HOLLYWOOD superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are thinking of giving their baby a Namibian name and have confirmed speculation that the birth will take place in the Southern African country.
The celebrity couple revealed their plans during a breakfast on Friday with the Governor of Namibia's Erongo region, Samuel Sheefeni Nuuyoma. Speaking afterwards, the starstruck governor said Jolie, 30, had made the decision because "she loves Namibia".
"They are having the baby here and they talked about giving the child a Namibian name," he said.
The baby is said to be due next month and Jolie has been overheard saying that the couple "think it's a girl, but we're not 100% certain".
The stars -- who flew into Walvis Bay from Paris early last week aboard a private jet -- have spent much of the past two weeks hopping from one luxury Namibian game lodge to another, despite Jolie's advanced pregnancy.
Jolie is said to have fallen in love with Namibia when she starred in the 2003 film Beyond Borders, which was shot there. She is still remembered for the day she bought 2 000 pizzas to thank the film's extras and dished out T-shirts to them.
Pitt, 42, Jolie and their adopted children Maddox, 4, and one-year-old Zahara, spent the latter part of this week holed up at the Burning Shore Lodge in Langstrand, an enclave of ghastly mansions and kitsch villas halfway between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay -- dubbed "Legoland" by the locals.
The family is said to have booked out the lodge for 10 weeks at a cost of R1.5-million. Their security have dug in, erecting a green shade-cloth barrier to shield the lodge's garden from view. At night, giant spotlights illuminate the beach and surrounding streets.
But the paparazzi have been undeterred, simply finding new angles and hiding places.
In recent days the area has become the scene of a stand-off between bodyguards, the press and residents. As tensions escalated, Fight Club finally came to the beachfront.
On Thursday, an Australian "pap" photographer, Ben McDonald, was attacked by a bodyguard and sprayed with pepper spray as he photographed Pitt playing a game of catch with Maddox in the garden of the lodge. As the frightened child watched the attack over a low fence, Pitt was seen gesticulating at the bodyguard.
The incident took place barely a week after the security men made headlines when they roughly manhandled two female reporters from local newspapers -- grabbing one around the neck -- and forced them to delete pictures from their digital cameras.
Residents said they were gatvol (fed up) with the security detail's heavy-handed approach.
"They're out of control. It's a public beach and yet they carry on as if they own it," a businessman said.
"They really don't have to be so aggressive. They can't just go around threatening people. I sympathise with Brad and Angelina because they do want privacy, but on the other hand they are public figures and there is a lot of interest in their visit.
"From what I hear, they are really nice people, but their security guys most certainly are not."
Relations between the heavies and residents began to sour when the security men illegally cordoned-off roads leading to the lodge. Then, just ahead of the Easter weekend, they tried -- and failed -- to rope off a pier popular with residents going for morning walks and evening strolls.
On days when the couple were in residence, anyone with a camera was a target for harassment. Residents have been sworn at and threatened. Even a group of schoolchildren, who regularly go on outings to clean the beach, were chased away.
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