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Timeline of Windhoek

October 15, 2023

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Windhoek, Namibia.

Prior to 20th century Edit

20th century Edit

1900s Edit

1910s Edit

1920s Edit

1930s Edit

1940s Edit

  • 1946 - Population: 14,929.[13]

1950s Edit

  • 1951 - Population: 20,490.[13]
  • 1958 - Library/museum/archives building constructed.[5]
  • 1959 - 10 December: Ethnic unrest.[12]

1960s Edit

1970s Edit

1980s Edit

  • 1981 - Population 96,057[16]

1990s Edit

21st century Edit

2000s Edit

2010s Edit

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ a b c Desch-Obi 2003.
  2. ^ a b c d Cybriwsky 2013.
  3. ^ a b "History of Windhoek". Windhoekcc.org.na. City of Windhoek. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Namibia". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 0203409957.
  5. ^ a b Schlettwein 1975.
  6. ^ . National Museum of Namibia. Windhoek. Archived from the original on 27 December 2005.
  7. ^ a b "Interesting Facts About Windhoek". Windhoekcc.org.na. City of Windhoek. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Namibia: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896.
  9. ^ "British Empire: Union of South Africa: Protectorate of South-West Africa". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 239+ – via Internet Archive. Windhuk
  10. ^ "Why the Name: Windhoek?". 2018-05-23.
  11. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Namibia". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  12. ^ a b c Melber 2016.
  13. ^ a b "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. pp. 171–184. South West Africa
  14. ^ "Republic of South Africa: South West Africa", Statesman's Yearbook, London: Macmillan & Co., 1963. via Google Books
  15. ^ Rogers, Barbara (1972). "Namibia's General Strike". Africa Today. 19 (2): 3–8. ISSN 0001-9887. JSTOR 4185227.
  16. ^ "Namibia: Regions, Cities & Urban Localities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information".
  17. ^ a b Petrus Angula Mbenzi (2009), Management of Place Names in the Post-Colonial Period in Namibia (PDF), United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Working Papers
  18. ^ a b . Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  19. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ Victor Tonchi; et al. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Namibia (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5398-0.
  21. ^ "Namibia". World Prison Brief. Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  22. ^ a b "Urban population by Census years (2001 and 2011)", Namibia 2011: Population and Housing Census Main Report, Windhoek: Namibia Statistics Agency
  23. ^ Mayoral Report 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Afrikaans Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography Edit

Published in the 20th century Edit

  • "Windhuk". Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (in German). 1920 – via Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.
  • Carl Schlettwein [in German]; Lisa Gebhardt (1975). "Libraries and Archives in South West Africa". Communications from the Basel Africa Bibliography [de]. 13. ISSN 0170-5091. Windhoek. via Google Books
  • D. Simon (1983). "Evolution of Windhoek 1890–1980". In C. Saunders (ed.). Perspectives on Namibia: Past and present. University of Cape Town.
  • David Simon (1991). "Windhoek". In Anthony Lemon (ed.). Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33321-0.
  • Sylvy Jaglin (1997). "La commercialisation du service d'eau potable à Windhoek (Namibie): inégalités urbaines et logiques marchandes" (PDF). Flux: Cahiers scientifiques internationaux Réseaux et territoires (in French). 13 (30): 16–29. doi:10.3406/flux.1997.1212. ISSN 1958-9557 – via Persee.fr.  
  • Fatima Friedman (2000), Deconstructing Windhoek: The Urban Morphology of a Post-Apartheid City, Bartlett Development Planning Unit Working Papers, University College London, OCLC 50087639  

