The majority of White Namibians are Dutch -descended Afrikaners locally born or of White South African descent , with a minority being native-born German Namibians descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century. There are also some Portuguese and English immigrants. The vast majority of White Namibians live in major cities and towns in central or southern Namibia.
Windhoek has by far the largest White population, and Whites are a majority in the coastal city of Swakopmund. In general, most of Namibia south of Windhoek has a high proportion of Whites, while central Namibia has a high concentration of Blacks.
Apart from Windhoek, coastal areas and Southern Namibia, there are large White communities in Otjiwarongo and towns in the Otavi Triangle , such as Tsumeb and Grootfontein. Portuguese mariner and explorer Bartolomeu Dias reached Namibia in The genocide perpetrated by German people against the Ovaherero people and Nama peoples in Namibia between and marked the first such atrocity of the 20th century.
During its colonial administration, Germany systematically dispossessed the Namibian populace, subjected them to racial oppression, and stripped them of their fundamental rights. To this day, the German government has declined to offer reparations. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. Ethnic group in Namibia. Ethnic group. Afrikaner children playing tug of war during a traditional Boeresport Day in Namibia.
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