. , .

,. Standlng Committee reaches ;~~greementafterweekend sitti.ng ~,' '. . .

,." ', '.~ BY' GWEN· LISTER -~-------

AN'XMENU'ED version of the draft co~stitutio~ c()JDpile4 by lega·. . 'experts was adopted over the weeken.d 'bytlle Standing. Com,mitte:e, : .. ,<.

. . ilndwill be put before a sitting cfthe1'tectfd·tonstlilieni,AsseJbbiY \ ?~ ~ • - t· 1 " • . ! , ._., .... :i;~ .• ~j . : "- ' .. \ ~ . l' ~.I.. , ,' ....... .10 ~' , I.

~ . hZ" .J oD .Thufscbiy:· ,; " . : .' ' .: ~. .'. t ' ~:' The Stan~i C~ttee, which .' Ac~ding to sourc~s, N~bia's '

,,> .. sat light tlimughthe wee~end, fl- ' . 'executivc(will consist of a strong· ' . 'nally,i'eached agreementin'principle ' . ~idency,. eleetOO'by parliament but

,0 ' ,:. ~ nios'tof, the political issues in the . respon~i1?le to the people.' There will ,:, ,: . ,; [ . "-~ ..... ~,~4+ and.~:SAU .• 1.---';, ~ ...... ) 'S9J1}e ,,.,,,,~>be ll .bicAft"lih.al:·(tWo hQuses) parlia:- :

: ,"" .:'.;~. ge.~,. '(tP~.th."· e,·~ .• d..,Urn.:,ft, ';r .. ·~, ·.t·,~n; .. ,t.:~~ ... ' · 'bru, · '~.~·.·: ' {·~, '~;;."t:':~. dr~,rfu.·~ed. ·~rec.'r·tci" it::s¥,:.s·,r,~rti.~ ... ~~ ' <l- ' ,ones'} ' .. " , ;, " ".;';:. ," '. J:- - . ' ThefllSt'-tousewill»eelecte(h:;nra'

. j;:;;'- , : ]i~i$!~P'~,~~~~Jia~iiit~lY'i:e:"'_:': :" P,fOp~OIiat ';sY$~em " o(~¢h~7-I ;" ' " m!1ins fOl'the legal experts, totie;~p ; ".,lion:. an$! ,the second house: 'wiJn~ " -i.,~ ..

~<, .,;I' ! 'lOOse' ~ in N aIilibia' s draft' in~" ',~. eleCted .on the' b'asisof..single:J!ie~; " . y r.~: ·l~ ·~; 4~luien~tonsti~~. butthafthe ,:" ber constitu~cies. I. ~~. ..~;; ';:" ,~' ;'i I, ' <~,~: weekspfbebind-closed~doc;ri meet- '·, . ': SourCes would not giv~ too much , ,/.

,,~. ings' of ll!e. Standing Committee are . "detail about other changes.to the origi- . : I· " now Cffeqtively over. ' . " ' . ",'na1 draft (which' was pubifshed .in

:, ' Sources desCrlbed~ the process of " summ,tnsed det~lby The Narriipian' '" . agr~entas a :lOl'lg one of give' and ' '.~ recently) but said that negotiatioilS 't'

o take I ~ the major,issues of contention , had been tough, art4 that it had been ~ing. the powers of the Presiden~y a "long and. tOrtuo~ process". and the,'bicameral .legislahlre ,. ' the, '.. The Coostituenl Asserrlbly '\:Vill jneet

~hapofthefirSt~~thepowef$ofilie ' I' . ' . . . : .' . I . jeCondhouse. l~ , ,CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 .

