Word: namibia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standards. But the ruling white "tribe," the Afrikaners, has long been preoccupied with the problems of surviving at the tip of a hostile continent, and today it is more nervous than ever. The neighboring state of Rhodesia has become black-ruled Zimbabwe, and the South African-administered territory of Namibia (South West Africa) is in transition toward some form of black majority rule. Gerrit Viljoen, 53, who is both head of the Broederbond, the powerful and secretive society of ranking Afrikanerdom, and Pretoria's administrator general for Namibia, talked with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter about the effect...
...Namibia. For South Africa to maintain a presence in Namibia as long as we are tolerated is accepted here as being in our strategic, military and psychological interest. But I do not think South Africa would fight to remain in Namibia at all costs. If, through accepted democratic processes, Namibia should be put under a less friendly government, this would be against the interests of South Africa, but we would have to accept...
...Namibia's guerrilla movement, the South West African Peoples Organization...
...Nujoma has not got the intellectual equipment that Mugabe and his closer associates have. SWAPO and Nujoma, as far as one can judge, are more the clients of the Soviets than Mugabe ever was. I do not think a SWAPO victory would be in the best interests of Namibia. It would certainly create problems for South Africa. But I believe South Africa would still act wisely [and try to] work out a pragmatic policy of mutual coexistence with Namibia...
...flock are not entirely pleased about the Pope. Nairobi's Canon Kenneth Stovold has publicly complained that the Pope's attacks on birth control in Africa would spoil in tensive efforts to hold down the tremendous population increases on the continent. Colin Winter, the exiled bishop of Namibia (South West Africa) divides all Christians into the "church of the oppressor and the church of the oppressed." Says Winter sourly: "I don't think a Polish Pope can understand Africa. His attitudes are extremely reactionary. His hangup is Communism, Communism...