Hendrik Witbooi

… Captains Hendrik Witbooi and Jacob Marenga; chiefs Kahimemua Nguvauva, Samuel Maharero, Nehale lya Mpingana, Mandume ya Ndemufayo, Iipumbu ya Tshilongo, and Hosea Komombumbi Kutako, including all those petitioners at the UN, including our founding father Dr Sam Nujoma and many ot …

Windhoek Observer·8 May

… The President paid tribute to the founding leadership of SWAPO, including Founding President Sam Nujoma, as well as earlier resistance leaders such as Samuel Maharero, Mandume ya Ndemufayo, Hendrik Witbooi, and others whose efforts laid the foundation for Namibia’s liberation str …

Informanté·19 Apr

… Vividly immortalising Namibia’s leaders in Tity Tshilumba’s ‘The Relay Torch of Freedom’ as well as in a heroic portrait of Hendrik Witbooi painted by Nicodemus Usebiu, the exhibition honours those who led Namibia’s resistance against colonial and apartheid rule while also reflec …

The Namibian·24 Mar

… Reverend Willem Konjore played an instrumental role in the Nama teachers’ strike of 1976, which culminated in him, together with the late Reverend Hendrik Witbooi, Chief Stephanus Goliath, and many others, joining the liberation struggle under the banner of Swapo. …

The Namibian·24 Mar

… In the same breath, we also owe it to our forefathers and foremothers, the likes of Captain Hendrik Witbooi, Jacob Marengo, Mandume Ndemufayo, Samuel Maharero, Simon Kooper, Anna Kakurukaze Mungunda, Jan Jonker Afrikaner, Abraham Morris and many other heroes and heroines who led …

The Namibian·24 Mar

… The Vice President noted that Reverend Konjore played a key role in the Nama Teachers’ Strike of 1976, which led to him, alongside the late Reverend Dr Hendrik Witbooi, Chief Stephanus Goliath and others, joining the liberation struggle under the banner of SWAPO. …

Informanté·22 Mar

After nearly a decade of research, filming and reflection, filmmaker Alexander Honisch has completed a documentary chronicling the life and resistance of Nama leader Hendrik Witbooi. …

New Era·6 Mar

… They include Founding President Sam Nujoma, along with other esteemed figures like liberation struggle icons Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, Greenwell Matongo, Brendan Simbwaye, Hendrik Witbooi, Mose Tjitendero, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Kakurukaze Mungunda, former president Hage Geingob, and ot …

New Era·2 Mar

… They cannot ignore that because at the back of the canvas there’s a whole history about Hendrik Witbooi, about Shark Island, about women, about contract labourers,” she says. …

The Namibian·23 Aug

… One day, however, which is not well known, is the massacre that took place at Hornkranz in the Khomas Hochland mountains 132 years ago, on 12 April 1893 when German colonial forces attacked Hendrik Witbooi at his village at Hornkranz, killing 80 people, many of them women and chi …

The Namibian·31 May