Namibia

qas: question: What is the cost of primary and secondary education in Namibia?
answers: text: free

question: How many Namibian students were recorded in 1998 in primary school? 
answers: text: 400,325

question: How many Namibian students were recorded in 1998 in secondary schools?
answers: text: 115,237

question: What was the pupil-teacher ratio in Namibia in 1999?
answers: text: 32:1

question: What develops the curriculum as well as other educational resources in Namibia?
answers: text: National Institute for Educational Development

question: What is the capital of Namibia?

question: How many teachers are there in Namibia in primary and secondary schools?

question: How much of Namibia's GDP is spent on defense?

question: What was the pupil-teacher ratio in 2000?

question: What is the population of Okahandja?
context: Namibia has free education for both Primary and secondary education levels. Grades 1–7 are primary level, grades 8–12 secondary. In 1998, there were 400,325 Namibian students in primary school and 115,237 students in secondary schools. The pupil-teacher ratio in 1999 was estimated at 32:1, with about 8% of the GDP being spent on education. Curriculum development, educational research, and professional development of teachers is centrally organised by the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED) in Okahandja.

qas: question: What is the Afrikaans name for Namibia?
answers: text: Namibië

question: Where in Africa is Namibia?
answers: text: southern

question: What ocean borders Namibia?
answers: text: Atlantic Ocean

question: How far away is Namibia to the Zambezi River?
answers: text: 200 metres

question: When did Namibia gain independence from South Africa?
answers: text: 21 March 1990

question: What is the French word for the Republic of Namibia?

question: With what country does Namibia share most of its northern border with?

question: On what date did the Namibian War of Independence start?

question: What type of border does Namibia share with Angola?
context: Namibia (i/nəˈmɪbiə/, /næˈ-/), officially the Republic of Namibia (German:  Republik Namibia (help·info); Afrikaans: Republiek van Namibië) is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, a part of less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River (essentially a small bulge in Botswana to achieve a Botswana/Zambia micro-border) separates it from that country. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek, and it is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.

qas: question: When did Bantu immigrate to Namibia?
answers: text: 14th century

question: When did Namibia become German Imperial protectorate?
answers: text: 1884

question: When did Namibia stop being a German colony?
answers: text: end of World War I

question: What year did the League of Nations mandate Namibia to South Africa?
answers: text: 1920

question: When did South Africa impose the apartheid policy on Namibia?
answers: text: 1948

question: Where did the Bantu come from in the 14th century?

question: In what year did World War I end?

question: In what year was the League of Nations formed?

question: In what year did the League of Nations shut down?

question: In what year was the Cape Colony established?
context: The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by San, Damara, and Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion. Most of the territory became a German Imperial protectorate in 1884 and remained a German colony until the end of World War I. In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy. The port of Walvis Bay and the offshore Penguin Islands had been annexed by the Cape Colony under the British crown by 1878 and had become an integral part of the new Union of South Africa at its creation in 1910.

qas: question: What does SWAPO stand for?
answers: text: South West Africa People's Organisation

question: When was SWAPO designated as the representative of Namibian people?
answers: text: 1973

question: When Namibia was under South African administration, what was it called?
answers: text: South-West Africa.

question: Why did South Africa install an interim administration in Namibia?
answers: text: internal violence

question: When did Namibia obtain full independence?
answers: text: 1990

question: In what year was the South West Africa People's Organization formed?

question: In what region of Namibia is Walvis Bay?

question: In what region of Namibia is the Penguin Islands?

question: Which covers more area, Walvis Bay or the Penguin Islands?
context: Uprisings and demands by African leaders led the UN to assume direct responsibility over the territory. It recognised the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) as the official representative of the Namibian people in 1973. Namibia, however, remained under South African administration during this time as South-West Africa. Following internal violence, South Africa installed an interim administration in Namibia in 1985. Namibia obtained full independence from South Africa in 1990, with the exception of Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands, which remained under South African control until 1994.

qas: question: Orlam clans crossed which river to migrate to Namibia?
answers: text: Orange River

question: What area of Namibia did Orlam clans settle in?
answers: text: southern Namibia

question: When did Orlam clans settle in Namibia?
answers: text: 18th century

question: When did the Nama-Herero war begin?
answers: text: 1880

question: Who deployed troops to start the Nama-Herero war?
answers: text: Imperial Germany

question: What type of people were the San?

question: In what year did the Nama-Herero War hostilities stop?

question: What type of people were the Damara?

question: What type of people were the Herero tribe?
context: The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by San, Damara, Nama and, since about the 14th century AD, by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion from central Africa. From the late 18th century onwards, Orlam clans from the Cape Colony crossed the Orange River and moved into the area that today is southern Namibia. Their encounters with the nomadic Nama tribes were largely peaceful. The missionaries accompanying the Orlams were well received by them, the right to use waterholes and grazing was granted against an annual payment. On their way further northwards, however, the Orlams encountered clans of the Herero tribe at Windhoek, Gobabis, and Okahandja which were less accommodating. The Nama-Herero War broke out in 1880, with hostilities ebbing only when Imperial Germany deployed troops to the contested places and cemented the status quo between Nama, Orlams, and Herero.

qas: question: When did Bartolomeu Dias explore Namibia? 
answers: text: 1486

question: What nationality were the first navigators to explore Namibia come from? 
answers: text: Portuguese

question: When did Diogo Cao explore Namibia?
answers: text: 1485

question: Along with Swedish settlers, what other country's settlers inhabited in Namibia first?
answers: text: Germany

question: Settlers on their way to Angola settled in Namibia instead of going where?
answers: text: Angola

question: In what year was Diogo Cao born?

