Namibia
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- 24 Apr 1884 - 9
Jul 1915
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- 9 Jul 1915 - 28
Jun 1919
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- 28 Jun 1919 - 31
May 1928
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- 31 May 1928 - 21 Mar
1990
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- 26 Oct 1966 - 21
Mar 1990 SWAPO Flag
- (UN Recognized
Namibia Flag)
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- Adopted 21 Mar
1990
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Map of Namibia
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Hear
National Anthem
"Namibia, Land of the
Brave"
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Text
of National Anthem
Adopted 21 Mar 1991
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Constitution
(12 Mar 1990)
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Capital:
Windhoek
(Grootfontein May- Jul
1915;
Windhuk 1891-1915;
Otjimbigwe 1884-1891)
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Currency:
Namibian Dollar
(NAD); 1961-1993 South
African Rand
(ZAR); 1920-1961 South African Pound
(ZAP); 1915-1920 Southwest African
Mark (NAM); 1914-1915 German Southwest
Africa Mark (NAP)
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National
Holiday: 21 Mar (1990)
Independence Day
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Population:
2,777,232 (2023)
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GDP: $23.1
billion (2021)
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Exports:
$3.95 billion (2021)
Imports: $6.05
billion (2021)
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Ethnic groups:
Ovambo 50%, Kavangos 9%, Herero 7%,
Damara 7%, mixed European and African
ancestry 6.5%, European 6%, Nama 5%,
Caprivian 4%, San [Bushman] 3%, Baster
[Rehoboth] 2%, Tswana 0.5% (2020)
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Total Active
Armed Forces: 9,900 (2019)
Merchant marine:
15 ships (2022)
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Religions:
Christian (mainly Protestant) 97.5%,
other 0.6% (includes Muslim, Baha'i,
Jewish, Buddhist), unaffiliated 1.9%
(2020)
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ACP,
AfCFTA,
AfDB, APM, AU, C, CCM, CD, CPLP
(associate observer), CTBT,
CWC, ESCR, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO,
ICCt, ICRM, ICSID
(signatory),
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO,
Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, IRENA, ISA, ISO,
ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, NPT, OPCW,
SACU, SADC, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNFCC, UNFCC-KP,
UNFCC-PA, UNHCR,
UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO,
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Namibia
Index
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Chronology
9 Apr
1883
Agent of Adolf Lüderitz purchases
Angra Pequeña
(Lüderitz), taking possession on 12
May 1883.
24
Apr
1884
German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika)
protectorate.
30
Apr 1885 -
1889
Under Deutsch
Kolonialgesell-schaft für
Südwest-Africa (German
South-West Africa
Colonial Company) rule.
14
Sep
1892
German South-West Africa crown colony.
9
Jul
1915
Occupation by South Africa. German
forces under
Erich
Victor Carl August Franke (b. 1865 -
d.
1936) surrender; fully occupied by 16
Aug 1915.
17
Dec
1920
South-West Africa a League of Nations
mandate
(administered by South
Africa).
11
Dec
1946
South Africa rejects a UN Trusteeship
for South-
West Africa.
24
Aug
1954
South Africa announces mandate has
lapsed and
that "the territory and South Africa
are one
political entity."
27
Oct
1966
United Nations General Assembly
terminates the
mandate and puts South-West Africa
under direct
UN responsibility; South Africa does
not
recognize this and continues to
exercise de
facto authority.
19
May
1967
United Nations Council for Namibia
created, it
functioned as a policy-making organ of
the UN
General Assembly and as the legal
administering
authority of the trust territory.
12
Jun
1968
South-West Africa formally renamed
Namibia by UN
(not recognized by South Africa).
2
Oct 1968 - Jul
1980 Homelands
similar to those in South Africa
established.
30
Jan
1970
UN declares South Africa in "illegal
occupation"
of Namibia.
20
Dec 1976 - 21 Mar 1990 SWAPO
granted observer status at
the United Nations.
21 Mar
1990
Independence from South Africa
(Republic of Namibia).
1
Mar
1994 Walvis
Bay and Penguin Islands are formally
transferred
to Namibia.
