Namibia: Shark Island Bones to Be Reburied

TRADITIONAL leaders in the Karas Region have supported a request by President Hifikepunye Pohamba to have a mysterious mass grave containing human bones, found north-west of Lüderitz Airport in the Sperrgebiet in 1999, relocated to Shark Island.

This emerged at a consultative meeting with traditional leaders, the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Willem Konjore, and his Permanent Secretary, Peingeondjabi Shipoh, yesterday.

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