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What does Christmas look like in Namibia?
Holiday season in Namibia is here… and it is noticeable as a couple of businesses have...
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The sky is not the limit
On that auspicious day on 20 July 1969, Japie’s mother went into his room in Opuwo, in...
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Snow in Aus, Namibia!
This morning, Wednesday 15th of August 2012, the small town of Aus in the south of...
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Sand fleas and Wooden huts - Swakopmund 120 years ago
January 1905. The steamship Professor Woermann lies in the roads off Swakopmund. Leaning...
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August, 8 2012 in
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Everlasting Church on a Rock between the desert and the sea
Defying the elements, Felsenkirche (the Church on the Rock) has been overlooking the...
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August, 3 2012 in
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The Hoba Meteorite - Fragment of a Dwarf Planet
The meteorite on the farm Hoba, some 20 km west of Grootfontein.
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Namibia’s own Storyteller: Doc Immelman
With over 2000 columns and more than forty books written, Doc Immelman is a prolific and...
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June, 20 2012 in
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Mbalantu - The eembuvi-plaits of the Women
The Mbalantu live in the extreme northern parts of the Omusati Region and part of their...
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Our African Penguin - On the List of endangered Species
It’s surprising to think of penguins in the African heat rather than in colder climes,...
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The Dorslandtrek (II) - Commandant Lombard and his group
The previous issue discussed the futile efforts of the first Trek Boers to establish...
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June, 13 2012 in
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Dorslandtrek (I) - The Republic of Upingtonia
Today many people are not aware that the Trek Boers laid the foundations of the...
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May, 30 2012 in
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Vingerklip - A Sculpture of the Ugab River
From close by it resembles a climbing wall for free climbers: Vingerklip is 35 metres high
