ECSA Bulletin

Contents: NAMIBIA • LAMBETH CONFERENCE • MEMORANDUM TO HIS EXCELLENCY MARTTI AHTISAARI, UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR NAMIBIA FROM NAMIBIAN CHURCH LEADERS • JOINT STATEMENT BY NAMIBIAN CHURCH LEADERS • NAMIBIAN CHURCHES CALL FOR PRAYER AND APPEAL TO ALL PARTIES AND COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN THE WESTERN SETTLEMENT PLAN FOR NAMIBIA • SOUTH AFRICA AGAIN ATTACKS NAMIBIAN CHURCHES: EXPELS THREE LEADERS • FATHER MORROW IN NEW YORK • ORDER UNDER SECTION 1 OF THE UNDESIRABLES REMOVAL PROCLAMATION 1920 (PROCLAMATION 50 OF 1920) • NAMIBIA - 'Where a black person has never had a right' • THE FREEDOM TO BE FREE: THE MASERU DECLARATION • INACCURACY AND DISTORTION IN PRESS REPORTS ON NAMIBIA • The newsletter reports on the United Nations plan for independence in Namibia and to establish the UN Transitional Assistance Group (UNTAG). The newsletter includes a memorandum to UN Commissioner for Namibia Martti Ahtisaari from the United Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Roman Catholic Church in SWA/Namibia, Anglican Church, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It also includes a joint statement by Bishop R. Koppman, Roman Catholic Church, Diocese of Windhoek; Bishop J. Kauluma, Anglican Church in Namibia; Pastor K. Dumeni, Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church; and Pastor P. Gowaseb, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia. The newsletter reports that the UN Special Committee against Apartheid called for an embargo on the supply of petroleum and petroleum products to South Africa. It also includes excerpts of a report by Marja-Liisa and Kimmo Kiljunen; a statement by delegates of the Anglican Church of Namibia meeting in Maseru, Lesotho; and newspaper articles including "On the side of the wretched" by Colin Winter, "KEY NAMIBIA LEADER FACING OPPOSITION" by John F. Burns, and "'Buried alive' charge" by David Martin. The newsletter mentions the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Walvis Bay, the frontline states, Marthinus Steyn, Prime Minister P. W. Botha, Dr. J.L. De Vries, Pastor K. Dumeni, Landesprost P.G. Kauffenstein, German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pastor E.S. Tjirimua, Rev. B.G. Karuaera, UNITA, South African Defence Force (SADF), Omundaungilo, Leslie 0. Harriman, Mishake Muyongo, the World Council of Churches, Rev. Edward Morrow and Laureen Morrow, Heinz Hunke, Students Representative Councils, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), Katutura township, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), the Security Police, Cornelius Ndjoba, Lucia Hamutenya, Ovamboland, the Namibia National Front, the South African Police (SAP), the Rooikop military base, Prime Minister Vorster, Sam Nujoma, Toivo ja Toivo [Toivo ya Toivo], Robben Island, Security Council resolution 385 of 1976, Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Leonard Auala, Rhodesia, the International Court of Justice, the five Western powers, and torture of detainees.