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Shah, Sheena, and Christian Zimmer. "Grammatical Innovations in German in Multilingual Namibia: The Expanded Use of Linking Elements and Gehen ‘Go’ as a Future Auxiliary." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 35, no. 3 (August 14, 2023): 205–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542722000150.

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In this paper, we provide an overview of the history and sociolinguistic setting of Germans and German in Namibia, which serves as a backdrop for our discussion of two grammatical innovations in Namibian German. German has been actively used in Namibia since the 1880s, having been brought to the country through colonization, and it remains linguistically vital today. Via a questionnaire study, we investigate the expanded use of two grammatical innovations in Namibian German, namely, i) linking elements and ii) gehen as a future auxiliary. We explore various factors that could have contributed to the emergence of these innovations in order to better understand the dynamics of German in multilingual Namibia.*

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Botes, Anri. "The History of Labour Hire in Namibia: A Lesson for South Africa." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 16, no. 1 (April 26, 2017): 505. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/v16i1a2320.

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Labour hire, the practice of hiring out employees to clients by a labour broker, has been a part of Namibia’s history since the early 1900s in the form of the contract labour system. This form of employment was characterized by inhumanity and unfair labour practices. These employees were subjected to harsh working conditions, inhumane living conditions and influx control. The contract labour system continued until 1977, when it was abolished by the General Law Amendment Proclamation of 1977. It was during the 1990s that the hiring out of employees returned in the form of labour hire. It continued in this form without being regulated until it was banned in the Namibian Labour Act of 2007. In 2009 Africa Personnel Services, Namibia’s largest labour broker, brought a case before the court against the Namibian Government in an attempt to have the ban nullified on grounds of unconstitutionality. It argued that the ban infringed on its right to carry on any trade or business of its choice as contained in section 21(1)(j) of the Constitution of the Republic of Namibia. APS triumphed. It was not until April 2012 that new legislation was promulgated in order to officially lift the ban and to regulate labour hire in its current form. This new legislation came into force in August 2012. Various very important provisions are contained in the Labour Amendment Act 2 of 2012 concerning labour brokers. Part IV of the Employment Services Act 8 of 2011, containing provisions for the regulation of labour brokers as juristic persons per se, was also introduced and came into force in September 2012. The aim of this note is to serve as a lesson to the South African government as to what could happen if labour brokers continue without legislation properly addressing the pitfalls associated with labour brokers. Also, it could serve as an example as to how the employees of a labour broker should be protected. In this regard the history of labour hire and the current strides in Namibia cannot be ignored.

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GEWALD, JAN-BART. "NEAR DEATH IN THE STREETS OF KARIBIB: FAMINE, MIGRANT LABOUR AND THE COMING OF OVAMBO TO CENTRAL NAMIBIA." Journal of African History 44, no. 2 (July 2003): 211–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853702008381.

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Namibian politics and society are today dominated by people who trace their descent from the settlements and homesteads of Ovamboland in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Yet, prior to 1915, and the defeat by South Africa of the German colonial army in German South-West Africa, very few Ovambo had settled in areas to the south of the Etosha Pan. In 1915, a Portuguese expeditionary army defeated Kwanyama forces in southern Angola, and unleashed a flood of refugees into northern Namibia. These refugees entered an area that was already overstretched. Since 1912 the rains had failed and, on account of the First World War, trade and migration had come to a standstill. As a result the area was experiencing its most devastating famine ever. Unable to find sanctuary in Ovamboland, thousands of people trekked southwards into central Namibia, an area which had only just come under the control of South Africa. The famine allowed for the easy entrance of South African military administrators and labour recruiters into Ovamboland and heralded the demise of Ovambo independence. By focusing on developments in the central Namibian town of Karibib between 1915 to 1916, the article explores the move of the Ovambo into central and southern Namibia. It traces the impact of war and drought on Ovambo societies, and follows Ovambo famine migrants on their route south into areas administered by the South African military administration. Discussion also concentrates on the reception and treatment of Ovambo famine migrants in the Karibib settlement, and argues that the refugee crisis heralded the establishment of Ovambo in modern central and southern Namibia.

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Feinstein, Anthony. "Psychiatry in post-apartheid Namibia: a troubled legacy." Psychiatric Bulletin 26, no. 8 (August 2002): 310–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.26.8.310-a.

