Donkerbos

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Donkerbos ({{langx|af|dark bush}}) is a settlement in the remote East of Namibia in the Omaheke Region, situated {{Convert|260|km}} from the regional capital Gobabis.{{cite news

|url=http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=13563

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111204216/http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=13563

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=11 January 2013

|title=Namdeb's Social Responsibility Initiatives Hailed

|date=19 October 2006

|newspaper=New Era

}}

It belongs to the Otjombinde electoral constituency in the Kalahari Desert, near hunting grounds of the San people, who moved here long before the village was established. They still form the majority population of Donkerbos.{{cite news

|title=Battling the odds at Donkerbos

|last=Tjatindi

|first=Charles

|date=11 April 2013

|page=7

|newspaper=The Namibian

|publisher=NAMPA

|url=http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2013/april/article/battling-the-odds-at-donkerbos/

}}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Donkerbos Primary School serves 200 learners of both this settlement and the neighboring hamlet of Sonneblom.{{cite news

|url = http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2009/june/article/critics-blast-spanish-reality-show-for-stereotyping-san/

|title = Critics blast Spanish reality show for 'stereotyping' San

|last = Shejavali

|first = Nagula

|date = 12 June 2009

|work = The Namibian

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130221045751/http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2009/june/article/critics-blast-spanish-reality-show-for-stereotyping-san/

|archivedate = 21 February 2013

}}{{cite news

|url=http://www.az.com.na/politik/keine-sichtbaren-zeichen-von-hunger-and-quot.6512.php

|title=Keine sichtbaren Zeichen von Hunger

|trans-title=No visible signs of starvation

|language=German

|date=1 December 2003

|work=Allgemeine Zeitung}}