Nam History Check Podcast
A podcast featuring Namibian Historic Icons.
SAM NUJOMA - THE FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF NAMIBIA
This children's podcast tells the story of the Founding President of Namibia, Dr. Sam Nujoma. Authored and adapted by Helvi Itenge-Wheeler, we follow his life from his childhood to the dawn of Namibia's independence. Children, who listen to this podcast will find out more about Namibia's struggle for liberation from…
Heroes’ Acre
In this podcast episode you will learn about the Heroes’ Acre, which is a state-of-the-art war memorial on the outskirts of Windhoek. Its construction was motivated by the need to foster the spirit of patriotism and nationalism.
Monument of the Unknown PLAN soldiers at Ondeshifiilwa
In this podcast episode you will learn about the Monument of the Unknown PLAN soldiers at Ondeshifiilwa, which was erected to commemorate an attack by the South African army on 22 PLAN fighters that took place in 1989.
Welwitschia Plains
In this podcast, you will learn about the Welwitschia Plains, which are situated approximately 30 - 50 km inland from Swakopmund, roughly lying between the Swakopmund and Khan rivers. They form part of the hyper-arid gravel plains of the Namib Desert.
Hoba Meteorite
In this podcast, you will learn about the Hoba Meteorite, which is found on the Hoba West Farm in the Otjozondjupa Region. The meteorite fell to earth less than 80 000 years ago and is between 190 and 410 million years old.
Ghaub Cave
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Ghaub Cave. At 38 metres beneath the surface of the earth, the Ghaub Caves comprise a muggy underground world formed by a forced get-together of water and calcium over the past seven million years.
Fish River Canyon
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Fish River Canyon, which is located in the south of Namibia. The largest canyon in Africa, it is also the second-most visited tourist attraction in Namibia.
Ida Maria Magdalena Hoffmann
In this podcast, you will learn more about liberator, mobilizer and politician, Ida Maria Magdalena Hoffmann. Hoffmann was born on the 16th of September 1947 in Karasburg, in the ǁKaras Region, Having founded the Children's World Creche in Katutura in 1984 and being actively involved in the Roman Catholic Church…
Etosha National Park
In this podcast you will learn more about the Etosha National Park. The park is considered a national reserve and is located in the northern part of Namibia. The Park covers about 8,598 square miles, and centers on the Etosha Pan, a vast expanse of salt with lone salt springs…
Dr. Ellen Ndeshi Namhila
In this podcast you will learn more about nurse, academic and Liberation icon Dr. Ellen Ndeshi Namhila. Dr. Ellen Ndeshi Namhila was born in 1964 at Ondobe village in Northern Namibia. In 1976, at the age of 12, Dr. Namhila became the target in an attack by the South African…
Putuse Apollus
In this podcast, you will learn more about a founding member of the Women's Council: Freedom fighter and Nurse Putuse Apollus. Affectionately known as "Meekulu Putuse", she was born in a small village called Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Omugulugwombashe
In this podcast, you will learn more about The Omugulugwombashe National Heritage site which is essential to the history of the struggle for freedom and independence in Namibia. It is at this settlement - then only a forest and woodland - that Namibia’s struggle for independence began in 1966.
Moses ǁGaroëb
In this podcast, you will learn more about Moses Mague ǁGaroeb, who became involved as a young man in the resistance against the forced removal to Katutura. When the organizers of the resistance movement drove around with a loudspeaker, announcing the protest boycott of municipal services, the 18-year old ǁGaroeb…
Twyfelfontein
In this podcast you will learn more about the Twyfelfontein heritage site, situated 70km west of the town of Khorixas in the southern Kunene region of Namibia. The site lies on the banks of the Aba Huab River in the Huab valley of the Mount Etjo formation.
Gerson Hitjevi Veii
In this podcast you will learn more about Gerson Hitjevi Veii, who was a Protestor, Freedom fighter and a Governor. Like many freedom fighters of his generation, he attended the Augustineum College in Okahandja, where he was expelled in his final year for writing anti-colonial essays.
Dr. Libertina Inaviposa Amathila
In this podcast, you will learn more about Former Deputy Prime Minister, medical doctor and politician, Dr. Libertina Amathila. During the liberation struggle, she was known as ‘Meme Doctor’ due to her kindness and love for humanity, which she displayed when she worked as a medical doctor to help Namibian…
David Hosea Meroro
In this podcast you will get to know David Hosea Meroro. Meroro got involved in efforts to liberate Namibia from the South African apartheid regime early on. Within the Chief’s Council, led by Hosea Kutako, he was a member of an intelligence unit called “Ozohoze” and also played a role…
Petrified Forest
In this podcast, you will learn about the petrified forest, which is situated about 50 km west of Khorixas. The forest was discovered by two farmers in 1940 and on the 1st of March 1950, it was declared a national monument.
Axali Doeseb
In this podcast, you will learn more about Namibian icon Axali Doeseb, who is a writer, composer, and music teacher, as well as an orchestra and choir conductor. Doeseb was Namibia’s first post-independent black conductor of the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra and is the composer of the Namibian National Anthem.
Eenhana Shrine
In this podcast, you will learn more about the Eenhana Shrine, which stands proud in Northern Namibia to this day - a historic monument that pays tribute to the heroes and heroines of Namibia’s liberation struggle.