Bondelswarts
{{Short description|Nama ethnic group}}
The Bondelswarts are a Nama ethnic group of Southern Africa living in the extreme south of Namibia, in an area centred on the town of Warmbad.Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, John S. Lowry, p.64{{Cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Susan | author-link = Susan Pedersen (historian) |url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.001.0001/acprof-9780199570485 |title=The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-957048-5 |pages=114-115 |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.001.0001/acprof-9780199570485}}
History
They rose up against German colonial rule in the Nama War 1903-1906. They were brutally repressed.
They inhabit an arid region around Fish River Canyon and the Richtersveld.
In 1922 they were involved in the Bondelswarts Rebellion, a revolt against a tax on dogs, which was violently repressed.{{cite book|last=Crawford|first=Neta|title=Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2002|chapter=6 - Sacred Trust}}
References
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=Further reading=
- {{cite book|last=Freislich|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2ohAAAAMAAJ|title=The Last Tribal War. A History Of The Bondelswart Uprising.|publisher=Struik|year=1964}}
- John S. Lowry, Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, 2015.
- Brian Wood, Namibia 1884-1984: Readings on Namibia's History and Society, Namibia Support Committee, United Nations Institute for Namibia, 1988
- Alfred T. Moleah, Namibia, the Struggle for Liberation, 1983
- Dean McCleland, John Dunn: Part 1 – Background to the Bondelswarts People & the SAC [http://thecasualobserver.co.za/john-dunn-part-1-background-bondelswarts-people-sac/]
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Category:Ethnic groups in Namibia
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