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| Title: | The Kalahari Expedition March 1908: The Forgotten Story of the Final battle of the Nama War |
| Author: | Haacke, Wulf D. |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Periodical: | Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090) |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Pages: | 1-18 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
| Geographic terms: | Botswana Namibia Germany Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | Nama colonization colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Military Science, Military Affairs Military activity history Kalahari Expedition of 1908 German-Nama War Kalahari Desert |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40979912 http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1291929684 |
| Abstract: | This paper describes the final action of the German-Nama war, the Kalahari expedition of 1908. Officially the war situation in German South West Africa (GSWA, today Namibia) ended on 31 March 1907 by a decree of the German Emperor. Peace agreements had been signed between the German colonial government and the surviving Nama chiefs who had been involved. However, one Nama chief, Simon Kopper (also known as Koper, Copper and Cooper), who had withdrawn into the Kalahari in an area which today is part of the National Gemsbok Park of Botswana, was unwilling to sign the agreement. His men, the Fransman Hottentots, occasionally raided back into GSWA. On March 4, 1908, the Kalahari expedition started with the aim to subdue Kopper or to force him deeper into the Kalahari. On March 16, a battle took place in Geinab vlei. Although the German losses were quite high and Simon Kopper managed to escape, the main purpose of the operation was achieved as no further raids into the area took place until the start of the First World War. Bibliogr. |