question: In what year was Bartolmeu Dias born?

question: What nationality were the Dorsland trekkers?

question: Which country was the first to have European traders in Sub-Saharan Africa?

question: What was the first country to have European settlers in Sub-Saharan Africa?
context: The first Europeans to disembark and explore the region were the Portuguese navigators Diogo Cão in 1485 and Bartolomeu Dias in 1486; still the region was not claimed by the Portuguese crown. However, like most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia was not extensively explored by Europeans until the 19th century, when traders and settlers arrived, principally from Germany and Sweden. In the late 19th century Dorsland trekkers crossed the area on their way from the Transvaal to Angola. Some of them settled in Namibia instead of continuing their journey.

qas: question: Herero and what other group took action against German occupiers?
answers: text: Namaqua

question: When did two clans take up action against the German occupiers?
answers: text: 1904 to 1907

question: What was the war against the German occupiers considered?
answers: text: first genocide of the Twentieth Century

question: How many Herero's were killed in the war against German occupiers?
answers: text: 65,000

question: How many Nama's were killed in the war against German occupiers?
answers: text: 10,000

question: In what year did the "first genocide of the Twentieth Century" start?

question: Which group to German occupiers first start to commit genocide against?

question: What percentage of Herero were murdered by Germans?

question: What percentage of Namaqua were murdered by Germans?

question: In what year did "the first genocide of the Twentieth Century" end?
context: From 1904 to 1907, the Herero and the Namaqua took up arms against the Germans and in calculated punitive action by the German occupiers, the 'first genocide of the Twentieth Century' was committed. In the Herero and Namaqua genocide, 10,000 Nama (half the population) and approximately 65,000 Hereros (about 80% of the population) were systematically murdered. The survivors, when finally released from detention, were subjected to a policy of dispossession, deportation, forced labour, racial segregation and discrimination in a system that in many ways anticipated apartheid.

qas: question: When did South Africa occupy Namibia? 
answers: text: 1915

question: When did South Africa refuse to surrender Namibia? 
answers: text: 1946

question: Which council submitted petitions for Namibia's independence?
answers: text: Herero Chief's Council

question: When did European powers grant independence to their colonies in Africa?
answers: text: 1960s

question: When was the League replaced by the United Nations?
answers: text: 1946

question: In what year did World War I start?

question: In what year was the League of Nations founded?

question: In what year was the Parliament of South Africa formed?

question: In what year was the International Court of Justice established?
context: South Africa occupied the colony in 1915 after defeating the German force during World War I and administered it from 1919 onward as a League of Nations mandate territory. Although the South African government desired to incorporate 'South-West Africa' into its territory, it never officially did so, although it was administered as the de facto 'fifth province', with the white minority having representation in the whites-only Parliament of South Africa, as well as electing their own local administration the SWA Legislative Assembly. The South African government also appointed the SWA administrator, who had extensive powers. Following the League's replacement by the United Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to surrender its earlier mandate to be replaced by a United Nations Trusteeship agreement, requiring closer international monitoring of the territory's administration (along with a definite independence schedule). The Herero Chief's Council submitted a number of petitions to the UN calling for it to grant Namibia independence during the 1950s. During the 1960s, when European powers granted independence to their colonies and trust territories in Africa, pressure mounted on South Africa to do so in Namibia. In 1966 the International Court of Justice dismissed a complaint brought by Ethiopia and Liberia against South Africa's continued presence in the territory, but the U.N. General Assembly subsequently revoked South Africa's mandate, while in 1971 the International Court of Justice issued an "advisory opinion" declaring South Africa's continued administration to be illegal.

qas: question: Which guerrilla group fought for Namibia's independence? 
answers: text: People's Liberation Army of Namibia

question: When did a guerrilla group fight for Namibia's independence? 
answers: text: 1966

question: When did South Africa end occupation of Namibia?
answers: text: 1988

question: Why did South Africa end occupation in Namibia?
answers: text: UN peace plan

question: What is the central-southern area of Namibia known as?
answers: text: Police Zone

question: In what year was the South-West Africa People's Organization started?

question: What percentage of the population Of South Africa was white people?

question: How much of South Africa's arable land did white people control?

question: In what year did the UN start developing a peace plan for the whole region?
context: In response to the 1966 ruling by the International Court of Justice, South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) military wing, People's Liberation Army of Namibia, a guerrilla group began their armed struggle for independence, but it was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its occupation of Namibia, in accordance with a UN peace plan for the entire region. During the South African occupation of Namibia, white commercial farmers, most of whom came as settlers from South Africa and represented 0.2% of the national population, owned 74% of the arable land. Outside the central-southern area of Namibia (known as the "Police Zone" since the German era and which contained the main towns, industries, mines and best arable land), the country was divided into "homelands", the version of South African bantustan applied to Namibia, although only a few were actually established because indigenous Namibians often did not cooperate.

qas: question: What was Namibia previously called?
answers: text: South West Africa

question: What date did Namibia get it's official name?
answers: text: 12 June 1968

question: What was the resolution that granted Namibia it's name?
answers: text: Resolution 2372 (XXII)

question: How long did it take for South Africa to agree to the implantation of Namibia's new name? 
answers: text: 1988

question: The diplomatic agreement between South Africa, Angola, and Cuba was observed by the USSR and what other country?
answers: text: USA

question: On what date  in 1978 did the UN Security Council pass Resolution 2372?

question: In what year had Cuba sent troops to Angola?

question: In what year had the MPLA formed?

question: Since what year had UNITA controlled Angola?

