da~ die ~ie gasvryl,teic\, en · v~rIlI:aaIgilllieid- , OnathanklikheipsfOI!ds eergis~rlll!!ld , i sub.,k~nrit~ .v~le ~o/d .. " . " '. .. .... 'n hup"s,tootjie. oor die. R.:7 miljoen- 'T.In n,?g. 'n verkl!lring ,js ,bekenq; .. kerf geKry het toe" n verdere byna gtmiaakdatdieFeesfondstansopR7 R250000bydieAkademiebeloofis . 143520 staan nadat nog R234 250

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is. We dpn'·t want ,their money, JIbe ) gn:edy bastards can.keep their money. .. What. we-want is their houses"their BMWs, their credit cards and maybe one or twO' of their children .. j

Ask any of these Pinstripes walk­ing around town' ifthey would do it' all over again given the chance, and -they will say yes (because they are too ashamed of their regrets ,and too proud of iheiE, success):' . . .

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beloof is tydens 'n seremQnie by die Aka~e-Stigtinghuis iri Windh<?ek:

Verskeie sakeondernemings het die geleentheldi~bniik~'m 'hul bel~ftes ~e ina~ in dieteenwo<]idighei4-varl . die a~ge~~s,e mffij~teJ .V8J} inl~gting en Uitsiuiiw.ese.: lIi?ipo> Harn:utenya~ , die aan~w,~}\~ mptister van) ll11dbou, Gert HanelCom, en: die, .p.angew,ese.< ~ittisier :Jan, vervoer, 'Pf9hard

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, Die Bf!!1ls: ~~ ~~ib~t\ (yoorh~en Swab~tpe.f bel¢end g~ml!-Jlk Iil~t hy il die simfo.riie-~ons~rt. .met' RZ1 ~bO '. sal Dorg, wat op "23' en '24 M.a~t ,in ,: Wind4~k geho.u !\al woi~:" 'All~ . ' kaartj~eS'yiI: die.konserte·sal oek aari die Fon-as geskerik word, " ~~'.

\. " '(-; J., , • '..... " , • . /'.. , O<;>k VIr klJlders wa!\ daar goele

nuus. Die B arik van N amibie hetgese dathy vier ~peelterreU;e"van R25 0'00 C;lk sal oou en onderpou. Die g~hllqtige~ woqnbuiute ' sal ' . wees Katutura, Tamariskia, Ts~iblaagte in Keetman-

, s~'en.:n dorp in die nomik, .waaroP . nog bes1itit Irioet word. '.J ' . .: ...

Die ondememings Tunl\~?r ell: pi(: . . Namibia Deep Sea Trawler-ver!;:nig- . inghet'elklt50000gege~~.die Ouit.~e ,~ waarnemersending R23 000 e~ ,~~L :} R15 000. Total het R15 000 se petro-leum geskenk. '

'n Rubriek deur Pius Dunaiski

Ewewigtige fees assebli~f! DAAR is 'n soori ongelukkigheid oor die voorbereidings vir die onafhanklikheidsmakietie "at net-net onder die oppervlakte smeul. En indien mense nie die nodige versigtigheid en beheers;ng aan die dag gaan Ie nie, kan die fe~ in 'n lelike katastrofe ontaard. Na wat ek in die wandelgange boor, vrees ek dat 'n uitbarsting van die ongelukkige gevoelens die rou wonde van die jare van konflik i~ die. st.-yd 9~. ~vryding kan oopkrap. 'w

O~ ,~n kata~trof~ af .te weer en te verseker dat ons as Nl,lmibiers onsself nie in die verleentheid plaas wanneer· die wereld binne twee weke 'op ODS toesak nie, moet ons liewer regiiit'me't 'mekaar praat. Dit ,is so dat al hoe meer swartmense seergemaBk begiD voel omdat dit voorko~'dat die feesvieringe se reelings oorheefs word deur ons

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wit landgennte. ~ .'" . .; Oos w.:e.tn~ presies hoe die ratte van die Nasionale Reelingskomitee en s.y verskiUende sub-komitees inmekaar steek'ore, maar dit wat ek en menige swart Namibier op die oppervlakte sien;iS verontrusiend; Byn~'!I~t:i ~ariJie j!n kenn.isg~wing oor die f~es, pet die naam' van~ 'n wjf.~rWon.op~ , " . '.

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Di~ program van die twee groot feesdae - 21 en ~2 M~art. is, na wat '.' ek vemeem het, swaar gelaai met items wat deur die'wit gemeeoskap" ' uitgevoer sal word. Diegene wat insae bet;kla dat idit Iyk'asofdie I

"wii'mensiqorgevat het". ~. " "~.' . , .. _ ,.,'. I r

Dan is daar,gemeenskappe in die land watdie skewe sentimente in hul,bors dra ~at die onafhanklikheidsfees 'n Swapo-fees is en reeds gedreig het om nie op 21 Maart saam met die "Swapotjies" bly te.~" wees nie. Dan hoor ons van die kwessie van teenstrYdigheae in die hou van die Me. Onafbanklikheid~kompetisie, waar 'n aantrekuke 'vrou gekroon moet :\Yord oii'tlieseJfde mome~t wanneer di~ geskie'denisklokknal . lui om die einde· van kolonialisme op die kontinent van Afrika aan te kondig. Terwyl die DTA-Ieier, Andrew Matjila, 'n brief.van gesag uitgevaardiR het namens sy sub-komitee, het die aangewese adjunk-minister van 4lerisme en natuurbewaring, me. Pendukeni Ithana, die hoo daarvan

So th·en let's put them right bac~ at the bOlcOm of the corporate laQder, andgive,them thatchance.,We'owe it ' to them, All the really big Corpora­tions can then be taken over by tombo­drinking burnouts. and drug fiends,

Throw the entire capital open to the mentally homeless. And when the City Council unleashes goon squads

a~,~d, with flamethrowers .spewing napalm to enforce municipal by-laws, we will resist. .

'n Goeie individuele skeriking van R2000 is van B.F. Josea on~ang. . as taamlike swak smaak afgeskryf.

And then we'll start making our own T-shirts.

National Co-Ordinator P.O. Box 22013

WINDHOEK 9000

My wereld! Waar is die koordinasie wat van die Nasionale Reelingskomitee moes kom? Hoekom sulke teenstrydighede toelaat, wat net sal lei tot 'n verdeeldbeid en die oproep van swak gevoelens? Ek ondersteun die aangewese Staatspresident, Sam Nujoma, wat vandeesweek gemaan bet teen 'n negatiewe houding teenoor 21 Maart en die hele week van onafbanklikheid •. Ek glo da~ hy ook seker die ontsteUende gerugte en nuus gehoor het wat hom tot die verklaring genoop bet. Daar is sekere dinge wat blyk nodig te wees om te noeQl in die omstandighede: • Dit is so dat onafhanklikheid nie aan Swapo gekoppel moet word nie, m;aar aan almal. Dit is 'n nasionale aangeleentheid wat nie deur kleinlikheid bederf moet word nie! r'r

• Tog is dit ewe waar dat diegene, wat teen onaf'hanklikheid geveg en di~ met all~s iii lIu" binneste teengestaan en uiterlik alles gedoen het o~ (lit ,nie moontlik te maak nie, darem. nie skielik voor op die

··wa moet wees nie. ;/ 'n Mens moet erg beginselloos wees om vir -Jare en jare teen onafhanklikheid te veg en dan skielik so voor~arig te wees dat diegene wat"bullewens en alles gegee het, weer iii 'die agtergtond geskuif word: ' . . . .. . As dit in die naam van nasionale versoening gedoen word, dan gaan ek vandag daardie soort versoening vervloek! Geen'Namibier wat 'n bydrae wil maak vir die fees moet uitgesluit voel nie, maar hoflikheid, verstandige sensitiwiteit en goeie 'common sense' behoort ons te weerhou daarvan om onnodig op mekaar se tone te trap! Laat die organiseerders 'n gebalanseerde program aanbied, wat die bevolking eweredig weerspieel. Laat 'n bepaalde groep - soos ses persent wittes - wat meestal hul kundigheid, rykdom en vermoens op die rug van apartheid bekom het, nie die hele program oorheers. nie. Gee ware Namibiese inhoud aan die verskeie programme van die feesvieringe en laat dit voortaan die grondslag wees waarop alles saam as volk in die toekoms aangepak word. ' Indien hierdie wanbalans - waar wittes oorheers .. tydens die feesvieringe en in 'n onafbanklike Namibie handhaafword, sien ek 'n donker prentjie vorentoe. Dan sal die rewolusie weer herleef!

THE NAMIBIAN

Johannes ote likale omadipao

KU TYAPPA NAMUTEWA

OMULUMENHU OQ ta-tamanekwa kutya oye a dipaele omushamane David Hamalwa na Stefanus Muesbihange pOlcihenge, pOndobe, nokuvaka po oinima monduda yedina Medu ~etu, okwa lombwela onghela omhangu ya kuJa ya Windhoek kutya yee ke shii sha kombinga yoinima oyo.

Natango omulumenhu tuu ou, omhangu kutya ye ke shii sha sha 'nakufya Nekomba). wedina ReinhQld Johannes, okwe pamba omadipao ile omanyeko ()o Okwa mangwa vali nelyep.ge a

· Iipatana kutya haye a dipaa omusha- taa tongwa. Okwa tonga kutya ye mangelwamongudi. Okwa ti meeng- ". mane Erastus Nekomba odaleleyomOkaondepopepinOshi- 'hali omo okwa hanga mo ovanhu wokOnamukulo !JlOndonga moma- gar,nbo nokwa fIlmla pPnainukulo vahapu neenghono ovo. va hovel a flku 14 Maalits odula ya dja ko. fiyo ostanda yotete. Okwa dimina oku mu pula omapulo a piyaana.

Okudja mEtivall, okwa kala taku yemwene kutya okwa kala shill .ha Okwallvatitavemufminikeapopye . yandjwaoumbangi kovanhu velili longo ongomutolokeli womakakunya. kutyaoyeadipaanakufyaNekomba, nakulili ovo tava hokolola kutYa Mokulikala omadipaoaa, Johan- ashike ye okwa anya. Johannes oye naana va mwene po- nes okwa ti: ye okwakwatwa ashike ' Konima opa ifanwa vati ovamati madipao a tumbulwa. Johannes okwa mangakwa li ta yi koufitola,vopOshi- vavali umwe' wedina Sam Kamati

, Ii a dimbulukiwa nokokamatyona gambo a ka lande ombelela yaye; (okuli ombangimoshibofa eshi) nova kccdula 15 kutya oye naana a dipaa Okwa mona ashike okatuwa'ke mu _ pulwa ng~ge om~umenhu oo 'a omushamane Nekomba. lotoka komesho oko a dimbuluka mangwa oye tuu a dipaa Nekomba:

OvapoIifi· vavali ovo va yandja' kutya okwa Ii taka shingwa komu- Ovamati ava, paendjovo daJohan-

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oumbangi navo ova koleka kutya lumenhu wedina Nampala waNan- nes ova nyamukula kutya haye adipaa Johannes.okwa dimini. yemwene no ' golo. . " Nekomba, shaashi vati ou va mwene pc he na efminiko kutya oye a dipaa ' N ampalll van okwe mu loinbwela flku ledipao, omule yee vali okuna

· omushamane Nekomba. . • kutya na londe mot\lwa vakamenek - olutu la kola,neendjedi dihapu.

