It was a big day for the people of Usakos. Theo-Ben Gurirab was coming home! The small, sun-swept town of Usakos lies three hours...

An interview with Ignatius Shihwameni, the president of the Namibian Students organisation, NANSO Can you please tell us when and why...

In April 1908, a poor labourer by the name of Zacharias Lewala was walking along the beach near Luderitz when he saw something glittering...

ANDIMBA JA TOIVO’S STATEMENT FROM THE DOCK Soon after SWAPO launched its armed struggle in 1966, the South African government moved to...

Dr Libertine Appolus-Amathila, SWAPO’s head of Health and Social Welfare Services, was the first black Namibian woman to qualify as a...

An interview with John Ya Otto, General Secretary of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW). In 1959, Sam Nujoma, then the leader...

SIZE: Namibia is the 15th largest country in Africa. It is two-thirds the size of South Africa. Including Walvis Bay, Namibia is 824 268...

‘ALERT NAMIBIA” (sung to the melody of “Nkosi Sikelel’i Africa”) 1. Alert Namibia to win freedom, In unity and solidarity You will be...

“When the history of a free Namibia is written one day, SWAPO will go down as having stood firm where others have wavered, that it...

Exile is a painful thing, for both the people who leave and for those who are left behind. Peter and Helene Shilumate are but just two of...

The history of Namibia is a history of struggle — first against German colonialism and then against South African occupation. In this...

WALTER SISULU Sisulu was born in December 1912 in the Engcobo district in the Transkei Political involvement: He joined the ANC in 1940...

Water, water, everywhere — but only for the white Transvaal town of Balfour. But, only two kilometres away in Siyathemba, there was not a...

On April 24, after spending more than two and a half years in prison and sitting through an 18 month trial, Moses Mayekiso, his brother,...

As the doors of South Africa’s prisons open to release the detainees, other doors bang shut. Most detainees — and many others who are...

A manager of a great British soccer club once said: “A soccer match isn’t a matter of life or death… it’s much more than that!” That’s...

If you drive into Soweto on a winter evening, you may not be able to see your way — the air is thick with the smoke of coal fires. The...

Dear Learn and Teach, In your February/March magazine, you wrote a story about the poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli. I heard that this poet has...

There are not many universities in the world like Turfloop. While students in many universities study in peace and freedom, the students...

The receptionist at the South African Council of Churches (SACC) put down the telephone and greeted us with a smile: “Yebo bantwana bam’i...