ONE evening early 1977, eleven new recruits, including myself, were summoned to the commander's office at Oshitumba. We were to be part of the fighters accompanying newly-arrived civilians to Cassinga ...

Cassinga is not just a date on the calendar or a scar in the liberation archive. It is a question that keeps pressing itself into Namibia’s conscience. What did all that suffering mean, if not to ...

A self-engineered Cassinga Day long-weekend retreat to the village of Ovinjuru in the Epukiro Constituency of the Omaheke Region early May, courtesy of the invite of a friend to whom the village is a ...