Lüderitz petitioned the German govern- ment, and the German flag was hoisted in the bay for the first time in 1884, to declare German South West Africa.

Of the 1,772 men remembered by the new Cape Town memorial, says Hay, probably fewer than 100 lost their lives due to their involvement in the relatively hassle-free German South West Africa ...

Compared to other European powers, Germany was late to colonialism. It controlled huge swaths of Africa from 1884 to 1900, through the colonies of German South West Africa, Cameroon, Togoland, and ...

This federation is stated to represent some thirty different societies, composed of over 400,000 members; the principal member organization, the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, acts under the ...

Germany was the colonial ruler of Namibia from 1884 until 1915, when it gave up the territory to South Africa. Namibia finally gained independence from South Africa in 1990.

South West Africa is 900 miles of treeless coast and diamond-bearing desert populated by Afrikaners, Bastards (mixed blood settlers from the old Cape Colony). Hottentots. Hereros and the largest ...

Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial featuring 1,772 names.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa ... They didn’t serve in Europe but in the fringe battles in Africa, where Allied forces fought in the then-German colonies of German South West Africa ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their ...