Troubled waters: whatever happened to caprivi? Mike Nyendwa, recently in Namibia and Caprivi, provides an indepth look at the difficulties that the Caprivi Strip poses to Namibia, Zambia and even the leaders of Caprivi itself.

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Troubled waters: whatever happened to caprivi? Mike Nyendwa, recently in Namibia and Caprivi, provides an indepth look at the difficulties that the Caprivi Strip poses to Namibia, Zambia and even the leaders of Caprivi itself.

Many readers of New African may have wondered what has become of the little-reported region of Caprivi in the far northeast of Namibia following the attack on government installations in the main town of Katima Mulilo by members of the Caprivi Liberation Army (CLA) on 2 August 1999.

President Sam Nujoma's government accused Mishake Muyongo, leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP) of being behind the attack. The UDP was formed in 1985 as the result of a merger between the Caprivi African National Union (CANU), an organisation originally formed in 1964, and the Caprivi Alliance Parry.

Muyongo is also cousin to Chief Boniface Bebi Mamili of the Mafwe people whose home is Linyanti, the old Caprivi capital, which is also the tribal centre of the Mafwe people, and which the early European explorers referred to as Mamili's town or village.

Both were actively involved in the struggle for independence for Caprivi, whose people are largely Lozi and English-speaking, unlike most of the rest of Namibia, an indication of its different history.

Caprivi was named after Coun...

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