Nam History Check Podcast: Recent Episodes
NBC Namibia
This children's podcast tells the story of the Founding President of Namibia, Dr. Sam Nujoma. Authored and adapted by Helvi Itenge-Wheeler, we follow his life from his childhood to the dawn of Namibia's independence. Children, who listen to this podcast will find out more about Namibia's struggle for liberation from South African apartheid rule, and the era of reconciliation that followed.
In this podcast episode you will learn about the Monument of the Unknown PLAN soldiers at Ondeshifiilwa, which was erected to commemorate an attack by the South African army on 22 PLAN fighters that took place in 1989.
In this podcast episode you will learn about the Heroes’ Acre, which is a state-of-the-art war memorial on the outskirts of Windhoek. Its construction was motivated by the need to foster the spirit of patriotism and nationalism.
In this podcast, you will learn about the Welwitschia Plains, which are situated approximately 30 - 50 km inland from Swakopmund, roughly lying between the Swakopmund and Khan rivers. They form part of the hyper-arid gravel plains of the Namib Desert.
In this podcast, you will learn about the Hoba Meteorite, which is found on the Hoba West Farm in the Otjozondjupa Region. The meteorite fell to earth less than 80 000 years ago and is between 190 and 410 million years old.
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Ghaub Cave. At 38 metres beneath the surface of the earth, the Ghaub Caves comprise a muggy underground world formed by a forced get-together of water and calcium over the past seven million years.
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Fish River Canyon, which is located in the south of Namibia. The largest canyon in Africa, it is also the second-most visited tourist attraction in Namibia.
In this podcast, you will learn more about liberator, mobilizer and politician, Ida Maria Magdalena Hoffmann. Hoffmann was born on the 16th of September 1947 in Karasburg, in the ǁKaras Region, Having founded the Children's World Creche in Katutura in 1984 and being actively involved in the Roman Catholic Church since 1962, Hoffmann has had a keen interest in justice matters and political issues from an early age...
In this podcast you will learn more about the Etosha National Park. The park is considered a national reserve and is located in the northern part of Namibia. The Park covers about 8,598 square miles, and centers on the Etosha Pan, a vast expanse of salt with lone salt springs...
In this podcast you will learn more about nurse, academic and Liberation icon Dr. Ellen Ndeshi Namhila. Dr. Ellen Ndeshi Namhila was born in 1964 at Ondobe village in Northern Namibia. In 1976, at the age of 12, Dr. Namhila became the target in an attack by the South African Defence Force in her home area...
In this podcast, you will learn more about a founding member of the Women's Council: Freedom fighter and Nurse Putuse Apollus. Affectionately known as "Meekulu Putuse", she was born in a small village called Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
In this podcast, you will learn more about The Omugulugwombashe National Heritage site which is essential to the history of the struggle for freedom and independence in Namibia. It is at this settlement - then only a forest and woodland - that Namibia’s struggle for independence began in 1966.
In this podcast, you will learn more about Moses Mague ǁGaroeb, who became involved as a young man in the resistance against the forced removal to Katutura. When the organizers of the resistance movement drove around with a loudspeaker, announcing the protest boycott of municipal services, the 18-year old ǁGaroeb was the one speaking in Khoekhoegowab.
In this podcast you will learn more about the Twyfelfontein heritage site, situated 70km west of the town of Khorixas in the southern Kunene region of Namibia. The site lies on the banks of the Aba Huab River in the Huab valley of the Mount Etjo formation.
In this podcast you will learn more about Gerson Hitjevi Veii, who was a Protestor, Freedom fighter and a Governor. Like many freedom fighters of his generation, he attended the Augustineum College in Okahandja, where he was expelled in his final year for writing anti-colonial essays.
In this podcast, you will learn more about Former Deputy Prime Minister, medical doctor and politician, Dr. Libertina Amathila. During the liberation struggle, she was known as ‘Meme Doctor’ due to her kindness and love for humanity, which she displayed when she worked as a medical doctor to help Namibian refugees in different camps as well as wounded PLAN fighters.
In this podcast you will get to know David Hosea Meroro. Meroro got involved in efforts to liberate Namibia from the South African apartheid regime early on. Within the Chief’s Council, led by Hosea Kutako, he was a member of an intelligence unit called “Ozohoze” and also played a role in the “African Improvement Society” in Windhoek, which sought to improve educational facilities that were denied to Africans. When SWANU was established in 1959, he was a founding member. Click on the podcast to find out more!
In this podcast, you will learn about the petrified forest, which is situated about 50 km west of Khorixas. The forest was discovered by two farmers in 1940 and on the 1st of March 1950, it was declared a national monument.
In this podcast, you will learn more about Namibian icon Axali Doeseb, who is a writer, composer, and music teacher, as well as an orchestra and choir conductor. Doeseb was Namibia’s first post-independent black conductor of the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra and is the composer of the Namibian National Anthem.
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Eenhana Shrine, which stands proud in Northern Namibia to this day - a historic monument that pays tribute to the heroes and heroines of Namibia’s liberation struggle.
In this podcast you will learn about Maxton Joseph Mutongolume, who started his political career as a co-founder of the Ovamboland People’s Congress, while working in South Africa in the late 1950s.
In this podcast you will learn about Gertrude Kandanga, a well-known public speaker, who was one of the first women to join the Owamboland People’s Organisation at Walvis Bay in 1959. She was also a founding member of SWAPO in 1960.
In this podcast, you will learn more about Markus Kooper. Kooper’s birthplace is historically significant, as it marks the ancient seat of the Red Nation Nama community, where Namibia’s oldest anti-colonial manifesto was signed, the Treaty of Hoachanas (1858).
In this podcast you will learn more about advocate, ally, and anti-apartheid activist Anton Theodor Eberhard August Lubowski. As an advocate, Lubowski defended political prisoners and got involved with the Namibian trade union movement.
In this podcast you will learn more about Brendan Kangongolo Simbwaye. A teacher turned politician, he founded the Caprivi African National Union (CANU), and later became SWAPO Vice President.
In this podcast, you will learn more about Anna Mungunda, also known as Kakurukaze, who became a symbol of the resistance of women against apartheid when she lost her life during the Old Location Massacre on 10 December 1959.
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Otjikoto Lake, which was formed by a Karst process in which the ceiling of a cave collapsed. The lake is situated about 20km north-west of Tsumeb on the road to Oshakati.
In this podcast, you will learn more about struggle Icon Natalia Ndahambelela Mavulu, who - like many others - went into exile during the liberation struggle. A true believer in freedom and justice, Mavulu started a kindergarten in the Namibian refugee camp Nyango, Zambia and would go on to lead the Swapo women’s council.
In this podcast, you will learn more about chief Komumbumbi Hosea Kutako. When the Herero people rose against German rule in 1904, Kutako took part in the war as one of the leading commanders, but was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Hamakari in August 1904.
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Quiver Tree Forest, a tourist attraction in Namibia. The forest is located about 14 km north-east of Keetmanshoop, on the road to Koës, on the Gariganus farm. The forest comprises about 250 specimens of Aloidendron dichotomum, locally known as the quiver tree.