André Odendaal [SEP] occupation
André Odendaal
André Odendaal (born 4 May 1954, Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African historian and former first-class cricketer.
Education.
Odendaal attended Queen's College in Queenstown, Stellenbosch University, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a PhD in History.
Cricket career.
He played for Cambridge University in 1980 and 1983, scoring 61, his only first-class fifty, on debut against Leicestershire. He played nine matches in 1980, scoring
Africa's mandate. Under the growing international pressure to legitimate its annexation of Namibia, South Africa established in 1962 the ‘Commission of Enquiry into South West Africa Affairs’, better known as the Odendaal commission, named after Frans Hendrik Odendaal, who headed the commission. Its goal was it to introduce South African racist homeland politics in Namibia, while at the same time present the occupation as a progressive and scientific way to develop and support the people in Namibia.
South African rule Namibian struggle for independence.
In 1966,