Unity in Action
Los Angeles, California, United States
September 1985
2 pages
Newspaper article by Betty Pleasant reprinted as a leaflet by Unity in Action. While the world has focused attention at eliminating apartheid in South Africa, it appears to have forgotten about Namibia, the southern Africa colony of the racist South African regime that has been waging a war for independence from the same apartheid practitioners for almost 20 years. Formerly known as South West Africa, Namibia was originally a German colony which had been mandated to South African administration by the League of Nations after Germany lost the first World War. In 1966 the UN General Assembly terminated the South African mandate and, in 1967, established a council to administer the area until...
Newspaper article by Betty Pleasant reprinted as a leaflet by Unity in Action. While the world has focused attention at eliminating apartheid in South Africa, it appears to have forgotten about Namibia, the southern Africa colony of the racist South African regime that has been waging a war for independence from the same apartheid practitioners for almost 20 years. Formerly known as South West Africa, Namibia was originally a German colony which had been mandated to South African administration by the League of Nations after Germany lost the first World War. In 1966 the UN General Assembly terminated the South African mandate and, in 1967, established a council to administer the area until independence. The UN proclaimed that the area be renamed Namibia in 1968. In January 1976, the UN Security Council voted to invoke mandatory sanctions against South Africa if it failed to accept a UN-supervised election leading to independence. In asmuch as the South African proposal did not mention a specific date for elections, both the UN and the powerful guerrilla group, the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) rejected the plan and meaningless talks – interspersed with warfare and a few cosmetic changes – between SWAPO and the South African rulers have been going on ever since.
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Used by permission of Ron Wilkins, former member of Unity in Action.
