I am sad to update u my fellow Africans that this day
Herero people (TODAY NAMIBIA)were massacred by German
forces under the command of General von Trotha near the Waterberg plateau .
But i am happy to update u that there lived a revolutionary that fought for liberated Namibia
(Samuel Maherero)
African Revolutionary Remembrance
Africans do you remember Samuel Maherero?
I am glad to tell you that Samuel Maharero (1856 – 14 March
1923) was a paramount Chief of the Herero people in German
South-West Africa (today Namibia) during their revolts and in
connection with the events surrounding the Herero genocide.
Maharero secretly planned a revolt with the other chiefs
against the German presence. The initial attacks in the
revolt, begun on January 12, 1904, were successful and
involved the killings of several German farmer families.
But they failed to stick to the rule of revolution that no room for
negotiation n this caused most of them dieing at the battle of
waterberg
Maharero succeeded in leading around 1000 of his people to d
British Bechuanaland Protectorate (today Botswana ). He
remained leader of the exiled Herero, and became an
important vassal of Sekgathôlê a Letsholathêbê , a chief in
northern Bechuanaland. Samuel Maharero died there in
1923.
Today he is considered a national hero in Namibia.
Samuel Maharero is one of nine national heroes of Namibia that
were identified at the inauguration of the country's Heroes' Acre
near Windhoek . Founding president Sam Nujoma remarked in his
inauguration speech on 26 August
2002 that:
Chief Samuel Maharero sarted to make plans for an uprising
against the German colonial authorities and white German
settlers in the country. As a result, in January 1904 the uprising
began and chief Maharero's forces surrounded the German
colonial settlers
at Okahandja, Omaruru, and the famous Battle of Ohamakari
near the Waterberg Mountain. The strength of his forces
compelled the German colonial troops to
send in reinforcements under the notorious General Lotha von
Trotha who carried out an extermination order to
wipe out all women, children and elderly persons. [...] To his
revolutionary spirit and his visionary memory we
humbly offer our honor and respect.
Maharero is honoured in form of a granite tombstone with
his name engraved and his portrait plastered onto the slab
(Samuel Maherero)
African Revolutionary Remembrance
Africans do you remember Samuel Maherero?
I am glad to tell you that Samuel Maharero (1856 – 14 March
1923) was a paramount Chief of the Herero people in German
South-West Africa (today Namibia) during their revolts and in
connection with the events surrounding the Herero genocide.
Maharero secretly planned a revolt with the other chiefs
against the German presence. The initial attacks in the
revolt, begun on January 12, 1904, were successful and
involved the killings of several German farmer families.
But they failed to stick to the rule of revolution that no room for
negotiation n this caused most of them dieing at the battle of
waterberg
Maharero succeeded in leading around 1000 of his people to d
British Bechuanaland Protectorate (today Botswana ). He
remained leader of the exiled Herero, and became an
important vassal of Sekgathôlê a Letsholathêbê , a chief in
northern Bechuanaland. Samuel Maharero died there in
1923.
Today he is considered a national hero in Namibia.
Samuel Maharero is one of nine national heroes of Namibia that
were identified at the inauguration of the country's Heroes' Acre
near Windhoek . Founding president Sam Nujoma remarked in his
inauguration speech on 26 August
2002 that:
Chief Samuel Maharero sarted to make plans for an uprising
against the German colonial authorities and white German
settlers in the country. As a result, in January 1904 the uprising
began and chief Maharero's forces surrounded the German
colonial settlers
at Okahandja, Omaruru, and the famous Battle of Ohamakari
near the Waterberg Mountain. The strength of his forces
compelled the German colonial troops to
send in reinforcements under the notorious General Lotha von
Trotha who carried out an extermination order to
wipe out all women, children and elderly persons. [...] To his
revolutionary spirit and his visionary memory we
humbly offer our honor and respect.
Maharero is honoured in form of a granite tombstone with
his name engraved and his portrait plastered onto the slab
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