Shabeens: The New Brothels?
A recent report surveying the AIDS prevalence in Lüderitz has suggested that there is a concrete link between the location of shebeens and areas with a high density of HIV/AIDS sufferers.
Student Epidemiologist Brooke Nichols conducted research on the impact that alcohol consumption can have on the level of people with HIV/AIDS whilst visiting Lüderitz [...]
Preserve And Conserve
Namibia launches coastal protection scheme.
Thusrday 2nd July was an important and exciting day in many a nature conservationists calendar as it marked the official opening of Namibia’s first ever Marine Protected area- an area measuring just under 1 million hectares along the countries southern coastline aimed at conserving and protecting the abundant nature resources [...]
Film Commission Promotes Namibia On Location Trade Show in Los Angeles
For the first time Namibia was represented at the world’s biggest film location fair in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, this year. A delegation of the Namibia Film Commission (NFC) and local filmmakers promoted Namibia as an attractive destination to expert visitors from the movie business. The trade show featured almost 200 film commissions from 35 [...]
Lüderitz Wind Farm Not Yet Under Construction
Over the past twenty years Global Warming has become a worldwide buzz word; millions of dollars have been poured into research, prevention and, perhaps most importantly, renewable energy sources. However, it is only recently that global warming has fallen into the spotlight in Southern Africa which is why The Buchter News is proud to announce [...]
Namibia Celebrates Its Nineteenth Birthday
The 21st of March: 19 years ago today Sam Nujoma was sworn in as Namibia’s first president of the free state by UN Secretary-General Pérez de Cuellar. The new country was full of hope and the promise of reconciliation. It is now 2009 and Namibia is in its 19th year of freedom from colonisation. How [...]
Credit Crunch Causes Diamond Industry To Slide Causing Problems For Namdeb
Ever since the credit crunch crossed the globe in October of last year countries around the world have been waiting with baited breath to see how they will be affected; across the western world Iceland has gone bankrupt, England is officially in recession and one million people in North America have lost their jobs and [...]
NovaNam Strike Ends Abruptly
On the 8th of December workers at NovaNam/ Pescanova went on strike following a disagreement about an increase in wages. Since then a total of 955 people have stopped work in favour of picketing outside the factory gates in an attempt to get their demands met. In mid-December members of the police force in Keetmanshoop [...]
A Dummies Guide To The Credit Crunch
What happened and why?
It is believed that the financial crisis has been building since early August of this year when the USA market suffered a loss of confidence in investors causing a substantial amount of credit to be injected into the economy causing the market to become volatile. However it could also be argued [...]
Barack Obama, A New Age For Africa?
On the 4th of November Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the American Elections to cries of joy from across America and the rest of the world but nowhere are people more excited than in Africa.
Hailed by many as ‘the prodigal son’, Obama, who is officially the first ever African American president, is [...]
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