Culture

Quietly spoken Namibian designer Nikola Conradie, from Windhoek, has been setting the catwalks alight with her home-brewed fashion over the last few years. Her rise to fame started with a childhood passion for fashion and a little girl’s love of dressing up, which...

Michelle McLean is a former Miss Namibia and Miss Universe, born on 31 July 1972 in Windhoek, Namibia.   One of Namibia’s most notable daughters, Michelle is famous not just for her stunning good looks, but her outstanding charity work – which has continued long after...

Dan Craven, otherwise known as ‘Dan from Nam‘, is the latest enigma to come rolling onto the professional cycling circuit. With his long locks and hipster beard, he is one of the most recognised faces on the road, but what he lacks in aerodynamics is more than made up...

Namibia is well-known for its beautiful landscapes and unique creatures, and is also coming to the fore as the homeland of beautiful people. Not only is Namibia the birthplace of world-famous pageant icon, Michelle McLean, but Behati Prinsloo, of Victoria’s Secret...

“England is my second home but Namibia is the place where I first picked up a rugby ball. That’s why I am here now, so I owe them for that — if I could do it all again I wouldn’t change a huge amount.”   These are the earnest words of Jacques Burger with regard to the...

It would seem that 2015 is turning out to be a good year on the athletics field for Africa.  Durban, South Africa, has been awarded the distinction of becoming the first city to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022, and Frankie Fredericks, a Namibian former athlete,...