Shark Island, located off the coast of Luderitz, serves as a stark reminder of the atrocities committed by the German regime against the Nama and Ovaherero people during the 1904-1908 genocide.

Nama people representing various sub-tribes of the Nama clan held a Genocide Remembrance Day, paying tribute and honouring their ancestors killed during the 1904-1908 genocide.

The commemoration, organisedby the Nama Traditional Leaders Association was held at Shark Island in Luderitz.

Twenty-eight May 1908 marked the official closure of the concentration camps that were run by the German colonial forces during the 1904-1908 genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama people.

The Vice Chairperson of the Nama Traditional Leaders Association and Gaob Dawid Hanse of the !Khara Khoe said the Nama communities affected by the 1904 to 1908 genocide look to the government to facilitate meaningful dialogues with the German government.

A police investigation has found that a memorial stone at Shark Island in Luderitz was damaged by the forces of the weather and not vandalism.

The memorial tombstone was recently erected in remembrance of the Nama and Herero victims of the German genocide war.

The Nama Traditional Leaders Association Chairperson, Gaob Johannes Isaack, has welcomed an investigation into the history of Shark Island, which the German Empire used as a concentration camp during the Nama and Herero Genocide of 1904–1908.

Descendants of victims of the 1904-1908 genocide unveiled a tombstone at Shark Island in remembrance of the tens of thousands of Nama and Herero-speaking Namibians killed by the then-German colonial settlers.