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Eyewitness News
5 days ago
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NGO says South Africans can relate to struggles Namibians faced
CAPE TOWN - A local NGO has highlighted the importance of showing support to Namibia as it marks its first Genocide Commemoration Day. To demonstrate this, activists in Cape Town staged a protest outside the German consulate. The day is meant to remember the more than 50,000 Herero and close to 10,000 Nama people who were killed by German military forces between 1904 and 1908. Under German rule, land was also confiscated from the indigenous people. Bettie Fortuin, from the Working On Farms project, said that South Africans could relate to the struggles Namibians faced. "That's why we are in solidarity with the Namibians and also Palestine because we know, we still feel it inside ourselves to be evicted, and to be murdered and to be chased away from your homeland."
Eyewitness News
6 days ago
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- Eyewitness News
Activists in Cape Town mark Namibia's first Genocide Commemoration Day
CAPE TOWN - A group of activists in Cape Town is marking Namibia's first Genocide Commemoration Day. The day is dedicated to honour the victims of the 1904 to 1908 Nama-Herero genocide committed by Germany. A crowd of close to 80 people gathered outside the German consulate in Cape Town to show solidarity with the people of Namibia. Abeedah Adams from the South African Energy Embargo Campaign said that by being complicit, Germany was aiding in a genocide. "So, today we are here primarily to observe, to commemorate the genocide that the Germans perpetrated against the Namibian people. We are here again to register our position towards the role that Germany is playing, they played in the past in terms of what happened in Namibia, they were directly responsible for that genocide." In 2021, Germany recognised that it was responsible for the genocide in Namibia. It also agreed to fund projects worth 1.1 billion euros over 30 years to make up for the property seizures and killings by German colonial forces.
