Latest Volunteer
A new Peace Corp volunteer arrived in Luderitz in early February to take over Padraic Gerety’s health volunteer position. Kengo Okuda had a few months to settle in before we interviewed him about the town and his work, and his expectations have certainly been exceeded. Kengo was a volunteer in the North for the previous [...]
Thank You
Thank you to Shell for donating scrap paper for drawing to Novanam Creche and The Rainbow Centre.
Combatting Crime
The second police and public relations committee (PPRC) meeting of this year was held on February 24th at the newly built police board room. These meetings are open to the public, so anyone can become a member and contribute to the important discussions that occur. The first discussion point on the agenda was the Luderitz [...]
Church Fundraising Raffle
A meat raffle was drawn at the Methodist Memorial Church on February 28th to raise money for the church. The first prize of a whole beef carcass went to Eugene De Villiers, second prize was a sheep carcass with groceries which Vivian Sokupa won and the third and final prize of a bag of chicken [...]
Elizabeth Bay Mine Optimisation Study
On Monday March 8th there was a meeting held at Namdeb to discuss the re-opening of Elizabeth Bay mine with the public, although the event was advertised widely, unfortunately there were only three people present who weren’t Namdeb employees. Stephanie Van Zyl from Enviro Dynamics in Windhoek acted as chairperson for the meeting, opening with [...]
Bakery Opens For Diaz OVCs
The 4th of March was a momentous day for many people in Luderitz and Bocholt, Germany, alike. The day marked the opening of the new bakery at Diaz Primary school where Orphans and Vulnerable Children that attend the school can avail of free bread so that they can focus better on their studies. There are [...]
Increased Happiness for You
By Revd. J.A. Scholtz
Do you want to be happy? Of course you do. Rest assured happiness is within your reach, here’s how you will achieve it.
1) Serve Other People
It is one of life’s strange paradoxes that we find happiness for ourselves while trying to give it to others. When you did someone a good [...]
SZ hosts successful Safety Week
“We are all safety leaders in action”
The first Safety Week was hosted on site, which is a first for Namibia. Skorpion Knights together with Soccer Icon Lolo Goraseb, Keetmanshoop youth entertainers Ghetto Fabulous, safety & risk Officers, management & contractors deliberated a number of concepts under the theme SCORE SAFETY, as part of the World [...]
Editorial
Welcome to the April Edition of The Buchter News!
I hope you’ve all had a great month, enjoyed Independence Weekend and didn’t fall for too many April Fool jokes.
This month our Editor’s photos are from Brightstart’s Fun Walk out to Diaz Point.
Stories from this month include the opening of Diaz Primary School’s bakery, Namdeb potentially re-opening [...]
CANCER REPORT – LUDERITZ BRANCH, MARCH 2010
It is with pride mixed with humility that we present our report for 2009.
Fundraising NET Profits remitted by Luderitz Branch to Windhoek over the last 10 years:
2000 N$22 584,70
2001 26 559,96
2002 30 089,05
2003 22 027,74
2004 [...]
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