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Military expert says local . authorities' explanation leaves many questions

BY RAJAH MUNAMAVA

THE bombing of a Namibian border village on Sunday morning, which the South West Africa Police have blamed Qri AngQlan government forces, has sparked a row about the origins of tbe plane involved in the incident. . .

A police spokesperson in Wind­hoek, Chief Inspector Kierie du Rand, said on Sunday night an Angolan Soviet-made MiG fighter aircraft had dropped a bomb near Bagani in Namibia. • The plane, he said, was. believed to have been on a bombing mission against Vnita targets near the Ango­lan/Namibian border.

The bomb, according to the police, had been dropped about three to four kilometres inside Namibia, about 100 metres away from the village in the Kavango.

Angolan military sour.ces on Monday denied that one of their air­craft was involved in the bombing incident, saying the report was a fabrication by the South African and United States governments to pro-

vide them with an excuse to come to the rescue of a beleaguered Unita.

MAJOR VICTORY

Angolan forces claimed a major victory against. Unita on December 23. Lu anda saiQ Fapla forces had takea the strategic town 'Of Matringa, which is only 220 kilometres from the Unita stronghold, Jamba.

But according to a Western mili­tary expert in Windhoek, the expla­nations given by the local authorities here pose more questions than they give answ·ers.

The source, who declined to be named, said "this (incident) leaves more unanswered questions". The round trip from Angola's airforce bases at Cuito Cuanavale and Menogue

PRINCIPLE BEFORE UNITY

Kosie Pretorius lashes out at Jan de Wet

toBaganiis 800 kilometres and 1100 kilometres respectively .

A flight from Menogue to Bagani would leave Angolan fighter aircrafts hardly a few minutes "to be on sta­tion". The military sourcesaid while ' this was possible, it 'was highly un­likely. , 'The Angolan,cairf-ot.ce has Mi~h - . 21s, MiG-23s and SU-22s. ,

According to the military expert, the MiG-21 is a versatile war 'ma­

. chine. Itcan be deployed as a fighter, an interceptor, or as a .ground at­tacker.

"Thus, from the point of view of aircrafts, . it is completelY feasible that the aircraft could have taken off from Cuito Cuanavale or Menogue. or that it could have 'been a MiG-21 or an SU-22," the source explained.

CRATER SIZE$TRANGE

"But what is weird is the size of the cx:ater and the effective radius of

. the bomb. The Russian white phos­phorous bomb has an effective ra­dius of 150 to 200 metres, and it would have taken out ' the village. There is no way you can drop that bomb 100 metres away from a vil­lage without taking the village out,"

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THE DISAGREEMENT between himself and Mr Jannie de Wetwas not 'personal' but rather a matter of princil'le. This was said by the leader of the white National Party in Namibia,

CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 THE head of the United Nations High Commission f()r Refugees in Windhoek, Mr Sylvester Awuye.

Mr Kosie Pretorius, in a press release yesterday. - - ' Reacting to what he called a "one­

sided" press conference by Mt de Wet on Monday, Mr,Pretorius said that the disagreement between the two top of Action Christian

Mr Kosie Pretorius • principle before unity

National (ACN) was who was the legitimate leader of the front and which was the legitimate constitution it represented;

Mr Pretorius confirmed that to date all efforts to effect reconcili­ation ' betw~en the two, including arbitration, had failed.

"¥y party which puts unity aPoJl:t'. ~nciple to avoid division will Hirst .JOse its principles and then its unity"', he said.

Mr-Pretorius, adding that he could not :'ignore' the allegations made by Mr de Wet at a press conference which had received wide coverage, said that he had written a lengthy letter to Mr de Wet on December 18, to which he had not yet had a reply. . He regretted that the 'matter be­

tween them had now become one of open public debate.

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BACK ON TRACK UNHCR will continue to provide assistance to .Namibia

THE funding crisis which threatened to prematurely end the assi,stance given 'to 'returned exiles . by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has been solved.

This was disclosed by the UNHCR's head of mission in Windhoek, Mr Sylvester Awuye, in an interview yesterday.

Mr A wuye said the UN Secretary­General, Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar, and the new High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr Thorvald Stoltenberg, had agreed that the UNHCR should be allowed 1.0 complete its work in Namibia.

This meant that instead of being­forced to wind up its operations at the

end of this month the UNHCR would continue to provide assistance to returnees until the end of June, when the food distribution programme was planned to end iil1yway.

The head of the local UNHCR office said that there had been ongo­ing consultations between the UN

Secretariat in New York and the UNHCR in Geneva on possible ways of solving the funding problem.

When Mr Stoltenberg took up his duties yesterday, further discussions had been held and agreement on continuing the programme was reached after new sources of funding had been identified.

The imminent collapse of the UNHCR's operations due to lack of funds was widely reported on radio, television and the local press on Tuesday.

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Aquino tries to consolidate army support

PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino, attempting to head off a fresh coup attempt in the Philippines, launched a series of meeting on Tuesday with military officers to hear their problems and secure their loyalty.

Aquino gave a luncheon for 25 army captains and 15 lieutenants at the Mala­canang presidential palace, and a spokesman said she 'intended to meet officers in small groups twice a week for "free-wheeling dialogue".

"We expect the officers that are called by the president will express their minds and to me that will give the president a better bird' s eye view ... on the thinking of all of the officers," military spokesman Brigadier-General Oscar Florendo told report­ers.

Aquino's military adviser, Major-General Mariano Adalem, said the junior officers had largely raised grievances about promotion bottlenecks within the military, particularly from captain to major and major to lieutenant-colonel.

They also discussed their pay and allowances, operational support in the field, and briefed her on how they had acted during the December 1-7 mutiny, the sixth and most serious attempt to topple Aquino in almost four years.

"They assured the president that should there be any disturbance again, the president and the government can count on their support as one," Adalem said.

Army rebels have threatened to launch a fresh coup attempt soon to oust Aquino and set up a military-civilian rulingjunta to sort corruption and a 20-year communist insurgency. AdaJem said the intention was to forge.a closer rapport and understand­ing between the government and the military.

SAiTRANSKEI DIPLOMATIC

ROW CONTINUES SOUTH AFRICA has now paid Transkei its R205 million share of the customs union revenue pool after blocking payment for two weeks.

But the Department of Foreign Affairs hinted in Pretoria yesterday that further payments may be with­held unless Transkei lifted "trade restrictions" on South Africa.

The department said the payment had been made in the "light of the discussion between State President ·F.W. de Klerk and the chairman of the Military Council, Maj-Gen. Bantu Holomisa, in Umtata on January 11, and on the assumption that the prob­lem arising from the imposition of trade restrictions which the Republic of the Transkei has imposed on the Republic of South Africa will be resolved before further transfer pay­ments are due".

Transkei apparently broke customs union agreements by banning the import of Sorghum beer from Natal.

This is but one facet of a continu­ing diplomatic row between Pretoria and Umtata.

South African official sources were cited on Tuesday as saying that General Holomisa attempted a coup against Ciskei in August last year - but that Transkei Defence Force troops turned back in their hired vehicles after crossing the Transkei border when they got cold feet.

Meanwhile, charges by Transkei that destabilisation forces and a hit squad operated from South African soil against General Holomis have not been resolved. Trar.skei detained alleged hit squad members, one of them a South African policeman.

The S.A. Police confirmed that Constable M. Mabunda had disap­peared while on duty .

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ANC executives in Lusaka for policy talks

LEADERS of the African National Congress (ANC), reunited after more than 25 years in jail and exile, began talks on Tuesday aimed at defining their strategy for negotiations with the South African government.

Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki, k .ading a group of prominent ANC members who arrived in Lusaka on Monday to an emotional welcome from exiled comrades, made a brief public appearan\e to lay a wreath at a Zambian national monument.

ANC official Stanley Mabizela said they would meet the nationalist movement's policy-making inner cabinet and then attend an official reception hosted by Zambian Presi­dent Kenneth Kaunda.

The arrival of Sisulu and his grey­haired group of prison veterans has lifted the morale of the 78-year-old organisation, driven into exile in the early 1960s.

But senior AN C officials said their trip was more than a sentimental reunion between men who last 'met 27 years ago.

