Namibia

sossusvlei namibia
Namibia – Country Bordering South Africa to the North and West of the Northern Cape Province The Southern African country of Namibia (formerly South West Africa) borders South Africa in the South and East, Angola and Zambia in the North, Botswana to the East and has the Atlantic Ocean as […]

Namibia – South West Africa

Ernest Oppenheimer
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a South African mining and industrial magnate.  He was born in the 1880 at Friedberg in Hesse, Germany and arrived in London when he was only a young man, to join his older brother Louis at the firm of Anton Dunkelsbuhler who was a relative. Dunkelsbuhler […]

Ernest Oppenheimer

Bushmen
The Nama and San (Bushman) tribes are the original indigenous tribes of Southern Africa. A look at their origins, characteristics and where they live in South Africa today.

Nama and San

Afrikaans
Afrikaans is the third most spoken language in South Africa – a country with eleven official languages.  There are approximately 6 million people whose mother tongue is Afrikaans, about 13% of the South African population. Afrikaans is the youngest member of the Germanic group of languages, originating from the 17th […]

Afrikaans