Subject: Seal Alert-SA's Meeting With Prime Minister of Namibia
Date: July 24, 2007 3:51:23 AM
For "Proposed questions for interview with Mr Francois Hugo" scroll down, please.
Seal Alert-SA, Press Release, July 24, 2007.
Seal Alert-SA's
Meeting With Prime Minister of Namibia
As many of you know the Right
Honourable Prime Minister Nahas Angula advised Seal Alert-SA on
July 18, that a meeting was set down for July 23 in Namibia at the
Prime Minister's Office at 14.30.
The subject. Seal Alert-SA's
global campaign to end the Seal Hunt in Namibia.
This of course left Seal
Alert-SA little time to prepare. Hurriedly Seal Alert-SA prepared a
Power Point clearly illustrating the mismanagement of the Cape
fur seals over the past 30 years, as our motivation for the Prime
Minister to call an immediate halt to the 2007 baby seal cull of 80
000 seals. It is hoped that this Power Point will be available
on-line on the following websites
www.sealalertsa.net and
www.seashepherd.org,
within the next few days.
Unsure who could attend and
participate. Seal Alert-SA asked the Prime Minister if in the
meeting with Francois Hugo, could be attended with his partner of 8
years, Dr Herbert Henrich Advisor to Seashepherd International and
National Council of SPCA's Global Campaigns Manager Celeste
Houseman.
Seal Alert-SA also invited
officials from the Department of Marine and Coastal Management in
South Africa to the meet, and received the following reply, "Time
constraints and approval procedures required by government for
international travel mean that DEAT officials will not be able to
attend the meeting with the Namibian Prime Minister on Monday 20
July. We do however, wish you a successful meeting."
Protocol maintained that this
historic meeting be kept small with well informed members who could
travel to Namibia at short notice.
Seal Alert-SA, although
requested an official invite, was instead told by PA assistant to
the Prime Minister, that as he himself had set the meeting, there
was no need to send a confirmation letter.
Many within the Seal Alert-SA
supporter/partner fold believed this invite to be a hoax, some even
considered it a ploy to lure Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA to
Namibia in order to arrest him. Seal Alert-SA spokesperson Nikki
Botha confirmed on July 18, that this was no hoax.
On Friday, Seal Alert-SA's was
informed that the interview has appeared today's print
edition of the “National-Zeitung” (www.dsz-verlag.de). It has also been
announced in a caption below the photograph of a baby fur seal on
the front page. This is somewhat historic, as
German tourists account for the largest segment of the
international tourists visiting Namibia. "Our newspaper
“National-Zeitung” was founded in 1951. It appears on a weekly
basis with a circulation of 50,000 copies, with readers
throughout German-speaking Europe (Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Luxembourg, Easter France, Eastern Belgium, and
Northern Italy) and beyond. We write about current affairs
affecting German-speaking countries and regions in Europe. We
have also reported about the need for animal protection in
the past, but this interview will be the first one with a
conservationist / animal rights activist." (please see the full
English version attached). The full print version of the interview
(including two photographs with captions, no omissions) has been on
the internet as this week's online
version:
www.dsz-verlag.de/Artikel_07/NZ30_4.html.
On Sunday, the National Newspaper Rapport
reported how their undercover investigation had revealed that for a
few dollars, tourists staying at the nearby Cape Cross Seal Lodge,
could join the baby seal cull by hiring a rifle from the lodge to
go and shoot baby seals,
www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2151296,00.html and
www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2151297,00.html.
Two days of no sleep, saw Francois Hugo of
Seal Alert-SA, Dr Herbert Henrich and Celeste Houseman arrive in
Namibia for this historic meeting.
At Hosea Kutako International Airport in
Namibia, the Seal Alert-SA team was meet by Bart Smithers, the
wildlife film-maker and his team. Sadly Bart's appeal for funding
to cover filming travel expenses to photograph the baby seal cull,
had been ignored by seal supporters, and as such Bart's was funding
this out of his own pocket. Bart showed Seal Alert-SA footage of
the Cape Cross Seal colony, where sealers were daily each morning
whacking away at the skulls of fleeing baby seals. What disturbed
Seal Alert-SA the most, was that on this 2007, 80 000 baby seal
cull quota, of which some 50 000 was the quota for the Cape Cross
Seal colony.
The footage of Bart's taken on the day
before our arrival clearly showed, that far from 50 000 baby seals
to club, that there was not even a thousand seals present in the
entire colony. Has Namibia's Ministry of Fisheries truly lost it?
