Döbra is a settlement about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the capital Windhoek.

There is also a mountain with the same name which is 2023m above sea level. It is located near the Kürsteneck in the Eros Mountains and around 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) west of Otjihase mine.

Döbra houses a mission station of the Catholic Church in Namibia, part of the Archdiocese of Windhoek.[1] The mission station ran a teacher training centre, St Joseph's Teacher Training Centre since 1924, and a school, St Joseph's Roman Catholic High School.[2] The high school is still active today.[3]

The teacher training centre at Döbra was one of very few institutions in the territory of South-West Africa that offered tertiary education to the indigenous population. It graduated many students that after Namibian independence became high-profile people in society.[2] It also developed into a centre of resistance. The Namibia National Students Organisation (NANSO) was founded here on 2 June 1984, and the 1988 student protests in Namibia started with a march from Döbra to the capital.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "St. Joseph". TheCatholicDirectory.com. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 Beris, Hermenegildus (2006). "Chapter 4: Dutch Catholic Missionaries in Namibia" (PDF). In Hendrix, Huub (ed.). Namibia and The Netherlands, 350 Years of relations. Windhoek, Namibia: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Kangootui, Nomhle (17 June 2014). "Döbra school girls on family planning". The Namibian.
  4. ↑ Nunuhe, Margreth (9 July 2018). "The student uprising that changed the course of history". Southern Times.

22°20′S 17°06′E / 22.333°S 17.100°E / -22.333; 17.100


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