Sport
Kenya-Namibia fixtures postponed
NEXT month’s fixtures between Kenya and Namibia in Kenya have been postponed due security concerns...
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GIPF’s assets surpassed the N$50 billion mark
THE Government Institutions Pension Fund’s (GIPF) market value has has grown in size more than four...
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BB Stargame: Big Brother newbies up for eviction!
HOUSEMATES from the two newest countries to take part in Big Brother, Sierra Leone and Liberia, are...
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Egypt’s cautious provinces make vote hard to call
SOHAG - Democratic fervour is gripping Egypt’s big cities ahead of a presidential election but in...
[more]Environment
2012 Namibian Conservation Farmer of the Year announced
Timm and Inéz Miller were crowned the 2012 Namibian Conservation Farmer of the Year winners by...
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Notable Quotes
THE best way in which we can address these social and economic inequalities in our country is to...
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Political Perspective
THE President is insistent that Namibians report corruption directly to his office, the Anti...
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The Nujoma Notes: Dancing on the grave of Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi
IN Mariental, a key part of the heartland of the brave Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi, President...
[more]Top Stories
Ministry moves N$95m at midnight
JUST before midnight on Saturday, 31 March 2012, the Ministry of Works and Transport spirited N$95 million to one of TransNamib’s bank accounts.
[more]Poor budgeting crippled TransNamib
THE financial mess that TransNamib finds itself in cannot only be attributed to poor control and ignorance of policy guidelines, but started with a number of weaknesses identified during the annual preparation of its budget.
[more]Two years of suffering and no one took him seriously
THOMAS Nghitemaye (29) complained for nearly two years at Swakopmund hospitals about the pain in his right arm, but all he got was a few general pain pills and encouragement that everything would eventually be alright.
[more]Probe exposes graft at City’s bus services
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD audit report by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the refurbishing of the City of Windhoek’s bus fleet unearthed a cocktail of irregularities, but no action has been taken against the culprits.
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Weather
Windhoek
more weatherInterior: Partly cloudy and hot in the northeast, elsewhere fine and warm to hot but partly cloudy and mild in the extreme South.
Coast: Partly cloudy and mild with morning fog patches.
Wind: Moderate northwesterly to westerly.
Katima 12-29
Rundu 17-29
Eenhana 15-30
Ondangwa 16-30
Outapi 14-27
Tsumeb 13-26
Windhoek 06-25
Rehoboth 07-26
Gobabis 06-26
Mariental 08-27
Keetmans 10-25
Walvis Bay 14-22
Exchange rate
$1 = N$ USD/NAD 8.2776 8.3223
€1 = N$ EUR/NAD 10.5659 10.5858
£1 = N$ GBP/NAD 13.2179 13.2435
Word-a-day
trapeze ( (tra-PEEZ, truh-) ) noun
show definitionNoun: An apparatus consisting of a short horizontal bar suspended by two ropes, used in gymnastics and acrobatics.
Etymology: Probably from the trapezoid shape made by the ropes, the bar, and the roof. From French trapèze (trapezoid/trapezium), from Latin trapezium, from Greek trapezion (small table), from trapeza (table), from tetra- (four) + peza (foot). Earliest documented use: 1830.
Usage: “In my last year at the university, I felt like I had finally mastered walking the trapeze of my life, work, and academics.” Students in Rural Schools; The Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania); Feb 6, 2005.
