ALEXANDER takes a look at these allegations.
News of a factional struggle Inside SWAPO has been known Shipanga Don in 4unl 1976 o/ Andreas founder-member SWAPO and former Secretary of acting on the re quest of the SWAPO leadership.
Another 58 SWAPO militants were detained with Shipanga: they included Solomon Milima also a foundine member and the relary for Labour), emberi o the SWAPO ecutive committee, the President and the General Secretary of the SWAPO youth league nembers of the Youth League Executive Committee:
In May Shipanga applied for a his release on the grounds that he ENTERSeE Imraal/ exploits.
Senega/ for Ostensibly a/m Zouerate, Mauritania, French intervention in Africa. Disturbing reports have reached Socialist Challenge about the brutal and undemocratic maltreatment of the Namibian liberation organisation, SWAPO. ROY was bang megasly detained. Thi application was initially rejected, on the grounds that freedom fighters* in Zambia did not have the rights of ordinary citizens.
appeal to the Supreme Court of cambia would succeed (as it did.
OLE TO DE Ba CHI ipanga and ten of his leadi colleagues were secretly shipp olE to Tantania. remain imprisoned to the present date SWAPO leadership alleges that Shipanga had secretly consired to capitulate to the Souti frican Government and join th at ho bad deliberately stirre Further his aims, dissent inside SWAPO to of Shipanga's allies in the milithe South African dame ple He has seor several hundred paratrooper: intervention sahara conflict threatened CUTCHED Aperation forces. in fact Giscard is striving to increase direct original accusation of a SWAPO Commission of Inquiry was that this had been done in collusion with the West German and South African Governments Esme Shipangn replied to this last charge in an open better to SWAPO: This is an astonishing accusation considering that many militant members of the SWAPO youth wing inside Namibin and forms of brutal treatment at the hands women who were forced to flee the country in 1974 MISTSUIC WITHDRAWN Significantly, SWAPO General Secretary Sam Nujoma chose not to repeat this particular accusarion in a letter to the Swiss Anti-Apartheid Movement An Spanse case is has in that the SWAPO leadership's case collapses, hecuase the obe HOLDS ment.
published a lengthy the South African LEILES.
withdrawn it means UN refugee directly attribured to beld.
panga (as opposed to son (his Jollowers) certainly do n justify his indefinite imprison But the crisis inside SWAPO is of far greater proportions than the news about Shipanga has so E SWAPO militants in Keny ested, In April this yea dy became SENEETONT which alleged that over a thouand dissident SWAPO militanta lau been held by the Zambian sion.
report WAPO Youth League member who escaped from the camp to holya, seemed delinehad been shor and killed by Zambian troops in August las year, and a further eight inclad ng some young children) ha lied of starvation in February because of the deliberate cutting off of food supplies to the camp • June this year 200 of 11 argued.
etainees were transferred to camp: 1 l5 b00 known how many are still being these dissident currents or young rege be of young refugees 1974, following the brutal repres sion by the South Afrious of the 973 wave of struggle in Nan bia. They enthusiastically joine THE THATS BEWARE HIT critical of various Youth Lengue members among the victims of the recent represCORRUPTION They concentrated their critical are on two issues: me wemand for convening the SWAPO Congress (the last Congress niet in December 1969, and is supposed to be convened every four years), ace alreatiation wrap ses organisation ern over reports of collabor ation between SWAPO an Support the NUS Day of Action SOUTHERN AFRICA THE FIGHT FOR LIBERATION Eriday 11 Novemher Tp Nd Theatre, London School of Eonom Speakers include:
BARNEY MORGATLE (Soweto student leader) Gournalist just back from Zimbabwe)
DEMONSTRATE: Sunday 13 November Speakers Corner.
Southern Africa Solidarity Cam paign). UNITA forces in Angola. Moves were mace to set up rank-a-ts committees 1o weed out such abuses, Jo gopcars that it was at this paint that the leadership decided to crack ODWI Whatever the substance af such charges, such legitimate political disagreements cannot be deal organisation requiring the sort of unity required for a determined njured b methads. Moreover these action undemocratic African Government and ober reactionaries a powerful propa THIS MORE AIR RACHT aCal the liberation movements.
Genaine friends of the Nam Ibian liberation struggle mist take this isaue up with the SWAPO leadership, and insist that they either substanciate or withdraw the accusations they have made, and cense resorting enemy in dealing with politica disagreements.
Assemble 12.30pm (initiated by