The mailing says on January 1, the people of Namibia celebrated their first New Year in over a century as citizens of a free and sovereign nation; the lowering of the South African flag over Windhoek on March 21, 1990 was an historic victory for all of the peoples of southern Africa, a dramatic high point in a year of unparalleled political change around the world. The mailing says Namibia's transition from apartheid colony to constitutional democracy has enormous implications for South Africa, where the search for a negotiated end to white domination has finally begun; a peaceful, prosperous and non-racial Namibia, with its system of one-person, one-vote, majority rule, would be a powerful...
The mailing says on January 1, the people of Namibia celebrated their first New Year in over a century as citizens of a free and sovereign nation; the lowering of the South African flag over Windhoek on March 21, 1990 was an historic victory for all of the peoples of southern Africa, a dramatic high point in a year of unparalleled political change around the world. The mailing says Namibia's transition from apartheid colony to constitutional democracy has enormous implications for South Africa, where the search for a negotiated end to white domination has finally begun; a peaceful, prosperous and non-racial Namibia, with its system of one-person, one-vote, majority rule, would be a powerful model for change in South Africa. The mailing say the first months of Namibian independence are the subject of the new edition of the ecumenical newsletter Dateline: Namibia. The mailing says the task ahead is to redouble our efforts to support the South African people, together with their brothers and sisters in Namibia, Angola, and the other Frontline States, in the final struggle against the last bastion of white supremacy in Africa apartheid South Africa itself. The mailing discusses the liberation movement SWAPO, the church, the international community, the solidarity movement, social transformation in Namibia and South Africa, South African colonialism, censorship, and the media.
