Namibia: Germany to Return Cape Cross Padrão

THE more than 500-year-old Portuguese stone cross of Cape Cross will be repatriated to Namibia by August, Namibia's ambassador to Germany, Andreas Guibeb, announced on Friday.

Guibeb said on his Facebook page that the announcement was made as a joint statement by himself, the German minister of culture and media, Monika Grutters, and the president of the German Historical Museum in Berlin, Raphael Gross, at an event held at the museum.

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