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Facts on Finance - September 2010 (02.09.2010)
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 From Kunene to California (02.09.2010)
Joining a list of luminaries such as Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall and Bono as speakers at the world-renowned TED talks, John Kasaona, a conservationist from northern Namibia, earlier this year addressed the TED annual conference in California.
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 Standing on the shoulders of giants (02.09.2010)
Bank of Namibia celebrates 20 years
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Facts on Finance - August 2010 (03.08.2010)
Frequently asked questions on the Namibian economy and money matters.
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 Shanghai World Expo 2010 (01.08.2010)
China enjoys Namibian specialities
“When you step into the Namibia Pavilion, you have started on a dream journey. It is like an incarnation of Namibia opening her enthusiastic arms to welcome you with a unique landscape of wilderness.”Introduction to Namibia on the official web page for the biggest expo the world has ever seen.
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 Namibia reaching fiscal maturity 20 Years after Independence (01.06.2010)
The age of 21 is an important milestone in any young person’s life. It may be just as important for the still-young nation of Namibia in terms of public finances. Namibia’s first decade or so was marked by national budgets (and additional budgets) where, year in year out, public spending exceeded the amount of revenue Government could raise, often leaving a substantial budget deficit to be financed through borrowing
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 Mavis makes magic with honey (01.06.2010)
Only one in twenty people has the ‘gift’ to keep bees. Mavis Mautu is a person with such natural talents. Deep in the bush of the Bwabwata National Park, she ferociously guards her beehives from marauding elephants and naughty honey badgers.
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 Thirty-two metres per litre (01.04.2010)
And you think the fuel consumption of your vehicle is bad! This is what the 275-ton haulage trucks operating at the Rössing Uranium mine average when they are hauling rocks out of the mine pit.
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 World Expo May – September 2010 (01.04.2010)
Take pieces of Namibia to the world
Seventy million people are expected to visit the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai China, which kicks off at the end of May. This is a record number of visitors in the world’s history of expos and fairs, and promises to be a feast of culture, know-ledge-sharing and innovative technologies. Namibia will be there amongst the 190 countries and 50-odd organisations that will be participating this year.
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 Namibia’s lady of cheeses (01.02.2010)
From Brie with green peppercorns to goat’s milk cheese with chilli and garlic, if you buy locally produced Namibian cheese, there’s a good chance it was made by Daniela Kemp, the cheese lady of Okomitundu.
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 Beating the battle for water (01.01.2010)
On the barren coastline of Namibia the battle for water is as real today as it was a hundred years ago, and it’s escalating. The coastal holiday town of Swakopmund is bursting at its seams and the recent boom in the uranium industry has seen an unprecedented growth in the population of the town.
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 Where there’s a will, there’s a wine (01.01.2010)
An unexpected treasure is lovingly nurtured amidst the red dunes of Sossusvlei and the rolling bushveld of the Kalahari. In small vineyards hidden across the countryside, Namibia’s dry and rugged beauty is instilled in the aroma of wines that few people even know exist.
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 Thirst quenching, natural, preservative free (01.10.2009)
While most men would declare with much enthusiasm that they are passionate about beer, for many people beer is synonymous with sport, stag parties and big bellies – the official male bonding liquid, burp and all. Sure, Namibia does have a proud German beer-drinking heritage, but it is still a rowdy, social beer-consuming culture.
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 Green shoots in the desert (01.08.2009)
Namibia’s export-driven economy is being hit by the global downturn – but that hasn’t stopped plenty of good investments from moving ahead.
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 Alternative technology to tackle housing shortage (01.08.2009)
Namibia is heading for a housing crisis. In particular, low-cost housing. Already the influx of people moving from rural areas to Windhoek has surpassed that of the growth of the city and is now estimated at two times the rate at which the city is expanding. Municipal officials have a monumental task ahead just trying to catch up.
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 A different kind of rock art (01.07.2009)
If you’ve ever roamed around listlessly at Frankfurt Inter-national Airport, waiting for your next flight, you might have noticed the shiny marble tiles that clad the busy hallways. You might even have stopped for a second and admired your reflection in one of the tiles. But were you actually aware that these shiny blocks of marble originate from a town bordering the oldest desert in the world? Or that the tile that boasts your shiny reflection came from a marble factory that’s been making Namibia proud since before the First World War.
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 schoolnet – The power of technology in the hands of children (01.06.2009)
A significant example of the phenomenal success of SchoolNet is the evolution of Ebben Hatuikulipi, a young Namibian girl from the ‘bush’ who after being helped, started the volunteer programme for SchoolNet and won the Global Junior Challenge in Genève and Rome for creating a website alerting and informing children about the HIV\Aids threat. Ebben started learning ITC with the programme Kids on the Block and with personal effort and the desire to move forward, graduated as a web designer. Today she is the Web Master Designer for MISA – Media Institute of South Africa – in Windhoek, but you can still see her teaching media technology and volunteering at SchoolNet.
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