Wika starts with a slow roll
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The very popular German carnival, Wika is building up steam as it moves into its second week of celebrations. It started last week with the Biwak moving this weekend to the Children’s Carnival, and then really picking up speed with next week’s Prinzenball, the Fancy Dress evening, the Buettenabend and the International Evenings later in April.
Bank Windhoek has for the 10th consecutive year, supported Wika with a N$33,000 sponsorship. Wika is Namibia’s oldest carnival and celebrates its 61st anniversary this year.
The Wika motto “Es läuft alles wie geschmiert”, conveys the idea of a smooth-running, never-ending party.
Wika president, Holger Mentzel, said “Windhoek’s fools and jesters can expect fireworks of show acts and fun-filled programmes at this year’s carnival. The public can once again expect to be treated to a host of scintillating performances on and off the stage in 2013.”
One of the highlights of this year’s festival is the performances by two seasoned German artists, Marie Luise Nikuta and Andi Ost.
“Being in the arts has always been part of my life”
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Whenever she is on stage magic happens. Tulimelila ‘Tuli’ Shityuwete is one of Namibia’s finest stage actresses. Leading up to the opening of Meme Mia, the biggest musical ever to be staged on Namibian soil, the Economist caught up with the 25-year-old African contemporary dancer, singer and actress who has been in theatre all her life. Meme Mia debuts on 12 April and runs until 20 April at the National Theatre of Namibia. Tickets can be bought at the NTN Box Office and the College of the Arts for N$100. Tuli has been dancing since she was four years old and even though she was a year too young to start, she begged and begged until she was allowed to go.
“I always knew that I wanted to be in theatre so I consider myself one of the lucky few; being in the arts was never a choice that I had to make, it has always been a part of my life. I have known that this is what I wanted to do with my life from the moment I was able to verbally express myself. The first show I did was with my wonderful ballet teacher Jenny Schuster. I was 7 years old and I was a sea turtle. We had to wear lime green leotards and little gold balaclavas and we had these massive shells on our backs. I was unbelievably jealous of the gold fish who had really pretty costumes and were older than us. Looking back, that was where my love of performance started; I watched the video a few years ago and I was so over the moon. I was just so happy to be on stage, I had totally found my calling” she said.
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Pro-Ed Akademie turns out best recycler
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Pro-Ed Akademie is the proud winners of the National Schools Recycling Competition (SRC), a project of the Recycle Namibia Forum (RNF). Mr Johann Lemmer from Rent-A-Drum presented the school with a cheque of N$10,000. Pro-Ed Akademie also won the N$1,500.00 prize for “Best Regional School Coast” and the income of their recycling material amounts to another N$3500.
Lemmer pointed out to the students what a significant role each of them played. The competition winner is calculated based on the most recycling material per learner giving equal opportunity to smaller schools. The level of participation of each learner is one of the most important factors and with Pro-Ed Akademie it came to 40.9 kg per leaner which was double the amount of the second best performing school. Principal Christiaan Grobler said: “our recycling project and the awareness it creates has enabled learners and their families to make recycling part of their daily life”.
Global Chefs Challenge
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Namibia’s top ranking professional chefs are all testing their most delectable recipes for the semi-finals of an international cooking competition that is scheduled to take place in Windhoek.
Earlier this week, the Namibian Chefs Association announced it is hard at work preparing the stage for the semi-finals for Africa and the Middle East in the Global Chefs Challenge which is taking place in Windhoek on 15 and 16 May.
Chefs from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Namibia are competing in three categories for the bigger international competition. The categories are the Global Chefs Challenge, the Hans Bueschkins Young Chefs Challenge for chefs under 25, and the very difficult Pastry Challenge. The winner of the Young Chefs Challenge will go on to the finals in Stavanger, Norway, during July.
For the semi-finals, the president of the World Society of Chef Societies, Gissur Gudmundsson, will visit Namibia. The Chefs Association said this is the first time that such a high ranking official of the World Society is in Namibia.
Charity comes Standard
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Standard Bank this week handed a brand new Toyota Yaris to Omaruru Children’s Haven. The bank won the car through a competition run by Indongo Toyota earlier this year and then decided to give it to a charity through a lucky draw. The nomination process was run on the bank’s Facebook page. Staff members of the bank then nominated a charity of their choice and five charities were short listed. These five, Omaleshe Charity from Oshakati, Kakurukaze Mungunda from Opuwo, Helpende Hand Home from Lüderitz, Omaruru Children’s Haven and the National Disability Council of Namibia took part in a lucky draw in which Omaruru Children’s Haven emerged victorious.
Omaruru Children’s Haven, caters for children who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, street children, victims of abuse and neglect or children with critically ill parents.
