The anti-colonial struggles of 1904 - 08 were characterised by what have traditionally been referred to as the Herero and Nama uprisings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
The Herero people have for years sought reparations from. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Herero leaders who have not been recognised in terms of the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In 1958 he was appointed United Nations spokesman for Herero. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Despite this, some 200 Herero filed a lawsuit in a US court in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Pohamba said the Herero community asked him to raise the issue. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Ya Nongoloh said the Herero people of Namibia had also launched. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
After the Herero ethnic group started their uprising in January. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In an interview with state radio ahead of their arrival, Herero. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The tragedy is remembered by Namibia's 120,000 Herero as genocide. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Herero in a decisive battle northeast of Windhoek later that year. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
German-financed cultural and tourism center for the Herero community. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But the minister has ruled out the payment of compensation to ethnic Herero. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The northern languages of this Herero group have been studied by members of the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The figures for the total Herero population alive at the time range from 50,000 to 80,000. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Hewita Tusnelde, 80, dressed in her traditional layered Herero dress and horn-shaped headgear. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Herero leaders have in the past demanded compensation for the acts of the German colonial forces. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Historians say the 120,000-strong Herero tribe lost tens of thousands during the 1904-07 uprising. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Herero women, preserved from the 19th century fashionable clothes of German frau's and fraulein's. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He said his son fled to Namibia where he married a Herero woman and he, Mikhail, was born out of the marriage. From Wordnik.com. [MAN SENTENCED IN CAPE TOWN AS DALIWONGA MANDELA IS A CON ARTIST] Reference
Namibia has previously indicated it wishes to raise what it believes is Germany's genocide of the Herero people. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Germans responded ruthlessly, defeating the Herero in a decisive battle northeast of Windhoek later that year. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
German troops, who herded tens of thousands of Herero onto the central plateaus of Namibia from about 1904 to 1907. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Okakarara, the site in 1904 of one of the most significant battles between the German military and rebelling Herero. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Herzog and a departure from German Chancellor Kohl's refusal to meet the Herero when he visited Namibia in June 1995. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The DTA, which won 20 percent of the vote in 1994 elections draws most of its support from the Herero ethnic group and. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Rukoro, who speaks Herero, warned that "confrontationist measures" could ensue without this gesture of reconciliation from. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Colonial troubles in South-west Africa with Herero and other recalcitrant tribes were making heavy demands on the Treasury. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
However, a spokesman for a Herero lobby group said the protests would go ahead Friday, although Kohl will not be in Windhoek. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Too much time has passed for Germany to formally apologize for slaughtering 55,000 Herero tribal people during colonial times. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
South West Africa to put down the Herero uprising in 1904, instructed his troops to wipe out the entire tribe, historians say. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Violine Kacezena, who wore her traditional Herero dress and elaborate horn-shaped cloth headgear, waited for two hours to vote. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"The German minister said last year there would be a dialogue to heal the wounds of the past," a Herero representative told AFP. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, minister for economic cooperation and development, during a meeting with a dozen Herero chiefs at the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Between 45,000 and 65,000 Herero died, some by force of arms others of thirst and starvation, in what is remembered by Namibia's. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Herero leaders and instead went to the coastal town of Swakopmund, which still retains the flavor and vestiges of Namibia's era as a. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Outside, 58-year-old Margaret Majunda, wearing a leopard-print dress and pointy Herero headdress, waited patiently to cast her vote. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Ngarikutuke Tjiriange, an ethnic Herero, to represent him at the opening of the museum that is to house artefacts from the community. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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