Bondelswarts RebellionNamibia · 1922“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”The Bondelswarts Nama had survived the German genocide; the new South African mandate brought them a tax on the dogs they hunted with — priced, deliberately, beyond reach. When they gathered to resist in 1922, the administration sent aeroplanes, and bombed an encampment of herders, women among them.