The remains of the late Bernhard !Gaeb, a former journalist at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (nbc), was buried on Saturday at Mariental.
 
The 65-year-old !Gaeb, also affectionately known as Ou Berries, died of kidney failure.

Hoandi !Gaeb, spent his childhood in Katutura, and as was practice at the time, he would have been compelled to complete school in Khorixas due to the segregated system in place at the time.

He, however, defied that practice, choosing to go to school at Augustinium High School in Windhoek, where he soon got expelled due to political activism. 

!Gaeb continued his education at SpellMeyer Private School before activism pushed him out of the school environment again.

At the age of 21, in 1978, he started working at Die Journal, an Afrikaans newspaper.

He then moved on to Die Republikein, where he started working in 1980. His passion was political reporting, writing different beats, but his actual beat, especially towards the end of his career, was politics.
 
He left Die Republikein and started working at the then-South West African Broadcasting Corporation, the current nbc, in 1987 under the tutelage of Gaob Johannes Isaak.

Driven by his passion, he went on to work in nbc's newsroom until 1996.

His health dipped when he developed problems with his kidneys, and he died on November 14. 

This stoic stone building of the Ebenhaezer congregation stood as a silent witness to grief and sorrow, but mourners left the service content about a life well lived.
 
The late !Gaeb is survived by his wife, Mina, and six children.