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...defense of his activities in Namibia when he stood in a South African courtroom 17 years ago. Last week, after 16 years in prison, Toivo was released. Two hundred supporters of his organization, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), lined the streets in a town near Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to give him a joyous homecoming. As he descended from the back of a pickup truck flying blue-red-and-green flags, any notion that he had mellowed in Cape Town's Robben Island prison was soon dispelled. Toivo raised a clenched fist...
...agreed to a cease-fire and the disengagement of South African forces in Angola, to be monitored by a joint Angolan-South African commission. The U.S., which has played a key role in bringing the antagonists together, last week sent a team of diplomats to the Namibian capital of Windhoek to observe the progress. The improving climate prompted Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda to suggest that South Africa might one day even be welcome to join the Organization of African Unity...
South Africa's response to Mudge's departure was a bland assurance that direct rule from Pretoria would be imposed only temporarily. But no mention was made of new elections to fill the vacant seats in the assembly at Windhoek, Namibia's capital. That omission was greeted cynically by Western diplomats. Said a European representative at the U.N.: "The game Pretoria is playing is obvious. It wants to procrastinate as much as possible...
...introspective personal account, Ms. Schwartz neglected to include any mention of the human lives lost every day that the "moderate" Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) remains in power, in direct violation of international law. Ms. Schwartz, 9500 safe miles from Windhoek, can only lament the "death of dreams," but the people of Namibia are living in a situation that can only be described as an all too real, all too hellish nightmare. According to a briefing paper put out by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. "The infant mortality rate for Whites...
KAPUUO WAS ASSASSINATED in March of 1978, about a month before the inauguration. He was shot outside the front door of a store he kept outside the capital city of Windhoek, and questions of national representation becme moot as crowds of his tribesmen and others marched and lamented and staged a massive ritual funeral. Rioting broke out at the funeral and seven Ovambo tribesmen were killed, the climax of weeks of Herero-Ovambo strife. SWAPO leaders denied any involvement, just as they had three years before when Ovambo chief Philemon Elifas was shot to death in a similar incident...