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47 Articles found on Friday, 2 July 2004
Political Perspective
02-07-2004
IT APPEARS to be silly season on a few counts for former Swapo presidential candidate-hopeful and Minister of Higher Education, Nahas Angula, who seems to have abandoned good sense in some of the
readPros And Cons To Paternity Leave
02-07-2004
THERE are both pros and cons to the issue of paternity leave which is currently being discussed in Parliament and elsewhere.As part of its efforts to promote gender equality in Namibia, the Legal
readCells Are Like Sex
02-07-2004
CELLULAR connectivity is a lot like sex, it's no big deal unless you're not getting any when you want it.And it seems that MTC has indeed gone celibate. I have a question and it's a simple one. What
readCongrats To Roads Authority
02-07-2004
FOR some time now I have wanted to express my appreciation to Roads Authority for the way they are maintaining the roads in this country.On a recent trip to the North-West, I was again very
readGood Will Triumph In The Garden Town
02-07-2004
WOULD you allow me a space in your newspaper because for once in my life I would also like to tell what I have seen as it is.I am so embarrassed by the manner in which Swapo comrades of Okahandja are
readDividing Line In Otjiwarongo
02-07-2004
I AM a concerned resident from the town of Otjiwarongo and would like to thank you for providing me a space to air my concern in your esteemed newspaper and again would like you to thank for keeping
readPresident Not On 'Binge'
02-07-2004
YOUR article, "President on a 'travel binge'" that appeared in your edition of June 30th , 2004 gave the impression that State visits are being used by the Presidency as a pretence for good byes to
readYouth Queries Aids Pamphlet
02-07-2004
THIS is the second time I am writing to the Namibian.The last time I wrote it was 4 years ago, but it doesn't seem like anybody heard what I was saying. The old age question about condoms comes up
readState's Lack Of Care For The Sick
02-07-2004
PLEASE allow me a little space in your newspaper to express my disgust and concern about the treatment of sick people in state hospitals.Recently my cousin, who is unemployed and who lives in the
readThe Core of the Problem Lies in Khartoum
02-07-2004
YOUR opinion piece entitled 'Peace in the south and war in the west' by G. Dyer was welcome, as was 'Africa Action petition on Sudan genocide', which also appeared on page 6 of the Friday June 18
readEU energy market opening fails to tame prices
02-07-2004
LONDON - The European Union threw open another chunk of its energy market to full competition yesterday but climbing power prices and the dominance of big utilities are big concerns, consumers
readBanks back Angola oil firm debts
02-07-2004
LUANDA - Lenders to Sonangol, Angola's national oil company, had attracted nine more banks to help underwrite a US$2,25 billion (N$14 billion) loan, banks involved in the transaction said
readNigeria doubles revenue from oil sales
02-07-2004
LAGOS - Nigeria earned 998 billion naira (N$46,65 billion) from crude oil sales in fiscal 2003, almost double the figure of the previous year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said yesterday.The CBN
readBanks back Angola oil firm debts
02-07-2004
LUANDA - Lenders to Sonangol, Angola's national oil company, had attracted nine more banks to help underwrite a US$2,25 billion (N$14 billion) loan, banks involved in the transaction said
readCloser look at VAT amendments
02-07-2004
THE Minister of Finance, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, introduced the Value Added Tax Amendment Bill to Parliament on 22 June 2004.The following amendments to the bill have been proposed. The amendments
readRamatex will have to pay full water price
02-07-2004
TEXTILE factory Ramatex is to start paying the full price for its water supply - more than double rate it has been paying over the last two years.The Windhoek City Council has rejected a request from
readCivil servants fail to meet tax deadline
02-07-2004
THOUSANDS of civil servants failed to meet Wednesday's deadline for individual tax returns for the 2003-04 financial year because of inefficiencies in the accounting departments of several Government
readDefiant Saddam in court
02-07-2004
BAGHDAD - A defiant Saddam Hussein rejected accusations of war crimes and genocide in court yesterday, telling a judge in his first public appearance since his capture that the real "criminal" was US
readRP raps budget planning for Katutura Stadium
02-07-2004
THE Republican Party has slammed a Windhoek City Council decision to allocate another N$22 million during the 2004-05 financial year for the building of the Katutura Soccer Stadium.At the monthly
readWindhoek West councillor gets down to business
02-07-2004
WINDHOEK West councillor Sophie Shaningwa has organised a number of public meetings to address crime, health and education-related problems.Shaningwa said yesterday that crime had reached unacceptable
readChild killer case postponed again
02-07-2004
THE case of a 33-year-old man charged with murdering his girlfriend's three-year-old son at Swakopmund has been stalled for more than a year as no decision has been taken by Prosecutor General's
readAIDS man scorned and beaten
02-07-2004
THE first man in the Erongo Region to go public with his HIV-positive status was verbally attacked and physically beaten in public at Walvis Bay recently.Anthony Plaatjies (43), or Koffi as he is
readLearn to swim, cops told
02-07-2004
THE number of drownings at villages in the North has led to people calling on the Police to teach reservists to swim and to purchase flotation devices.At present, if a person drowns villagers find it
readNovaNam dispute continues
02-07-2004
PRODUCTION at one of Namibia's biggest fishing factories has come to a standstill as the main trade union accused NovaNam of locking workers out.NovaNam, at Lüderitz, was yesterday closed for the
