Herero Day

The Hererotag is an every year on the last weekend taking place in the Namibian town of Okahandja in August commemoration of the Battle of Waterberg in 1904 in the wake of the uprising of the Herero and Nama and the buried in Okahandja Herero leader Tjamuaha, Maharero, Samuel Maharero and Hosea Kutako. The Hererotag is - despite appearances - no tourist event, but a vested by tribal and historical consciousness remembrance.

The inexperienced observers nevertheless provides a spectacle that can not be necessarily appear necessarily the seriousness of the festivities; especially the parade of " Truppenspieler " with its almost operetta-like acting, but based on German tradition uniforms and with their martial commands casts doubt. In addition, the colorful lift the "Green Flags" and "Red Flags" (1920 and 1923 founded by Hosea Kutako Herero Women Trachtenvereine; their external characteristic is the tribal uniform color of the costume: green for the Gobabis - or east- Herero, red for the Okahandja or central Herero ), an irresistible attraction for photographers, so that the interest in the historical background remains rather marginal. The Herero after themselves with the sponsored by a drinks company choice of "Miss Herero " that in all commemorate the fun does not come off.

On the 100th anniversary of the German Minister has thought for Development Cooperation Heidemarie Wieczorek -Zeul on Hererotag 2004 for the dead and thereby the first known political and moral guilt of the German colonial administration. She asked the Herero people for forgiveness for the crimes committed by Germans crime. Such " compensation -related phrase" ( Quote: Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer) was always avoided by German government officials in the past.

  • Okahandja
  • Event (Namibia)
  • Company ( Namibia)
  • History ( Namibia)
  • Herero
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