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Traditional
States
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Former
Homelands
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Upingtonia/
Lijdensrust
(1885-1887)
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Caprivi Strip
(1909-1976)
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Walvis Bay
(1878-1994)
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Historical
Maps
of
Namibia
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Map
of Namibia
1920-1994
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U.N. Commissioners for Namibia (until 12 Jun 1968,
South West Africa)
(not recognized by the government of South Africa)
27 Oct 1966 - 16 Aug 1967 Anton Vratuša
(Yugoslavia) (b. 1915 -
d. 2017)
(president of Ad Hoc Committee for South West Africa)
16 Aug 1967 - 1 Jan 1970 Konstantinos
Stavropoulos (Greece) (b. 1905 - d. 1984)
(acting)
1 Jan 1970 - 1 Jan 1974 Agha
Abdul Hamid
(Pakistan) (b.
1912 - d. 1994)
(acting)
1 Jan 1974 - 1 Jan 1977 Seán
MacBride
(Ireland)
(b. 1904 - d. 1988)
1 Jan 1977 - 1 Apr 1982
Martti Oiva Kalevi
Ahtisaari (b. 1937 -
d. 2023)
(Finland)
1 Apr 1982 - 1 Jul 1987
Brajesh Chandra Mishra (India)
(b. 1928 - d. 2012)
1 Jul 1987 - 21 Dec 1988 Bernt
Wilmar Carlsson (Sweden) (b.
1938 - d. 1988)
U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General
for Namibia
1 Apr 1989 - 20 Mar 1990 Martti
Oiva Kalevi
Ahtisaari
(s.a.)
(Finland)
Magistrates
9 Apr 1883 - 12 May 1883 Heinrich
Vogelsang
(acting) (b.
1862 - d. 1914)
12 May 1883 - 7 Oct 1884 Franz
Adolf Eduard Lüderitz
(b. 1834 - d. 1886)
Reichskommissare (Imperial commissioners)
7 Oct 1884 - May
1885 Gustav
Nachtigal
(b. 1834 - d. 1885)
May 1885 - Aug
1890 Heinrich
Ernst Göring (acting) (b. 1839 -
d. 1913)
Aug 1890 - Mar
1891 Louis
Nels
(acting)
(b. 1855 - d. 1910)
Mar 1891 - Nov
1893 Curt Karl
Bruno von
François (b. 1852 -
d. 1931)
Landeshauptleute (administrators)
Nov 1893 - 15 Mar 1894
Curt Karl Bruno von
François (s.a.)
15 Mar 1894 - 18 Apr 1898 Theodor
Gotthilf Leutwein
(b.
1849 - d. 1921)
(acting to 27 Jun 1895)
Governors
18 Apr 1898 - 19 Aug 1905 Theodor
Gotthilf Leutwein
(s.a.)
19 Aug 1905 - Nov 1905
Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (b. 1848 - d.
1920)
(acting)
Nov 1905 - 20 May 1907
Friedrich von
Lindequist
(b. 1862 - d. 1945)
20 May 1907 - 20 Jun 1910 Bruno von
Schuckmann
(b. 1857 - d. 1919)
28 Aug 1910 - 9 Jul 1915 Theodor
Seitz
(b. 1863 - d. 1949)
Military governors
9 Jul 1915 - 11 Jul 1915 Louis
Botha
(b. 1862 - d. 1919)
11 Jul 1915 - 30 Oct 1915 Percival Scott
Beves
(b. 1868 - d. 1924)
Administrators
31 Oct 1915 - 1 Oct 1920 Edmond
Howard Lacam Gorges
(b. 1872 - d. 1924)
(from 3 Jun 1919, Sir Edmond
Howard Lacam Gorges)
1 Oct 1920 - 1 Apr 1926
Gysbert Reitz
Hofmeyr
(b. 1871 - d. 1942)
1 Apr 1926 - 1 Apr 1933
Albertus Johannes
Werth
(b. 1888 - d. 1948)
1 Apr 1933 - 1 Apr 1943 David
Gideon
Conradie
(b. 1879 - d. 1966)
1 Apr 1943 - 6 Dec 1951
Petrus Imker
Hoogenhout
(b. 1884 - d. 1970)
6 Dec 1951 - 1 Dec 1953
Albertus Johannes Roux van Rhijn (b. 1890 -
d. 1971)
1 Dec 1953 - 1 Dec 1963
Daniel Thomas du Plessis Viljoen (b. 1892 -
d. 1972)
1 Dec 1963 - 1 Nov 1968
Wentzel Christoffel du Plessis
(b. 1904 - d. 1988)
1 Nov 1968 - 1 Nov 1971
Johannes Gert Hendrik van der Wath (b. 1903 - d. 1986)
1 Nov 1971 - 1 Sep 1977
Barend Johannes van der
Walt (b. 1914 - d.