Meme Nangbili naShima (merano eli), omwiimbi a shiivika naws muNamibia alishe, okwa Ii umwe wovalilanghali omayoviovc) va Ii perudiko lomushamane Timotheus Ndilula pQbaingu .mEtival~

Omudipai wooMueshihange na elepo. Okudja opo vati ovalilangliali ova Hamalwakakwaliashiivikamangs., Johannes okwa nyamukula' kutya .hovela oku mu denga olutu alishe fiyoosheshi nee Johannes 'a kak- ita dulu okukamenekela kooNam- nomedengo eli konyala nokuli a

SHADJA KEP. l

watWa konima yedipao liNekomba, pala shaashi kesliii ko nale. kanifile okwooko kwaye kwokolulyo. likine pefimbo 010 ee~ghu~dana doshi-DokulioloiJ kutya oye tuu natango a Ohaluka vati okwa nhukilwa Okwa ulikila omhangu oivadi oyo longo . pomugo)i wonguloshi. Okwa dipaeleovalumenhuvavalikOndobe kovahmenhuvlmweO'YOvalimocuwa ilikolUlUlayenaungooyotahokolola kufa, Dee oOOma yaye ei ndele te i . muFebuluali. EShi vati okwe shi yaN~ala va homata omapakolwa kutya okwe i ningwa 'pcf1JJlbo 10- kupUla mokati. kovanhu, yo olai topa tangela mokamba yovapoliti pEtale neembele. Ove mu fminika tiyo tave mapulapulo. ' nokulemaneka po ovanhu ve dulife

· (pOkakwa) omo a lele flku a kufwa mu lcndeke mocuwa ndruya kooNam- 9kwa twOOla kutya okwakala a pomulongo na umwe vomadina taa kovapolifi koshuumbo shaN ekomba pala. mangwelwa mongudi oule woma- shikula: Rebbeka Haitumbu, Gideon

. eshi a kwatwa kovakwashiwana Nampalaokwemumanganelyenge, flku atatu n?kwa kala pokupulwa, Kalumbu, ShoikomOO Shimbwale, .~ voovene. V oovene pehovele okwa li emu mangela moiridjina ikulu yotuwa mbali-luvali ye ta dengwa nee Petrus Jason, Gerhard Kuutondokwa,

va kwatwa ve Ii vane, ashike pife .. nokwemulombwelakutyamongula oshlmwene ke po. Salomo Jonas, avesheovomomukunda Johannes oye aeke e li momhangu ote mu twala kOnamukulo shaashi Oshibofa osha tulikwa fiyo ongula Onawa, pope.pi nOngwediva oshoyo shaashi vati vakwao vatatu ove li- oku na oVanhutavafeke-feka kutya . potundi 10 eshi Johannes ta ka tWikila Selma Wilhelm na Jesaya Shipunde vaka mo modolongo. oye 'a dipaele omulumenhu wedina vali nokuyandja ehokololo laye. yomOkaku popepi nOshakati. J9han-. Oonakuyandja oumbangi otava ti Erastus Nekomba. Ngeenge mongava inamu endasha, nes Aipinge, Onarnutayi; Uratius Shie-

o ve mu shii nawa shaashi okWa kala Okwa lele mooNamp8.I~" a tala otashi dulika yo etokolo,li kll; y~djwe lula, · Qnagembu Endola. Monika An-. ha endll-enda'nomakaldmya til toloka asIDke eenyofi n5)lll0l)gula eshi kwa nena. ~"Om;':." t>pepi nOshakati na -

oi.l....l;:wli::~":,'·~ . '",,:"'-, _ . + '''','' ",- she. olCwa'tws]wa nee'kOi1anitilt'ufo:" < Oiicoya 'ot!rl p'angulwa komup'aIi.· , CC?nam.., om ola .VlO m':lKan: ! JIVY' . . ". ':. - dyengedkAye~he ava ova ninga oipute : Onghelai Joharmes okwa Ii a pulwi . Johannes Ota hokolola 'Kutya eshi gull ~.~rbert Hendler, ta l~tel~a , : novapya koboma ei eshi ye va topela: "

• tOnge ashishe osho e shii kombinga va ya kOnamukulo okwa twalwa ,. kuhahende St;roh, omanga om~.)O - N8kuumba oboma Jenisiu konima " yoikoyaei. , . meumbolimweomoahl!ngaovanhu (Johannes) ~ p?pilwa kuhahende eshi a ' eta - oshipo~ga~ eShiok.\\ia ',;

Okwa" 'tameka no~okololela tava lili eenghali (eumbo elL ola-, . Gerhard Burg,er. '. fadukapo na ke wetikefiyo opaife. -" -----'---"-----'----'-------------------, Ovafiyekadl v~akufya, ookaume Opolifi eshi ya pulwa 'oya ti leutya

oshoyd ovakwanedimo vamwe OIlghee , oya Ii oleu mu konga kai mu wete mbela tuuvakalanokupwilikinaeemhangu okwa fadukapo. Opolifi oya ti olai ke .edi oku<:ija Etivali eshi da hovela. lipakamo neenghono oku mu konga Ndilulla a hulifa

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. fiyo olai mu mono. Otaku tengenekwa kutya pamwe

Je~isiu olewa shuna leu Angolaoku a dile. Otaltu holeololwa yo kutya vahapu vQmovanhu ava va ehamekwa navo ova fa va dile 'kuAngola nale pOrna­fimbo enya okutauka. •

Meme Kattina Ota hokolola kutya ye olewali ngoo waJenisiu omhangakwaIi ina hOIllOOla ndele nee konima eshi a homOOla menle umwe po ine mu hala vali shaashi otashi dulika shi ete edun­dakano mohombo yaye. Osho Katrina a holeolola. ,

Koshipangelo shaNandjokwe oku na okaana kokaadona ko kOmutwewond­jaba keelinaLusia Petrus ke na eedula 12 ~~opelwa ko.boma omafiku eshia Ii 5 MaaIitsa 1990 Ieonima eshi mukwawo , ou va li naye a hulifa paife moshiponga" osho tuu osha, Timothe~s Katele, a toolia os'hitopif~ noku shi denga nodibo . ndee tashi va topele noku va leinaneb . fiyo tUhi eta nobill efyo la Timotheus.

"Oshiwana " naiango otashi lombwelwa shi kale k"okule noitopifa yoludi eli. Oitopifa olai ' mane po oshiwana shetu".

OSWALD SHIVUTE OKUDJA KOHAINGU

TATEKULU Tiinotheus Ndilula, omukalimoa shiivika nawa mOwainbo nokwa kala momukunda Ohaingu mOukwanyama, okwa

'hulifile oweenda waye onguloshi yOlomakaya moshipangelo sha Shakati konima youdu wefimbo lile. Okwa pakelwe nale nokuli momukunda wavo okudja mongeleka yaHaingumEtivali.

UNITED , NATIONS , INSTITUTE FOR NAMIBIA

Tatekulu Ndilula oKwa kala omukwatelikomesho moinima y&ID"­galo mOmundudu nomulongifikola mOhaingu. Okwa ndjokononwa kutya okwa Ii omulumenhu omudiinini nomutiliKalunga.

Omusamane Dimo Haniaambo, Okomanda yoPLAN, okwa Ii a popya sha pefundiko la Tatekulu Ndilula nokwa tonga ngaha kutya Tatekulu Ndilula ongomulongi ' waye okwa kondjela pamwe oshilongo eshi sh~

aashi okwa putuda ovakondjeliman­guluko v.ahapu nokwa dala yo ovalumenhu ava va Ii pondje on­govakwaita ovakondjelimanguluko ngaashi Uria ha Henoch Ndilula ava ve li tava longo sha shomupondo moshiwana shOvanamibia natango. Omusamane Dimo okwa indila ko­shiwana ashishe shi kwafele omufiyekadi meme Emilia Ndilula

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nounona vashona avava tiwapo ku Tate wavo.

Omufiyekadi meme Emilia, mekundo laye okwa ti ye okwa kail­if a shili Tatekulu waye Omunambili nomudiinini weumbo alishe. Okwa ti nande oshidyuu okwa tambulako eshi Kalunga e mu pa.

Okwa Ii yo natango Ovapopi vahapu ngaashi meme S. Shikeva, omufi,a Tate Filippus Shikomba, tate H. Jonas, tateku).u Paulus Shikeva, oshoyo tate Onesimus Nghiitwikwa.

Tatekulu elmga la kula lomOhaingu Victor Ueyulu okwa ti kutya okwa kanifa shili omuyandjimayele waye ou a li e na oshili ya: yukilila naye.

Omupopi ponhele yovadalwa okwa Ii meme Leefa yaShikongo (Ndilula). Okwa yandja olupandulaye kwaave­she ava va kala nokulela tate wavo momukifi waye,unene okw,a pandula

ATTENTION 1989 UNIN GRADUATES

Eleventh Graduation Ceremony · -23 March 19,90

,t is hereby, announced that the Graouation Ceremony for the 1989 graduandi takes place on Friday, 23

March 1990al lOam at the SKW Sport Club hall, Tal Street, Windhoek.

Graduandi are to report at Khomasdal Teachsrs Training College for accommo.d,ation on

15 or 16 March.

A rehearsal is 'fixed for i 7 March at 8.30am prompt at the SKW heIL-'

Please regard this as an official notification and invitation.

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Mefano eli otamu monika Lusia Petrus wokOmulwewoodjaba moushilo wOukwanyama 00 a ehamekelwe moshiponga shetopo 1000ma mEtivali popepi nEenhana. Oshitopifa eshi osha topa konima eshi ounona.

. va danauka nasho: Okamati kedina Timoteus Katele, omo ka fila moshiponga omu. Efano: OSWALD SHIVUTE.

