It's very little and very late. Similar controversies persist in Botswana and South Africa, where many streets continue to be renamed but debate has raged for years over the administrative capital, Pretoria. South Africa has 11 official languages but none is that of its original population.
In his state of the nation address last year, South African president Jacob Zuma pledged that provisions would be made "for the recognition of the Khoisan communities, their leadership and structures". Zenzile Khoisan, secretary of Khoisan First Nation Indigenous Status, an umbrella representative group, applauded Namibia's move as a first step but complained that it is not a signatory to the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.
He added: "Restoring the names is a platform for the process of the restoration of these people, to fight for the restitution of these people and the recognition of these people as the foundational people of southern Africa. Indigenous people are now reasserting themselves: in southern Africa there is growing anger and resentment among our people.
The Namibian government did not respond to a request for comment, while the German ambassador in the Namibian capital, of Windhoek, declined to be interviewed. This article is more than 8 years old.
Caprivi Strip is renamed Zambezi Region to further restitution of culture and land recognition for tribal people of southern Africa. A herdsman, northern Namibia. For many of them this proves to be a death sentence. There will be little regret among the indigenous people of South West Africa when a European war brings a change of colonial master. South Africa and South West Africa: The only German target in the immediate region is South West Africa. In July the German forces in the colony surrender.
At the end of the war the League of Nations places South West Africa under a British mandate, with the administration of the territory entrusted to the government of South Africa. There thus begins the gradual process by which South West Africa becomes more and more closely integrated with its larger neighbour, until it is in many ways regarded as the fifth province of the Union.
The region's prosperity increases after World War II, largely thanks to a buoyant market for diamonds and beef, but the wealth accrues almost exclusively to the white settler population in the southern part of the protectorate. Meanwhile the distress of the black population is aggravated by the introduction of South Africa's apartheid laws after From the late s there is a lengthy clash of will between South Africa and the United Nations.
South Africa disputes the authority of the UN in this matter. Eventually, in , the UN asserts its sovereignty and campaigns actively for the liberation of the region - which it begins to refer to by a more acceptable local name, Namibia. There is by now a local organization working actively towards the same end, that of independence. Within the Ovambo tribe, whose territory straddles the border between South West Africa and Angola, there is founded in the Ovamboland People's Organization.
SWAPO soon becomes the main political force in the province, launching a guerrilla campaign against the South African administration. In the s the campaign to suppress SWAPO escalates into a debilitating war, carried far north into Angola , which drains the energies of a South African government already beset by increasing internal unrest. In the South African effort collapses. A cease-fire is agreed, providing for the simultaneous withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and of South African forces from South West Africa.
The government in Pretoria now finally gives up its policy of stalling on Namibia's independence. It agrees that the UN will supervise the provision of a new constitution and the holding of elections. Call Us. International Number Toll Free : Namibian History. Start Planning Now. Home Destinations Namibia History. The first European to set foot on Namibia was Portuguese Diogo Cao in Bartholomeu Diaz stopped in Walvis Bay and Luderitz and on his way around the Cape of Good Hope History tells that the Germans claimed South West Africa as it was known between and In , South Africa, being a member of the Britsh Commonwealth at the time, occupied the German colony of South West Africa South Africa ruled Namibia between and Namibia fought for independence from South Africa during the period from to Independence was finally granted in Precolonial History of Namibia Namibia has passed through several distinct stages over the years.
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