A 1978 U.N. resolution to decolonize this South African territory began to be implemented in 1989
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South Africa objected arguing that a majority of the territory's people were content
... [DOC] [TLE] Progress of decolonization - Independence of Colonial Peoples ... [PAR] Some 44 territories (with a population of approximately 28 million) remained 
under ... UN involvement in the question of Southern Rhodesia began in 1961, 
when ...