Anna Mungunda

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Anna "Kakurukaze" Mungunda (* 1932 ; † December 10, 1959 in Windhoek , South West Africa , today Namibia ) was an activist in the Namibian independence movement against the occupation of the country by South Africa .

Life

Anna Mungunda belonged to the Herero . She is considered to be the first woman who participated in the Namibian independence movement. On December 10, 1959, she took part in the protests in Windhoek against the forced relocation of the population of the Old Location district to the segregated residential area of Katutura . Mungunda was shot dead by the police during the demonstration. She was reported to have previously set a police vehicle on fire.

Mungunda's engagement was the beginning of many women’s engagement in the anti-colonialist resistance. December 10th was declared Namibian Women's Day by the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and later became a national holiday in independent Namibia as Women's Day and Human Rights Day .

Honors

Namibian President Sam Nujoma awarded Mungunda official hero status . She was one of the first nine people who received a subsequent state funeral on the Heldenacker near Windhoek. A street in Katutura was named after her. A patrol boat belonging to the Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources also bears her name.

In April 2018, the Berlin-Mitte District Assembly announced that the northeast section of Petersallee in the African Quarter would be renamed Anna-Mungunda-Straße. The street was originally named after the colonialist politician Carl Peters and had meanwhile been rededicated to the resistance fighter Hans Peters .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martha Akawa: The Gender Politics of the Namibian Liberation Struggle (= . Basel Namibia Studies Series Volume 13). Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-9057-5826-9 , p. 31. 56.
  2. ↑ Speech by President Sam Nujoma on the inauguration of the Heldenacker on August 26, 2002, accessed on April 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Martha Akawa: The Gender Politics of the Namibian Liberation Struggle (= . Basel Namibia Studies Series Volume 13). Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-9057-5826-9 , p. 68.
  4. ↑ Laura Hofmann: New street names for the African quarter found. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 11, 2018, accessed April 12, 2018 .
  5. ^ Petersallee - Berlin Lexicon. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mungunda, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kakurukaze (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian independence fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1959
Place of death Windhoek , South West Africa