Namibia became independent after decades of struggle when the apartheid<br />government accepted UN Resolution 435. In Windhoek the flag of the occupier<br />finally made way for one heralding a rising sun. Peace returned to Namibia and<br />Namibia to the Namibians. South Africa had withdrawn from Angola after years of<br />intimate involvement. Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel movement Unita and a<br />former proxy of South Africa, continued the civil war for another dozen years. The<br />landmines remained. In many towns and villages in Angola the maimed and the<br />wounded are still to be seen.