{"id":188541,"date":"2025-01-13T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-germanys-genocide-in-namibia-deal-between-the-two-governments-falls-short-of-delivering-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:08:49","slug":"namibia-germanys-genocide-in-namibia-deal-between-the-two-governments-falls-short-of-delivering-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-germanys-genocide-in-namibia-deal-between-the-two-governments-falls-short-of-delivering-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Germany&#8217;s Genocide in Namibia &#8211; Deal Between the Two Governments Falls Short of Delivering Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">In early December 2024 the German and Namibian governments concluded negotiations over a joint declaration recognising the genocide committed by the German empire in South West Africa. Germany ruled the country as a colony <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/place\/namibia\" rel=\"noopener\">between 1884 and 1915<\/a>. It was declared a mandated territory by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">On 19 December 2024, Namibia <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.na\/node\/108793\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that the cabinets of the two countries had reached a landmark decision<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">related to the signing of the Joint Declaration on the Genocide, Apology&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501130385.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early December 2024 the German and Namibian governments concluded negotiations over a joint declaration recognising the genocide committed by the German empire in South West Africa. Germany ruled the country as a colony between 1884 and 1915. It was declared a mandated territory by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. On 19 December 2024, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7012,11940,7668,318,10509,6201,6852,4706,724,257,5196,254],"class_list":["post-188541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-delivering","tag-falls","tag-genocide","tag-germanys","tag-governments","tag-justice","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}