Some Congress members have registered concern that the ANC might be outpaced by fast-moving changes

inside South Africa and by President F,W. de Klerk 's drive to seize the initiative from anti-apartheid forces.

The ANC committed itself last year to seek a negotiated settlement and says it is ready for talks with De Klerk if he meets certain conditions.

First among these is the release of Nelson Mandela, widely expected in the next few weeks.

Mandela's detention has been the focus of a highly successful world­wide campaign by the ANC but his release could backfire on the oranisa­tion if world opinion sees it as the end of South Africa's problems. _ The ANC argue that any conces­sions made by De Klerk have been wrung from him by pressure and that South Africa must not be "let off the hook" .

This week's meetings are expected to discuss how to handle Mandela's release and how to respond if De Klerk lifts the ban on the organisa-

tion to pave the way for talks. The movement says it will only

drop armed struggle under a negoti­ated end to hostilities once Pretoria has met its conditions for starting talks.

A three-day ANC national execu­tive committee beginning on Thurs­day may co-opt Sisulu and others into its ranks. Sisulu, a former party secretary-general, is currently, like Mandela, just an ordinary ANC member taking orders from Lusaka.

However, major leadership changes including the naming of a successor to ailing ANC President Oliver Tambo will not be possible until a full con­gress is held in June.

Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda warned the ANC leaders when he welcomed them on Monday that they would have to do more to secure unity among anti-apartheid forces or risk the South African government exploiting their divisions .

UK Foreign Secretary upholds forced return

of boat · people THOUSANDS of Vietnamese boat people facing forced repatriation from a crowded Hong Kong detention centre greeted visiting Brisith Foreign Secretar), Douglas Hurd with chants of protest yesterday.

Hurd, who pushed the controver­sial. repatriation policy through the British parliament, brushed past the demonstrators barely glancing at their banners.

Inmates wearing white headbands, the Vietnamese colour of mourning, marched round the camp ' shouting "give us freedom," and "we'd rather die than go back to a communist ' country" throughout his visit to the camp on isolated Hei Ling Chau Is­land, a former leper colony.

Toddlers waved banners saying "help Vietnamese children" while adults sported placards declaring: "No suppressing our peaceful demonstra­tion" and "we can't believe in Hanoi authorities' promise" .

"These were well organised dem­onstrations, I think they were for your benefit rather than mine," Hurd told reporters after his tour of the camp,

Hurd, in the British colony on a four-day . visit, . expressed his com­mitment to the policy of forcible repatriation.

"We wish to clear the camps as soon as one can and prevent the camps filling and re-filling," he said.

The United Nations High Com­mission for Refugees (UNHCR) wants forced repatriation to be put on hold to give its voluntary return programme a chance to work.

Under U.N. auspices, 104 Viet­namese returned voluntarily to Ha­noi on Tuesday, the tenth group to go back since the programme started in March. .

Their departure brings the number who have chosen to return to 1093.

Hurd chatted briefly with inmate Huang Quang Minh, 38, asking him why he had left Vietnam and ac­cepted letters of protest from inmates. Heavy security insulated him [rom the noisy but peaceful protesters and there were no untoward incidents. - "The main problem is there are too many people here in too small a

space," Hurd said . Britain and Hong Kong provoked

widespread international .criticism last month when 51 Vietnamese boat people became the first group to be sent back home against their wilL

The human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday that some of the 51 had been brutally treated by police and camp guards some weeks earlier. The Hong Kong government described Amnesty's allegations as "unfounded".

Camp inmate Tran Toan Duc, 28, who said he was a nuclear physicist who fled Hanoi because he faced persecution for criticising the gov­ernment, insisted that if he were sent back he would simply return to Hong Kong as soon as he could.

"I have a bad future in Hanoi," he shouted throught the wire barriers at reporters,

Hong Kong, which holds nearly 56 000 Vietnamese boat people, regards the vast majority as illegal immi­grants rather than refugees fleeing persecution.

Refugee workers say only a small percentage can hope to establish

genuine refugee status during a screen­ing process that Amne'sty said was fatally flawed.

"We've sent back 51 and I don't think Amnesty is suggesting any of those who have been sent back are refugees," Hurd said.

Amnesty cited the example of a young Christian who, despite facing jail in Vietnam for crimes against the state, failed to win refugee status until the UNHCR intervened.

The Hong Kong government said the UNHCR could be relied on to provide a safety net for borderline cases.

Local UNHCR chief Robert van Leeuwen said on Tuesday: "We don't have the resources to provide a so­called safety net in cases of manda­tory repatriation.

"There are problems in !,he screen­ing system itself. And therefore we cannot offer any ' guarantees. It is incorrect to say that we can.

"We are not able to assure with any confidence that there might not be refugees amongst them .. .! share the concern expressed by Amnesty,"

U.N. investigates Zaire's human rights abuse

A SPECIAL U.N. commission against torture is visiting Zaire for talks with ministers, judicial authorities on human rights and will visit prisons and detention centres, government officials said Tuesday.

The commission i headed by Pieter Kooijkmans of the Netherlands. He declined to speak to reporters until he finishes his mission Friday.

He met Moday with Zaire's minister for citizens' rights, Nimy Mayidika Nigmbi.

Zaire's governinent has long been crticised by Amnesty International [or widespread human rights abuses, including torture of prisoners o[ conscience,

However during a visit to the United States last year Zaire's President Mobutu Ses Seko said he had adopted new measures to protect human rights.

He also said the U.N. Commission for Human Rights had withdrawn his country from a list of nations it monitors.

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Mr Awuye, however, explained that this information was based on an interview he gave last week before the dramatic turn-around in the situ­ation.

Both the UN Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Refu- · gees had agreed to find the funds to allow the UNHCR mission in Na­mibia to continue to operate.

Mr De Cuellar launched an appeal on December 27 last year for dona­tions to cover the US$S,6-million shortfall in the local UNHCR budget.

Mr A wuye expected that the Sec­retary-General would receive the necessary support from donor coun­tries to enable the UNHCR to con­tinue its work in Namibia.

In addition, the Secretary-General's Special Representative in Namibia, Mr Martti Ahtisaari, had also ap­proached several possible donors.

'DIFFERENT COMPLEXION'

"All these developments over the past 48 hours have put a completely different complexion on the situation ...

"The important thing is that the threat of closure has receded, and we can carry on the duties we have been undertaking," he said.

Although the UNHCR's resettle­ment programme for returnees has been saved, the prospects for its emergency rehabilitation programme are not very bright.

The emergency rehabilitation pro­gramme was conceived after an in­ter-agency UN mission to the north by the UNHCR, the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the United Nations Children Fund, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organisation.

The agencies went to the north to determine what assistance could be given to the returnees to help them to re-integrate into the society and to help them get on their feet.

The sectors identified by the mis­sion for special consideration were

education, shelter, health, income generating activities, support for vulnerable groups, family support and agriculture.

The programme was planned as an intensive short-term project and Mr De Cuellar launched an appeal for donations towards the estimated US$12-million cost of the whole programme.

Mr Awuye said that due to lack of funding the programme was never fully implemented, buthe was happy to report that the agricultural compo­nent had been funded by Unicef and the UN Food ,and Agricultural Or­ganisation.

Seeds were distributed to return­ees to meet the present planting sea­son and they were also been given agricultural implements like hoes, pangas and axes.

According to Mr A wuye many countries which were approached for funds to support the rehabilitation programme felt that they would rather save their contributions for bi-Iateral aid after independence.

CONSTITUTION Y FRIDAY?

SWABC TV News last night quoted the Secretary of the Constituent Assembly, Mr Hennie van Rensburg, as saying that itwas expected that agreement on Namibia's independence constitution would be reached by the target date of Friday.

The Standing Committee started its discussions again yesterday, with the three legal experts from South Africa - Mr Marinus WiecJ:lers, Pro­fessa- Gerhard Erasmus and Mr Arthur Chaskalson - who assisted in draw­ing up the draft constitution, along with Messrs Hartmut Ruppet and Vekuii Rukoro.

Mr van Rensburg was quoted by SW ABC as saying that it was ex­pected that the constitution would be finished within two days, and agree­ment reached by Friday as planned.

