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NPL regrets security failure
NAMIBIA Premier League chairman Johnny Doeseb said all football stakeholders should shoulder the...
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84 600t horse mackerel for old rights holders
THE additional 84 600 tonnes horse mackerel quota which the Minister of Fisheries and Marine...
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Snoop defies dagga warning
Snoop Lion ignored a metro police warning and allegedly smoked dagga on stage at the Standard Bank...
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Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed
CAIRO – Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile...
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From Opuwo, with love
“ALWAYS something new out of Africa,” quoted Pliny the Elder. Were he alive today, he would have...
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Gone are the days when some union leaders have been chopping and misusing members’ funds for their...
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Chasing the dots ... The Political Poverty Policy MIX Opportunity
LIKE many Namibians, I am getting sick and tired of the repetitive rhetoric of those elected and...
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Let us ensure that poverty of the mind is not allowed to exacerbate the effects of real poverty in...
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A trip down memory lane...
AN 83-year-old senior citizen had the Windhoek City Police bemused when he approached their head office genuinely seeking a work permit (called a pass during Apartheid time) to allow him to work in Windhoek.
[more]DRC wants Nam fishing quotas
THE Government has turned down a request by the Democratic Republic of Congo to hold fishing quotas in Namibia.
[more]Dam challenge dropped
FRENCH-EGYPTIAN joint venture Vinci-Orascom’s legal challenge of the Tender Board decision to award the multibillion-dollar Neckartal Dam construction contract to an Italian competitor was dramatically dropped in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.
[more]HRT reports oil off Namibia
DESPITE skepticism about the latest oil discovery announcement, Namibia’s Petroleum Commissioner, Immanuel Mulunga says the announcement by HRT on the non-commercial oil is the beginning of “good things for Namibia”.
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Word-a-day
Parnassian ( (pahr-NAS-ee-uhn) ) adjective
show definitionAdjective: Of or relating to poetry.
Etymology: After Mount Parnassus, a mountain in Greece, considered sacred to Apollo, the Greek god of music and poetry, and the Muses. Earliest documented use: 1565.
Usage: “Whether scaling to Parnassian heights or plunging inward to insight, the poems’ impeccable musicality and craftsmanship will win the trust and admiration of many.” Fiction Reviews; Publishers Weekly (New York); 15 October 2007.
