An appeal by HEIKKIE SHILILIFA (38) against a 5 year prison term under the Terrorism Act was dismissed in the Supreme Court at the beginning of June. Mr. Shililifa, a school teacher and shop owner in Ovamboland and described as an "active SWAPO member", was convicted in the Otjiwarongo Regional Court in September 1978 of aiding people to leave Namibia illegally to undergo guerilla training in Angola.
The Chief of the Security Police in Namibia Col. Koos Myburgh, revealed at the beginning of April that three men, whom he described as acomplices in bombings which occurred in Windhoek and Swakopmund in December 1978, had been in detention for a number of weeks. He would now be consulting with the Attorney General regarding their trial. (No further report has appeared).
Mr. Mokganedi Thlabanello was arrested in Windhoek on 12 July on his return from West Germany.
