Subject: Re: caprivi strip - Yes Zimbabwe touches Caprivi<br/>
Date: Mar 06, 2004 @ 16:36<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1050558249">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;raedwulf16&quot; &lt;raedwulf16@y...&gt;<br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; does the caprivi strip of namibia touch zimbabwe?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes, it does.<br/>
<br/>
I just received this input from Namibia today:  &quot;Namibia is meeting<br/>
Zimbabwe only at a point at the confluence of the Zambezi and Chobe<br/>
rivers. This is, to my knowledge, the only point in the world<br/>
(quadruple point) where four countries meet at one point (Namibia,<br/>
Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia).&quot;<br/>
<br/>
It is from Dr. Klaus Dierks.  He ought to know about that to which is<br/>
is making his statement.  His &quot;pedigree&quot; is as follows:<br/>
<br/>
He served as a Roads Engineer (for more than 30 years) in the Namibian<br/>
Department of Transport and throuigh it, he gained a thorough<br/>
knowledge of all parts of Namibia, and especially of its roads network<br/>
(since the early 1960s). He carried out field research for his<br/>
doctoral thesis on the development of a roads system for an<br/>
independent Namibia.  He has published several studies on engineering<br/>
issues in Namibia, especially pertaining to the country&#39;s railways,<br/>
roads and telecommunications (nearly 40 publications so far). Dierks<br/>
joined the SWAPO Party in 1982 and was forced by the colonial interim<br/>
government of 1985-1989 to resign after 22 years of service in the<br/>
Department of Transport. When Namibia gained its independence in March<br/>
1990, Dierks was appointed Deputy Minister for Works, Transport and<br/>
Communication. He served as a member of the first independent<br/>
Parliament, and was re-elected to the second Parliament in 1994<br/>
(served until 21 March 2000). Following elections for the second<br/>
government in 1995 he was reappointed Deputy Minister for Works,<br/>
Transport and Communication. From March 1999 he was the Deputy<br/>
Minister for Mines and Energy. He retired after ten years as a<br/>
Namibian Government Minister and Member of Parliament on 21 March<br/>
2000. In March 2000 the Namibian Cabinet appointed him as the Chairman<br/>
of the Namibian Electricity Board (ECB).  On April, 15th 2002 he was<br/>
appointed by the Cabinet of the Government of Namibia as a member of<br/>
the Board of Directors of TransNamib Holdings Ltd. The Board members<br/>
elected him unanimously as Chairman of the Namibian Railway Company.<br/>
The Cabinet appointed Dierks as Director of the Namibia Road Fund<br/>
Administration with effect from June, 13th 2003. <br/>
<br/>
He kindly permitted me to post his published history of Walvis Bay at<br/>
my website exclave.info, which I will do in the next day or so.  <br/>
<br/>
Regards<br/>
<br/>
LN</div>