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From Reserve to Homeland: South African Native Policy in Southern Namibia
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.
Revisiting Regionalism in Southern Africa
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…
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…
Africa’s Clothing and Textile Industry: The Case of Ramatex in Namibia
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…
Finland and national liberation in Southern Africa
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…
Norway and National Liberation in Southern Africa
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…
Liberation in Southern Africa - regional and Swedish voices : interviews from Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the frontline and Sweden
The interviews in this book were conducted for the Nordic Africa Institute's research project 'National liberation in Southern Africa - The role of the Nordic countries'. Around 80 representatives of the Southern African liberation movements, as well…
Documenting Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa
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…
The political economy of Namibia : an annotated, critical bibliography
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…
Measuring democracy and human rights in Southern Africa
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…
Music as instrument of diversity and unity : notes on a Namibian landscape
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…
Namibia : kolonialisme, apartheid og frigjøringskamp i det sørlige Afrika
Namibia: colonialism, apartheid and liberation struggle in Southern Africa (translation from the Norwegian)
Political opposition in African countries : the cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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…
Governance and state delivery in Southern Africa : examples from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe
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…
Transition in Southern Africa : comparative aspects
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…
Namibia's economic links to South Africa
A policy briefing on Namibian economic dependence in Southern Africa. Focus on Walvis Bay, Mines, and Banking in SACU
Namibia and external resources : the case of Swedish development assistance
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…
REFUGEES, RESETTLEMENT, AND LAND AND RESOURCE CONFLICTS: THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY AMONG !XUN AND KHWE SAN IN NORTHEASTERN NAMIBIA
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…
CHANGE IN POPULATION AND LAND-USE INTENSITIES IN SEVERAL VILLAGES OF THE FOUR NORTHERN REGIONS OF NAMIBIA
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…
OBSERVATION OF RIPARIAN VEGETATION IN WESTERN NAMIBIA BY USING NDVI AND NDWI DERIVED FROM SPOT-VEGETATION
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…