Hendrik Witbooi: Life of a victim
He makes no requests according to truth and justice,
and asks no permission of a chief.
He introduces laws into the land,
laws which are entirely impossible,
untenable,
unbelievable,
unbearable,
unmerciful and unfeeling.
He punishes our people in Windhoek
and has already beaten people to death for debt.
It is not just and right
to beat people to death for that.
He stretches people on their backs
and flogs them in a shameful and cruel manner
be they male or female. He thinks we are stupid
and unintelligent people,
but we have never yet punished people
in the cruel and improper way that he does.
No-one can survive such a punishment.'
and asks no permission of a chief.
He introduces laws into the land,
laws which are entirely impossible,
untenable,
unbelievable,
unbearable,
unmerciful and unfeeling.
He punishes our people in Windhoek
and has already beaten people to death for debt.
It is not just and right
to beat people to death for that.
He stretches people on their backs
and flogs them in a shameful and cruel manner
be they male or female. He thinks we are stupid
and unintelligent people,
but we have never yet punished people
in the cruel and improper way that he does.
No-one can survive such a punishment.'
REspecting those who betrayed
The peculiar attraction
between the Herero and Germans
here resembles the one in the Natal
between the Zulus and British
two other peoples who fought
"It's the respect of a soldier for a soldier,"
"We never gave up our army,
even during the German period."
But the links are much closer.
Because many Herero women
were forced into sexual slavery,
many Herero today have German ancestors,
and German is widely spoken here.
between the Herero and Germans
here resembles the one in the Natal
between the Zulus and British
two other peoples who fought
"It's the respect of a soldier for a soldier,"
"We never gave up our army,
even during the German period."
But the links are much closer.
Because many Herero women
were forced into sexual slavery,
many Herero today have German ancestors,
and German is widely spoken here.
Words of a Mad Man
African tribes ...
will only succumb to violent force.
It has been and remains my policy
to exercise this violence with gross terrorism
and even with cruelty.
I annihilate the African tribes
by floods of money
and floods of blood.
It is only by such sowings
that something new will arise
which will be there to stay
will only succumb to violent force.
It has been and remains my policy
to exercise this violence with gross terrorism
and even with cruelty.
I annihilate the African tribes
by floods of money
and floods of blood.
It is only by such sowings
that something new will arise
which will be there to stay