Man arrested after stabbing incident * STAFF REPORTER POLICE at Okahao have arrested a 33-year-old man on charges of attempted murder after he stabbed a man in the neck on Friday.The two men were at a cuca shop in the Okalondo village in the Omusati Region when they became engaged in an argument and later a fight. ELEVEN disabled volunteers are taking part in a daunting expedition across Namibia, joined by their guides.
Last week they joined their mentors at Victoria Falls near Livingstone, just across the border in Zambia. Waiting for them was Ken Hames, expedition leader and catalyst for motivating this group of physically and mentally challenged individuals in their extreme trek across some of the wildest places that Namibia has to offer.Ken’s experienced team not only reconnoitred and established the route, assembled all the necessary infrastructure and equipment, but also organised indigenous guides and trackers – including Caprivian and Himba tribesmen – for each leg of this extraordinary mission.They are also being supported by armed rangers wherever necessary.Diverse TV of Bristol, England has been commissioned by the BBC to film and chronicle the expedition, thus compiling ‘a landmark documentary series – Beyond Boundaries – that aims to challenge preconceptions about what disabled people can and can’t do’, in the words of Richard Klein, Commissioning Editor of the BBC’s Documentaries and Contemporary Factual Department.The choice of Namibia, perhaps the harshest but most evocative and awesome land in sub-Saharan Africa, dovetails perfectly with the recent directive of the Namibian Cabinet to make sure awareness of the disabled is highlighted during 2006.Twenty-three days and nights will see participants, cohorts, film, sound and production crews, logistics teams and local guides follow an incredibly demanding schedule that will lead these bold volunteers, all handicapped in some way or another, through white water rapids, hippo-and-crocodile infested rivers, treacherous flood plains and swampland, remote bushveld occupied by abundant and fearsome predators, until finally, in sweltering heat, they traverse the plains, mountains and colossal sand dunes of the Namib Desert before reaching the Atlantic.The challenge: Some 2 000 kilometres, from the Zambezi to the Skeleton Coast ….Waiting for them was Ken Hames, expedition leader and catalyst for motivating this group of physically and mentally challenged individuals in their extreme trek across some of the wildest places that Namibia has to offer.Ken’s experienced team not only reconnoitred and established the route, assembled all the necessary infrastructure and equipment, but also organised indigenous guides and trackers – including Caprivian and Himba tribesmen – for each leg of this extraordinary mission.They are also being supported by armed rangers wherever necessary.Diverse TV of Bristol, England has been commissioned by the BBC to film and chronicle the expedition, thus compiling ‘a landmark documentary series – Beyond Boundaries – that aims to challenge preconceptions about what disabled people can and can’t do’, in the words of Richard Klein, Commissioning Editor of the BBC’s Documentaries and Contemporary Factual Department.The choice of Namibia, perhaps the harshest but most evocative and awesome land in sub-Saharan Africa, dovetails perfectly with the recent directive of the Namibian Cabinet to make sure awareness of the disabled is highlighted during 2006.Twenty-three days and nights will see participants, cohorts, film, sound and production crews, logistics teams and local guides follow an incredibly demanding schedule that will lead these bold volunteers, all handicapped in some way or another, through white water rapids, hippo-and-crocodile infested rivers, treacherous flood plains and swampland, remote bushveld occupied by abundant and fearsome predators, until finally, in sweltering heat, they traverse the plains, mountains and colossal sand dunes of the Namib Desert before reaching the Atlantic.The challenge: Some 2 000 kilometres, from the Zambezi to the Skeleton Coast ….
