OSHAKATI – The eagerly-anticipated Oshakati Totem Expo is scheduled for 29 May to 6 June, bringing nine days of culture, entertainment, business and community celebration to northern Namibia. At the heart of the expo is the meaning of ‘totem’, a cultural symbol of identity, heritage and belonging. The event brings together different ethnic groups across...
OSHAKATI – The Oshakati Town Council has made significant progress in the formalisation of informal settlements through a combination of relocation and in-situ upgrading approaches aimed at improving access to services and secure land tenure. Under the relocation approach, residents from vulnerable or unsuitable informal areas, such as Oshoopala, have been relocated to Onawa, where...
OSHAKATI – The Oshana regional leadership has outlined an ambitious development agenda aimed at improving infrastructure, expanding public services and tackling unemployment, poverty and housing challenges across the region. Key priorities include the improvement of roads, water and sanitation infrastructure, electricity access, housing delivery, healthcare services and education facilities, while also focusing on youth empowerment,...
Stephen W. Snively The more travelled dirt roads in Namibia are wide, flat and smooth. I am driving along a road on the edge of the desert, which is all of those things, plus endless. The long journey makes me think that the museum is as far away and forgotten as the tragic chapter in...
PREFACE This poem pays tribute to our enduring and eternal love and the spirit of our brave, fallen fore-bearers – our great-grandparents – who suffered the first genocide of the 20th century. The poem commemorates the official closure of the notorious concentration camps on 28 May 1908 in the German South West Africa (now Namibia),...
— From the Kalahari, Memory Refuses Silence In the shifting sands of the Omaheke, the silence is a scream, Where the bitter blue of the sky met the blood-red earth. A monsoon of malice blew from the Kaiser’s hand, To strangle the nation before its next birth. I see the iron shackles of the past...
It was on this fateful day, 2nd October 1904 when German imperial genocide general Lothar von Trotha declared genocide against the Ovaherero people, and extended this termination order to the Nama people on the 23rd April 1905. This academic piece focusses mainly on the historical context of Shark Island located near the harbour of Lüderitz,...
As Namibia marks the second anniversary of Genocide Remembrance Day, the nation pauses in solemn reflection on one of the darkest chapters in its history. This day is not merely ceremonial, but a religious, moral, political and historical obligation that calls for remembrance, truth-telling and a renewed commitment to restorative justice. It is a day...
This past month, as we gathered at the Circle mountains of Sam !Khubis for its 111th commemoration, I found myself thinking not only of the bullets and artillery of 1915, but of the ink on a piece of paper signed 30 years before that. That paper, the so-called ‘protection treaty’ of 1885, is where the...
As descendants of the survivors of the Ovaherero and Ovambanderu, we are today commemorating the Genocide Remembrance Day (GRD) for the fourth consecutive year to show our unwavering resolves not to betray the ultimate sacrifices of our ancestors, who paid the highest price, their lives, to resist colonialism. Therefore, 2026 with the format of the...