My Story
Every month one member of the Luderitz community tells us a story about Luderitz that they feel captures the essence of what life here is all about.
“In 1986 I was invited to sit on the National Dias Festival Committee in Cape Town, having earlier been on the sidelines of discussions about getting a replica of [...]
Acacia Art Returns To Lüderitz
On Monday the 17th of November South African art tour Acacia Art revisited Lüderitz with some brand new artworks.
Based in the Lüderitz Christian School as part of a fundraiser the exhibition featured an eclectic mix of paintings ranging from impressionism to cartoons and including a wide variety of subject matter including portraits, life drawings, [...]
Drink Of The Month: Cape Decadent Nougat
This month we picked “Cape Decadent Nougat”, a cream liqueuer by Ameur, as drink of the month.
Cream liqueuers tend to look a lot alike. If I say Baileys or Amarula, a lot of people will tell me they are the same. But there is a distinct difference, both in taste and texture. The Ameur Cape [...]
Dinner At Ritzi’s
Perched over the harbour like some sort of over-sized birds nest Ritzi’s Restaurant, with its sheer glass walls and ambient veranda, has arguably one of the best views of Lüderitz. Walking into the establishment on a summer evening when the sun is just setting and casts warm rays through the wall of windows whilst the [...]
Diaz 88
Restoration was the word of the day at the official Diaz Mural celebration on Saturday the 8th November, to restoration of history and town pride.
Attended by several key benefactors of the Lüderitzbucht Foundation, including people from Windhoek, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Portugal, the celebration of the newly restored Diaz mural, depicting the landing of Bartolemeu [...]
First Diplomas Of The Year Handed Out At Helen Van Rhijn School
It’s exam time of year again, students are stuck in sweaty classrooms striving over pages of questions and teachers are stuck in the inevitable build up of marking papers and arranging their lessons for next year. How refreshing it was then, to be invited to an event which celebrated educational achievement instead of focusing on [...]
Break The Silence
By Gregory De Vries
It’s nearly a year since we commemorated world AIDS day and the time has come for us to do so again. December 1st is a time for the whole world to come together under one cause; to fight against AIDS, one of the most awful diseases on the planet. On every world [...]
The Rotary Club
This month Rotary finalized the Constitution for the Valombola Kindergarten. This is the first step in what will be a new Rotary project: fixing up the Valombola Kindergarten, located in Area 7.
In addition two wheelchairs have been donated: earlier this year a wheelchair was given to a Hansen boy, and now a second one has [...]
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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