Figure 1.--This photo was taken in South-West Africa durng the 1940s. The photo shows Johan, Viljoen, and Neil Greeff, the three Boer family. They are playing with their dog Rex and with a cart. The boys are wearing their school uniform of long sleeves shirt and short pants with striped tie and bare feet.

We do not know about education in the pre-colonial era. Namibia was orginally a German colony, Southwest Africa. Walvis Bay, the largest city and port, was a separate British colony. We have little informarion about schools in the German colony. The German colony after World War I was turned over to South Africa as amandate unfer the League of Nations. South Africa thus administered the colony as a result of World War I and after the War administered it as a League of Nations mandate territory. After World War II South African without international sanction occupied the country. The same Apartheid systen developed in South Africa was imposed on Namibis wih was not two different than the German system. Namibia achieved independence (1990). We have only limited information on the school system at this time. We do have information on a private school, the Windhoek Gymnasium.

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