Herero day

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The Herero Day designated three traditional festivities and memorial days of the Herero in Namibia .

Red flag

Kuaima Riruako , traditional leader of the Herero, on Herero Day in Okahandja, August 27, 2006

The Maharero Royal House or Tjamuaha / OtjikaTjamuaha Royal House always celebrates Herero Day on the weekend in August, which is closest to the 23rd. This takes place in Okahandja . This originally goes back to the reburial of Samuel Maharero from Bechuanaland to Namibia on August 23, 1923.

Today the day is dedicated to the general commemoration of the genocide of the Herero and Nama and the Battle of Waterberg in 1904 as well as the Herero leaders Tjamuaha , Maharero , Samuel Maharero and Hosea Kutako who were buried in Okahandja . The Herero Day is - contrary to the appearance - not a tourist event, but a commemoration based on tribal and historical awareness.

In August 2004 - on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Waterberg - the German Minister for Development Cooperation, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , commemorated the dead in the town of Okakarara about 200 kilometers away and admitted for the first time the political and moral guilt of the German colonial administration. She asked the Herero people for forgiveness for the crimes committed by Germans.

White flag

The white flag of the Zeraeua Royal House has been celebrating its Herero Day in Omaruru since 1925 . The day commemorates Manasse Tyiseseta's escape from the protection force for German South West Africa on board the Eduard Bohlen . He is said to have hidden in a box that was covered with a white flag.

Green flag

The Ovambanderu Green Flag has been meeting for Herero Day in Okahandja since 1947 on the weekend closest to June 11th. They celebrate the relocation of Hiatuvao Nguvauva from Botswana to Namibia.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred O. Hinz: Customary Law Ascertained Volume 3: The Customary Law of the Nama, Ovaherero, Ovambanderu, and San communities of Namibia. UNAM Press, Windhoek 2016, ISBN 978-99916-42-12-3 , p. 286.
  2. ^ Herero Day, Namibia - 23rd August. Portal Namibia - 1 on 1 ( Memento from January 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  3. ↑ Speech by Federal Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul at the commemoration of the Herero uprisings on August 14, 2004 in Okakarara. German Embassy Windhoek ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ a b Manfred O. Hinz: Customary Law Ascertained Volume 3: The Customary Law of the Nama, Ovaherero, Ovambanderu, and San communities of Namibia. UNAM Press, Windhoek 2016, ISBN 978-99916-42-12-3 , p. 287.