' .. ' ? - ' ~ ... :. ~ ~ "- , ." - I

'CHAN(jRwoUld not come about overnight in N~mibia, but would Referring to the' draft, independ­b$e, :)plac~ ~loWly, said Swapo's shadow Min~ster; or Mines" Mr : •. ' ence constitution, ~ ~a Toivo said

. Andimba. Toil'o ya Toivo.- . . ' . ' ': that the draft c~nstitution w~uld be ,

. " '. tabled before the Constituent As-Speaking' at a 'public meeting in orities, and areas such as- Otji~ar- sembly at the end of this w~ek for

Otjiwarongo, Mrya Toivo also said ongo. Otavi. Grootfontein;' Tsumeb ratification. After this, art indeperid-and Outjo. would play an important . ence date would be decided on, he role in this· regard. ," ' . said.

" ;. '!

SWAPO President Mr San,~uJ()ma ~nded a .24-hour\v.orklng,vlslttb theAngola~: capltal.of Luanda. on $unday. ,: ". ,! ,I ;. . ', " .' ,;

PollticalobserverS in -Lua~dlJ said the military sltdati()lton ,the ~orQer, , between Angola and Naml~t~l:w~s.thoug~t to ~a,v-e been one of the top- . lcs discussed by Mr NuJom:a~nd Angoian PresklenfJbse EdU1lrdo'dOs Santos. . '. ' , ",-;,~ . ,: ': " '~r J : ( ~' )~'.~_ ,,:~.,, 0 '\ '~"'" ,'~, I .'<!'~: Angolan gov~r~ment for{tes '~~'~: ~:po~t~dl~;~~~8~~ed ~rt.I ~~ ,~~aef}~~1, ~e- , ,;' ~.~r.~i:;:'~~i against stronglio,lds of the U ;SA>atked Un!ta .'ebel rn~V~ent~lose ,to ' ~ :; :'. ,.\,

, Angola'sbord~'f'with·Nanil~ia.. ' ~... ,." ~ :':~, ',',,{ "',J, ' ;", ... ~ Observers in ~.uanda said' Mr Nuj~ma was .re.~ive~w~tti the,honours U i1l{)rruai~y , reserved for a hf.!~d of state. '.: " J. 'k!.~r.,",,!~~ ... d£ )4It'ib!lttiIICZ w;; .... . rz:as: ;;u::! 'M , U .. ~,.::t~6 &&i~ ue:i¢t L4CttAA~

THE ~~MIBIAN.'·· Monday January 22 1990 3

. ENVIRONM.ENTAL education, a concept w~ich sees people being taught to care for Planet Earth, on which they depend, rather than be egocentric, is the besJ ~ible education now that natural resources

, are,in such danger. . '

".< . This was aired at a seminar on men w~ more:intc?rested in getting f "'env~ental education, held- at . cash to buy, commodities such as

'Centaurus lligh School, Windhoek, . . . liquor and·radios. . at the w~ke~d. .' '. . It caine up,how~ver, that women

. ;, A ·~~~.;.syl1abuS approach. join- i in the .third world· were at the sharp . . )Q.g. 4Uferenl' subjects with· an envi- . end of. environmental degradation, " ronmen,taI cOmponent, would be·ef- '· often walking many hours to get food -- .(eeiive 'and aPPropriate. · .. and water. ' . . ,;' ~.w~ .the view of two key speak- . , . They also received the leasteduca-

;·ers.:Mr}tob Soutter of the ~uthern tion and would perh~ps be the hard-African' Nature Foundation, andMr . ' .. est group.to get through to. P~ter Tyldesley; headmaster at Cen- Other targets, considered even mae

~ tauhJs • . r . 1, . .important than the s.tudent fraternity, : .~ lfu·a country as dry as Namibia. , were farmers, civil engineers. devel­;~plemustlive within .themeans of ' opers and fmanciers. their environment:~ said'Mr Sout- Citing an example of how lack of Jer. ' ", : . . environmental awareness brought

' ... , . .' Botsw~~, he said, was taking ~p . ·about drasti~ proble,XIls, Mr Soutter .' , .. Ute .approach of environmental ~u- said the town of Ladysmith in Natal

cauQIl and Zimbabwe had already , had suffered from floods in three ·dOne~so. . , . successiv.e' years and tried to solve

.:' ." The seminar heald that while chil- the problem by building a dam up-i. ~~~adto be taught the values of , stream in the Klip River. .