Awarding a 50 000 quota for Cape Cross when in fact, there was not
even a thousand seals left?
At 14.00 the Seal Alert-SA team headed for
the Prime Minister of Namibia's Offices.
A full report of this historic meeting will
follow in my next update, as soon as Bart arrives with the
photographs of this historic meeting to save the endangered Cape
fur seal species from further annual slaughter.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27-21-790 8774
Proposed questions for interview with Mr
Francois Hugo
1. Seal Alert has requested the Namibian government to halt the
2007 seal cull with immediate effect. Why?
Answer: There are many interrelated reasons why we have called upon
the governments of Namibia and South Africa to halt the 2007 seal
cull along the Namibian coast. Most recent scientific information
available reveals that the endangered seal population has recovered
to 73 per cent of 1993 level. Therefore in 2006, the seal
population is 27 per cent lower than in 1993. There had been a mass
die-off involving 95 per cent of the pups and half the adult seal
population in 2000, after a similar die-off in 1994. Another mass
die-off occurred after the 2006 sealing quota was announced.
However, the promised December 2006 pup population survey has not
materialised from Namibian Ministry (using December 2005 pup
survey) for 2007 seal pup quota. This actually hides the fact of
the mass die-off that occurred in 2006. Most importantly the
sealing quota for 2007 exceeds the number of pups on the sealing
colonies. Unchanged biological conditions indicate a further
die-off this year.
2. The sealing pup quota in 2006 attempted to harvest 15.000 more
seals than alive. How do you explain this contradiction in official
statistics?
Answer: Since independence sealers have failed to reach the
annually set TAC sealing pup quota, averaging 60 per cent. By
implication quotas are unreachable and therefore unsustainable.
Sealing pup quotas have increased 300 per cent in the last decade.
This is not sustainable. By setting a sealing pup quota in 2006 to
harvest 15.000 more seal pups than alive is in fact genocide of all
the seal pups.
3. Why is the harvesting of seal pups in Namibia regarded as being
particularly cruel?
Answer: Sealers are forced to club tens of thousands of pups. This
happens during the initial stampede to freedom by reaching the
safety of the sea. Clubbed pups are then being dragged
semi-consciously to a collection site, where they are stabbed in
the heart. Often this requires repeated clubbing on the head and
stabbing in the chest and heart. There are time delays of up to an
hour between the initial blow to the head and the final breath.
Pups vomit in shock mothers milk after the initial blow on their
heads and whilst their chests are cut open to reach the
heart.
Sealers are also clubbing older seals (on a pup quota <1 year
old) in an attempt to fill the quota, which is inhumane as their
skull is far thicker. The 120 sealers are unskilled, thereby
causing immense suffering when clubbing 80 000 wild fleeing baby
seal pups. Culling, disturbing and rounding up 80 per cent of the
seal population for 139 days each year is extremely cruel,
stressful and is a threat to the species. Such a disturbance
eventually causes a pup to become separated from the nursing cow,
resulting in mass pup abandonment and starvation.
4. How does culling affect tourism in Namibia, where one third of
all foreign visitors come from Germany?
Answer: The favourite time of travel amongst German travellers,
which is July and August, coincides with the peak of the seal cull
season from July and November.
The Cape Cross seal colony, – which accounts for 50 per cent of the
cull quota and which is also the historical site where Portuguese
explorer Diego Cao went ashore in 1485 –, is a favourite
destination amongst German tourists. Sealers club baby seals from
5am to 10am, sweep and cover the blood-soaked sand and then open
the seal colony to paying German tourists. These tourists are
ignorant of the morning cull that takes place every day for 139
days from July to November. German tourists also support the Seal
Curio shop, purchasing culled seal items, which are then brought
back to Germany illegally. Ignorant too, are most Germans that
Germany has banned the import of Cape fur seal products.
5. What countries have banned the import of Cape fur seal products
so far?
Answer: Cape fur seal products are banned from import in the USA
since 1971, in Mexico, Croatia, Belgium, Italy, South Africa and
most recently in Germany and Netherlands. In violation of US law,
Namibian sealers in 2002 attempted to import 5000 seal skins into
the USA which was seized. US NOAA special agent has requested help
in tracking Namibia's illegal skin exports. South Africa on two
occasions in 2003 criminally convicted importers with skins
exported form Namibian sealers
6. Why have imports of Cape seal products been banned relatively
late in comparison with other skins of other seal species?