The SW ABC also reported that since the Standing Committee sits in camera no information on the con­tent of the constitution or progress

COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN NAMIBIA

made, was available. (This despite the fact that the draft constitution was published in a detailed summary in The Namibian last week). Mr Dirk Mudge, DT A chairperson, told his party mouthpiece last week that the 'leak' of the draft constitution to the press from the Standing Committee was "under investigation" .

AAR REPATRIATION RESETTLEMENT RE~1'RUCT1ON

The following people should report to Mr Joseph S. Nangolo at CCN/RRR, 8 Mont Blanc Street, .

Windhoek, on 22 Januaty 1990, at 14h30 (2:30p.m)

1. Enatha Andreas 17. Benard John 33. Regina Shilengitha 2. A1feus Namushinga 18. Fares Ambunda 34. Thresia Theophelus 3. Aloisius Sheehama 19. Gabriel Hamunjala 3S. Paul Shipale 4. GabrielNiinkoti 20 Sam Shanghala 36. Maria Steven 5: Hosea Kamuwa 21. Leonard Kadhila 37. Herman Hilunduta 6. John K wedhi 22. Nahas Kadjala 38. Ester Shiwaya 7. Joseph Thomas , 23. Peter Nampadhi 39. Stanley Shikwamdi 8. Michael Hamukoto 24. Emilia Shindove 40. Bertha Angula 9. Nicky Kwedhi 25. Hilda Eino 41. Ismael Onesmus 10. Paul Limene 26. Helen Indongo 42. Joseph Lemesius 11. Anna Albino 27. Indileni Shindove 43. Kavungo Veiko 12. Foibe Makanda 28. Kaarina Shinana 44. George Kapa . 13. Hilda Ampenya 29. Lalja Ndje1ekeni 4S. Kareg Matheus 14. Hilja Shuudeni 30. Lavinia Silas 46. Emilia Mathias IS. Lucia Iyambo 31. Liina David 47. Anna Herman 16. Asser Shigwedha '32. Maria Nandjebo -They should come with their Form VI school records. The date and time is fixed and they

should not miss that appointment.

Wednesday January 17 199(} 3

POWER TO WOMEN WOMEN were more capable than men of dealing with comm unity­related issues, and the time has come when women should become town clerks and mayors. This was the view of Mrs Libertine Amathila ofSwapo, who was interviewed by SWABC TV last night.

Mrs Amathila referred bri'efly to the fact that women should also campaign actively in the forthcoming municipal elections.

She said that the so-called 'single quarters' in Katutura were a focus of crime, and that all people should have their own homes to live in.

Reconciliation talks in north get

off the ground VARIOUS groups in Kavango in northern Namibia, have adopted a reconciliation plan of action for their area, SWABC radio news reports.

Traditional leaders, members of Swapo, the DT A, the SW A Police, church leaders, representatives of the Kavango administration and disbanded former · members of the police counter-insurgency unit, Koevoet, and the SWA Territory Force met in Rundu at the weekend.

There it was decided to hold meetings with the various tribes in the region. All tribal leaders would be involved in organising these gatherings, to be addressed by representatives of political parties and churches. Untag would monitor the meetings, scheduled to start on January 21.

United Nations personnel have actively encouraged contact between all groups in Namibia, particularly in the north where post-election violence broke out late last year between former members of the security forces and Swapo soldiers.

The Diocese of Namibia is extremely sad to announce the cJeath of The Venerable PHILIP HANGULA SHILONGO, priest of this diocese, Archdeacon of Odibo and Rector of ,the Parish of St. Mary's, Odibo.

Father Shilongo died in the Windhoek State Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning, January 16, 1990, after a lengthy illness borne with great bravery.

We extend to his wife, Meme Peneambeko, their children and all the members of their family, our sincere condolences and deepest sympathy. Our loving prayers are offered up for their strength and comfort at this time of their bereavement.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later in the press. .

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the source pointed out. In addition, a fighter aircraft would not have flown su.ch a distance to drop a small bomb when aMiG-21 could ".ave dropped four bombs and an SU-22 six.

"If it was an Angolan plan~, it would have been aMiG or an SU-22, and the key is the size of the crater and the bomb which allegedly landed 100 metres away from the village. No ways., you can't have a Russian white phosphorous bomb dropped without knocking off the village," he underlined.

The source further questioned why there had been no reports of bombs dropped on the Angolan side of the border, and wondered whether the aircraft only carried one bomb.

"Nobody seems to have heard of any bombs in southern Angola, but

the aircraft should have had three to five bombs. Where are the rest?" he asked. The source further called yes­terday's Sapa reports - who quoted military experts as saying that the bomb was dropped at the outside range of a MiG flying from Cuito Cuanavale - "bullshit" . The Sapa report indicated that the pilot seem­ingly was on a mission against a base just north of the border when he overshot his target, realised that he had just enough fuel to make it back to base, and dropped the bomb to lighten his aircraft.

EVERYTHING OR NOTHING

,. A MiG carries four bombs and an . SU-22 six. So if you drop one bomb, the aircraft goes off balance in the

air. ·It should have dropped every­thing or nothing."

Both South Africa and the United States yesterday denied the Angolan assertion that the bomb story was a fabrication by the two countri.es to justify possible future aid to Unita rebels.

The United States yearly provides US$40-million in aid to Unita which has been fighting the MPLA govern­ment since 1975.

Unita is not only an important ally of the United States in putting pres­sure on the MPLA government, but its role may also be extended to keeping the future Namibian government on its toes.

Local observers here believe that the South Africans, with the coop­eration of the Americans, could be trying to invent a reason for their intervention in the Angolan conflict.

THE UNITED States Information Service {USIS) donated identical sets of about 100 books each to the Academy Library and the Estorff'Reference Library on Tuesday. The sets are entitled "The American Studies Core Collection" and were presented by Mr Harvey Leifert, local director of the USIS. Included in USIS's donation is also a one-year subscription to "Africa Report", a leading journal of news and comment about Africa and African-American relations. Pictured above are (from left to right): Mr Leifert; Ms Margaret Hoffmann, ·who received the set on behalf of the Estorff Library; Ms Ria Viljoen, ading director of the Academy's Bureau of Library and Information Services; and Mr Basie Buitendacht, Rector of the Academy.

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CIVIL SERVANTS

RIGHT TO STRIKE Mr Allen Hattie

The government could not offer better salaries than the private sec­tor, but it could provide be'tter bene­fits, he said. "But this still does not compensate. In most instances, gov­ernment salaries discourage young people. It might attract better people if it converts these benefits into cash and leave it to the individual to de­cide whatever he wants to do wi th it," said Mr Hattie.

BY DA'OUD VRIES

Civil servants aTe now demanding the right to strike. Current labour laws prohibit government employees to take industrial action in support of their demands, but tbe Government Service Staff Association's (GSSA) chief, Mr Allen Hattie, has called for the same rights accorded other trade unions to determine conditions of employment and other matters.

Mr HattIe said the"GSSA demands the same rights for civil servants as any other trade union. This includes the right to withhold labour."

The GSSA chairperson said they had appealed to the government through the Wiehahn Commission to be granted the right to strike, arbitra­tion and conciliation. ' 'Here we make the obvious exception that the emer­gency services should be kept going, " he conceded. "

Mr Hattle iUS,q reje~te,dthe pie'sent conditions ofemp\<?yinertin' the ciyil service. He said employee associa­tions must be given more negotiating powers. Presently, civil servants can make their complaints to the Gov­ernment Service Commission (GSC) through the Association. But once they have made their grievances known. it is up to the employers to accept or reject them. Beyond that

the Association does not cut any ice. "GSSA feels that 'this is wrong

and that there is no reason why we should be denied these rights which are available to workers in other sectors," he added.

The GSSA's demand is supported by the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation (!LO). Accord­ing to the labour body, governments maintain that their parliaments are going through lots of trouble and effort to draw up a national budget, including public service salaries, and

, that this should not be interfered with by strikes. But "where strikes are restricted or prohibited, appropriate guarantees must be afforded to pro­tect the workers concerned, who are otherwise denied one of the essential means of defending their occupa­tional interests" , says a recent ILO report on the state of the world's

UK MILITARY MEN CONTINUE TALKS

FOUR British military specialists continued senior level talks in Windhoek yesterday on training an army for an ' independent Namibia.

