Here for 20 years, South Africa has ignored international law, occupied the land by force and refused to allow the formation of a democratic government.
Here a mining company has leased the world's largest diamond workings, taken £5 billion worth of gems and paid a rent of £130 per year.
At the mouth of the Orange River, an accident of geology and the sands of time has laid down one of nature's rarest gifts to mankind – lonely beaches encrusted with the finest gem diamonds in the world.
Released by volcanic activity inland, the diamonds were originally thrown into the Orange River, then over the centuries they were washed downstream and taken to the sea.
Businessman Eric Lang said: "Successive Administrator-Generals allowed the mining companies to get away with exporting 20–25% of production without any control whatsoever."
Lang said he believes that the plunder of his country's resources could lead to another famine in Africa, and that the people of Namibia had lost their equivalent of North Sea Oil – what would have given them a secure future.
"Former CDM manager, Gordon Brown, claimed that for 20 years De Beers had been stripping Namibia of its most precious asset – diamonds at Oranjemund.
"The documentary referred to a wide-ranging investigation carried out by South African Judge Pieter Willem Thirion in 1982 into political corruption and the divisive tribal structures imposed on Namibia by the apartheid government.
Judge Thirion focused upon the stewardship of the nation's principal economic resource – gem diamonds of the Atlantic beaches north of the Orange River.