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In 1993 the Archives held 5,600 maps, 61,000 photographs, 2,000 audio cassettes, 450 films and a complete collection of all local newspapers from 1897 to 1962. [3] Of particular importance are the Hendrik Witbooi Papers, inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register – Africa, the Hoachanas Peace Treaty of 1858, and the Vaderlike Wette of the Basters of Rehoboth.
Newspaper Circulation First issued Languages Ownership Website The Namibian: 40,000 (2010) [1] 1985 English, Oshiwambo: Free Press of Namibia [2] www.namibian.com.na: Namibian Sun: 36,000 (2007, planned) [3] 2007 English Namibia Media Holdings [4] namibiansun.com: Republikein: 18,000 [2] 1977 Afrikaans, English Namibia Media Holdings [4] www ...
The newspaper exposed human rights violations by South Africa's occupying forces and was thus perceived as overly critical and pro-SWAPO by the South African government.. Even the name of the newspaper irritated the South African administration as they preferred the land to be called South West Africa, whereas Namibia was a notion closely related to the independence movem
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Except for the most widely circulated newspaper, The Namibian, [1] which is owned by a trust, the other mentioned private newspapers are part of the Democratic Media Holdings. [2] Weekly publications are the tabloid Informanté owned by TrustCo, Windhoek Observer, Namibia Economist, as well as the regional Namib Times.
After Namibian independence in 1990 the library was administered by the Government of Namibia, and on 1 April 1994 became the National Library of Namibia. On 20 March 2000, the eve of the 10th independence celebrations, the library moved into its current building in Eugène Marais Street in downtown Windhoek , sharing it with the National ...
The Namibian Sun, a weekly newspaper established in 2007 and a daily since 2010, is a tabloid launched to "attract young readers". [3] With the acquisition of John Meinert, Namibia Media Holdings also obtained Namibia's only large printing works. The Namibian, New Era and Namibia Today, were all printed at NMH. [6]
The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia. [1] The newspaper is one of four daily national newspapers in the country, the others being The Namibian (English and Oshiwambo), Die Republikein and Allgemeine Zeitung . [2] New Era was created by the New Era Publications Corporation Act of 1992. [3]