Thanks Colin, Steve and Keith. What a lot of geniuses you are. Suddenly I know heaps more about m birthland than I knew when I lived there. Which I find is usually the case....we tend to take for granted that WE know our own country. thanks again Pat -------------------------------------------------- From: "Colin Möhrvia" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 6:19 PM To: <shayes@dunelm.org.uk>; "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>; <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Omataka > The Omuramba Omataka is the largest, albeit seasonal, watercourse flowing > from South West Africa to the Okavango River. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Hayes via" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 4:51 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Omataka > > >> On 22 Mar 2015 at 11:08, Pat Frykberg via wrote: >> >>> Can any one tell me about this please. It's a word that lies in my >>> memory >>> of >>> Namibia in the 1930s. Again from memory with no facts, it is associated >>> with a >>> family who arrived at Neuras in a wagon and outspanned for the night. >>> Sort >>> of gypsies? . In my memory are the words "omataka boers" Love some real >>> info. >>> thanks Patricia Frykberg (aka Pat) >> >> I seem to recall an Omuramba Omatako that was a kind of dry watercourse >> used by taders and hunters to travel north-east from central Namibia to >> the Okavango. And it became the Shoshongo Dum somewhere along its course. >> It starts near two distinct concical hills called Omatako, which can be >> seen from the road to Otjiwarongo. I'd look up something i once wrote >> about it, but my web browser is taking forever to load, so I'll send this >> off and come back to it when it's loaded. >> >> 10 minutes later >> >> http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com/2013/03/where-on-earth-is-shoshongo-dum.html >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/l7oal2y >> >> and >> >> https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/from-shakawe-to-maun-via-lake-ngami/ >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/l4qgko7 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Steve Hayes >> E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk >> Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com >> Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm >> Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 >> Fax: 086-548-2525 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1434 / Virus Database: 4257/8849 - Release Date: 03/21/15 >