Answer: When the European Commission’s predecessor banned imports
of baby seal products in 1983, the European legislators knew
nothing about the 90 per cent nursing baby seal cull (85.000) in
Namibia. Consequently, Cape fur seals were excluded. This is
somewhat strange, as harp and hooded seals have never been
endangered and are five times large in population size, whereas
Cape fur seals are endangered, and have been UN/CITES listed since
1977. Seeing this market gap, Namibian sealers have since exported
almost all their baby seal products to Europe. Namibia is the only
country in the world to club baby seals. Even northern hemisphere
countries wrote into their sealing regulations a ban on harvesting
baby seals since 1987.
7. The Namibian Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources Dr.
Abraham Iyambo claims that he is mandated to harvest seal under the
Constitution of the Republic of Namibia. Is this correct?
Answer: This is not true. Under Namibian Constitution the Ministry
is mandated to utilize the seal resource on a sustainable
consumptive or non-consumptive basis. Dr. Iyambo cannot replace the
word “utilize” with “harvest”, and as an option not apply a
non-consumptive policy. South Africa has a non-consumptive seal
management policy. Namibian seal cull is in unlawful violation of
the South Africa and Namibian constitution with regard to
sustainability.
8. Declining biological data suggests there is a general need to
decreased effort on all established commercial fisheries. Why does
seal harvesting nevertheless continue?
Answer: In his February 2006 Annual Address to the Namibian Fishing
Industry Dr. Abraham Iyambo is actually on record of demanding a
moratorium on new rights for at least next 5 years and a “total of
33 rights of exploitation due to expire end 2007/early 2008, (of
these) 2 sealing rights”. In view of the fact that three sealing
companies had sealing rights in 2006, the Minister is duty bound to
allow two of those Seal Rights to expire in 2007, effectively
ending Namibia's 3 man sealing industry.
9. How important is sealing for the Namibian industry?
Sealing generates less than 120 part-time jobs and earns less than
USD $100 000. It accounts for 0,01% of Namibia fishery
exports.
10. How important is the Namibian fishing industry in the seal
culling issue?
Answer: At present 98 per cent of the fish harvested along the
Namibian coast is exported and only 2 per cent consumed locally.
Fish exports represent about 3 – 5 percent of GDP. Although South
Africa stopped its seal cull policy when Namibian became
independent, its publicly listed fishing companies remained
invested in Namibia’s fisheries and its main importers. Since
independence, Namibia has doubled its fishery landings, catch and
capacity from 300.0000 tons to 600.000 tons. Ultimately South
African fishing companies are behind Namibia´s seal cull policy,
which is in violation of the South African Constitution of the
non-consumptive use of endangered seals.
11. How valid is the Namibian government’s argument that the seals
are consuming 900.000 tonnes of fish a year, more than a third of
the fishing industry catch?
Scientific research states that a quantitive comparison cannot be
made. Moreover the vast majority of Namibia's fishery is pelagic,
which is turned into fishmeal to supply the livestock and petfood
industries. Ultimately the cow and domestic cat is the greatest
predator of marine fish. Do we then cull cows and
cats?
* . * . *
LETTER BY ACTION AGAINST POISONING:
The
Hague, 20 July 2007
Rt.
Hon. Nahas Angula
Prime
Minister of Namibia
Dear Mister Nahas
Angula,
Action Against
Poisoning fights animal poisoning in particular and supports animal
protection efforts in general. As we fully agree with the goals,
rescue methods and actions of Seal Alert S.A. we have a long
standing cooperation with Mr. Francois Hugo. We share his concerns
on the sorry plight of a dwindling Cape Fur Seal population. We
are deeply concerned about the Cape Fur Seal culling in
your country.
It is clear to us
that especially the killing of suckling baby seals is against any
human morality. The deliberate cruelty reflects a total disdain for
animal protection laws and disregard of the value of animal life
and probably any life for that matter.
This violation of
human morality can never be justified by financial gain or labour
policies.
We
are convinced that cruelty towards animals breeds the same attitude
towards people. It makes killing easy. So if we want to stop wars,
we certainly want to stop a callous animal massacre that breeds the
mentality to start wars.
For these reasons we
beg you to stop the current culling of seals. And we hope that your
meeting with Francois Hugo will be
fruitful.
With kind
regards,
Drs P.M.