A spokesman for the British ob­server mission in the city said the military men, three middle-ranking officers and a member of the De­fence Ministry in London, would be in the country for about ten days.

They were scheduled to meet rep-. resentatives of the 'outgoing South African Administration, Untag the newly-elected Constituent Assembly and the majority party, Swapo.

Swapo leader and Namibia's presi­dent-in-waiting, Mr Sam Nujoma, who invited Britam to assist with military training, earlier expressed the hope that, former South African­lead security force and Swapo adver­saries would be united in a new de­fence force for the country.

Swapo fought a 23-year war against South African control of Namibia prior to the implementation last April of the UN settlement plan for the territory.

The British mission spokesman said itwas not usual practice for Britain to provide straightforward budgetary assistance.

Hesaid there had been no commit­ment "at this stage" and such aid would depend on a request from the new government.

"At the moment we are looking at aid in three fields", he said. "Mili­tary training, police training - which has been asked for and we hope to respond to in the form of a Common­wealth effort - and the education field" .

Special focus ~ould be placed on English language training in educa­tional institutions and. the public sector, the spokesman said.

A Swapo spokesman, Mr Eddie Arnkongo, said Britain was the only country approached so far to help in the training of an army for Namibia. - Sapa.

No liquidation for Windhoek Xerographies

WINDHOEK Xerographies, a registered Namibian company, is stilI doing business and is not winding up as was reported in the Windhoek Observer of January 13. So said Mr John Moolman, the managing director of the company.

Mr Moolman said the report which appeared in the weekly newspaper that the company was' 'winding up" and that its board has taken a decision to finally liquidate the company, was wrong.

"The company, which commenced trading in 198~; is fully able to qm­tinue to supply in the needs of Windhoek, the rest of Namibia and Walvis Bay, and has no association or involvement in Windhoek's Xerographics

Limited," Mr Moolman concluded.

public services. The GSSA has also expressed its

concern about the size of the civil service. Fifty-five , thousand people are currently employed in the public service. Mr Hattie disclosed that they have on numerous occasions told the GSC that the country could not af­ford such a big workforce.

The sheer size of government staff is probably one of the reasons why it cannot afford to pay decent salaries to its employees . "There is a need to streamline the service so that more competetive salaries can be paid to a smaller and more efficient number of employees," said Mr HattIe. In this way, he added, the service also will be more productive.

Streamlining the service could further aggravate the.unemploymeht problem in the country.

About this Mr HattIe said the government, in the long term, should "stimulate development for'the crea­tion of job opportunities" . "Redun­dant civil servants could be absorbed somewhere else. This,ofcourse, will

not happen overnight, but we must start working on it."

The Government Service is also faced with a recruitment problem, especially in the high-income levels.

Mr HattIe admitted that the service must take drastic steps to attract more skilled and efficient personnel. Such people could only be wooed by higher salaries and perks.

He suggested that the GSC should investigate how it could motivate its employees by providing incentives to boost their productivity. But per­formance-related incentives are viewed by militant trade unions as divisive and a threat to worker soli­darity.

NEW UNHCR CHIEF THORVALDStoltenberg, former Norwegian foreign minister, has taken up his new job as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, a UNHCR spokesman said on Tuesday. Stoltenberg, who arrived in Geneva on Monday , 'was nominated last November to the post in which he is responsible for U.N. aid to some 14 million refugees around the world. He replaced Jean-Pierre Hocke, a Swiss, who resigned last October after being criticised for alleged misuse of funds and staff mismanage­ment. Stoltenberg, 58, served as Norway ' sforeign minister from 1987 to 1989. A new deputy High Commissioner, Douglas Stafford of the United States, also took up his appointment on Monday, the UNHCR spokesman said. Stafford was formerly deputy assistant administrator of the U.N. Development Pro­gramme (UNDP) in New York, where he headed the bureau for finance and administration.

DIE WINDHOEKSE ONDERWYSKOLLEGE REGIS.TRASIE VAN STUDENTE

Registrasie van studente vir die 1990 akademiese jaar geskied soos volg: ** VOORNEMENDE EERSTEJAARSTUDENTE

,.. Reeds-gekeurde studente registreer oj:> Woensdag, 17 Januarie 1990, om ShOO in die Kollegesaal.

,.. Aile voornemende eerstejaarstudente wat nog nie gekeur is nie, registreer op Woensdag, 24 Januarie, om: ShOO in die Kollegesaal. Kandidate se aandag word daarop gevestig dat registrasie eers kan geskied nadat hulle gekeur is. Ten einde gekeur te word, moet In afspraak gemaak word. Skakel (061) 42421 uitbreiding 110 (mev. Mercia Pre tori us), of 120 (mev. Rina Liebenberg). Navrae m.b.t. aile aspekte van die registrasie~ toelating tot die Kollege en kostes kan aan die Rektor of Vise-Rektor gerig word by tel. (061) 42421 .

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** SENIOR STUDENTE --------.:...---------------­. Die registrasie van aile senior studente geskied op Dinsdag, 23 J anuarie 1990, om 14hOO in die Kollegesaal.

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,.. Studente wat tans geregistreer is in die V.D.O.-kursusse in Pre-primere Onderwys

,.. Studente wat vir die V.D.O. (Remediering) en V.D.O. (Handwerk) wit registreer (Die toelatingsvereistes vir hierdie kursusse is In professionele kwalifikasie wat inhoudelik. nie oorvleuel met die voorgenome kursus nie en wat minstens gelykstaande is aan kategorie C. Dit word deeltyds oor twee jaar aangebierl).

** O.D.-Studente Registrasie van hier'die studente geskied op Vrydag, 9 Februarie 1990, om 15hOO in die Kollegesaal. Die toelatingsvereiste vir hierdie kursus is In profesionele kwalifikasie wat nie inhoudelik oorvleuel met die voorgenome kursus nie en wat gelykstaande aan kategorie B is. Dit wllfd deeltyds oor twee jaar aangebied.

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A SPOKESPERSON for the Municipality has recently claimed in one of Namibia's weekly newspapers that "Windhoek as it is today" dates back to its "foundation" by German colonial commissioner Curt von Francois.

The argwnent is that the tradition of Windhoek as the capital of the n ILion-state Namibia today - even though it may have been a Gennan colony then - dates back to the build­ing of a colonial military fort on that site by Curt von Francois in 1890. According to this line of nonsensical reasoning, Keetmanshoop, for in- . stance, was "founded" by Leutwein in 1894; Okahandja also by ' Leut­wein in 1895; and Gibeon by von Burgsdorff in 1894/5. Yet all three towns trace direct traditions either to the establishment in mid-19th cen­tury of a mission station; or to perc manent occupation by a chieftaincy; or to both. All have proudly cele­brated their centenaries decades ago.

Similarly, Windhoek was not only established as a mission station in c 1840 (with "European" -type stone houses, a church, a street system and even beginnings of a water canal system), but under the ruler Jonker Afrikaner had been for many years by far the largest and politically dominant town in southern and cen­tral Namibia - half a century before von Francois ever set foot here.

To be sure, say the proponents of "Windhoek 100" celebrations: but the emergence of a capital with modem administration, planning and archi­tec~e surely dates back to von Fran­coi~. It dOe.st;l\ l!ll~.'~ 9.(lfe ~yoiie· .to provemeNon~~: : , .. . . :~ : " .. :

The basiS of a mOdem admmlStra-tion (by whi~h I mean a European-

. type national bureaucracy) was first laid by Major Leutwein in 1985, and the first sizeable group of settlers started to survey plots, build houses etc. also only arrived as from 1895. Von Francois was not able to do any planning either, because, as it turned out, he had more than enough to do trying to deal with Hendrik Witbooi.

