The Erongo Governor has invited residents to gather in big numbers at Swakopmund to honour the victims of the 1904 to 1908 Ovaherero and Nama genocide during Genocide Remembrance Day commemorations next week.

Social commentator Sam Kauapirura believes more still needs to be done to incorporate genocide studies into the national school curriculum.

Kauapirura was speaking in an interview with NBC's Namibia Connects programme ahead of Genocide Remembrance Day.

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.

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.

Some Batswana of Namibian descent have welcomed the progress made in the negotiations between the government and its German counterpart.

A documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide has been produced.

The documentary raises questions about apology, justice and reconciliation, more than a century later.

A ruling by a full bench of the Windhoek High Court has shifted the trajectory of the legal fight over the 2021 Namibia-Germany joint declaration on the 1904-08 Ovaherero and Nama genocide. 

The court has decided not to add Germany as a respondent in the case, at least for the time being.

Some members of the Ovaherero community, led by Professor Mutjinde Katjiua, held a commemoration today marking the anniversary of the 1904 extermination order against the Ovaherero and Nama people.

Descendants of the Nama and Ovaherero communities in Namibia gathered in Lüderitz, located in the ||Kharas Region, for the annual Genocide Memorial at Shark Island.

The Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) has rejected the government's approval for the signing of the Nama and Ovaherero genocide reparations agreement with the German government. 

Cabinet approved the signing of the Joint Declaration in mid-December last year.