* the Orange ( with its tributary, the Vaal ) which runs with a variable flow across the central landscape from east to west, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at the Namibian border

Many areas experience extreme heat, with the hottest temperatures in South Africa measured along the Namibian border.

Floods are rare because the vast sandveld areas of the Kalahari Desert on the Namibian side of its basin absorb all water from the seasonal rains.

In May 2005, Namibian troops were accused of sexual exploitation of young girls and women ; three Namibian soldiers were sent home from the force after a United Nations investigation found them guilty of " engaging in sexual activity with civilians ", which is against United Nations rules for peacekeepers.

As required by the Namibian Statistics Act # 66 of 1976, and in accordance with United Nations recommendations, a census is conducted every ten years.

Furthermore, the Namibian economy remains integrated with the economy of South Africa, as the bulk of Namibia's imports originate there.

The Namibian economy is closely linked to South Africa with the Namibian dollar pegged to the South African rand.

This trend appears to have been halted and reversed since independence, as the Namibian Government is now pursuing a conservative resource management policy along with an aggressive fisheries enforcement campaign.

The television network with the widest transmission range is NBC TV Namibian Broadcasting Corporation ( NBC, not to be confused with the American NBC network ).

The residents protested and the subsequent killing of eleven protesters spawned by the Namibian War of Independence with the formation of united black opposition to South African rule as well as the township of Katutura.

Within a month of the signing of the New York Accords, South African president P. W. Botha suffered a mild stroke, which prevented him from attending a meeting with Namibian leaders on 20 January 1989.

In Crazy Safari, part of the The Gods Must Be Crazy film series, a jiangshi is set loose in a Namibian village, with hilarious consequences.

In 1990, moves were under way to replace the rand with a new Namibian currency.

He also held talks with Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba and signed an agreement on public health cooperation with Pohamba.

Namibia itself had few issues of national interest at stake in the war and the Namibian intervention was greeted with dismay and outrage by citizens and opposition politicians.

On 21 December 1988 Pik Botha, with a 22-strong South African delegation from Johannesburg, was initially booked to travel to the Namibian independence ratification ceremony in New York on Pan Am Flight 103 via London to New York.

Matheus Shikongo is also a member of the Executive Board in Namibian national power company " NamPower " with its headquarters in Windhoek.

* Silvanus Njambari ( born 1974 ), retired Namibian footballer with Black Africa F. C ..

The Namibia Society of Composers and Authors of Music ( NASCAM ) has helped promote Namibian music within and outside the country, but despite this, the Namibian music industry remains undeveloped, with no major record labels or distribution infrastructure.

On the 15th anniversary of its foundation, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan praised the newspaper: " The Namibian worked courageously in difficult and often dangerous conditions.

Like other Namibian Breweries beers, it is available in some of the neighbouring countries in Southern Africa, especially South Africa.

The Namibian government has presented plans to build a hydropower station in the Caprivi Region, which would regulate the Okavango's flow to some extent.

After Namibian independence in 1990 many street names were changed from their original German, or in some cases, Afrikaans names, to honor ( mostly black ) Namibians.

A group of PLAN soldiers led by Dimo Hamaambo occupied Cassinga ( codenamed " Moscow ") some weeks after they began using it as a stopover point ; according to both Charles " Ho Chi Minh " Namoloh and Mwetufa " Cabral " Mupopiwa, who accompanied Hamaambo when the village was first occupied, the first Namibian inhabitants of Cassinga consisted entirely of trained PLAN combatants.

Koevoet was largely disbanded after the territory achieved independence in 1990, although some of its members were transferred to the Namibian police force.

He and his colleagues were not always successful, but they did find some converts who helped them keep the Namibian issue alive at the United Nations until the United Nations General Assembly's recognition of SWAPO as the sole and authentic representative of the people of Namibia.

Namibian armed forces quashed the attempt at secession within a few days.

Roter Kamm is a meteorite crater, located within the Namibian section of the Namib Desert in the Karas Region.

A ( re -) transposition of the original latitude and longitude gives a location off the Namibian coast, well within the regular wintering range of the species.

This unpopularity of the paper within government led to a boycott of the newspaper on 5 December 2000 which was only overturned on 30 August 2011, the 26th anniversary of The Namibian.

The Caprivi conflict was an armed conflict between the Caprivi Liberation Army ( CLA ), a rebel group working for the secession of the Caprivi Strip, and the Namibian government.

The Caprivi conflict involved an armed conflict in Namibia between the Caprivi Liberation Army ( CLA ), a rebel group aiming for the secession of the Caprivi Strip, and the Namibian government.

In October 2000 an agreement was signed between the Namibian and People's Republic of China governments to build a satellite tracking station at Swakopmund.

Other early Namibian musician includes a Damara group called People Choice, who was popular between 1996 and 1998, a kwaito trio called Matongo Family, Boli Mootseng, X-Plode with members ( Jaicee James, Lizell Swarts & Christi Nomath Warner ), oshiwambo indigenous rapper Shikololo and R & B turn-producer Big Ben.

The settlement also was at the centre of the Caprivi conflict in the 1990s, an armed conflict between the Caprivi Liberation Army ( CLA ), a rebel group working for the secession of the Caprivi Strip, and the Namibian government.

During the Namibian War of Independence, Ondangwa was a major theatre of fighting between the rebel movement South West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) and the South African Defence Force ( SADF ).

Numbers of Cape Gannets at the Namibian islands have declined considerably between 1956 and 2000 from 114, 600 to 18, 200 breeding pairs respectively, an 84 % decrease in less than fifty years.

In the more than ten years in between, government offices were not allowed to advertise in the paper, and it was forbidden to buy copies of The Namibian with government funds.

As part of Liberia's support for Namibia's liberation struggle, many Namibian students received Liberian passports which helped them study abroad.

On 24 May 2010, Chen Bingde, Chief of the General Staff Department of the People's Liberation Army and member of the Central Military Commission, met Charles Namoloh and Peter Nambundunga, acting commander of the Namibian Defence Forces, in Windhoek.

Many of the Nama clans live in Central Namibia and the other smaller groups lives Namaqualand, which today straddles the Namibian border with South Africa.

She has also been a Lecturer in Gender Law at the University of Namibia, Director of the Board of the Central Bank of Namibia, and involved in many non-governmental organizations including Secretary-General of the Namibian National Women's Organization and patron of Namibian Federation of Persons with Disabilities.