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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:
[7] On 26 August 2015, Namibia's Heroes' Day, Lubowski was reburied at Namibia's National Heroes' Acre. [8] Lubowski's life is described in his widow's self-published novel On Solid Ground. [9] Lubowski's assassination is part of the backstory in Bernhard Jaumann's novel The Hour of the Jackal. [10]
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.
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 .
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]
Steinmeier said at the memorial service it was time Germany extends an official apology to the people of Namibia for atrocities inflicted upon them during the 1904-1908 genocide, when German ...
Kutako became deputy chief of Namibia's Traditional Leaders Council, and also became Chief of the Botswana Mbanderu people in 1951. Along with the British Anglican priest Rev. Michael Scott , he submitted numerous petitions to the United Nations during the 1950s and 1960s calling on the world body to end South African rule and grant Namibia ...