| | Namibia has gained its independence in a very interesting and volatile time for both the southern African region and the world as a whole. Unlike the Cold War confrontational climate that greeted Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the 1990s have seen significant political change in Eastern Europe and the beginnings of a significant political movement within South Africa leading, one may hope, to better prospects for peace and prosperity in southern Africa as a whole and Namibia in particular. In the current climate of economic austerity and communist collapse, the SWAPO government setting the course for Namibia's future will certainly seek to run wide of the mark set in its Political Programme adopted in 1976, that of a classless society based on the principles of scientific socialism under the banner of international anti-imperialist unity. |
