Regarding locals we know already from various expeditions it is true.
But I recently saw a French produced border tv series, called Frontieres
were this geography university guy from Lesotho claimed that Lesotho was the
only country surrouded by one single other country.
Jesper
----- Original Message -----
From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 2:42 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: caprivi strip - Yes Zimbabwe touches Caprivi
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal"
> <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16"
> <raedwulf16@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > does the caprivi strip of namibia touch zimbabwe?
> >
> > Yes, it does.
> >
> > I just received this input from Namibia today: "Namibia is
> meeting
> > Zimbabwe only at a point at the confluence of the Zambezi and
> Chobe
> > rivers. This is, to my knowledge, the only point in the world
> > (quadruple point) where four countries meet at one point
> (Namibia,
> > Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia)."
> >
> > It is from Dr. Klaus Dierks. He ought to know about that to
> which is
> > is making his statement. His "pedigree" is as follows:
>
> hahahahahahaha
>
> you must have been joking len
>
> for didnt you know
>
> locals dont
>
> or usually dont know
>
>
> it is almost a law
>
>
> another example of the same principle
> taken from an also otherwise auspicious & seemingly reliable &
> indeed encyclopedically erudite botswanan source
> & not a counterexample to yours tho it could have been
> as its conclusion contradicts yours
> http://www.eyesonafrica.net/Production/bots_more.htm#genrl_inf
> o
>
> but this contradiction is just as misguided in claiming that a
> botswana zambia border of 700 meters length is definitely
> interposed between namibia & zimbabwe as your professor
> dierks is misguided in his claim of a definite quadripoint there
>
> for as has been shown here again recently
> the correct answer can neither be simply yes nor simply no in
> this case
> but only
> maybe sometimes
>
> fantastic self parody tho
> for which you deserve the highest comedy award
> unless you really meant it that all this pedigree really persuaded
> you this informant really knew what he was talking about here
>
> but in either case the following is so hilarious i think i will read it
> again
> except more slowly this time
>
> > He served as a Roads Engineer (for more than 30 years) in the
> Namibian
> > Department of Transport and throuigh it, he gained a thorough
> > knowledge of all parts of Namibia, and especially of its roads
> network
> > (since the early 1960s). He carried out field research for his
> > doctoral thesis on the development of a roads system for an
> > independent Namibia. He has published several studies on
> engineering
> > issues in Namibia, especially pertaining to the country's
> railways,
> > roads and telecommunications (nearly 40 publications so far).
> Dierks
> > joined the SWAPO Party in 1982 and was forced by the colonial
> interim
> > government of 1985-1989 to resign after 22 years of service in
> the
> > Department of Transport. When Namibia gained its
> independence in March
> > 1990, Dierks was appointed Deputy Minister for Works,
> Transport and
> > Communication. He served as a member of the first
> independent
> > Parliament, and was re-elected to the second Parliament in
> 1994
> > (served until 21 March 2000). Following elections for the
> second
> > government in 1995 he was reappointed Deputy Minister for
> Works,
> > Transport and Communication. From March 1999 he was the
> Deputy
> > Minister for Mines and Energy. He retired after ten years as a
> > Namibian Government Minister and Member of Parliament on
> 21 March
> > 2000. In March 2000 the Namibian Cabinet appointed him as
> the Chairman
> > of the Namibian Electricity Board (ECB). On April, 15th 2002 he
> was
> > appointed by the Cabinet of the Government of Namibia as a
> member of
> > the Board of Directors of TransNamib Holdings Ltd. The Board
> members
> > elected him unanimously as Chairman of the Namibian
> Railway Company.
> > The Cabinet appointed Dierks as Director of the Namibia Road
> Fund
> > Administration with effect from June, 13th 2003.
> >
> > He kindly permitted me to post his published history of Walvis
> Bay at
> > my website exclave.info, which I will do in the next day or so.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > LN
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