Dear editor,
Allow me to express my views in your newspaper.
Since the formation of Caprivi African National Union (CANU) in 1962, Caprivians experienced a wide range of suffering where they had been terrorized with all forms of torture including electrical shocks, brutal beatings, cuttings with a knife and being roasted to death on fire,which has lead most of Caprivians to leave the country.
Some were tied up in bags and dumped in the Zambezi River by helicopters of the South African apartheid colonial regime. People like Benjamine Bebi, the father of Boniface Bwimo Bebi, used to sleep in ditches at the river banks, Solomon Masole Puzeli, had been collected and Shamboked by the South African apartheid regime defence force members once in a week and he went missing for three weeks where he was seriously tortured to the level where they had his arm cut off with a knife, that he should tell where other members of the movement were to be found.
Induna Chatambula Masinda and Dickson Chibilikizi were roasted on fire to the point of death.
Brendan Kangongolo Simbwaye went missing and his whereabouts was not known. Alfred Siloiso Lukonga, who later became the Ngambela of Chief Bwimo Bebi Mamili, had been shamboked once a week and denied food the whole day his young brother Mazazi Lukonga also suffered the some treatment of being tortured by the apartheid regime.
People like Maxwell Kulibabika and Judea Lyaboloma, were shot to death. Gideon Mwilima, David Muisepi and Mishake Muyongo had been hunted for and wanted every day by the regime till the time they ran out to Zambia in 1964.
All those who suffered harsh treatments from the South African apartheid regime includes Ruben Chata, Greenwell Matongo, Sampati Lutokwa, Fenious Limota, Jonah Mufukami Twabulamayo, Paddy Mwazi, Kenneth Chiyobololo, Boniface Likando and Manowa Mosses Malamo.
By Brenan Lifuna
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