Namibia Institute for Democracy

Namibia Institute for Democracy NGO with the prime focus of educating Namibians on the process of Democracy! https://www.eventbrite

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05/06/2026

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✨🏳️‍🌈Rights won can still be lost ✨🏳️‍🌈| ✨Namibia has made strides in LGBTQ+ rights through the decriminalization of sam...
04/06/2026

✨🏳️‍🌈Rights won can still be lost ✨🏳️‍🌈|

✨Namibia has made strides in LGBTQ+ rights through the decriminalization of same-sex conduct and the recognition of foreign same-sex marriages.

Yet the landscape remains fragile. Advocacy and solidarity remain the shield against discrimination. Stand firm, speak loudly, and keep love unstoppable.
🏳️‍🌈LOVE IS LOVE🏳️‍🌈

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⛓️‍💥❤️‍🩹Celebrated on the 28th of May, Genocide Remembrance Day serves to honor the more than 70,000 victims of the Germ...
28/05/2026

⛓️‍💥❤️‍🩹Celebrated on the 28th of May, Genocide Remembrance Day serves to honor the more than 70,000 victims of the German genocide between the years of 1904 and 1908, often considered the first genocide of the 20th century.

✨❤️‍🩹This day encourages us to promote national healing, educate youth, and bolster demands for reparations and accountability from Germany.

⛓️‍💥The genocide involved systematic killings, forced displacement, and starvation, with many victims perishing in camps like the one on Shark Island.

✨In 2021, Germany officially recognized the atrocities as genocide.

🌍☀️Happy Africa Day ! ✨Let’s continue to respect our roots, celebrate our strengths and acknowledge our weaknesses, towa...
25/05/2026

🌍☀️Happy Africa Day !

✨Let’s continue to respect our roots, celebrate our strengths and acknowledge our weaknesses, towards building our desired future ✨🌍

Gender, Identity & Healing 🧵How do histories of violence, shifting gender norms, spirituality, and trauma shape who we a...
12/05/2026

Gender, Identity & Healing 🧵

How do histories of violence, shifting gender norms, spirituality, and trauma shape who we are, and how we heal?

Join us for the fourth and final Intergenerational Dialogue under Threads to Remembrance: Building an Inclusive and Informed Namibia. This session brings elders and youth together to reflect on the intersections of gender, identity, masculinity, spirituality, and healing, while unpacking how colonial legacies continue to influence emotional wellbeing and community life in Namibia today.

The conversation will also engage difficult but necessary reflections on intergenerational trauma, the weaponization of gendered violence during colonialism, the emasculation of Black men, and the tensions between African spirituality and imposed belief systems, centering pathways toward restorative and collective healing.

🗓️ 21 May 2026
📍 Otjiwarongo, Orwetoveni, Swanevelde Community Hall

✨Today we honor all our mothers! Happy Mother’s Day ✨💗 ❣️
10/05/2026

✨Today we honor all our mothers! Happy Mother’s Day ✨💗

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💰🧵 Economic Inequality & Postcolonial JusticeAt our third Intergenerational Dialogue under Threads to Remembrance, we br...
05/05/2026

💰🧵 Economic Inequality & Postcolonial Justice

At our third Intergenerational Dialogue under Threads to Remembrance, we brought together elders and youth to engage a critical question: What does justice look like beyond acknowledgment?

The conversation was enriched by insights from a member of the Swakopmund Genocide Committee, Ms. Ida Kamatui, who helped shed light on the socioeconomic lived realities of many of the affected communities. We also heard first-hand from the team leader representing affected communities at the Joint Declaration negotiation table, Mr. Charles Eiseb, who offered a grounded perspective on the realities, challenges, and expectations surrounding reparative justice.

Together, the dialogue unpacked how colonialism and genocide continue to shape present-day economic inequalities, through land dispossession, unequal access to opportunity, and ongoing structural exclusion.

A key takeaway was the urgent call for a more holistic approach to addressing postcolonial inequalities, one that moves beyond financial compensation to include land, education, access to resources, dignity, and psychosocial healing.

Through honest and reflective engagement, participants emphasized that justice must be lived, not just negotiated, and that meaningful change requires both structural reform and collective responsibility.
As we continue these conversations, we are reminded that addressing inequality is not only about the past, but about building a more just and inclusive future.

05/05/2026

Reflections from our 3rd Intergenerational Dialogue on Economic Inequality & Post-colonial Justice

| We Remember Cassinga Day🇳🇦⛓️|⛓️📌Cassinga Day is not a celebratory holiday, but a day of mourning and remembrance. ✨⛓️‍...
04/05/2026

| We Remember Cassinga Day🇳🇦⛓️|

⛓️📌Cassinga Day is not a celebratory holiday, but a day of mourning and remembrance.

✨⛓️‍💥It serves to remind younger generations of the sacrifices made for Namibia’s freedom.

🇳🇦✨The event marked a defining moment in the Namibian liberation struggle and is viewed as a day to honor those who died for independence from apartheid rule.

| Happy International Workers’ Day Namibia | 🪛🔨👷🏾‍♀️Namibia’s labour story goes beyond offices, factories and state inst...
01/05/2026

| Happy International Workers’ Day Namibia |

🪛🔨👷🏾‍♀️Namibia’s labour story goes beyond offices, factories and state institutions. It is also, in private homes, gardens, fields and on farms 👩🏾‍🌾🧹.

✨🪏As we celebrate today, let’s honor our workers Unions who continue to navigate often contradicting and uncomfortable realities of our workers⛓️✨.

📌✨Let us acknowledge that workers are not passive recipients of employment, they are active contributors to the economy .

✨Let our dignity and respect for each other’s work reflect in pay, access to care, and rest.

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