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I recently spent 6 months in Namibia as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The purpose of my visit was twofold: the establishment of a database for trauma-related mental health disorders and the development of a validated, self-report screening instrument for mental illness. In the process, I was able to meet with Namibian colleagues and visit a number of health care centres in the country. This article will focus on my impressions of psychiatry in Namibia that were formed during my visit. A brief summary of Namibian history, in particular the country's relations with neighbouring South Africa, will help place my observations in a more meaningful context.

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QUINN, STEPHANIE. "INFRASTRUCTURE, ETHNICITY, AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN NAMIBIA, 1946–87." Journal of African History 61, no. 1 (March 2020): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853720000031.

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AbstractThis article uses the copper mining town Tsumeb to examine urban infrastructure, ethnicity, and African political solidarities in apartheid Namibia. To translate apartheid to Namibia, South Africa re-planned Namibian towns to reinforce colonial divisions between two classes of African laborers: mostly Ovambo migrant laborers from northern Namibia and Angola and, secondly, ethnically diverse laborers from the zone of colonial settlement and investment, the Police Zone. Housing and infrastructure were key to this social engineering project, serving as a conduit for official and company ideas about ‘Ovambo’ and Police Zone laborers. Yet Africans’ uses of infrastructure and ethnic discourses challenged, and provoked debates about the boundaries of urban social and political belonging. Between the 1971–2 general strike of northern contract workers and the 1987 strike against the multinational Tsumeb Corporation Limited, which involved northern contract workers and community members, Africans built a political community that challenged both company and colonial state.

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Williams, Christian A., and Tichaona Mazarire. "The Namibian Independence Memorial Museum, Windhoek, Namibia." American Historical Review 124, no. 5 (December 1, 2019): 1809–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1163.

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Diener, Ingolf, and Brian Wood. "Namibia, 1884-1984: Readings on Namibia's History and Society." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 24, no. 2 (1990): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485285.

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Williams, Christian. "A History of Namibia." South African Historical Journal 65, no. 1 (March 2013): 157–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2013.777223.

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Mushaandja, Theresia, Dr Nelson Mlambo, and Prof Collen Sabao. "Healthcare communication for the Namibian healthcare context." NAWA Journal of Language and Communication 16, no. 1 (February 27, 2023): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.59677/njlc.v16i1.8.

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Understanding the patients’ history, fears, understandings, and misunderstandings could aid the healthcare provider in effectively administering care to their clients. The current study is a review of studies related to healthcare communication and their relevance to the Namibian healthcare system. It is also intended to fill the existing paucity of literature of this nature in Namibia, making this paper timely and relevant. The researchers identified the need for a review study, which critically investigates healthcare providers’ and patients’ communication experiences in Namibia, through a critical review of available literature from Namibia, Africa, and the world. As clarified in the reviewed literature, there is a lack of sufficient empirical studies on healthcare communication challenges and how healthcare providers and patients deal with such challenges in Namibia. The main finding in this study is that in addition to linguistic discordance experienced in healthcare communication, other causes of dissonance emanate from the differences in cultural backgrounds, beliefs, exposure, and experiences.

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Melber, Henning. "Coming to Terms in Namibia." Matatu 50, no. 2 (February 13, 2020): 333–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05002006.

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Abstract The South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO of Namibia) had a unique status among anti-colonial movements. Fighting South Africa’s illegal occupation of South West Africa/Namibia, dubbed by the United Nations as a “trust betrayed,” it resorted to armed struggle in the 1960s. SWAPO was subsequently recognized as “the sole and authentic representative of the Namibian people” by a United Nations General Assembly resolution since the mid-1970s. The political culture in post-colonial Namibia is much characterized by the dominance of SWAPO as a former liberation movement and its official history. This paper summarizes the relevance of the armed struggle for the heroic narrative. It contrasts the glorification with some of the ‘hidden histories’ and trajectories related to some less documented realities of the armed struggle and its consequences which do not have much visibility in the official historiography. It thereby finally seeks to present a more nuanced picture by giving voice to some protagonists of a post-colonial political culture not considered as mainstream.

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Becker, Heike. "Writing Genocide." Matatu 50, no. 2 (February 13, 2020): 361–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05002002.

