world. Nevertheless, there is a funda-the UN sanctions prompted by South

On 22 March 1978 the Contact Group made its ‘final’ proposals to South Africa and SWAPO. It provided for the maintenance of 1,500 South African soldiers in two bases near the Angola border until one week after the elections. Walvis Bay was not mentioned. The issue was to be left to the new Namibian government and South Africa to negotiate.