How von Francois arrived

This is, in brief, how von Francois arrived in Windhoek, and what hap­pened until he left in 1894 (detailed references to archival source materi­als documenting the story may be found in the forthcoming book "The Hendrik Witbooi Papers. Translated by Annemarie Heywood and Eben Maasdorp"). When Germany annexed Namibia as a colony in 1884 - some­thing that went more or less unno­ticed in this country - the Colonial Office sent three officials who estab­lished their 'headquarters' in a mis-

. sion classroom in Otjimbingwe. Five years later it emerged that some sort of military fortification might be necessary, because the country was ruled by powerful chiefs not exactly in favour of the regulations the Ger­man officials tried to put across. Thus Kamaherero withdrew the coopera­tion he had promised ' in 18&5, in November 1988. Hendrik Witbooi, and his father Moses before him, refused any cooperation whatsover. _ So the Germans fmally sent a few troops -not more than 60 - and a man with military training, namely Curt von Francois.

Having taken over the Otjimbingwe headquarters in July 1889, von Fran­cois duly, and quickly, organised the building of a small fortress at Tsaobis, some 30 km to the south-west of Otjimbirigwe and strategically situ­ated on the key route to the sea. In honour of the Gennan Kaiser Wil­helm, he named the fortress Wil­helmsfeste. in view of this show of at least some military prowess on the part of his would-be "protectors" Kamaherero renewed the contract of cooperation with the Germans (which was misleadingly called a 'Protec­tion Treaty') in May 1890. In Otjim­bingwe, vegetable gardens were being laid out and trees planted. All seemed set for the establishment of a new colon ial capital - until September

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THE NAMIBIAN Wednesday January 17 1990 7

ANXIOUS HIDE-OUT cois - with the death of Kamaherero in the first days·ofOctober. When his successor, Samuel Maharero, sent envoys to Windhoek three weeks later, they were most surprised to see the stone walls of a substantial military fortress springing up. Confronted, von Francois said this was this way it was and Samuel let it be.

von Francois and Witbooi and the 'foundation' of Windhoek

1890. On 13 September 1890, Hendrik

Witbooi, having emerged as one of the most powerful rulers in the coun­try and not at all in favour of the Gennan colonial adventure, decided to make a tour of Otjimbingwe.

Witbooi calls for tribute

This was a routine call for the collection of tribute - in fact, his eighth such call since 1886. Otjim­bingwe apparently functioned as a major source of required supplies of cattle· and sheep. . As they had done before, the Her­ero and Damara residents of Otjim­bingwe duly, if not happily , supplied him and his warriors with stock: 2000 head of cattle and about 1000 sheep and goats, no shot having been fued. He left on September 14.

This time, however, the Otjim­bingwe Herero decided to follow him in an attempt to retrieve the cattle -quite possibly encouraged by the proximity of their Gennanallies' brand-new fortress and troops. Hen­drik Witbooi and his warriors scat­tered them, instantly turned back, and launched a major attack on Otjim-

, bingwe. Having organised the evacuation

of women and children, they razed the settlement to the ground. As in other cases, Witbooi did not, how­ever, touch the houses of European traders and missionaries - which was exactly where the Herero, knowing

BY BRIGITTE LAU

CURT von Francois - 'ran away' from Witbooi and landed up in Windhoek.

this, went to hide. No call to battle could move them away from the Europeans' buildings. In the end Hendrik Witbooi left, on September 15, taking another 1000 head of cattle with him. No Gennan official' or soldier had appeared on the site dur­ing the three days.

The c return route to Hornkrans (where he was based) Witbooi chose to pass through Wilhelmsfeste. He politely infonned von Francois, in writing, that he intended to water his

3000 head of cattle there. This threw von Francois into the

most embarrassing - and potentially dangerous - dilemma: if he allowed Witbooi to do so, this would be seen by the Herero not only as a breach of contract (once again leading to a withdrawal of suppoh) but possibly as an act of aggression as well.

And von Francois knew full well that his 60 troops were no match for an anned Herero force. On the other hand, ifhe did NOT allow Witbooi to water the cattle, Witbooi would per­haps also see this as an act of aggres­sion, but against himself. And von Francois knew his 60 troops were not match either even for the group of Witbooi warriors who were then approaching Wilhelmsfeste, let alone afull force. There was in fact nothing he could do.

After a day's frantic letter writing, nail biting and couriers running from Wilhelmsfeste to Witbooi and back, Witbooi withdrew, having neither watered the cattle nor attacked von Francois - but having made his point.

Curt runs from Hendrik

Within days von Francois and his men left both Wilhelmsfeste and Otjimbingwe, taking all equipment with them. They went to Windhoek, which was not, to all appearances, claimed by Hendrik Witbooi, and which, morever, had been devoid of much of its population since August 1880. The move coincided - proba­bly very conveniently for von Fran-

The fortress (today part of the State Museum and called the Alte Feste) was finished about two years later, in December 1892. In the intervening months and years, von Francois had largely been travelling the country. He had also launched an arms-li­censing campaign openly directed against Witbooi, and applied to Ber­lin for more troops.

There was no question of settlers or administration. Witbooi was watch­ing the intensifying military prepa- . rations with growing concern. The fort just completed and 214 further troops arrived (March 1893), von Francois brutally raided the UflSUS­

pecting Witbooi 'settlement at .Hornkrans in the early morning hours of April 12, 1893, killing eight men and 80 women and children. For the rest of 1893, he engaged in an en­tirely unsuccessful and misjudged guerrilla war against Hendrik Witbooi; at least 20 separate military encoun­ters are on record. He was replaced in the early weeks of January 1894 by Major Theodor Leutwein.

I certainly see no point in celebrat­ing Curt von Francois' ;running away from Hendrik Witbooi - who had done him no harm whatsoever - .as the "foundation" of Windhoek. Nor is it in any way justified to simply disregard the half century of docu­mented continuous and even famous town life Windhoek had had before von Francois even arrived in the country. Finally, it has become clear that the majority of N amibians .feel that a colonial anniversary is not worth_celebrating at all.

The CCN offers full-time scholarships to the persons listed here. Each person must contact Mr Kashume at the Formal Education Unit as soon as possible,and-.must bring a letter of acceptance

from the institution of study. Any student who delays in responding may forfeit the offer of a scholarship .

Antonio, Petrus Ashipala, Anna Balie, Caroline

Diergaardt, Theo Hamumokola, Lusia Haoses, Wilhelmina

Hauuanga, Eino liIende, Hilja

lipumbu, Horsk-Kaminsky Ikyambo, Willem

Izaak, Laurell Kariko, Kaverua Kamati, Simeon

Kastherody, Augustinus Lenanschek, Ron~da

Louw, Christiaan Mabuku,_ Christopher

Madi, Engelbert Mate, Christoph

I · Mungunda, Charles Namakalu, Heinrich

Nandago, Jason Nauyoma, Naemi

Patryus, Julia Pedro, Romeo Pickering, Beryl

. Schmidt, Adelgunde Shaduka, Gregorius

Tjiweza, Jogbeth Uaetuiihe, Ambrosius

The CCN offers bursaries for Unisa studies to the following persons:

Awoses, Priscilla Jahrs, Elsie

Kirstin, Petrus Ruhl, Edward

Swartz, Ugelwi Rudolf

8 Wednesday Jan~ary 1 7 199 ~

lets "Ir' abual in The Na:ani'bian Foe ••

THE NAMIBIAN

Aakuluntupolisi mOwamboya

1 u nd u 1 u Iwaombaad h·i 1 i la KU OSWALD SHIVUTE MOSHAKATI

AAKULUNTU yOpolisi aatiligane mOwambo mwa kwatelwa aapoIisi aakuluntu yAawambo yomOshakati nOndangwa,ngaashi aasamane, Simion Nghoshi, P.Shamartin, na G.A.Shapwa aakalimo yomOngwediva noye Ii Aapolisi yomOshakati, oshowo aasamane P.D.Kandombole na L.Kaukemwa yokOndangwa pakuuva ayehe mbaka otaya lundululilwa koKatutura koWinduka.

Kepulo, Omukuluntutaleli gwOpo­lisi ya Shakati okwa lombwele Oshifo shika noku shi koleka kutya mOpo­Iisi onkulu yomOwambo otamu ya elunduluko enene, oshoka Aapolisi aakuluntu pyendyi yQl.llOwambo <;>taya lundululilw.a . ,kQI1).anala, .gi ' ili moNamibia. yo . taya pingenwa ku yamwe natango taya zi miitopolwa yimwe moNamibia. Okw'a gwedha ko ta ti kutya Oshitopolwa shAapo­lisi aakuluntu lela mboka yAatili­gane nayo wo otaya yi naamboka ya tumbulwa pontbanda ihe nayo wo otaya ka pingenwa kuyalwe taya zi komahala gi iii nogi iii moNamibia.