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Abstract In this article I read several recently published novels that attempt to write the early 20th century Namibian experience of colonial war and genocide. Mari Serebrov’s Mama Namibia, Lauri Kubuitsile’s The Scattering and Jaspar Utley’s The Lie of the Land set out to write the genocide and its aftermath. Serebrov and Kubuitsile do so expressly from the perspective of survivors; their main characters are young Herero women who live through war and genocide. This sets Mama Namibia and The Scattering apart from the earlier literature, which—despite an enormous divergence of political and aesthetic outlooks—tended to be written from the perspective of German male protagonists. The Lie of the Land, too, scores new territory in postcolonial literature. I read these recent works of fiction against an oral history-based biography, in which a Namibian author, Uazuvara Katjivena, narrates the story of his grandmother who survived the genocide.

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Ellis, Hugh. "‘Why don’t you let me flow in my space?’." Matatu 50, no. 2 (February 13, 2020): 444–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05002012.

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Abstract The practice of performance or ‘spoken word’ poetry has gained a significant foothold among the youth in urban Namibia in the last two decades. While this poetry has been put to many socio-political uses, one of the main ones has been a protest against patriarchal elements in Namibian society and culture, and an outcry against Namibia’s high rates of gender-based violence. Patriarchal aspects of Namibia’s national culture are often explicitly linked to violence and to the intersectional nature of oppression. Spoken word poetry has also often given LGBT+ women a space to speak out against their oppression and to normalise their existence. This article shows how women performers have used and modified the conventions of poetry and song to get this challenging—in the Namibian context often radical—message across. The paper argues that poetry in this context has the potential to approximate a localised ‘public sphere’ where inclusive discourse can be held around social issues—bearing mind that people are not excluded from this discourse because of arbitrary reasons such as gender or sexuality.

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Kempf, Jürgen. "Relief history of chalk crusts in Namibia." Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 40, no. 4 (December 12, 1996): 519–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/zfg/40/1996/519.

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Seidman, Ann. "Book Review: Namibia 1884/984 - Readings on Namibia's History and Society." Review of Radical Political Economics 23, no. 1-2 (March 1991): 242–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/048661349102300134.

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Katjavivi, Peter H., Elna Schoeman, and Stanley Schoeman. "Namibia." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 3 (1987): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219716.

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Lissowsky, Nelli, Simona Kralj-Fišer, and Jutta M. Schneider. "Giant and dwarf females: how to explain the fourfold variation in body size and fecundity in Trichonephila senegalensis (Aranea: Nephilidae)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133, no. 4 (May 17, 2021): 1016–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab059.

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Abstract Variation in life-history traits within a population is caused by genetic, maternal and environmental factors. We explored the high variability in development time, adult body weight and fecundity in females of the sexually size dimorphic spider Trichonephila senegalensis. Their mothers originated from two habitats—strongly seasonal Namibia and mildly seasonal South Africa—and we reared F1 females under standardized laboratory conditions. We found that a considerable part of the variability in recorded life-history traits is caused by family-specific effects, comprising genetic, maternal and early environmental influences. Furthermore, we show population differences in development time, where females originating from Namibia matured within shorter periods than females from South Africa. Also, the relationship between development time and adult weight differs between the two populations, as a significant correlation is only found in females with Namibian origin. Against common wisdom, there was a weak overall correlation between adult weight and clutch mass. We also found that females make different life-history decisions under increasing rather than under decreasing daylength. Although a considerable part of variability in life-history traits is family-specific, we discuss how the between-population differences in life histories and their trade-offs reflect adaptation to diverse habitats.

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Herbstein, Denis. "Namibia." Index on Censorship 14, no. 4 (August 1985): 8–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064228508533914.

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Kössler, Reinhart. "A History of Trade in Colonial Namibia." Journal of Southern African Studies 42, no. 2 (March 3, 2016): 370–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1157397.

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TAYLOR, JULIE J. "DIFFERENTIATING ‘BUSHMEN’ FROM ‘BANTUS’: IDENTITY-BUILDING IN WEST CAPRIVI, NAMIBIA, 1930–89." Journal of African History 50, no. 3 (November 2009): 417–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853709990077.

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ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the historical and political factors that shaped Khwe (San) and Mbukushu ethnic identities and their interrelationship between 1938 and 1989 in west Caprivi, Namibia. While acknowledging the multi-authored nature of identity-building, the article demonstrates that the colonial and apartheid states made significant contributions to the construction of ethnicity in west Caprivi through veterinary interventions in the 1930s and apartheid policies regarding ‘Bushmen’ in the 1950s, and by securing Khwe collaboration during Namibia's liberation struggle in the 1970s and 1980s. These state interventions, together with Khwe and Mbukushu responses to them, also shed light on why land and political authority became so central to struggles between the two groups.