EMANGULUKO laNamibia momafiku 21 Maalitsa neudo! Okudja Etitano lonena oku na ashike omafiku 12. Eshi hatu popi alushe emanguluko laNamibia la fa okatana kom'oilya, eshi otashi kwelengedja ongondjOOi. Ashike omunamwenyo ote ke limonena k~ ye mwene momafiku 21 Maalitsa. Eshi 010 elineekelo lange: ta ka mona nhumbi epandela loukoloni tali ka fudikwa moule welambo leemeta di dule eyovi limwe. Elambo la fewa kOvanamibia momahoololo 00 a ningilwe moNamibia mewiliko nometonatelo IOiwanahangano (UNT AG) muNovomba odula ya dja ko. Momafiku 21 Maalitsa ohatu ka mona natango nhumbi epandela lopashiwana laNamibia a manguluka tali monika peenhele nopornatungo . .. O · . h . I ' ... aesbe opapangelo moshilongo ashishe. Nefiku latya ngaha otali ka kala

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· . . ,.l. . ..,y :\ a' n ','U· .. omu' ·.ongo,.~ . :"_": ' oshitopolwashafimanashondjokononayekondjelomang',llukolaNiUIlibia. . .. ,,,'Es,hi Naipi1?,ia ta mono emanguluko nelipangelomwene kOD;ima yeedula

( t' .. . " . ' , • t ~110~~fY~'Qy*alin'1o atushe otwa teelelwa tu longe noudiinini nokukala

! n-.a·:" ,V'. ·aiva···· ·'·lrl~· ·':'V" al. ::~e\·. ' · h' ""· a·i _ . m~ : ~ e'; ' ' l~:W" ;l., a'; . '*-:r::'{~~e:!;~I~kaomun'amibiakesheokwateelelwa 'akaleyO f ' ••• ,." ,.' "v . ,~. d', ' .. ' :'f r :' . l i .. , . • ,.~ '". ~ . <. . '. ~ . nosh\~l~\l!l!nifwa sha kula komapepe etu. 'Pshinakuwanifw.a

.. ,.. ". ,-. .' . .. " . " . .. . . ... , . shokwaamena ~o.kufi'!lane~a epandela laNamjbia .. :a manguluka. ; OVAKW ~SHIW ANA. : vo~dk~hd~e,;gedi.~pop~pi nOShaIulti ' ve'·:1i o~ulongo na\ia'vali' ongulQshi Okwaamena nokufimaneka omukalimo keshe pehena okatongotongo · yEtivali ova ehamekwa nai koboma yopeke oyo ve j . ~~mbihv~ '" kwaau, a ii'nale o!bily_?~ shC?,KoevOeta' -- nokukala nounhwa omolwaNamibia a manguluka. . .

wedina Jenisiu Marsalinu naye womOkapdyengedi. . ..... ;. ..' Onde lineeKela konyala Omunamibia keshe, unendull Jrleni loshilongo, Oshiponga eshi osha holoka konima . , tanguna fiyo vo · vavali tava" hp~ele .' patelwa monduda. Ollihanga a patelwa - okwa mona ile okwa uda nale nhumbi epandela lopashiwana laNamibia

eshi omulumenhu ou lenisiu va Ii tava' okulidenga. Ova Ii tava tangunine pori· monduda okwa Ii mo r. na mo mboli ' . Ii Ii. Epandela eli ola pumbwa okufimanekwa kuKes~e. Mokufimaneka kondyo na meme Katrina Paulus duda yOmusamane wOmupolifi, tate oboma, Okwe i kufa ta denge po oshilongoshoyeeshishamanguluka, nenaou naokutamekakepandela. womomukunda Onawa popepi Gideon Kalumbu, Konimaeshi va han- omuvelo okudya meni nde ta yi Onghenda ya kula eshi pena ovanangeshefa vamwe, va tameka nale nOngwediva. Olwoodi ola hove1a eshi . galcunu!lwa Katrina okwa lombwelwa kooGideona oko .pefimbo 010 kwa Ii okushundula epandela laNamibia. Ve Ii paka komakende oikolwifa

· meme Katrina vati ina hala okuitavela kovanhu a shune keumbo lavo kOnawa kwa ongala ovanhu viiliapu tava pwi'omolwoufukulume woimaliwa. Omanga vamwe ve lipaka koumbidja · lenisiu va 'ye naye. Jenisiu na Katrina na osho a ninga. Ou Jenisiu okwa shiheli pamukalo; -, ova kala nee onguloshi' oyo tava kufwa po Kovaneumbo lavo noku ka TALA KEP. Ovanhu vatya ava kunghililwa nale va xuUfe 'po omukalo wokulongifa

epandela laNamibia papuko noku lishundula. Kakele kaasho, opena natango Ovanamibia vamwe ovo ve Ii oilyo ikulu yoKufuta noyoBataliona 101 ve Ii po tava kumwifa oshiwana nomipopyo davo. Shaashi ngeenge va nwa oikolwifa, ohava tameke tava popi oitya

. oyo inai teelelwa lpopiwe kOmunamibia metimbo eli. Ovanamibia vatya ngaha . otav~ moni~a ,un.ene. koitukuh",a yokoumbangalanhu waNamibia eshi tava udika tava ti: "Epandela 010

CQMMONWEAt,TH DAY ·<'. tNT:ER"-FMl'H 'SERvlCE . ':;}'~.,~~~d" :: ·· ·«.:.i:i);::):: " :' .'t:'.." •••• :::. "'<o"~;',.,:" , . '1.4\; ,

. ~ :'.\ , I , emanglIluko laNamiia, O~~JJluVJllu k~niingholi

.. ohatu ke ko"! Ohaku tiwa "sha popiwjl k~)!li ihashi dinwa". OrrliiK.py.[)~dliitYI! Qgaha itadi dinikwa, ndele otadi nangelifa Ovanamibia

'}';~;.:~': ;'~;."' .. '. : .. ;. ; ::~: .:::'::':::'::;::~:,::::::':::::":':':':::::~:'::: . .... '. <.';.~': ~ ;'. ::::;" ('!''' .. L1 :~ elmangIJrulkO~ lC'! '1~III·vlllaIlIP ... u.k6r;~:0::.r~:~~r:~i:~i~:~ei:~:a ::l~ LAII .rcitlzen's"· ;'of .. :Commoilw.e81t,}i .. coUl)tries .,anci ,,81l ' on~~~;:~~~ri~) %~~~{~:~j:~~~j~:::i

t·· -:tiiteteSte:a. memberS oftbePubUc.arecordially iiiVit~d '" monenaovanhuoshiponga.tavaterrgenekwave'If12 eshi va uiiibilw~~oitopifa kuwalye.Ei oilong8 -yOv.anamibia . ovo. va . to~ .. =. attend·:!: ian .. Jnter~fa·lth ;l'r:s,e~'Vice .,~ to .. mark' itavelifwanovapukifwakeembulu. ··t,-,f-}.C ·'''!::'· ' .. '

. ,. ," " " . ~~ . '.'" " :' . ,. '. ," , ~ . . ' - . . . Ovanamibia·ava ve lininga 'ovakolokoshi ova' h~hi o~uki1rl4a omhepo Commonwealth, Day whten WilI l";\i;be t, held i.n the ' .. yedundakano n6urnbada mokati kOvanatrtillia ;:nwJi,-Jila .ya.- uka

amphitlie·~tr~:attii~~K~t~tlH.aComm~~i!y,.,?en~re ·9fi " ~;~gw~k~laVo.NoVahalaokunghundipal~~,~~~~m~amibia "Sunci~y afte.rnoon, beg~nn~g at, 15h30. (~hes,ervfce " Ovanhu vatya ~gaha inava halika vo inava h~felwa p~h'de koshiwana

f , I ~ • " ,. osho sha kala oihakanwa yefininiko 10ukolQrti·,erunbo~lile. Nepangelo will ·be I about an hour and a half.) " ,.~; . ", .lipe laN~unibia itali ke lididimikila nande ovakMokoshi vatya ngaha.

R ' t t~ f th I I i Sikh Hi" d J wi h sw APO okwa findana momahoololo pamukalo woudemokoli nota ka epresen a Iv,es 0 e s am c~ , ~ . n u, e s pangela Namibia okutameka momafiku 21 Maalitsa neudo. Kakele

and Buddh. ist f. mths are kindly 1f!. ',·.qu. e,sted to contact . kaasho, okwa ~dilikwa yo kutya oilyo novayambididi veengudu konyala - - adishe 000 iliadi findana momahoololo kaye uditile nande SWAPO

the De.an of St George: s Cathedral, Windhoek, Father ombili eshi a ,indana nota ka pangela Namibia.

Roger Key, befo. re 12. hOO on Sun, day to reo c~ive their Omupya kOvanamibia vatya ngaha. Shaashi inava shiiva nande kutya _ oudemokolo oshike nande va kala haa wu popi alushe.

a1lo'cated parts in the . ser,vi~e (~e1. 36009/19 Love Ove na):o okwiitavela omafikameno aSWAPO: omafikameno . okukufilafanapo nokutaambulafana ko. Eshi osho ashike omukalo tau

S·treet). ; , dulu okutungifwa nao oshiwana shaNamibiaostio sha kala sha tukaulwa • ",oukwamunghoko komulandupangelo wokatpngotongo weembulu . : .It would also be appreciated if , .natibnal costumes daSouth Africa. ,.

uld b' h ibl ' 'd' "th t th . · th Konyala ounyuni aushe owa didilikwa kutya, eepeleserida doshiwana CO e worn, w . ere pc;»ss e, an a ' ose WI shaNamibia di dule 80 OOi Ii ovakriste. Tashi tiomuvalu muhapu lela

flags ~f Commonw~. alth ~ountrie. s could bring them 00 owa taambula ko eitavelo lopaukriste. Nongeenge osho sH Ii ngaho, nena omaflkameno aSW APO ekufilafanopo netaambulafaneko itashi

along to these.-vice. · kala oshinima shidjuu kOvanamibia. 'OJ: all brl hi i Ashike ngeenge oukriste wetu otau tu ondubu nomafikameno aa we so ~uggest you . , ng a cus . on to s t on, an aSWAPO, nena oukriste wetu otau kala moikondekifo yoipulifo: tau

umbrella 'and some water in a plastic bottle. limbililike. Natu likonakone hano moule womitima detu, kutya Omunamibia

Reading form the Scriptures, prayers, poetry, singing, keshe oku na oshinakuwanifwapo sha kula shekufilafanepO . . . netilmbulatambulafano nelalakano ashike lokutunga Namibia a kela

music to the praise of God. oshilongo shimwenoshiwana 'shi shi tunge noshi hange oumwe. Natu

(The Order of Observance has been compiled by the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship, London.)

lilongekideni nawa oshivilomanguluko shoshilongo shetu, Namibia, momafiku 21 Maalitsa neudo, opo tu shi tyapule monghalo nomomhepo iwa yombili noyomwainafana. Oshi-vilomanguluko e~hi, oshh·i!o shopashiwana noina shi nuninwa nande opaati yonhumba yopapoiOlik<l. Ndele oshOvanamiba aveshe.

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For more infomialion please (eel · . rce lo call Silu al: (061) 216172

r wrili.lO: P.O.&x 7647, Wind.. . . hock. Wc'are al Old CompOund.

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What a crisis! I've got the solution! Luxury sectional titles under construction 3 bedrooms

bathrooms Guest toilet Open·plan kitchen to Dining-room and family-room Separate scullery Lounge

. 2 garages Patio Outside room Tile·roof, electronic gates, walled with own garden. swimming-pool an optional extra -

Come and look at the plans

at Melanie van Oyk Tel. 31713 (home)

37387 (work)

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for more info call: (061)211706

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I Double garage and car­.~ ports

ELAGO SUPERMARKET ELAGO BOTTLE

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WANTED Spacious house wanted to buy 4-5 · bedrooms' for family of seven with large garden and preferably a swimming-pool. Offers to tel. 22-6766 or 33265

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. Big swimming-pool plus braai and entertainment area. QUiet and secluded corner property .