readSteep registration fee limits access to AIDS conference
02-07-2004
A NUMBER of Namibian non-governmental organisations will not be represented at the largest-ever AIDS conference, being held in Thailand this month, because of the "prohibitive" registration fee.The
readSimon case to be heard in Feb
02-07-2004
THE trial of former world champion boxer Harry Simon will start in the Regional Court at Walvis Bay on February 2 next year.Simon will then be asked to plead to a charge of culpable homicide following
readBurglars shoot Omaruru doctor
02-07-2004
AN Omaruru medical doctor was wounded in his home in the early hours of yesterday morning when burglars that he had found inside his house started shooting in an apparent bid to flee.Dr Bertus Venter
readMore Auasblick plots may be swallowed by State House
02-07-2004
PLOTS valued at nearly a million dollars in Windhoek's upmarket Auasblick suburb will be excluded from public auction later this month for possible sale to Government.The Windhoek Municipality plans
readAlleged 'castration' case takes a new turn
02-07-2004
THE Namibia National Farmers Union yesterday seized the opportunity provided by television reports of the alleged castration of a farmworker by his employer to direct a broadside warning against
readBody-art as new self-expression
02-07-2004
PARIS - If the lines of people waiting to be tattooed, pierced or painted at Paris's recent Body Show are anything to go by, body decoration is almost as much a tribal ritual today as it was a few
readRevered grand-daddy of guitars turns 50
02-07-2004
LOS ANGELES - The sainted grandfather of electric guitars, the Fender Stratocaster, famously cradled on stage by music legends from Buddy Holly to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, is turning 50.It was
read18-year-old inherits half of Versace empire
02-07-2004
MILAN - Some girls dream of getting a car or a designer dress for their 18th birthday but when Allegra Versace Beck woke up on Wednesday she got a much bigger present - half the Versace fashion empire
readUS$550 000 fine for Jackson boob flash
02-07-2004
WASHINGTON - That brief glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl could cost 20 television stations owned by Viacom Inc. a total of US$550 000, sources familiar with the federal
readZeta-Jones' stalker says sorry
02-07-2004
CHARGED with stalking, making several calls and writing threatening letters to Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dawnette Knight, who is currently in prison, seems sorry.The 22-year-old has sent a single-page
readFilmmakers honoured
02-07-2004
Filmmakers Stanley Donen (Singing in the Rain') and Manoel de Oliveira (La Lettre) will be honoured with career Golden Lions at the 61st Venice Film Festival (Sept. 1-11), organisers said on
readAnimated series
02-07-2004
Emmy-winning producer Robert Morton (Late Show With David Letterman') has come on board the WB Network's new improv/animated series Drew Carey's Green Screen Show as an executive producer.The project
readDirector role for Fryman
02-07-2004
Sitcom veteran Pamela Fryman has been tapped as the primary director of CBS' Charlie Sheen comedy Two and a Half Men, which returns for a second season in the fall.Fryman earned three Directors Guild
readFirm wins wacky scent market with T-Rex breath
02-07-2004
KIRKHAM - Ordinary smells, Dale Air can do - but the breath of a Tyrannosaurus Rex? "Where do you start?" asked Frank Knight, director of this small British firm which specialises in "themed
readSony debuts 20 gigabyte Walkman to silence iPod
02-07-2004
LONDON/TOKYO- Sony Corp said yesterday it is launching a Walkman digital music player capable of storing far more songs than Apple Computer Inc's market-leading iPod, while also undercutting iPod's
readCactus extract takes some pain out of hangover: study
02-07-2004
CHICAGO - Extract of a prickly pear cactus may reduce nausea, dry mouth, and appetite-loss and other symptoms of hangover, a study released Monday said.In a preliminary trial, volunteers who were
readMobiles phones may damage sperm: study
02-07-2004
LONDON - Mobile phones may damage men's sperm, Hungarian scientists say, in a study that fertility experts this week dismissed as inconclusive.Carrying a mobile in hip pockets or a holster on the
readIt rained on Mars - 3 billion years ago
02-07-2004
PARIS - Mars was not only awash with water, it also once had rainfall, according to a French study.The evidence comes from infra-red imaging, which probed under dust deposited over the millions of
read'No more sanctions for Myanmar'
02-07-2004
JAKARTA - Military-run Myanmar is in danger of becoming a failed state but Europe should not impose more sanctions, because that would only hurt its poverty-stricken citizens, a top European official
readTyphoon kills 16 Phillipinos
02-07-2004
MANILA - The Philippines declared a state of calamity in the Luzon region in the north of the country yesterday after a typhoon killed at least 16 people and displaced thousands, officials
readStandoff as British 'sailor' row brews
02-07-2004
LONDON - London and Tehran stuck to their guns yesterday as a diplomatic spat over whether British servicemen encroached or were forced into Iranian waters threatened to become a full-blown row.Six
readNigeria says it can't set polio campaign timetable
02-07-2004
LAGOS - Nigeria's mainly Muslim state of Kano, which has seen an explosion of the crippling polio virus since banning vaccines last year, said yesterday it could not set a timetable for resuming
readIDF kill Gaza boy - witnesses
02-07-2004
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israeli forces shot dead a nine-year-old Palestinian boy playing soccer in a Gaza refugee camp yesterday as tanks rolled in to search for tunnels used by militants, witnesses
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