Namibia

Population:2,088,669 Birth Rate:23.19 Mortality Rate:43.93 Religions: Luthuran 51% Catholic 20% auglican 5% Ethnicities: The Ouambo, Kavogo, Heregued and Davmo** == DemoGraphic==
 * Capital city: Windhoek**
 * Land area: 825,418 km

**time line**
1884 Southwest Africa (later Namibia) was made a German protectorate. (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.T4)(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.T4)

1904 Jan 12, Anxious Germans opened fire on Ovaherero at Okahandja. The Herero people of Namibia had risen in rebellion against German colonial rule. The deadly Deutsche Schutzruppe “peacekeeping regiment” quelled the tribes. They eventually annihilated 75% of the Herero and Nama peoples. In 1981 Jon M. Bridgeman authored “The Revolt of the Hereros.”

1904 Jun 11, General Lothar von Trotha arrived in SW Africa from Germany to take over from the colonial Governor, Theodor Leutwein, the direction of a campaign to quell an uprising.

1904 Aug 11, German General Lothar von Trotha defeated the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa. [see Namibia] (HN, 8/10/98)

1904 Aug 14, The cattle-herding Hereros, a tribe of Southwest Africa (later Namibia), became the first genocide victims of the 20th century. Kaiser Wilhelm II had sent General Lothar von Trotha to put down a Herero uprising along with the groups of rebellious Khoikhoi. Trotha drove the Hereros into the desert and then issued a formal "extermination order" (Schrecklichkeit) authorizing the slaughter of all who refused to surrender. Out of some 80,000 Hereros, 60,000 died in the desert. Of the 15,000 who surrendered, half of those died in prison camps. Some 9,000 escaped to neighboring countries. In 2004 a senior German government official apologized for the genocide during a ceremony in Namibia marking the 100th anniversary of the uprising. In 2005 a German minister acknowledged violence by German colonial powers and admitted that following uprisings, the surviving Herero, Nama and Damara were interned in camps and put to forced labor of such brutality that many did not survive.

1904 Oct 2, General Lothar von Trotha: “I, the great General of the German soldiers, send this letter to the Herero people (SW Africa-Namibia). The Herero are no longer German subjects... The Herero nation must...leave the country. If they do not leave, I will force them out with the Groot Rohr (cannon). Every Herero, armed or unarmed...will be shot dead within the German borders. I will no longer accept women and children, but will force them back to their people or shoot at them.”

1904 Nov 27, A German colonial army defeated Hottentots at Warmbad in Southwest Africa (later Namibia). (HN, 11/27/98)

1904 Dec 9, Von Schlieffen order von Trotha to pardon all Ovaherero, after tens of thousands had perished in the desert, except those who were "directly guilty and the leaders.”

1904 Dec 24, German SW Africa abolished the slavery of young children. [see Namibia] (MC, 12/24/01)

1915 Jul 9, Germany’s South West Africa surrendered to Gen. Botha of the Union of South Africa.

1916 The beginning of 73 years of occupation [by South Africa]. (SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)

1918 Nov, The British declared the 1915 truce between Germany’s SW Africa and the Union of South Africa invalid. (www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/suedwest-english.htm)

1919 The League of Nations assigned the colony to South Africa to govern as a "Class A" mandate. (www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/suedwest-english.htm)

1959 Hifikepunye Pohamba and Sam Nujoma of Namibia founded the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO). (Econ, 11/20/04, p.50)

1966 Oct 27, The UN deprived South Africa of Namibia. (MC, 10/27/01)

1967 A 23-year brush war began with the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) rebel movement demanding independence from South Africa. (LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.20A)