Another car post. I have to admit that the topic had already been covered in depth. Trouble is that a car is an (or even THE) essential part of daily life in Northern Namibia. In June I went down to Windhoek for a week to get rid of my unreliable Mazda Drifter and take over …
The pictures from the price giving ceremony that took place on June 4th in Okahao made it to our office three weeks ago. They now found their way into the web thanks to the upcoming elections which messed up yesterdays planning: I had a car ‘booked’ and a tight schedule to repair some computers in …
As mentioned in a previous thread new equipment is pretty common in our office. Right now I have something on my table which is (or was, thanks to the iPad) even in Europa a rarity: a Tablet PC! I bed the only in the whole 4-O-Region. The other less handy equipment was on its way …
During the ‘tropical course’ at the STI we had been warned that troubles with the respiratory system are a much bigger issue for expats in Africa than problems with the stomach. I cannot agree more: the last week and the week before I had been knocked out with a tonsillitis and five days of fever. …
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The Namibians are no coffee drinker – if they do so, it’s usually half a cup of brown sugar with a spoon of Ricoffy instant coffee (Nestlé what else…). In Windhoek you’ll find a couple of good places (e.g. Craft Centre) to have a Espresso or Latte macchiato. In the 4-O-Region I’ve been able to …
Since a few weeks we do have our Xnet ADSL internet access up and running in the main building. Took us almost three months to get it due to a billing glitch with the Telecom for an existing installation at our library in Outapi. After using a slow and expensive prepaid 3G solution from CellOne …
Pretty unappetizing. The picture should illustrate the issue with the mentioned bullbar in the previous post. The donkey bump happened during lunchtime the day I collected my car from the garage in Ongwediva: a clean road on the outward journey, a totally damaged Hilux towed in when leaving Oshakati – donkey puree close to Outapi. …
To put it straight at the beginning: I am not car freak. In Europe and abroad during holidays I used to be a fanatic public transport supporter. But it was obvious that a car in Namibia would become something essential due to huge distances, lack of (formal) public transport and the high risk of ending …
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Friday last week we met with the IT technicians from the Ohangwena, Oshana and Oshikoto regions at the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Ondangwa for the first time (Oshikoto and Ohangwena sharing the same premises there). After having three hours tech talks we also had the chance to met the Director for the Oshikoto region …
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People told me that Oshakati is one of the hot spots in the North when it comes to street crime. Last Saturday proved that for me. Around 1.p.m I was walking from my car to the GAME store when two guys approached me and one of them tried to get my attention with a cell …