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21 Articles found on Wednesday, 11 February 2004
NDF fraud case delayed
11-02-2004
WINDHOEK - A fraud case involving 24 people, who were implicated in a N$1,4 million death benefits scam at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 2001, was last week postponed to May.The case has seen
readIce cream vendor killed in capital
11-02-2004
AN ice cream vendor has been knocked off his bicycle and killed by a passing fuel carrier in Windhoek, the Police reported yesterday.Jameson Urbanus (age unknown) was hit on Hosea Kutako Road at
readCops launch search for rape suspect
11-02-2004
POLICE at Okahandja are looking for a suspect said to have raped a 29-year-old woman in Maree Street at about 03h00 on Sunday, the Police reported yesterday.At Keetmanshoop a 29-year-old man has been
readCity residents 'fume' about petrol stations
11-02-2004
THE Windhoek City Council has directed its town planners to identify sites for petrol stations away from residential areas.At its first monthly meeting of the year, City officials noted that emissions
readOtjiwarongo Council officials in limbo
11-02-2004
THE Otjiwarongo Municipality says it is awaiting a response from the Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing before taking further steps in the recent suspension of two senior
readNorth West health control officer dies
11-02-2004
THE Chief Control Officer for the North West Health Region Directorate, Maria Uushona, has died after a car in which she was a passenger left the road and overturned on Monday afternoon.Uushona's
readUa-Ndjarakana re-appointed Prisons Permanent Secretary
11-02-2004
MBEUTA Ua-Ndjarakana has been re-appointed as Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Prisons and Correctional Services, barely 10 months after he was removed from the post.Ua-Ndjarakana's "re-deployment"
readRP dishes out bouquets and brickbats
11-02-2004
THE Republican Party has congratulated Agriculture Minister Helmut Angula for halting the Agribank Affirmative Loan Scheme while problems with its administration are tackled.In particular, the RP
readUsakos residents to take concerns to Ombudsman
11-02-2004
THE Concerned Group of residents at Usakos has not given up on its mission to have Town Councillors removed from office.The group has turned to the Office of the Ombudsman for assistance after
readDefence rests its case on treason trial 'abductions'
11-02-2004
THE prosecution and defence teams in the Caprivi high treason case are today set to place their arguments on the challenge to the High Court's jurisdiction that has been raised by 13 of the treason
readOmaruru factory shuts
11-02-2004
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to rise sharply at Omaruru, in the Erongo Region, with the closure of a food processing factory next month.Vandenbergh Foods, the biggest employer in the private sector at the
readPrimary polls at Omaheke a mistake: Swapo
11-02-2004
THE ruling Swapo Party's aborted primary elections in the Omaheke Region were "a mistake", the party's top administration has conceded.Secretary General Ngarikutuke Tjiriange suggested on Monday that
readAll parties face testing time at Grootfontein
11-02-2004
TOMORROW'S by-election to fill a Regional Council vacancy will go down as a major upset should one party, the incumbent Swapo, fail to win it easily.Only two of the parties contesting the poll, Swapo
readBoys kill toddler in Caprivi
11-02-2004
A GANG of young boys is said to have killed a three-year-old at Muchimbami village in the Singalamwe area of the Caprivi.The Police reported yesterday that Muzimisa Pelekelo died on Thursday,
readUnqualified staff cost Government millions
11-02-2004
THE Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing has lost up to N$30 million a year, over the past couple of years, because it employed unqualified staff at regional level.Regional offices
readWhodunit? Suspect in Centaurus prostitute murder accuses father
11-02-2004
IN a bizarre twist, the man accused of murdering a prostitute and hiding her body in a storeroom at the Centaurus High School in Windhoek almost two years ago has implicated his 67-year-old father as
readCourt rules for Nudo
11-02-2004
THE DTA'S demise deepened yesterday after the High Court dismissed the party's request to bar Herero Chief Kauima Riruako's National Democratic Unity Organisation from taking part in the Grootfontein
readSorry, right number: cops nab thief
11-02-2004
AMSTERDAM - Dutch police nabbed a mobile phone thief yesterday when an officer dialled the number of his own stolen handset.Wageningen police said a mobile telephone was stolen from a patrol car when
readCell cure
11-02-2004
WASHINGTON - Stem cells taken from cloned mice were able to regenerate mouse hearts damaged by heart attacks by forming tiny blood vessels and heart muscle cells, corporate researchers said on
readCave paintings may shed new light on SA's past
11-02-2004
LONDON - A huge collection of cave paintings in central South Africa have been found to be far older than previously thought, and may give new insight into the history of the San people who were wiped
readSuicide bomber kills 50 at police station
11-02-2004
ISKANDARIYA - A massive car bomb killed 50 people at a police station south of Baghdad on Tuesday as civilians lined up to apply for jobs, in one of the deadliest suicide attacks on Iraqis working
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