| | As we go to press, it seems likely that 1 April 1989 will be 'D-Day' for Namibia - the beginning of the nine month count down to elections and then Independence and a final end to SA rule. The agreement negotiated, after ten years of largely token effort, by the five western nations 'Contact Group' with the SA government and SWAPO provides for the setting up of a UN presence to supervise a ceasefire, the return of exiles and eventually, if all goes according to plan, elections in November. As this agreement is also complementary, in practice, to that signed at the end of 1988 to end SA intervention and Cuban presence in Angola, it can be assumed that there is an understanding behind the scenes between the superpowers. |
