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The 1971–72 Namibian contract workers general strike was a labour dispute in Namibia between African contract workers (particularly miners) [6] and the apartheid government. Workers sought to end the contract-labour system, which many described as close to slavery. [7] [8] An underlying goal was the promotion of independence under SWAPO ...
Mobile Telecommunications Limited ( MTC) is a mobile telecommunications company and internet service provider in Namibia. It is the largest mobile carrier in Namibia with over two million active subscribers. MTC was established in 1995 and was the only cellular provider in Namibia at that time. Today, its competitors in Namibia are TN Mobile ...
This coincided with an escalation of the South African Border War from the new South African prime minister P. W. Botha by 1979. Re-emergence, Modern Day. The banning of contract labour stayed until it reemerged in the 1990s inside Namibia, in the form of todays labour hire system.
The South West African Native Labour Association (SWANLA) was a labour contracting organisation which contracted primarily Ovambo people from Ovamboland in northern Namibia to work in the diamond mines in Namibia's southern ǁKaras Region . It was established in 1943 from the merger of two pre-existing organisations, the Southern Labour ...
The Western Contact Group (WCG), representing three of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - France, United Kingdom and United States - and including Canada and West Germany, launched a joint diplomatic effort in 1977 to bring an internationally acceptable transition to independence for Namibia, after a decade of illegal occupation by apartheid of South Africa.
Namibia–South Africa relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Namibia and South Africa.South Africa (then part of the British Empire as the Union of South Africa) captured the area now known as Namibia from Germany during World War I and governed it, by the name 'South West Africa', until 1990, when the country gained independence under the name 'Namibia'.
Labour brokering is a South African term for a form outsourcing practiced (In Namibia, known as labour hire) in which companies contract labour brokers to provide them with casual labour . Labour brokers are different from recruitment agencies in that labour brokers handle almost all aspects of the worker's employment (including interviews ...
The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonised in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990. From 1884, Namibia was a German colony: German South West Africa. After the First World War, the League of Nations gave South Africa a mandate to administer the territory.