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The Hereros were cattle grazers, occupying most of central and northern South West Africa. Under the leadership of Jonker Afrikaner, who died in 1861, and then later under the leadership of Samuel Maharero, they had achieved supremacy over the Nama and Orlam peoples in a series of conflicts that had in their later stages, seen the extensive use of fire-arms obtained from European traders.
The Herero and Nama genocide or Namibian genocide, [5] formerly known also as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.
Earlier von Trotha issued an ultimatum to the Herero people, denying them the right of being German subjects and ordering them to leave the country or be killed. To escape, the Herero retreated into the waterless Omaheke region, a western arm of the Kalahari Desert, where many of them died of thirst. The German forces guarded every water source ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of wars involving Namibia. Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result; Herero Wars (1904–1908) Herero and ...
The Herero and Nama resisted expropriation [19] over the years. In 1903, the Herero people learnt that they were to be placed in reservations, [20] leaving more room for colonialists to own land and prosper. The Herero, 1904, and Nama, 1905, began a great rebellion that lasted until 1907, ending with the near destruction of the Herero people.
Manie [1] Maritz (26 July 1876 – 20 December 1940), also known as Gerrit Maritz, was a Boer officer during the Second Boer War.He was also a participant in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and later a leading participant in the pro-German Maritz rebellion in 1914. [2]
“There is nothing new under the sun.” It’s this unstated premise that drives Kliph Nesteroff’s latest book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.” In it, Nesteroff ...
Germany's Genocide of the Herero: Kaiser Wilhelm II, His General, His Settlers, His Soldiers. Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press. ISBN 978-1919895475. Report on the natives of South West Africa and their treatment by Germany, Administrator's Office, Windhuk [sic], London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. (Blue Book)