Sport
Pirates shore up for Stars
ORLANDO Pirates have employed extra security measures as they host African Stars and their vast...
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From prisoner to upholsterer
A 10-YEAR prison sentence was not only confinement and isolation for Joseph Matsuib, but a time to...
[more]Africa
AU vote for new chief ends in deadlock
ADDIS ABABA – A vote by African leaders for the head of their bloc’s influential executive ended in...
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Papua New Guinea ferry sinks with up to 350 aboard
PORT MORESBY – Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea’s east...
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THIS is not football. This is a war and people are dying in front of us. – Mohamed Abo Treika,...
[more]Cakes, Candles and Red Wine
AS I write this, Troll 1 is celebrating seven years of existence on planet earth.
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Here lies our beloved brother
LET’S have a moment of silence. Despite rumours of playing big boy rugby again soon the final...
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KK on the rampage
THE Minister of Youth and Sport, Kazenambo Kazenambo, has called fellow ministers “stupid Owambos”, and said that Owambo people “are just like the Boers, worse because you are hungry and stupid”.
[more]Official apology still lacking
THE German government will not issue an official apology and also not pay reparations, was the response of a visiting German official yesterday.
[more]TransNamib grinds to a halt
“THE wheels have stopped moving until we know the way forward,” a TransNamib worker from Walvis Bay, told The Namibian yesterday, the second day of industrial action launched by the harbour town’s railway workers that is threatening to become a natio
[more]Nam rugby a sinking ship
THERE is no new coach, no money and no place for the Welwitschias in the Vodacom Cup, the Namibia Rugby Union interim committee announced on Tuesday.
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Windhoek
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Wind: Moderate to fresh southeasterly to southerly in the South.
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Keetmans 17-30
Walvis Bay 16-22
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Word-a-day
Scrooge ( (skrooj) ) noun
show definitionNoun: A miser.
Etymology: After Ebenezer Scrooge, the mean-spirited, miserly protagonist in Charles Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol. Earliest documented use: 1940.
Usage: “John Hymers was not entirely a Scrooge. There were times when he secretly helped poor people and he built a village library.” Sisters Campaigned for a Mixed School at Hymers; Hull Daily Mail (UK); January 23 2012.
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