Unusually for his generation, he never scrambled to gain positions of power after independence.
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A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
Former residents recall a community nurtured by a spirit of extended family and solidarity.
There were several times in Swapo’s exile history when internal critics were silenced.
Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah seems unlikely to deviate from Swapo’s policy framework, offering few, if any, surprises.
Swapo seems to attract the biggest crowds at rallies, but does it signal electoral support?
Liberation was meant to deliver significant change, for the better. But South Africa and Namibia show that the new elites that took power exercised it for their own benefit.
Hage Geingob’s legacy as a moderniser will live on despite contradictions and unfulfilled promises.
Anna “Kakurukaze” Mungunda became the most widely acknowledged face of the resistance to the apartheid policy of forced removal.
Ahtisaari’s role in Namibia was crucial. But he left a major legacy in pursuing peace in various places of conflict in his later life too.
How Swapo and the ANC respond to any further decline in electoral support will define the future of democracy in both countries.
External changes, including the end of the Cold War, helped lead to the ending of apartheid. Gorbachev played a major role in that process.
The problem is that communities who continue to be most affected by the violent past have not been involved in negotiations.
The legitimacy of SWAPO, the former liberation movement that has governed since 1990, has been eroded amid growing corruption and a deepening economic crisis.
Jackson Mthembu’s death drives home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The November 2020 local and regional elections have indeed put Namibia’s political culture at a crossroads.
The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn’t the case.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
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