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Ovaherero Genocide Foundation

Inclusivity and honesty in all Talks with Germany: “Germany knows who the children of the victims of her murderous policies a century back are and indeed currently where they live, she must therefore soonest cease with her gimmicks of wasting resources on engaging distant and unaffected parties in her so-called genocide negotiations AND in earnest directly engage Ovaherero and Nama leadership to find permanent closure to the horrific chapter of her disastrous colonial expedition South-West Africa which can only be effected through genuine and faithful accession to a legal agreement on reparation settlement, commensurate with her crimes and negotiated only with legitimate Ovaherero and Nama representatives. It is only a fallacy that a settlement for genocide crimes meted out against ethnic groupings in pre-modern southern African states times, can be arrived at without their bonafide voices and settled only with the state of Namibia. Whilst the state of Namibia, as home to the largest share of descendants of victim’s communities remains a key stakeholder in the discussion with the German state, it cannot wholly appropriate the campaign onto itself and preferred splinter Ovaherero and Nama groupings who in the main are extremely under-representative of the broader affected communities and are fully-absorbed into the government structure and as such enjoys no latitude and or leeway to independently speak for the aspirations of our communities. Equally, the “globalization” of descendants of that war principally implies that Ovaherero and Nama people are today global communities transcending territorial boundaries and thus no single state can rationally claim monopoly and full representation over them. Accordingly therefore, only their own leadership can fully and aptly articulate their interests now resident across multiple nation-states and thus any discussion about them is only adequately crafted to the extend it incorporates genuine representative voices from them !!!” Nandiuasora Mazeingo, OGF Chairperson, April, 2021
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OGF Chairperson on the importance of rememberance at Shark Island, 2023
Ovaherero and Nama plus partners Alternative Report on Germany's human rights record, 2021
Ovaherero & Nama plus partners Additional Submission for Consideration and Action to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
OGF dismisses the Namibia-German joint agreement and its format as ‘racist
Ovaherero rejects European hypocrisy that disporans abuse their welcome
PRESS STATEMENT ON THE COMMUNICATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS TO THE GERMAN AND NAMIBIAN GOVERNMENTS REGARDING THE INTERSTATE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO GOVERNMENTS LEADING TO THE JOINT DECLARATION ISSUED ON 27 APRIL 2023 IN WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA
OGF Chairperson's Remarks at Fora on German –Africa (specifically Namibia)’s Relations and Specific Questions of Colonialism, Reparations and Truth Frunkfurt, Asachen, Berlin, Germany, October, 2022
"Defending the right to one's own existence", conversation between Nandi Mazeingo and Medico International, Germany.
Stream 99 Questions with Sima Luipert and Nandiuasora Mazeingo by 99questions