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  2. Caprivi Strip - Wikipedia

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    When Namibia was a German colony, the Caprivi Strip was known in German as Caprivizipfel. Before colonisation, it was known as Itenge. During a short-lived secession attempt around the year 2000, the name Itenge was used by the separatists. It is also sometimes called the Okavango Panhandle.

  3. History of Namibia - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. List of years in Namibia - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of History of Namibia. Each article deals with events in Namibia in a given year. Pre-1990. Pre-1990; Twentieth century. 1990s 1990 1991 1992

  5. Omugulugwombashe - Wikipedia

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    Omugulugwombashe today features one of Namibia's two state cemeteries, where national heroes are buried. It also contains a memorial shrine , inaugurated by Namibia's founding president Sam Nujoma , and a statue of the six soldiers leading the camp when the attacks started on August 26, inaugurated by Namibia's second president Hifikepunye ...

  6. 1971–72 Namibian contract workers strike - Wikipedia

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    During this period, Namibia existed under apartheid as a subjugated colonial state of South Africa. [9] Apartheid began in 1948 [ 11 ] under British control in the Union of South Africa . By the mid-1960s, about 45 to 50 percent of the Black labour force was contract migrant labour from the northern Namibia colonial reserves .

  7. ‘Desert of Namibia’ Review: A Meandering Chronicle of a ...

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    “Desert of Namibia,” about a caustic 21-year-old Japanese wanderer, embodies its protagonist’s listlessness to a fault. Director Yôko Yamanaka was still a teenager when she made her debut ...

  8. Girl's Abduction and Murder Became 'Oldest Cold Case' in U.S ...

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    In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years. But less than five years ...

  9. Namibia–Zambia relations - Wikipedia

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    Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia from 1911 to 1964. Namibia was known as German South-West Africa (1885–1915) and later as South-West Africa (1915–1989). Until 1964, both countries were ruled by white minorities, however, Northern Rhodesia gained independence in 1964, renaming itself Zambia.