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The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonised in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990. From 1884, Namibia was a German colony: German South West Africa. After the First World War, the League of Nations gave South Africa a mandate to administer the
It was located on Shark Island off Lüderitz, in the far south-west of the territory which today is Namibia. It was used by the German Empire during the Herero and Nama genocide of 1904–08. [8] Between 1,032 and 3,000 Herero and Nama men, women, and children died in the camp between March 1905 and its closing in April 1907. [9] [10] [11]
This is a list of wars involving Namibia. Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result; Herero Wars (1904–1908) Herero and Namaqua: German Empire. ... Egypt [9] [10 ...
The first is that of Jahohora, a 12-year-old Herero girl who survives on her own in the veld for two years after her family is killed by German soldiers. The second story in Mama Namibia is that of Kov, a Jewish doctor who volunteered to serve in the German military to prove his patriotism. As he witnesses the atrocities of the genocide, he ...
The Equestrian Monument, more commonly known under its German original name Reiterdenkmal and the name Südwester Reiter (Rider of South West), was a monument in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It was inaugurated on 27 January 1912, the birthday of German emperor Wilhelm II .
This is a list of the kings of the Ondonga people, a Namibian subtribe of the Owambo. [1] [2] The kingdom was founded in 1650.Since then there have been 18 kings. [3] The kings reside at a Royal Homestead in a village of their choice with Onamungundo having been a royal seat for more than 2 kings.
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.
In February 2024, Namibia buried its President Hage Geingob (1941-2024) in one of the mausoleums located at the monument. Geingob, who was at the time in his second term as president, played a pivotal role in the construction of the mausoleums that are reserved for the Namibian President and was the first to be buried in them.