a giggle and thanks. I hardly expected two answers so fast, yours and Steve's which made fascinating reading. Especially Ngami. There was once a suggestion by a German...S....... (damn can't remember his name )who wrote a book saying that Lake Ngami could water a huge area of Botswana....seem to remember the engineering of using a channel from Okavango at flood times. During my time in SWA Ngami was bone dry. Was it there or on another pan that they held speed test...Malcolm Campbell ? How I wish I had kept a diary! If only I had known what I would needto remember. Pat -------------------------------------------------- From: "Keith Meintjes via" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 4:02 PM To: <shayes@dunelm.org.uk>; "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>; <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Omataka > Steve is correct. Omuramba Omatako is Herero for "dry river". > > The name of the mountains is derived from the word for "buttocks", but you > could have fooled me. > > Keith > > ------ Original Message ------ > Received: 10:51 PM EDT, 03/21/2015 > From: Steve Hayes via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > To: south-africa@rootsweb.com > 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 >