Abstract
The following article is designed as an anniversary retrospective on the South West Africa cases, the first dispute brought by African States before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). By summarising the content of the judgments of 1962 and 1966, exposing the background against which they were adopted and envisaging the various critical reactions they generated among governments and international law experts, it aims at explaining why the decision of 1966 has been considered as the most controversial judgment in the history of the ICJ and was followed by a relatively long period of mistrust of African States towards the Court. Moreover, it purports to show how the controversy surrounding the South West Africa cases had a significant impact on the ICJ itself, notably by compelling it to review its rules of procedure and its position regarding the question of ius standi.
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