User:Tuushona

Epinga Village
I come from a village in the Ohangwena region, in the Helao Nafidi district, two kilometres from Angolan border. In 1974, a sort of conflict broke out between the contract mine workers who had returned home from working in the south. They were about a hundred men who divided themselves into smaller groups. They started cutting the fences that marked the end of one country and the beginning of another and releasing animals that didn’t belong to them out of their cages in rebellion to the contract labour system. About twenty men died at the end at the end of that conflict, this resulted in the abandonment of the village by it settlers in to neighbouring Angola. In 1976 a number of those settlers started returning to the village even though there was still fighting going on in Namibia. The reasons could be due to the hardship they might have fast in a foreign country in terms of hostility among the community members of that country, the war that broke out in that same country between the MPLA and UNITA forces or the effects of the Cassinga massacre that might have made them feel worst off then in their own country, but whatever the reason might be the village was resurrected. Today, it is still a village but with the basic necessities such as water, electricity and a clinic. And some of the same young men that rebelled about 30 something years ago could still be found there or their families but some never returned and remained in Angola most probably became Angolan citizens.