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discrimination against her white citizens. Following this ruling, Zimbabwe departed the SADC Tribunal and challenged its legitimacy. The 2010 SADC summit then ordered a review of the "functions and terms of reference of the SADC Tribunal", a step that a group of legal and human rights organizations
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Soon the building grew too small for its purpose. A double-storey extension was appended on the western side of the building during the years of 1912 and 1913. The date inscription above the main entrance refers to this extension. Architect
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On 6 March 1909, the foundation for a 22 m x 14 m gymnasium with high ceilings and a street-facing gable was laid. The Turnhalle building was inaugurated nine months later on 11 December 1909. The neo-classicist building of
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described as "virtually suspending" this inter-regional court. The Tribunal at that time had only four of ten judges appointed and did not accept nor hear any cases. SADC disbanded the Tribunal in 2012.
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troops. After a stage was added, the building was also used for theatre performances and cinema. After Namibian independence in 1990, the Turnhalle was used as a conference venue, and for the
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Before the first case was heard by the Tribunal, the Turnhalle burned down on 18 January 2007. The court room was completely destroyed. Reconstruction work started in November 2007.
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was regarded as "the most beautiful building in the northern part of town", and it was the first timber-girdered roof structure in the German colony.
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Sponsored by the South African government, the Turnhalle Conference laid the framework for the government of South West Africa from 1977 to
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court but burned down on 18 January 2007. It has been restored since then; the SADC Tribunal became operational in April of the same year.
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Soon after the foundation of modern Windhoek in October 1890, a posh suburb developed on the slope of the hill opposite the city's
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The Turnhalle was used for school physical training and gymnastic competitions, as well as for recreational sports. During
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When in the 1970s the South African administration came under increasing pressure to grant independence to the people of
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From 2005 to 2012 the SADC Tribunal, the highest policy institution of the
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from his land, and that farm seizures per Amendment 17 of the Zimbabwean
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club, a German gymnastics association influenced by the suggestions of
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Namibia During the Periods of Colonialism and Foreign Administration
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in their name in reference to the Turnhalle Conference. The
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the Tribunal ruled in 2007 and 2008 that the government of
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after the venue where it was hosted between 1975 and 1977.
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under South African control. This conference was named the
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Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd and Others v Republic of Zimbabwe
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in 1990. The conference was held in defiance of the 1972
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designed both parts of the building. Master architect
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A yellow and white neo-classicist building in bright sunlight. The roof of corrugated iron sheets is painted dark red, on the main gable the inscriptions read "A.D.1913" and "SADC Tribunal". Seven flagpoles with national flags of countries from the Southern African Development Community are mounted onto the pavement in front of the building.
Windhoek
Namibia
Imperial Germany
South West Africa
Turnhalle Constitutional Conference
People's Liberation Army of Namibia
South African
Tribunal
Southern African Development Community

railway station
Turners
Turnvater Jahn
Wilhelmine architecture
Otto Busch
Wilhelm Sander
World War I
South African
National Council of Namibia
Tintenpalast
SADC Tribunal
Turnhalle Constitutional Conference
South West Africa
constitution
Namibia
independence
United Nations General Assembly
South West Africa People's Organization
apartheid

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