Ovamboland: Bantustan without Tears?

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Title:	Ovamboland: Bantustan without Tears?
Author:	Dale, Richard
Year:	1969
Periodical:	Africa Report
Volume:	14
Issue:	2
Period:	February
Pages:	16-23
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Namibia
Subjects:	self-government colonialism Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:	After some demographic data of Ovamboland, the author exposes the genesis of this 'homeland'. After the finding of the International Court on July 18, 1966, the South African government began to carry out the Odendaal recommendations. Dissenting voices were the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) that rejected the offer of self-government for Ovamboland and started guerrilla activities, the UN General Assembly, the South African parliamentary opposition and the opposition United Party in Windhoek. In October 1968 a presidential proclamation established a Legislative Council and an Executive Council in Oshakati. Although the Legislative Council is a considerable innovation, self-government has only institutionalized and to some extend modernized the system of indirect rule in Ovamboland. Even when the territory realizes its limited economic potential, it would be barely viable as an inderendent entity. The future points toward a contest between the traditional leaders and the SWAFO insurgents, the former representing a micro-nationalism, the latter a macro-natioralisn. Map. graphics.