Namibia honours its women
On 10 December our colleagues in Namibia join the rest of the world in celebrating International Human Rights Day, as well as honouring the heroines of their liberation struggle.
Namibian Women’s Day commemorates an uprising in the Old Location in Windhoek on 10 December 1959, when residents marched peacefully to protest their forced relocation to a new neighbourhood.
For Namibia, this was the start of the liberation struggle against the then South African apartheid government, with many leading political figures going into exile to organise armed resistance.
To honour the significance of this event in the fight against white minority rule, Namibia’s Constituent Assembly proclaimed Namibian Independence on the same day in 1990.
