St Barnabas was an Anglican mission station, church, and school in Windhoek, the administrative centre of South West Africa. The school was situated in the Old Location suburb. When Old Location was closed for blacks in 1968 the existing buildings and institutions, among them St Barnabas, were destroyed.
St Barnabas Anglican Mission School
The Anglican Mission St Barnabas was located in the Old Location suburb of Windhoek, an area exclusively for black people. The primary school at St Barnabas was founded in 1923. It was, at that time, the only school in the territory of South West Africa where teachers were black. [1]
In the 1950s, the school had classes from grades 1 up to 12 ( matric), and it also accommodated people that could only attend in the evenings. [2] During the same period the Windhoek municipality and the South African colonial administration decided to forcefully move the residents of the Old Location 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the north of the city to gain more land for settlement by white people. In 1968, the Old Location was officially closed and whites began to settle while the forced removal prompted the evicted people to give the new location the name Katutura ( Otjiherero: The place where we do not want to live). [3] With the new designation for the suburb as an area exclusively for whites St Barnabas, and with it the school, was destroyed. [4]
Notable alumni
A number of prominent Namibians attended St Barnabas, among them:
- Clemens Kapuuo (1923–1978) – paramount chief, OvaHerero [5]
- Mburumba Kerina – co-founder, SWAPO (SWAPO Party of Namibia), the National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO), and the Federal Convention of Namibia (FCN) [6]
- Sam Nujoma – founding president of Namibia; attended St Barnabas as from 1949 [7]
- Kuaima Riruako (1935–2014) – paramount chief, OvaHerero; president, National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO)
- Tjama Tjivikua – rector, Polytechnic of Namibia; attended St Barnabas from 1967 until the closure[ when?] of the Old Location [8]
See also
Notes
- ^ Henrichsen, Dag, ed. (1997). A Glance at Our Africa: Facsimile Reprint of Southwest News--Suidwes Nuus, 1960. Basler Afrika Bibliographien. p. 35. ISBN 9783905141696.
- ^ Tonchi, Lindeke & Grotpeter 2012, pp. 300–301.
- ^ Dierks, Klaus. "History of Namibia, 1959". klausdierks.com. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ^ Gewald, Jan-Bart (September 2004). "Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo?" (PDF). Journal of Southern African Studies. 30 (3): 561. doi: 10.1080/0305707042000254100. hdl: 1887/4851. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 146448312.
- ^ Newton, Michael (2014). Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 254. ISBN 9781610692861.
- ^ Ndjebela, Toivo (30 September 2011). "'I am politics' John the Baptist'". New Era. via allafrica.com. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015.
- ^ Tonchi, Lindeke & Grotpeter 2012, p. 300.
- ^ Laudatio for the conferment of the Dr h.c. degree: Dr Tjama Tjivikua. "Dr. Tjama Tjivikua receives an Honorary Doctorate". Honoring the Achievers at the 138th Commencement of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. (PDF). Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 January 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
Literature
- Tonchi, Victor L; Lindeke, William A; Grotpeter, John J (2012). Historical Dictionary of Namibia. Historical Dictionaries of Africa, African Historical Dictionaries (2 ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810879904.
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