question: Among which countries had been trying to persuade South Africa to give Namibia independence?
context: South West Africa became known as Namibia by the UN when the General Assembly changed the territory's name by Resolution 2372 (XXII) of 12 June 1968. In 1978 the UN Security Council passed UN Resolution 435 which planned a transition toward independence for Namibia. Attempts to persuade South Africa to agree to the plan's implementation were not successful until 1988 when the transition to independence finally started under a diplomatic agreement between South Africa, Angola and Cuba, with the USSR and the USA as observers, under which South Africa agreed to withdraw and demobilise its forces in Namibia. As a result, Cuba agreed to pull back its troops in southern Angola sent to support the MPLA in its war for control of Angola with UNITA.

qas: question: What does UNTAG stand for?
answers: text: United Nations Transition Assistance Group

question: Who was the diplomat for UNTAG?
answers: text: Martti Ahtisaari

question: What nationality was the diplomat in UNTAG?
answers: text: Finnish

question: When was the diplomat for UNTAG deployed to supervise withdrawals from Namibia?
answers: text: April 1989 to March 1990

question: What was the official election slogan in the first Namibia election?
answers: text: Free and Fair Elections

question: In what month in 1989 did campaigning begin for the constitutional assembly election?

question: Who was the head of the SWAPO party?

question: Who backed SWAPO?

question: In what year did Martti Ahtisaarsi become a diplomat?

question: When had SWAPO members been exiled?
context: A combined UN civilian and peace-keeping force called UNTAG (United Nations Transition Assistance Group) under Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari was deployed from April 1989 to March 1990 to monitor the peace process, elections and supervise military withdrawals. As UNTAG began to deploy peacekeepers, military observers, police, and political workers, hostilities were briefly renewed on the day the transition process was supposed to begin. After a new round of negotiations, a second date was set and the elections process began in earnest. After the return of SWAPO exiles (over 46,000 exiles), Namibia's first one-person one-vote elections for the constitutional assembly took place in November 1989. The official election slogan was "Free and Fair Elections". This was won by SWAPO although it did not gain the two-thirds majority it had hoped for; the South African-backed Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) became the official opposition. The elections were peaceful and declared free and fair.

qas: question: When was the Namibian Constitution adopted?
answers: text: February 1990

question: When did the country of Namibia officially become a country?
answers: text: 21 March 1990

question: Who was the first President of Namibia?
answers: text: Sam Nujoma

question: Who swore in the first President of Namibia?
answers: text: Nelson Mandela

question: What was ceded to Namibia in 1994? 
answers: text: Walvis Bay

question: Until what year did Sam Nujoma serve as President of Namibia?

question: For how many days had Nelson Mandela been imprisoned?

question: In what month and year did Namibian leaders start to develop their constitution?

question: When was the first Namibian vote held for president?

question: What was one of the countries that sent a head of state to Namibia for the first presidential swearing-in?
context: The Namibian Constitution adopted in February 1990 incorporated protection for human rights, compensation for state expropriations of private property, an independent judiciary and an executive presidency (the constituent assembly became the national assembly). The country officially became independent on 21 March 1990. Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first President of Namibia watched by Nelson Mandela (who had been released from prison the previous month) and representatives from 147 countries, including 20 heads of state. Walvis Bay was ceded to Namibia in 1994 upon the end of Apartheid in South Africa.[citation needed]

qas: question: What did Namibia transition to after white minority apartheid rule?
answers: text: parliamentary democracy

question: What type of independence was introduced in Namibia after independence? 
answers: text: Multiparty democracy

question: What party has won every election in Namibia?
answers: text: Swapo Party

question: How long did president Same Nujoma rule?
answers: text: 15-year

question: Who succeeded Sam Nujoma?
answers: text: Hifikepunye Pohamba

question: In what year was multiparty democracy introduced to Namibia?

question: What political party was President Sam Nujoma a member of?

question: What political party is Hifikepunye Pohamba a member of?

question: In what year did Namibia successfully transition to parliamentary democracy?

question: What is the presidential term limit in Namibia?
context: Since independence Namibia has successfully completed the transition from white minority apartheid rule to parliamentary democracy. Multiparty democracy was introduced and has been maintained, with local, regional and national elections held regularly. Several registered political parties are active and represented in the National Assembly, although the Swapo Party has won every election since independence. The transition from the 15-year rule of President Sam Nujoma to his successor Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2005 went smoothly.

qas: question: What Desert is shared between South Africa and Botswana?
answers: text: Kalahari Desert

question: How many plants species are found in Succulent Karoo?
answers: text: 5,000

question: How many plants are endemic to the Succulent Karoo?
answers: text: half

question: How many of the worlds succulents are found in Karoo?
answers: text: 10 percent

question: What is probably the reason there are so many unique plants in Karoo?
answers: text: stable nature of precipitation

question: What country lies to the east of Namibia?

question: How many species of plants are there in the Kalahari Desert?

question: What percentage of the world's succulents are found in all of the Kalahari Desert?

question: What country lies north of Namibia?

question: What country lies south of Namibia?
context: The Kalahari Desert, an arid region shared with South Africa and Botswana, is one of Namibia's well-known geographical features. The Kalahari, while popularly known as a desert, has a variety of localised environments, including some verdant and technically non-desert areas. One of these, known as the Succulent Karoo, is home to over 5,000 species of plants, nearly half of them endemic; Approximately 10 percent of the world's succulents are found in the Karoo. The reason behind this high productivity and endemism may be the relatively stable nature of precipitation.

qas: question: What is the climate range for Namibia?
answers: text: 17°S to 25°S

question: What is the overall climate description for Namibia? 
answers: text: arid

question: What is the mean rain above in Namibia?
answers: text: 500 mm

question: What is the semi-arid measurements in Namibia?
answers: text: 300 and 500 mm

question: What is the arid measurement in Namibia?
answers: text: 150 to 300 mm

question: At what coordinate is Warmbad?

