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Aerial view of Heroes´s Acre in 2017. Heroes' Acre is an official war memorial of the Republic of Namibia. Built into the uninhabited hills 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of the city centre of Windhoek, Heroes' Acre opened on 26 August 2002. It was created to "foster a spirit of patriotism and nationalism, and to pass [this] to the future ...
Kahimemua Nguvauva is one of nine national heroes of Namibia that were identified at the inauguration of the country's Heroes' Acre near Windhoek.Founding president Sam Nujoma remarked in his inauguration speech on 26 August 2002 that:
Heroes' Day (Afrikaans: Helde-dag, German: Heldentag) is a national public holiday in Namibia. It is recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day . Celebrated annually on 26 August, [ 1 ] the day commemorates the Namibian War of Independence which began on 26 August 1966 at Omugulugwombashe .
He became speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia in 1990, until his retirement in 2004. [5] Theo-Ben Gurirab succeeded him. [3] Tjitendero died on 26 April 2006 in Windhoek. He was declared a National Hero of Namibia and buried at Namibia's Heroes' Acre outside the capital. [6] He was married to Sandra, a fellow Namibian in exile. [7]
Gammams Cemetery accommodates Namibia's only crematory. [2] [3] Old Location Cemetery (1927–1960), today a national monument named Old Location Cemetery Museum, in Hochland Road, Hochland Park. Contains the mass grave of people killed in the Old Location Uprising in December 1959. [2] [4] Veronica Street Cemetery in the Ludwigsdorf suburb [5]
Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (22 August 1924 – 9 June 2017) was a Namibian anti-apartheid activist, politician and political prisoner.Ya Toivo was active in the pre-independence movement, and is one of the co-founders of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960, and before that, its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) in 1959.
Since Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990, Mungunda is regarded one of the heroes of the Namibian nation. [1] [2] Mungunda was born in 1932 to migrant labourer Theopoldt Shivute and Emilia Kavezeri, a niece of Hosea Kutako. She had three siblings who all died in their infancy. [3]
Heroes' Acre (Namibia) K. Khorab Memorial This page was last edited on 8 April 2023, at 14:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...