Baherero culture kept alive through Otjiserandu

Commemorated every year on the 26th of August, the day is of great historical significance to the Herero people as they continue it as a tradition used to honour the memory and homecoming of the late Samuel Maherero as well as other fallen Ovahehereo leaders.

The late Samuel Mahereo was the chief of Baherero who brought them to Botswana around 1904 as they fled from the marauding German colonists in the then South West Africa, now Namibia. After his death and burial, his body was exhumed in 1923 after he was buried in Serowe and reburied in Okahandja alongside his forefathers on the 26th of August.