The Nama then sold the land around Rehoboth to an agent for the Dorsland Trekkers but before the Boers could settle there Imperial Germany claimed their new colony of German South-West Africa.

Following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 the Union of South Africa occupied and annexed the German colony of South-West Africa.

Germany seems to be wavering on the edge of apologizing and even paying reparations, but the politics of modern Namibia - the former German colony of South-West Africa - complicate matters.

The colony of German South-West Africa was formally established in 1884.

In 1915, during World War I, South Africa, being a member of the British Commonwealth and a former British colony, occupied the German colony of South-West Africa.

Germany ruled the surrounding colony of South-West Africa, as Namibia was called, until World War I, when South Africa captured it.

In 1885, Manasse ǃNoreseb signed a peace treaty with the German Empire which had in 1884 established the colony of German South-West Africa.

The South African Government agreed to the withdrawal of British Army units so that they were free to join the European war, and laid plans to invade the German colony of South-West Africa.

South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War One, and administered it as a mandate until after the Second World War.

In 1907, the governor of what was then the German colony of South-West Africa set aside Etosha as a game reserve.