Word: namibia
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...apartheid measures to Namibians. The Development of Self-Government for Native Nations in South-West Africa Act of 1968 divided the worst desert lands into tribal areas called Bantustans, which were to be kept under close South African control. Then, in 1969, the South-West African Affairs Act brought Namibia completely under South African administration by making it a fifth province...
...NAMIBIA lies directly to the northwest of South Africa on the Atlantic coast. Though the country is the size of France and Britain combined, the Kalahari and Namib deserts cover most of the land. Of a population estimated between 610,000 and 750,000, 88 per cent is black or coloured and the remaining 12 per cent, white...
...white sector in Namibia currently depends on Africans for cheap labor. Fifty-five to sixty per cent of the blacks are forced to live in the arid Bantustans of the northern frontier--which are too barren to support the population--while a tax on the Africans drives the men to work in the white "police zone." Black Africans are forbidden by law to fill skilled jobs...
...WHITE sector of Namibia has enjoyed a boon economy since World War II due to increasing numbers of foreign corporations investing in mineral extraction. Meanwhile, the South African government has given no consideration to reserving Namibia's resources...
Four U.S. corporations investing in Namibia are facing shareholder proxy resolutions this year. Two companies have maintained large operations in Namibia since 1946, and two are considering new investments...