2002)
Administrators-general
1 Sep 1977 - 7 Aug 1979
Marthinus Theunis
Steyn
(b. 1920 - d. 1998)
7 Aug 1979 - 4 Sep 1980
Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen
(b. 1926 - d. 2009)
4 Sep 1980 - 1 Feb 1983
Daniel "Danie"
Hough
(b. 1937 - d. 2008)
1 Feb 1983 - 1 Jul 1985
Willem "Willie" Abraham van Niekerk(b. 1937 - d. 2009)
1 Jul 1985 - 21 Mar 1990 Louis
Alexander Pienaar
(b. 1926 - d. 2012)
Presidents
21 Mar 1990 - 21 Mar 2005 Samuel Daniel
Shafiishuna Nujoma (b. 1929 - d. 2025)
SWAPO
21 Mar 2005 - 21 Mar 2015 Hifikepunye
Lucas
Pohamba
(b.
1935)
SWAPO
21 Mar 2015 - 4 Feb 2024 Hage
Gottfried Geingob
(b. 1941 - d. 2024) SWAPO
24 Jan 2024
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Nangolo Mbumba
(b. 1941)
SWAPO
(acting for Geingob
to 4 Feb 2024, then interim)
Chairman of the Council of Ministers
1 Jul 1980 - 18 Jan 1983 Dirk
Frederik Mudge
(b. 1928 - d.
2020) RP+DTA
Chief Executive Officer
19 Jan 1983 - 17 Jun 1985 Jan F. Greebe
Chairmen of the Transitional Government of National
Unity
17 Jun 1985 - 16 Sep 1985 Dawid
Bezuidenhout (1st time)
(b. 1935 - d. 1998) LP
17 Sep 1985 - 16 Dec 1985 Johannes "Hans"
Gerard Adolph (b. 1927 - d.
1998) RFP
Diergaardt
17 Dec 1985 - 16 Mar 1986 Moses Katjikuru
Katjiuongua
(b. 1942 - d. 2011) SWANU
(1st time)
17 Mar 1986 - 16 Jun 1986 Fanuel
Jariretundu Kozonguizi (b.
1932 - d. 1995) DTA
17 Jun 1986 - 16 Sep 1986 Andrew Nick
Matjila (1st time) (b.
1932)
DTA
17 Sep 1986 - 16 Dec 1986 Dirk Frederick
Mudge (1st time)
(s.a.)
DTA
17 Dec 1986 - 31 Jan 1987 Ebenezer van
Zijl
(b. 1931 - d. 2009) NPSWA
1 Feb 1987 - 30 Apr 1987 Andreas
Zack Shipanga (1st time) (b. 1931 - d.
2012) SWAPO-D
1 May 1987 - 31 Jul 1987 Dawid
Bezuidenhout (2nd time)
(s.a.)
LP
1 Aug 1987 - 17 Jan 1988 Johannes
"Jannie" de
Wet
(b. 1927 - d. 2011) NPSWA
18 Jan 1988 - 17 Apr 1988 Moses Katjikuru
Katjiuongua
(s.a.)
SWANU
(2nd time)
18 Apr 1988 - 17 Jul 1988 Andrew Nick
Matjila (2nd time)
(s.a.)
DTA
18 Jul 1988 - 17 Oct 1988 Dirk Frederick
Mudge (2nd time)
(s.a.)