question: What is the climate description for the northern half of Namibia?

question: What is the climate description for the southern half of Namibia?

question: What is the climate description for the middle band of Namibia?

question: What is the wettest area of Namibia?
context: Namibia extends from 17°S to 25°S: climatically the range of the sub-Tropical High Pressure Belt, arid is the overall climate description descending from the Sub-Humid (mean rain above 500 mm) through Semi-Arid between 300 and 500 mm (embracing most of the waterless Kalahari) and Arid from 150 to 300 mm (these three regions are inland from the western escarpment) to the Hyper-Arid coastal plain with less than a 100 mm mean. Temperature maxima are limited by the overall elevation of the entire region: only in the far south, Warmbad for instance, are mid-40 °C maxima recorded.

qas: question: What is the typical amount of sunshine days in Tropical high pressure belt?
answers: text: 300 days

question: What feature cuts Namibia in half?
answers: text: the Tropic of Capricorn

question: What is the winter in Namibia like?
answers: text: dry

question: When is the rainiest season in Namibia?
answers: text: between February and April

question: What is humidity like in Namibia?
answers: text: low

question: How much rain fell during the summer of 2006/07?

question: How much rain typically falls in February each year in the Caprivi Strip?

question: What is the record amount of rain in the Caprivi Strip?

question: What is the record rainfall in the coastal desert?

question: What is the least amount of rainfall to ever fall in the Caprivi Strip in one year?
context: Typically the sub-Tropical High Pressure Belt, with frequent clear skies, provides more than 300 days of sunshine per year. It is situated at the southern edge of the tropics; the Tropic of Capricorn cuts the country about in half. The winter (June – August) is generally dry, both rainy seasons occur in summer, the small rainy season between September and November, the big one between February and April. Humidity is low, and average rainfall varies from almost zero in the coastal desert to more than 600 mm in the Caprivi Strip. Rainfall is however highly variable, and droughts are common. The last[update] bad rainy season with rainfall far below the annual average occurred in summer 2006/07.

qas: question: What current dominates the coastal area of Namibia?
answers: text: Benguela

question: What direction does the current in the coastal area flow?
answers: text: north

question: Which ocean is on the coastal area of Namibia?
answers: text: Atlantic

question: What is the condition that happens in winter in Namibia?
answers: text: Bergwind

question: What do hot dry winds blowing inland to the coast create?
answers: text: sand storms

question: What lies to the east of Namibia?

question: What is the wind direction outside of the coastal area?

question: What is the temperature of the wind outside the coastal area?

question: What is the German expression for Oosweer?

question: What is the Afrikaans expression for Bergwind?
context: Weather and climate in the coastal area are dominated by the cold, north-flowing Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean which accounts for very low precipitation (50 mm per year or less), frequent dense fog, and overall lower temperatures than in the rest of the country. In Winter, occasionally a condition known as Bergwind (German: Mountain breeze) or Oosweer (Afrikaans: East weather) occurs, a hot dry wind blowing from the inland to the coast. As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.

qas: question: What is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa?
answers: text: Namibia

question: What is the average rainfall in Namibia?
answers: text: 350 mm per annum

question: Where does the highest rainfall occur in Namibia?
answers: text: Caprivi

question: How much of the country does dam water supply the rest of the country with? 
answers: text: 80%

question: What is the wettest country in sub-Saharan Africa?

question: What is the record amount of rain in a year on the coast?

question: What is the record least amount of rain in a year in the Caprivi?

question: What is the average annual rainfall in Zambia?

question: What is the average annual rainfall in Angola?
context: Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa and depends largely on groundwater. With an average rainfall of about 350 mm per annum, the highest rainfall occurs in the Caprivi in the northeast (about 600 mm per annum) and decreases in a westerly and southwesterly direction to as little as 50 mm and less per annum at the coast. The only perennial rivers are found on the national borders with South Africa, Angola, Zambia, and the short border with Botswana in the Caprivi. In the interior of the country surface water is available only in the summer months when rivers are in flood after exceptional rainfalls. Otherwise, surface water is restricted to a few large storage dams retaining and damming up these seasonal floods and their runoff. Thus, where people don’t live near perennial rivers or make use of the storage dams, they are dependent on groundwater. The advantage of using groundwater sources is that even isolated communities and those economic activities located far from good surface water sources such as mining, agriculture, and tourism can be supplied from groundwater over nearly 80% of the country.

qas: question: What does Namibia protect in it's constitution? 
answers: text: natural resources

question: What article in the Namibia constitution supports natural conservation?
answers: text: Article 95

question: What do Namibians believe sustains them?
answers: text: utilisation of living natural resources

question: What is Article 94 about?

question: What do Namibians believe destroys them?

question: What is the biggest country in the world to address conservation in its constitution?

question: What is the smallest country in the world to address conservation in its constitution?

question: What is Article 93 about?
context: Namibia is one of few countries in the world to specifically address conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution. Article 95 states, "The State shall actively promote and maintain the welfare of the people by adopting international policies aimed at the following: maintenance of ecosystems, essential ecological processes, and biological diversity of Namibia, and utilisation of living natural resources on a sustainable basis for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future."

qas: question: When did Namibia receive funding from USAID?
answers: text: 1993

question: What does USAID stands for?
answers: text: United States Agency for International Development

question: What does LIFE project stand for?
answers: text: Living in a Finite Environment

question: What does CBNRM stand for?
answers: text: Community Based Natural Resource Management

question: When did the Living in a Finite Environment Project start?

