Willipard KANDJINOMUINI, a member of the Namibia National Front, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment or R1,000 fine by Gobabis Regional Court on 28 July, under Act 34 of 1955. Half the sentence was conditionally suspended for three years. Kandjinomuini was alleged to have helped a group of nine SWANU-NNF members across the border to Botswana on 11 July. Similar charges against Albertus KANGUATIVI, a staff member at the NNF's Windhoek office, were withdrawn after Kanguativi turned state witness.
Reporting the trial the Windhoek Advertiser noted that about 85 members of SWANU had already left Namibia for military training abroad. All the recruits were in Botswana, pending negotiations between the leader of SWANU, Gerson Veii, and Quett Masire, the President of Botswana. The paper claimed that the SWANU leadership had been in contact with Libya and China with a view to organising its own armed struggle.
