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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Namibia begins to resist |
Author: | Murray, R. |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | Race Today |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 56-57 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Namibia |
Subjects: | labour conflicts national liberation movements |
Abstract: | In Namibia something like one-third of the Ovambo workers in mining, commerce, railways, harbours and administration in Walvis Bay. Windhoek and other areas are idle in protest against the Government's labour contract system. This series of strikes is the latest event in a developing pattern of resistance to the South-Africans. In November, 1971, the Hereros, together with the leaders of seven other tribes, held an initial meeting with the Coloured, inhabitants of the Rehoboth district to plan a non-white political convention to take place. Of both events the background is discussed in the article. The extension of a strike movement to Windhoek, and the emergence of moves toward non-white political unity, indicate the convergence to political and economic demands into a broad resistance movement to the rule of South Africa. Map of Namibia. |