Description

Simple monument, grave-stone-shaped. Situated under an omuparara tree. Bronze panel reads "This marks where hostilities terminated in South West Africa, 9th July 1915". On the back, the information board of the Monuments Council is affixed. Fenced.

Brief History

Erected after the idea of Lord Sydney Charles Buxton to commemorate the capitulation of the Germans on 09.07.1915. 3 days earlier, Governor Theodor Seitz and General Louis Botha met at this site to formulate the preliminary conditions of peace that were finally signed from those two and Colonel Franke on the 9th. It became known as the "Treaty of Khorab". In consequence, the non-commissioned officers and ranks were send to a prisoner-of-war camp in Aus. The plaque was fixed in 1920.