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From Reserve to Homeland - South African Native Policy in Southern Namibia.pdf
The beginning of South African rule in present day Namibia marks a watershed in the country's history. The new developments initiated by a change in colonial rulers have generally been underestimated in existing literature.

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/509121d4197c93542b6cfbbc1ea1bc45.pdf
Introduction
Hubert René Schillinger

Keynote address: the policy dimensions of trade in the SADC region
Ben Turok

Open versus developmental integration – what options for SADC?
Rok Ajulu

Will SADC create a free trade area by 2008 and a…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/07c9c0ac47f09f9740ea9fd152f0bf87.pdf
Namibia’s experiences with Ramatex to date point to the urgent need to ensure (at the very least) compliance by foreign investors with Namibian laws, regulations, workers’ rights, as well as environmental, health and safety standards. Experiences…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/c7640913cece5551e9e9abc9ac0b770a.pdf
Finland's special characteristics as a Nordic, non-aligned welfare state gave it the resources and motivation to support liberation movements - in spite of restrictions arising from trade interests and a reluctance to jeopardise the country's neutral…

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This book documents and analyses the involvement of Norway in the liberation struggle in Southern Africa. Apart from focussing on the formulation of official policies and the extensive cooperation with the liberation movements in the field of…

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This publication brings together a number of the ‘thinkpieces’ prepared for a workshop convened by the Nordic Africa Institute in Pretoria, South Africa, on 26–27 November, 2009. The workshop marked the end of the Institute’s Documentation Project on…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/bbb3fd68ae57c3bda93c0748536722bc.pdf
This highly acclaimed bibliography contains more than 2,100 entries, of which over 1,000 are annotated, including books, articles, unpublished reports, conference papers, official publications and periodicals in English, German, Afrikaans and the…

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Are there ways and means of measuring democracy and “good governance”? The contributions to this Discussion Paper present attempts to do this by means of surveys on democratic attitudes in Mozambique and Namibia respectively as well as by exploring…

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This report explores the interface between recent socio-political changes in Namibia, and the way they are reflected in emergent musical practices and identities within the country. The potential tension between unity and diversity is investigated…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/99ff70c3ed2cde79f96bc6817e0ebf2b.pdf
Namibia: colonialism, apartheid and liberation struggle in Southern Africa (translation from the Norwegian)

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This Discussion Paper is another result of the project “Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa” (LiDeSA), which was coordinated at the Institute between 2001 and 2006. The papers are revised versions of presentations to a Session of the Research…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/7f9044773e2f422e3024dc4368ca117c.pdf
This Discussion Paper highlights in complementary ways problems and challenges for governance issues under centralised state agencies, which base their authority and legitimacy on a dominant party and its influence. The case study on Namibia argues…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/6bbad7a6cb87743c0b3eeed394948faa.pdf
The 1990s completed a process of transition in Namibia and South Africa that brought formal decolonisation in Africa to an end. These two contributions review some aspects of the transformation and complement each other. They take stock of the…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/ec4f8699ac1e0ffae1ef9d14a43e7b1e.pdf
A policy briefing on Namibian economic dependence in Southern Africa. Focus on Walvis Bay, Mines, and Banking in SACU

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/2d84608b3f555c946ef6e7ca68f22896.pdf
What is the role of international development assistance in a newly independent country such as Namibia? The two studies in this report give some inputs to the discussion on the benefits and problems of aid. One focuses on macro-economics, resource…

http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/files/original/269a2f71294de26272d6430f31481271.pdf
This study examines land use, natural resource, and development conflicts, and the effects of government policies in a remote area in northeastern Namibia, known formerly as West Bushmanland, now Tsumkwe West. !Xun and Khwe San who had been soldiers…

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Demographic changes in several rural areas in the four northern regions of Namibia were traced from 1991 to 2001 using national census data. On average, the population growth rate of the surveyed area was 2.77% per year. Although this rate…

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Ephemeral rivers in western Namibia are unique entities that support both natural vegetation and human activities. This paper presents an approach for observing riparian vegetation along them synoptically using remotely sensed datasets, derived from…
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