UN General Assembly
1968

32. The repression in South Africa is continuing unabated. In this regard, it should be realized that it is perhaps misleading at this stage to look at the question of apartheid and the policy of racial discrimination merely as a problem of violation of human rights. Whatever historical validity such a perspective may have had, it should now be recognized that what we are confronted with in South Africa is a situation where the right of an entire people to freedom and independence is trampled on. The question of apartheid in South Africa has thus become essentially a colonial question. 33. Moreover, this colonialism is on an aggressive move. It has already usurped in broad daylight a ward of the international community — the Territory of Namibia. Having refused a United Nations presence there, South African colonialism is now engaged in the ignoble enterprise of stretching the net of apartheid over that Territory.