Hate-speech suspect repeats bomb threat

HATE-SPEECH accused Malcolm X Matundu thinks white people in Namibia must be killed as part of a revolution that should result in the true emancipation of the country’s black population, Matundu declared after his latest court appearance on a charge of racial discrimination on Friday.

The killing of white people is not only part of the tactics through which a revolution aimed at freeing black people from continued white domination should be attained in Namibia, Matundu told journalists after making a seventh appearance in court on a charge of contravening a section of the Prohibition of Racial Discrimination Act. He personally is also supposed to receive explosives training in Afghanistan that would then be utilised for bombings directed against white people in Namibia, Matundu announced.Repeating outlandish claims that he had made after a previous appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court, Matundu complained on Friday that the repeated postponements of the case in which he and a co-accused, Gerson Ndjavera, are charged, was jeopardising his further education in the finer points of bomb-making.He claimed that he had been granted a scholarship “to go and study explosives engineering in Afghanistan”, but that this planned period of study was left in limbo as a result of the pending court case against him.The purpose of his intended period of study in Afghanistan, he said, would be to return to Namibia “and apply my skills”.When he returns, he said, it cannot be with the intention to bomb “stones and trees”; he will have to bomb people, and those people would have to be white people, he declared.He said he knew Namibia’s Constitution prohibited the sort of alleged hate speech that led to him being charged in the first place, but he also considered himself to be “a black revolutionary” and the Constitution to be the product of constitutional principles that were “drafted by white supremacist America” with a view to protecting white people and their interests.Matundu and Ndjavera remain free on bail of N$500 each.He personally is also supposed to receive explosives training in Afghanistan that would then be utilised for bombings directed against white people in Namibia, Matundu announced.Repeating outlandish claims that he had made after a previous appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court, Matundu complained on Friday that the repeated postponements of the case in which he and a co-accused, Gerson Ndjavera, are charged, was jeopardising his further education in the finer points of bomb-making.He claimed that he had been granted a scholarship “to go and study explosives engineering in Afghanistan”, but that this planned period of study was left in limbo as a result of the pending court case against him.The purpose of his intended period of study in Afghanistan, he said, would be to return to Namibia “and apply my skills”.When he returns, he said, it cannot be with the intention to bomb “stones and trees”; he will have to bomb people, and those people would have to be white people, he declared.He said he knew Namibia’s Constitution prohibited the sort of alleged hate speech that led to him being charged in the first place, but he also considered himself to be “a black revolutionary” and the Constitution to be the product of constitutional principles that were “drafted by white supremacist America” with a view to protecting white people and their interests.Matundu and Ndjavera remain free on bail of N$500 each.