Just as the human predicament transcends all boundaries of time and place, the eternal facts of life revolve around problems of living together that every individual, community and nation must face. Perhaps we should be cognizant of the true meaning of life and community and the inevitability of wrong behaviour being a precarious foundation to lay any cornerstone of civilisation on. A century has now passed since scholars began to realise the need of interpreting this particular episode in history and to scientifically analyse the event from an unbiased perspective. It has become critical to expose the insidious social mechanisms and manipulations perpetrated by the foreign occupiers of Namibia and thereafter to apply legal ramifications against the guilty. Allowing the truth to come to the fore and rendering a legal and moral remedy thereupon.

It seems that most of the seven deadly sins were manifest in the collective psyche of the colonialist of that era.

The German body-politic planned these events and formed financial and political alliances to gain access to land and resources. Thereafter an insidious game of monopoly ensued. The cost of human and social devastation was an irrelevant consideration, in the occupier's stratagem. The anthropologists of the time held closely the social Darwinian concept of evolution, permitting the racist seed to germinate the colonialists’ views of the natives of the land as sub-human and backward. The anthropologist's role was to scientifically legitimise these cataclysmic events.

From a race-relationship perspective, this event seems to emphasise all the contradictions and moral dilemmas that continue to exist in the Euro-African diplomatic discourse. One might deduce that the examination and application of a remedial process would be of pre-eminent importance in today's global dialect. The negative psychosis that existed in the colonial force majeure appears to be the penultimate racial reticulation event in Africa.

The colonialist's primary objective was to pilfer and exterminate if challenged.

When the German colonialists were confronted by effective resistance from the ill-equipped but gallant Herero tribesmen, the result was extreme paranoia from the German high command. News flashes were received in Germany. The Kaiser and his government were forced into a state of embarrassment, their military prowess and reputation were in jeopardy. Loss of face amongst other European nations had to be arrested.