H. Geingob March 10, 1999

Geingob, H.

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dc.contributor.author	Geingob, H.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-06T13:21:32Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-06T13:21:32Z
dc.date.issued	2013-06-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/2946
dc.description	The interview was recorded in Windhoek, Namibia,on March 10, 1999.The Interviewer was Jean Krasno. Geingob was born in the Grootfontein District of Namibia. He received his early education at Otavi in Namibia under the Bantu Education System. He joined the Augustineum in 1958 where most of today’s prominent political leaders of Namibia were educated. In 1960, he was expelled from Augustineum for having participated in a march to protest the poor quality of education. He was, however, re-admitted and was able to finish the teacher-training course in 1961. Subsequently, he took up a teaching position at the Tsumeb Primary School in Central Namibia but soon discovered that his thirst for knowledge was unlikely to be quenched in Namibia. As teacher, he also hated being an unwilling instrument in perpetuating the Bantu Education System. Therefore, at the end of the school year, he left his job to seek knowledge and instruction that could help him change the system. He, with three of his colleagues, walked and hitch-hiked to Botswana to escape the system. From Botswana, he was scheduled to go to Dar es Salaam on a plane chartered by African National Congress (ANC). However, this plane was blown up by the South Africans when it was still on ground because the time bomb went off prematuarely. Subsequently, the apartheid regime also tightened up the "underground railway." As a result, Hage Geingob, stayed on in Botswana where he was appointed Assistant South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) Representative in Botswana (1963–64).	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Hage Geingob	en_US
dc.subject	SWAPO	en_US
dc.subject	UN mission in Tsumeb	en_US
dc.subject	Alba's Mission	en_US
dc.subject	The Leopoldville	en_US
dc.subject	Theo-Ben Gurirab	en_US
dc.subject	Kurt Waldheim	en_US
dc.title	H. Geingob March 10, 1999	en_US
dc.type	Recording, oral	en_US