Donker
Action Against
Poisoning
The Hague, The
Netherlands
* . * . *
From: NIKKI
BOTHA
Subject: Meeting with the Prime
Minister of Namibia to Discuss Sealing
Date: July 19, 2007 7:31:01 PM
In an historic move,
the Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula (Prime Minister of
Namibia), has graciously agreed to meet with Seal Alert South
Africa to
discuss the issue of sealing, on Monday the 23rd of July. The
meeting will
be held at the office of the Prime Minister in Namibia.
I hereby invite you and your organisation to write a letter to the
Rt.
Hon.Nahas Angula if you so wish. All the letters will be presented
in
person to the Prime Minister at the meeting. The letter should be
on an
official letterhead and be attached to an email to me. Here is the
snag: I
will need all letters by the end of business day on Friday the 20th
of
July.
I look forward to hearing from you, keep the passion,
Nikki Botha
Seal Alert South Africa - Spokesperson
* . * . *
From: SEALALERT SA
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EARLIER INFO
Date:
July 17, 2007 11:20:16 AM
Breaking News - Prime Minister of Namibia Agrees to Meet With Seal
Alert-SA
Seal Alert-SA, Press
Release July 17, 2007.
Prime Minister of
Namibia Agrees to Meet With Seal Alert-SA
Right
Honourable Prime Minister Nahas Angula and Francois Hugo of Seal
Alert-SA
Please see below email correspondence. The Prime Minister of
Namibia has agreed to meet Seal Alert-SA to discuss the Seal
Culling in Namibia.
This is an historic
development for all parties concerned. I ask that all send the
Namibian Government and the Prime Minister a thank you letter. I
will do my best to convince the Prime Minister why the Seal Cull
must be halted immediately, and to endeavour to assist Namibia with
its environmental fishery problems, to which the seals are a key
aspect.
It therefore important for us
all to come together and support this initiative, and achieve a
win-win for all, humans, fish and seals.
Seal Alert-SA has requested an
official invitation, and as soon as it arrives, we will be
off.
On behalf of the seals, Seal
Alert-SA deeply thanks you all for this tremendous support. Holding
Thumbs !
Seal Alert-SA wrote :
Rt. Hon. Nahas Ngula, we can come up to Namibia any which time is
convenient for you. The sooner the better as this is reaching
critical proportions. Could you please therefore send us an
official letter that we are meeting with yourself (the Honourable
Prime Minister of Namibia) and that we will be discussing seal
culling issues.
Warm regards,
Nikki
Seal Alert South Africa - Spokesperson
Yes, any time!
----- Original Message -----
From:
nikkibotha@mailbox.co.za
To: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Seals vs. Iraq
Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula, would you consider meeting with us?
For the Seals
Francos Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27 (0) 21 790 8774
* . * . *
Date: July 17, 2007 12:59:17 AM
GMT+01:00
Com'on Namibian Prime Minister
To Stop Talking To Seal Supporters ,Deal Directly with Seal
Alert-SA, and the Issues at Hand
Com'on Namibian
Prime Minister To Stop Talking To Seal Supporters
,
Deal
Directly with Seal Alert-SA, and the Issues at
Hand
Right
Honourable Nahas Angula and Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA and
suckling Cape fur seal pup
Let's
Talk Seal Issues !
International Fund
for Animal Welfare (IFAW) understood this when its director replied
to Voice of The Cape Radio, "Not to pass the buck but the NGO that
is actively involved in seal conservation in southern Africa is
Seal Alert SA - I have copied Francois Hugo in on this email in
this regard.
Since the Namibian
Cabinet Media Briefing on June 27, 2007 - announcing the sealing
culling quota for 2007 of 80 000 pups. Which started on July
1.
Seal Alert-SA's
Francois Hugo, the organization behind the Namibian Anti-Seal Hunt
campaign since 2006, has repeatedly requested a face-to-face
meeting or correspondence >from the Namibian Ministry. To date
to no avail, not even the decency of an acknowledgement or reply
from anyone with the Namibian government. All phone calls and faxed
messages remained ignored.
It is somewhat
strange, when government run newspaper New Era, on July 5,
publishes an article "Govt Pans Seal Rights Body" stating,
"Government has slammed animal rights body Seal Alert-South Africa.
In a strongly worded statement, the Ministry of Fisheries and
Marine Resources on Wednesday accused Seal Alert-South Africa of
rumour-mongering and falsifying information about Namibia's seal
harvest".
Although Rodrick
Mukumbira of Associated Press interview with Francois Hugo of Seal
Alert-SA article was published unprecedented around the world
on July 6, even appearing on AOL, FOXNews and CNN, with
the seal clubbing photograph supplied by Seal Alert-SA earning
the Yahoo title as the "Most Recommended Photograph in the
World".
