Windhoek — AS a keen witness and prolific United Nations note taker of the unfolding political history of Southern Africa, the author of the book, A Nation is Born, The Inside Story of Namibia's ...

For me, it was an opportunity to see firsthand how colonial violence is remembered in Namibia. This was not my first time learning about Germany’s colonial history. In 2022, I spent two weeks in ...

Over a century ago, Germany colonised what is now know as Namibia. In the years that followed, tens of thousands of Africans were killed and all opposition was crushed. After its defeat in World War I ...

Namibia’s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery on Saturday. It was attended by his ...

ALMOST 200,000 years ago modern humans originated in parts of what is today called Namibia and South Africa. The six billion people who now occupy all the continents and nations of the world owe their ...

The inaugural commemoration event for genocide victims under colonial German rule has been held. Namibia's president said more needed to be done to reach an agreement on reparations. Namibia held a ...

It was the early 1990s, just years after Namibia’s independence from South Africa, a time when nearly every speech a politician gave was like a series of patriotic how-to guides on building a new ...

Even in South Africa, which has attracted more attention than other parts of the continent, few women photographers from the early and mid-1900s appear in the historical record. There are even fewer ...

Namibia's cricketers made history with their first-ever world cup win when they beat the Netherlands by six wickets at the T20 World Cup in Abu Dhabi yesterday. They had to dig deep in a match that ...

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Namibia reached the Twenty20 (T20) World Cup second round for the first time yesterday when they beat Ireland by eight wickets with the team’s star player ...