Contents: Introduction • Namibia's Transition to Independence • South Africa: The Failure of State Policy • Repression • Internal Resistance • International Pressure • Financial Statements for 1988 and 1989 • Grants and Contributions • Acknowledgements • Members of the Commission on Independence for Namibia • Administration and Oversight • Members of the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees • 1988-1989 annual report of the Southern Africa Project. The reports discusses F.W. de Klerk, the African National Congress (ANC), political prisoners, Walter Sisulu, the National Security Management System, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist...
Contents: Introduction • Namibia's Transition to Independence • South Africa: The Failure of State Policy • Repression • Internal Resistance • International Pressure • Financial Statements for 1988 and 1989 • Grants and Contributions • Acknowledgements • Members of the Commission on Independence for Namibia • Administration and Oversight • Members of the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees • 1988-1989 annual report of the Southern Africa Project. The reports discusses F.W. de Klerk, the African National Congress (ANC), political prisoners, Walter Sisulu, the National Security Management System, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), Nelson Mandela, the Harare Declaration, death squad activity, sanctions, the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group (UNTAG), the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), peacekeepers, United Nations Resolution 435, the United Nations Special Representative for Namibia Martti Ahtisaari, Administrator-General Louis Pienaar, United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Senator Paul Simon, Representative Charles Rangel, Yale law professor Burke Marshall, the Human Rights Centre, Ongwediva, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), ceasefire agreements, Security Council Resolution 640, Proclamation AG 8 of 1980, Dr. Nestor Shivute, Oshakati State Hospital, "homelands", the Prohibition and Notification of Meetings Act, the Public Gathering Act, UNHCR, Koevoet, the South West Africa Territory Force (SWATF), 101 Battalion in Ovamboland, the 202 Battalion in Kavangoland, the South West Africa Police (SWAPOL), the Democratic Tumhalle Alliance (DTA), Anton Lubowski, Sam Nujoma, death threats, David Smuts, the Legal Assistance Centre, Gwen Lister, Walvis Bay, the South West Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SWABC), voter education, the Chief Election Officer, the FBI, the International Court of Justice's 1971 Advisory Opinion that South Africa's occupation of Namibia was illegal, George McGovern, Katutura township, ballot boxes, Elliot Richardson, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Lindi Kazombaue, Elizabeth Landis, John Douglas, Anthony Lake, Robert Kapp, Thomas Winship, Nathaniel Jones, Goler Butcher, Henry Richardson, Donald McHenry, Joseph Legwaila, Howard Wolpe, racial discrimination, the death penalty, apartheid, colonial occupation, President Bush, Congress, the State of Emergency, the Internal Security Act, P.W. Botha, Black Sash, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the Detainees' Parents Support Committee(DPSC), the Release Mandela Campaign, Archibald Gumede, the Commission of Police, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok, detention, Political prisoners, Michael Moeng, Abram Moeng, Chris Ntuli, detainees, Eric Gumede, the South African Defence Force (SADF), Lt. Gregory Rockman, the Police and Prison Officers Civil Rights Union, Themba Richard Grootboom, Inkatha, KwaZuku, forced removals, the Black Administration Act, the Bwakena ba Mogopa tribe, vigilante violence, Gatsha Buthelezi, Pierre Cronje, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the South African Police (SAP), Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat, Albertina Sisulu, Soweto, David Webster, assassinations, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), Magnus Malan, Frank Chikane, the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM), Desmond Tutu, the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA), rent and consumer boycotts, Moses Mayekiso, the Alexandra Action Committee (AAC), the Conference for a Democratic Future, Jay Naidoo, armed struggle, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Poqo, Themba Khumalo, Thembinkosi Khahla, Nodzedze Runeli, the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), David Bruce, Charles Bester, Herman Cohen, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (CAAA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Reagan and Bush administrations, Ciskei, Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana, the Sharpeville Six, and the Upington 14. [ISSN 0887-8706]