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unusual facts about The Namibian


The Namibian

The newspaper exposed human rights violations by South Africa's occupying forces and was thus perceived as overly critical and pro-SWAPO by the South African government.


Nico Kaiyamo

When he was 25 years old, he took controversial pictures of dead SWAPO insurgents on Casspirs and sent them to The Namibian newspaper for publication.


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2012 Namibian Tri-Nations

The Namibian Tri-Nations tournament (or Windhoek Lager Tri-Nations Rugby Series for sponsorship reasons) was designed to bring more international rugby union test macthes to the lower tiered teams in the Confederation of African Rugby region.

B1 Butcher

The murder series caused considerable public criticism of the effectiveness and efficiency of the Namibian Police, also in other violent crime cases like the Murder of Magdalena Stoffels.

Bush War

The South African Border War, also known as the Angola Bush War or the Namibian War of Independence, a conflict from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Angola

Caprivi conflict

In October 1998 the Namibian Defence Force with the support of the Special Field Force discovered and raided a CLA training camp.

Chinchimane

Simataa Secondary School, named after its patron the Namibian Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Stanley Simataa, is located in Chinchimane.

Gareth Cloete

He was generally used as a lower-order batsman, generally ninth or tenth within the Namibian batting lineup, as well as being used as an attacking bowler in partnership with Rudi Scholtz.

Geography of Namibia

The Namibian landscape consists generally of five geographical areas, each with characteristic abiotic conditions and vegetation with some variation within and overlap between them: the Central Plateau, the Namib Desert, the Great Escarpment, the Bushveld, and the Kalahari Desert.

Hendrik Geldenhuys

Geldenhuys was part of the Namibian Under-19s Cricket World Cup squad of January 2002, captained by veteran Stephan Swanepoel.

Katima Mulilo Bridge

The Katima Mulilo Bridge (also known as Bridge 508 in the Namibian Bridge Register) carries the TransCaprivi Highway over the Zambezi River between Katima Mulilo, Namibia and Sesheke, Zambia.

Oshikango Railway Station

The railway station was inaugurated on 5 July 2012 by the Namibian president Hifikepunye Pohamba.

Rosa Kavara

Kavara Rosa Kunyanda is a member of the Namibian parliament(National council), she is from the Kavango region, the Councillor of the Rundu Rural West constituency and a member of the SWAPO Party.

Stephan Louw

The Namibian relay team, which consisted of Louw, Sherwin Vries, Thobias Akwenye and Benedictus Botha, finished fourth in a new Namibian record of 39.48 seconds.