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  • The Namib was the oldest desert in the world, and the wind here had had eons in which to work.

    Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • The Namib was the oldest desert in the world, and the wind here had had eons in which to work.

    Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • Under Kalahari Holdings, Naholo said, subsidiaries such as Namib Contract Haulage, Namib Graphics (now NamPrint), Namibia Protection Services, Omafo Business Centre, MultiChoice Namibia and its subsidiary MWEB, New Dawn Video, Radio Energy, Namangol and several properties and farms were acquired.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • Under Kalahari Holdings, Naholo said, subsidiaries such as Namib Contract Haulage, Namib Graphics (now NamPrint), Namibia Protection Services, Omafo Business Centre, MultiChoice Namibia and its subsidiary MWEB, New Dawn Video, Radio Energy, Namangol and several properties and farms were acquired.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • Under Kalahari Holdings, Naholo said, subsidiaries such as Namib Contract Haulage, Namib Graphics (now NamPrint), Namibia Protection Services, Omafo Business Centre, MultiChoice Namibia and its subsidiary MWEB, New Dawn Video, Radio Energy, Namangol and several properties and farms were acquired.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • Most remote: An education centre in the Namib Desert in Namibia installing six solar panels.

    Activists across the globe prepare for day of action Juliette Jowit 2010

  • But rather than shedding water, beetles in the Namib desert are using a series of alternating waxy and non-waxy nanostructures to capture precious moisture from the early morning fog.

    Nanotechnology in everyday life 2011

  • Kuangu Kuangu is a stone, timber and canvas one-room hideaway – with kitchen and bathroom open to the heavens – tucked into a boulder-strewn dune in the Namib Desert.

    Alternative hen, stag and honeymoon destinations 2011

  • Until the end of the last century, explorers were finishing up the scraps – Mike Fay trekked across the Congo, I walked the Namib, and so on.

    Has technology robbed travel of its riches? 2011

  • SOME OF THE PLANET'S LONGEST-LIVED ORGANISMSNAMIBIA: Welwitschia mirabilis The 2,000-year-old welwitschia plant found in the Namib-Naukluft desert is an unlikely-looking conifer that produces only two leaves in its lifetime? the longest in the plant kingdom.

    The oldest living organisms: ancient survivors with a fragile future 2010

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