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26 Articles found on Thursday, 1 July 2004
2010 Soccer World Cup to create opportunities
01-07-2004
THE 2010 Soccer World Cup that will be hosted by South Africa has presented an excellent opportunity for the Southern African Development Communities (SADC) region in terms of tourism.Prime Minister,
readOil up from 2-mth low
01-07-2004
LONDON - Oil prices made a modest rebound yesterday after losing almost US$2 over the past week as higher Opec production and rising US inventories eased concerns over global supplies.Top world oil
readRand could appreciate to R5,50/US$
01-07-2004
JOHANNESBURG - The price action in recent days confirms the technical view that the rand will appreciate further, with a move below the psychological barrier of six to the US dollar, BoE said
readPM urges BEE acceleration
01-07-2004
PRIME Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab on Tuesday urged the Government not to hesitate in accelerating black economic empowerment and ensure the enactment of a BEE law.Gurirab was addressing board members of
readDebt booms, economy grows
01-07-2004
NAMIBIAN State debt continues to rise way above the Government's target of not more than 25 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).In its quarterly bulletin for January to March 2004,
readMinister forced to 'dice with the law'
01-07-2004
AS Windhoekers dashed to Inland Revenue offices throughout most of yesterday to meet the deadline to submit their tax returns, Minister of Higher Education, Training and Employment Creation Nahas
readElectricity prices go up
01-07-2004
WINDHOEK residents will have to fork out more for electricity as from today.At its monthly meeting last night the City Council approved an increase of six per cent on basic charges and another seven
readSimon case to finally go ahead
01-07-2004
THE court case of former world champion boxer Harry Simon, who has been charged with culpable homicide, will get underway today, 19 months after a deadly accident in which he was involved.The
readRape shame laid bare
01-07-2004
THE abuse started when she was about 12 years old.For some four years it continued - at home, in her own bed, in a car while her father was supposedly teaching her to drive, even in her parents' bed;
readOrphans at Rundu get Govt donation
01-07-2004
RUNDU - The Ministry of Women Affairs and Child Welfare on Monday donated school uniforms worth N$10 594 to orphans at the Muhopi Primary School, some 25 kilometres east of Rundu in the Kavango
readLabour still to resolve severance pay dispute
01-07-2004
A WINDHOEK man who worked for an earth-moving firm for 40 years and received N$2 000 as severance pay, is still waiting for the Ministry of Labour to intervene in his case.Moses Katjigo worked for
readTeenager arrested for rape
01-07-2004
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested at Oshifo village in the Uukolonkadhi area in the North for the rape on Friday of a six-year-old girl, the Police reported this week.Also in the North, an
readNampa serves role of protecting 'national interest', says Angula
01-07-2004
MINISTER of Higher Education, Training and Employment Creation Nahas Angula has come out in support of amendments to the Namibian Press Agency (Nampa) Act.Angula told the National Assembly on Tuesday
readOne woman, one dream
01-07-2004
THEOPOLINA Hamutu is a woman with big dreams and a vision - so seven years ago she started a creche for children in the Goreangab Dam informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek.In 2001, she
readMale MPs rap Ithana for attacking fathers
01-07-2004
ATTORNEY GENERAL Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana came under fire from male parliamentarians in the National Assembly on Tuesday when she lambasted Namibian fathers who neglected their children."Many Namibian
readHearings on certificate scam at Unam draw to an end
01-07-2004
THE University of Namibia (Unam) has finalised disciplinary hearings against students who were accused of having forged qualifications to gain admission to the institution.Audrin Mathe of Unam's
readNored hunts for political lobbying signs
01-07-2004
THE Northern Electricity Distribution Company (Nored) is to institute a forensic audit to determine whether company facilities were used to advance one of the three Swapo candidates in the recent
readArmed robbers in uniform raid Rundu shop
01-07-2004
FIVE men dressed in the uniforms of the former South West African Defence Force and NamPol's Special Field Force fired shots to scare off two cashiers at a shop at Muveve village, 60 kilometres west
readNovaNam, union in stand-off over employee's murder
01-07-2004
SOME 2 600 workers from the NovaNam fishing factory at Luderitz have gone on a wildcat strike, blaming the company for the killing of a supervisor on the production floor last week.The factory workers
readKaribib addresses debt trap
01-07-2004
THE Karibib Town Council has taken a key administrative decision in an attempt to better manage its debts to bulk utility suppliers.In response to an appeal made by the community at a meeting on
readGovernment lawyer wins some and loses some in appeal case
01-07-2004
A SENIOR Government lawyer received both a respite and a further blow to his own legal fortunes in the High Court this week, when the court set aside his conviction for an alcohol-related driving
readJews want German crackdown on Nazis
01-07-2004
BERLIN - An international Jewish rights group urged the German government yesterday to outlaw neo-Nazi gatherings near synagogues after extremists protested against the construction of one in the
read'Gold thief' stuck in SA
01-07-2004
JOHANNESBURG - The extradition hearing of a Libyan man wanted by Tripoli as an alleged al Qaeda financier was postponed yesterday, because the court was waiting for the South African government to act
readReal IRA is illegal, rules court Alex Richardson
01-07-2004
BELFAST - A judge's ruling that the Real IRA, the guerrilla group behind Northern Ireland's bloodiest bomb attack, was not an illegal organisation was overturned by a higher court yesterday.In a
readAfghan bombs hit 27
01-07-2004
KABUL, Afghanistan - Two explosions injured as many as 27 people in an eastern Afghan city yesterday, while concern grew that an Australian journalist may have been kidnapped in the Taliban-haunted
readUS miffed at Sudan's attitude
01-07-2004
EL FASHER, Sudan - The Sudanese government has disappointed US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in talks on the crisis in the troubled western region of Darfur, a senior US official said
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