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Iyamu, Tiko, and Irja Shaanika. "Factors Influencing the Use of Mobile Systems to Access Healthcare Big Data in a Namibian Public Hospital." Information Resources Management Journal 33, no. 3 (July 2020): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/irmj.2020070104.

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The use of mobile systems to access healthcare big data is generally a challenge, but worse in Namibia because the influencing factors are not empirically known in the country. The objective of this study is to examine the factors that can determine and influence the use of mobile systems to access big data within the public healthcare in Namibia. Thus, a Namibian public hospital was used as a case in the study. Qualitative data was collected by using the semi-structured technique. Structuration theory was employed as a lens to guide the analysis of the data. The following factors—mobile systems ease of use, system user training, online consultation, medical history traceability, access to external facilities, practitioner's collaboration, systems decentralisation, and technology infrastructure flexibility—were found to influence the use of mobile systems in accessing healthcare big data for service delivery. Based on the findings, a model was developed. The model is intended to guide hospital managers in the use of mobile systems to access patient big data for service delivery.

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Saunders, Christopher. "Michael Scott and Namibia." African Historical Review 39, no. 2 (November 2007): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17532520701786152.

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Werner, Wolfgang. "A brief history of land disposession in Namibia." Journal of Southern African Studies 19, no. 1 (March 1993): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057079308708351.

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Saayman, Willem. "Book Review: History of the Church in Namibia." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 29, no. 3 (July 2005): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693930502900322.

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JONES, DAVID CRAWFORD. "WIELDING THE EPOKOLO: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IN COLONIAL OVAMBOLAND." Journal of African History 56, no. 2 (June 12, 2015): 301–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853715000018.

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AbstractBased on both archival research and oral interviews conducted in northern Namibia, this article traces the history of public flogging in Ovamboland throughout the twentieth century. In contrast to recent scholarship that views corporal punishment in modern Africa mainly through the lens of colonial governance, the article argues that because the South African colonial state never withdrew the power to punish from the region's traditional authorities, these indigenous leaders were able to maintain a degree of legitimacy among their subjects, who looked to the kings and headmen to punish wrongdoers and maintain communal norms. Finally, the article explores why nostalgia for corporal punishment remains a salient feature in Namibian society today, 25 years after the end of colonial rule.

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Mielke, Patrick. "German Colonial Rule in Present-day Namibia." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 13, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2021.130203.

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This article traces discursive shifts in the ways in which imperialism and European colonialism have been dealt with in the classroom in relation to the German history textbook Time for History (Zeit für Geschichte), which was published in 2010. It explores how the textbook’s representation of German colonial rule in present-day Namibia both raises awareness of and reproduces common colonialist-racist images of the “other” by demonstrating how its content is negotiated in year-nine history lessons, as observed over the course of an ethnographic study carried out in a German secondary school. The author assesses the complex interplay between discursive practices of negotiation, everyday educational practices and deeply rooted, colonialist-racist images of the “other” and, on the basis of this interplay, analyses how difficult it is to bring about content-based and discursive shifts in the classroom.

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Oermann, Nils. "A History of Namibia. From the Beginning to 1990." African Historical Review 45, no. 1 (June 2013): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2013.796137.

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Lau, Brigitte. "Conflict and Power in Nineteenth-Century Namibia." Journal of African History 27, no. 1 (March 1986): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700029182.

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In explaining how one Oorlam group, the Afrikaners, lost their hegemony in Namaland in the 1860s, this article examines the impact on this region of Oorlam migrations, trade with the Cape and the advent of Christian missionaries. The kinship-based social organization of Nama pastoralists was largely replaced by the ‘commando’ organization, introduced by the Oorlams. By the 1850s, production throughout Namaland was geared less to subsistence than to the demands of Cape traders for cattle, skins and ivory. Raiding and hunting, with imported guns and horses, supplanted local traditions of good husbandry. While foreign traders made large profits, commando groups were locked into a cycle of predatory and competitive expansion. By the early 1860s, such conflict had polarised; the Afrikaners and their allies (including Herero client-chiefs) confronted several Nama/Oorlam chiefs and an army raised by a Cape trader, Andersson. The ensuing battles were not, as has been claimed, a Herero ‘war of liberation’; instead, they marked the replacement of Afrikaner by European hegemony; the country was freer than ever before to be controlled by agents of merchant capital and colonialism.

