St Barnabas was an Anglican mission station, church, and school in Windhoek, the administrative centre of South West Africa.
When Old Location was closed for blacks in 1968 the existing buildings and institutions, among them St Barnabas, were destroyed.
It was, at that time, the only school in the territory of South West Africa where teachers were black.
[2] During the same period the Windhoek municipality and the South African colonial administration decided to forcefully move the residents of the Old Location 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the north of the city to gain more land for settlement by white people.
[3] With the new designation for the suburb as an area exclusively for whites St Barnabas, and with it the school, was destroyed.