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...under a multiracial government. Vorster still refused to deal directly with the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's main liberation (and guerrilla) movement. But he hinted that SWAPO could be invited to the round-table conference-now under way at Windhoek, the Namibian capital -by conference delegates. He also indicated that South Africa might be willing to move Namibia's independence date forward to Dec. 31,1977. In return, Vorster would insist that a SWAPO-dominated government guarantee the safety and rights of Namibia's white minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Kissinger Starts a Final Crusade | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...Namibia, the onetime League of Nations-mandated territory that South Africa has ruled since 1920 (TIME, Aug. 30). Last January the U.N. ordered South Africa to prepare an independence timetable for Namibia by Aug. 31, 1976, or face U.N. economic sanctions. Accordingly, South Africa assembled a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, and last month the conference agreed on a multiracial interim government to prepare for independence on Dec. 31, 1978. Kissinger rightly called the decision "a major breakthrough" because "the principle of independence has now been accepted." Black African states were still not satisfied, however, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Kissinger's Mission to Zurich | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...headquarters in Zambia, from which his organization wages a guerrilla war in northern Namibia, SWAPO President Sam Nujoma announced that he might be willing to talk. The non-whites at the Windhoek conference now hope to install an interim government by next June 30 and will invite SWAPO to take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Kissinger's Mission to Zurich | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...coastline notorious for shipwrecks. As of last week, only 14 boats, carrying about 300 refugees, had struggled to safety in Walvis Bay. The South African government has set up army tent towns as reception centers for the refugees. As quickly as possible the exiles are shunted on to Windhoek or Walvis Bay for air and sea passage back to Portugal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: From Exodus to Rout | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...Delicious. In a few arid countries like Israel and South West Africa, the people gladly drink reclaimed sewage water. When Prime Minister John Vorster of the Republic of South Africa sampled a glassful at Windhoek's treatment plant last year, he pronounced it "delicious." Americans are not yet so adaptable. President Nixon, offered a similar opportunity at the Hanover Park plant in Illinois, grimaced and said "No, thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sewage Tastes Good Like Water Should | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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