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Tel. 217572 Wanahe!la

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CHIEFS -THRASH SOCCER ,

WITS IN THRILLER SAFARI SUPERSTRlKER Shane MacGregor scored four goals as Kaizer Chiefs thrashed Wits University 5-1 in a thrilling Castle League soccer match at the Milpark Stadium Johannesburg on Wednesday night.

BY CONRAD ANGULA

FAR NORTH • THE FORGOTTEN REGION

Chiefs led 2-0 at halftime. . It was a devastating display from

the league'champions who proved - __ they won't ,be givmg up ~eir title

easily this season. ' The rout started as early as the

second minute when veteran Marks FTo Maponyane broke through a .suspect Wits defence and chipped the ball over the head of advancing

goalkeeper George Fernandes. Chiefs found themselves two goals

~p after only 10 minutes when the powerful MacGregor burst on to the scene.

He latched on to a pint-point Maponyane cross, took advantage of bad defending and slotted home from close range .

Wits had their chances in the first '

IWISA Kaizer Chiefs' superstriker,.Shane 'Chain' MacGregor (in control), who scored four goals as the Amakbosi thrashed Wits University 5-1 in a Castle League~lJ~iitg on Wednesday night at the Milpark Stadium, JOhannesburg. MacGregor was also voted the 1989 NSL-Sunday Times FootbaUer. c.>f the Season.

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half, but failed to penetrate 'a tight Chiefs defence,

The home side came out blazing at the start of the second period but could not maintain the pressure.

in the 69th minute MacG-egor again I W AS surprised - or rather shocked - to learn that the poor caught the students defence napping players and officials in the Far ' North were not inf6rmed when his quickly-taken ft:eekick on ' the edge of the area had the Wits 'officially' or timeously by those appointed to prep:ue the backline foxed and :lis shot went in two teams for the Namibian Independence Day Celebrations. off the. far post. • It was, by luck ":. or let's say by coincidence - ,that I came to Four minutes later McGiegor hit ' his hat-trick. Doctor Khumalo inter- learn about the "plot" to keep the northern players out of cepted a pass on the halfway line, the two squads. Or was it just a "mistake"? ' ~eaved through the defence and found It was interesting, very interesting indeed, to see that the his team-mate unmarked. '. W. ' . , MaCGregor did the rest toJrtake it ':.- pla~~rs m ,, ~ndhoek have already been c~,Ht:~ for trials at

4-0. the SKW,SQCcer Field while our brothers in't.,e IJ.orih were Wits go~ their consolation goal in ' not informed or even called to join their colleagues in

~ek80d~~l1n~lte whebn Ailibertfr, Bwalya , Windhoek to fightfor their rightful places in the teams that pIC e ,-up a oose a , om -' rare , ~. ' , Wits attack imd netted M easy. ,,:will 'represent Namibia on the "big day". . '

Kh!l11falo"and MacGregor again :' It was a shocked Mr Ephraim 'Bullet' Harisen who told me forme~ 11 d_eadly combination. Kl\u- yesterday that they were not aware of anyone'being invited malo pierced the defence and MacG- ..,. regorwasagainonhandtofinishoff to the on-gomg trials ID the ctty. I actually called Mr a disastrous night~for Wits,.: '~ , '1Iansen's office to get more information about his team's

, .' (Beru.ca) trip to the far north to play twofl'iendlies against ~" I?,JR;ATE,';,S, SEIZ.E , an OShakati ,lnvitation XI tomorrow. After' I asked him -" " ·about hiS player's chances of making it 'into-the National RANGERS ,InvitaJiQnor President's XI due to play Qn)ndependence

Day,ashp<;k~ Bullet kept silent for a moment before he ORLANDO Pirafes collected two • told ~e .th~t:neiiher he nor his c1,ub, was ,nev.er informed valuable 'pOintswheri 'theyoeat Grirtaker Rangers;4-0 'm a (:as'tle ' \ ... - ab~ut ·the,proced_ures in the capital. ~, ' , .\;,'t','!, .: ,

Lea~ue soccer'matdl at ,?rlandQ . :~ "The last Urireltalked to the guys in Windhoek was for the Stadium on WednesdaYlllght. ,', ,,' -, -t~ ~ th NNSL' . . ~ , t' " t· I·

,Pirates led 2-0 at ,half time. :' . ' prep'ar~ lons.or e' , s 1D.0rma ~?~ 'meetDg ear y ID

The first goal c;ame in the 30th FebruarY,". ~n ~bviously surprised B.ullet tol~ me. minu~ when, Pio Negueira cQn- It is, not however, the first time that the· officials. in control verted from" the penalty spota~ter of our controversiaHeague failed to i·nfarm tHeir colleagues Abel Mwelesho had fouled NICk. . ' I - '- " ' .', '

'Bazo~ka' Sishweni'in the,'box,' , ID the rural areas. ThiS also happens ID league fixtures and Six minutes later Sishweni netted even cup competitions that the poor fellows·are informed at · from just outside the penalty bQx.. the last minute ,that their next league fixture is going to be ' Rangers replacedJ?~.ta Mbhele with . " -"

. Wayne Avnit in the 50th minute in Windhoek, Qtjiwarongo etcetera. , , and· Ronnie L~tswalo with Jon- I ~ave aiso ~omplained on numerous oC~ions that I did athan Nisi eight , mi,n~tes later. not get ,the ,weekend's fixtures of the league in time for Pirates .also made.a change in the •• M .' h I led I b 615t m:inu~e when,'Moscs Moloi I>,~~"catlp}l" " .Y queries ave a so to count ess oycotts c.ame' onforBasil, :KlI-ap~eDans : , by ,the meo 'ip c~mtrol. That was the 'reason given for my ,Sfee.nkamp. " ... '. exclusion from the "Tour de Angola','.-As one official put Pirates continued to dominate)h~ : it: "Yoti are writing bad things about the 'league and I am exchanges anq in the 65th, minute JolJ!my ¥ll$egela poated;th,e ball afraid w~ canl)ot give you a place on this trip to-Angola," over. James . Hart ill the Rangers ,he ,told me with a broad smile on his always-friendly face. goallidh~ '65.tJ:tmiil.~tc:to~akeit ,I have'pledgcifnot to condone corruption.of any kind in 3-<t Then 20 mbiutes later Alfred, Gw~beni slii>Ped' the:ball pasl Hart local' soccer' arid I once again make it clear to the soccer t<i'make it 4~0. . . ~osSes in this country that I will "speak out" against any , ': ~- •• ' .. , .• '" ,: •. < ~'''underground 'operations'' on their part. ~Trip to Angola COETZER·DA'MIANI '~, or not - I will not let them otT the hook to easily. My point BOUt POSTPO~ED of view is that the players in the far north, south, east, north

.' ' 'and west, deserve equal chances with their Windhoek-THE WBO heavyweight title fight based counterparts to be called up in the national colours. between Italy's Francesco Dami-ani and South African challenger ' The unavailability of travelling fees was the excuse of our Pierre Coetzer: scheduled in Mi- soccer bosses in the past - but I don't think that it is the case Ian on March 24, has been post- anymore' .,as a travel agency has promised to cover the poQ..ed following a sudden disease travelling costs of players to the city·, rega'rdless of where he of the world champion. Matchmakers of the Milan-b;;tsed comes ' froT. ",:: ,- . ~> " Gong Organisations said Wednes- It i~ str~nge tti~t our socce .. bosses continu~Jn t~is manner day a new date for the long-po,st- while itatJon~l reconciliation and nation-building are the :~~~~Ii~'was not immediately watchwords. I am not certain whetlier-'cIub officials from

, J)l~";i~~ still would be Milan's In- the ~~t a~ Ol)l~jeinund where inforp1~ ~l}Qu(the "~ret door SP9rts Palace. trial,s.;' ' ,in lhe::hi~~rt,of the country. It is widely· accepted that ,Damilini's fight against Coetzer . ~. '

:~o~jdbe.his second defence of his some ofthe country's best players are IOcatt~t at Oranjemund. , WOr1d Boxmg Organisation crown. There are potentiaUy great players, eipeeiaUyin, Onp1jemurid, But he got a 'fever and was forced like Lucky BoStarider;: Bigman Schultz'-:Publi';s Werman ~~.training, Gong officials re- and Gindis Gawanab, who have also represented bur country The bout, originally scheduled in .on numerous occasions. It will be a pity'if'they are left out Puerto Rico last year, had been al- as they really are part and parcel of Namibia. '

, ready po$tponed twice. * I t poIogise. Mr V' Lo U Ii port" t da' The unbeaten Italian boxer won mus a .. 0 , Ie ve or re mg Hl yes er y S

the title 'last spring by knocking edition that he only knew BS Tigers' players. Mr Loveli was out South African Johnny du Plooy misquoted and I wish to assure him of my respect forhi{u in Messina. Sicily. as a coach.

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BENFICA in action against Tigers earlier last season. The former Metropolitan champions will face a highly motivated Oshakati XI in a soccer friendly tomorrow.

BENFICAVS / .

OSIIAKATIXI , BY CONRAD ANGULA

THE in~pirational form of veteran Licky Gideon and the superb mid-field combination of Pecks

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Uushona· and Doctor Johnson will spearhead BenflCa's attack when they visit Oshakati Xl at the . i r~===~===========~::;::;====~:= weekend, according to Zocks Kamatondo Hangula, assistant-cpach of the northern soccer giants. Benfica, who accord4tg to their to show the south. that the north has "Drakka, known and feared for

coach, were deserted by 'lady luck' players of qualitY imd we are not far his tireless attacks from the back, when they lost 2-1 to Chelsea in the removed from the current trend of , could have the Oshakati lads in fusuound ohhe-Touch·& Go Tour- - - Namibian joccer," he conclud¢. . trouble," ..he said. "Dr.akka, com-niment at Otav~ last weekend, are Shil6ngo also told The Namibian bined with captain Lovey Uushona well prepared foc the encounter against Sport to remind Benfica that "the in the centre of defence are almost the northern invitation side which other man's dream is the other man's unbeatable and they (Oshakati XI) Iwrniliated SWA Toyota Young Ones nightmare." must really work hard if they dream :6-3 a fortnight ago. Unlike Shilongo, who was slightly about victory tomorrow," he :said . .

"The spirit at the club was won- cautious about his team's chances of Zocks also said .that his squacf is derful this week and the players are viCtory tomorrow ;Zocks said that he injury free and that all the players raring to go," said Zocksa former was very confident ofa.sweetvictory will be available at the weekend. ' defender with Berifica, who was ruled against the far northern team. * Benfica will travel with their out of the game becaUse of a knee HesaidthatDrakkaShetekeia,one reserve .side·who play against their problem. of the Benfica's most reliable play- hosts' counterparts. The first match

"We talked very seriousiy to the ers, who was switched to the role of will start at 13hOO at the Oshakati guys and, they havJz promised to give stopper could do the triyk tomorrow. Soccer Stadium. it a go tomorrow and judging by the way Daddy Uushona is getting them goals I am afraid the Oshakati lads are in for a tOOrough slashing," boaSted Zocks.

