Windhoek Natives Prefer Hovels in Show of Enmity Toward White Regime - The place where Africans live is a filthy, weed-choked district of tin shacks made from flattened oil drums. The whites who run Windhoek want the Africans to move into a new comfortable, spacious township with neat brick homes that have running water and lavatories. But most Africans refuse to move. Their refusal comes from resentment against white paternalism, opposition to South African apartheid, and the determination to dramatize this resentment and opposition. The conflict could create an international incident that would embroil the United Nations. The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution more than a year ago that said South-West Africa, a former German colony, would be transferred from the administration of South Africa to that of the United Nations. But the United Nations has been unable to enforce the resolution...

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