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 [...]

Beauty Pageants: a celebration of visual attractiveness or a form of self exploitation?

Earlier this month Lüderitz High School held its annual Miss Lüderitz High competition (see page 15). Beauty pageants have been at the centre an energetic debate about the nature of feminism on an international level but what do you think?

Beauty contests have been around since the 1800’s when an American man created a [...]

What Do YOU Think Of Lüderitz?

February has seen a large number of Buchters voicing their opinions and standing up for what they think, be it asking for a swimming pool or demanding a change in land use. In the spirit of all this free thinking we asked the local people in Lüderitz what they liked about their town and what [...]