Namibia: Stop the Struggle-Era Rhetoric

ON March 21 some 45 years ago Luther King Jnr began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Five years earlier, in South Africa's Sharpeville, apartheid forces mowed down 72 people and outlawed the African National Congress.

Namibia entered the annals of history 20 years ago when the day marked the end of decades of colonial rule with the South African flag lowered at midnight, and a new nation was born with Sam Nujoma as the first President of the Republic.

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