| Abstract: | It is the premise of this study that questions like 'Who is planning what for whom and why?' hold the key to explaining 'family planning policies' in Namibia, where the importation of the institutions of apartheid have produced a particular array of measures for all aspects of population control. This situation is analysed as part of a wider international situation and as part of policies in South Africa itself, but it also has its own specificity, which needs to be analysed in terms of class, race and gender relations and in terms of the way in which such relations have produced a particular form of population control, both controlled and funded by the State, directed at a specific section of the population. Research in Namibia found Depo-Provera to be the primary form of contraceptive in use by black women and this study explores the experience of black women as 'acceptors' of Depo-Provera injections over the last fifteen years. The interviews on which this paper is based were carried out in Katutura, Windhoek's black township, in 1983 and 1985. |
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