Bondelswarts

The Bondelswarts are a Nama ethnic group of Southern Africa living in the extreme south of Namibia, in an area centred on the town of Warmbad.^[1][2]

History

They rose up against German colonial rule in the Nama War 1903-1906.^[2] They were brutally repressed.^[2]

They inhabit an arid region around Fish River Canyon and the Richtersveld.

In 1922 they were involved in the Bondelswarts Rebellion, a revolt against a tax on dogs, which was violently repressed.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, John S. Lowry, p.64
2. Pedersen, Susan (2015). The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 114–115. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.001.0001/acprof-9780199570485. ISBN 978-0-19-957048-5.
3. Crawford, Neta (2002). "6 - Sacred Trust". Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention. Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

• Freislich, Richard (1964). The Last Tribal War. A History Of The Bondelswart Uprising. Struik.
• John S. Lowry, Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, 2015.
• Brian Wood, Namibia 1884-1984: Readings on Namibia's History and Society, Namibia Support Committee, United Nations Institute for Namibia, 1988
• Alfred T. Moleah, Namibia, the Struggle for Liberation, 1983
• Dean McCleland, John Dunn: Part 1 – Background to the Bondelswarts People & the SAC [1]