Published in the 21st century Edit

  • J.B. Gewald (2002). "Diluting drinks and deepening discontent: colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia". In D.F. Bryceson (ed.). Alcohol in Africa: mixing business, pleasure, and politics. Heinemann. hdl:1887/4835.  
  • M. Wallace (2002), Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915–1945, Basel{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • T.J. Desch-Obi (2003). "Windhoek, Namibia". In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • Christophe Sohn (2004). "A la recherche des frontières dans la ville post-apartheid. Le cas de Windhoek, capitale de la Namibie" [In search of boundaries in the post-apartheid city: the case of Windhoek, capital city of Namibia]. Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français (in French). 81. doi:10.3406/bagf.2004.2413 – via Persee.fr.  
  • Otto S. Kamwi (2005). An evaluation of the implementation of affirmative action in Windhoek municipality (MPA). University of Namibia – via UNAM Scholarly Repository.  
  • Fatima Müeller-Friedman (2006). "Beyond the Post-Apartheid City: De/Segregation and Suburbanization in Windhoek, Namibia". African Geographical Review. 25 (1): 33. Bibcode:2006AfrGR..25...33M. doi:10.1080/19376812.2006.9756192. S2CID 145722008.
  • Bruce Frayne (2007). "Migration and the Changing Social Economy of Windhoek, Namibia". Development Southern Africa. 24.
  • J. B. Gewald (2009). "From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: The Politics of Urban Planning and Landscape History in Windhoek, Namibia". In M. Bollig and O. Bubenzer (ed.). African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Springer. ISBN 978-0387786810.
  • Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Windhoek". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 337+. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
  • Henning Melber (2016). "Revisiting the Windhoek Old Location". BAB Working Papers. Basler Afrika Bibliographien (3). ISSN 1422-8769.  
  • "Mayoral Annual Report 2016". Windhoekcc.org.na. City of Windhoek.

