A Namibian advocate, Anton Lubowski, strongly criticised the imposition of security legislation by South Africa without reference to any legislative body elected by the citizens of the country. In an address to the Namibian Educational Forum in August 1983, Adv. Lubowski pointed out that security legislation was foisted on the Namibian people by the Administrator-General's proclamations and that its provisions went further than its counterparts in South Africa to erode civil liberties and the role of the courts. This was done behind the 'plausible pretence' of a total onslaught 'to perpetuate South African rule and to institutionalise terror', he said.
He pointed out that the Terrorism Act, which had been repealed in South Africa, still applied in Namibia.
'People are killed, tortured, maltreated and detained without trial, often without any record of their detention or their existence', Lubowski said. He urged that everything should be done to change this deplorable state of affairs, where terror was being institutionalised.
