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Rule of Namibia

South Africa · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1915–1919Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1915

Louis Botha1915

Warfare / World War, 1st

South West Africa is placed under South African military administration

1919

Jan Christian Smuts1919

Warfare / World War, 1st

The Treaty of Versailles gives South Africa a mandate over Namibia, which wis occupied from 1919 until 1990

Names involved

Jan Christian SmutsLouis Botha

Provenance

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