ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the existence of dozens of corporations and groups actively engaged in promoting policies supportive of South Africa and its illegal occupation of Namibia. The extensive involvement of US corporations in the economic exploitation of Namibia reflects the ineffectiveness of America's official policy of discouraging trade with Namibia. American policy towards Namibia also has lacked earnestness. The corporations operating in Namibia are directed by many individuals who also serve in policy-making positions in the United States Government. Corporate directors, academics, government specialists, and other influential policy-makers often times formulate and develop foreign policies within various policy planning groups. The extensive and complex interlocking directorates possessed by a US industry in Namibia is in mining, Namibia's largest economic sector. The Chamber of Commerce constitutes one of the principal policy planning groups dominated by conservative political interests in the United States. Additional means by which policymakers gather to discuss and formulate issues relevant to American foreign policy are professional societies.
