imba, SWAPO National Organiser; Othniel Kaakunga, SWAPO Organising Secretary and Publicity Officer; Eliphas Munjaro, SWAPO Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Zondagh Kangueehi, Chairman of the Namibia National Convention (a grouping of parties allied to SWAPO):
Naruseb, member of SWAPO Windhoek oranen neverene Jeremian sameeta Principal of the Paulinum Theological College, Otjimbingwe, and a SWAPO member: Reverend Festus Naholo, Sec retarv or waivis cavowar oranen. Lazarus Guiteb, Secretary of Otjiwarongo SWAPO branch; Skinny Hilundwa, Chair: man or vAru Nortnern oranch. neuben Hauwanga, SWAPO Publicity Secretary I tre vort But these are only some of the names In the norin of tne country, wnien nas been under vigorous martial law for three years (the notorious 'R17'), arrests are continuine monuy ana tne caos are re ported to be overnowina. knows now many patriots nave recently been taken. But it is known that one of the victims is a 15-year old girl, Marita Matthias, a schoolgirl at Odibo hideously tortured a year ago, has 'disappeared been arrested in the past, they have been subjected to inhuman torture. Our NaAlpheus tonal secretary, Axer sonannes, Torin stance in /a was so abominaov tor tured that he attempted to commit suicide in the Windhoek police cells.
SWAPO believes that South Africa, with characteristic deceit, is pretending to be the honest broker in the Rhodesian situation, hoping that the world will not notice what peace-maker Vorster is up to in our country which he is continuing to occupy illegally.
South Africa is determined to hold on to Namibia at anv cost its ploy of imposing bantustans upon Namtola trough which souta Atrican con trol can continue is smasned down in the Nobody there greatest internal show of force for many Peter H. Katjavivi SWAPO Representative in the UK and Western Europe
unemployment red weekly I1 september 1975 New orders to building contractors for educational building had already fallen from £484 million in 1972 to £380 million in 1974 (at 1974 prices) - a drop of 39 per cent. Similarly new orders from the health service have dropped over the last two years by 22 per cent, while only 268,000 houses were completed last year compared with 400,000 in 1968.
The cuts extend to petty penny-pinching. A Ministerial circular from the Department of the Environment published last week tells local authorities to cut down on the staffing of parks, refuse collection, administration and town and country planning. At the same time rents and fares are to rise and a standstill put on all improvements of standards in required are immense, and the only possible source is central state expenditure. That means that any campaign against the cuts must be directed against the whole economc policy of the Wilson Government, particularly the £6 curb and the Healey package. The aim should be not just one or two concessions -which is what the trade union bureaucrats and the left' MPs will be content with - but the complete reversal of Government policy and the removal of the Wilson leadership of the Labour Party.
This could lay the basis for providing the necessary finances, by attacking the vested interests of private industry and the City of London to which the Wilson leadership capitulates The power of the financial institutions over public spending is immense. The Greater Lon