This site sustains the semi-nomadic pastoral livelihood of the Nama people, reflecting seasonal patterns that may have persisted for as much as two millennia in southern Africa. It is the only area ...

The case was brought by indigenous Ovaherero and Nama and descendants of the estimated 100,000 people who were systematically killed by colonizing Germans between 1904 and 1908 in what is now Namibia.

However, some Herero and Nama are demanding official reparations. Between 1904 and 1908, Germany's colonial forces reacted to a rebellion by the Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia with brutal ...

At the start of the 20th century, tensions escalated between indigenous Herero and Nama people and German settlers, in what was then known as German South West Africa. In 1904, chief Samuel ...

German colonisers killed tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. This amounted to some 80% of the Ovaherero and over 40% of the Nama. Their land and ...

It was here at the start of the 20th Century where the Ovaherero and Nama people were subjected to sexual violence, forced labour and gruesome medical experiences. Many died of disease and exhaustion.

Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) yesterday acted swiftly to pull a Tafel Lager advert which sparked outrage amongst some Namibians, who charged that it fed stereotypes about Nama people’s ...

In 2021 Berlin acknowledged committing genocide in Namibia. German colonisers massacred more than 70,000 Herero and Nama people between 1904 and 1908. Historians consider this to be the 20th ...