question: When was the Canadian Ambassador's Fund established?

question: When was the Endangered Wildlife Trust started?

question: In what year was the WWF formed?

question: What is the primary focus of USAID?
context: In 1993, the newly formed government of Namibia received funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Living in a Finite Environment (LIFE) Project. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism with the financial support from organisations such as USAID, Endangered Wildlife Trust, WWF, and Canadian Ambassador's Fund, together form a Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) support structure. The main goal of this project is promote sustainable natural resource management by giving local communities rights to wildlife management and tourism.

qas: question: Who does Namibia have affiliation with in their foreign policy?
answers: text: states that aided the independence

question: What ties does Namibia want to strengthen?
answers: text: Southern African

question: Which number member is Namibia in the UN?
answers: text: 160th

question: When did Namibia join the UN?
answers: text: 23 April 1990

question: Which number member is Namibia in the Commonwealth of Nations?
answers: text: fiftieth

question: To what year does Namibia and Cuba relationship go back to?

question: Which  sub-Saharan African country has a large army?

question: Where did Cuba come in regarding joining the UN?

question: Besides Namibia what is one other country that is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations?

question: What sub-Saharan country has a strong economy?
context: Namibia follows a largely independent foreign policy, with persisting affiliations with states that aided the independence struggle, including Cuba. With a small army and a fragile economy, the Namibian Government's principal foreign policy concern is developing strengthened ties within the Southern African region. A dynamic member of the Southern African Development Community, Namibia is a vocal advocate for greater regional integration. Namibia became the 160th member of the UN on 23 April 1990. On its independence it became the fiftieth member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

qas: question: What is Namibian's unemployment rate?
answers: text: 27.4%

question: What was the highest unemployment rate in Namibia?
answers: text: 36.7%

question: Who is the Labour and Social Welfare Minister?
answers: text: Immanuel Ngatjizeko

question: When was the lowest unemployment rate in Namibia?
answers: text: 20.2%

question: What was the "Strict unemployment" figure for Namibia in 2012?

question: In what year did Immanuel Ngatjizeko become the Labour and Social Welfare Minister?

question: Who leads the Namibia Statistics Agency?

question: What was the unemployment rate in 2000?

question: What was the unemployment rate in 2012 including people who had given up looking for work?
context: According to the Namibia Labour Force Survey Report 2012, conducted by the Namibia Statistics Agency, the country's unemployment rate is 27.4%. "Strict unemployment" (people actively seeking a full-time job) stood at 20.2% in 2000, 21.9% in 2004 and spiraled to 29.4% in 2008. Under a broader definition (including people that have given up searching for employment) unemployment rose to 36.7% in 2004. This estimate considers people in the informal economy as employed. Labour and Social Welfare Minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko praised the 2008 study as "by far superior in scope and quality to any that has been available previously", but its methodology has also received criticism.

qas: question: What did Bloomberg name Namibia?
answers: text: top emerging market economy in Africa

question: What rank did Bloomberg name Namibia's economy?
answers: text: 13th best in the world

question: How many African countries made the list for top Emerging Markets?
answers: text: four

question: Who did Bloomberg name as 2013's best emerging market in the world?

question: How many South American countries made the list for top emerging economies?

question: How many Asian countries made the list for top emerging economies?

question: What was named as one of the reasons Zambia made the list?

question: Why did South Africa make this list?
context: In 2013, global business and financial news provider, Bloomberg, named Namibia the top emerging market economy in Africa and the 13th best in the world. Only four African countries made the Top 20 Emerging Markets list in the March 2013 issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine, and Namibia was rated ahead of Morocco (19th), South Africa (15th) and Zambia (14th). Worldwide, Namibia also fared better than Hungary, Brazil and Mexico. Bloomberg Markets magazine ranked the top 20 based on more than a dozen criteria. The data came from Bloomberg's own financial-market statistics, IMF forecasts and the World Bank. The countries were also rated on areas of particular interest to foreign investors: the ease of doing business, the perceived level of corruption and economic freedom. In order to attract foreign investment, the government has made improvement in reducing red tape resulted from excessive government regulations making the country one of the least bureaucratic places to do business in the region. However, facilitation payments are occasionally demanded by customs due to cumbersome and costly customs procedures. Namibia is also classified as an Upper Middle Income country by the World Bank, and ranks 87th out of 185 economies in terms of ease of doing business.

qas: question: How much of the population depends on agriculture?
answers: text: half

question: How much more is the per capita GDP in Namibia compared to the rest of Africa's countries?
answers: text: five times

question: Where does a majority of Namibia's people live?
answers: text: rural

question: Namibia has one of the highest rates of what type of income problems in the world?
answers: text: inequality

question: How much of Namibia's land is arable?
answers: text: 1%

question: How much of Africa's poorest countries land is arable?

question: From where does Namibia import food?

question: What countries have an even higher rate of income disparity than Namibia?

question: In Africa's poorest countries in which industry do most people work?
context: About half of the population depends on agriculture (largely subsistence agriculture) for its livelihood, but Namibia must still import some of its food. Although per capita GDP is five times the per capita GDP of Africa's poorest countries, the majority of Namibia's people live in rural areas and exist on a subsistence way of life. Namibia has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world, due in part to the fact that there is an urban economy and a more rural cash-less economy. The inequality figures thus take into account people who do not actually rely on the formal economy for their survival. Although arable land accounts for only 1% of Namibia, nearly half of the population is employed in agriculture.