Aakuluntupolisi yaatiligane mboka taya yi, oyo nee ngaashi: Omubriga­dila Von Molendorff, Omubrigadila Van Tonder, OmukuIuntutaleIi gwOpoIisi Van Zyl ayehe oyomOs­hakati oshowo Omukuluntutonateli gwOpolisi omusamane Blaauw gwaNdangwa.

Okwa kundanwa kutya Aabriga­dilangaashi VonMolendorffna Van Tonder otaya pingenwakuBrigadila

Meuwesen na Kolonela Kruger pe­hala lya Brig. Van Tonder. Omanga Omukuluntutaleli gwOpolisi Van Zyl okOmukuluntutaIeli gwOpolisi Jor­daan. Ye .omusamane Blaauw, <?kOmukuluntupoIisi (W/O) Bamp-

. ton, . Okwa kundanwa wo kutya iilyo

aayihe yOpolisi yoshitayi sho­kukonakona iipotha pOndangwa otayi lundululwa yo tayi pingenw a kAapo­Iisi taya zi koKatutura koWinduka, ngaashi Aakuluntupolisi W/O W.E B ampton na I.Mbidi oshowo Ooser­sante I.H.lOrren, A.M.Dieterle, I.Amwela, R.Bohitile na Konstabela lNguuo, osho tuu iilyo oyindyi yOpolisi yomoshitayi shafa shika yomOshakati nayo wo otayi lun­dululwa.

KepulokutyaomolwashikeAapo­lisi, unene tuu mboka ya kala oomvula adhihe mOw ambo ongaapolisi noye Ii wo oomvalele dhomOwambo noyeshi oshindyi kombinga yokOwambo, ye na okulundululwa ombaadhilila ngawo.

CCN/RRR

Omukuluntutaleli okwa yamukula omukalelipo gwoshifo shika kutya, osha ningwa omolwomayelo ngoka tag a ningilwa Aalundululwapolisi mbaka na ihaya vulu nee anuwa okukala pomahala mpoka ya kala nale nge ya yelwa.

Okamufofoto kamwe twa uva 'po oko hoka kutya y amwe yomAapolisi mboka ya lundululwa kaye uvitile elundululo ndika ombili nande, un­ene tuu mboka ye Ii aanamagumbo, oshoka anuwa oya pulilwe tuu ya tembuke naanamagumbo yawo ndele yamwe oye shi tindi thiluthilu.

Kombinga y aatiligane oshi Ii ngaa hwepo oshoka omulandu gwaatili­gane mboka ya kala haye ya okulOJiga mOmavigumbo osho ya kala nokuya po nokuzapo, ihe kombinga yaaluudhe osha kala ngaa sha pumba.

Yamwe oya hokolola kutya otas/li ningwa omolu okulunduluka kwopa­polotika.

ngeenge wa mane denga tete opo u tume nawa.

SECONDARV SCHOOL STUDENTS OF GHANA AND NIGERIA

Arrangements are being made for your return to complete your studies in the two countries. You are kindly requested to be in Windhoek

before 17 January 1990 . . You are likely to fly on 29 January 1990. Please ensure that your

travel documents are in order. When in Windhoek, please contact:

Joseph Nangolo CCN/RRR

P.O. Box 9965, Windhoek .8 Mont Blanc Street, Eros

Tel. (061) 37510

ATTENTION! STUDENTS FOR USA

1. Paulus Malulu 2. Hofen David

3. Kombadayedu Kapwanga Please contact I\lIr Nangolo at the RRR

Omufita Shilongo a xulifa OMBELEW A yoshipangwelwa-mubishopa shaNamibia (The Diocess of Namibia) onghela oya shiivifa noluhodi kutya omufitaongalo wOngeleka yaAnglican kOdibo, omufita omukulunhu Phillipus Hangula Shilongo okwa xulifaoweenda waye ongula yongJiela moshipangelo moWindhoek mouyahame wefimbo liIe.

Nakufya Shilongo okwa kala omufita meongalo IOdibo, nomulongifikola mo Parish ya St Mary's mOdibo.

Ombele""a yo The Diocess of Namibia otai yandje omahekeleko kuMeme Peneambeko, nokounona oshoyo ovakwadimo va nakufya.

Efudiko ota Ii ka shivifwa komesho. Natulumukwe nombili.

OMUMATI KAPOLO A HULITHA

OMUMATI gwedhina Kapolo ya Kapolo okwa si sho i idhenge mom uti pokati kOmbafi nOgongo eti 7 Januali 1990 konima sho a Ii ta tidhwa kopolisi ya Shakati omolu ohauto ndyoka a adhika nayo, taku tengenekwa ya yakwa.

Opolisi kepulo oya yamukula kutya, momasiku 7 J anuali 1990 po 13h30 oya dhimbulula ohauto ndyoka ya kala tayi kongo uule wethimbo, ndyoka ya lipotwa ya yakwa yi Ii pehala Iyontumba pokati kOgongo nOmbalimtu (Ombafi). Sho ya yi po noku tameka pokupula, omumatinguka okwa matukile mohauto ndele ta shingi nokuya ondapo. Opolisi oya tameke oku mu lamba. Omumati nguka okwa zi ko kondyila onene nokwa yi miihwa. Opolisi oye mu landulile mo nokonima YOkathimbo ketidhathano, Kapolo okwa dhenge ohauto ndyika mom uti.

Papolisi Kapolo okwa Ii a teka omagulu moshiponga shika nOpolisi oye mu fala nziya koshipangelo shEpangelo mOshakati. •

Manga opo taye mu helula'mo mohauto yawo opo a mone epango pOshipangelo, Kapolo okwa hulithile mpoka.

Pamayamukulo ga gandywa kOpolisi nena itaga uvitha ombili, oshoka otayi ti kutya hela Kapolo a hulithile, noku Ii mokila sigo onena okuza esiku a hulitha, anuwa kuyo inaku ya nande omukwazimo Iya Kapolo, onkee ihaya vulu sigo onena okugandya uuyelele kutya Kapolo okwa zile peni, oshoka anuwa inaya mona natango aakwanezimo lye.

Ohauto ndyoka ya Ii ku Kapolo paku uva oya hanauka po noyi Ii pOpolisi mOshakati konima sho ye yi koko ko kehala lyoshiponga. . .

THE NAMIBIAN Wednesday January 17 1990 9

KOSIE, PLAAS Witbooi onder, narkose.

ondersoek

POLIYIEKE S WAPO se aangewese minister van arbeid en mannekrag, pastoor Hendrik Witbooi, word vandag ontslaan nadat hy gister in die Windhoekse Staatshospitaal toetse onder narkose moes ondergaan. Die aard van die ondersoek is nie bekend gemaak nie. Vol gens 'n hospitaal. woordvoerder, dr. N. Louw, ' is pastoor Witbooi Maandag opgeneem en hy het nie~ soos vroeer berig, 'n operasie ondergaan nie.

YOEKOMS OP SPEL maar Jannie trap vas

.'.DEUR STANLEY KATZAO

"'n PARTY wat eenheid bo beginsel stel om verdeeldheid te voorkom, verloor eers sy beginsels en daarna ook sy eenheid." Dit is die mening van die leier van die Nasionale Party van Suidwes-Afrika, mnr. Kosie Pretorius, wat gewikkel is in 'n leierskaptwis met die leier van die ACN-delegasie in die grondwetskrywende vergadering, mnr. Jannie de Wet.

Die twis, wat reeds dum sedert die stigting van ACN, is vandeesweek weer tot 'n spits gedryf toe mnr. Pretorius nie kon swyg oor 'n "eensydige perskonferen.sie" wat Maandag deur mnr. De Wet gehou is nie.

