Word: toivo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finish letter now, cause I can't think of no more to write. But I still am-- Toivo From Hibbing...
...sturdy, balding man, Toivo is considered to be the founding father of SWAPO, the strongest and most important liberation movement in the South African-occupied Toivo ja Toivo territory of Namibia once known as South West Africa. Its goal...
...expel South Africa from the territory and achieve independence. Religious groups and political leaders have long sought the release of Toivo, whose name has become synonymous with their struggle. "Toivo," says Kenneth Abrahams of the Namibian Independence Party, "exists as a legendary figure in the minds of most Namibians...
...release-four years early-stunned SWAPO officials and diplomats in London and the United Nations. Toivo made it clear that he felt he had been freed as a blatant propaganda ploy by South Africa, which has been trying to prove to U.S. diplomats that it is making good-faith efforts to negotiate with the guerrillas. Whatever the motives, Toivo's release is the latest in a series of fast-moving events that promises to alter radically the diplomatic, political and military situation in Southern Africa, long troubled by the hostile relationships between white-ruled South Africa and its black...
Political analysts have felt that Toivo's release would take place as part of an international package that would lead to Namibian independence. Yet they have also speculated that South Africa might let Toivo out of prison as a means of causing a split in SWAPO leadership. If that is the case, the South African government could not have chosen a better time to weaken the guerrilla organization: negotiations for Namibia's independence could begin at any time...