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{{History of Namibia}}
The '''history of Namibia''' has passed through several distinct stages from being [[colony|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 [[League of Nations Mandate|mandate]] to administer the territory. Following [[World War II]], the League of Nations was dissolved in April 1946 and its successor, the United Nations, instituted a [[United Nations Trust Territory|trusteeship system]] to reform the administration of the former League of Nations mandates and clearly establish majority rule and independence as eventual goals for the trust territories. South Africa objected arguing that a majority of the territory's people were content with [[South West Africa#Bantustans|South African rule]].

Legal argument ensued over the course of the next twenty years until, in October 1966, the [[UNGA|UN General Assembly]] decided to end the mandate, declaring that South Africa had no further 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).<ref>{{cite book
|title=A Nation Is Born: The Inside Story of Namibia's Independence
|pages=9–11
|year=2004
|publisher=Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
|author=Cedric Thornberry
|isbn=978-99916-0-521-0
|author-link=Cedric Thornberry
}}</ref>