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20 Articles found on Wednesday, 22 December 2004
Swazi king buys into MTN group
22-12-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South African-based mobile telecommunications group MTN announced on Tuesday that the Swazi monarch, King Mswati III, has gained a six per cent interest in MTN Swaziland through
readRand breaks six-year barrier vs dollar
22-12-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's rand currency broke through resistance to hit a high against the dollar not seen since the beginning of December 1998 yesterday.Reuters data showed the rand firming to
readPetrol price in SA to drop by 45 cents a litre
22-12-2004
JOHANNESBURG - The fuel price in South Africa is expected to drop by 45 cents a litre from January 5, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday.Unleaded petrol should drop by 45 cents a
readSA maize futures fall on imports
22-12-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South African maize futures fell yesterday as official data showed the arrival of imports booked weeks earlier when prices were much higher, dealers said.The South African Grain
readCrude prices hold ground
22-12-2004
SINGAPORE - Oil futures clung to a narrow range yesterday as the market braced for an expected Arctic blast in the United States that could drive up heating oil prices, while traders fretted over
readParliaments eye debt management
22-12-2004
WINDHOEK - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum is calling for the group's national parliaments to be involved in the loan contraction process as well as debt
readSwakop's the place to be this summer
22-12-2004
THE annual migration of thousands of holidaymakers to the coast is in full swing, with both Swakopmund and Walvis Bay fully booked for the season."We still receive calls every day from people inland
readGive a Christmas gift that really matters ...
22-12-2004
EXPENSIVE giant Christmas trees and decorations adorn the courtyards and sway from the ceilings of Windhoek shopping malls, with shop windows aglitter with shiny gift-wrappings.And drifting below the
readWater crisis at Walvis
22-12-2004
A WATER crisis has developed at Walvis Bay, where the supply to consumers has been halved.The Public Relations section of the Municipality on Monday sent out an urgent media release to announce that
readNo Christmas for endangered terns
22-12-2004
THE festive season is not a period of joy for Namibia's critically endangered and endemic Damara tern bird.The little bird's breeding season falls within the busiest holiday period at the coast, when
readUproar as cooking, visitors banned at nurses' home
22-12-2004
TENANTS in some of residences at the Windhoek Central Hospital Nurses' Home are up in arms after the management decided to bar cooking in rooms and their relatives from entering the premises.At the
readMan shot in buttocks for stealing
22-12-2004
THE Ohangwena Police have opened a case of attempted murder after a security guard shot a man in the buttocks for allegedly stealing two batteries from the Fysal Supermarket at Oshikango, the Police
readTons of fish 'dumped' at Luderitz because of staff shortage
22-12-2004
LÜDERITZ-BASED Seaflower Whitefish Corporation, a subsidiary of Government-owned Fishcor, has been illicitly throwing away tons of fish because it was unable to process all its catches, The Namibian
readMore than 15 600 fail exams
22-12-2004
AT least 15 600 full-time Grade 10 pupils are expected to hear today that they will not return to formal classrooms next year because they failed.In addition, the Directorate of National Examinations
readOpposition parties ask for election to be nullified
22-12-2004
DEMOCRACY in Namibia may be facing a defining moment after the Congress of Democrats and the Republican Party yesterday filed a case with the High Court to ask for last month's National Assembly
readUN deploys to stop DRC fighting
22-12-2004
GOMA - United Nations peacekeepers in helicopters and armoured troop carriers headed for the frontline in eastern Congo yesterday to stop renegade soldiers advancing further after more than a week of
readAbbas ends Arafat mourning
22-12-2004
RAMALLAH - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas marked an end to a 40-day mourning period for Yasser Arafat yesterday by vowing to uphold his struggle for a state in all of the Israeli-occupied West Bank
readThe World In Brief
22-12-2004
* PEACE PLEA - The Sudan-Darfur peace talks ended yesterday, amid pleas by the African Union to the warring parties to stop fighting so that negotiations can resume in January, mediators and delegates
readMost unlikely stories of 2004
22-12-2004
PARIS - Every year, thousands of news stories get overlooked, lost in the welter of major international events.They are, for the most part, simple tales of a human dimension, not involving war,
readBlast at US base close to Mosul kills 22, injures 50
22-12-2004
BAGHDAD - An artillery attack on a US and Iraqi base near the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday killed 22 people and wounded 50, military sources said.A radical Muslim group, the Ansar al-Sunnah,
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