SoutH West: The Last Frontier in Africa by Eschel Rhoodie (Twin Circle, $4.00). South West Africa is not a place, and people: it is an issue. World Opinion has decreed .
that it must be free and the United Nations has named a Commission to go about the business of teaching the South West Africans how to be free—no later than by June 1968. The problem is that the Com- missioner can’t set foot in the ter- ritory because South Africa, which has ruled South West since the early 1920s, doesn’t recognize the UN’s authority in the matter. South Africa’s mandate followed a century of brutal -tribal wars in which two-thirds of the native pop- ulations were killed and the re- mainder left destitute. Tribal ani- mosities are dormant today, not dead. If South West Africa is pro- pelled into independence half a year hence, there is no guarantee that the majority Ovambos—nearly
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