DTA
18 Oct 1988 - Dec 1988
Andreas Zack Shipanga (2nd time)
(s.a.)
SWAPO-D
Dec 1988 - Jan
1989 Andrew
Nick Matjila (3rd time)
(s.a.)
DTA
Jan 1989 - 28 Feb 1989
Harry Daniel Booysen
(b. 1943)
LP
28 Feb 1989 - 21 Mar 1990 Post
suspended
Prime ministers
21 Mar 1990 - 28 Aug 2002 Hage Gottfried
Geingob (1st time) (s.a.)
SWAPO
28 Aug 2002 - 21 Mar 2005 Theo-Ben
Gurirab
(b. 1939 - d. 2018) SWAPO
21 Mar 2005 - 4 Dec 2012 Nahas
Gideon
Angula
(b.
1943)
SWAPO
4 Dec 2012 - 21 Mar 2015 Hage
Gottfried Geingob (2nd time)
(s.a.)
SWAPO
21 Mar 2015
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Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila (f)
(b. 1967) SWAPO
Chairmen of the Executive Committee
- White -
1977 - 31 May
1980
Abraham Hermanus du
Plessis (b.
1914) NPSWA
1 Jun 1980 - 30 Apr 1988 Jacobus
Willem François "Kosie" (b. 1935 - d.
2017) NPSWA
Pretorius
1 May 1988 - May
1989 Johannes "Jannie" de
Wet
(s.a.)
NPSWA
- Coloured -
14 Nov 1980 - 9 Mar 1984 Leonard
Joseph
Barnes
(b. 1933 - d. 2000) LP
12 Mar 1984 - 17 Jun 1985 Dawid
Bezuidenhout
(s.a.)
LP
18 Jun 1985 - 29 Feb 1988 Willem A.A.
Phillips
(b. 1930 - d. 1999) LP
1 Mar 1988 - May
1989 Raymond Reginald "Reggie"
(b. 1957)
LP:1989 UDF
Diergaardt
Territorial Disputes: Concerns from
international experts and local populations over the
Okavango Delta ecology in Botswana and human
displacement scuttled Namibian plans to construct a
hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls along the Angola-Namibia
border; Namibia has supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe
dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia
to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de
facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited,
Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river; the Kazungula
Bridge opened to traffic in May 2021; the governments of
South Africa and Namibia have not signed or ratified the
text of the 1994 Surveyor's General agreement placing
the boundary in the middle of the Orange River; Namibia
claims a median line boundary, while South Africa
supports the northern bank of the river.
Party abbreviations: SWANU = South
West Africa National Union (social democratic,
nationalist, mainly Herero, est.1959); SWAPO
= SWAPO Party of Namibia (social democratic, abandoned
Marxism 1989, formerly South West Africa People's
Organization, est.1960);
- Former parties: DTA
= Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (SWAPO opposition,
composed of LP, SW Africa Peoples Damara
United Front, Rehoboth Baster Verniging, Caprivi
Alliance Party, 5 Nov 1977-4 Nov 2017, renamed
Popular Democratic Movement); LP =
Labour Party of South-West Africa (South-West African
Labour Party, 1973-Aug 1975 named Federal Coloured
People's Party, 1973-1990); NP = National Party
(white); RFP = Rehoboth Freedom Party (Baaster
nationalist); RP = Republican Party (white,
conservative, 1977, 2003-2010, merged into DTA); NPSWA
= National Party of South-West Africa
(white, pro-apartheid, aligned with S. Afr. National
Party, 1924-1927, 1939-1989); SWAPO-D = South
West African People's Organization - Democrats (split
from SWAPO, 1978-1989); UDF = United Democratic
Front of Namibia (mainly Damara, est.May 1988)
Upingtonia/Lijdensrust
1886 - Jun 1887
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20 Oct
1885
"Republic Upingtonia" ("Republiek van Upingtonia")
settler
polity founded.
1886
Name changed to Lijdensrust (Lydenrust); accepts
German protection.
Jun
1887
Republic dissolved.
