{"id":234979,"date":"2026-05-31T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-genocide-remembrance-day-confronting-the-historical-truths\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:05:13","slug":"namibia-genocide-remembrance-day-confronting-the-historical-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-genocide-remembrance-day-confronting-the-historical-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Genocide Remembrance Day &#8211; Confronting the Historical Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>We stand together to confront a historical truth that, for over a century, was met with calculated silence, and to advance an unyielding demand for reparatory justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">We look directly across the ocean to Germany to name a crime and demand its structural repair. Between 1904 and 1908, the Imperial German Empire systematically attempted to erase our people from the face of this earth, creating a vast historical debt that remains completely unpaid to this day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">The Ideology of Dispossession:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290474.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>We stand together to confront a historical truth that, for over a century, was met with calculated silence, and to advance an unyielding demand for reparatory justice. We look directly across the ocean to Germany to name a crime and demand its structural repair. Between 1904 and 1908, the Imperial German Empire systematically attempted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581052:7c2f3c1b16601abf5a5bdb12c812dee8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,26401,7165,318,10325,4706,724,257,9348,254,13910],"class_list":["post-234979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confronting","tag-day","tag-genocide","tag-historical","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-remembrance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-truths"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581052:7c2f3c1b16601abf5a5bdb12c812dee8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234979","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=234979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}