Yearbook 2007
Namibia. According to CountryAAH, Windhoek is the capital city of Namibia. Ten men were sentenced in August to between 30 and 32 years in prison for treason. They were charged with participating in an armed uprising in the Caprivi Strip in 1999 and have been in custody since 2002. A parallel trial against 119 other people from Caprivi has been ongoing for several years.
Former President Sam Nujoma resigned as chairman of the SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organization) government party, which he led since it was founded as a liberation movement in 1960. Nujoma’s successor to the presidential post, Hifikepunye Pohamba, also replaced him as party leader.
- According to abbreviationfinder: NA is the 2-letter acronym for the country of Namibia.
Representatives of the German von Trotha family visited N. in October to ask for forgiveness for the massacre their ancestor Lothar von Trotha was responsible for in 1904. Tens of thousands of members of the Herero people were killed or starved to death by the ethnic cleansing ordered by the then military commander of the German Colony to strike a rebellion. Germany is today N’s most important donor, but does not formally ask for forgiveness for the massacre in order not to be met by damages.
Namibia weather in March, April and May
Average daily temperatures between 18 ° C and 31 ° C can be expected over the next three months. It gets warmest in March in Etosha National Park, while April is noticeably cooler in Walvis Bay. Temperatures in Windhoek are between 23 and 27 ° C, in Walvis Bay between 18 and 20 ° C and in Etosha National Park between 28 and 31 ° C.
Do you want to go on a beach holiday? The water temperatures are in March, April and May 15-17 ° C.
In March it rains on 7 (Etosha National Park) to 8 days (Windhoek), in April on around 4 days and in May on 1 (Windhoek) to 2 days (Etosha National Park), depending on the region.
In the period from March to May, the sun shines an average of 7 to 10 hours a day. The sunniest weather is in May in Windhoek, but with less sun you will have to make do with Walvis Bay in March.
Windhoek
Windhoek, the capital of Namibia; 325,800 residents (2012). Windhoek, located on a high plateau in the central parts of the country, is Namibia’s commercial center and has connections to the port of Walvis Bay and to South Africa. In addition to trade and light industry, including food production, the city’s business sector is dominated by public activities. Windhoek has an international airport. Following Namibia’s independence, the previously segregated districts of whites (Windhoek), so-called colored (Khomasdal) and Africans (Katutura) have been integrated.
Windhoek probably got its name as a distortion of Winterhoek (‘the wintry corner’), where one of the immigrant khoikhoi groups from the Cape Colony created its center in the 1840s. The Herero people considered it their territory. In 1891, Windhoek became the center of colonial administration and in 1990 the independent capital of Namibia. Most Africans still live in the suburb of Katutura.
NAMIBIA. – Official name, since 1968, of South-West Africa, a territory of Southern Africa under trusteeship to the Republic of South Africa until 1966, when the United Nations placed it under their direct authority. The population of Namibia (concentrated for three fifths in the northern part of the country) at the 1970 census, on an area of 824,269 km 2, was 746,328 residents, Of which over 627,000 Bantu, 90,658 whites (11.9% of the population) and 28,275 coloreds (3.7%; doubled in a decade).
Among the Bantu, the Ovambo prevailed (352,640; 46.3% of the population), with their own autonomous territory since 1968; l ‘ Ovamboland (27,400 km 2, capol. Ondangua); the Dama or Damara (66,291; 8.7%), the Herero (50,589; 6.6%); i Kavango (49,512; 6.5%) in the district, created in 1970, called Kavangoland (40,000 km 2, capital Runtu). There are also numerous groups of the Nama or Hottentots (32,935; 4.3%); of the residents in the eastern part of the Dito di Caprivi (25,580; 3.3%; Masubia and Mafue, for the most part, also autonomous); of the Bushmen (22,830; 3.4%); of the Tswana (19,492; 2.6%). Between 1960 and 1970, the increase of the Ovambo (over 100,000), the Kavango (more than 21,000) and the Damara (about 20,000) was significant.
The country is divided into 22 districts. The Bay of Whales, or Walvis Bay (1124 km 2 with 12,650 residents in 1960) continues to be administered by Namibia, although it belongs to the South African province of Cape. The central administration is based in Windhoek (64,700 residents, of which 35,700 white; in 1951 it did not reach 30,000 residents).
Breeding, based mainly (1975) on over 2.7 million cattle, 4.5 million sheep, especially karakul, and 1.8 million goats, continues to feed butter and cheese production in many locations (including Windhoek and its area), as well as canning industries in Walvis Bay. The latter also supplies fishing products (7,500 employees, and almost 850,000 t, in 1969). The whole manufacturing industry in 1972 employed 9700 people. The mining activity (almost 16,000 employees in 1973) continues to be a significant support for the economy: the extraction of diamonds (1.5 million carats in 1974), from coastal floods N of the mouth of the Orange, is noteworthy. Also in 1974, 48,000 kg of silver was extracted; lead, for 47,600 tons; zinc, for 49,000 t (27,000 in 1960); copper, for 26,000 t (31,000 in 1960); asbestos, for 90,000 tons. In addition, manganese, cadmium, vanadium, tungsten, tin, etc. are extracted,
The railways, which are part of the South African network, extend for 2350 km; state rolling stock, for 3372 km, of which 2722 with bituminous cover (1973). There are also 9830 km of non-state main roads, 19,500 km of district roads and 23,500 km of rural roads. At Windhoek international airport.