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Unam, DTS close to hockey titles
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Standard Bank reports 24 per cent growth in profit
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Hollande sets out growth agenda for Europe
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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.
[more]Napwu, municipality lock horns over audit
THE City of Windhoek and the Namibian Public Workers Union (Napwu) are at each others throats over the payment of a forensic audit carried out at the Solid Waste Management Division (SWD) of the municipality last year.
[more]Police cell death trial nears end
THREE Police officers and a former detainee at the Keetmanshoop Police Station should all be convicted in connection with the death of a resident of the Karas Region town at the start of April 2007, a prosecutor argued in the High Court in Windhoek y
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Weather
Windhoek
more weatherInterior: Fine and hot.
Coast: Partly cloudy and mild in the north, elsewhere fine and hot.
Wind: Moderate southwesterly in the north, elsewhere northeasterly to southwesterly.
Katima 14-30
Rundu 11-28
Eenhana 12-31
Ondangwa 12-31
Oshakati 14-30
Outapi 13-28
Windhoek 06-26
Rehoboth 07-26
Gobabis 07-28
Mariental 07-28
Keetmans 11-27
Walvis Bay 10-28
Exchange rate
$1 = N$ USD/NAD 8.1651 8.1975
€1 = N$ EUR/NAD 10.5162 10.5202
£1 = N$ GBP/NAD 13.1256 13.1321
Word-a-day
Foursquare ( (FOHR-skwair) ) adjective
show definitionAdjective: 1. Firm; unyielding. 2. Frank; forthright. 3. Square in shape.
Adverb: In a firm or forthright manner.
Etymology: From four + square, from Latin exquadrare (to square). Earliest documented use: before 1300.
Usage: China does have one strength that this country lacks: a leadership foursquare behind modern science while America’s carbon cavemen question the need for green energy.