External links Edit

 
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Windhoek Namibia Contents 1 Prior to 20th century 2 20th century 2 1 1900s 2 2 1910s 2 3 1920s 2 4 1930s 2 5 1940s 2 6 1950s 2 7 1960s 2 8 1970s 2 9 1980s 2 10 1990s 3 21st century 3 1 2000s 3 2 2010s 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 6 1 Published in the 20th century 6 2 Published in the 21st century 7 External linksPrior to 20th century EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it August 2017 1840s Nama Orlam chief Jonker Afrikaner names settlement Winterhoek 1 1880 Nama Herero conflict settlement sacked 2 1890 German military fort construction begins 3 1892 Windhoek designated administrative seat of colonial German South West Africa 4 1898 German language Windhoeker Anzeiger newspaper begins publication 20th century EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it August 2017 1900s Edit 1901 Public library founded 5 1902 Railway to coast begins operating 1 1907 Landesmuseum founded 6 1909 Turnhalle built Gustav Voigts de becomes mayor chronology citation needed 1910s Edit 1910 Church of Peace built 2 Luisen Apotheke pharmacy in business 7 1912 Windhoek Railway Station opens Reiterdenkmal erected monument to Germans in the Herero and Namaqua Wars 2 1913 Tintenpalast colonial government building constructed 2 1915 12 May Town occupied by South African military during the First World War 3 1916 German language Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper begins publication 8 1920s Edit 1920 Population 716 1 9 Winterhoek renamed to Windhoek 10 1924 Windhoek Synagogue built 1926 Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Windhoek active 11 1927 Die Suidwes Afrikaner newspaper begins publication 1928 Kaiser Street paved 7 1929 Windhoek Gobabis Railway de begins operating 1930s Edit 1932 Tintenpalast Gardens laid out 1937 Bantu Welfare Hall built 12 1940s Edit 1946 Population 14 929 13 1950s Edit 1951 Population 20 490 13 1958 Library museum archives building constructed 5 1959 10 December Ethnic unrest 12 1960s Edit 1960 Population 36 049 14 1961 Katutura township created 1964 Black Africa S C football club formed 1965 J G Strydom Airport opens 1968 Racially segregated Main Location closes 12 1970s Edit 1971 Namibian general contract workers strike occurs starting from Windhoek 15 1975 September Turnhalle Constitutional Conference begins in Windhoek Delta Secondary School Windhoek established 1977 Republikein newspaper begins publication 8 1980s Edit 1981 Population 96 057 16 1990s Edit 1990 21 March Namibian Independence Day celebrated at Windhoek stadium Kaiser Street renamed Independence Avenue approximate date 17 Wernhil Park Mall in business Sanlam Centre built 18 National Art Gallery of Namibia and Embassy of Germany established 1991 Population 147 056 19 1992 University of Namibia established New Era newspaper begins publication Media Institute of Southern Africa headquartered in Windhoek 20 1994 Polytechnic of Namibia founded National Library of Namibia headquartered in Windhoek 1995 May Miss Universe 1995 beauty pageant held in city Quba Mosque Windhoek de built Windhoek Country Club Resort in business National Ministry of Prisons amp Correctional Services headquartered in city 21 1 21st century Edit2000s Edit 2000 Matheus Shikongo becomes mayor National Art Gallery of Namibia established 2001 Population 233 529 22 2002 Heroes Acre Namibia memorial unveiled near city 2005 Renaming of Windhoek as Otjomuise proposed 17 Sam Nujoma Stadium opens 2006 City police department established 23 2007 Namibian Sun newspaper begins publication Windhoek Gymnasium Private School established 2008 January Airplane crash occurs at Eros Airport 2010s Edit 2010 Old Mutual Namibia building constructed 18 2011 Hilltop Estate de construction begins in Kleine Kuppe Population 325 858 22 2014 The Grove Mall of Namibia de opens Muesee Kazapua becomes mayor See also EditWindhoek history List of mayors of Windhoek List of government ministries of Namibia de generally headquartered in WindhoekReferences Edit a b c Desch Obi 2003 a b c d Cybriwsky 2013 a b History of Windhoek Windhoekcc org na City of Windhoek Retrieved 30 July 2017 Namibia Political Chronology of Africa Political Chronologies of the World Europa Publications 2001 ISBN 0203409957 a b Schlettwein 1975 About Us National Museum of Namibia Windhoek Archived from the original on 27 December 2005 a b Interesting Facts About Windhoek Windhoekcc org na City of Windhoek Retrieved 30 July 2017 a b Namibia Directory Africa South of the Sahara 2003 Regional Surveys of the World Europa Publications 2003 ISBN 9781857431315 ISSN 0065 3896 British Empire Union of South Africa Protectorate of South West Africa Statesman s Year Book London Macmillan and Co 1921 pp 239 via Internet Archive Windhuk Why the Name Windhoek 2018 05 23 Chronology of Catholic Dioceses Namibia Norway Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo Retrieved 29 July 2017 a b c Melber 2016 a b Population of capital city and cities of 100 000 or more inhabitants Demographic Yearbook 1955 New York Statistical Office of