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During this period, Namibia existed under apartheid as a subjugated colonial state of South Africa. [9] Apartheid began in 1948 [ 11 ] under British control in the Union of South Africa . By the mid-1960s, about 45 to 50 percent of the Black labour force was contract migrant labour from the northern Namibia colonial reserves .
Immanuwela David - Allegedly illegally entered Namibia in June 2020 with the bribery of Namibian government officials. [19] He was arrested two days later in Windhoek, charged with entering Namibia illegally and breaking the country's COVID-19 lockdown rules. [19] He spent four months in jail before appearing in court on 13 November 2020. [19]
She was the only woman among the casualties of the Old Location uprising in Windhoek on 10 December 1959. Since Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990, Mungunda is regarded one of the heroes of the Namibian nation. [1] [2] Mungunda was born in 1932 to migrant labourer Theopoldt Shivute and Emilia Kavezeri, a niece of Hosea Kutako. She had ...
Namibia is a source and destination country for children, and to a lesser extent women, subjected to sex trafficking. Namibian children are subjected to sex trafficking in Windhoek and Walvis Bay. A 2015 media report alleged foreign sex tourists from southern Africa and Europe exploit child sex trafficking victims. In 2014, an NGO reported ...
The Southern Times reported that the murder of Stoffels "ignited debate on the reinstatement of the death penalty" in Namibia. [5] Evaluation of forensic evidence lasted almost a year. The results did not link Fillipus with the crime, and the charges against him were withdrawn. In May 2011, he was released from custody. [6]
The B1 Butcher is an unidentified serial killer in Namibia. The B1 Butcher murdered at least five women between 2005 and 2007, with all murders related to the National Road B1 . In 2007, a German-born Namibian was accused of rape, arrested and later linked to these unsolved murders.
White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia.The majority of White Namibians are Dutch-descended Afrikaners (locally born or of White South African descent), with a minority being native-born German Namibians (descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century).
Squatting is regulated by the Squatters Proclamation, AG 21 of 1985, although certain sections were struck out as unconstitutional following Shaanika and Others v Windhoek City Police and Others in 2013. [13] [14] [15] Dimbulukeni Nauyoma, a land activist, launched a challenge to the proclamation in 2020, claiming it was entirely unconstitutional.