St Barnabas, Windhoek
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St Barnabas was an Anglican missionary station, church, and school in Windhoek, the administrative centre of South-West Africa. The school was situated in the now demolished Old Location suburb.
St Barnabas Anglican Mission School
The primary school at St Barnabas was founded in 1923. It was at that time the only school in the territory of South-West Africa where teachers were black.[1] In the 1950s the school had classes up to matric and accommodated people that could only attend in the evenings.[2]
A number of prominent Namibians attended St Barnabas, among them:
- Clemens Kapuuo (1923–1978), paramount chief of the OvaHerero[3]
- Mburumba Kerina, co-founder of SWAPO, NUDO, and FCN[4]
- Sam Nujoma, founding president, attended St Barnabas as from 1949[5]
- Kuaima Riruako (1935–2014), OvaHerero Paramount Chief, and NUDO president
- Tjama Tjivikua, Rector of the Polytechnic of Namibia, attended St Barnabas from 1967 until the closure of the Old Location[6]
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Notes
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