Namibian History

  King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was born in 1873 in Onatshiku, a settlement near Elim, today in the Omusati Region of northern Namibia.[1] An accident as adolescent earned him the nickname Ndilimani (Oshiwambo: dynamite) when an explosion blew three fingers off his left hand. He was the  eighteenth king of the Uukwambi in 1907, succeeding king Negumbo lya Kandenge. During his reign he became known to jealously protect the tribal area of the Uukwambi from encroaching white settlers, going as far as having the roads guarded that led into Uukwambi territory. Ya Tshilongo also resisted European cultural influence exercised via the establishment of mission stations and administrative outposts. Having rebuked the Finnish Missionary Society and the South West African Administration for years, he only allowed the Catholic Church to establish a station at Oshikuku in 1924. He ignored the Administration's request to send contract labourers, refused to pay taxes, and was generally uncooperat...

  Nathaniel Maxuilili (10 October 1927 – 26 June 1999) was a Namibian politician, a member of SWAPO, and veteran of the struggle for the independence of the former South West Africa,[ he fo ught alongside today's Namibian prominent political figures such as Hifikepunye Pohamba and Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo among others. He was a deputy cabinet Minister of the Namibian government in the 1990s.[2] Maxuilili was killed on 23 June 1999 in Walvis Bay, while the ambulance taking him to hospital due to heart problems, was struck head-on by another vehicle.

  Education in pre-colonial Namibia was an integral part of everyday life rather than a specialist activity carried out in a particular venue with a set curriculum. All the adults in the community were involved in the education of the young as knowledge, skills, values, and the understanding of roles was transmitted by means of conversations, imitation, stories, games, songs, and ritual ceremonies. Read more:  Namibia - Constitutional Legal Foundations - Education, Schools, African, and South - StateUniversity.com   https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1043/Namibia-CONSTITUTIONAL-LEGAL-FOUNDATIONS.html#ixzz8j6SmqBeL

     Andimba Toivo ya Toivo was born on 22 August 1924 as second of seven children in  Omangundu  in  Ovamboland , northern  South West Africa .   He attended the church school at  Onayena  but was herding cattle often, as was common for boys in this area. He trained to become a carpenter at  Ongwediva  Industrial School between 1939 and n 1942 during  World War II  Ya Toivo voluntarily joined the  Native Military Corps , a unit of the  racially segregated  army of the  Union of South Africa . He fought on the British side of the  Allied Forces .  and attained the rank of a  corporal  during his service.  When he was tried for terrorism in the 1960s he remembered his motivation thusly

  The  Red Line ,  is  the  veterinary cordon fence , is a  pest-exclusion fence  separating northern  Namibia  from the central and southern regions. It encases several northern regions:  Oshana Region ,  Kavango East Region ,  Omusati Region ,  Zambezi Region ,  Omaheke Region ,  Kunene Region , and parts of the  Khomas  and  Oshikoto Regions . [ 1 ]  Most of these farms are fenced in and are accessible by constructed farm roads. North of the line, on the other hand, all farm land is communal and operated mostly by black farmers. Livestock is not constrained by fences and often ventures onto roads. [ 2 ]  The red line is a highly guarded line which has roadblocks to check every vehicle which passes. The red line is the reason for Namibia's unique status to export meat across the European Union.

On 17 December 1920, South Africa undertook administration of South West Africa under the terms of Article 22 of the Covenant of the  League of Nations  and a Class C  Mandate  agreement by the  League Council . The Class C mandate, supposed to be used for the least developed territories, gave South Africa full power of administration and legislation over the territory, but required that South Africa promote the material and moral well-being and social progress of the people. The League's supersession by the United Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to surrender its earlier mandate to be replaced by a United Nations Trusteeship agreement, requiring closer international monitoring of the territory's administration. Although the South African government wanted to incorporate South West Africa into its territory, it never officially did so, although it was administered as the  de facto  'fifth province', with the white minority having representation in...