In the year 1966, the first government hospital, Oshakati hospital, was inaugurated in northern South-West Africa. It was constructed by the apartheid regime of South Africa which was occupying the territory. Prior to this inauguration, Finnish missionaries had, for 65 years, provided healthcare to the indigenous people in a number of healthcare facilities of which Onandjokwe hospital was the m...

INTRODUCTION ‘The victory over the apartheid state in 1994 set policy makers in all spheres of public life the mammoth task of overhauling the social, political, economic and cultural institutions of South Africa to bring them in line with the imperatives of a new democratic order’ (Asmal, 2001). Because South African cities and towns entered the 1990s with an apartheid urban planning and devel...

Sometimes when I have felt a little depressed I would go to Parliament to sit in the public gallery and look down at all those ‘terrorists’ now occupying the government benches. It is something to lift the heaviest heart to behold those who were regarded by the previous apartheid government as the most dangerous terrorists, and who now, in the new democratic dispensation, are the Hon. Minister ...

From the early 1960s due to its apartheid policies, South Africa became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. With the collapse of the Rand in 1989, repeal of the apartheid laws started, culminating in the free elections of 1994. The African National Congress (ANC) won a decisive victory and Nelson Mandela became the first President of the Republic of South Africa. Under the ANC, th...

It is a decade since the exposure of Project Coast, apartheid South Africa's covert chemical and biological warfare program. In that time, attention has been focused on several aspects of the program, particularly the production of narcotics and poisons for use against anti-apartheid activists and the proliferation of both chemical and biological weapons. The eugenic dimension of Project Coast ...

Many ordinary' persons of Anglo-European stock participated, without qualm, in systems of slavery and apartheid. James M. McPherson, on examining the letters and diaries of 374 Confederate soldiers, finds that only twenty percent expressed pro-slavery sentiment. 2 "They took slavery for granted as part of the southern way of life for which they fought, and did not feel compelled to discuss it."...