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30 Articles found on Tuesday, 13 April 2004
TAX TALK: Gear up for your 2004 tax return (Part 4)
13-04-2004
This week we look at how you should be completing schedule 19A of your tax return (either the blue or yellow one).You will see that schedule 19A requires you to disclose the make and model of the car
readNamibia Breweries seals joint venture with Diageo, Heineken
13-04-2004
CAPE TOWN, - Heineken, Diageo and Namibia Breweries (NBL) have announced that the shareholder agreements for their new joint venture company in South Africa have been finalised and were duly signed
readAngola's new crackdown on diamond traffickers
13-04-2004
LUANDA - Angola will begin a new phase of rounding up and expelling illegal immigrants, including diamond traffickers, to stop the "exploitation of economic resources" in the oil-rich country.At least
readFuel prices up tonight
13-04-2004
PUMP prices of petrol and diesel go up by 20 cents and 17 cents respectively as from midnight.The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced that The price of unleaded petrol (95 octane) at Walvis Bay
readSSC office opens at Outapi
13-04-2004
THE Social Security Commission (SSC) recently opened a satellite office at Outapi in the Omusati Region.SSC General Manager for Operations, David Amutenya Keendjele, said the office would help bring
readOluno Prison escapees re-arrested
13-04-2004
TWO prisoners who broke out of the Oluno Prison in the North have been re-arrested.NamPol Liaison Officer Samuel Hamukonda told The Namibian that Petrus Karlos (23) and Anton Kruger had escaped
readShocking stove kills woman
13-04-2004
A MALFUNCTIONING stove led to the death of Hilia Amuyulu (no age given) on Thursday.According to the Police, Amuyulu was asked by her boyfriend to look after his flat in Schumann Street in Windhoek
readDeputy Minister wants to change Constitution
13-04-2004
DEPUTY Minister of Environment and Tourism Petrus Iilonga last week tried to whip up support in the National Assembly for amending that section of the Constitution which deals with the ownership of
readKukuri charges criticism of Govt over-spending 'unfair'
13-04-2004
DEPUTY Minister of Finance Rick Kukuri has defended Government against criticism of its accounting systems following a report by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee on Government's accounts for
readSwapo stalwart dies
13-04-2004
A SWAPO stalwart and one of the founders of the Owamboland People's Organisation, Maxton Josef Mutongolume, will be accorded a Hero's Funeral.Mutongolume died in Windhoek on Wednesday. In a statement
readNo free water, says Angula
13-04-2004
A TOP Government official has dismissed claims that water is unaffordable for most Namibians and ruled out the possibility of the precious resource being supplied free.Inaugurating the new board of
readNo decision yet on Harry Simon case
13-04-2004
THE State Prosecutor at Swakopmund has not yet decided who to prosecute after former world champion boxer Harry Simon and the owner of a security business pressed charges against each other at the end
readAnger at bikers harrying springbok
13-04-2004
THE desirability of the much-publicised annual Desert Run at the coast is being questioned after a biker was seen chasing a springbok on a quad bike just outside the Namib Naukluft Park on
readI did a very bad thing: tearful wife-killing suspect
13-04-2004
REHOBOTH resident Prollius van Zyl had to fight back tears in the High Court in Windhoek on Thursday as he recounted how he came face to face with his wife's body in a mortuary.He allegedly stabbed
readSoldier fatally beaten, kicked
13-04-2004
A 40-year-old NDF soldier stationed at the Grootfontein base was allegedly beaten to death by four civilians on Friday.Police spokesperson Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu reported yesterday that three
readNewly weds threatened at gunpoint
13-04-2004
MEMBERS of a wedding party were threatened at gunpoint at Swakopmund on Thursday when they tried to take photos in the public garden outside the President's official residence.The photographer was
readAlmost 1 000 flood-affected villagers evacuated in Caprivi
13-04-2004
CLOSE to 1 000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in the eastern Caprivi.In addition, another 800 people have left their villages for safer areas of their own accord. The villages of
readFired RA board rehired
13-04-2004
BARELY a week after they were supposedly "fired", members of the Roads Authority (RA) board have been re-instated.Last Tuesday The Namibian reported that members of the RA Board were given their
readFirst major win for Mickelson
13-04-2004
AUGUSTA - American Phil Mickelson held his nerve to clinch a one-shot victory at the US Masters on Sunday, holing an 18-foot birdie putt at the last to end his long wait for a first major victory.The
readChiefs strengthen their grip on PSL title
13-04-2004
JOHANNESBURG - Kaizer Chiefs strengthened their grip on top of the Castle Premiership League log with a 1-0 win over Dynamos in Giyani yesterday.AmaKhosi's myriad of supporters had to wait for the
readBrumbies defeat Highlanders to enhance Super 12 position
13-04-2004
CANBERRA - Australian international Joe Roff scored 20 points as the ACT Brumbies rebounded from a week of internal ructions with a 50-18 win over Otago to move 11 points clear atop the Super 12
readLara shatters record
13-04-2004
ST JOHN'S, Antigua - West Indies captain Brian Lara swept off-spin bowler Gareth Batty to the deep fine leg boundary for his 42nd four to reclaim the world record for the highest individual Test
readThe Namibian Cup results
13-04-2004
Below is the summary of the results of the Namibian Newspaper Cup held over the Easter Weekend in Oshakati.Friday: Match 1: Omusati 5 Caprivi 0 Match 2: Omaheke 4 Ohangwena 0 Match 3: Otjozondjupa
readKhomas retain Newspaper Cup
13-04-2004
DEFENDING champions Khomas retained The Namibian Newspaper Cup, beating Hardap 4-1 at the Oshakati Independence Stadium yesterday.Khomas won the trophy at Gobabis last year for the first time. On
readThieving minister heads to jail
13-04-2004
BOSTON - A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a pentecostal minister to more than six years in prison for robbing banks from Maine to Massachusetts of more than US$10 000, prosecutors said.Jerry
readFat cat on a hunger strike after meat-feeding owner hospitalised
13-04-2004
BERLIN - An obese German cat six times the normal weight has gone on a hunger strike at a Berlin animal shelter after being taken from his owner who had fed him with two kilos of mince daily, Bild
readBeckhams call in the lawyers
13-04-2004
LONDON - David and Victoria Beckham said yesterday they had called in lawyers over tabloid newspaper allegations that the England soccer captain had been unfaithful to his pop star wife.In a brief
readRwandan youth still suffer from 1994 genocide
13-04-2004
UNITED NATIONS - Rwanda's children are still suffering from the 1994 genocide in the central African nation, a decade after the start of the massacre, the UN Children's Fund said last week."Tens of
readOver 300 critically rare species unprotected, reports new study
13-04-2004
LONDON - More than 300 of the world's rarest and most exotic creatures, including flying foxes in the Comoros Islands and yellow-eared parrots in the Colombian Andes, are completely unprotected.All
readPre-9/11 memo shows al Qaeda's intentions
13-04-2004
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush was told more than a month before the September 11 attacks that al Qaeda had reached America's shores, had a support system in place for its operatives and that the
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