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Namibia Short Story

Father of Nations

When the European powers were scrambling for Africa in the 1880s, Germany grabbed the area between the Orange River and the Kunene River and, in 1884, declared it a protectorate named Deutsch-Sudwestafrika. Only Walvis Bay was excluded because Great Britain had already laid claim to it. Germany, it seems, found it difficult to manage the territory and its brutal policies towards the ‘natives’ caused many uprisings.

Namibia

Duetsch-Sudwestafrika became South West Africa at the end of World War 1, when the League of Nations gave South Africa a mandate to administrate the territory. When South Africa later became reluctant to let go of her gains, despite a 1978 UN resolution t recall he mandate, a new her emerged: Samuel Daniel Shafiishuna Nujoma, the first president of the South West African people’s Organization (SWAPO0. Nujoma had co-founded SWAPO’s forerunner, the Ovamboland People’s Organization, in the late 1950s. in 1966 he authorized SWAPO to turn to armed resistance. During the struggle for independence he took the combat name Shafiishuna – ‘lightning’.
Namibia became Namibia on 21 March 1990. As head of SWAPO, San Nujoma was unanimously declared president after the party was victorious in UN-supervised elections. Nujoma was elected president three times (the constitution was changed in 1999 to allow him to become president for the third time). When, after 15 years in office, he could no longer be president, Hifikepunye Pohamaba – described by some as Nujoma’s hand-picked ssuccessor – was elected with a large majority. Nujoma stayed on as president of the ruling SWAPO party, a position he stil holds. Just before relinquishing his position as head of state in March 2005, he was given the official title of ‘Founding Father of Namibian Nations’.
Namibia is the 34th largest country in the world and, after Mongolia the least denslly populated, with fewer than two million peple, i.e: only two inhabitants per square kilometer.

 Namibia has an estimated population of 2.2 million people, comprising 13 ethnic groups. They are: the Herero, the Damara, the Nama, the San (Bushmen),  the Rehoboth Basters, the Coloureds, the Whites, the Caprivian, the Kavango, the Topnaars, the Tswana, the Himba and  the Owambo. (almost like SA)
One Namibian dollar is 0.076 US dollars. (2017 August 21st 11:35AM)
Beautiful country

I wrote this article, because they are just like South Africa. Lets learn a bit about our brothers. To white readers, they also your brother (as Namibia also has Afrikaners).

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