The Oshakati , XI has, however, Proved to NNSL Super League giants Young ones that they are not to be taken lightly when they thrashed the 'Kings at Night' onhome soil.

And according to Reinholdt Shund­abay Shilongo, spokesperson for the northern invitation team, they have good players that can take on the best in the country.

The former Pepsi Africa Stars and BS Tigers star striker also stressed that the final team will be selected today as they (the team.coordinators) have invited a few new players to the trairiing sessions this week.

"The aim of the Oshakati XI is actually to test the standard of soccer in the far north and to see.whether we can cope with the standazds main­tained down south," , said Shilonga when asked what their intentions were with,the combined team.

He also saitl tltat the spirit of the invitation team could also improve the spirit of the clubs in the north, "and most important of all, our local standard", he said. '

The former master-dribbler also stressed that the spirits of the players was'high at the momertt and that they could hardly wait until tomorrow.

"We know that Benfica are very hard to beat but we are not going to let them off the hook easily. We want

BENFICA veteran and former national star, Lucky Gideop, is still going strong and will be Benfica's inspiration against the combined Oshakati XI tomorrow. The huge player - one of the best ball headers Tsumeb has produced - is also a founder player of the former Metropolitan Cup champions.

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OSHAKATI STADIUM SATuRDAY: Benfica (B) v. Oshakati XI (B) - (14hOO). Benflca' (A) v: ,Os~~ati XI (A) - (16h30).

,KATUTURA ·DERBY ·TOURNAMENT ' .. ~~. :. ., ~ ' .. - ~ .. ~ .,

FLASHBACK.;.LB;St yeat's winners,.sarusasOrlando Pirates (in black), captured in action witb BS Tigers, beaten fi,nalists duri,ng tbeir exciting final at the Katutura Stadium. Pirates will not participate in tbi~ w,eekend'sDerby TournaD;lenta~dtbe Ingwenyama are considered favourites to romp bome the

SKW SOCCER FIELD TONIGHT: fepsi African Stars v. Sorento Bucks - (19hOO). Referee: Nashau Black Africa - Linesmen: 2 Golden Rivers. BS Tigers v. SWA Toyota Young Ones - (16h30). Referee:: Pepsi African Stars - Linesmen: '2 Sorento Bucks .

. KA TUfURA STADIUM SATURDAY: SWA Autohaus Golden Riv~rs v. Sorento Bucks - (15hOO). Referee: BS Tigers - Linesmen: 2 SW A Toyota Young Ones. Nashau Black Africa v. BS Tigers - (16h30). Referee: SW A Autohaus Golden Rivers' - Linesmen: Sorento Bucks .

KATUTURA SUNDAY: SWA Autohaus Golden Rivers v. Sorento Bucks - (09hOO).

- Referee: SW A Toyota Young PIles - Linesmen: 2 Nashua Black Africa. Nashua Black Africa v. SWA ToyotaYoung Ones -(10h30). Referee: BS Tigers - Linesmen: 2 Pepsi African Stars.

PLAY·OFFS TO DECIDE WINNERS: (15hOO) - Winner 2 (Group A) / Winner 2 (Group B) 3 and 4th places. (16h30) - Winner 1 (Group A) / Winner 1 (Group A) 1 and 2nd places.

The overall-winner will receive 30 per cent of the gate-takings. The Runners-up: 25 per cent. Third place: 20 per cent. ' Fourth place: 15 per cent. Last two: 5 per cent.

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:,With the:. DerbY'Tournamenton the "cards •••

·SOCCER RETURNS· TOKATUTURA THIS WEEKEND

CONRAD ANGULA

BIG·TIME soccer will return 10 the mecca of Namibian soccer at tbe weekend wben tbe Annual Katutura Soccer Derby will be contested by Nasbua Black Africa, Pepsi African Stars, BS TigerS, SWA Toyota Young Ones, SWA Autobaus Golden Rivers and Sorento Bucks. '

Undisputed defending champions Sarusas Orlando Pirates, after their Angolan unslaught, will not defend their title, "because we are a bit tired and would like to gIve time to our players to recover from their inju-

, ries," said Patrick Mabos Vries, chairperson of the Buccaneers.

With the Sea Robbers out of the

oompetition BS Tigers, last year's beaten finalists, can be tipped as favourites to romp home their fIrst "big tournament" in five years.

The Ingwenyama, who have been disappointing in their pre-season warm-up matches, are without any doubt the most unpredictale team in the countty, and can never be ruled out as capable winners come Sun­day.

The , Shandumbala-based team reached last ye~'s [mal against all odds only to lose 2-0 against the Sea Robbers, that have made the Derby Tournament their own in the last three years.

Orlando went to share the remaing major cup competitions with their most ardent rivals Nashua Black

, Africa. But the Bucs were without doubt the team of the season, be­cause bf the superb fonn they main­tained throughout the season.

has shown that the Dolam lads tend to be unreliable when it comes to big­time soccer as they did against Orlando Pirates in their final clash a few weeks ago. The boys seemed to be carried away by big occasioos and they appear to be careless and not to take their opponents seriously. They seemed to win their games before play-time and to lose them during play-time.

Nevertheless, watch out for Wagga­Wagga Goagoseb' s team tonight at the SKW Field as the dynamic mid­field player has promised fireworks from his team-mates.

SW A Toyota Young, who squares up against BS Tigers in the second and last outing tonight, will like to restore their lost pride against the Ingwenyama.

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Orlando Pirates' best match of the last season was without doubt"their exciting stalemate with the visiting Angolan club champions Pedro Atlet­ico de Luanda, who thrashed them 7-'0 last weekend.

It is history now that the Kho­masdallads never have it easy against any team wearing a blue and white outfit - meaning Blue Waters, Ben­fIca or Tigers - who are physically superior when compared to the hard­running 'Kings at Night'.

MEDALS for every competitor to finish

TEAM AND LUCKY DIP

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Lots of fun for all!

SATURDAY 31 MARCH,1990

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My second favourites to walk away with the first prize on Sunday are Nashua Black Africa who are, de­spite still struggling to again obtain their top fonn, still going strong in tournaments and should not be taken lightly.

The Lions were eliminated on penalties by Eleven Arrows during the spoiled Blue Waters tournament at Walvis Bay last weekend.

Their defeat could, however, not be' taken lightly as they have built themselves a reputation of never being at their best or.in winning fonn in tournaments at the coastal town.

Sorento Bucks, who played quilt" nicely during their off-season frio endlies , have the tendency to be in­consistant in tournaments. History

Young Ones, who are also known and respected for their one-two tac­tics, is one of the few teams that comes up with surprises at the most unexpected times. Because of this they cannot be ruled out tonight."

The tournament's dark horses are NNSL Super League Rookies, SW A

. Autohaus Golden Rivers. who sur­prised me with newly-found dedica­tion against Sorento Bucks in the Crow's Inn Knockout a few weeks ago.

The youthful Rivers hardly set a foot wrong and domiriated the last half of their exciting tie and were never humiliated by their highly-rated opponents throughout the match.

The Rivers, inspired by their new coach Rusten Zukhj\C Mogar1t". are : still 'in the reshaping stage and ::<lHld cause an upset or two.

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17h58: Programrooster 18hOO: Weet Jy Nie 18h07: Vuller ' 18h44: Mysterious Cities of Gold 18h44: Educational Programme

"Spirit Bay: The Pride of Spirit Bay"

19h10: JJ Starbuck (New) , "A Killing in the . Mar~et'"

A young woman committed sui­cide - when Starbuck fmds out that she was all but a depressed person, he becomes very suspicious, . 20hOO: Nuus/Weerberig 20h26: Feature Film

"Dreambreakers' , 22hOO: Nuus/Weerberig 22h20: Sport 23h20: The Forum Presents

"Bruce Cockburn" OOhl0: Dagsluiting

, 17h58: Programme Schedule - 18hOO: Children's Bible

18h05: Ovid and the Gang ' 18h18: Wild Guess 'Wild Guess' is a half -hour of game show fun for the pre-teen set who are tickled by tigers, wowed by . whales, crazy about crocodiles, and whO love to have tonnes of fun. It combines all the game-show bells and whistles, 3-D animation, snazzy

, computer caricatures plus exciting wildlife sequences from every cor­nerofthe globe. 'Wild Guess' play­ers number two to a team, plus their

Team Tamers. The Guessmaster keeps it all moving along at a quick pace. The programme is taped in front of a really · alive live studio audience. 18h44: Sport 19h10: Mach I 19h35: Katts and Dog

"Race Against Time" Rinty and Hank work against the clock to bring a fatal scientific ex­periment back into the proper hands. 20hOO: Soeklig op 43.5 20hl0: Feature Film

"Blackout" (See photograph)

21h43: That's Incredible 22hOO: News/Weather Report , 22h20: Spenser for Hire

, "The Road Back" In this episode Spenser is hired as a bodyguard for a young, dedicat~d and honest state-senatorial candi­date. It becomes a very emotional case for Spenser. ' 23h06: The Jackson Five OOh18: Epilogue

, ;:~!~il&-~llle~1~:1t 16hOO: Programrooster 16h02: Educational Programmes

" Animal Families: The Chicken;' "Manufacturing Games: Chocolates.' , "The Pride of Spirit Bay" ' "Studiemetodes: Beplan vir Sukses" .

17hOO: Programme Schedule 17h02: The Planets (New)

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A fascinating seven-part series tak­ing a scientific look at the planets and how many myths surrounding them are destroyed on closer ex­amination.

"Children of the Sun" This programme looks at the move­ment of the Sun, Moon and the planets. How did we make a leap in understanding from an Earth-centred . universe to one in which the Sun and circling planets are only a tiny part? . 17h28: Soeklig op '435 17h38: Filling Station 18h06: Beyond 2000 A science and technology show. 18h55: Food for raith Presented by Leon de Jager 19h08: Charis A programme of gospel music. 19h25: Christen Forum

. 20hOO: NuusoorsiglNews Review 20h20: The Blue Frontier

"Antarctic Adventure" A group of scientists from the Hubbs Marine ResearCh Institute brave the rigors of the Antarctic weather to obtain penguin eggs to be hatched in an incubator. A successful ex­periment. 20h43: Blood on the Mountain A religious feature film. 22hOO: Nuus 22h20: ' Baka • The People of the

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Heaven can wait! I'M always reading The Namibian and

at the moment I am especially interested in the discussion abOut women.

I read the letter of Mr wa Mwambwa, who thinks that men are more important for a country (who gave birth to him?) and says that sexism is culture and women should respect culture. Maybe this culture was good for everyone in former time~, but now that the living circumstances have changed, it is no longer good for women. G.wen Lister answered him very clearly in a note under his letter, but I'm not satisfied.

It will not help to fight this particular person, because I found out that almost all ·the men in this country are standing on the same side when it concerns women. They are showing it more or less openly.

