Namaqualand

Republic of Namaqualand

Republik Namaqualand (Saxon)

Namibiab Republiki dib (Nama)

12.6% Saxon

7.2% Boer

3.1% Damara

3% Juhoan

2.5% Kung

2.3% San

2% Khwe

4% Other

14.1% Atheism

5% Cagnism

3.8% Traditional Lybian Religions

2.9% Other

**Namaqualand** (Nama: Namibia), officially the Republic of Namaqualand (Saxon: Republik Namaqualand, Nama: Namibiab Republiki dib) is a Lybian nation located in the region of Mudavia. It is bordered by Ngola to the north, Zambezia and Barotseland to the northeast, South Azania to the east, and Cape to the south. It’s capital is located in Aegams, and has a population of \_\_\_\_\_. Namaqualand is a wealthy nation, boasting a thriving services and mining based economy. The name of Namaqualand comes from the Cape Dutch word Namaqua, which comes from Nama Namakwa, meaning “land of the Nama-Khoe”.

## History

In the Brandberg Mountains, there are numerous rock paintings, most of them originating from around 2000 BC. There is no reliable indication as to which ethnic groups created them. It is dubitable whether the San, who alongside the Damara are the oldest ethnic group in Namibia, were the creators of these paintings. The Damara and San were agriculturalist groups, meaning that they lived off of the native crops of the more habitable regions. The Nama only settled in southern Africa and southern Namibia during the first century BC. In contrast to the San and Damara, they were a pastoralist group, who lived on the livestock they bred themselves.

Much later, around the year 1200, the ancestral groups that now make up the Haiom folk began migrating southwards from what is now southern Ngola, a trend that would continue well into the 15th century due to the Bantu expansion. Namaqualand would be spared by the Bantu incursion along with parts of Cape, South Azania and isolated places in multiple other nations would be the sole remnants of the Khoi-San homeland. Before the Bantu Expansion, the Khoi-San peoples inhabited all of Mudavia, and can be considered the “true” indigenous people of the area.

1606 saw the completion of the Khauxanas Fortress, the earliest structure in the entire nation. It is thought that the design was inspired by the Great Enclosure in Zimbabwe, with evidence of stone wall architecture throughout Maravi, South Azania and southern Namaqualand. The spread of stone architecture was alongside that of the practice of iron smelting, which came from KwaXhosa in around 1500, sometime after KwaXhosa adopted iron smelting in the 1400’s. Elsewhere, the Haiom, then nomadic, finally began to settle as it became harder to come across arable land, along with other cons of nomadism.

Starting in 1690, up until 1730’s, Bantu groups from Ngola started to forage into the more habitable northern areas, where the Haiom live. The Bantu groups in question would be the Herero and Ovambo peoples, who began to forage in the aftermath of wide disruption in Ngola (which may have been caused by the continuation of Lusitanian in the region). A series of skirmishes of between the Khoi-San and Bantus began and continued for well over 40 years, with many of the now pastoralist Haiom massacred.

From the late 18th century onward, people from the Cape Colony crossed the Orange River and moved into the area that is southern Namaqualand. Their encounters with the Nama tribes were largely peaceful. They received the missionaries very well, granting them the right to use waterholes and grazing against an annual payment. On their way further north, however, the settlers encountered clans of the Haiom and Juhoan at Aegams, Epako, and Tsamsa, who resisted their encroachment.

Namibia became a German colony in 1884 under Otto von Bismarck to forestall perceived British encroachment and was known as German South West Africa (Saxon: Deutsch-Südwestafrika). The Palgrave Commission by the British governor in Cape Town determined that only the natural deep-water harbour of Walvis Bay was worth occupying and thus annexed it to the Cape province of British South Azanea. this area would eventually be re-integrated back into Namaqualand in 1945, when independence movements swept much of Lybia.

## Folk

5% of the nation’s populace follows Cagnism, a religion followed by the Khoi-San folk. The name refers to ǀKaggen, it’s demiurge. It was adapted from the Cape’s Xam people in ancient times.