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NAM Coordinating Bureau’s Algiers meeting addresses Namibia
📅 16 April 1981The Bureau met amid South Africa’s attempt to install an interim administration in Namibia. Members pressed the Security Council to reject the move and reaffirmed support for Namibian...
Eighth Non-Aligned Summit opens in Harare
đź“… 1 September 1986The summit placed apartheid and Namibia at the center of the international agenda. Representatives of liberation movements, including Oliver Tambo, pressed governments to move beyond condemnation...
Harare summit adopts a programme against apartheid
📅 6 September 1986The summit called for intensified action against apartheid, support for liberation movements and assistance to frontline states. This was a major effort to turn NAM’s anti-racist commitments into a...
UN Transition Assistance Group begins operations
📅 1 April 1989UNTAG deployed to help ensure free and fair elections under UN supervision. The process followed a long liberation struggle and years of international campaigns against South Africa’s occupation of...
UN-supervised elections for Namibia’s Constituent Assembly begin
đź“… 7 November 1989Voters chose representatives to prepare an independent constitution after decades of South African administration and a long armed and diplomatic liberation struggle. The election fulfilled a...
Namibia becomes independent
đź“… 21 Maart 1990Namibia became independent after UN-supervised elections and a long struggle led by SWAPO. Its independence fulfilled a core anti-colonial objective repeatedly advanced by NAM, the OAU and the...
Namibia becomes independent
đź“… 21 Maart 1990Namibia gains independence after a long liberation struggle against South African rule and occupation. The outcome demonstrated the importance of armed resistance, international solidarity and...