ABSTRACT
A much different case of multiparty mediation occurred throughout the 1980s in Southern Africa. The territory of present-day Namibia was occupied by Germany after the Berlin Congress in 1878 and remained in its possession until the end of the Great War when the League of Nations decided to transfer it to South Africa as a ‘Class C’ mandate which stayed to administer the territory as an integral part of the governing state. During the wave of decolonization after the Second World War, in the territories of present day Angola and Namibia, several groups formed with national liberation as their main goal. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), emerged from the territory populated by the Mbundu people from the surroundings of Luanda, but it also included several urban communities of both indigenous and mixed-race descent. The anti-colonial struggle in Angola started in the early 1960s and was characterized by methods of guerilla warfare.
