[OSGeo Africa] How to convert "New Namibia" projection to EPSG 4326 in QGIS

[Calle Hedberg]

Hi,

 

I've received two shapefiles from Namibia - originally from the National
Statistics Agency, I think - which has the following .prj file:

 

PROJCS["New_Namibian",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS
_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.017
4532925199433]],

PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",600000.0],PARAME
TER["False_Northing",10000000.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",17.0],PARAMETE
R["Scale_Factor",1.0],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

 

When I open the file in QGIS and hover over the maps, the coordinates shown
are clearly projected coordinates.

 

My problem is that I need the maps in EPSG 4326 (WGS-84, geographical
coordinates) format, and I've been unable to do the conversion - changing
the value under shapefile->Properties make the shapefile disappear.

 

So I'm doing something wrong - probably something really dumb - but I don't
know WHAT..

 

Anybody able to give me step-by-step instructions on how to re-project "New
Namibian" back to standard EPSG 4326?

 

Regards
Calle

Cape Town

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