qas: question: How much revenue does mining provide Namibia?
answers: text: 25%

question: Where does Namibia rank in the exportation of uranium? 
answers: text: fourth

question: Namibia was expected to become the largest exporter of what in 2015?
answers: text: uranium

question: What does rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a source of?
answers: text: gem-quality diamonds

question: What is the second most important contributor to Namibia's economy?

question: Who is the world's biggest exporter of uranium?

question: In what year does Namibia plan to start drilling for oil and gas offshore?

question: Who is the world's biggest exporter of diamonds?

question: What country is Africa's biggest exporter of non-fuel minerals?
context: Providing 25% of Namibia's revenue, mining is the single most important contributor to the economy. Namibia is the fourth largest exporter of non-fuel minerals in Africa and the world's fourth largest producer of uranium. There has been significant investment in uranium mining and Namibia is set to become the largest exporter of uranium by 2015. Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds. While Namibia is known predominantly for its gem diamond and uranium deposits, a number of other minerals are extracted industrially such as lead, tungsten, gold, tin, fluorspar, manganese, marble, copper and zinc. There are offshore gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean that are planned to be extracted in the future. According to "The Diamond Investigation", a book about the global diamond market, from 1978, De Beers, the largest diamond company, bought most of the Namibian diamonds, and would continue to do so, because "whatever government eventually comes to power they will need this revenue to survive".

qas: question: What accounts for almost 14% of total tourism in Namibia?
answers: text: Sport hunting

question: How much economic assistance does Namibia get from tourism from hunting? 
answers: text: $19.6 million US dollars

question: What other types of sports are popular in Namibia?
answers: text: extreme sports

question: What is the most visited city in Namibia?
answers: text: Windhoek

question: What type of town is Swakopmund?
answers: text: coastal

question: From what country do most tourists to Namibia come from?

question: In what country was the extreme sport sandboarding invented?

question: How much did tourism account for the Namibian economy in 2010?

question: What is the most visited city in Namibia by foreign tourists?

question: How much money was tourism bringing into Namibia in 2010?
context: There are many lodges and reserves to accommodate eco-tourists. Sport hunting is also a large, and growing component of the Namibian economy, accounting for 14% of total tourism in the year 2000, or $19.6 million US dollars, with Namibia boasting numerous species sought after by international sport hunters. In addition, extreme sports such as sandboarding, skydiving and 4x4ing have become popular, and many cities have companies that provide tours.[citation needed] The most visited places include the capital city of Windhoek, Caprivi Strip, Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, the Skeleton Coast Park, Sesriem, Etosha Pan and the coastal towns of Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Lüderitz.

qas: question: What is the capital of Namibia?
answers: text: Windhoek

question: What is the airport in Namibia?
answers: text: Hosea Kutako International Airport

question: What is the most popular hotel in Windhoek?
answers: text: Windhoek Country Club Resort

question: Avani Hotels and resorts is a chain resort in Windhoek, what is another?
answers: text: Hilton Hotels and Resorts

question: What percentage of tourists arrive in Namibia at Hosea Kutako International Airport?

question: In what year was the Namibia Wildlife Resorts established?

question: In what year did the Namibia Tourism Board get established?

question: What percentage of the tourists to Windhoek stay at one of the international hotel chains?

question: In what year was the HIlton Hotels and Resorts built in Windhoek?
context: The capital city of Windhoek plays a very important role in Namibia's tourism due to its central location and close proximity to Hosea Kutako International Airport. According to The Namibia Tourism Exit Survey, which was produced by the Millennium Challenge Corporation for the Namibian Directorate of Tourism, 56% of all tourists visiting Namibia during the time period, 2012 - 2013, visited Windhoek. Many of Namibia's tourism related parastatals and governing bodies such as Namibia Wildlife Resorts, Air Namibia and the Namibia Tourism Board as well as Namibia's tourism related trade associations such as the Hospitality Association of Namibia are also all headquartered in Windhoek. There are also a number of notable hotels in Windhoek such as Windhoek Country Club Resort and some international hotel chains also operate in Windhoek, such as Avani Hotels and Resorts and Hilton Hotels and Resorts.

qas: question: What does NTB stand for?
answers: text: Namibia Tourism Board

question: What is act 21 of 2000 in Namibia?
answers: text: Namibia Tourism Board Act, 2000

question: What does act 21 in Namibia regulate?
answers: text: tourism industry

question: What market does Act 21 promote?
answers: text: tourism

question: What was Act 20 of 2000?

question: In what year was the Federation of Namibia Tourism Associations founded?

question: In what year was the Hospitality Association of Namibia established?

question: In what year was the Association of Namibian Travel Agents founded?

question: In what year was the Tour and Safari Association of Namibia founded?
context: Namibia's primary tourism related governing body, the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), was established by an Act of Parliament: the Namibia Tourism Board Act, 2000 (Act 21 of 2000). Its primary objectives are to regulate the tourism industry and to market Namibia as a tourist destination. There are also a number of trade associations that represent the tourism sector in Namibia, such as the Federation of Namibia Tourism Associations (the umbrella body for all tourism associations in Namibia), the Hospitality Association of Namibia, the Association of Namibian Travel Agents, Car Rental Association of Namibia and the Tour and Safari Association of Namibia.

qas: question: Most residential areas are insufficient in what area of Namibia?
answers: text: sanitation

question: Besides installation cost, why are private flush toilets too expensive for most residents in Namibia?
answers: text: water consumption

question: What do Namibian's use as a toilet?
answers: text: flying toilets

question: Where do flying toilets end up after use?
answers: text: bush

question: Urinating and defecating in public has been identified as what?
answers: text: major health hazard

question: In what African country is sanitation sufficient for most residential areas?

question: In what African country are private flush toilets reasonably priced?

question: In what year did Namibia's rural areas have 13% of the population with more than basic sanitation?

