Namibian detainees die

Press, 27 November 1982, Page 9

Namibian detainees die

NZPA Windhoek Two blacks, one a schoolteacher and the other an alleged guerrilla, .have died while in police detention. The Namibian Police Commissioner, Major-General Dolf Gouws, said that one of the dead. was a schoolteacher, Jona Hamukwaya, who had been arrested last week.. “He was taken to a police station where he was very tense and very nervous. During his interrogation he acted strangely and he was sleepy. He asked a warder for some water, lost consciousness and later died,” General Gouws said. The alleged guerrilla, Kaduma Katanga, had been arrested after security forces saw him crossing a river from Angola on the territory’s northern border. "He later collapsed and he died while he was being taken to hospital,” General Gouws said. No other details were given and General Gouws said that both bodies had been taken to Pretoria for post-mortem examinations, and their deaths were being fully investigated.