Word: namibia
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...certainly looked like an authentic election campaign in an emerging African nation. Buses adorned with blue and white balloons labored up and down the main street of Windhoek, the sun-swept territorial capital, loudspeakers blaring "Vote! Vote! Vote!" Mobile polls were transported to practically every village in Namibia, the resource-rich, population-poor (about 1 million) stretch of desert known as South West Africa that South Africa's white regime has ruled as a protectorate since 1920. Yet the result, reports TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, was about as real as the mirages of the Kalahari sands that stretch...
...realize that the huge territory they have ruled under a long-expired League of Nations mandate is on the verge of becoming independent. But in the past two years South Africa has spent at least $1 billion on economic and military aid in an effort to ensure that Namibia's first independent government will be one that can be lived with comfortably. South Africa last week staged elections in Namibia?not under U.N. auspices, as Pretoria had previously promised, but on its own terms. (See pictures of South Africa...
...battle it could not lose, the D.T.A. fought remarkably hard. Using a network of 36 offices, 425 field workers, 21 armed guards, 132 vehicles and ten mobile TV units, the party staged some 500 rallies and spent an estimated $5.5 million, which is a lot of money, since Namibia has only 412,000 eligible voters. Under the D.T.A.'s white leader, a wealthy rancher named Dirk Mudge, 50, the party shrewdly maintained that it stood for independence from South Africa and an end to apartheid...
WINDHOEK, South Africa--Blacks in Namibia voted for the first time yesterday in elections supervised by the South African government but denounced by guerilla groups and the United Nations...
Following the film Wednesday night, Nichael Morgan, a deserter from the South African army will speak, and on Friday Sean Gervasi, an advisor to the African delegates to the United Nations (U.N.), and former Executive Director of the Namibia Committee of the U.N., will speak...