Contents: Introduction • The Mandate • 1946-1966: Namibia and the United Nations • The Economy • The Labour Situation • A New Six-Year Effort • The Odendaal Commission • 1966 Court Decision: A Turning Point • 1966 and After: The Mandate Ends • Security Council Action • The Court Opinion of 1971 • A Namibian's View • The sections about early history discuss German colonization, South African occupation, and the League of Nations. Despite a ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa refused to recognize UN authority and kept South West Africa out of the UN Trusteeship System. The pamphlet mentions the League...
Contents: Introduction • The Mandate • 1946-1966: Namibia and the United Nations • The Economy • The Labour Situation • A New Six-Year Effort • The Odendaal Commission • 1966 Court Decision: A Turning Point • 1966 and After: The Mandate Ends • Security Council Action • The Court Opinion of 1971 • A Namibian's View • The sections about early history discuss German colonization, South African occupation, and the League of Nations. Despite a ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa refused to recognize UN authority and kept South West Africa out of the UN Trusteeship System. The pamphlet mentions the League Covenant, the Reserves, the Police Zone, Ovamboland, apartheid, a Legislative Assembly, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Trusteeship Council, the pass system, Proclamation No. 56, the Curfew Proclamation, Prime Minister D. F. Verwoerd, the Committee on South West Africa, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Consolidated Diamond Mines, the Tsumeb Corporation, American Metal Climax, Newmont Mines Corporation, the South West African Company, South West African Native Labour Association (SWANLA), the International Commission of Jurist, the Commission on Human Rights, South African Food and Canning Workers Union, Kavango, Katutura, Chief Hosea Kutako, Chief Samuel Witbooi, Sam Nujoma, the Ovamboland People's Organization, SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization), South African troops, the Master and Servants Proclamation, South West Africa National Union (SWANU), homelands, Sir de Villers Graaf, Prime Minister Vorster, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the UN Council for South West Africa, the Council for Namibia, Secretary-General U Thant, freedom fighters, the Caprivi Strip, the African National Congress (ANC), Gerson Veii, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, decolonization, the Terrorism Act, Richard H. Falk, Arthur Larson, the World Council of Churches (WCC), torture, the Geneva Conventions, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Chief Oshana Shiimi, the Special Committee of 24, the UN Fund for Namibia, Security Council resolution 276, General Assembly resolution 2145 (XXI), David Herero, Chief Kapuuo, NUDO (National Unity Democratic Organization), liberation movements, Dr. A. M. Escher, Sean MacBride, UN Commissioner for Namibia, armed struggle, Kurt Waldheim, and Toivo Hermann ja Toivo. [This pamphlet was listed on the Southern Africa Literature List of The Africa Fund.]
