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Joachim
Rust (born 1968) grew up in Windhoek and at nearby Farm
Ondekaremba. Caroline (born Vollmer,
1967), from Interlaken in Switzerland, met Joachim while on
a traineeship in Namibia after completing her education in 1988.
First they leased guest farm Mon Desir south of Otjiwarongo.
In May 2000 the young family moved to their dream farm, Otjosongombe
at the Waterberg. Daughter Dominique
(born in 1991) and sons Joachim (1993)
and Martin (1994) are at boarding
school in Windhoek, at the multicultural 'Deutsche Höhere
Privatschule', but they come home almost every weekend.
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Our Team
The majority of our 30 staffers at Waterberg Wilderness has
looked after our guests for many years already. We do our own
staff training for housekeeping and agriculture, while the German
and English-speaking guest relations staffers are trained by
nature conservation experts.
In April 2006 we bought two houses in Okakarara, about 25 km
away, for staff accommodation. This allows our staffers to have
a normal life with many social contacts outside their working
environment. Only the late shift spends the night at Waterberg
Wilderness; everybody else is taken home in the evening. |
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Markus
Kalimbwe (born 1964) is from Vungu Vungu near Rundu in
the Kavango Region. He left school after completing grade 10
and went on to tend his parents’ livestock. In 1998 he
joined us at our farm Mon Desir where he helped to clear the
bush for making charcoal. We were impressed by his dedicated
hard work and employed him as our gardener. Markus turned into
an enthusiastic hobby botanist and ornithologist over the years.
He still takes care of the gardens. He is also very good at
languages and apart from Portuguese and French speaks German
quite well. In the afternoon he conducts guided tours to the
plateau of Waterberg and explains the many interesting things
encountered on the way to our guests. |
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Lukas
Malakia (born 1965) joined our team in 1990. Thus he
is the ‘most senior’ member of staff. He is a family
man through and through and uses every opportunity to pay a
visit to his relatives in Ondobe near Oshakati in the Ohangwena
Region. He also takes good care of his four children and sees
to it that they go to school regularly and do their homework.
Lukas Malakia is Joachim’s right-hand man when it comes
to technical chores. He takes turns with Markus Kalimbwe and
Lukas Shivoko in guiding our hiking tours; he also takes our
guests for drives around Waterberg Wilderness. |
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Lukas
Shivoko (born 1979) is a nature lover and a hiking
guide with heart and soul, just like his other two colleagues
in guest relations. Lukas also welcomes guests at the
reception, keeps their drinks topped up at the bar and
makes sure that the rooms are kept spick-and-span. When
he joined us in 1999 he spoke mostly Afrikaans. Since
then he has learnt English and a little German. He comes
from Rundu in the Kavango Region. |
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Paulus
Kanyanga (born 1974, brother of Markus Kalimbwe)
joined us in 2000 and thus is part of our core staff as
well. He and Lukas Shivoko share their tasks at the reception,
the bar and as supervisors of the cleaners. Paulus loves
to play soccer in his spare time; which is one more reason
why he is totally happy about moving to Okakarara in April
2006, as there are sports fields and soccer teams in the
village. |
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The
kitchen is in the capable hands of two awesome duos: chef
Refinia Nomases (from Otjiwarongo,
born 1966) with her assistant Seth
Ujamba (from Ukwas, 16 km away, born 1967) and
chef Wilbard Khwedi (from Oniiwe
near Ondangwa in the Oshana Region, born 1965) with his
assistant Uatjivisa Mureko (from
Okakarara, born 1981). They are the ones who dish up the
delectable maize porridge and hot crispy rolls for breakfast,
the oven-fresh cakes in the afternoon and the exquisite
three-course evening dinners. |
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