Namibia as a country and her people were subjected to multiple colonialism and gross human right violations. It is a country which emerged from a history of colonialism which can be traced to 1884 under Germany’s rule after the Berlin Conference—the Scramble for Africa. Chiwara and Lombard (2017) postulate that following Germany’s colonial rule from 1884 to 1915, the League of Nations mandated that the Union of South Africa was to govern Namibia with the aim of enhancing the Namibian people’s well-being after Germany’s withdrawal in 1919. I am not in agreement that Namibia was made a fifth province of South Africa ‘with the aim to enhance the well-being of Namibians’ as cited by Chiwara and Lombard (2017). Maybe yes, that brought 31 years of German rule to end but as a people we were subjected to another form of colonialism under the apartheid regime of South Africa. South African occupation started in May 1915 when General Louis Botha who was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa (then known as the Union of South Africa) deployed 40 000 South African troops in Namibia and then known as German Südwest Africa. To this effect, Wallace and Kinahan (2011) assert that Namibians were under another colonial power, and they experienced apartheid for the next 75 years under South Africa until the country’s independence on 21 March 1990.

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Addressing the Intergenerational Trauma of the People of Namibia Through Transformative Health Education

  • Esther U. Muinjangue

摘要

Namibia as a country and her people were subjected to multiple colonialism and gross human right violations. It is a country which emerged from a history of colonialism which can be traced to 1884 under Germany’s rule after the Berlin Conference—the Scramble for Africa. Chiwara and Lombard (2017) postulate that following Germany’s colonial rule from 1884 to 1915, the League of Nations mandated that the Union of South Africa was to govern Namibia with the aim of enhancing the Namibian people’s well-being after Germany’s withdrawal in 1919. I am not in agreement that Namibia was made a fifth province of South Africa ‘with the aim to enhance the well-being of Namibians’ as cited by Chiwara and Lombard (2017). Maybe yes, that brought 31 years of German rule to end but as a people we were subjected to another form of colonialism under the apartheid regime of South Africa. South African occupation started in May 1915 when General Louis Botha who was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa (then known as the Union of South Africa) deployed 40 000 South African troops in Namibia and then known as German Südwest Africa. To this effect, Wallace and Kinahan (2011) assert that Namibians were under another colonial power, and they experienced apartheid for the next 75 years under South Africa until the country’s independence on 21 March 1990.