Mnr. Pretorius het in 'n persverklar­ing sy ongelukkigheid uitgespreek met mnr. De Wet se aantygings dat die verskille tussen hul1e bloot van persoonlike aard is. Volgens mnr. Pretorius gaan dit uit en uit oor 'n beginselsaak, en is daar nie sprake van 'n persoonlike stryd soos wat mnr. De Wet dit wil voorstel nie.

In.die verklaring het mnr. Preto­rius 'n ope vraag gestel waarin hy wou verneem wiedie wettige bestuur ,van ACN is en watter konstitusie die wettige konstitusie van die front is.

Verder lui die verklaring dat aIle pogings wat aangewend is (heelwaar­skynlik van sy kant) om die aangeleen­theid intern te hou, misluk het. Vit die verklaring blyk dit dat mnr. Pre­torius voorgestel het dat hulle 'n

arbiter moet inroep om die saak aan te hoor en te besleg, selfs al sou dit geld koso

Mnr. Pretorius het ook besluit om die saak openbaar te maak en as eerste stap 'n brief bekend gemaak wat hy op 18 Desember verlede jaar aan mnr. De Wet geskryf het "en tot op datum nog geen antwoord op ontvang het nie" , Alhoewel hierdie verslaggewer nie laat gisteraand die brief in die hande kon kry nie, is daar verneem dat die brief gehandel het oar, onder andere, die bates van die ACN.

Ten opsigte van die bates het mnr. De Wet by navraag gese dat ACN nie oor enige bates beskik nie. "ACN se fondse het uit die Namib-Stigting gekom en die Nasionale Party het geen fondse in die ACN nie, " het hy voorts genoem.

Oor die aangeleentheid van die leierskap het hy gese hy het nie tyd om verder aan "hierdie goed" aandag te skenk nie, Hy het volge hou dat hy die voorsitter van die ACN is,

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'Kom en drink, Namibie!' SWAPO moet "kom en drink van die waters van ondervinding" wat Zimbabwe die afgelope dekade sedert onafbanklikheid opgedoen het, berig die half-amptelike nuusagentskap, Ziana, in Harare.

Die. uitnodiging is gister in die nasionale vergadering van Zimbabwe deur mnr, Emmerson Mnangagwa, minister van justisie, wetlike en par­lementere aangeleenthede, gemaak. , Hy het gepraat tydens 'n mosie in

die huis waarin Swapo gelukgewens is met sy oorwirming in die onafhan­klikheidsverkiesings wat in Novem­ber gehou is.

Die mosie doen voorts 'n beroep op aIle politieke partye in die Orond­wetgewende Vergadering COV) in

Windhoek om Swapo hul volle sa­mewerking te gee.

Mnr. Mnangagwa het in sy toespraak gese Namibie, wat onherroeplik op pad na onafhanklikheid is, moet ten volle gebruik maak van die Zim­babwiese fasiliteite om sy mense in die verskeie sektore van mannekrag op te lei.

"Broeders, Zimbabwe maak sy arms vir julIe oop, Kom en drink van die waters van ondervinding." '

Die debat is tot vandag verdaag .

Enok dink oor droogtehulp

DAAR kan nog nie defnitief gese word watter planne die Eerste Nasionale Ontwikkelingskorporasie het om hulp te verleen aan droogtegeteisterdes in Namibie nie, veral in die noorde.

Dit volg na 'n studie wat Enok en . Vntag, op laasgenoemde se uitnodig­ing en op versoek van die president van Swapo, mnr. Sam Nujoma, van stapel gestuur het.

Volgens die besturende direkteur van Enok, mnr. Bob Meiring, is daar tot dusver slegs 'n werksdokument opgestel. wat nog nie geskik is vir publieke insae nie. Hy het egter be­loof om vroeg aanstaande week meer besonderhede oor hul ,bevindinge en voornemens te gee.

Alhoewel daar wye kommer 'oor die swak reenval is, meen bronne in die weerkantoor dat die syfers nie baie swak vergelyk met verlede jaar s'n nie. Reenval in die suide is egter betreurenswaardig met Keetmanshoop sleg 0,6 millimeter gedurende die eerste tien dae van die nuwe jaar. In die ooreenstemmende tyd verlede jaar het 29 millimeter reen geval. Die syfers op die meeste ander dorpe in Namibie toon verbereringe wat wis­sel van gering tot heelwat.

Terwyl mnr. Pretorius dreig dathy bereid is om sy politi eke toekoms op die spel te plaas ten einde reg en geregtigheid te laat geskied, is sy teenstander van mening dat 'n man wat hom wil verkeerd bewys hof toe moet gaan.

Mnr. De Wet het sy posisie probeer verdedig dem te noem din nagenoeg 24 000 mense vir die ACN gestem het op grond van hul beleid en die samestelling van die bestuur. Indien mnr. Pretorius dus pro beer om hom van sy ACN leierskap te ontneem, "kom hy in konfrontasie met .hierdie 24 000 kiesers" .

Albei die leiers is egter ooTtuig dat die proses van grondwetlike ontwikke- , ling op die stadium hoer prioriteit moet geniet. Mnr. De Wet het gese dat die opstel van die grondwet be­langriker is as die verskille wat hulle van mekaar sou he, terwyl mnr. Pre­torius van mening is dat dit trou­breuk sal wees om, ironies genoeg, vir "persoonlike redes hiervan af te wyk".

Mnr, Pretorius het laat gisteraand by navraag gese hy sal nie graag op mnr. De Wet se aantygings wou rea­geer nie, omdat hy verdere optrede oorweeg wat die inwin' van regsmenings sal insluit.

Alhoewel die twee here dit waar­skynlik nie wil hoor nie, is die situa­sie besig om hoogs gespanne te raak en 'n buitestaander sou ook voorstel dat 'n arbitermoet intree om die saak te besleg voor dit te laat raak.

NANRU, SWARU WIL EEN

LIGGAAM VORM DIENamibi,eNasionale Rugbyunie(Nanru)en die SWA Rugbyunie (Swaru) is albei begerig om net een rugby-beheerliggaam in die land te vorm, luidens 'n verklaring wat gister deur Swaru uitgereik is,

Dit volg nadat die twee rugby­liggame Maandagaand in Windhoek samesprekings gevoer het in die verband.

Dit is 'n bekende feit dat Swapo as nuwe regering nasionale versoening en eenheid nastreef en dat die twee liggame min beweegruimte het as hulle nie saamgesnoer word nie.

>Sensitiewe onderhandelinge is reeds met internasionale sportliggame aan die gang gesit in afwagting op onafhan­klikheid van Suid-Afrika binne enkele weke,

Maar hierdie onderhandelinge kan skipbreuk ly indien S waru voortgaan om vanjaar ses "afskeidswedstryde" teen die SA toetsunies te speel, om glo vir oulaas goeie winste te maak.

Volgens bronne het die twee afvaar-

digings mekaar in 'n goeie gees ontrnoet en die prob1eme van Nanru met Swaru se wedstryde is uitgespel. , In die verklaring wat deur die bestuurder van Swaru, milr. Stoffel Rocher, onderteken is, sal Nanru en Swaru hulle b"eywer vir die tot­standkoming van een beheetiiggaarn.

Maar die unies "besef dat daar nog probleme is, wat uit die weg geruim moet word voordat hierdie ideaal verwesenlik kan word, en verbind hulself om so spoedig moont­lik 'n oplossing vir die probleme te vind".

Die verklaring meld nie met wat­ter probleme geworstel word nie.

N a wat verneem word, sal die twee unies in die nabye toekoms weer die onderhandelinge voortsit.

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McENRO'E SHOWS CLASS ASHE:$LASHES TULASNE

JOHN McEnroe says be will bet his life savings that he would win every match if he played them all the way he did yesterday in the first round of the Australian Open.

Unfortunately for him; they would not all be against opponents like Frenchman Thierry Tulasne, ranked 114 spots lower than the number four McEnroe.

