Through 1893 and 1894 , the first " Hottentot Uprising " of the Nama and their legendary leader Hendrik Witbooi occurred . The following years saw many further local uprisings against German rule . Before the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904 – 1907 , the Herero and Nama had good reasons to distrust the Germans , culminating in the Khaua-Mbandjeru rebellion . This rebellion , in which the Germans tried to control the Khaua by seizing their property under cover of European legal views of property ownership ( critisised at home for being no real reform of the notion of collective tribal ownership ) . This led to the largest of the rebellions , known as the Herero Wars ( or Herero genocide ) of 1904
Herero and Namaqua genocide
Herero and Namaqua genocide
German South West Africa