question: In what African country is water plentiful?
context: Apart from residences for upper and middle class households, sanitation is insufficient in most residential areas. Private flush toilets are too expensive for virtually all residents in townships due to their water consumption and installation cost. As a result, access to improved sanitation has not increased much since independence: In Namibia's rural areas 13% of the population had more than basic sanitation, up from 8% in 1990. Many of Namibia's inhabitants have to resort to "flying toilets", plastic bags to defecate which after use are flung into the bush. The use of open areas close to residential land to urinate and defecate is very common and has been identified as a major health hazard.

qas: question: Whites make up how much of Namibia's population?
answers: text: 4.0 and 7.0%

question: What is the language of Namibia?
answers: text: Afrikaans

question: Where do a large minority of whites trace their Namibian roots to?
answers: text: German settlers

question: What was the population in South-West Africa in 1960?
answers: text: 526,004

question: How much of the population was white in South-West Africa in 1960?
answers: text: 73,464

question: How many people of British descent make up the population of Namibia?

question: What percentage of the Namibia population is German?

question: What is the most spoken language in Namibia?

question: How many white people were there in Namibia in the 2000 census?

question: How many people in total was there in Namibia in the 2000 census?
context: Whites (mainly of Afrikaner, German, British and Portuguese origin) make up between 4.0 and 7.0% of the population. Although their percentage of population is decreasing due to emigration and lower birth rates they still form the second-largest population of European ancestry, both in terms of percentage and actual numbers, in Sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa). The majority of Namibian whites and nearly all those who are mixed race speak Afrikaans and share similar origins, culture, and religion as the white and coloured populations of South Africa. A large minority of whites (around 30,000) trace their family origins back to the German settlers who colonized Namibia prior to the British confiscation of German lands after World War One, and they maintain German cultural and educational institutions. Nearly all Portuguese settlers came to the country from the former Portuguese colony of Angola. The 1960 census reported 526,004 persons in what was then South-West Africa, including 73,464 whites (14%).

qas: question: How often does Namibia conduct a census?
answers: text: every ten years

question: When was the first Population and Housing Census in Namibia?
answers: text: 1991

question: What is it called when the census counts every person wherever they are the night of the census? 
answers: text: de facto method

question: How many enumeration areas are there in Namibia?
answers: text: 4,042

question: The enumeration areas in Namibia do not overlap with what in order to get reliable data?
answers: text: constituency boundaries

question: How were people counted in Namibia prior to 1991?

question: How many enumeration areas are there in a typical nation using the de facto method?

question: How many census workers were there in the 1991 Population and Housing Census?
context: Namibia conducts a census every ten years. After independence the first Population and Housing Census was carried out in 1991, further rounds followed in 2001 and 2011. The data collection method is to count every person resident in Namibia on the census reference night, wherever they happen to be. This is called the de facto method. For enumeration purposes the country is demarcated into 4,042 enumeration areas. These areas do not overlap with constituency boundaries to get reliable data for election purposes as well.

qas: question: German, English, and Afrikaans were the official languages until when in Namibia?
answers: text: 1990

question: SWAPO thought Namibia should have what type of official language?
answers: text: monolingual

question: What is the primary language of Namibia, as SWAPO instituted?
answers: text: English

question: How many Namibian's speak English?
answers: text: 3%

question: There was a high rate of what due to monolingual instruction?
answers: text: school drop-outs

question: What is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa?

question: What percentage of people speak Afrikaans in Namibia?

question: What percentage of people speak German in Namibia?

question: The push for monolingual instruction has been a success in what African country?

question: How many people in Namibia can speak English at all?
context: Up to 1990, English, German and Afrikaans were official languages. Long before Namibia's independence from South Africa, SWAPO was of the opinion that the country should become officially monolingual, choosing this approach in contrast to that of its neighbour South Africa (which granted all 11 of its major languages official status), which was seen by them as "a deliberate policy of ethnolinguistic fragmentation." Consequently, SWAPO instituted English as the sole official language of Namibia though only about 3% of the population speaks it as a home language. Its implementation is focused on the civil service, education and the broadcasting system. Some other languages have received semi-official recognition by being allowed as medium of instruction in primary schools. It is expected of private schools to follow the same policy as state schools, and "English language" is a compulsory subject. As in other postcolonial African societies, the push for monolingual instruction and policy has resulted in a high rate of school drop-outs and of individuals whose academic competence in any language is low.

qas: question: What popular sport was first played in Namibia in 1995?
answers: text: Inline hockey

question: Which team participated in the 2008 FIRS World Championship?
answers: text: Women's inline hockey National Team

question: What is the toughest footrace around the world?
answers: text: Namibian ultra marathon

question: Who is the most famous athlete from Namibia?
answers: text: Frankie Fredericks

question: What sport does the most famous Namibian athlete participate in?
answers: text: sprinter

question:  When was the Women's inline hockey National Team first formed?

question: Which country won the women's 2008 FIRS World Championships?

question: In what year was the first Namibian ultra marathon first held?

question: How many Olympic silver medals did Frankie Fredericks win at the 1992 Olympics?

question: How many medals has Frankie Fredericks won at World Athletic Championships?
context: Inline hockey was first played in 1995 and has also become more and more popular in the last years. The Women's inline hockey National Team participated in the 2008 FIRS World Championships. Namibia is the home for one of the toughest footraces in the world, the Namibian ultra marathon. The most famous athlete from Namibia is Frankie Fredericks, sprinter (100 and 200 m). He won four Olympic silver medals (1992, 1996) and also has medals from several World Athletics Championships. He is also known for humanitarian activities in Namibia and beyond.

