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Timeline of the history of Windhoek, Namibia
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the
city of
Windhoek ,
Namibia .
Prior to 20th century
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(August 2017 )
20th century
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(August 2017 )
1900s
1901 - Public
library founded.
1902 - Railway to coast begins operating.
1907 -
Landesmuseum founded.
[6]
1909
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1946 - Population: 14,929.
[13]
1950s
1951 - Population: 20,490.
[13]
1958 - Library/museum/archives building constructed.
1959 - 10 December: Ethnic
unrest .
1960s
1970s
1980s
1981 - Population 96,057
[16]
1990s
1990
1991 - Population: 147,056.
[19]
1992
1994
1995
21st century
2000s
2000
2001 - Population: 233,529.
[22]
2002 -
Heroes' Acre (Namibia) memorial unveiled near city.
2005
2006 - City police department established.
2007
2008 - January: Airplane crash occurs at
Eros Airport .
2010s
See also
References
^
a
b
"History of Windhoek" . Windhoekcc.org.na . City of Windhoek. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^ "Namibia".
Political Chronology of Africa . Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001.
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^
"About Us" . National Museum of Namibia . Windhoek. Archived from
the original on 27 December 2005.
^
a
b
"Interesting Facts About Windhoek" . Windhoekcc.org.na . City of Windhoek. Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^
a
b "Namibia: Directory".
Africa South of the Sahara 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World.
Europa Publications . 2003.
ISBN
9781857431315 .
ISSN
0065-3896 .
^
"British Empire: Union of South Africa: Protectorate of South-West Africa" .
Statesman's Year-Book . London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 239+ – via
Internet Archive . Windhuk
^
"Why the Name: Windhoek?" . 2018-05-23.
^
"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Namibia" . Norway:
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 29 July 2017 .
^
a
b
"Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York:
Statistical Office of the United Nations . pp. 171–184. South West Africa
^ "Republic of South Africa: South West Africa", Statesman's Yearbook , London: Macmillan & Co., 1963 .
via Google Books
^ Rogers, Barbara (1972).
"Namibia's General Strike" . Africa Today . 19 (2): 3–8.
ISSN
0001-9887 .
JSTOR
4185227 .
^
"Namibia: Regions, Cities & Urban Localities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information" .
^
a
b Petrus Angula Mbenzi (2009),
Management of Place Names in the Post-Colonial Period in Namibia (PDF) , United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Working Papers
^
a
b
"Namibia: Windhoek" .
Emporis.com . Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from
the original on July 29, 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017 .
^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997).
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262–321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ Victor Tonchi; et al. (2012).
Historical Dictionary of Namibia (2nd ed.).
Scarecrow Press .
ISBN
978-0-8108-5398-0 .
^
"Namibia" . World Prison Brief .
Birkbeck, University of London . Retrieved 30 July 2017 .
^
a
b
"Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011)" , Namibia 2011: Population and Housing Census Main Report , Windhoek:
Namibia Statistics Agency
This article incorporates information from the
Afrikaans Wikipedia and
German Wikipedia .
Bibliography
Published in the 20th century
Published in the 21st century
J.B. Gewald (2002). "Diluting drinks and deepening discontent: colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia". In D.F. Bryceson (ed.). Alcohol in Africa: mixing business, pleasure, and politics . Heinemann.
hdl :
1887/4835 .
M. Wallace (2002), Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915–1945 , Basel {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
T.J. Desch-Obi (2003). "Windhoek, Namibia". In
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh (eds.).
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge.
ISBN
0415234794 .
Christophe Sohn (2004). "A la recherche des frontières dans la ville post-apartheid. Le cas de Windhoek, capitale de la Namibie" [In search of boundaries in the post-apartheid city: the case of Windhoek, capital city of Namibia]. Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français (in French). 81 .
doi :
10.3406/bagf.2004.2413 – via Persee.fr.
Otto S. Kamwi (2005).
An evaluation of the implementation of affirmative action in Windhoek municipality (MPA). University of Namibia – via UNAM Scholarly Repository.
Fatima Müeller-Friedman (2006). "Beyond the Post-Apartheid City: De/Segregation and Suburbanization in Windhoek, Namibia".
African Geographical Review . 25 (1): 33.
Bibcode :
2006AfrGR..25...33M .
doi :
10.1080/19376812.2006.9756192 .
S2CID
145722008 .
Bruce Frayne (2007). "Migration and the Changing Social Economy of Windhoek, Namibia".
Development Southern Africa . 24 .
J. B. Gewald (2009). "From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: The Politics of Urban Planning and Landscape History in Windhoek, Namibia". In M. Bollig and O. Bubenzer (ed.). African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches . Springer.
ISBN
978-0387786810 .
Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Windhoek".
Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture . ABC-CLIO. p. 337+.
ISBN
978-1-61069-248-9 .
Henning Melber (2016).
"Revisiting the Windhoek Old Location" . BAB Working Papers (3).
Basler Afrika Bibliographien .
ISSN
1422-8769 .
"Mayoral Annual Report 2016" . Windhoekcc.org.na . City of Windhoek.
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