UN General Assembly
1960

23. It will be recalled that last year rioting took place in the Windhoek native township. The direct cause of those riots was that the inhabitants were incited to oppose moving to a new township which, at considerable cost, had been erected by the Windhoek Municipal Administration. Rioters attacked the municipal officials Und also the small police force. The police were obliged to fire in self-defence, and there were some deaths. A judicial inquiry was immediately ordered by the Union Government, and it was entrusted to Mr. Justice Hall, Judge-President of South West Africa and a former Judge of the Appeal Court of South Africa — a judge of the very highest standing in our country, where the judicial level, I may say, is very high. This is the man — this very eminent judge — who, during the course of this year, was described by one of these petitioners as a stooge of the South African Government.