The Namibian Ministry
would still not open communication.
It is even stranger,
when Seal Alert-SA learnt that the Prime Minister of Namibia is
engaged with repeated email correspondence with Seal Supporters of
Seal Alert-SA from around the world, but still continues to ignore
communication with the organization itself.
Seal Alert-SA lists some
of these comments from the Right Honourable Prime Minister Nanhas
Angula of Namibia.
"You mean the seals are
more important than the life of people of Iraq! You must be
mad!seals are harvested on sustainable basis just like you do
with
chickens or similar living beings! Stop the slaughter of the people
of Iraq!" (German Seal supporter)
"I am equally appaled by your
country's lack of compassion with the people of Iraq.Your
troops are part to the slaughter of Iraqi people! (Australian
Seal supporter)
"That is fatalism! Send
the same masage to President Bush or Mr Howard. The Namibian seal
are pretected by the Namibian Constitution which reads:" maintenace
of ecosystems essential ecological processes and biological
diversity7 of Namibia and utililasation of living resources on
sustainagle basisfor the benefit of all Namibians, both present and
future..." Thank you for the
understanding."
"I hope you direct those great
thoughts to Preside4nt Bush! The slaughter of Iraqi people is more
horrific than the harvesting of seals!"
"Namibia is peace loving country.
There is no war here! Yes, we do have fishing and other marine
resource industry which are managed on sustainable
basis.!"
Seal Alert-SA Seal Supporters
are questioning whether these replies are indeed coming from the
Prime Minister. The email says, ----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na.
With one supporter stating, "Below
is the reply I just received from Nahus Angula. Its so
unprofessional, I doubt very much it is the PM of Namibia". Another
wrote WTF????
For some strange reason, the Prime
Minister of Namibia is fixated on the slaughter of the People of
Iraqi and the actions of President Bush and Prime Minister Howard,
that he is venturing to vent his frustration to supporters of
Seal Alert-SA Anti-Seal Hunt Campaign to end the Namibian Seal
Slaughter of baby seals in Namibia. Ignoring his cabinet
decision on June 27, to slaughter 80 000 endangered baby seals
suckling on mothers milk (non fish eaters) each year for the next
three years.
Or, is the Prime Minister engaged in some
kind of reverse psychology with Seal Alert-SA's
supporters?
Is he suggesting that nothing short of a
war (like Iraq) will stop the Namibian government
from slaughtering endangered baby seals or that the war
over resources was started with Bush, and that until we stop that,
we will never stop Namibia's baby seal cull of seals to save
fish?
If the Prime Minister can prove how
increasing a seal pup quota from 65 000 (2005) to 85 000 (2006),
whilst a major mass die-off was taking place, and which thereafter
during the next 2006/2007 pup breeding season, a further 62 per
cent of the pups will die from natural causes, excluding any
further mass die-off from starvation. That the stated pup
population of 205 500 pups (2005) born in December, less the 62 per
cent that will die before seal culling season starts on July 1,
leaving at best 78 050 pups alive in the whole of Namibia, that 80
000 pups can be sustainable harvested every year for the next three
years?
I will stop the campaign and boycotts of
Namibia.
Namibia is setting a dangerous global precedent.
Today it is culling fish eating seals to save fish. When the
seals are all gone, Tomorrow will it be calls to cull poor fish
consuming humans so that rich humans can purchase more fish. Will
rich countries then cull poor countries.
Seals have been around for over five millions
year, prior to exploitation, disturbance by man and his thoughts of
sustainable harvests. If they did not need it then, to be culled to
'balance and save fish' why now when endangered and most of their
former habit is extinct?
Is Namibia saying, the universal right of a
living creature to suckle milk from a mother is a crime?
What is truly sad, sick even, Namibia has
doubled fishery catch and exports 98 per cent, only 2 per cent
is consumed locally. The cow and domestic cat are the largest
predator of marine fish, as seals have no option but to eat fish,
should they not rather cull cows and cats to save fish or just go
vegan?
The longer Namibia takes to end its Seal
Cull - The Larger the support for Seal Alert-SA grows and the
louder and more damage.
