- Erikson , T. and Moorsom , R. 1989 . The Political Economy of Namibia: An Annotated Critical Bibliography, , 2nd ed. The best bibliography is (Oslo,.The most solid scholarly work in the pre-independence period was done on Namibia as an issue in international law. One of the most obvious examples of polemical history is SWAPO, To Be Born a Nation (London, 1979.Essentially ephemeral accounts include O.E. Kahn, ed., Disengagement from Southwest Africa (New Brunswick, 1991) and S.C. Saxena, Namibia and the World: The Story of the Birth of a Nation (Delhi, 1991). One of the best early accounts of decolonisation is to be found in the chapters in E. Leistner and P. Esterhuysen, Namibia 1990 (Pretoria, 1991)
- Though President Sam Nujoma declared the decolonisation process complete when Wahis Bay was reintegrated into South Africa at the end of February 1994
- Tamarkin , M. 1990 . The Making of Zimbabwe: Decolonization in Regional and International Politics 3 – 8 . London See, for example, esp
- Dreyer , R. 1987 . The Mind of Official Imperialism: British and Cape Government Perceptions of German Rule in Namibia from the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty to the Kruger Telegram (1890–1896) Essen
- 1988 . African Affairs , 83 ( 333 ) : 497 – 510 . In 1984 he published ‘Dispute over Wahis Bay-Origins and Implications for Namibian Independence’, (1984,.The book under review is a much expanded version of his Namibia and Angola: The Search for Independence and Regional Security (1966–1988) (Geneva, an occasional paper published by the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. An International Red Cross observer in Angola in 1976 when the South African forces withdrew from that country, Dreyer now works for the United Nations in Mozambique
- To Free Namibia: The Life of the First President of Namibia London Sam Nujoma's autobiography is to be published as forthcoming)
- Thompson , C. B. 1985 . Challenge to Imperialism: The Frontline States in the Liberation of Zimbabwe Harare See
- Heywood , A. 1994 . The Cassinga Event: An Investigation of the Records National Archives of Namibia .
- Crocker , C. 1992 . High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighbourhood 371 – 3 . New York For my review of this book, see South African Historical Journal, 28 (May 1993
- Saunders , C. 1994 . S.A. Fischer, Namibia Becomes Independent: The U.S. Contribution to Regional Peace (Zurich, 1992);See, for example, “The United States and Namibian Decolonisation’ (Paper presented to American Studies Association of Southern Africa conference, Durban, July;A. Biehl, ‘Chester Crocker and the Negotiations for Namibian Independence' (Honours thesis, Stanford University, 1989). McHenry and Crocker present very different views on the status of the negotiations in 1981 in Weiland and Braham, Namibian Peace Process, reviewed below
- Zartman , I. W. 1989 . Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa, , 2nd ed. (New York,;I.W. Zartman, ‘Ripe Moment, Formula and Mediation’, in D.B. Bendahmane and J.W. McDonald, eds, Perspectives on Negotiation (Washington, D.C., 1986). For another attempt at ‘theorising’, which employs the analytical concepts of ‘goal's continuum’ and 'strategic options' continuum' see Tamarkin, Making of Zimbabwe
- Thompson . Challenge to Imperialism
- Tamarkin . Making of Zimbabwe That there should have been more scholarly work on Zimbabwe's decolonisation is not, of course, surprising, given the extra decade that has elapsed since the independence of Zimbabwe. See, for example,;Thompson, Challenge to Imperialism;S J. Stedman, Peacemaking in Civil War: International Mediation in Zimbabwe, 1974–1980 (Boulder, 1991);M. Tamarkin, ‘Kissinger, Carter, and the Rhodesian Conflict: From the Art of the Possible to Mission Impossible’, Journal of Asian and African Studies, 26 (1992), 153–72;R. Jaster, ‘The Rocky Road to Lancaster House: Lessons from the Rhodesian Conflict’, South Africa International 18, 2 (Oct. 1987), 107–29;C.A. Ford, ‘South African Foreign Policy since 1965: The Cases of Rhodesia and Namibia’, (DPhil thesis, Oxford University, 1991)
- Christie , R. 1975 . or R. Christie, ‘Who Benefits by the Kunene Hydro-Electric Scheme?’, Social Dynamics 2, 1 (1976), 31–43. He does not cite such articles as B. Wood, ‘Preventing the Vacuum: Determinants of the Namibia Settlement’, Journal of Southern African Studies 17, 4 (Dec. 1991), 742–69, and N. Stultz, ‘South Africa in Angola and Namibia’ in T.G. Weiss and J.G. Blight, The Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean (Boulder, 1992), 79–99. Nor did he consult such primary sources as, for example, the memoirs of ambassador Donald Sole, available at the South African Library and elsewhere.Thus he uses none of the literature in Afrikaans about South African military activity in Angola, and writes about the Cunene river scheme without referring to “The Political Economy of the Kunene Hydro-electric Schemes' (MA thesis, University of Cape Town
