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Building Bridges
Namibian Nationalists Clemens Kapuuo, Hosea Kutako, Samuel Witbooi, Brendan Simbwaye
by Israel Goldblatt
Editors: Dag Henrichsen, Naomi Jacobson & Karen Marshall
Windhoek in the early 60’s. The 34-year old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the senior advocate Israel Goldblatt to solicit advice in the developing struggle of Africans against Apartheid. An unusual relationship and friendship, transcending the racial divide in this South African governed territory, develops, lasting for nearly 10 years. Meeting in Goldblatt’s chambers or in the Old Location, their consultations soon also include the veteran politicians Chief Hosea Kutako and Kaptein Samuel Witbooi as well as a group of younger nationalists like Rev. Bartholomew Karuaera, Levi Nganjone and Ephraim Vitore. Through Kapuuo, Goldblatt also meets and counsels the long-term prisioner from Caprivi, Brendan Simbwaye.
This book provides the Notes of Israel Goldblatt on the encounters and conversations.
“This was my first meeting with Hosea Kutako. He is about 92. Massive figure -
massive personality... A remarkable man.
He took out a cigarette packet while we were discussing and
I offered him a cigar. He accepted it and when it went out during the consultation he simply held it unostentatiously. When I noticed it, I lit it for him and he indicated his appreciation. His manners, excellent. No attempt to impose his leadership on me.“
Israel Goldblatt on 30 July 1962
This book and its many photographs pay tribute to Israel Goldblatt and the Namibian nationalists who attempted to build bridges where Apartheid entrenched hatred and racism.
Price: 140.00 N$ incl. VAT
Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel 2010
ISBN: 9783905758160
205 x 860 mm
160 pages, paperback with maps and photographs
Weight: 540 g |
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