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27 Articles found on Wednesday, 25 August 2004
SA eco growth up 3% in first half of 2004
25-08-2004
PRETORIA - Growth in South Africa's economy accelerated to three per cent in the first half of 2004 from one per cent in the second half of 2003, with a visible pickup in all sectors, the central bank
readBotswana diamond strike continues
25-08-2004
GABORONE - Diamond miners in Botswana pressed on with a strike over wages yesterday, despite contempt of court charges hanging over union leaders after the action was declared illegal.Mine operator
readSA fuel prices set to burn pockets
25-08-2004
IT is anticipated that fuel prices in South Africa will increase on September 1 due to higher international oil prices and a weaker rand, the Department of Minerals and Energy said in a statement
readDiamonds keep shifty reputation in Africa
25-08-2004
DAKAR - Having been the best friends of some of the nastiest putschists and warmongers on the planet, diamonds are slowly but with considerable difficulty coming clean.African countries are relying on
readPresident to break secrecy on latest probe
25-08-2004
PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma has promised to make public the report of a commission of inquiry into irregularities at the defunct parastatals Amcom and DBC, a move that may be seen as politically motivated
readCourt given tour through 'treason land'
25-08-2004
SIBBINDA, Singalamwe, Sachona; Linyanti, Lyibu-Lyibu, Malombe, Makanga; Masokotwane, Kaliangile and Cameroon.These are the names that will mark the geography of the Caprivi high treason trial in the
read300 workers, 1 house, 1 toilet
25-08-2004
THE Windhoek Municipality has given a set of ultimatums to a company accommodating more than 300 foreign workers in cramped conditions in a house in Windhoek West.Following complaints from neighbours,
readFunny man heads for Namibia
25-08-2004
WELL KNOWN Afrikaans television comedian and South Africa's most successful funny man, Casper de Vries, will make his first solo appearance in Namibia on October 4 and 5.De Vries - variously known as
readTses celebrates 40 years of St Theresa School
25-08-2004
KEETMANSHOOP - Hundreds of people converged at the settlement of Tses, in the Karas Region, at the weekend to celebrate the St Theresa Junior Secondary School's 40th anniversary.The school, which has
readDrowning, suicide reported in Omusati
25-08-2004
OUTAPI - Police in the Omusati Region have reported two unnatural deaths which occurred at Okakekete and Okando villages last weekend.Police spokesperson for the region, Sergeant Lineekela Shikongo
readThree rapes reported
25-08-2004
AN 18-year-old youth was arrested by Police at Katima Mulilo Police on Thursday in connection with the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl in the Kongola area, the Police reported this week.* At
readAll citizens must reap benefits from parks, says MET official
25-08-2004
A SENIOR Ministry of Environment and Tourism official says Namibia's national parks belong to all Namibians and should benefit every citizen.Addressing a workshop in the capital on Monday, the
readNamibia gears for Ivory, crocodile battle at Cites
25-08-2004
ONE of the main players in the campaign to allow Namibia a one-off ivory sale in 1999 will again lead the country's delagation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites)
readTreason trial: History weighs in
25-08-2004
THE indictment on which the 120 Caprivi high treason accused are on trial in the High Court at Grootfontein is weighty in many respects.Not only does it contain 278 charges against the accused, and
readState sets out its case in Caprivi case
25-08-2004
A PREMEDITATED conspiracy to overthrow the legitimate Government of Namibia in the Caprivi Region is what the prosecution aims to prove in the Caprivi high treason trial in the High Court at
readOwner of gun used in Swakop beach murder to be charged
25-08-2004
THE owner of the stolen gun that was used in the murder of a German resident at Swakopmund recently will be prosecuted, the Police has said.The .38 mm special revolver was stolen from a vehicle in the
readKaure set for US Republican Party Convention
25-08-2004
THE President of the opposition DTA, Katuutire Kaura, will attend the Republican National Convention in New York from August 29 to September 3.The Convention is expected to nominate US President
readDTA accuses NBC of bias
25-08-2004
THE opposition DTA of Namibia has not ruled out approaching the courts to force the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) to accord equal coverage to all political parties.Yesterday the party wrote
readBernstein, prolific film composer
25-08-2004
LOS ANGELES - Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created a brawny, big-sky theme for 'The Magnificent Seven', nerve-jangling jazz for 'The Man With The Golden Arm' and heart-rending grace notes for
readNobel laureate dead at 92
25-08-2004
WARSAW - Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, known for his intellectual and emotional works about some of the worst cruelties of the 20th century, died on Saturday, his assistant said.He
read'Bush is human trash,' says N Korea
25-08-2004
SEOUL - North Korea hurled invective at US president George W Bush for a second day yesterday, calling him a political idiot and human trash, and said six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions
readAbu Ghraib abuse judge may summon intelligence heads
25-08-2004
MANNHEIM, Germany - The US military judge hearing the Abu Ghraib abuse case suggested yesterday he would compel top military intelligence commanders to testify unless the prosecution moves forward
readHunger strikers denied hospitals
25-08-2004
JERUSALEM- Israel declared its hospitals off-limits yesterday to the 2 800 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, saying they could be treated in makeshift facilities behind bars if taken
readFamous South African corpse fails to rise
25-08-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South African police are going to court to demand the burial of a 77-year-old man who has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had foretold his resurrection,
readWorld must act to quickly in Congo
25-08-2004
NAIROBI - World leaders must act quickly to help rescue a faltering peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo or risk a return to full-scale war in central Africa, a leading think-tank warned
read'Others innocent' says alleged coup leader
25-08-2004
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea - Facing the death penalty, an accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader sought yesterday to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow this
readIraqi guardsman ring the Najaf shrine
25-08-2004
NAJAF, Iraq - US and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf yesterday and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 meters of the holy city's Imam Ali Shrine compound as Iraq's defence minister
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