.. c~t·for ltb.1s .planet, efforts were ' "That was treating a symptom rather " ,~ot)argeted at them alone. " . ' than . the problem. 'What had hap-

, :· Women, ·l,le said; were being in- pened was that nobody recognised . , . y.olve~ in .several projects as devel- the importance of wetlands."

dpn,tentagtmcies w.ere discovering in , Turning to Namibia, he praised the · ,~si~Africa and·SouthAmerica that . project carrie4 out by·Mr·GarthOwen-

; ~. .' r· ~ ,' :' ~:.. ~ • ' ~

Smith in which the interests of Himba­speaking people had been' taken into account in an effort to. administer conservation in areas of the·Koakov-·eld. . 'i.'

"You can transfer ideas easily by showing examples," said Mr Sout-ter. .

Headmaster atCentaurus, .Mr Pe­ter Tyldesley, stressed that envirori- . mental educatiOn ' could only take . place within a community.

"I cannot, as the head of Centau­rus, design a programme for students in the Kavango region. It would be irrClevant to their needs."

Mr Buddy Wentworth, .Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sport in the shadow ' Cabinet, said front the floor that draft proposals for educatiOn refonn were being tabled.

He added that provision would be made for 'the establishment of cur­riculum committees on which edu­cationists and other interested par­ties would serve, suggesting that lobbyists for the environmental edu­cation concept could use ·this oppor-tunity. "' . 'j;.,' ..' . .'

AlsoJromthefioorclll1le the opin­ion that most of Namibia's people lived close to nature and did not see a sitUation in which their ·resources were being depleted. ' .

. This, it was said, would present 'a great problelJl for environmentalism

WITH a little bit of thought and creative talent one of these scholars could become the lucky winner of one of the prizes in the Shell Art Competition. One of the aims of the competition is to make all young Namibians realize the value of their unique environment. The pupils above were photographed outside St George's school with the co-ordinator. of the competition, Mr Mose.s Mber~ra.

BIG"PRIZES;,:IN J, :!:~ ' 1 • : , ' 7"",,' , . ~ .J>;;' ''' , .......... 1 _ .;;~ I

S··,··· H'·· "E:"~ y );y ,;'.t:' ... : .. ··A r:'D :"'. I"

.. .I.J..LI '."·~1;; .' . .. .. ,

C· OM-qETI~I·· ~'~N . . ~r." , . t~". ~ ' , .' . getting' supPOrt from cotiunuriities ,. ' ,.: ,~ .': .~ .. ' "~>t· If' •• - , .:, . . :,.i , . . " " ~~,,;, , .. ' . :. ,- / , .. where there·were~Q'maJor ·conser- . .. . ..' . " '. ("~.:. ,;~~rec1riciliitiblliB.Qa~ii~blc .. :;v.~apP9iDied:bytb~Adniinis,;ato;~ ., ~ .. ~~ti.9i(in~;~~ . .. \ .... : ~:: . \ ., -:~.,:, ; THERE 'are' Cash-prizt s worth up to R500 to be.~WOD in tll~· · :l9.9.0 ," ... ;;" \.G~~e~f~orconsj~er~~s~itle;aremUDeratibD dispute betWeen tbe ' ' .: .:' ffo~ever. ~~was~ : Shell Art ·Com~tition. for 'sChool ~tudents which was laun~hed on:

MastefJ~uilders and.Allied ,:Ir ades;AssOOiation .ftdBAl and :tbe' ." t.liat re~ees.h~,~. shocked ~o Thursday. . .. ,.' , . , N "b" 'B Old" W ,. 'U' " (N' B'Jl1l"') t '" W" db k seethe denudation of tree cover m . ~,. m." . "I .~~n~.~, . ~O!.A~.rS . ~~Ob .!'.~ me " IB ' . In _ ~ on " ,.th~·nor:thdn~:aftcr30 .· ~. duriti The theme this year will be 'Trees

. Januarv.x:18 · .. . ..' . . - . ,. , " , . . .. . ', y". g fN 'b" d th ' " . Standuds 5-10 will be invited to . enjoy a six-day expedition to the · Desert Ecological Re~earch Unit's station at Gobabeb in the Nanub deurt.

