Namibia: Placing Present Developments in Perspective
| Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 15 No. 42 Namibia: Placing Present Developments in Perspective |
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| Abstract of Briefing |
| Title: | Namibia: Placing Present Developments in Perspective |
| Author: | David de Beers |
| Location: | Vol.15 No.42 (Summer 1988), pp90-100 |
| This Briefing looks at Namibia from 1844 when it colonised by the Germans; invaded by SA in 1915; entrusted under a mandate by the League of Nations to SA in 1919 and continually subjected since then to systematic discrimination under SA's apartheid laws. From 1945 when the UN took over from the League to the eve of elections in Namibia, de Beers traces the evolution of SWAPO, the DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance), the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 435 (UNSCR 435), the role of the Cubans in Angola, UNITA and Jonas Savimbi and why SA continued to occupy Namibia; and why the Caprivi Strip bordering on Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola played such a strategic role in de-stabilisation of the front-line states. This Briefing also discusses Namibia's natural resources: diamonds, uranium, the Kudu gas fields and oil. |
See also... | |
 | Organisation: SWAPO Abbreviation of South West African People's Organisation. |
| Organisation: DTA Abbreviation of Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. |
| Organisation: UNITA Abbreviation of União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola/National Union for the Total Independence of Angola. |
| Organisation: UN Abbreviation of United Nations. |
| Terminology: UNSCR Abbreviation of United Nations Security Council Resolution. |
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