One year after the fatal car crash in which 16 people, comprising police officers, correctional service officers, and two civilians, perished, family members and former colleagues gathered to remember them.
The accident happened last year on the 30th of August near Mariental.
A procession carrying the remains of liberation stalwarts who were reburied at the Heroes' Acre today passed through parts of Windhoek ahead of the official reburial ceremony.
After more than five decades, Namibia has laid to rest two liberation heroes who died in captivity on Robben Island, while honouring six others whose remains and legacies have now been brought together at Heroes' Acre.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa paid tribute to the country's liberation fighters on Monday as Zimbabwe marked its 46th National Heroes' Day in Harare under the theme "Lest We Forget".
The Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Namibia, Christian Katoto, joined Congolese in Namibia to pray and commemorate the National Day of Genocide.
Thousands of Congolese were killed and buried in mass graves since 1996 in what is known as 30 years of bloodshed in Eastern Congo.
The remains of two Namibians who died while imprisoned on Robben Island and were buried in Cape Town, South Africa, are to be exhumed and repatriated before 26 August 2026.
The Windhoek community is mourning the passing of Biggs van Wyk, a familiar presence in the city's central business district, who died over the weekend at the age of 83.
The Ovaherero and Nama genocide remains one of the darkest chapters in Namibia's history, an era marked by deep suffering, loss and displacement. For many Ovaherero and Nama families, the painful memories of that time still live on through stories passed down from generation to generation.
Various community members in the Omaheke Region have welcomed the Genocide Remembrance Day.
They, however, urged that commemorations on the day reflect the activities, mood and spirit of what had transpired during the 1904-1908 war.
The community of Kamupupu Village in the Kavango West Region held a moment of prayer honouring the lives that were lost at Kamupupu Village during the period of the liberation struggle.
