While Namibia may have escaped the clutches of the Germans, it fared little better with its new masters, for those familiar with South African history will know that at that time it was ruled by whites and its apartheid policy was extended to Namibia in 1948. This and other authoritarian South African laws led to general unrest and the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) started a guerrilla war against South Africa that lasted from 1966 to 1990 when on 21st March, Namibia became an independent nation as the Republic of Namibia, adopting "Namibia, Land of the Brave" as its national anthem. Today Namibia is considered a stable democracy however, like so many African nations, faces many problems not least the steady proliferation of HIV/AIDS which is estimated to have left 70,000 orphans, about half the 140,000 orphans in the country. Many of these children end up on the streets, begging for money and food to survive and many of them sleep in little shacks, in river beds or under bridges. It is hard to imagine bring brought up in a country where 17.5% of the entire child population is an orphan and where life xpectancy is just 59.27 years (2021).