ARRESTS
Rahimise KAHIMISE, a member of SWAPO, was reported detained under Proclamation AG9 in March 1982. Kahimise was previously detained in April 1978 under the Terrorism Act, and was arrested again in April 1979 and detained for about 18 months under Proclamation AG26.
Two hundred people were reported to have been arrested in Katutura at the beginning of March for trespassing. Another 150 were awaiting trial for the same reason, according to newspaper reports. The arrests took place at the Single Quarters in the black township outside Windhoek. Only people in possession of permits are officially allowed to reside there, and raids are regularly carried out by police. According to the Director of Katutura, the municipal authorities had tightened controls at the entry gates and mended the fences surrounding the Single Quarters, which presumably made it more difficult for people to escape during police raids.
SENTENCES REDUCED
75 residents from the Hochanas area who were sentenced to six months imprisonment or a fine of R300 for refusing to fill in census forms in late 1981 have had their sentences reduced to two months. As all of them had already spent two or more months in custody before being released on bail, they had completed their sentences.
According to Pastor Marcus Kooper, one of the defendants, they were abused and shouted at in prison. They were kept barefoot and had to work for a month at an agricultural plantation at the prison in Hardap Dam. Asked whether they had had any contact with the Kassinga detainees who have been kept at a detention camp near Hardap Dam since May 1978, Pastor Kooper said that they had not met them, but could see the camp on the top of a hill about two km away.
