WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-03-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Windhoek – Dozens of protesters in Namibia vented anger on Wednesday at visiting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, while Africa’s most elderly leader sealed bilateral deals with his host Hifikepunye Pohamba.
Mugabe was on the first full day of a trip to Namibia, a rare foray outside his own southern African nation, where he presides over an inflation rate of nearly 1 600 percent and widespread food shortages.
While the leaders concentrated on deals which include an accord for Zimbabwe to supply Namibia with energy, human rights groups tried to ensure Mugabe could not forget his domestic woes by demonstrating in the normally tranquil capital.
Around 80 people from various rights groups, including a gay and lesbian organisation, denounced Mugabe’s record of government.
“Mugabe has become an eyesore for the international community,” said Miriam Sakaria, a spokeswoman for the National Society for Human Rights that organised the rally outside the Zimbabwe High Commission in downtown Windhoek.
She called on the Mugabe government to “create an enabling environment for human rights defenders in Zimbabwe to operate without fear or detention” and to “restore operation of free electronic and print media in Zimbabwe”.
One of the demonstrators, who declined to be named, was a Zimbabwean student who said he had gone into exile “because of the living conditions and harassment on campus”.
Mugabe’s visit to Windhoek, his first since his old ally Sam Nujoma stood down as president in 2005, has sparked a good deal of controversy in Namibia.
Ben Ulenga, leader of the main opposition Congress of Democrats, said Mugabe had harassed opponents and interfered with the independence of the judiciary.
“If there’s any one country in southern Africa from which Namibia can learn how not to do things, that’s Zimbabwe,” he said in a statement.
Even Pohamba appeared to have a dig at Mugabe’s record in a banquet speech on Tuesday night in which he said: “We must re-energise efforts to strengthen democratic governance and the rule of law for a more peaceful continent.”
His comments came after Mugabe issued a stout defence of his controversial land reform programme, which saw thousands of white-owned farms expropriated by the state, and blame his country’s economic woes on “punitive” sanctions imposed by the West over allegations that elections in 2002 were rigged.
The two leaders held private talks at State House on Wednesday morning, followed by two-hour long bilateral negotiations before witnessing the signing of the joint agreements.
The most significant was a deal for the Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower) to buy power from Zimbabwe’s state electricity provider Zesa.
Under the terms of the deal, Namibia will invest up to $40-million to help fund renovation work in the coming year on the Hwange power plant, near Victoria Falls, which has four turbines with a 480 megawatt capacity.
In return, Namibia will receive power supplies from Hwange over a five-year period beginning in early 2008.
“Namibia will invest between 30 and 40 million US into the rehabilitation,” said NamPower managing director Paulinus Shilamba.
The two governments’ finance ministers were also on hand to sign agreements to avoid dual taxation.
Mugabe was later due to tour a Windhoek diamond cutting and polishing plant before making a dash Thursday for the coast, where he will visit a fish factory. He is to return home on Friday. – Sapa-AFP
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