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20 Articles found on Monday, 16 February 2004
Opening of Parliament 2004
16-02-2004
MEMBERS of the public have been invited to take part in the Official Opening of the 9th Session of the Third Parliament.Below is the official programme for this week. Programme Of Activities * Monday,
readRoad opens up Kunene
16-02-2004
OPUWO - Chief of the Otjikaoko Traditional Authority in the Kunene Region, Uziruapi Tjavara, has applauded Government for bringing development to his region with the Opuwo-Omakange road.Construction
readLiquor licensing drive
16-02-2004
OSHAKATI - The Oshana Regional Liquor Board last week kicked started reviewing new applications for liquor licenses from applicants across the region.Secretary of the Oshana Regional Liquor Board,
readCapital revives warning of shebeen crackdown
16-02-2004
THE City of Windhoek has announced that it will revoke the liquor licences of some businesses in the capital if it receives valid complaints from people living in the neighbourhood.This was announced
readExam scam case postponed
16-02-2004
THE case of Augustineum Secondary School Acting Principal, Isaac Gordon William Le Roux, who is implicated in the alleged leakage, theft and sale of Grade 12 exam papers in 2002, has been postponed to
readAcacia worried about future
16-02-2004
RESIDENTS of the Acacia housing development in Windhoek are still waiting for decisions on precautionary measures to prevent repeat flooding of the area. The findings of specialist investigations
readBaby found in manhole
16-02-2004
A BABY girl - estimated to be two days old - was found dumped and dead in a manhole alongside the Oshakati-Ongwediva main road at the Kandjengedi informal settlement, Oshakati, on Saturday morning.A
readJob cuts 'trimmed'
16-02-2004
HANGANA Seafood at Walvis Bay has cut the number of employees to be retrenched from 199 to 30, the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) claimed on Friday.NUNW President Risto Kapenda said
readBittersweet time reunites brother and sister
16-02-2004
IT HAS been 70 years since Mungenga Kameja Karimbue last saw his sister, and just weeks before she came to Namibia from Angola in November he had gone blind. "I was looking so much forward to seeing
readHusband accused of murder
16-02-2004
A 33-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband at Witvlei in the Omaheke Region on Friday, Police reported yesterday.The woman, identified as Menesia Tlhekwane, died on the spot in
readOngombo workers re-instated
16-02-2004
THE Namibia Farm Workers Union (Nafwu) has called on the owners of Ongombo West farm to comply with a Labour Court order of last week to re-instate six workers he fired in October.Magistrate Uaatjo
readOpposition rivalry helps Swapo, says DTA leader
16-02-2004
THE outcome of the Grootfontein by-election shows that division among opposition parties only works in favour of Swapo, DTA President Katuutire Kaura said at the weekend in reaction to the poll
readAngolan waters flood Ruacana
16-02-2004
THE flow of the Kunene River through the diversion weir at the Ruacana Hydro Power Station is slowing down but is expected to pick up again should more rain continue to fall in Angola.Two of the five
readUsakos activist held
16-02-2004
USAKOS community activist and leader of the Concerned Group at Usakos, Daniel Stramis (24), was detained overnight by Police at the town on Saturday and questioned on allegations of trespassing.Police
readSwapo wins, CoD gains in Grootfontein poll
16-02-2004
SWAPO retained the Grootfontein Regional Councillor seat in last week's by-election comfortably but with a smaller percentage of the votes than before, according to the poll results released at the
readDispute rocks Miss Malaika
16-02-2004
THE Miss Malaika Namibia pageant ended in controversy on Saturday night when almost immediately after the show, four of the judges alleged that the "wrong girl" had won.However, businessman Matthew
readActivists take aim
16-02-2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Global justice advocates are urging US-based companies that profit from chocolate and gold sales on Valentine's Day to do more to help the people and the environment where the key
readSMS nearly causes a split
16-02-2004
KUALA LUMPUR - An intimate Valentine's Day text message nearly caused a Malaysian couple to split when it landed on a wrong mobile phone number, a newspaper reported yesterday.A 27-year-old man and
read2 convoys attacked in Baghdad
16-02-2004
BAGHDAD - Two US convoys were attacked only a kilometre apart in Baghdad yesterday, and US soldiers in one of the attacks opened fire, killing one Iraqi driving nearby and wounding six others,
readHate runs deep in Fallujah
16-02-2004
FALLUJAH - Tribal elder Sheikh Hussam Qahtan believes death for Iraqi police helping Americans to crush insurgents is God's justice for those who betray their country.Few residents shed tears as
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