Abstract
AbstractWhen South African rule ended and Namibia finally gained its independence on 21 March 1990 it was the United Nations (UN) Secretary‐General Pérez de Cuellar who presided at the ceremony in Windhoek, the capital, and who swore in Sam Nujoma as the first President of the independent state. This symbolically recognised the fact that the UN had played a major role in aiding the process leading to independence. But that role was very different from the one which the UN had wanted to play decades before. This article explains why the UN's role was more limited than originally conceived, and assesses what the UN did to help achieve Namibia's independence.
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