Can't they see that the women here are carrying the main Imid, especially the black women. Most of them are hard working, for poor payment, and they are bringing up their children (sometimes alone) as well as doing the housework and struggling to survive and many also take care of (unemployed) male family mem­bers or husbands, who are often frustrated, drink too much, are not taking their re­sponsibilities seriously. It is a hard life and I would not wantto swop with them, be­cause I fear I would not be strong enough for a life like this. .

And the church just stands on the side of the man, telling the woman to carry thei r­cross, the reware for this they will get in heaven. Heaven can waitl The wome

yourselves. There are always two sides. The one who gets oppressed, and the other who allows it to happen.

N amibians have suffered a lot and they . struggled to be free. Now let all Namibians be free. Try to become open and tolerant of every group in our society.

True freedom is that everybody can do what he. or she wants to do, as long as it does not hurt or harm any other person. This is my personal guideline.

I am a (whit.e) German woman married to a (black) Namibian. Unfortunately I speak mainly German and English. I have been in Namibia for six months and I find it difficult to find friends. I would like to meet or have contact with other women who are in a similar position to me. There must be some; please write to me.

ROSANAFUKA PO BOX 3597 SWAKOPMUND

A big headache

THE opportunists among Namibians ·could cause a big headache for our future government.

It seems to me that most white Namibi­ans with an opportunistic .nature are th0se in the 'private business Sector'. and blacks are mostly former members of SWA TF, particularly 101 Battalion.

It is sad, and at the same time logical, that some of the 101 former soldiers are not prepared to serve their country in a new Namibia defence force, demanding the same or more money than they got

m the colonial regime. Why this is 'logical' to me is because if

THE NAMIBIAN

they were not opportunists they would have refused to join enemy forces in the

" first place. What salaries were paid to our Namib­

ian heroes, Swapo p(~~ combatants who fought for so long to liberate Namibians from the oppressive South. African re­gime, including the SW A TF members?

. Do they feel no shame? . If they were In Romania they would

serve life sentences or be executed by. firing squad. If they think they can get more money el sewhere, they are free to

. look for better paid jobs; It is their democratic right to say no. As far as I know Namibians there are

enough men and women who are ready at any time to secure our freedom, to guard our borders and protect our peace and defend our democracy, filled with a spirit of reconciliation and forgiveness, willing to work and serve the new-born Namibian nation.

Long live Namibian patriots!

SLA VKO FILIFOVIC PO BOX 724 OKAHANDJA ·

Anti-toxic waste

I WOULD like to respond to the article in the edition of 15 February entitled 'Namibia ideal for toxic storage'.

By reading the headline alone it be­comes questionable as to whethf>T the au­thor and whoever shares his views really have the interests of Nami bia at heart by advocating and even promoting this de­structive idea of dumping nuclear wasie on our soil, for whatever reason.

He argues further that this will provide employment for Namibians. Who on earth would accept a job that means digging his or her own grave, however niilch they are paid to do so?

Not even a a fool would do that. The author speaks of protection. If there is protection, then why would anyone want to dump those poisons in our country and not simply in the countries where they are

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produced? Climatically Namibia receivc;s tremen­

dous radiation and the country is dry and hot. Thus the possibility of some of tos those radio-active substances becoming reactivated is quite high here, compared with other parts of the world.

I therefore strongly oppose contamina­tion of our land by nuclear toxic wastes. Namibia has just been taken back by the colonialists and we cannot afford to con­sciously allow its immediate contamina­tion by those capitalists.

If they don't have places in their own country to dump their wastes, they must use the money tp buy rockets and send their waste into space.

For Narrtibians there must be other sources and ways and meani to build our economy and provide employment for our people. We don' t have to contaminate ourselves to do this.

BERNARD HAUFIKU WITS ~EDICAL SCHOOL JOHANNESB URG

Habits die hard

OLD habits die hard. Especially if people aren't aware of them. There is a striking example of the survival of colo­nial traditions in today' s Namibia: the use of South Africa's postal code system. Even from a technical point of view, it makes no sense at all. The whole of Na­mibia has summarily been given the code 9000. It is Windhoek 9000, Swakopmund .9000, Tsumeb 9000, even Ohopoho 9000. So it does not help the po st office indistrib-

. uting mail throughout the country . Now look through. the Letters to the.

Editor page of The Namibian. You will see 9000s all over the place. Why for heaven's sake, waste any printer's ink for this four­letter coile? It should be enough to wriJe 'Namibia' on the envelope: the '9000' gives no additional information. It is an unnecessary duplication, or redundant, as an information scientist would call it. Even worse, it is but an involuntary recognition of South African rule.

Decolonisation must also take account of seemingly · trifling matters. Let's not wait until the Postmaster General decides about new postal codes. Sill)ply dr~op the 9000 appendix, which still degrades Namibia to an appendix of South Africa!

W HILLEBRECHT PO BOX 30822 PIONIERSP ARK

Note: You' ll be happy to see we've dropped the 9000s on the letters page. However, we used a bit extra printers ink to publish yourletter filled with 9000s. We take your point, but note at the same time that there are far more important vestige~' . of cOlonialism still around than the 9000 postal code - Ed.

Majority must rule

I would like to remind some self-styled politicians, that when talking of reconcili­ation, Ol)e must not lose sight of two points: that Namibia is ' necessarily an African country and secondly, the blacks are the majority on the land. The incoming government policy of reconciliation should under no circumstances be dis ­torted to mean the preservation of affairs as they stand today - which are white dominated. Democracy is however under­stood to mean that the will of the majority should prevail. This is true even in Amer­ica, the home of 'human rights' champi­ons, where blacks never dream of notice­able influence, not even to have a 'Negro ' president.

Reconciliation should then be con­strued in such a way that the majority rule. Only through new opportunities being availed to those denied in the past could · they take their rightful positions in the society.

Further this would elevate them from second class citizen position at which they are, as evidenced by recent murders of farmers which caused wild outcries sim­ply because the latest victims were whites.

The same voices, however, were not heard before when many died daily at the hands of Unita banditry .

TMSPACE PO BOX 9609 WINDHOEK

Fears for March 21

WE, the people of the far. north of Namibia are afraid of what might happen on the day of independence for Namibia.

The rumours are doing the rounds by ex-members of 101 and Koevoet while they are under the influence of alcohol that

. mobs will attack civilians on March 21. One wonders whether there are still weap­ons hidden in the area or not.

To assure our safety on that day, we request the Administrator General and the Chief of Police and UN Special Represen­tative to conduct searches in the area for possible weapons caches.

We are now familiar wiih these people who are talking free·ly and without fear in our presence. 'Because we love and want peace, this gives them good reason not to fear us . ..

I can assure the leaders of independent· Namibia that there are many more weap­ons caches in areas of the north . The nation wants peace and they, don't want to go back to war again.

ROSKAR PRIVATE BAG x5510 OSHAKATI

Returnee problems

IN THE name of reconciliation, all Narnibians, irrespective of colour, creed · or pOlitical affiliation, are supposed to . tolerate one another and forget about the past. Contrary to · this, most returnee job hunters are often told mainly by white business 'managers throughout Namibia that 'we have no work for terrorists'. or 'Nujoma should give you jobs' . The type of language used against poor returnees is not only abus'ive but an insult. Do whites not see . that the winds of change have aryived? . / One may say that these are isolated

l incidents, but the fact is that those who are victims. of such practices argue tpe con­trary. All of us are supported'to be guided by r~conciliation, but it seems that it is just a theoretical term.

We are of course in a transitional phase in our country, and after a few weeks we will enter another phase. At this stage we cannot afford to have elements drunk with these rotten attitudes in our society . They must be sternly warned to Stop insulting returnees who are also entitled to work be.­cause they are sons and daughters of this country. Last month two returnees asked me to take them to South West Breweries

. Ltd to go for joJ? interviews. This was in ac­cordance with1ll1 advertisement which ap­peared in a dai Iy paper of the same day. They were treated badly by Mr P von Kuehne at the Human Resources Depart­ment of the Breweries.

To add insult to inju ry, the same Mrvon Kuehne asked the two people questions such as whether they spoke French. One wonders what this had to do with working at the Breweries. People like this are poi­soning the spirit of reconciliation.

President Nujoma noted when officiat­ing the launch of the training of the first black troops who will serve as a guard of honour on independence day that every­body should forget the past, and that Namibia was not the only country where people had fought against one another. Europe had experienced two wars, and yet the same nations were now striving for a united Europe,'he said.

We thought this and other reco!1cili­atory statements made by President Nujoma and other leadefs would set an example, but there are still elements in our society who don't want to forget the past.

Reconciliation should be a two-way thing. Let us all have tolerance for one another and build our unity on the founda­tions of reconciliation, love, peace and harmony.

NESTOR IY AMBO WINDHOEK

Please address your letters to: The Editor, The Namibian, P.O. Box 20783, Windhoek, or hand deliver them to our

offices at 42 John Meinert Street, Windhoek. .

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SEXI,SM AND RACISM

ISEL Rivero Y Mendez is from Cuba and has been living in New York for the last few years working with the United Nations; She is the . regional director for the United Nations in the Okahandja district. Isel has been involved with women's issues since the 1970s:

Isel felt she should speak a little about the history of sexism world­wide. "The United Nations held a convention on the elimination of discrimination against women, and at this convention the issue of dis­crimination against women was dis­cussed. A declaration was adopted by the General Assembly in 1979 and proclaimed at the World Conference of Women in Copenhagen in 1980.

"This document is one of the most advanced documents on human rights issues the United Nations has ever

. put together, because it covers all possible areas of a women's life,

. from the family to her political and civil rights, her health, employment and even talks of-equal pay for equal work." .

She continued that it was very significant that the convention dealt with sexism because it was usually difficult to talk of patriachy and sexism . in diplomatic circles. For instance, if one looked at the composition of the United Nations, in any picture you would see there \yere 20 men to maybe

.... one woman in the UN. She says this is a reflection of the world situation:

'Y:0?len are a minQIity in political life in most COWltries, even the Scandi­navian countries, with maybe the exception of Norway . Thus the ques­t~on of sexism is important at both the national and international level.

At the convention sexism was dermed as "prejudices and custom­ary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotypes for men and women" .

The recognition that sexism needs to be defined, regulated and changed in an international convention only happened in 1980. Where did sexism begin?

Most anthropologists agree that sexism beg an in the passing from the matrilineal (mother-orientated) so­cieties to patriarchal·(father-oriented) soci<,ties where the power was taken away from the women and given to the men, where the male became the head of state, the head of society, tribe and head of the family. The society became father-centred and the,values which were traditionally upheld as sacred or regu1ating be­haviour also changed to male-orien­tation and thatwhich was identified as female became less important.

Isel goes on to say that in religion we see examples of sexism. "If we look at Greece and' Rome, in the passage from one system to another, they make a goddess be born out of the god's head, in other words, they could not have a goddess being born normally through a women's geni­tals. ForJews and Christians, Christ became the son of God and not of Mary. Theworship of Mary as the mother of Christ was not entirely approved of mtiJ the end of the Middle Ages."

