The churches were active in Namibia in making known the abuses against the Namibian people under occupation. The international and local church provided services such as medical services, education and support to the poor, refugees and those affected by military abuses. They co-operated with international church and other organisations and made representations to international organisations such as the UN for the granting of independence, the condemnation of human rights violations and the provision of aid.

These include press releases, articles and church service documents. Items also cover responses to and delegations from foreign governments.

Include open letters to heads of state and church members, analysis of negotiations with the SA government, press releases relating to several of the events listed below. Other items are lists of references about Namibia and a fact sheet issued by the WCC Programme to Combat Racism.

Items and events include:

Discussions between SA Prime Minister, B J Vorster and Lutheran Church in SWA, (German), 1971.

Visit to Kairos, Holland by Bishop James Kauluma, October 1979.

International Conference for Solidarity with the People of Namibia, statement, 1980.

WCC statement on Namibia, February 1981.

Letter from United Evangelical Mission (VEM) to David de Beer about Peter Kalangula, president of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), with enclosures, dated 13 August 1981.

British Council of Churches delegation visits Namibia, report, resolutions, 1981.

Letter to Mr Chester A Crocker from CCN, about the principles concerning the Constituent Assembly and the Constitution for an independent Namibia, 1981.

British Council of Churches, letter about visit of British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and joint British Council of Churches, Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace delegation, November 1982.

Letters to and from SA Prime Minister, PW Botha, January 1982.

Statement by CCN, presented to PW Botha, February 1982.

Letter to SA Prime Minister, February 1983.

Communications with United Nations representatives including the Western Contact Group, 1980-1983, and the Secretary General of the UN, Javier Perez de Cuellar, 1983.

Visit by Rev Z Kameeta and T Kalomoh to Holland, evaluation report, 1983.

Open letter to the Prime Minister of SA and the Western Contact Group, Executive Committee of the Council of Churches in Namibia, 1983.

Open letter to Christian churches in Europe and North America from Council of Churches in Namibia about the visit of PW Botha to Europe, 1984.

Statement to King Baudoin by delegation to the Second Brussels International Conference on Namibia requesting support for the Security Council Resolution 435, undated.

Appeal to the US government, 1986.

WCC Meetings on Namibia, July 1989.

Include information about internal church politics, debates, campaigns and people.

Include articles about church members' activities. There are press releases containing policy statements, condemnation of apartheid in the church, some relating to specific incidents, articles on homosexuality and liberation theology with an article on the third-world view of liberation theology.

Include:

Lists of campaign material and publications from Bisschoppelijke Vastenaktie. People mentioned include the Rev Colin Winter, Bishop Kauluma, Bishop Haushiku and Pastor Z Kameeta.

Interviews, church appointments, church services and press reports about individuals' activities.

The controversy surrounding the resignation of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church from CNN and the consequences are covered in several documents.

Report by the Christian Institute of South Africa that analyses the churches in Namibia, the political context and the problems in some depth, (undated, possibly late-1970s).

A letter about liberation theology (1984).

Correspondence (some in German) from overseas church organisations, press releases and statements about different political standpoints. See 10.8.6.2. for reconciliation between the churches and the view of apartheid as a sin.

Report on the conditions under which people lived in the conflict-ridden areas and the causes of violence.

Two letters (German) from Ngeno Nakamhela to publication Der Wag and Evangelische Kirke im Rheinland, 1984.

News report, Gossner Mission, Christian visit to a SWAPO camp, 1981.

Letter from the Evangelical Church in Germany to NCC, 1989.

Report of Rev Abisai Shejavali, 1984.

Campaign Vastenaktie, resource lists, literature references, contacts.

Part of a sermon on war and racism.

Telex to Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Commemoration of the Kassinga massacre, 1984.