Na·ma·qua·land

(nə-mä′kwə-lănd′) or Na·ma·land (nä′mə-)

A mostly arid region of southwest Africa divided by the Orange River into Great Namaqualand in Namibia and Little Namaqualand in South Africa.

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Namaqualand

(nəˈmɑːkwəˌlænd)

(Placename) a semiarid coastal region of SW Africa, extending from near Windhoek, Namibia, into W South Africa: divided by the Orange River into Little Namaqualand in South Africa, and Great Namaqualand in Namibia; rich mineral resources. Area: 47 961 sq km (18 518 sq miles). Also called: Namaland

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Na•ma•qua•land

(nəˈmɑ kwəˌlænd)

also Na•ma•land

(ˈnɑ mə-)

n.

a region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Republic of South Africa.

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(41) When 30,000 of them had perished within a week, 1,000 of Hereros crossed the desert and reached British Bechuanaland (now Botswana), 2,000 of them escaped north to Ovamboland or South to Namaland, 17,000 of them were rounded by German forces for work as slave laborers; 7,000 of them "died like flies" on coastal towns such as Swakopmund in prison, and by hard work, famine, and murder (Kiernan 2007, 385).

Colonial terrorism, global capitalism and African underdevelopment: 500 years of crimes against African peoples

In RSA recorded by Michaelsen (1899a, b, 1908, 1913a), Pickford (1937), Sciacchitano (1960), Ljungstrom (1972), and Zicsi & Pajor (1992) from a range of localities: Soutpansberg, small kloof near Louis Trichardt [= Makhado] (LP); near Lesotho border (FS); Kranzkop (KZN); Port Elizabeth (EC); 'Kafferlandet' (which is probably Cape Peninsula), Hout Bay and Mossel Bay (WC); Little Namaland and Komaggas [Namaqualand] (NC).

Megadrile earthworm taxa introduced to South African soils (Oligochaeta: Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Ocnerodrilidae)

The book, The Invisible Woman--Zara Schmelen--African Mission Assistant at the Cape and in Namaland, was published by Basler Afrika Bibliographien in the same year.

The Invisible Woman, Zara Schmelen, African Mission Assistant at the Cape and in Namaland, by Ursula Truper

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