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| Title: | Contradictions of Independence: Namibia in Transition |
| Author: | Freeman, Linda |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 17 |
| Pages: | 25-47 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Namibia South Africa |
| Subjects: | foreign policy dependence economic dependence Politics and Government nationalism Inter-African Relations |
| External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/161/OBJ/download |
| Abstract: | Almost 30 years after other African countries, Namibia finally became free of colonial rule in March 1990. Its future, however, was so tightly constrained that its room for manoeuvre, real independence and development was minimal. The previous South African administration had left the government in Namibia virtually bankrupt; the South African government refuses to give up its claim to Walvis Bay and controls Namibia's money supply and trade flows. Namibia also suffers from the very open and dependent nature of its relationship with the global market and a dramatically unequal distribution of income. The newly formed SWAPO government has to cope with the challenge of how to bring the economy out of a decade of stagnation in a way that will also allow a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, employment and services. It is argued that, barring rapid change in the region, the discovery and rapid exploitation of new natural resources or major Western assistance, the government's inability to meet mass expectations will pose major problems for the unity and stability of Namibia. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
