According to SWAPO's Windhoek office, a total of 10 SWAPO members were detained under Section Six of the Terrorism Act between 18 December 1978 and the end of January 1979. They include:
- Pastor Hendrik Witbooi, SWAPO's Secretary for Education, detained for questioning, apparently in connection with the building of a SWAPO office block in Gibeon, southern Namibia, without first obtaining the permission of the authorities. (WO 10.2.79)
- Jason Angula, SWAPO Secretary for Labour, arrested in January and extensively questioned before being released in regard to recent strikes at Rossing Uranium and other mines in Namibia. Security police also raided his house and confiscated several documents. (WO 13.1.79) (All five SWAPO members arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act in Swakopmund at the beginning of January, apparently in connection with the strike by black workers at Rossing Uranium, were reported to have been released by 15 January. They included Pastor Festus Naholo, SWAPO Secretary for Foreign Relations). (WA 17.1.79; see FOCUS 20 pp.1/16)
Cases involving non-SWAPO members include:
- The editor of Swanu News, the official organ of SWANU, Mr. I.M. Uirab, was reported to have been detained at the beginning of January. He subsequently appeared in the Uis Magistrates Court on charges of intimidation under the electoral proclamation AG 63. The case was postponed until late February. (CT 5.1.79; WO 13.1.79)
The Cape Times further reported that Edwin Crail (26) of Paarl, Cape Province, and Neil McDonald, had been detained in Windhoek under the Terrorism Act (CT ibid).
