7th September 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
Namibia is celebrating after female paralympic sprinter Johanna Benson won gold in the Women’s T37 200 metres final in London on Wednesday night – marking the first Olympic gold for the country after a remarkable career. Johanna had also picked up a silver medal earlier in the week for coming in second in the women’s […]
30th July 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
Not many people know that the Olympics was historically a period of peace in ancient Greece, when warring factions put down their arms and focussed on competing rather than attacking each other. This ancient Greek tradition of “ekecheiria”: ‘truce’ helped encourage a special environment for the early Games, and ensured safe passage and participation of […]
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23rd July 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
It has been a whirl of Olympic activities this week in Windhoek – as we enter the final countdown to the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games this Friday – now only 4 days away! I joined members of Team Namibia, made up of the remarkable ‘qualified’ young Namibian sportsmen and women and representatives […]
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14th June 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
There were plenty of reasons to celebrate at this year’s annual Queen’s Birthday Party in Windhoek yesterday. As well as marking Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday, we celebrated her Diamond Jubilee and saluted her 60 years on the throne and as Head of the Commonwealth. We also used the event to highlight the […]
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6th June 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
As well as being rich in minerals and boasting some of the most spectacular landscapes in Africa (if not the world), Namibia can also claim to be the site of some extraordinary archaeological finds. During my recent familiarisation trip to the south of the country, I had the opportunity to visit one of these special […]
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17th May 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
Guest blog by new British High Commission Windhoek Deputy High Commissioner Simon Atkinson: As a diplomat, there’s a (worrying) tinge of homeliness about airports. Not that I enjoy them much, more that they’ve become very familiar. As I perch on the latest bit of uncomfortable plastic (wishing the sense of homeliness would miraculously transform it into […]
7th May 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
Guest blog by Sonny Beukes, British High Commission Windhoek Press and Public Affairs officer. There was a big commotion at Wernhil Park in central Windhoek last Saturday, 28 April. Olympic banners and flags decorated the openspace in front of Pick n Pay where the British High Commission, in collaboration with the Namibia National Olympic Committee and […]
11th April 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
I launched a new business guide funded by the British High Commission called Doing Business in Namibia yesterday at the latest lunch meeting of the British Business Group (BBG) in Windhoek. The launch was attended by a number of local and visiting special guests as well as BBG members spanning the mining, marine and financial […]
3rd April 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
Guest blog by visiting Olympic Attache for Sub Saharan Africa Sarah Heal. Having never been to Namibia and knowing what a small population this vast county has (2.2m), I was interested to see how prepared Namibia is for this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. I did not have to get very far into […]
15th March 2012 Windhoek, Namibia
I have just returned from hosting Namibia’s first ever Commonwealth Day celebrations in Parliament where I shared British fish ‘n chips with the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, SWAPO Chief Whip, Toivo ya Toivo and other local VIPs. The British High Commission in Windhoek rallied together the eight other Commonwealth missions accredited to Namibia to hold […]