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It has already been pointed out that in the course of presenting its case during hearings in the International Court of Justice on Ethiopia’s and Liberia’s applications, South Africa not only registered its opposition to black majority rule for Namibia but also argued that a political system based on separate development, that is, apartheid, was more suitable for the territory. Accordingly, after the termination of the mandate by the UN General Assembly, South Africa started to establish such a system in the territory, thus ignoring and obstructing efforts by the UN to implement the General Assembly’s independence plan.
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International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF), D & A Information Service Manual, No. 1, January–June 1967, pp. 32–3. Emphasis added.
IDAF, D & A Information Service Manual No. 3, October–December 1967, p. 112.
Africa Institute (Pretoria), ‘The International Factor in South West Africa: A Factual Summary’, International Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 5, May 1964, pp. 144–52. The appointment of the Odendaal Commission was announced by Prime Minister Verwoed in September 1962. Thus the announcement was made during the early phase of the proceedings in the ICJ on the merits of the South West Africa case brought before the Court by Ethiopia and Liberia.
Africa Institute, ‘South West Africa: Decisions of the South African Government’, International Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 6, June 1964, p. 177.
RSA, ‘Development of Self-Government for Native Nations in South-West Africa Act, No. 54 of 1968’, in Statutes of the Republic of South Africa. ‘Constitutional Law’, Vol. 6, issue No. 6, (London: Butterworths, 1972) pp. 831–45.
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IDAF, Namibia: The Facts (London: IDAF, 1980), pp. 15–16.
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Jan Moolman, ‘South West Africa: Self-Determination, Majority Rule, Democracy and Independence’, Africa Institute Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1976, p. 112.
See for example, Henry Kissinger, ‘The Global Significance of Events in Angola’, Testimony to the Senate Subcommitte on Africa, 20 January 1976, Department of State Newsletter, No. 176, February 1976, p. 9.
Henry Kissinger, ‘The Relationship between America and Africa’, (Report to the Senate Foreign Relation Committee on his two week trip to Africa, 13 May 1976), Department of State Newsletter, No 180, June 1976, p. 10.
Donald Baker, ‘Kissinger … Carter: Two Views of Southern Africa’, Africa Institute Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 8, 1977, p. 197.
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Kaela, L.C.W. (1996). South Africa’s Plans for Namibia’s Independence. In: The Question of Namibia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24996-1_5
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