qas: question: What was the first Namibian newspaper?
answers: text: Windhoeker Anzeiger

question: What was the language in which the first Namibian newspaper was printed in?
answers: text: German

question: When was the first Namibian newspaper founded?
answers: text: 1898

question: When was radio introduced in Namibia?
answers: text: 1969

question: When was TV introduced in Namibia?
answers: text: 1981

question: What was the first English newspaper in Namibia?

question: When did South Africa take over ruling Namibia?

question: When did Germany take over ruling Namibia?

question: What was the first newspaper in Namibia that reflected the realities of the black citizens?

question: When was the first black-focused radio channel introduced?
context: The first newspaper in Namibia was the German-language Windhoeker Anzeiger, founded 1898. Radio was introduced in 1969, TV in 1981. During German rule, the newspapers mainly reflected the living reality and the view of the white German-speaking minority. The black majority was ignored or depicted as a threat. During South African rule, the white bias continued, with mentionable influence of the Pretoria government on the "South West African" media system. Independent newspapers were seen as a menace to the existing order, critical journalists threatened.

qas: question: What is a popular tabloid magazine in Namibia?
answers: text: Windhoek Observer

question: What is the economical magazine in Namibia?
answers: text: Namibia Economist

question: What is the regional magazine in Namibia?
answers: text: Namib Times

question: What is the most popular current affairs magazine in Namibia?
answers: text: Insight Namibia

question: What is the only sport newspaper in Namibia?
answers: text: Namibia Sport

question: Who owns the Windhoek Observer?

question: Who owns the Namib Times?

question: Who owns Prime FOCUS?

question: Who owns Sister Namibia Magazine?

question: How often is Informante published?
context: Other mentionable newspapers are the tabloid Informanté owned by TrustCo, the weekly Windhoek Observer, the weekly Namibia Economist, as well as the regional Namib Times. Current affairs magazines include Insight Namibia, Vision2030 Focus magazine[citation needed] and Prime FOCUS. Sister Namibia Magazine stands out as the longest running NGO magazine in Namibia, while Namibia Sport is the only national sport magazine. Furthermore, the print market is complemented with party publications, student newspapers and PR publications.

qas: question: Compared to neighbouring countries, what freedom does Namibia have?
answers: text: media

question: Namibia is on par with what country in terms of media and reporting?
answers: text: Canada

question: Where was Namibia ranked on Press Freedom in 2009?
answers: text: 36

question: Where was Namibia ranked on Press Freedom in 2013?
answers: text: 19th

question: Where was Namibia ranked on Press Freedom in 2014?
answers: text: 22nd

question: What was Namibia's position on the Press Freedom Index in 2012?

question: What was Namibia's Press Freedom Index in 2015?

question: What was Namibia's Press Freedom Index position in 2008?

question: In what year was the African Media Barometer founded?

question: When was Reporters Without Borders founded?
context: Compared to neighbouring countries, Namibia has a large degree of media freedom. Over the past years, the country usually ranked in the upper quarter of the Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, reaching position 21 in 2010, being on par with Canada and the best-positioned African country. The African Media Barometer shows similarly positive results.[citation needed] However, as in other countries, there is still mentionable influence of representatives of state and economy on media in Namibia. In 2009, Namibia dropped to position 36 on the Press Freedom Index. In 2013, it was 19th. In 2014 it ranked 22nd 

qas: question: What is the life expectancy in Namibia?
answers: text: 52.2

question: What epidemic is a large problem in Namibia?
answers: text: AIDS

question: How much of the Namibian population is infected with HIV?
answers: text: 13.1%

question: How many people living in 2001 had HIV/AIDS in Namibia?
answers: text: 210,000

question: How many deaths were associated with HIV/AIDS in Namibia in 2003?
answers: text: 16,000.

question: How many orphans are there in Namibia?

question: How many people in Botswana have HIV/AIDS?

question: What percentage of the people in Botswana have HIV?

question: What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic numbers doing in Botswana?

question: What is the age expectancy in Botswana as of 2012?
context: Life expectancy at birth is estimated to be 52.2 years in 2012 – among the lowest in the world. The AIDS epidemic is a large problem in Namibia. Though its rate of infection is substantially lower than that of its eastern neighbour, Botswana, approximately 13.1% of the adult population is[update] infected with HIV. In 2001, there were an estimated 210,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, and the estimated death toll in 2003 was 16,000. According to the 2011 UNAIDS Report, the epidemic in Namibia "appears to be leveling off." As the HIV/AIDS epidemic has reduced the working-aged population, the number of orphans has increased. It falls to the government to provide education, food, shelter and clothing for these orphans.

qas: question: What health issue is compounded by the AIDS epidemic in Namibia?
answers: text: malaria

question: What is the risk of contracting malaria if an individual is already infected with HIV?
answers: text: 14.5% greater

question: The risk of death by malaria raises by how much with a concurrent HIV infection?
answers: text: 50%

question: How many physicians did Namibia have in 2002?
answers: text: 598

question: How many physicians did Namibia have as of 2012?

question: What is the risk of contracting malaria in Namibia if a person is healthy?

question: What is the risk of death if a person has HIV but not a concurrent infection?

question: How many health professionals in total did Namibia have in 2002?
context: The malaria problem seems to be compounded by the AIDS epidemic. Research has shown that in Namibia the risk of contracting malaria is 14.5% greater if a person is also infected with HIV. The risk of death from malaria is also raised by approximately 50% with a concurrent HIV infection. Given infection rates this large, as well as a looming malaria problem, it may be very difficult for the government to deal with both the medical and economic impacts of this epidemic. The country had only 598 physicians in 2002.