South West Africa
Britishnoun
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Control over South West Africa - along with what is now Cameroon, Togo and other colonial territories - was stripped from Germany by competing powers after World War One.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
Namibia faced apartheid when neighboring South Africa’s white minority government controlled what they called South West Africa.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021
The first use of concentration camps for a deliberate policy of extermination was not in Europe but in German South West Africa – modern-day Namibia – between 1904 and 1907.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2020
An activist since the early 1950s, he had helped found the independence movement known as the South West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO, which challenged South African rule through protest and guerrilla warfare.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2017
During the trial the prosecutor called more than one hundred witnesses from all over the country, including the Transkei and South West Africa.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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