NGO says South Africans can relate to struggles Namibians faced
A local NGO has highlighted the importance of showing support to Namibia as it marks its first Genocide Commemoration Day.
A group of activists in Cape Town mark Namibia’s first Genocide Commemoration Day on 28 May 2025. Picture: Morgan van de Rede/EWN
CAPE TOWN - A local NGO has highlighted the importance of showing support to Namibia as it marks its first Genocide Commemoration Day.
To demonstrate this, activists in Cape Town staged a protest outside the German consulate.
The day is meant to remember the more than 50,000 Herero and close to 10,000 Nama people who were killed by German military forces between 1904 and 1908.
Under German rule, land was also confiscated from the indigenous people.
Bettie Fortuin, from the Working On Farms project, said that South Africans could relate to the struggles Namibians faced.
"That’s why we are in solidarity with the Namibians and also Palestine because we know, we still feel it inside ourselves to be evicted, and to be murdered and to be chased away from your homeland."