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 humanitarian assistance, mainly based on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs records, the study highlights the popular involvement and commitment to the struggle. Separate chapters are concerned with the churches, trade unions and solidarity movements, such as the Norwegian Council for Southern Africa and the Namibia Committee. The book also includes a case study on the battle for sanctions.The Study forms part of the Nordic Africa Institute's research and documentation project "National Liberation in Southern Africa: The Role of the Nordic Countries".
Tore Linné Eriksen (ed.)
http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:271589/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Nordic Africa Institute
2000
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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 Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa. Leading scholars, researchers and others, from both the Nordic countries and southern Africa, concerned with documenting those struggles, attended the workshop. The papers included here concern both the history of those struggles and the sources for that history.
Christopher Saunders (ed.)
http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:344963/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Nordic Africa Institute
2010
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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 Committee “Comparative Sociology” at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held at the end of July 2006 in Durban. They explore the role of opposition parties under different aspects in several East and Southern African countries, which differ according to the socio-political determinants.
Karolina Hulterström, Amin Y. Kamete, Henning Melber
http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:241143/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Nordic Africa Institute
2007
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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 for a need for parliamentary and administrative reform to improve the efficiency of lawmakers. The Botswana chapter explores the decision on the location of the country’s second university as an act without consultation of the local population. The Zimbabwe paper advocates an approach in favour of using the African Peer Review Mechanism as an instrument to assist in a change towards better governance. All the authors have intimate knowledge of the matters discussed through their own involvement with the respective cases and/or their individual positioning within these societies. This publication is among the final results of the project “Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa” (LiDeSA), which was undertaken at the Institute between 2001 and 2006.
Henning Melber (ed.)
http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:240868/FULLTEXT02.pdf
Nordic Africa Institute
2007
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Liberation Movements as Governments: Democratic Authoritarianism in Former Settler Colonies of Southern Africa
"The hybrid mix of authoritarianism and democracy disguised as specific form of “nationalism and national projects” (Ndlovu-Gathseni/Ndhlovu 2013) has been normalised in the postcolonial settings. In particular Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, had relatively well-developed infrastructure and economies and relatively well educated populations; they emerged or consolidated at a time when the world order had decidedly become (at least formally) democratic. The notion of “good governance” was coined as the guiding principle issued by the hegemonic Western world (Abrahamsen 2000). None of these liberation movements as governments have been seriously threatened by a coup d’état. These countries were better placed than most other African states in their transition to democracies that were claiming to apply political equality in actual practice. Why have they failed to make this transformation more credible and convincing?"
Henning Melber
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
2013
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Namibia: The Politics of Change
Paper delivered at South African Institute of International Affairs, Pretoria, on 27 June 1980
Andre du Pisani
South African Institute of International Affairs
1980
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