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Botha, Christo. "People and the Environment in Colonial Namibia." South African Historical Journal 52, no. 1 (January 2005): 170–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470509464869.

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Sheldon, Kathleen, Tessa Cleaver, Marion Wallace, and Cherryl Walker. "Namibia: Women in War." International Journal of African Historical Studies 24, no. 3 (1991): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219112.

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Normandy, Elizabeth L., and David Soggot. "Namibia: The Violent Heritage." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 2 (1987): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219880.

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Mokopakgosi, Brian T., and Laurent C. W. Kaela. "The Question of Namibia." International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, no. 2 (1998): 471. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221153.

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Fuller, Ben, Tessa Cleaver, and Marion Wallace. "Namibia: Women in War." International Journal of African Historical Studies 26, no. 1 (1993): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219194.

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Förster, Larissa, Dag Henrichsen, Holger Stoecker, and Hans Axasi╪Eichab. "Re-individualising human remains from Namibia." Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4, no. 2 (2018): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/hrv.4.2.4.

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In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains, which were anonymised in the course of their appropriation by Western science, the authors consult not only the colonial archive, but also contemporary oral history in Namibia. This allows for a detailed reconstruction of the social and political contexts of the deaths of the three men, named Jacobus Hendrick, Jacobus !Garisib and Oantab, and of Belck’s grave robbery, for an analysis of how the remains were turned into scientific objects by German science and institutions, as well as for an establishment of topographical and genealogical links with the Namibian present. Based on these findings, claims for the restitution of African human remains from German institutions cannot any longer be regarded as a contemporary phenomenon only but must be understood as part of an African tradition of resistance against Western colonial and scientific practices.

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Ndeshi Namhila, Ellen. "Uncovering hidden historical narratives of village women in Namibia." Qualitative Research Journal 14, no. 3 (November 4, 2014): 243–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-12-2012-0031.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the research techniques used by the author in collecting, analysing and writing life histories of women in the war during Namibia's independence struggle. The interest in recording and writing about these women arose because writing about the independence struggle of Namibia is dominated by men and little has been written about women; the little that is written tends to portray women as victims rather than as independent actors conscious of their decisions and the consequences of such decisions. This history is in danger of being lost if not tapped while these women are still alive. Design/methodology/approach – A life history approach was followed to appraise the methods used to listening to the women narrating their life stories and to listen to their life stories narrated by those who knew them, worked with them, and shared a prison experience with them. These stories were collected through open interviews followed by more structured interviews with list of open-ended questions with each woman. Life history follows an induction approach, starting with the story and using the stories to create themes and a method or framework guiding the interview recordings, analysing, writing and presentation of the story. Findings – The stories of the five women led to the demystification of woman as mere victims of repressive regimes and military conflicts. In collecting oral history sources on a subject such as the liberation struggle in a society that was torn apart by a prolonged military conflict, apartheid and repression, a researcher must respect the stories as told, but an extensive verification of the credibility and reliability of the sources may be required. Authenticity is undermined by the fact that the current society glorifies the independence struggle, and everybody wants to be on the side of the winners, even those that fought against liberation have today become its evangelists. Research limitations/implications – The sources for the paper depend on what the women could still remember and there are no local institutions such as archives and or newspapers to document the events when they happened. Practical implications – This paper argues the case that publishing women's life stories promotes interests in local history and makes significant impact on the socioeconomic status of women. It further recommends methodological approaches in documenting local histories; dealing with authenticity and integrity in each story. Social implications – The paper shows that publishing the life stories of five village women in a book with the title Tears of Courage had positive impact on their individual lives; and that publishing such oral accounts is an excellent way to lift the contributions by women out of obscurity into the mainstream of Namibian history. Originality/value – It is an original paper written from practical research experiences of identifying sources, documenting, interviewing, analysing, writing and constantly cross referencing to verify authenticity and integrity of both written and oral sources.

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Maiden, Kenneth J., and Gregor Borg. "The Kalahari Copperbelt in Central Namibia: Controls on Copper Mineralization." SEG Discovery, no. 87 (October 1, 2011): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5382/segnews.2011-87.fea.

