WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH AFRICA : Funds Allegedly Still Flowing to Namibia

A former South African military intelligence officer charged that government payments to opposition parties in Namibia are continuing. The accusation by Nico Basson, a retired major in the South African Defense Forces, came a day after Foreign Minister Roelof F. (Pik) Botha revealed that Pretoria donated $36 million in a failed bid to stop Namibia’s South-West Africa People’s Organization from winning independence elections in 1989. Basson said his government wants SWAPO ousted in 1994 elections. The South African Defense Force described the charges as “rubbish.”