August 3, 2012

In the garden

Text and photographs Ron Swilling Chance led me to the garden in Omaruru on a wet day when rain was pouring down and thunder was rumbling. […]
August 6, 2012

Lüderitz – such a big history

 Text and photographs Ron Swilling Lüderitz – the rough calloused hands of the town hold the sparkling blue bay, often gnashed by an unruly south-west wind. […]
August 6, 2012

The roadside pod ladies

Text and photographs Tim Osborne   No, I’m not talking about the sci-fi movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but about the ladies who sell acacia […]
August 6, 2012

BOX OFFICE The Power Stone

The film This true story follows the journey of a sacred stone belonging to the Kwanyama people of northern Namibia and southern Angola. Passed down from […]
August 6, 2012

BOX OFFICE The Power Stone

Text Annabelle Venter PAN Exhibition Members of the Potters Association of Namibia (PAN) and students, get down to work at the recent workshop presented after the […]
August 6, 2012

POTTERS OF NAMIBIA

Text Annabelle Venter PAN Exhibition Members of the Potters Association of Namibia (PAN) and students, get down to work at the recent workshop presented after the […]
August 6, 2012

Rain or shine, Namibia is magical

Text and photos by ©Sharri Whiting De Masi – All photographs copyright of the author  Re-printed with permission of the author Travellers to Namibia come expecting […]
August 6, 2012

Building together day by day

Text Ethne Mudge Swakopmund has many surprising facets. For one, there is the phenomenon of loud Italian music blaring out of a brand-new bakery in Mondesa. […]
August 6, 2012

Op soek na Witbooi by Piet van Rooyen

Review Amy Schoeman Author Piet van Rooyen is one of Namibia’s most acclaimed writers of Afrikaans fiction. Seven of his novels and four of his anthologies […]
August 11, 2012

Facts on the place Names of Namibia

Compiled Bill Torbitt Hot steam, cold mountains Namibia’s place names come from the culture and mother tongues of all the peoples who have lived here: Bantu-language […]
August 11, 2012

A life-changing cycling challenge

Text and photographs Nicolette Jacobie “We cycled in the Namib Desert, saw its beauty and experienced Namibia intensely. And I want more.” Seven times champion of […]
August 11, 2012

Smoky quartz

This is the fourteenth in a series about the gemstones of Namibia. Quartz is the second-most abundant mineral found on Earth (after feldspar), with its varieties […]
August 11, 2012

And then there’s the Big Sixth

Text Christine Hugo It’s a strange phenomenon, but it’s indisputably true. Most tourists come to Namibia hoping to experience the Big Six – lion, elephant, Cape […]