Current History

Namibia’s history has passed through several stages from being colonized in the late 19th century to Namibia’s independence on March 21^st 1990. Ever since 1884, Namibia has been a German colony. At the end of WW 1, the League of Nations mandated South Africa to administer territory. When WW 2 had begun, the League of Nations was dissolved in April 1946 and its successor, the US, instituted a trusteeship system to bring all of the former German colonies in Africa under the guidance of UN control. South Africa didn’t like this and that a majority of the territory's people were content with South African rule.

 

Legal argument ensued over the course of the next twenty years until, in October 1966, the UN General Assembly decided to end the mandate, declaring that South Africa had no other right to administer the territory and that henceforth South-West Africa was to come under the direct responsibility of the UN (Resolution 2145 XXI of 27 October 1966).