The Namibian War of Independence, which lasts from 1966 to 1988, is a guerrilla war, which the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and others fight against South Africa; South Africa has administered what is at this time known as South West Africa since it had been allowed to do so by the League of Nations in 1947.
The war resultsin the independence of Namibia in 1990 and the SWAPO governing it since.