- Bridgland , F. 1989 . The War for Africa 352f Gibralter According to Bridgland the South Africans decided they could not attack the Cubans at Techipa and sought only to prevent them taking Calueque: f.Dreyer writes of plans to ‘attack. the Cuban troops at Techipa’: Namibia and Southern Africa, 179
- Davidson , B. 9 Sep. 1993 . “ ‘Bloody-Minded’ ” . In London Review of Books 9 Sep. , 13 See, for example
- Vigne , R. and Nujoma , S. To Free Namibia Vigne goes on to say, less convincingly, 'no Nujoma, no Namibia'
- Leys and Saul . Liberation Struggle 3 For MK, see especially H. Barren, ‘Conscripts to their Age: African National Congress Operational Strategy, 1976–1986’ (DPhil thesis, Oxford University, 1993)
- Weiland and Braham . Namibian Peace Process 2 For example,. And on p. 4 the editors speak of diplomacy as having been responsible for bringing Namibia to independence
- Ansprenger , F. 1984 . Die SWAPO. Profit einer afrikanischen Befreiungsbe-wegung Munich The earlier accounts are (A. Harneit-Sievers, SWAPO of Namibia (Hamburg, 1985)
- The phrase is repeated, for example, on p. 77
- Dobell , L. 1992 . ‘New Lamps for Old? The Evolution of Swapo's Philosophy of Development, 1960–1991’ Kingston : Queen's University . (MA thesis
- Leys , C. and Saul , J. 1994 . ‘Liberation without Democracy: The Swapo Crisis of 1976’ . Journal of Southern African Studies , 20 ( 1 ) Mar. : 123 – 48 . Much of this section of the book has appeared in. They write of SWAPO's 'democratic crisis' in 1976
- Herbstein , D. and Evenson , J. 1989 . The Devils Are Among Us: The War for Namibia London See also the brief discussion by T. Weaver, ‘The War in Namibia’, in G. Totemeyer et al, ed. Namibia in Perspective (Windhoek, 1987). On the violence of the South African regime, the single most vivid account remains D. Soggot, Namibia: The Violent Heritage (London, 1986). For an academic study, see S. Riveles, ‘Human Rights as a Political Catalyst in South African Policy toward Namibia’ (PhD thesis, Howard University, 1991)
- Steenkamp , W. 1989 . South Africa's Border War, 1966–1989 Gibraltar For example, (Bridgland, War for Africa
- One they omit is trade-union activity, on the grounds that it is being researched by others
- Lush , D. 1993 . Last Steps to Uhuru: An Eye-witness Account of Namibia's Transition to Independence Windhoek F. Ansprenger has written a book on the transition of 1989–90 in German: F. Ansprenger, Freie Wahlen in Namibia: Der übergang zur staatlichen Unabhängigkeit (Frankfurt am Main, 1991)
- Cliffe . Transition 77 They suggest that SWAPO was not involved in the negotiations relating to the Principles:.There are a number of minor errors: South Africa did not accept Resolution 435 in 1979 (p. 47);an oddity is the consistent misspelling of Oshakati
- 1990 . Mediating Conflict London The most probing of the latter appears to have been Franz Ansprenger, author of books on SWAPO (note 20 above) and the transition to independence (note 27 above), yet even he asked many questions already answered elsewhere. Had Robert Jaster or Vivienne Jabri, author of the most detailed study of the Contact Group, been present, the questioning might have been more rigorous
- Geldenhuys , J. 1993 . Die Wat Wen: 'n Generaal se Storie uit 'n Era van Oorlog en Vrede Pretoria
- Weiland and Braham . Namibian Peace Process 6 It is possible that a more critical assessment will emerge when the UNTAG mission report, which remains unpublished (see, p.), becomes available to scholars
- Saunders , C. 1992 . “ ‘Transition in Namibia 1989–90 and the South African Case’ ” . In Peace, Politics and Violence in the New South Africa Edited by: Etherington , N. 213 – 30 . Oxford For example, in
- Ahtisaari recalls that when P.W. Botha told him that South Africans did not like the UN, he replied that feelings were mutual (p. 59), hardly a diplomatic remark to make to the head of a member state. He might have suggested that the South African attitude was based on misunderstanding and prejudice
- ‘restrict negotiations to essential players' yet ‘include those who will be responsible for ensuring that what has been agreed to happens'. More specific suggestions might have been made for the South African transition-the importance of a strict timetable, for example, and of a code of conduct for political parties-but the book did not appear until South Africa was holding its first democratic election. The Cliffe book, which ends with a few lessons for South Africa, was also not published in time for them to be useful.For example, p. 4. All the symposium could come up were such obvious ‘lessons' as ‘limit the agenda'
- Among the questions asked, but not answered, were ones concerning the Mount Etjo meeting (p. 80, n. 22)
- for example, Peter Katjavivi refers to one that he is writing entitled The Road to Namibian Independence in an interview in Kalahari Review 2, 1 (Apr. 1994), 55. I am planning a book on South Africa and Namibian decolonisation.Further studies are promised
- For example, the voluminous records of the Administrator-General transferred from Windhoek to Pretoria shortly before Namibian independence
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