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ABSTRACT The Kalahari Copperbelt stretches discontinuously for 800 km from central Namibia to northern Botswana (Figure 1; Borg, 1988; Borg and Maiden, 1989). In central Namibia, copper mineralization, hosted by slate and phyllite, is intermittently developed over more than 60 km of strike of the Kagas Member of the Klein Aub Formation. The strata-bound nature of copper occurrences led early explorers to the conclusion that copper was either syngenetic, i.e., emplaced during deposition of the host strata, or diagenetic, i.e., emplaced into the host strata during burial and compaction. As a result, initial exploration largely focused on “favorable” stratigraphic units as target horizons and for the most part ignored structurally controlled target areas of significant economic potential. Subsequent research at the (presently inactive) Klein Aub Mine and elsewhere in the Namibian part of the belt showed that, although copper concentrations are broadly strata-bound, the structural associations (e.g., the relation to a late reverse fault at Klein Aub) and detailed textural features (e.g., copper in veins, brittle fractures, cleavage-parallel lenticles, and tectonic breccia zones) indicate that copper mineralization was emplaced into structurally controlled sites late in the deformation history of the region. The conclusion of the present review is that economically viable copper accumulations resulted predominantly from one or more regionally extensive but locally structurally controlled hydrothermal events, mostly subsequent to formation of the dominant cleavage. As a result, modern exploration should focus primarily on favorable structures, particularly potential dilatant sites in tectonically complex zones.

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McKittrick, Meredith. "Reinventing the Family: Kinship, Marriage, and Famine in Northern Namibia, 1948–1954." Social Science History 21, no. 3 (1997): 265–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200017752.

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In October 1952, during a famine in northern Namibia, an Ovambo woman named Helvi Kondombolo filed a complaint with colonial officials, stating that her son, a contract laborer, had been living in the southern part of the colony for eight years and that she wanted him either sent back to the Ovamboland reserve or persuaded to send her money to buy food. Her complaint is unique in that the laborer in question was Sam Nujoma, now president of Namibia. And yet she was only one of dozens of women who filed similar complaints against men between 1948 and 1954 (National Archives of Namibia [NAN], Native Affairs Ovamboland [NAO] 93 and 94, file 42/2). In colonial southern Africa, European officials and African men often collaborated in efforts to control African women. These complaints represent a rare case in which European officials and African women collaborated to control African men.

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Brandt, Nicola. "‘Practices of self’: Embodied memory work, performance art, and intersectional activism in Namibia." Memory Studies 16, no. 3 (May 26, 2023): 533–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17506980231162331.

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Cultural commemoration in the form of embodied memory was practiced in Namibia long before German colonial occupation in the 1880s and the War of Independence against South Africa from 1966 to 1989. In recent years, Namibian artists have been offering alternative forms of embodied memory transmission related to these histories. I argue that much of this work is inextricably linked to a new wave of decolonial activism in the country. These practices highlight questions related to history and memory and are a counterpoint to state-sanctioned memorialization. Some of the recurrent themes are efforts to work through traumatic legacies connected to German colonialism and apartheid, but also to intersectional violence tied to contemporary patriarchy and identity politics. In these settings, queer and feminist methodologies provide a departure point for this embodied memory work in an attempt to go beyond colonial and tribal legacies and nationalized identity politics.

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GEWALD, JAN-BART. "NAMIBIAN NATIONALISM: Popular Resistance and the Roots of Nationalism in Namibia, 1915–1966. By TONY EMMETT. (Basel Namibia Studies 4). Basel: Schlettwein, 1999. Pp. xxii + 389. CHF55.00, paperback (ISBN 3-908193-03-6)." Journal of African History 42, no. 1 (March 2001): 117–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185370048789x.

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Panayi, P. "Die Namibia-Deutschen, Geschichte einer Nationalitat im Werden." German History 13, no. 3 (July 1, 1995): 438–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.438.

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Saul, John S., and Colin Leys. "Lubango and After: 'Forgotten History' as Politics in Contemporary Namibia*." Journal of Southern African Studies 29, no. 2 (June 2003): 333–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070306209.

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Berger, W. H., and G. Wefer. "On the reconstruction of upwelling history: Namibia upwelling in context." Marine Geology 180, no. 1-4 (February 2002): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-3227(01)00203-1.

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Kössler, R. "Images of History and the Nation: Namibia and Zimbabwe Compared." South African Historical Journal 62, no. 1 (March 2010): 29–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582471003778318.

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Knudson, Douglas M., Antti Erkkila, and Harri Siiskonen. "Forestry in Namibia 1850-1990." International Journal of African Historical Studies 25, no. 3 (1992): 691. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219049.

