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Botha also announced a slight change of policy on the issue of South-West Africa. South Africa has administered the area under a League of Nations mandate since 1920, but the U.N. revoked the mandate in 1966, renamed the area Namibia, and is training nationals in exile for eventual independence. Until last week Vorster had maintained that self-determination for the region would take another ten years. Now Botha concedes that "this stage may be reached considerably sooner...
...Although South Africa is a member of the U.N., it does not recognize U.N., authority as the successor to the League of Nations. In defiance of the U.N., South Africa passed two laws extending formal 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...
Until last year, the only way to leave the reserve was through a contract with the South-West African Labor Association (SWANLA). SWANLA classified each man according to physical fitness for a) mines and industries, b) agriculture and c) livestock breeding. Men were then shipped, on order, to workers' compounds hundreds of miles from the reserves where their families were forced to remain...
...student ACSR--the elected group of undergraduates which picked the two undergraduate delegates to the full ACSR--recommended Wednesday that the Corporation must either vote for shareholder resolutions to have the Phillips Petroleum and Continental Oil Companies withdraw completely from Namibia, the the south-west African territory South Africa rules in defiance of the World Court, or else "tacitly condone illegal and immoral corporate activity...
Recruitment by Harvard students has been very informal up to this point, Howe said. "Students have helped us in Wisconsin, and a group of Chicano students are being paid for recruiting Spanish-surname students in the South-west and California, but we never had a formal program...