"In the late 1700s men of the ChUrch were still speculating as to whether women had souls ornot. The i

same discussion arose as regaz:ds blacks, sold as slaves in Latin Amer­ica and other places, as to whether they had ' souls or not. So with this history it became slowly entrenched ... that Women means the same as weak. Men had to rationalise why men were stronger but instead of doing this they explained why women were weaker. Slowly it be-

came entrenched- in our laws and clearly at one point women become property, property of the master, of the state, of the father and the hus­band."

She continues: "Sexism against the female sex has a long history both in customs of all cultures and all continents, women were traded as part of booty (loot) in wars. In Meso­potamian wars and times, the chief­tain would take all the wives of the different kings and princes and this was their first loot from a war. Aside from this they. also then raped the other women too. In history, when women ceased to be important, men began to glorify themselves - they erected statues to their male genitals. Women as social possession.s did not · stop 3 000 years ago, it still goes on . today. Sexism became institutional­ised and became normal law ."

In many countries like France, Germany and the Scandinavian cOun­tries women now.feel they have some control over the spacing of their children but changes happen in the population growth. The state, to a large extent, even determines how many children women should have. When it is convenient for the state they will have a policy of high birth rate, where all women are meant to have a lot of children. The state of­fers incentives, bonuses and even often paid a big amount of money for maternity and childcare: After 10 years there may be too many people and then women are told that spacing is good and c.ontraception should be used~ In China they nave a popula-

· tion problem, but once again this is sexist because if the woman has not had a male child she must try until she has one.

Isel then goes on to relate sexism and racism and the interrelationship between the two. "Racism and sex­ism have the same kind of historical package if we look around. I am talking as an Hispanic living in the States, I am not white. I am Hispanic and all Hispanics are "lazy, drunks, apparently like sex a .Jot, dress pro­vocatively".

In essence, if we put it in black and white terms (although I do not like to do so) we are all mixed. Blacks and women have been described in very

. similar ways . by the Anglo-Saxan

. world: "Unintelligent, slow, we don't react properly, we are hysterical, we are weak," in spite of the fact that many African women work hard on the fields all day; "We are noisy and talkative," but what they see as a hindrance is in fact that women have better communication skills than men.

Sexism is inherent in assumptions that a woman is valueless, although we are meant to look after the house­hold and look pretty for the men.

Another sexist practice is that it is better for one to educate a boy than a

· girl. In Latin America it has changed over the last 30 years; At fiist it was because it was felt that a woman could get a better husband if she was educated, but now it is more of an economic issue where, if they did not educate women, there would be a whole sector of the popUlation that was not productive.

It is inherent in medical establish­ments on the one hand to glorify motherhood and on the other hand there are no child care, primary child care or maternal care, or otherwise

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litical orreligious women are always related to her sex - rape, tearing of the vagina, et cetera.

Ending her talk, Isel s~id: "If men menstruated, we would have holi­days once a month and if men bore children we would have access to

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PARLlAMffJTS Women who are more than one half of the world's population are. hardly represented ill the world's parliaments.

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more sophisticated, simpler and less dangerous birth control methods and family planning."

Next week we will look at what Ottilie Abrahams said about sex­ism and racism, specifically in Na-mibian society. .

We, the people of the Children's World Creche Development Centre, intend ' holding a three-day seminar in the hall of the Children's World Creche Development Centre in Windhoek. The"conference will be held from March 9 to .11, 1990. The theme of the' conference will be: "The role of the kindergarten, creche and -day-care centre in an independent Namibia". You are hereby cordially invited to send two delegates to attend the conference. Accommodation and food will be provided, 'as well as the refuelling of your vehicles on your return trip after theconclus.ion of the­conference. People community

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FAUNA OF THE NAMIB DESERT DUNE ECOSYSTEM In the last article, the physical features and the vegetation of the ecosystem were described. Today, the animal life (fauha) will be introduced •.

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a) Detritivores

I explained the importance of de­tritus as a food source in the ecosys­tem in the last article. It should then come as no surPrise to realise that detritus feeders are the most numer­ous group of animals in terms of numbers of individuals in the whole ecosystem.

In the ecosystem, the most impor­tant detritus feeders are insects be-

. longing to two groups - Tenebri­onidae (be10nging to the order Cole­optera - see article of 29(7/88), and the order Thysanura - see figure.)

Thysanura are wingless insects with many jo~nted antennae and, three bristle-iike appendages at the poste­rior end. If you have Seen fish moths or silverfish, you have seen members of this order. .

Tenebrionids and Thysanura are widespread in the ecosystem. Each habitat (e.g. slip-face, interdune val­ley) has its own characteristic array of species, species which are adapted to the peculiar features of the habitat concerned. Tenebrionids and Thy­sanura provide food for many preda­tors.

Some other animals include detri­~ in their food. For example, the sand lizard, Aporosaura anchietae takes grass and Trianthema seeds; but it also eats insects (including. Thysanura, other beetles called Curcu­lionids, Tenebrionid beetl~s (adult and larvae), termites, et cetera. . SOIne detritivorous insects will also take fresh green food which springs up after rains. Some will also eat decaying animal material (carrion) when this becomes available . .

Other organisms also feed on liv-)ng green plants. These include, for example, tiny insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, called pseu­dococcids, which suck juices from the roots of grasses and in tum pro­vide food for the golden mole (see below).

b) Predators

These include: (1) invertebrates (spiders, solfu­

gids, scorpions and predaceous beetles);

(2) reptiles (side-winding adder, grass-snakes and lizards, including geckos arid the legless lizard Typhlo­saura braini;

(3) birds (owls and the insectivo­rous dese'rt chat), and

(4) mammals (golden mole,jackal). Solfugids (mentioned above) are

also called solpugids. They belong to the same class as spiders (Arach­nida). Unlike spiders', their jaws (chelicerae) are extremely large (see figure). They use these jaws not only to kill their prey, but also to tear it apart. However, unlike spiders, their jaws do Rot inject any poison. Solfu­gids are characteristic of desert and dry savanna areas so,' for example, they are common in the Kalahari.

The large spider Carparachne alba is often found in the dune crest re­gion. It has it mo;t unusual way of avoiding enemies - it "cartwheels" rapidly down the slip-face.

The side-winding adder Bitis per­ingueyi has a colouration which makes it well-camouflaged. In addition to this it submerges itself almost com­pletely in the surface sand, by wrig­gling itS ribs. Only the top of its head remains exposed, and its eyes are right on top of its head, not project­ing laterally from the head. In this

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position it waits for its prey to come past unaware of its presence, and then pounces on it.

A captive Bitis also sticks its tail out of the sand and wriggles it about on the surface. This is used to lure a iizard which presumably wistakes the moving tail for some possible food item.

Bam owls probably range widely over the dunes. Workers have found roosts of this owl under Stipagrostis sabulicolatussocks deep in the dune area.

The golden mole, Eremitalpa granti is a mammal that lives most of the time beneath the surface of the sand, a life to which it is very well-adapted. It looks rather like an elongated ball, its limbs being quite short. Living beneath the sand surface, it is per­haps not surprising that it is blind. It does have eyes, but they are rudi­mentary, and are hidden under the skin. The ears do not have large external parts (pinnae). In fact, the external ear is represented by tiny cavities in the skin. It is perhaps the only mammal capable of breathing and moving about under a layer of

..... desert sand without the protection of a burrow.

The mole feeds on thepseudococ­cids and on plant roots mentioned earlier. It also feeds on ants, tenebri-

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onid beetle larvae, termites and even .small geckos.

(Adaption to the Namib dune eco­system has been mentioned in some previous articles: Planl adaptions -including photosynthesis) .. 9/10/87; water from fog - 29(7/88; insect aC7 tivity cycles - 26/8/88).

Part of the adaption shown by animals to the extreme environmental conditions of the ecosystem consists of escape from these conditions. For beetles, . this means short-term es­cape behaviour. or "retreat".

Activity cycles of beetles show different methods of escape from high sand surface temperatures in the middle part of the day. Some beetles are nocturnal- staying under the sand during the day but coming out at night. Others have a bimodal activity pattern - coming out in the early morning hours and again in the late afternoon or early evening.

Such retreat behaviour is not con-' fined to insects however. The diurnal sand-diving lizardAporosaura lives in the sand of the slip-faces of the dunes. Normally during summer, surface temperatures rise -rapidly during the moming. lizards,like many other organisms, prefer a tempera-

ture not too hot but not too cold. Early in the morning the temperature is below the lizard's preferred tem­perature. Then for a short time tem­peratures rise to the preferred tem­perature range (30-40 degrees). During this time, the lizard is very active looking for food and taking part in social behaviour. Then the teinpera­ture rises above the preferred levels and the lizard dives beneath the sur­face of the sand, escaping the ex­treme surface temperature.

Le.aving asid~ escape mechanisms, many of the desert. insects seem to lose water less rapidly than related insects from wetter areas, when exposed to a dry atmosphere. They can also often tolerate hig!)er tem­peratures than related insects from less extreme climates. In one experi­ment,lethal temperatures (tempera­tures killing the insect after a given interval of time, in this case thirty minutes) were studied. Desert beetles (tenebrionids) of the genus Onymac­ris had lethal temperatures of 48-51 degrees Celcius. But the tenebrionid Trigonopus. sp. (not a desert bCetle) had a lethal temperature of 42,5-45 degrees C.

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Structurally, the predominant substrate is sand, so it is not surpris­ing that many animals show morpho­logical adaptions that fit them for life in or on the sand.

The sand can in fact be regarded as a fluid medium. So just as it is pos­sible to dive into water and swim in water, so many small animals can dive and/or swim in the sand.

Among insects., some are aerody­namically shaped. Take the tenebri­onid beetles Lepidochora. These are shaped like flat discs, and the mar­gins of their bodies are drawn out into wing-like projections - see the figure. If you compare the shape of such a beetle with another tenebri­onid beetle like' the grain pest Tri­bolium (also shown in the figure )you will see what I mean about the shape .

. Such beetles as Lepidtxhora can swim in the sand.