President
20 Oct 1885 - Jun
1887 George Diederik P.
Prinsloo (b.
1820 - d. 1888)
Caprivi Strip
1 Jul
1890
Ceded to Germany by U.K. (called German Barotseland,
German
Bechuanaland, or German Zambeziland).
22 Jan
1909
Area is named the Caprivi Zipfel
("Caprivi Strip").
27 Jan
1909
Fully incorporated into German South-West Africa.
21 Sep
1914
Occupied by British Southern Rhodesia police.
24 Nov 1914 - 1 Jan 1921
Administered by British Resident Commissioner for
Bechuanaland
on behalf of the government of South Africa.
31 Dec
1919
Divided into East Caprivi (at Katima Mulilo) and West
Caprivi.
1 Jan 1921 -
1 Sep 1929 Administered
by the British High Commissioners for
Southern
Africa (see British Bechuanaland Protectorate under Botswana) on
behalf
of the government of South Africa.
Divided into an Eastern
part
under a district commissioner in Kasane and a
western part
administered by the district commissioner in Maun.
1 Sep 1929 - 1 Aug 1939
Administration transferred back to Administrator of
South-West
Africa.
1 Aug 1939 - 1981
Administered directly by South Africa's Minister of
Native Affairs
(from 23 Sep 1960, Bantu Administration) as an integral
part of
South
Africa.
26 Jul
1940
Caprivi Strip is declared a "native reserve" by
South Africa.
1963
West Caprivi proclaimed a nature park
(from 1968, game park).
May 1972 - May
1989 East
Caprivi (from 1 Apr 1976, Lozi)
homeland established.
1981
Administration transferred back to Administrator of
South-West
Africa.
21 Mar
1990
Part of independent Namibia.
German District Commissioners
17 Feb 1909 - 24 Jan
1910 Kurt Streitwolf
(b. 1871 - d.
1954)
24 Jan 1910 - 16 Jan
1911 Hans Richard Kaufmann
(b. 1878 - d. 1914)
16 Jan 1911 - 21 Sep
1914 Victor Günter Egbert von
(b. 1873 - d. 1934)
Frankenberg und Proschlitz
British Special
Commissioners
20 Nov 1914 -
1915
Harry Vernon Eason
1915 - 1916
William Bowker Surmon
(d. 1959)
1917 -
1918
Frank Thornton Owen Garbutt
1918 - 31 Dec 1920
Harold Bernard Neale
Police Superintendents
Sep 1914 - 1914
W.S. Chadwick
1914 - 1939
E.P. Brittz
District Commissioners at Kasane
1 Jan 1921 - 1926/27
Harold Bernard Neale
1926/27 - 1929?
Vivien
Frederic Ellenberger
(b. 1896 - d. 1977)
District Commissioners at Maun
1921 - 1929
....
c.1924 - c.1926
Gerald Enright
Nettelton
(b. 1894 - d. 1950)
District Commissioners
1929 - c.1939
....
c.1939
Edward Herbert Merivale
Drury (b. 1870 - d.
1946)
Magistrates for Eastern Caprivi Strip (Zipfel)
and Native Commissioners
25 Oct 1939 - 31 Dec 1945 Leslie French Watts
Trollope (b. 1903 - d. 1965)
(1st time)
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946 C.E. Kruger
(acting)
1 Jan 1947 - 12 Jan 1953 Leslie French Watts
Trollope (s.a.)
