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    NAMIBIA: Tyfelfontein 

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    Published on 20th August 2010 09:48 PM
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    Twyfelfontein (Afrikaans: uncertain spring), officially known as ǀUi-ǁAis (Damara/Nama: jumping waterhole), is a site of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. It consists of a spring in a valley flanked by the slopes of a sandstone table mountain that receives very little rainfall and has a wide range of diurnal temperature.

    The site has been inhabited for 6,000 years, first by hunter-gatherers and later by Khoikhoi herders. Both ethnic groups used it as a place ...

    ZIMBABWE: Kadoma 

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    Published on 14th August 2010 06:28 AM

    Kadoma is a city in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140 km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982.

    Gatooma was founded in the 1890s as a mining camp, and constituted ...

    ZIMBABWE: Bulawayo 

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    Published on 14th August 2010 06:25 AM

    Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with a population in 2009 of 1,500,000.[citation needed] It is located in Matabeleland, ...

    ZIMBABWE: Mutare 

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    Published on 14th August 2010 05:26 AM

    Mutare (known as Umtali until 1982) is the fourth largest city in Zimbabwe, with a population of around 170,000. It is the capital of Manicaland province.

    Mutare was founded ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Tshwane 

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    Published on 14th August 2010 05:22 AM

    The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (Listeni /ˈtswɑːneɪ/; also known as the City of Tshwane) is a metropolitan municipality contained in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, that includes the city of Pretoria.

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    The ...

    NAMIBIA - Quick and dirty background notes 

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    Mie1
    Published on 27th January 2010 07:28 AM

    Geography
    • Area: 823,145 sq. km. (320,827 sq. mi.); the size of Texas and Louisiana combined.
    • Cities: Capital--Windhoek (2001 census) pop.
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    Gender and Namibia 

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    Mie1
    Published on 25th January 2010 06:25 PM

    The following .pdf sheet is attached with relevant information. ...

    NAMIBIA: A Brief Overview of History 

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    Mie1
    Published on 12th October 2009 05:38 AM

    1. Pre-colonial History

    The history of Namibia is not well chronicled. Its isolated geographic position limited contact with the outside ...

    Missionary pioneers in Namibia: Abraham & Christian Albrecht 

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    Mie1
    Published on 12th October 2009 04:35 AM

    Abrahams and Christian Albrecht, The Bondelswarts and Warmbad


    Introduction


    In the year 2005 we celebrate ...

    Missionary Pioneers in Namibia: Carl Hugo Hahn ( 1818 - 1895) 

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    Mie1
    Published on 11th October 2009 06:46 AM

    Devoted husband and father, church planter, peacemaker, language pioneer, educator and father of the Lutheran confession in Namibia.

    His     ...

    Missionary Pioneers in Namibia - Johan Heinrich Schmelen ( 1777 - 1848) 

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    Mie1
    Published on 11th October 2009 06:39 AM

    Johan Heinrich Schmelen : Father of Missions in Namibia

    Johan Heinrich Schmelen may undoubtedly be called the father of Namibian missions, ...

    NAMIBIA: Missionary Pioneers in Namibia: Martin Rautanen( 1845 - 1926) 

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    Mie1
    Published on 11th October 2009 05:54 AM

    Dr Martin Rautanen (‘Nakambale’ ) – Apostle to the Ovambos

    The written history of Namibia has spanned barely more than 200 years . ...
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