The Thysanurashow a rather simi­lar variation. Ctenolepisma terebra~ is similar in shape to a fishmoth. But a species like Hyperlepisma austra­lis, which lives largely beneath the sand surface, is broad at the head with a tapered, humped body and short appendages. Its shape is not unlike that of the body of an aero­plane. It also is thought to be a spe­cies which can swim through the sand (see the figure) :

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In contrast to insects adapted to life beneath the surface of the sand, are species adapted to running on the surface. One such insect is the tene-' brionid beetle Cauricara phalangium - see the figure. If you wmparethis

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A MONTH will be long enough to rest after the Independence celebrations! And the next round of fun comes exactly a month and a day later·

. EARTH DAY on April 22. Namibians will join up to 100 million people all over the world to help remind one another that our . planet, earth, needs .to be looked after very carefully if we all wish to survive. The Namibia Nature Foundation has brought several involved groups together to plan the big day, as you have probably read in The Namibian. Lazarus Mambo of Nasok is mobilising litter clearing campaigns in Khomasdal and Katutura during the weekends leading up to Earth Day. The Wildlife Society will collect signatures on a pledge document to hand to someone in high office to confirm Namibians' love and care for their environment. IUs plamled ihatschoois will take part in environmental competitions and church ministers will be encouraged to raise the issue of the environment in their sermons. A big ball of unused plastic bags is to be rolled through the streetS when a grand march takes place in Windhoek. At the end point, it is hoped that an important official will address an enthusiastic crowd. Elsewhere in the world, a bicycle procession is planned in India, tree-planting in Mauritius and Soviet and Chinese mountaineers will climb the world's highest peak, Mt Everest, to clear rubbish left behind by litter bugs on other expeditions. People all over the world are suddenly paying attention to environmental matters because man's "civilised" structures, such as factories, are killing a big ~art

of nature. Forests are also being destroyed at an alarming rate.· So much of the air: we breath comes from plants which release oxygen. No wonder people in Europe and North America are, so worried that jungles such as the Amazon in South . America . are being chopped away. But we should be worried too. It is all the same big tank of air from which we fill our lungs! Also, sci~ntists have to keep on discovering new medicines as new diseases develop. I mean, 10 years ago, who had ever heard of Aids? The different types of animals, plants and rocks on this earth are all sources for medicines· used in hospitals and by traditional healers. So, the more different types that can remain on earth without being chopped away by chainsaws or bulldozed into heaps, the betterit will be for all of us. International standards are such that countries should try and keep 10 per cent of each of their major types of plants. . '. Hanno Rumpf, Deputy Minister­designate of Wildlife, Conservation and Tourism, has recommended this be done in Namibia. Who knows how many treasured plants are sitting quietly on the hills about Windhoek, the oshonas of Ovambo or on the banks of the Kavango river, that will be needed . one day? Maybe even very soon! Going back to Earth Day and the big march: it's a way in which Namibians can asSure one another of the importance of their environment, and also havejusta good time. I attended a similar march some time ago in London, organised by a group called "Friends of the Earth". The theme ·was "Save the Rain Forests". Participants went to a lot of trouble

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with Lepitklchora you will see what long legs. it has ' got. Cauricara can run very rapidly over the sand. It can also use its long legs to lift its body high above the sand surface away from the most extreme heat. Not sur­prisingly, this species cannot dive into the sand. So at night time it stays on the surface, attaching itself to ' grass stems and pebbles. It then becomes easy prey for spiders, solfu­gids and scorpions which tend to eat its abdomen, leaving head, 'thorax and legs attached to the grass.

Morphological adaptations are not confined to insects, however. For example, the ' gecko' Palmetogeclw rangei has webbed toes, which assist it to walk rapidly on soft sanq and to dig tur.nels in the soft sand of the dune slopes. It uses its tongue to wipe off dust from the surface of its very large and exposed eyes.

The lizards Meroles cuneirostris and Aporosaura CI/lChietae can dive into soft sand when running at full speed. The hard, blade-like scales on the front 'of the upper jaw seem to help here. Typhlosaurus braini, a very elongated legless lizard, has a ' sharp, pointed nose which is thought to help it to swim into sand at high speed. .

It must not be assumed that! all morphological adaptations evolved in the Namib dune ecosystem. Some

at least of the ancestors of present \ dune' animals colonized the dunes , from other ecosystems, such as arid

or semi-arid .savanna reg.ions east of the Namib dunes. Such ancestors may already have possessed morphologi­cal features which would enable these ancestors to colonise the dunes (see "pre-adaptation" in article C?f 9/10/ 87). . Thus it has been suggested that the

ancestors of beetles like LepitkJchora . lived either under the bark of trees or under rocks and already had circular disc-like body shapes, convenient in such habitats. After colonising the

. dunes, further evolutionary J'!}orpho­logical adaptation may_have occ\lI'I<Xi.

After good rain shower~, inter­dune valleys produce a cover of short ' grass and other plants. Insectpopula­tions suddenly seem to increase. Then several non-resident grazer and preda­tor animals move into the ecosystem and feed on the temporary relatively plentiful food supply. Herbivores and omnivores include the oS.trich, cer­~ain larks, pied and black crows, gemsbok and springbok. Predators · include jackals, Ludwig's bustard and Ruppel's korhaan.

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to dress up as creatures of the forests. Pythons, ' elephants, gorillas ••. you name it! A band played music about the rainforests and everybody sign\.>d a petition to hand to the World Bank, calling on them to stop supporting .projects which destroyed vast pieces of forest in developing countries to support things like the "hamburger culture". Apart from people getting' the feeling they were contributing to'Yards a cause, they' all seemed relaxed and happy for having had a good time. I certainly did anyway, and I'm

.sure we 'can make an event of Earth Day in Namibia on April 22! * It is good to hear that the new government says they will address the issue of conservation seriously. At a seminar in Windhoek this week, Danny Tjongarero, Deputy Minister-designate for Information and Broadcasting, said he saw itas animportantrole for the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation to pay special attention' to conservation after independence. "The depletion of natural resourceji leaves a lot to be desired," he said. "Radio and television ' can be employed in helping Namibians understand what this . depletion

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really, means." A CLEAR message about the function ·and importance of trees.

(PICTURESAND COLUMN BY DUNCAN GUY)

MACAWS, parrots from the Amazon, have their plea conveyed: "Save Our Forest Homes"./·

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FIGHT' IS ON TO SAVE THE 'GOLD ' OF THE FOREST'

BY CHRISTOPHER MWALUBANDU Makonde country , THE BLACKWOOD tree is the source of Tanzania's world-famous Makonde carvings. But it also ends up as building poles for cattle holds. The tree has become a victim of its own success. Its commercial popularity for carvings and musical instruments, as well as farming activities. and bushfires - all are threatening the survival of one of the cquntry's most precious natural resources.

The African blackwood tree (dal­bergia melanoxylon) used for the worldfamous Makonde carvings is threatened by over-exploitation, bush fIres and farming.

change earnings, but the future of the tree, known locally as mpingo, is bleak unless conservation measures are taken.

It is diffIcult to find mature mp­ingo trees in the Coast region be­cause they have been overharvested by users while smaller ones continue

Exports of the carvings and billets for musical instruments contribute greatly to the country's foreign ex-

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to be affected by bush fires. Mean­while, smallholder farmers expand their fields; using the precious tree for charcoal-making as well as a source . of firewood and building poles for cattle holds .

The situation is worse in the .eas·ily accessible Bagomoyo and Kibaha districts than in south-east Tanzania, where transport is difficult especially duriJig the rainy season.

Mpingo occurs in the eastern por­tionofTanzarua, covering the whole of Lindi and Mtwararegions , parts of Handeni in Tanga region the Coast and Morogoro regions .

The total area is 134 000 sq kms., of which 95000 sqkm are forest and woodland.

The is nQ reliable forest inventory information. Rough estimates car­riedoutrecentlyover an areaof4 088 hectares show about 3.4 cubic metres can be obtained per hectare.

In 1988, about 125 cubic metres of blackwood end products, mainly billets for musical instruments, were ex­ported to Europe ana the United States at US$1 550 per cubic metre.

The figures are based of five mp­ingo sawmills .in South-Eastern Tanzania.

But the apparent good neWf of this "gold of the forest" may be short­lived. A United Nations Environ­ment Programme (Unep) officer of Africa regional programmes, Sonja Canger, says: "Tanzania has plenty of blackwood trees but the number suitable for use in musical instru­ments is a small fraction. Witho~t control, export business may drop in the next 20 years if conservation measures are not taken." . . . She advises that since the growth rate of the tree is slow,maturing after about 100 years. Tanzanians must be even more careful about harvesting and using mpingo.

A Unep survey of mpingo distri­bution has led to a proposal for' , An Inventory and Forest Reservation

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estimated to cost more than $11 million. The project may start as soon as funds are made available and would last about 10 years.

Getting a clear picture of the popu­lation density of mpingo will greatly help its conservation and rational exploitation. Logging is expensive because of the scattered location of the trees .

Most of the trees are badly shaped and only about a quarterofthe timber is recovered as "best"wood" . Saw­mill machinery can process only larger pieces, smaller ones being thrown out as waste. .

Senior forest officer Said Mbw.ana says extra machinery is needed to extract the blackwood from smaller branches . Wastes could be used for charcoal or briquettes, which he sees as a more efficient use of wood .than burning logs.

The forester says areas where mpingo occurs should be reserved as an effective step towards ·conserva­tion, "which will ensure efficient protection from over exploitation, bush fires and encroachment.' ,

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villages throughout the country have been defined and the conservation of unallocated (public) land is not easy. Mbwana says: "Forests in public lands are the most misused com­pared with those in reserved areas."

Mpingo is one of the seven "na­tional trees" . The government pro­hibits harvesting or destruction of a national tree regardless of its size wherever it may be without permis­sion of the Forestry Division. Such a conservation measure is difficult to enforce.

Another conservation approach would be to establish growing areas in the tress's natural habitat. Mpingo can be grown from seeds, root suck­ers and truncheons.

Although it takes so long to ma­ture, inveting in the species would maintian the lifespan of the "gold mine," assuring future generations of a sustained yield from this lucra­tive renewable resource.

Experts have suggested that the use of mpingo might be restricted to carving and musical instrurnent~ as this would promote effective moni­toring of protection measures. -GEMINI NEWS.

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GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY

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RECEIVING guests. The head of Ghana's Observer Mission in Namibia, Dr Keli Nordor (right), pictured with Ghana's Untag police commander (centre).

SOME of the guests who the gala event. Seen here are Swapo~s deputy Information Secretary Aaron Shihepo (left), Jeff Konah Coleman, a Liberian diplomat with the OAU Observer Mission and Frank Badohu, a Ghanaian lawyer and. legal consultant with the OAU Observer Mission.

RAST A Boy Hans of Swapo's cultural group Ndilimani, who provided entertainmeni at a function .heldat the Safari Motel on Tuesday to mark 33 years of Ghanaian independence.

NAMIBIA'S Defence Minister-desigmite Peter Mueshihange pictured with Anna Campino from Untag headquarters.

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THE Council of Churches in Namibia will host the official Independence Celebration Thanksgiving Service on March 22nd, foilowing the request made by the Hospitality and Entertainment Committee of the Independence celebrations organising committee.

CCN General Secretary'Dr Shejav­ali called on all people to attend the service and asked the whole nation to be in prayer to G04 for the Presi­dent, the Cabinet and all those who have been'entrusted with the task of

, governing the country. "This is a time of rejoicing and

giving thanks to God who hasmade

these things possible for us," Dr Shejavali said.

He concluded with the text from Luke 2 chapter 14: "Glory ~o God in the highest heaven, and. peace on

. earth to those with whom he is pleased. When the angels went away from them back into heaven, the shep­herds said to one another, 'Let: s go to

Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us."

The CCN has invited overeseas ecumenical instances and individu­als who have stood with and sup­ported the Namibian churches throogh­out the liberation struggle, to share together in the celebrations.

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Administr ative and management experience are essential / .

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