Place | Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Camden |
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Accession Number | P03485.001 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Negative |
Maker |
Graham, Jason Keith |
Place made | Namibia: Ondangwa District, Ondangwa |
Date made | September 1989 |
Conflict |
Period 1990-1999 Period 1980-1989 Namibia (UNTAG), 1989-1990 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
A United Nations (UN) Land Rover parked at the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) ...
A United Nations (UN) Land Rover parked at the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) communications and message centre run by British Army signallers, in the 15th Field Troop, 17th Construction Squadron Base. The building was previously used as the South West African Territorial Force Battalion Base (53 SWAFT Bn). UNTAG was established to ensure the independence of Namibia through free and fair elections under the supervision and control of the United Nations. It was also to ensure that South Africa withdrew from the country, all hostile acts ended, all discriminatory laws were repealed, political prisoners were released and Namibian refugees were permitted to return. The first UNTAG members arrived on 1 April 1989, and the force consisted of members from 124 nations, with a maximum of 7500 troops and 2000 international civilian and local staff. Namibia was divided into 23 electoral districts and registration centres were set up all over the country, with registration of more than 700,000 voters occurring between 3 July 1989 and 23 September 1989. UNTAG monitored the balloting and counting of votes in the elections held between 7 - 11 November 1989 to chose the 72 delegates to the new Constituent Assembly. The Assembly met for the first time to draft a new constitution, on 21 November 1989, the day after South Africa's remaining troops had left the country. The draft was unanimously approved on 9 February 1990 and on 16 February 1990, the Assembly elected SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma as President, who was sworn in by the United Nations Secretary General on 21 March 1990, the same day UNTAG's mandate ended.
- Sapper (Spr) Dan Burgess and Spr Jason McDonald, probably of 17th Construction Squadron and ...
- A United Nations (UN) UNIMOG 1700 truck (left) and a mine protection vehicle (MPV) known as a ...
- Members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) refuelling mine protection ...
- Unidentified Australian soldiers, probably of 17th Construction Squadron, and members of the ...
- Sapper Long, probably of 17th Construction Squadron, and a member of the United Nations ...
- A road sign in Namibia depicting a springbok. A boxing kangaroo has been painted onto the road ...
- A large notice board at the former South West African Territorial Forces Base, currently being ...
- Local Ovambo people, who live at the local rubbish dump, collecting food and other material ...
- A mine resistant armoured personnel carrier (APC), known as a Wolf 5-500, produced by Windhoek ...
- Namibians gathered around an open air butcher at a local market.
- The view into Angola from Tower Alpha in the compound of the Australian Contingent of the United ...
- The front gate to the compound of the Australian Contingent of the United Nations Transition ...
- A guard tower at the Ondangwa Air Force base used by the United Nations Transition Assistance ...
- Informal portrait of Corporal Jason Graham, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Squadron, a member of ...
- An unexploded ordnance device surrounded by pieces of wood and attached to a detonator ready for ...
- Smoke billowing from an enexploded ordnance device being detonated by members of the United ...
- Lance Corporal (LCpl) James Pianta, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Sqadron, a member of the United ...
- Informal portrait of Corporal Jason Graham, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Sqadron, a member of ...
- Australian soldiers of 15th Troop, 17th Construction Sqadron, members of the United Nations ...
- Australian soldiers, members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) patrolling ...
- Sapper Wayne Milne, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Squadron, a member of the United Nations ...
- Members of Corporal Barry Wade's Ready Reaction Force, part of the United Nations Transition ...
- An unidentified Australian soldier, probably of 17th Constrauction Squadron, a member of the ...
- The three different types of mine resistant vehicles used by 15th Troop, 17th Construction ...
- Local mine resistant personnel carriers. The blue vehicle (left) belongs to to South West African ...
- Unidentified Australian soldiers, members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ...
- An unidentified Australian soldier, a member of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ...
- Unidentified Australian soldiers, members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ...
- The first of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The second of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The third of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The fourth of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The fifth of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The sixth of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The seventh of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The eighth of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The ninth of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The tenth of ten images showing a panorama of the base used by the Australian contingent to the ...
- The sun setting over barbed wire and sandbags near a dugout of the base used by the Australian ...
- Sapper Kenneth Betson, a member of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) with a ...
- Informal portrait of Sapper Darren Bailey (left) and Corporal Jason Graham, both of 15th Troop, ...
- Sapper Jason "Makka" McDonald, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Sqadron, manning the sandbagged ...
- Informal portrait of Corporal Jason Graham, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Squadron, a member of ...
- Informal portrait of an Australian sapper only identified as 'Blacky', 15th Troop, 17th ...
- Corporal Barry Wade, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Sqadron, a member of the United Nations ...
- United Nations and South West African Police in mine protection vehicles investigating the ...
- Two TMA-3 Cheese mines that had been found near the Australian Contingent Base to the United ...
- The water point at Bagani used mainly by the Finnish Infantry Battalion, part of the United ...
- Sapper Peter Burgess (left) and Sergeant Russel Steffan (right), 15th Troop, 17th Construction ...
- A mural depicting mine detection, on the wall of a barracks building used by South African ...
- Australian soldiers probably of 17th Construction Squadron, part of the United Nations Transition ...
- Unidentified Australian soldiers, members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ...
- Australian soldiers, probably of 17 Construction Squadron, members of the United Nations ...
- Lance Corporal James Pianta (left) and Sapper Chris Wilson (centre, wearing blue cap), of 15th ...
- Australian soldiers of 17 Construction Squadron, members of the United Nations Transition ...
- Staff Sergeant John Delai and an unidentified warrant officer of 15th Troop, 17th Construction ...
- Informal portrait of Staff Sergeant John Delai, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Sqadron, a member ...
- Sapper Chris Wilson and 'Blacky', of 17th Construction Squadron, members of the United Nations ...
- Unidentified Australian troops, members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ...
- Corporal Jason Graham, 15th Troop, 17th Construction Squadron, a member of the United Nations ...
- Members of the Australian Contingent to the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG), ...
- Australian soldiers of 17th Construction Squadron, members of the United Nations Transition ...
- Australian soldiers of 17th Construction Squadron, members of the United Nations Transition ...