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The starting point of this article was a short stay in Swakopmund and a guided tour by Laidlaw Peringanda, a Herero-activist and founder of the Swakopmund Genocide Museum. Peringanda introduced us to a site in Swakopmund that has been variously referred to in literature and public discourse by different names: Old Cemetery Ground, African Cemetery, Swakopmund’s Old Cemetery, Native Old Location Graves or Kramersdorf Indigenous Cemetery. The significance of this cemetery has been, and continues to be, a subject of social, historical and political controversy. The discussions also include municipal administration and management of the cemetery. Particularly, in 1997, Jeremy Silvester, Kate Burling and Dag Henrichsen published informative articles in The Namibian Weekender. They highlight the cemetery’s historical importance, aiming at raising public awareness and at challenging the Swakopmund Municipality’s development plans which aim to permit the construction of houses on parts of this historically significant site.

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Bringing Justice to the Dead? The Open and Seemingly Desolated Old Location Cemetery in Kramersdorf, Swakopmund

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    2026年

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  • Uwe H. Bittlingmayer,
  • Basilius M. Kasera,
  • Frieder Maurer,
  • Lea Traxel

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The starting point of this article was a short stay in Swakopmund and a guided tour by Laidlaw Peringanda, a Herero-activist and founder of the Swakopmund Genocide Museum. Peringanda introduced us to a site in Swakopmund that has been variously referred to in literature and public discourse by different names: Old Cemetery Ground, African Cemetery, Swakopmund’s Old Cemetery, Native Old Location Graves or Kramersdorf Indigenous Cemetery. The significance of this cemetery has been, and continues to be, a subject of social, historical and political controversy. The discussions also include municipal administration and management of the cemetery. Particularly, in 1997, Jeremy Silvester, Kate Burling and Dag Henrichsen published informative articles in The Namibian Weekender. They highlight the cemetery’s historical importance, aiming at raising public awareness and at challenging the Swakopmund Municipality’s development plans which aim to permit the construction of houses on parts of this historically significant site.