The OvaHerero Traditional Authority and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association are calling on President Hage Geingob to support them in taking Germany to the International Court of Justice for the genocide committed against their people.

The groups have also condemned the German government's defence of Israel's attack on Gaza, noting that Germany's actions are motivated by a guilty conscience as it tries to make amends for the Holocaust.

The joint statement by the Ovaherero Traditional Authority and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association supports Namibia's pronouncement in the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza and South Africa's move to take this up with the International Court of Justice, ICJ.

But they took exception to Namibia criticising Germany, while Namibia is excluding them from negotiating genocide reparations with the erstwhile colonial power.

The statement reads that "the same Namibia agrees with Germany that the genocide committed against the Nama and Ovaherero people can only be considered "genocide from today's perspective."

The two groups say this implies that both Germany and Namibia is of the view that it was not genocide at the time it was committed.

The Presidency, in the statement, mentions, however, that Germany is still to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.

The communities called out Germany for forgetting that it has not even acknowledged the genocide it committed against the Nama and Ovaherero people from 1904–1908.

The OTA and NTLA reiterate that seven special rapporteurs of the United Nations have stated that the German and Namibian governments are violating the very UN Genocide Convention under which South Africa is taking Israel to ICJ for its alleged genocidal war in Gaza.

South Africa calls for provisional measures to stop Israel's onslaught on Gaza.