End it now Namibia. It is just not worth it for
the sake of three seal rights holders and the part-time work for
120 unemployed, poor and destitute workers.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27 (0) 21 790 8774
www.boycottnamibia.co.za
www.seashepherd.org
www.sealalertsa.net
* . * . *
Date:
July 13, 2007 11:48:39 PM
Personal Communication from Francois Hugo :Prime Minister of
Namibia Replies Directly to Seal Alert-SA's Anti-Seal Cull
Campaign
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Sealalert
To:
nangula@opm.gov.na
Cc:
aiyambo@mfmr.gov.na
;
knguvauva@mfmr.gov.na
;
nmbako@mfmr.gov.na
;
secretary@namibia.org.za
;
hpohamba@op.gov.na
;
wkonjore@met.gov.na
;
mlindeque@met.gov.na
;
amieze@met.gov.na
;
b.beytell@mweb.com.na
;
u.boois@met.gov.na
;
namugongo@africaonline.com.na
;
wamagulu@met.gov.na
;
info@namibiatourism.com.na
;
namibia@saol.com
;
lmupetami@mweb.com.na
;
ambanga@mfmr.gov.na
;
namibia-highcomm@btconnect.com
;
germany@iway.na
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 12:31 AM
Subject: Personal Communication from Francois Hugo :Prime Minister
of Namibia Replies Directly to Seal Alert-SA's Anti-Seal Cull
Campaign
Seal Alert-SA, Press Release July 14, 2007
Prime Minister of
Namibia Replies Directly to Seal Alert-SA's Anti-Seal Cull
Campaign
Right
Honourable Prime Minister of Namibia Nahas Angula
On July 13, 2007 -
thirteen days into the 80 000 endangered baby nursing seal
slaughter in Namibia, where an estimated 8000 baby seals have been
already clubbed to death. Seal Alert-SA supporter in Germany
receives two email replies directly from the Prime Minister of
Namibia, Right Honourable Nahas Angula regarding her email,
"Namibia's Shame - Massacre Of Nursing Seal Pups and Bulls".
15:01 on July 12,
2007 - Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula, "As I write this the people of
Baghdad are being slaughtered for no good reason! Save the Iraqi
people!
07:38 on July 13,
2007 - Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula, "You mean the seals are more
important than the life of the people of Iraq! You must be mad!
seals are harvested on sustainable basis just like you do with
chickens or similar living beings! Stop the slaughter of the people
of Iraq!
Upon being
forwarded this email, Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA is somewhat
speechless and confused in how to reply?
Firstly I would
suggest the Prime Minister of Namibia rather use his diplomatic
channels and convey his country's thoughts, and his own, directly
to United States of America, President George Bush and former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Appealing to them directly to
end their "War on Terror" and to Save the Iraqi people. Perhaps he
would like Seal Alert-SA to do so on his and the Namibian
governments behalf, I am not sure exactly what he means?.
If he could supply Seal
Alert-SA with the President's White House red direct telephone
number and that for Tony Blair's at 10 Downing Street - I will most
certainly do so or would he like me to start a campaign?
Like Seal Alert-SA
and its worldwide supporters are doing appealing to the Namibian
President, Prime Minister and its Ministers to stop the innocent
slaughter of 80 000 endangered nursing baby seals who do not
consume fish, I could appeal to Bush and Blair on Namibia's behalf
to end the slaughter of the Iraqi people.
If I do this, could you
as Prime Minister of Namibia at least consider to do Seal Alert-SA
and its supporters the justice of announcing an immediate Halt! to
the slaughter of the 80 000 baby seals in Namibia who do not
consume fish.
For I can assure you,
Right Honourable Prime Minister the slaughter of every baby Cape
fur Seal born in Namibia in 2007 is NOT sustainable.
I await your
Presidential reply and close co-operation between our two civilised
organizations. My direct telephone number is 27 (0) 21 790
8774.
You may wish to see for
yourself the innocent slaughter of these seals,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOzp_uh-3ls
or
consider starting a boycott website,
http://www.boycottnamibia.co.za/index.php just
like we have done.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na
An:
emailaddress known by Sealalert-SA
Datum: 12.07.2007 15:01
Betreff: Re: Namibia's Shame - Massacre Of Nursing Seal Pups &
Bulls
As I write this the people of Bagdad areb being slaughtered for no
good
reason! Save the Iraqi people!
----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: "Rt. Hon. Nahas Angula"
nangula@opm.gov.na
An:
email address known by Sealalert-SA
Datum: 13.07.2007 07:38
Betreff: Re: Re: Namibia's Shame - Massacre Of Nursing Seal Pups
& Bulls
You mean the seals are more important than the life of people of
Iraq! You
must be mad! seals are harvested on sustainable basis just like you
do with
chickens or similar living beings! Stop the slaughter of the people
of Iraq!