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The Namibian
Tue 13 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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NEWS - NAMIBIA
| 2013-07-29
There is a zebra in Swakop
Adam Hartman
ZEBRA ON MY STOEP ... The zebra mare inside a yard in Ocean View before it scaled the boundary wall and darted for the plains towards the DRC informal settlement.
Photograph by Adam Hartman
SWAKOPMUND was abuzz on Friday morning after a zebra mare and her foal were spotted at Vineta - followed by a frantic attempt to catch them and return them to the wild.
“A zebra just ran past my house down the road,” said Vineta resident Chris Nel, when alerting The Namibian. He sounded baffled.
Nel’s home is next to the Swakopmund Primary School, which is fairly close to the the Vineta beach, just south of the La Mer waterfront development. A zebra (uncertain whether it was the mare or the foal) was also spotted near the Mole beach earlier that morning.
The mare and foal had seemingly been separated by then.
The Swakopmund Neighbourhood Watch, wildlife wardens, police and municipal traffic officers were in a coordinated effort to isolate the striped animals from the Namib in order to tranquilise them and take them back to the desert.
This attempt resulted in a wild zebra chase along the beach, through the Vineta and Ocean View suburbs, over the Henties road and across the plain past the DRC informal settlement towards the new Swakopmund waterworks.
One of the mare’s stop-overs before darting for the plain was inside a yard in Ocean View. It seemed as if she was cornered as her pursuers attempted to surround the house and keep her at bay.
With a stroke of athletic genius however, this seemingly smaller sized zebra managed to scale the yard wall and dart for the plains. She was followed by a line of pursuers in vehicles. It was eventually just north of the new waterworks that an opportunity arose to tranquilise her since she was slowing down because of sheer exhaustion in her flight from humans and cars and cameras.
No one could really say from where the zebras came, or why they had come so far into a residential area. There were only guesses as to their origin.
The Vogelfederberg near the zebra pans and Ganab inside the Namib Naukluft Park are believed to be the closest areas from where the animals could have come from - between 50 and 100 kilometres from Swakopmund.
The mare was taken to Ganab but the foal was nowhere to be found. It is much safer there than anywhere near roads or built-up areas where her life would be at risk - either of being hit by a car or hunted for the pot.
“We believe it continued north and then managed to make its way to the desert. It will be safer there too,” said Peter Baron van Ginkel of the SNW.
A few years ago a wild cheetah made its way into Swakopmund, causing quite a commotion. It was tranquilised inside a yard in Vineta and was returned to the wild. It may also happen that a springbok will also may end up in town from the nearby Rossmund golf-course, while a flock of bushfeld guinea-fowl have decided to make their new home near the sea. Walvis Bay has also seen oryx once in a while.
“All we need now is an elephant coming to town. That would be interesting,” said Van Ginkel.
Nel’s home is next to the Swakopmund Primary School, which is fairly close to the the Vineta beach, just south of the La Mer waterfront development. A zebra (uncertain whether it was the mare or the foal) was also spotted near the Mole beach earlier that morning.
The mare and foal had seemingly been separated by then.
The Swakopmund Neighbourhood Watch, wildlife wardens, police and municipal traffic officers were in a coordinated effort to isolate the striped animals from the Namib in order to tranquilise them and take them back to the desert.
This attempt resulted in a wild zebra chase along the beach, through the Vineta and Ocean View suburbs, over the Henties road and across the plain past the DRC informal settlement towards the new Swakopmund waterworks.
One of the mare’s stop-overs before darting for the plain was inside a yard in Ocean View. It seemed as if she was cornered as her pursuers attempted to surround the house and keep her at bay.
With a stroke of athletic genius however, this seemingly smaller sized zebra managed to scale the yard wall and dart for the plains. She was followed by a line of pursuers in vehicles. It was eventually just north of the new waterworks that an opportunity arose to tranquilise her since she was slowing down because of sheer exhaustion in her flight from humans and cars and cameras.
No one could really say from where the zebras came, or why they had come so far into a residential area. There were only guesses as to their origin.
The Vogelfederberg near the zebra pans and Ganab inside the Namib Naukluft Park are believed to be the closest areas from where the animals could have come from - between 50 and 100 kilometres from Swakopmund.
The mare was taken to Ganab but the foal was nowhere to be found. It is much safer there than anywhere near roads or built-up areas where her life would be at risk - either of being hit by a car or hunted for the pot.
“We believe it continued north and then managed to make its way to the desert. It will be safer there too,” said Peter Baron van Ginkel of the SNW.
A few years ago a wild cheetah made its way into Swakopmund, causing quite a commotion. It was tranquilised inside a yard in Vineta and was returned to the wild. It may also happen that a springbok will also may end up in town from the nearby Rossmund golf-course, while a flock of bushfeld guinea-fowl have decided to make their new home near the sea. Walvis Bay has also seen oryx once in a while.
“All we need now is an elephant coming to town. That would be interesting,” said Van Ginkel.
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