the United Nations pp 171 184 South West Africa Republic of South Africa South West Africa Statesman s Yearbook London Macmillan amp Co 1963 via Google Books Rogers Barbara 1972 Namibia s General Strike Africa Today 19 2 3 8 ISSN 0001 9887 JSTOR 4185227 Namibia Regions Cities amp Urban Localities Population Statistics Maps Charts Weather and Web Information a b Petrus Angula Mbenzi 2009 Management of Place Names in the Post Colonial Period in Namibia PDF United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names Working Papers a b Namibia Windhoek Emporis com Hamburg Emporis GmbH Archived from the original on July 29 2017 Retrieved 29 July 2017 United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis Statistics Division 1997 Population of capital cities and cities of 100 000 and more inhabitants 1995 Demographic Yearbook New York pp 262 321 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a author has generic name help CS1 maint location missing publisher link Victor Tonchi et al 2012 Historical Dictionary of Namibia 2nd ed Scarecrow Press ISBN 978 0 8108 5398 0 Namibia World Prison Brief Birkbeck University of London Retrieved 30 July 2017 a b Urban population by Census years 2001 and 2011 Namibia 2011 Population and Housing Census Main Report Windhoek Namibia Statistics Agency Mayoral Report 2016 This article incorporates information from the Afrikaans Wikipedia and German Wikipedia Bibliography EditPublished in the 20th century Edit Windhuk Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon in German 1920 via Universitatsbibliothek Frankfurt Carl Schlettwein in German Lisa Gebhardt 1975 Libraries and Archives in South West Africa Communications from the Basel Africa Bibliography de 13 ISSN 0170 5091 Windhoek via Google Books D Simon 1983 Evolution of Windhoek 1890 1980 In C Saunders ed Perspectives on Namibia Past and present University of Cape Town David Simon 1991 Windhoek In Anthony Lemon ed Homes Apart South Africa s Segregated Cities Indiana University Press ISBN 0 253 33321 0 Sylvy Jaglin 1997 La commercialisation du service d eau potable a Windhoek Namibie inegalites urbaines et logiques marchandes PDF Flux Cahiers scientifiques internationaux Reseaux et territoires in French 13 30 16 29 doi 10 3406 flux 1997 1212 ISSN 1958 9557 via Persee fr nbsp Fatima Friedman 2000 Deconstructing Windhoek The Urban Morphology of a Post Apartheid City Bartlett Development Planning Unit Working Papers University College London OCLC 50087639 nbsp Published in the 21st century Edit J B Gewald 2002 Diluting drinks and deepening discontent colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek Namibia In D F Bryceson ed Alcohol in Africa mixing business pleasure and politics Heinemann hdl 1887 4835 nbsp M Wallace 2002 Health Power and Politics in Windhoek Namibia 1915 1945 Basel a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint location missing publisher link T J Desch Obi 2003 Windhoek Namibia In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Dickson Eyoh eds Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History Routledge ISBN 0415234794 Christophe Sohn 2004 A la recherche des frontieres dans la ville post apartheid Le cas de Windhoek capitale de la Namibie In search of boundaries in the post apartheid city the case of Windhoek capital city of Namibia Bulletin de l Association de geographes francais in French 81 doi 10 3406 bagf 2004 2413 via Persee fr nbsp Otto S Kamwi 2005 An evaluation of the implementation of affirmative action in Windhoek municipality MPA University of Namibia via UNAM Scholarly Repository nbsp Fatima Mueller Friedman 2006 Beyond the Post Apartheid City De Segregation and Suburbanization in Windhoek Namibia African Geographical Review 25 1 33 Bibcode 2006AfrGR 25 33M doi 10 1080 19376812 2006 9756192 S2CID 145722008 Bruce Frayne 2007 Migration and the Changing Social Economy of Windhoek Namibia Development Southern Africa 24 J B Gewald 2009 From the Old Location to Bishops Hill The Politics of Urban Planning and Landscape History in Windhoek Namibia In M Bollig and O Bubenzer ed African Landscapes Interdisciplinary Approaches Springer ISBN 978 0387786810 Roman A Cybriwsky 2013 Windhoek Capital Cities around the World An Encyclopedia of Geography History and Culture ABC CLIO p 337 ISBN 978 1 61069 248 9 Henning Melber 2016 Revisiting the Windhoek Old Location BAB Working Papers Basler Afrika Bibliographien 3 ISSN 1422 8769 nbsp Mayoral Annual Report 2016 Windhoekcc org na City of Windhoek External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Windhoek Windhoek via Europeana Images etc Windhoek via Digital Public Library of America Images etc Windhoek Internet Library Sub Saharan Africa Germany Frankfurt University Library Bibliography Windhoek Connecting Africa Leiden Netherlands African Studies Centre Bibliography Windhoek AfricaBib org Bibliography Windhoek Namibia BlackPast org US 6 February 2014 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timeline of Windhoek amp oldid 1174569069, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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