The College of Business and Economics Decolonisation Committee at the University of Johannesburg invites you to an online seminar titled:
Lessons from the German Genocide in Namibia (1904 – 1908) Ongoing Struggles for Restorative Justice for the OvaHerero and Nama peoples.
SPEAKER Jephta U Nguherimo
DATE 10 September 2024
TIME 15:00 – 16:00
SESSION CHAIR Lesego Khumalo
LOCATION https://zoom.us/j/93165067834
Bio: Jephta U Nguherimo is a lifelong activist, poet and a former professional labor negotiator of Herero-descent. He is the founding member of the OvaHerero People’s Memorial and Reconstruction Foundation (OPMRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the struggle of restorative justice for the OvaHerero people. Jephta was among the organisers of the exchanges that eventually forced the German government to confront and acknowledge Germany’s genocide of the OvaHerero and Nama people of 1904-08. He has led conversations and presented talks on restorative justice and memory culture at various international conferences, including the Reparations and Racial Healing Summit in Accra (2022) and the 1st Session of the UN’s Permanent Forum of People of African Descent in Geneva (2022). As a writer and poet, Jephta has also published several articles on the struggle for recognition in the Namibian and German press. He is the author of a book of poetry titled “unBuried-unMarked: The Untold Namibian Story of the Victims of German Genocide between 1904–1908”, and he was featured in a documentary by Al Jazeera titled “Namibia: The Price of Genocide” (2021).