A Trilogy to Remembrance, Part II ‘Reconciling the Present’ – Panel discussion by NID and FES

Organisers: Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Namibia (FES)

Date & Time: 25 September 2024, 18:00 – 21:00

Venue: House of Democracy, 70 – 72 Frans Indongo St, Windhoek

Moderator:
Ms Jacinta Kasume

Panelists:
Dr Thorsten Hutter, German Ambassador to Namibia
Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua, Affected Communities Representative on Genocide, Apology and Reparation (GAR) Technical Committee (TC)

Raising awareness and educating youth on the OvaHerero and Nama Genocide of 1904 – 1908.

“Remembering the past, reconciling the present, shaping a brighter future”

Invitation to the panel discussion ‘A Trilogy to Remembrance’, part II: Reconciling the Present after the colonial past, on 25 September 2024 by Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Namibia (FES). Poster: NID & FES

Presentation & Discussion

Presentation ‘The Ovaherero – Nama Genocide (1904 – 1908)’ by moderator Jacinta Kasume

• Watch the raw recording of the presentation and the panel discussion by NID on Instagram (last checked in July 2025)

• See the report “Gedenken an den Genozid” by Allgemeine Zeitung on 27 September 2024 (last checked in October 2024)

• See the opinion piece “Genocide negotiations have never been about reparations!!!” by Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro, published in the Windhoek Observer on 3 October 2024 (last checked in July 2025)

• See also the Joint Declaration of the Governments of Germany and Namibia in the ‘Primary Sources’ section of this website

• Watch also an interview of Sylvia Mundjindi (FES) and Ginola Nauseb (NID) on the Trilogy to Remembrance discussion series. It was published by the Evening Review of the Network Media Hub on their website OneUpTwo.com and on their YouTube channel on the evening of 25 September 2025 (last checked in July 2025)

German Ambassador Thorsten Hutter, moderator Jacinta Kasume (NID) and the Affected Communities Representative on Genocide, Apology and Reparation (GAR) Technical Committee (TC), Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua. Photo: FES