Showing his old artistry and a renewed commitment to reach the top of the tennis world, McEnroe

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Tulasne, who was briefly ranked higher than McEirroe when the American slumped to number 14 in

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CAUSIO SECU RES ITALY'S TIE

IT Ai... Y and Poland battled to a 1-1 tie on Monday in the second round of the Masters Cup Tournament of former soccer greats held in South America's largest city. The first half was fast paced with stars from both teams showing flashes of their past brilliance. Poland opened the scoring at the 23-minute mark when Puszkarz blasted a shot into the right-hand corner of the net. Italy struck back just as the period ended, with Causio lofting a free-kick past Poland's goalie Tomasewski. Both teams had good chances iIi. the second period, but neither was able to break the tie. Argentina and Poland each have one loss in the competition to accompany Monday's tie, and are tied for fourth place. Brazil, Argentina and Holland also fielded teams in the tournament, which ends on January 24. Line-ups: Italy seniors: Motolini, Moreno, Carmine Gentile, Bini, Marangoni, Claudio Gentile, Morini, Scanziani, Antognoni, Causio and Pruzzo. Poland Seniors: Tomasewski, Szymanowski, Janas, Rudy, Chikiewick (Kordysz), Kmieciek, Kupcewicz, Dabrowisk, Lato, Kapka and Puszkarz.

FOREMAN DISPATCHES COONEY IN SECOND

GEORGE Foreman, who had a big waistline and even bigger punch, needed ' less' than-five minutes to dispatch Gerry Cooney on Monday night, then predicted he would ·get rid of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson even quicker. "I'm what you call a super-duper big-match heavyweight," said the 41-year-old, lIS-kilogram Foreman, who doesn' t worry much about what he eats. At the Convention Centre, he made a snatch of the 33-year-old Conney, smashing him to the floor twice, and knocking him out in the second round. Referee Joe Cortez didn' t bother to count after the second knockdown, but he could have counted way past ten. The end came at 1:57. Foreman, who held the heavyweight title in 1973-74, has been talking about challenging the unbeaten 23-year-old Tyson. His 20th straight victory since beginning a come-back in 1987 from a lO-year retirement shouldn't hurt Foreman's chances for a title bid. "I will probably knock him (Tyson) out a lot faster because he won't back up," Foreman said. While Foreman's come-back continues, Cooney said there would be no more come-backs for him. "No more fighting," Cooney said. "There's not going to be any more come-backs for me."

u.S. PLAYERS AGREE TO ONE-YEAR CONTRACTS

GOALKEEPER Tony Meola and 13 other members of the U.S. National Team agreed to one-year contracts on Monday, the United States Soccer Federation said. Two players so far have refused to sign. They are goalkeeper J)avid Vanole, who lost the starting job to Meola laspupunet; and mid-fieJder Paul Caliguiri, who scored the goal. that gave the United States a victory over Trinidad and Tobago and a berth in the World Cup for the first time in 40 years. Vanola and Caliguiri are believed to be holding out for more. money. Since the United States does not have' a nationwide outdoor league, the­Federation signs players to contracts 'and tries to keep the:c"ore of the tell!TI . together as much as possible. . .... Meola and Harkes are working qut ~ith Sheffield Wednesqay of the English First Division, but the US SF said they have agreed to the deals. Two players are with forei"gn clubs: forward Hugo Perez piays 'with Red Star '93 of the French Second Division, and Peter Vermes plays for FC Volendam of the' Netherlands First Division. .

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SECOND SOCCER PROBE ANNOUNC~D '-' ~

A second soccer proBe was announced on Monday into alleginions that irregular payments were made to Swindon Town players while Lou Macari. was manager. The Football League said it would carry out an investigation into the allegations which were made by a Sunday newspaper. The Football Association (F. A.) said on Sunday it would also probe the accusations in conjunction with its current inquiry into .allegations of llilauthorised betting on an F.A. Cup match between Swindon and Newcastle when Macari was also still manager. Macari now manages West' Ham, like 'Swindon a Second Division club.

. 1986, is a ,clay court specialist and , less comfortable than McEnroe on the hard court.

"Tulasne had an off day,:' McEn­roe said. "He didn't put too much on the ball. It was just like playing ping pong. If 1 could play that style every match, I'd bet my life savings every time. "

McEnroe, coming off an 'exhibi­tion tournament victory over number three, Stefan Edberg, thinks he has a chance of winning, especially if the weather stays as cool as it was yester­day .

"I still think I'm a longshot to win this tournament," he said. "It takes an awful lot" to win a major tourna­ment. If I think about all it took, I'd psyche myself out."

McEnroe has not won a Grand Slam event since he captured Wim­bledon for the third time and the U.S. Open for the fourth time in 1984.

"This toumament has become more important to me because 1 know I don't have too much time left," said McEnroe, who turns 31 next month and has never won the Australian Open.

He joked about the French foreign legion-style hat that top-seeded Ivan Lendl wore in his first match, but said if it helped Lendl win, it was worth looking a little silly.

"I'd stand on my head for a game or two each match if 1 thought it would help me win the tournament," 'he said.

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THREE FOR DANGER. Iwisa Kaizer Chiefs' terrible trio. From left to right, Shane 'Chain' MacGregor, Marks 'Pro' Maponyane and Doctor '16V' Khumalo, pictured with a fan at a function sponsored by Adidas Top Sports in Johannesburg. The three were in devastating form as the Amakhosi slashed the Castle Classic XI 2-1 at Bob City last Saturday.

SORENTO BUCS' PROMISE FIREWOR'KS

IN 1990 SEASON BY CONRAD ANGULA

THE 1988 Novel Ford Cup champions and Metropolitan Superchamps Cup finalists, SE Sorento Bucs, also known as The Giant Killers by Namibian soccer fans, have promised to make the 1990 soccer season their own.

Son,nto, well-known for their killing instinct - hence the nickname Giant

. Killers - undoubtedly played their best football during the 1988 seaso.n.

The black and white outfit, promoted to the NNSL Super League four years ago, silenced their critics by reaching the Metropolitan Super Champs Cup final which they eventually lost to double champions SW A Toyota Young Ones.

No one gave the Dolam-based outfit any chance to proceed to the final, rather taking much-fancied sides like Orlando Pirates, Blue Waters, Benfica, Black Africa and Eleven Arrows into consideration.

The past season was a disastrous one for Bucs who failed to defend their Novel Ford Cup.

They have been languishing at the bottom of the league table for the big­ger part of the season.

The only time they seemed to be raring to go during the past season was when they played Young Ones in a dramatic Metropolitan Cup semi-final encounter that ended in a draw at the Katutura Stadium.

Sorento, despite playing magical and

smooth football in the 1988 season, were ousted by the Terrible Reds on a penalty shoot-out.

"This year, however, is going to be ours, " said team PRO Mr Axel Xoagub When he visited the office of The Namibian yesterday. "We have signed prominent players and with most of our regular players still with us I can't see any reason why we shouldn't at least snatch a cup or two," he said.

Mr Xoagub also asked the NNSL executive (due to be elected in April) to do something about the existing stan­dard of sports facilities" and to drasti­cally look into the matter of how to improve our soccer standards", he said.

He also emphasised the question of sponsorship to individual teams, and said businesses who sponsored indi­vidual clubs stood . a good chance .to advertise their companies throughout the country.

"Companies will not -only have the opportunity to advertise their products in the country but also throughout the African continent because with the coming independence local teams will certainly spread ' their tentacles to

neighbouring countries," he said. The softspoken PRO also stressed

his club's conc;ern about the postpone­ment oftheNNSL's AGM to the end of April.

"The postponement of the NNSL's AGM is unnecessarily lengthy. We should start re-constructing the admin­stration now as we might be caught with our hands tied behind our backs if we wait for another three months be­fore we get moving," he said.

"With the prospects of African Cup participation looming we might be too late to put together a competitive na­tional team to represent our country rightfull y," he said.

In conclusion, Mr Xoagub said his club would officially start training next Monday, January 15. And the club executive is calling all players to attend the training sessions. He also informed The Namibian Sport that the club 's first meeting of the year will take place during the last week of January.

* The Sorento Bucs committee con­sists of the following officials: Mr Willem 'Botsotso' Nanub, secretary; Mr Abner Axel Xoagub, PRO, and Mr Issy 'Easy' Gaeb, treasurer.

WAGGA-WAGGA Goagoseb (extreme left), most probably Sorento Hues' most talented player, is challenged by Eleven Arrows' Sad ike Gottlieb during a NNSL Super League c1ash,at the Katutura Stadium last season.