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Callaghan Backing Vorster One of the major questions discussed by South African Prime Minister Vorster and Henry Kissinger in their weekend cabal in Zurich was how best to keep Namibia (SouthWest Africa) a client state of world capitalism.
This perspective is supported by the British Labour govenment who have been arch-imperialist Kissinger's main collaborators.
Callaghan said in a BBC intervi w that:
"With my policy and American power we ought to be able to make some progress in Southern Africa."
For many years the South West African Peoples' Organisation (SWAPO) has been fighting a guerrilla war against South African rule.
Vorster, knowing that this colonial war could be as fatal for his regime as were the African wars to the Portuguese dictatorship, has been attempting to set up an "independent" state which would be a scale model of South African apartheid - a huge white owned area surrounded by client "Bantustans".
On August 18th the Vorster regime announced the successful completion of the independence negotiations Windhoek; the Namibian capital.
SWAPO have dismissed the Windhoek agreement as a gimmick aimed at buying time for the South African regime On the other hand the SWAPO leaders have continued their dangerous policy of reliance on the