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Dale, Richard, and Alfred T. Moleah. "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation." International Journal of African Historical Studies 19, no. 1 (1986): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/218734.

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Normandy, Elizabeth L., and Alfred T. Moleah. "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation." International Journal of African Historical Studies 19, no. 4 (1986): 729. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219160.

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Crews, Emily D. "Singing “The Song of Chief Iipumbu”." Religion & Theology 25, no. 3-4 (December 3, 2018): 258–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-02503008.

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Abstract This essay addresses “The Song of Chief Iipumbu,” an oral poem performed by a woman named Nekwaya Loide Shikongo in North-Central Namibia in 1953. It argues that “The Song of Chief Iipumbu” acted as an astute analysis of local power relations, employing scornful commentary on a deposed native chief as a cover for subtle but profound criticisms of European colonial institutions to which Shikongo, as a African Christian woman, was subject. Through a brief history of colonialism in Namibia and detailed attention to the linguistic and discursive webs woven by the poem’s author, this essay shows that Shikongo’s censure of oppressive authorities was not an attempt to undermine the networks of power operating in colonial Namibia. Rather, it was an effort to affect acceptance of (or at least resignation to) her subordination in order to achieve the renewal of psychological and social equilibrium.

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Peddemors, V. M. "Delphinids of southern Africa: A review of their distribution, status and life history." J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 1, no. 2 (January 25, 2023): 157–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47536/jcrm.v1i2.463.

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Eighteen species of delphinids have been recorded from Africa, south of l 7°S. This review includes analyses of the distribution and status, life history and feeding habits for each species, primarily using published data from strandings, incidentally caught animals and sightings. Although there is little known for most of the species distributed over the continental shelf, it appears that there is presently little human-induced threat to these. However, more research emphasis should in future be placed on possible detrimental interactions due to overfishing of delphinid prey stocks. Increased commercial fishing pressure will inevitably also increase interactions between the fishery and the affected delphinids. Only three inshore species are presently considered to be vulnerable: Heaviside's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidil), bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia, and Inda-Pacific hump-backed dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in KwaZulu-Natal. Heaviside's dolphins are endemic and, although presently probably able to sustain mortalities following interactions with commercial fishing gear, may become negatively impacted should fishing activities increase. The bottlenose dolphin population in Namibia appears localised in its distribution and may therefore also be vulnerable to any future coastal development or commercial fishery expansions, while in KwaZulu-Natal they are subjected to ongoing incidental catches in shark nets, heavy pollution levels, habitat destruction and increased competition with fishermen for limited food resources. In KwaZulu-Natal, Inda-Pacific hump-backed dolphins are subjected to the same pressures as experienced by bottlenose dolphins, albeit more severely, while in Mozambique it is occasionally caught incidentally in gillnets or in a targeted fishery. Although generally considered an offshore species, southern right whale dolphins (Lissodelphis peronii) also appears to be extremely localised in distribution within southern Africa, and any future planned expansion of commercial driftnet fisheries off Namibia should be carefully monitored for incidental catches which may impact this population.

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Marx, Lesley. "Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia." Safundi 8, no. 1 (January 2007): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533170701295405.

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BOTHA, CHRISTO. "The Politics of Land Settlement in Namibia, 1890–1960." South African Historical Journal 42, no. 1 (May 2000): 232–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470008671376.

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Ngalandji - Hakweenda, Dr Helena Megameno Nailonga. "Rhetoric Analysis on the Relationship between Executive Compensation and Performance of Commercial public enterprises in Namibia." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 9, no. 11 (November 30, 2021): 2624–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v9i11.em12.

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The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship between compensation packages and the performance of executive officers in Commercial Public Enterprises in Namibia. The paper was conducted to achieve the following specific objective: to determine the relationship between compensation packages of executives and the performance of Commercial PEs in Namibia. It was all in the context of mixed research approach for data collection using a questionnaire as a tool. The study found that there is a partial relationship between executive compensation and the performance of some commercial public enterprises, in accordance with their Tier Levels. It is recommended that the Government (shareholder) finds the best fit model of executive compensation packages in order to induce a positive level of performance. It is further recommended that a study be conducted, to investigate the relationship between the role of an independent high-level committee on executive compensation packages, aimed at enhancing performance in Commercial Public Enterprises in Namibia Keywords: Compensation Package; Performance; Commercial Public Enterprises; Executives

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