Namibian genocide survivors plan second exodus

Friday, February 03, 2017

Unforgotten: A group of OvaHerero who survived starvation and thirst in the desert during the genocide

For only the second time, descendants of Ovaherero and Ovambanderu who fled a genocide in colonial Namibia into Botswana more than 100 years ago, are preparing to return to their motherland. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports on the second exodus of a troubled people

“I shall spare neither women nor children. I shall give the order to drive them away and fire on them. Such are my words to the Herero people.”

These frightful words were spoken in full colonial arrogance by Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha, a German military leader appointed ‘supreme commander’ of South West Africa at the height of the European power’s dominion over the region.

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