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1488
Explorer Bartolomeu Dias arrives from Portugal
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Afrikaner settlers arrive and reach Ovambo kingdoms
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British annexation of Walvis Bay
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Walvis Bay claimed by Britain’s Cape Colony (South Africa)
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German Colonization: Formation of German Southwest Africa
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Conflict with the Germans and indigenous Herero and Nama peoples
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Herero and Nama rebellion, Herero genocide by the Germans: possibly 60,000 (80%) of the Herero population are killed
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Act of Union: Walvis Bay included in new South Africa
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South Africa conquest over South West Africa during WWI
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Governance of South West Africa granted to South Africa by League of Nations (Class C) mandate
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United Nations refuses annexation of South West Africa by South Africa
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Herman Toivo ja Toivo and the creation the opposition movement (Ovamboland People's Congress, later renamed South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO))
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Herman Toivo ja Toivo and SWAPO leaders tried for terrorism, imprisonment at Robben Island
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South West Africa renamed Namibia
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Namibia independence, Sam Nujoma elected as president
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South Africa grants sovereignty to Namibia over Walvis Bay
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Germany apologizes for colonial-era genocide of Herero people