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28 Articles found on Thursday, 5 February 2004
05-02-2004
Bank Windhoek yesterday announced the winners of its three 2004 bursaries for second year Unam and Polytechnic students.Bank Windhoek HR Manager, Walter Don, (picture: second from right), is seen here
readBank Windhoek issues NSX bond
05-02-2004
BANK Windhoek yesterday issued its first five-year bond to be listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange.Diederik Kruger, the bank's Senior Dealer: Treasury, said the subordinated unsecured callable bond
readBanks warn of e-mail fraud
05-02-2004
NAMIBIAN banks have warned their visa account customers not to provide their account details, such as PIN (personal identification number) or card numbers, when asked to do so via the
readSamicor starts diamond exports
05-02-2004
SAKAWE Mining Corporation (Samicor), Namibia's youngest role-player in the off-shore diamond industry, yesterday started exporting the first diamonds to come from its estimated 12 million carat
readShortage of cattle forces Meatco to retrench 32
05-02-2004
MEATCO has terminated the services of 32 permanent employees at its abattoirs at Oshakati and Katima Mulilo, due to the decrease in the supply of cattle.The Meat Corporation said it had been forced to
readID documents pile up at Home Affairs offices
05-02-2004
OPUWO - Close to 80 000 identity documents have not been collected from Home Affairs offices countrywide and the number is set to increase because the manner of tracing applicants was been
readCroc killed
05-02-2004
A CROCODILE was killed on Monday at Karovho Fish Farm near Kongongo village, some 160 kilometres east of Rundu.Regional Councillor for Mukwe Constituency, John Thighuru, told Nampa that the reptile
readFull steam ahead!
05-02-2004
OSHAKATI - A number of volunteer groups have already signed up to work on the Tsumeb-Oshikango railway line this year, Chairperson of the railway project committee, Ishmael Uugwanga, said
readWarning against poaching in parks
05-02-2004
RUNDU - A Ministry of Environment and Tourism official here has warned against poaching of wildlife in the country's game parks.Chief Warden in the Directorate of Wildlife, Colgar Sikopo, was
readCouncil dump puts our health at risk: residents
05-02-2004
RESIDENTS of Othingo village, in the Uukwambi area of Oshana Region, have accused the Oshakati Municipality of putting their health at risk.When a rubbish dump the municipality has placed in the
readHome on its range again this eagle flies fly free at last
05-02-2004
A MARTIAL EAGLE that survived poisoning in northern Namibia late last year has provided bird experts with a glimpse into the lifespan and migratory habits of this rare species.Later in the week the
readParliament to return, this time with fanfare
05-02-2004
THE opening of Parliament in two weeks' time will be ushered in with more pomp and circumstance than usual.This will be to mark the start of the last session for the members of Namibia's third
readKhorixas Mayor ousted
05-02-2004
JUST 24 hours after a Government team arrived at Khorixas to audit the Town Council's books, the United Democratic Front (UDF) has removed Mayor Gerson /Goagoseb, apparently along with two other
readHave you seen Ananias?
05-02-2004
POLICE at Walvis Bay are offering a N$10 000 reward for information which could lead to the arrest of Ananias George Natangwe (25).Natangwe, an Oshiwambo speaker, is wanted to stand trial for murder,
readNo decision yet in case of graveyard rape suspect
05-02-2004
FORMER security guard Adolf Kahoro, who is charged with having raped and tried to murder a woman at Windhoek's Pionierspark Cemetery a year ago, is set to wait for at least another month before he
readGobabeb sets sights on broader horizons
05-02-2004
THE Gobabeb Training and Research Centre (GTRC) in the Namib-Naukluft Park plans to build on its successes of the last year and expand its multitude of programmes this year, which sees it celebrate
readTreason suspect found not guilty but still behind bars
05-02-2004
ONE of the oldest Caprivi high treason suspects has been acquitted - but on charges unrelated to the still pending treason case against him and 119 co-accused.Branson Mudala Kwala (66) was one of
readRFA director raps 'consultancy' fees paid for foreign trip
05-02-2004
A ROAD Fund Administration (RFA) director this week criticised a decision by the company to pay his colleague a fee of N$300 an hour over 21 days for attending a conference on behalf of the
readPregnant women claim fish factory discriminates
05-02-2004
TWO female seasonal workers have allegedly been denied re-employment at the Gendor fish factory at Walvis Bay because they are pregnant.The Namibia Food and Allied Workers' Union (Nafau) yesterday
readNo misuse of position: Riruako
05-02-2004
HERERO Chief Kuaima Isaac Riruako has filed an opposing affidavit rejecting accusations that he had misused his position to register Nudo (National Unity Democratic Organisation) as a political party
readHigh Court to rule on regional CEO freeze
05-02-2004
THE Office of the Attorney General will challenge a court order that halted a plan to appoint new chief executives for Namibia's 13 regional councils.Gerson /Narib, a lawyer in the Office of the
readSports DIary
05-02-2004
Events and happenings from around Namibia.* Notices Pool players to register THE Namibia Pool Association will hold their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 6 at the Pick & Pay Training Centre
read'Fire, blood and tears' in east
05-02-2004
GOBABIS will be the ultimate venue for lovers of boxing this weekend, when top-class Namibian boxers will exchange blows in their quest to be chosen as the country's ambassadors to international
readArrows quiver under match suspensions
05-02-2004
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) has suspended two players from Premier League side Eleven Arrows, after they attacked match officials during an NFA Cup match played at Walvis Bay at the end of
readRobbers make priest victim swear on Bible
05-02-2004
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Bible is mightier than the gun, at least for a group of Brazilian robbers.Unsure if their weapons had caused enough fear, robbers who broke into a monastery made a priest swear on
readSatirical exhibit takes aim at Bush
05-02-2004
BETHLEHEM - The photograph confronts anyone walking through the lobby of Lehigh University's humanities building: a man who could be President Bush's identical twin smirks for the camera, his left
readIraq fall-out continues
05-02-2004
BAGHDAD - British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted yesterday in a heated parliamentary debate that experts had not found the banned arms he used to justify war on Iraq, as the first Japanese
readOne year on, US and allies struggle to justify the war
05-02-2004
PARIS - A year after the United States gave what it insisted was proof of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as justification for its war, Washington and its allies are struggling against a wave of
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