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30 Articles found on Thursday, 25 March 2004
Five Lironga Eparu members in North die
25-03-2004
FIVE members of Lironga Eparu, an organisation representing people who make public that they are HIV positive, in the North passed away at the end of last year and early this year.Lironga Eparu's
readQuiet weekend at coast
25-03-2004
ERONGO Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner Andrew Iiyambo, says people who attended the double celebration at the coast at the weekend behaved very well."The people really behaved well,"
readHamutenya hits at handouts
25-03-2004
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya has urged Namibians to work hard and stop relying on Government handouts.Addressing residents of the Ohangwena Constituency, in the Ohangwena Region, at 14th
readTraditional authority to be inaugurated at weekend
25-03-2004
THE Okalango District in the Omusati Region - with about 70 000, mostly Oshimbadja-speaking inhabitants - has decided to choose its own traditional authority.The acting secretary of the traditional
readStrict education code launched
25-03-2004
AN Education Code that sets standards for professional service, accountability and responsibility in the teaching profession has been launched.Basic Education Minister John Mutorwa said the code aims
readPan-African parliament 'shows potential'
25-03-2004
NAMIBIAN parliamentarians serving on the newly formed Pan-African Parliament have returned from the inaugural session in Ethiopia over the weekend upbeat about the body its future.At a media briefing
readInflation still dropping
25-03-2004
THE monthly inflation rate for February decreased by 0,3 per cent from January to record a 3,32 percentage year-on-year rise in the price of goods.According to the Interim Consumer Price Index (ICPI),
readTeens arrested for gang rape
25-03-2004
THE Okahandja Police have arrested five teenage boys in connection with the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl, the Police reported this week.It is believed the victim was raped on two separate
readN$440 000 in drugs seized
25-03-2004
THE Windhoek Police have confiscated drugs worth nearly N$440 000 since January, the Police said in a statement on Tuesday.In total, about 116 466 kilograms of dagga, valued at N$349 398, has been
readOtjiwarongo official still not charged
25-03-2004
THE Otjiwarongo Municipality has still not laid charges of alleged fraud against its suspended Town Clerk, Paulus Haipare.Haipare and former Town Treasurer Immanuel Kaundje were suspended at the end
readWe're not mercenaries, say Namibians detained in Zim
25-03-2004
THE 28 Namibians detained in Zimbabwe have dismissed as "sensationalist" reports that they are mercenaries.They insist that they are security guards who were on their way the Democratic Republic of
readBudget: Finance gets biggest slice of cake
25-03-2004
IN step with the trend of increasing Government debt, the Ministry of Finance will see the largest increase - N$232 million - in its budget in the coming year.Out of its total budget of N$2,36 billion
readN$50 hike in social pensions
25-03-2004
PENSIONERS are the only citizens set to benefit directly from the 2004-05 National Budget.They can expect their pensions to increase to N$300 a month from April 1 - up from N$250. Pensions were last
readBudget: Air Namibia black hole gobbles N$366m
25-03-2004
GOVERNMENT plans to shell out N$366 million in the coming financial year to keep Air Namibia flying.The additional spending on Air Namibia - which since 1999 has received N$1,050 million from
readBudget: 'Tough compromises'
25-03-2004
TIGHTENING the country's purse strings is the main aim of this year's National Budget, says Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila.Delivering her maiden Main Budget speech in the National
readBudget: Ambitious deficit limit set
25-03-2004
FINANCE Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila yesterday proposed to do what most of her predecessors have been unable to manage - keep the Budget deficit well below the target Government has set for
readTwo hangings reported in the capital
25-03-2004
A 28-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in a field behind the CCN premises in Katutura, Windhoek, at around 07h30 on Friday, the Police reported yesterday.Matheus Shaanika allegedly stabbed
readFurther boost for Waterfront
25-03-2004
THE developers of the new-look Luderitz Waterfront have invited investors to pump around N$33 million into the next phase of the planned grand attraction at the harbour town.Project Manager of the
readAmbunda only Namibian boxer to qualify for Olympic Games
25-03-2004
FLYWEIGHT Paulus Ambunda will be Namibia's only boxer at the Olympic Games scheduled for Athens, Greece in August after six other hopefulls failed to make it in three qualification
readDisabled athletes miss out on games due to transport
25-03-2004
OFFICIALS at the Sunshine Centre at Walvis Bay blame the Erongo Region's Youth and Sports Office, for missing out on an international sports event for people with disabilities underway in Durban,
readJunior cyclists to take on best in SA
25-03-2004
A team of five riders, considting of Arno Viljoen, Ermin van Wyk, Willi van Zyl, Wilko Diehl and Falco Krenz has left for South Africa, Ermelo to participate in the South African Junior tour.24 teams
readSport school launched in Karas
25-03-2004
PRIME Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab has urged Namibians to invest in the youth of the country to ensure future sustainable development.Speaking at the official launching of the Karas Sport School (KSS) at
readAirline cans plan for lip-shaped urinals
25-03-2004
NEW YORK - Virgin Atlantic Airways has scrapped plans to install bright-red urinals shaped like women's open lips at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, saying it had received complaints
readA pain in the pants
25-03-2004
BERLIN - Germany can no longer afford state aid to help its yodellers buy Lederhosen, the Bavarian government says, in a sign of how drastically public finances have deteriorated in Europe's largest
read'Passion' too much for pastor
25-03-2004
BELO HORIZONTE - A Brazilian pastor died of an apparent heart attack while watching the Mel Gibson film 'The Passion of the Christ', witnesses say.Jose Geraldo Soares, a 43-year-old Presbyterian
readA pain in the pants
25-03-2004
BERLIN - Germany can no longer afford state aid to help its yodellers buy Lederhosen, the Bavarian government says, in a sign of how drastically public finances have deteriorated in Europe's largest
readGuns, girls, gold, ganja and gin
25-03-2004
FISHTOWN - Every time Stephen Yibo goes fishing around the U.S.-operated oil platform near his village in Nigeria's southern delta, soldiers come out on boats and shoot into the air to scare him
readTimber companies in Africa log in to monitoring
25-03-2004
WHEN European timber companies, environmental groups, research organisations, and African forestry officials sat down in early March in Douala, Cameroon, to negotiate the future of logging in central
readExtinction fears bug experts
25-03-2004
ECOLOGISTS have unveiled strong evidence that huge numbers of the world's species are disappearing, reports the latest edition of Nature.A survey of British wildlife suggests that insects - thought to
readPrivatisation no answer to water scarcity: UN
25-03-2004
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is sceptical that privatisation of the world's water supplies will help resolve problems facing more than 1,2 billion people globally who have little
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