The Last Word
By Kai Williams
I’m not one to complain. After all, I am British, I come from a land where it is preferred to suffer than to ruffle feathers and where every problem is faced with a stiff upper lip. Regardless of this fact, I warn you that I am about to lodge a couple of complaints [...]
Roaring Applause For The Lion King
Let me begin by saying that, prior to living in LĂĽderitz, I have never so much as taught a drama lesson before so when I decided to put on a production of The Lion King with a group of students from LĂĽderitz Secondary School I had my work cut out for me.
After just under two [...]
Drink Of The Month: Jagermeister
From the shape and packaging of the bottle and the colour of the liquid within, at first glance one might believe that Jägermeister is actually a very expensive medicine. The thick-glassed curved bottle with its slightly alarming orange and black stag logo suggests that it may contain an assortment of pills powerful enough to cure [...]
Sexy And Sorted
Ever had an embarrassing question and not known who to ask? You can’t quiz your friends in case they laugh at you, you’re too embarrassed to ask you teacher anything and you don’t want to talk to your parents anything because well…they’re your parents, so where do you turn?
In the past all those slightly-too- personal [...]
Thank God For My Shoes
By Ndafa Alpheus
I woke up one day and I realised that there were many things about my life I was not satisfied with or better still, there were challenges that were threatening my soul. And I said to myself, “Why should anyone envy me and want to be in my shoes.” No one knows how [...]
Formation Of The Luderitz Ministers Fellowship
If there’s one thing that isn’t in short supply in Lüderitz it’s churches- this small desert town boasts a church to fill the needs of almost every Christian denomination, from Catholic to Lutheran and Evangelical to Pentecostal. So it’s about time a link was created between all of them- welcome to the Lüderitz Ministers Fellowship, [...]
Beauty Strikes Again
On Friday 26th May Diaz Primary School opened its doors once again for its annual Mr and Mrs Diaz competition- a chance for the young and attractive to celebrate and judge each other in the name of glamour.
Music blared from loudspeakers, a long, white-clothed catwalk extended into the hall and the queue to get [...]
Shabeens: The New Brothels?
A recent report surveying the AIDS prevalence in LĂĽderitz 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 LĂĽderitz [...]
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 [...]
The End Of The Buchter?
The Buchter News is a legacy, it is a long standing, 22-year-old, ever developing pillar of the local community. It has been run by volunteers for the people of LĂĽderitz for over two decades, initially providing the only source of news to the town and adapting to fit the community following the introduction of television, [...]
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