In 1990, in the face of African resistance within the country, international sanctions, and world hostility, the South African regime granted independence to
South-West Africa as Namibia (under President Sam Nujoma), and later it released Nelson Mandela from 27 years of prison, lifted the ban on the African National Congress (ANC), began the process which ended the white supremacist regime in South Africa and brought in the democratically-elected multiracial government in 1994.
Feldtmann, General Manager of the South West Africa Company, presented a piece of the meteorite to the British Museum on behalf of the Company 'after obtaining official permission from the Administrator of
South-West Africa and from the Department of Mines, the piece being sawn off under his personal supervision.':
* Contingency and counterinsurgency operations in
South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Angola.
The trailing bead plant or string-of-beads,Senecio row-leyanus (pictured),from
south-west Africa, is an unusual hanging plant,hard to find in garden centres but easy to propagate -I acquired mine as a cutting from an aunt.
A HERB grown in Namibia,
South-West Africa, has been shown to benefit back-pain sufferers.
The Okovango Delta is a vast expanse of wetlands in the heart of the Kalahari desert of
south-west Africa The Okovango River has its origins in the highlands of Angola from where it descends to the near-desert of northern Botswana where it fans out as the world's largest inland delta.
Hidayatullah, The
South-West Africa Case (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1967), pp.
Nujoma is President of the
South-west Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), which waged a 23-year bush war against Pretoria's rule of the territory and won a United Nations-supervised election last November.
For years, South Africa has sent young white men to die in its war against the
South-West Africa People's Organization, and there is no reason to believe that it now suddenly regards Swapo as an Acceptable choice to be Namibia's new government.
Case study chapters focus on specific episodes: German
South-West Africa, the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, and Rwanda and Burundi.
But it'll be no sweat for childcare student, Amy Oliver, who says she couldn't think of anything more exciting than heading out to the desert plains of
South-west Africa.