{"id":234794,"date":"2026-05-29T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-otjozondjupa-to-mark-historic-first-genocide-day-commemoration-at-ohamakari\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:01:35","slug":"namibia-otjozondjupa-to-mark-historic-first-genocide-day-commemoration-at-ohamakari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-otjozondjupa-to-mark-historic-first-genocide-day-commemoration-at-ohamakari\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Otjozondjupa to Mark Historic First Genocide Day Commemoration At Ohamakari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Residents of the Otjozondjupa region will on Thursday visit the sacred gravesites of people who perished in the 1904-1908 Ohamakari battle &#8211; the war of resistance fought by the Ovaherero people against German imperial troops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Otjozondjupa governor John \/\/Khamuseb has announced that the gravesite is located near the Okakarara Cultural Centre, which will host the primary commemoration events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;The Ohamakari battle in the Okakarara area was key to the war of resistance in 1904 to 1908 against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290478.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>Residents of the Otjozondjupa region will on Thursday visit the sacred gravesites of people who perished in the 1904-1908 Ohamakari battle &#8211; the war of resistance fought by the Ovaherero people against German imperial troops. Otjozondjupa governor John \/\/Khamuseb has announced that the gravesite is located near the Okakarara Cultural Centre, which will host the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6031,7165,318,13203,9346,4706,724,257,54492,919,254],"class_list":["post-234794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commemoration","tag-day","tag-genocide","tag-historic","tag-mark","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ohamakari","tag-otjozondjupa","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/234794","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=234794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}