.~~ ,. ,;..! ~. r:-;.~olt:.."'y; ,: ... ~.{. ::,.< ,.: ( .. '.'.:: . ... , " . ; '.' which tribal.cOns.ervation·ethies had o . rum la, an e compehtion IS <. ~. ' ~"Ac~g t~,~ .. pr:eS$:~re.,-se/aJs:ii " . fur'parties agreed .to meet on Feblu- ' been diMegardCd.. .. .. " ",', open to Sub A to Standard 10 pupils

:- :, ' . lUJlqunt;:of progress , was a~hieved " .aryl again ,to continue the collective ' '. at all schools. '~:' . dudngth~ '4ifficu1tnegotiatiOns~hich bargaining an attempt to reach settle- . The competition is sponsored by According to Mr Moses Mberira,

one of the aims of the competition is . to allow the artistic talents of pupils to be displayed and recognized.

" . J~tedfrom09hOO .tb 16~~.:agree.-,,·ment .. Rele~e' of ~er details of TV TO N I G HT ~hell ~amibia Limited in ~ra-.m~~.wasreachedonvanous ISsueS. ' the diSCUSSIons at this stage could lIon WIth the Desert EcologIcal Re-

.• , "<, ;,'However;some important matters jeopardise the fmal outcome of. ne- ' . search Unit and the State Museum. ',~ cOuldl1ot be fmalised and the disput- gotiations, ~epressreleaseconceded. 17hS8 • . Programr~ter .', To illustrate the theme 'Trees of ,..Other aims are to make all young

N amibians realiZe the value of the country's unique environment, and to complete the good work being . dOne by the schools in the fields of art . and ecology •.

v • 18hOO; Weet Jy Nle. . Namibia', students can either depict 18b~5: Pound PUPPies ' : how trees are used by people and

:"" 'P,~~M' ·I .. ··N" ·\E'~·I ,~ ' ~' I:I 'S· " I '''-:- '()'~ R· ' C :. · """. ,. ' 1~;fl ;;;<Y:';: l "':'1.\, .. ' .

"··':.f,:R'O' · .. ·' ·~M~ ':IIN' I"G'~· 'IE' '~'R' 'IA' ., .,!r"" . "' .. '. ~.'~' . " ."," ,.A . . .

. ~~. -. ~' THE Deputy Inspector General ofPoHce oftbe Federal Repu blic of . Nigeria, M r. P B 0 Oyasande, arrives in' Windhoek today for a

week-long ,!isit to Namibia, . . During his 'stay, he will pay a ongo to see members <,>f the Nigerian cOurtesy calion, among others, the police contingent in the Untag Civil UN Special Representative and his' . Police. Nigeria has the largest police

...... senior officials, . S~apo leadership, contingent in Untag. ' . aswellassen~orofficialsoftheSWA . ~Oyasandewillbeaccompartied .

· Police. . . by Mr A Sheidu, Assistant Inspector . He will also visit Oshakati, ~ . .General of Police and Dr Rose Wush­Oh~gw~.,,·O~at~ ·an~ '.9tji~ar~~;'. J, ishi!~~iss\oner'of Polic~~ ."

"~1 -:CONTINUED'FROM-PAGEi ~f ; • .' ~ " ~. J

on ~ThW'Sday to debate the fma)ised so that ratification of the constitution, drattin'its '~~ty,'butQbJ~iverS~elt " ;~d the anhoUncement or ~ ' inde­thai it,was too eady 'to expeCt an an- ' pehdence date, will &till be possible nouncementofa,niridependencedate within the.month of January . . at the end of this week. The announcement of art independ-