(2nd
time)
13 Jan 1953 - 6 Dec 1956 A.B. Colenbrander
(1st time)
7 Dec 1956 - 13 Jan 1959 M.J. Verceuil
14 Jan 1959 - 5 Apr 1961 D.J. Wium
6 Apr 1961 - 25 Aug 1963 N.W.D. Boshoff
26 Aug 1963 - 29 Oct 1963 A.B. Colenbrander (2nd
time)(acting)
30 Oct 1963 - 1 Apr 1968 C.E. Kruger
2 Apr 1968 - 31 Jul 1971 P.N. Hansmeyer
1 Aug 1971 - 31 Jan 1972 J.J. Rossouw
1 Feb 1972 - 23 Mar 1972 E.L. Gregory
Commissioner-general for the Machangana - Tsonga and
for the Eastern Caprivi
Mar 1972 - 19 Mar 1976 Evert Frederik
Potgieter
Walvis Bay
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- 12 Mar 1878 - 7 Aug 1884
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- 31 May 1928 - 28 Feb 1994
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Map
of Walvis Bay
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Capital: Walvis Bay
(Walvisbaai)
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Currency: 1961-1994
South African Rand
(ZAR); 1878-1961 South African Pound (ZAP) |
Population:
9,687 (1985)
2,200 (1936)
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Ethnic groups: Black and Mixed 76%, White
24% (1921)
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8 Dec
1487
Discovered and claimed for Portugal by Bartholomeu Diaz,
named Bahia da Santa Maria da Conceicão
(Conception Bay).
16th
cent.
Known as Bahia das Bahleas
(Whales Bay).
26 Feb
1793
Claimed for Netherlands (Walvisch Baye) by Capt. F.R.
Duminy.
6-9 Dec
1795
Claimed for U.K. by Capt. T. Alexander aboard the HMS
Star,
but the area is not annexed (Whale-fish Bay).
18 Jul
1817
U.K. relinquishes claim to coastal areas north of 18th
parallel.
21 Jun
1861
Ichobe Island annexed for U.K.
12 Aug
1861
Penguin Islands annexed for U.K. (Hollamsbird, Mercury,
Seal,
Penguin, Halifax, Possession, Albatross Rock,
Pomona,
Sinclair, Long, and Plumb Pudding islands).
9 May
1864
U.K. disallows annexation of all the islands.
5 May
1866
The 12 shore islands, including Penguin
Islands, are re-annexed
to Cape
Colony (officially 27 Feb 1867).
12 Mar
1878
Walvis Bay annexed by United Kingdom (Walvis Bay
protectorate,
annexation confirmed 14 Dec 1878).
7 Aug
1884
"Walfish Bay" incorporated into Cape Colony (see South Africa).
31 May
1910
Walvis Bay passed from the Cape to the Union of South
Africa.
23 May
1911
Final border alignment with German South-West Africa.
25 Dec
1914
German invasion of the enclave of Walvis Ba.y
20 Sep
1915
Placed under the administration of the South African
administrator
of occupied South-West Africa.
1 Oct 1922 - 4 Nov
1977 Walvis Bay administration transferred to
South-West Africa
by South Africa (under the South-West Africa Affairs Act
of
1922).
16 Mar
1931
Municipal status (suspended 12 Dec 1940 - 15 Apr 1948).
1 Sep
1977
Walvis Bay administration transferred back to
Cape province, as an
exclave of South Africa (repeal
of the South-West Africa
Affairs Act of 1922).
4 Nov
1977
South African claim to Walvis Bay and Penguin Islands
declared
"null and void" and are named "integral parts of
Namibia"
by the UN (formally 28 Jul 1978).
1980
Walvis Bay represented in both the Cape Provincial
Council and the
South African House of Assembly as part of the Sea Point
constituency in Cape Town, before becoming separate
constituency
of Namaqualand in 1982.
15 Jan 1993 - 28 Feb 1994 Walvis Bay under
joint Namibian-South African administration.
1 Mar
1994
Walvis Bay exclave, and the Penguin Islands, are ceded
to Namibia
by South Africa.
Captain
12 Mar 1878 -
1878
Richard C. Dyer
(b. 1825 - d. 1918)
British Resident Magistrates
1 Jun 1878 -
1880 D. Erskine
1879 - Jan 1880
W.E. Manning (acting for
Erskine)
1880 - Nov 1880
William Coates Palgrave
(b. 1833 - d. 1897)
Nov 1880 - 1882
Benjamin d'Urban Musgrave
Aug 1882 - 13 Jun 1883 E.J.
Whindus
Magistrates
13 Jun 1883 - 1885
J.S. Simpson
1885 - 1889
Emile S. Rolland
1889 -
1901
John James Cleverly (1st time) (b.
