The organised campaign to disrupt and destroy SWAPO's political and administrative structure has also taken the form of attacks on the movement's offices, both inside Namibia and externally.
On the night of 12/13 April, Rhodesian commando troops attacked a number of targets in the residential suburbs of Lusaka, including the Liberation Centre. This complex of buildings was donated to the Southern African liberation movements by the Zambian government a number of years ago and contains offices occupied by SWAPO, ZANU (Patriotic Front) and the ANC(South Africa). The premises were being used by SWAPO as a provisional administrative headquarters and had been recently re-equipped with new furniture and fittings. This building was totally destroyed by explosive charges laid by the commandos, as was that belonging to ZANU (PF).
Inside Namibia, SWAPO's national headquarters in Windhoek were raided and vandalised on Saturday 5 May, apparently by a right-wing white extremist group calling themselves the "White Resistance Movement". This organisation has been responsible for a number of racial attacks in Windhoek and elsewhere in recent weeks. In a statement, SWAPO pointed out that the South African police had significantly failed to take any effective action to follow up the destruction of the Windhoek office.
