Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
German is especially widely used in central and southern Namibia and was until 1990 one of three official languages in what was then South West Africa, alongside Afrikaans and English, two other Germanic languages in Namibia. German is the mother tongue of German Namibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Black ...
Owners were the German Namibians Wilfried Hähner and Sybille Rothkegel, [1] and since August 2020 Sybille Moldzio and Kai-Uwe Schonecke. The station was from 2012 to 2014 and is since February 2020 located at Maerua Mall in Windhoek. In between, Hitradio Namibia broadcast from its own broadcasting centre in Windhoek-Suiderhof.
German family in Keetmanshoop, 1926. Today, English is the country's sole official language, but about 30,000 Namibians of German descent (around 2% of the country's overall population) and possibly 15,000 black Namibians (many of whom returned from East Germany after Namibian independence) still speak German or Namibian Black German, respectively. [1]
Christ Church, Windhoek. The Christ Church (or Christuskirche) is a historic landmark and Lutheran church in Windhoek, Namibia, belonging to the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia. It was designed by architect Gottlieb Redecker. [1]
The German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (known as GELC, GELK, or DELK) is a Lutheran denomination based in Namibia. It was founded in 1960, [1] and has 4,100 members in 2023. [2] GELC joined the Lutheran World Federation in 1963. [3] It is also a member of the Council of Churches in Namibia. [4]
Concordia College is a school in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.It is situated on Windhoek's Hochland Road between suburbs of Rocky Crest and Hochland Park.As of 2020 it had 1,023 learners and was one of nine Namibian schools to offer German as a foreign language.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Namibia. At present, the capital city of Windhoek hosts 34 embassies/high commissions. Map of diplomatic missions in Namibia
Although the number of Angolans in Namibia declined from 2014 to 2015, affected by the neighbouring country's economic crisis, there are still around 100,000 Portuguese speakers in Namibia as of 2024, equivalent to 3.3% of the country's population. [6] [7] [8] The language is now offered as an optional subject in many schools throughout the ...