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 Frankie Fredericks (01.03.2010)
Namibia is the only place I call home
One of the first memories of his official sprinting life is the egg and spoon race at St Andrew’s Primary School. He found it difficult to keep his eye on the egg and run at the same time. Running was the easy part – it came naturally. Keeping the egg on the spoon required different skills altogether. Unofficially he had been running away from trouble since he was a boy. Life was tough in the township; you always had to be on guard.
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 At play in the fields of the Lord (01.03.2010)
A whole new vocabulary – words to describe supreme beauty – is needed for the colours of the Namib-Naukluft Park.
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 The magnificent intoxication of being free (01.01.2010)
“What a treat to stroll through the veils of twilight, to float across the sky like a slowly forming thought. Flying an airplane, one usually travels the shortest distance between two points. Balloonists can dawdle, lollygag, cast their fate to the wind and become part of the ebb and flow of nature, part of the sky itself, held aloft like any bird, leaf or spore. In that silent realm, far from the mischief and toil of society, all one hears is the urgent breathing of the wind and, now and then, an inspiring gasp of hot air.”
Diane Ackerman
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 Laughing in the face of death (01.11.2009)
Officially, zip-lines consist of a pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline. They are designed to enable a user, propelled by gravity, to traverse from the top to the bottom of the inclined cable, usually made of stainless steel, by holding on or attaching to the freely moving pulley.
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 Exploring the last frontier (01.10.2009)
Going where no one has gone before, researching virgin ground, completely untouched before – isn’t this the desire of many scientists? The aspiration of going to infinity and beyond and chasing dreams has driven many early expeditions; it still inspires today’s researchers – but virgin places are no longer easy to find.
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 Zinedine Zidane Gariseb future soccer star (01.10.2009)
I'm a star, I’m going to play soccer and run like Frankie Fredericks. I’ll bring Gold to Namibia one day." These are the words of 10-year-old Zizi Gariseb, a Grade 4 learner of Steenkamp Primary School in Katutura.
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 Divorce pass and back again (01.09.2009)
We got married in Namibia, so it’s natural that at some point we would travel over Divorce Pass. As in most marriages, getting to the pass involved a lot of twists and turns over rocky roads, going in unplanned directions and ending up stuck in quicksand.
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 A bag of air that unites people (01.07.2009)
The closer we get to the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa, the more I experience blindfolded passion for soccer. Sadly though, my heart sinks into my feet each time it crosses my mind that our own Brave Warriors are not part of the band of 32 nations that will battle it out for the world's most prestigious trophy.
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