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One of the first European groups to show interest in Namibia were the missionaries. In 1805 the London Missionary Society began working in Namibia, moving north from the Cape Colony. In 1811 they founded the town Bethanie in southern Namibia, where they built a church, which was long considered to be Namibia's oldest building, [ 6 ] before the ...
The first European to land in Namibia was Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão. [3]Portuguese mariner and explorer Bartolomeu Dias reached Namibia in 1487. Europeans had no interest in Namibia until the 19th century because there was a desert along the country’s coast.
Guilliam Visagie (born about 1751; still alive in 1793) was a fugitive from the Dutch Cape Colony who fled to southern Namibia in about 1786. [1] He is considered to have been the first person of European ancestry to have settled in the country. [2] Visagie was born about 1751 in the Dutch Cape Colony, likely to parents of Huguenot descent.
The other 1% of whites in South Africa, who do not speak Afrikaans or English, mostly speak Portuguese (from immigrant communities who come from Angola and Mozambique), or German, and Dutch (from European immigration). Equally, in Namibia, the remaining 1% of the white population speaks mostly Portuguese because of the immigration from Angola ...
Johannes Rebmann (January 16, 1820 – October 4, 1876), also sometimes anglicised as John Rebman, [1] was a German missionary, linguist, and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast.
Diogo Cão (c. 1452 – 1486), also known as Diogo Cam, was a Portuguese mariner and one of the most notable explorers of the fifteenth century.He made two voyages along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s, exploring the Congo River and the coasts of present-day Angola and Namibia.
Nicknamed NNN, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history by being elected as Namibia's first female president. The 72-year-old won more than 57% of the vote, with her closest rival, Panduleni Itula ...
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ [17] [18]), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.