1856 - d. 1906)
(acting to Jul 1890)
1902 -
1903
Frank H. Guthrie
1903 - Aug 1905
John James Cleverly (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Aug 1905 -
1909?
David Eadie
1909 - 1915
J.M. Richards
1915 - 1919
Frederic Wodehouse Bult
(b. 1876 - d. af.1935)
(military magistrate for Swakopmund)
1920 - 18 Mar
1925
K.R. Thomas
(magistrate for Swakopmund and Walvis)
Magistrate and Chairman of Village
Management Board
18 Mar 1925 - 16 Mar 1931 K.R. Thomas
Mayors
16 Mar 1931 -
1932 S.
Blyth
1932 -
1934
W.G. Neate
1934 -
1940
Thomas Perris Hall
(b. 1889 - d. 19..)
1940
E.O. Bull
12 Dec 1940 - 15 Apr 1948 Municipal
status suspended
(subordinated to magistrates for Swakopmund)
Magistrates for Swakopmund
12 Dec 1940 - 15 Apr 1948 ....
Mayors
29 Apr 1948 - 12 Sep 1949 John
Christie
(b. 1883 -
d. 1953) SALP
23 Sep 1949 - 12 Sep 1950 F. Davel
13 Sep 1950 - 6 Sep 1951 Joseph
C. Harries (1st time)
(b. 1888 - d. 1959)
7 Sep 1951
- 8 Feb 1952 A.C. Stafford
9 Feb 1952
- 16 Sep 1953 W.J. Hamilton
17 Sep 1953 - 31 Aug 1954 Joseph
C. Harries (2nd time)
(s.a.)
31 Aug 1954 - 21 Mar 1955 H. St. John
Reid
22 Mar 1955 - 31 May 1955 W.A. Bester
14 Sep 1955 - 27 Aug 1958 William Austin
Willis (1st time) (b. 1914 - d. 1986)
27 Aug 1958 - 1960?
Peter van Aarde
1960? - 1963?
William Austin Willis (2nd time)
(s.a.)
4 Jul 1963 - 11 Mar
1970 M.C. Botma
16 Mar 1970 - 14 Mar 1974 Heleon "Leon"
Hendrikus Laubscher (b. 1929)
(1st time)
14 Mar 1974 - 12 Mar 1975 Nelis
Naudé Dreyer
(b. 1928 - d. 1998)
14 Mar 1974 - 10 Mar 1977 Heleon "Leon"
Hendrikus Laubscher (s.a.)
(2nd time)
11 Mar 1977 – 16 Mar 1978 Nico Retief
(1st time)
17 Mar 1978 – 28 Mar 1980 A. Prinsloo
28 Mar 1980 – 27 Mar 1980 Hester
Elizabeth Maria Deissler (f)(b. 1920 - d. 1998)
(1st time)
28 Mar 1980 – 17 Mar 1983 Nico Retief
(2nd time)
18 Mar 1983 – 1 Nov 1988 Christo L.
de Jager
(d. 20..)
2 Nov 1988
– 6 Dec 1989 Hester Elizabeth Maria Deissler
(f)(s.a.)
(2nd time)
7 Dec 1989
– 4 Oct 1991 Nico Retief (3rd time)
25 Oct 1991 – 29 Oct 1992 Ronald Noel
"Buddy" Bramwell
30 Oct 1992 – 8 Nov 1993 Jacobus N.
"Koot" Blaauw
9 Nov 1993
– 22 Aug 1994 Bryce Edwards
(b. 1950 - d. 2012)
Chief Executive Officers of Joint
Administrative Authority (in Pretoria)
15 Jan 1993 - 28 Feb 1994 Nangolo Mbumba
(Namibia)
(b. 1941) SWAPO
+ Carl von Hirschberg
(b. 1926 - d. 2017)
Non-party
(South Africa)
Party abbreviations: SALP = South
African Labour Party (democratic socialist, center-left,
1910-1958); SWAPO =
SWAPO Party of Namibia (social democratic, abandoned
marxism 1989, formerly South West Africa
People's Organization, est.1960)
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