History (AS)·Namibia, 1884–2000 · NSSCAS 2.2
The mandate, the UN & resistance to South African rule
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After the genocide, one coloniser replaced another: in 1915 South Africa took the territory, and in 1920 the League of Nations handed it over as a 'mandate'. We'll unpack what that strange word really meant, see how South Africa governed through land seizure, contract labour and apartheid, follow the seventy-year legal battle at the United Nations, meet the many forms of resistance — from petitions and churches to the Old Location protest and the birth of SWAPO — and end with the great AS question: why could peaceful, legal pressure alone not set Namibia free?
What you'll learn in this lesson
By the end you should be able to (NSSCAS History (AS) 2.2):
- Explain the working of the League of Nations mandate over Namibia
- Discuss the role of the United Nations in the Namibian question
- Evaluate the forms of resistance to South African rule
- Assess how internal and external forces worked against South African control
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