Margaret Valentin, a church worker employed in the offices of the Anglican Diocese of Damaraland, was ordered by the South African regime at the end of November to leave Namibia "forthwith".
Ms. Valentin (30) is married to an Angolan and worked for the Dependants' Conference, an organization which arranged transport for wives and families to visit imprisoned relatives. After representations had been made to the Department of the Interior, she was granted an extension from 30 November to 5 December, but no reason was given for her expulsion order. Ms. Valentin joins, among many others, Bishop Colin Winter, Anglican Bishop of Damaraland, and the Rt. Rev. Richard Wood, the Suffragan Bishop, as a victim of the regime's persecution of the church. Shortly after her expulsion, Jonathan Lloyd, a 19-year-old student from England was summarily put on the plane back to London by the South African immigration authorities. He had arrived in Cape Town with the intention of spending 10 months in Windhoek as a volunteer with the Anglican Diocese of Damaraland. He was immediately served with a prohibition notice and refused access to relatives in Cape Town or to the British Embassy.