The meetings ; of · thej 1 S~ding ence date wil11argely depend on how Committee' have · been . attended by speedily the amended draft ronstitution three legal experts from So~th . Af- : is agreed to by a full si.tting of the rica Who assisted in the 'compilation Constituent Assembly. , of the original draft constitUtion ,- However, not many problems are ' they are Professor Marinus Wiech- e~pected with fmal ratification and ers, Mr Arthur ChaskalsOJt'SC 8!ld, hopefully, adoption by consensus,

· Professor Gerhard Erasmus: since the parties in the Assembly are Sources said that there was a gep- all represe.nted in the Standing

eralrelief at the fact thatthepoHtical Committee where most of the delib- . positions within the Standing Com- erations have taken place. mittee ~ad fmally been agreed upon, .

~~_t~ ... ' .t-~~ .....

, 18h25: Educational . . other animals, or how and why trees Programmes .. /:\~. . . must,be conser'\red.

"Bread and Butterflies: ' ) The flrst prizes in the different ·· Planning ahead the racer" categories range ~ RIOO lor Sub "Manufacturing Games: ShOCk A-Standard I pupils, nght up to R500 .

. Inquiries about the competition should be directed to Mr Moses Mberira at Shell Namibia Limited, t~l~phone (061) ~2-6141 ~ -

Absorbers" ' , fortheS~~4s 8-10 c~tegory~ ~ • • • The wmrung entrants' school WIll

18h50. Klein Nlklaas also receive prizes up to the value of "'n Halsband vir ~ R500, .

Posters advertising the competi­, tion, as well as entry fonns, will be

sent to all schools. ~a~asch" In addition, winning pupils in Patrasch is' weer heeltemal gesond . en .Niklaas besluit · dat hy sterk genoeg is om saam slad toe te

. gaan. Hulle ontdek dat Patrasch . se vorige eienaar. ook in die omgewing is. · , 19h13: :- My Secret Identity

" ,Only pyingto help" . Andrew's motlierreads:his 'wary and gets very concerned. ':. 19h36: Growing Pains '

. "How fbe West was ....... ., ......... . , , ... , . . , won~ (part II)

Mter staging .ft ,sit-in}o .protest the firing of his 'favourite teacher, Mike is suspended from school. 20hOO: Nuus/Weerberig 20h2S: Prodigious Hickey Hickey and ' .'TheShad" become rivals for the allegiance of their fellow pupils and .' 'Uncooked Beefsteak" arrives on the scene. 21h08: Blue Grass (Final) 22h16: NewslWeatber Report 22h2~: Sport

. 23h23: Dagsluiting .

US e'xperts,,' f,o;r, ·co'n'stittltion·,'

TWO American constitutional experts would meet within a"week with Untag; members of the ,Constituent Assembly 8n~political

. leaders, for discussions; reports SWABt·TV. According to a news release., one of the experts, . Professor Dennis Th- '

. ompson;was invited by the FOWldation for Democracy to advise Namibian offIcials about the fmalisation of a draft cOnstitution for an independent Namibia, He is a lecturer in Political Science at the Brigham-'young Univer­sity.

Professor Thompson will be accompanied by Professor John Moore, who heads the department 9fIntemadonal Law at the University of ,Virginia.

TIlE NAMIBIAN Isppbllsbed by tbe Free Press of Namibia (Ply) L1ni1ted With omces at 104 Leutweln Street, Wlndboek. IUs printed by Jobn Meinert (Ply) Limited ofStiibel Street, and edited by Gwen Lister. Staff can be contacted during omce boUrs at telephone 36970/11213/4, telex (061) 3032, or fax. (061) 33980 or P.O. Box 20783, Windhoek 9000. Political commentary by Gwen Lister , Plus Dunalskl and Kapteln Handub~

~,

\

(-"

) :!

, , ,

J.

; \' .' , I

' j 'I. i~

., J ),

I ~ 1 •

\. it r' \ . , . ~, I , , I' ,

;1 "

} t

l' \ \, • .,

}'"

'd

1 •

'~.

y ) }i ~ ; ·I·i .

l: !

• j t l

..1 \

t,~

'" ~' 1