NAMIBIA One Hundred Years of Struggle and Hope

Contents: Introduction • Race is the Deciding Factor of Life • A Brief Chronology of Colonialism • The Farm Industry • The Fishing Industry • Mining • Namibian Labor • Liberation and the Churches • The International Stalemate • The Internal Solution • What Can We Do • Bibliography • AFSC in Southern Africa. The pamphlet includes quotes from Rev. Zephariah Kameeta, Deputy Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church; Ben Uulenga, General Secretary, Mineworkers Union of Namibia; Andinba (Herman) Toivo ja Toivo; and Reverend Paul Wee, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Ministries. The pamphlet discusses the Odendaal Plan, "homelands," German South West Africa, World War I, World War II, Walvis Bay, Herero, an Order of Extermination, the League of Nations, revolts by the Nama and Rehobother people, Chief Hosea Kutako, Windhoek, Katutura, Namibian Women's Day, South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the International Court of Justice, South Africa's mandate, the Council for Namibia, the Terrorism Act, Robben Island, the UN Security Council, State of Emergency, the General Assembly, UNITA, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Resolution 435, the Five Western Powers (Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, West Germany), the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group (UNTAG), a Constitutional Assembly, Kassinga, refugees, President Ronald Reagan, Cuban troops in Angola, the Multi-Party Conference, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), Theo-Ben Gurirab, the Frontline States, karakul sheep pelts, Hudson Bay Company, Swakara, Ovambo migrant laborers, canned sardines, fish meal, fish oil, rock lobster, Decree #1, Del Monte, Spruce sardines, Purina cat food, base metal ores, copper, lead zinc, uranium, diamonds, Consolidated Diamond Mines (CDM), Tsumeb, Rossing, De Beers Corporation, Anglo-American Corporation, Newmont Mining Corporation, Gold Fields of South Africa, Rio-Tinto Zinc, South Africa's 1977 nuclear test site in the Kalahari desert, the mysterious nuclear blast in the South Atlantic in 1979, the Sasol II coal gasification plant, black labor, the Poverty Data Line, AMAX, Swakopmund, Ray Alexander, the Food and Canning Workers Union, Luderitz Bay, the Ovamboland People's Organization, the South West Africa National Union (SWANU), the Windhoek Massacre, Namibian Women's Day, the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (NAFAU), the Namibian Council of Churches (NCC), the Nationalist Party, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Sam Nujoma, Reverend Michael Scott, Bishop Mize, Bishop Winter, Bishop Wood, Vicar General Ed Morrow, James Kauluma, torture, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church, the Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN), the National Students' Organization (NANSO), Bishop Dumeni, Pastor Abisai Shejavali, Foreign Minister Roelof Botha, the Clark Amendment, President George Bush, sanctions, the South West Africa Territorial Force (SWATF), AKTUR, the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), the Namibian National Front (NNF), the Ovambo Peoples Party, the National Assembly, the Council of Ministers, and Peter Kalangula. [Note: Toivo's name is often spelled Toivo ya Toivo.]