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38 Articles found on Thursday, 4 November 2004
Wage deal
04-11-2004
The Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) and the Namibia Breweries (NBL) have finally reached an agreement on wage increases - bringing an end to a nine-month dispute.Yesterday, the two sides
readNDF officer dies in car crash
04-11-2004
OUTAPI - Police have identified the driver of a car that crashed near Outapi in the Omusati Region on Saturday as a senior member of the Namibia Defence Force (NDF).Four people died in the accident.
readVaalgras gets to grips with land reform
04-11-2004
KEETMANSHOOP - The Vaalgras Traditional Authority in the Karas Region has started registering people in line with the Communal Land Reform Act of 2002.The Act gives communal land boards, in
readSwakopmunders eager to clean up town
04-11-2004
MORE than 600 Swakopmund residents have already registered for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative launched by the Municipality.Many more are expected to sign up for the two pilot projects
readSELCo is history, promises mayor
04-11-2004
THE Keetmanshoop local council has obtained legal assistance to terminate the controversial electricity contract with SELCo.At a public meeting on Tuesday, Keetmanshoop Mayor Simon Petrus Tiboth said
readBEE company takes Sasol to court over fuel deal
04-11-2004
A NAMIBIAN company that was hoping to benefit from a tender to supply Namibia with fuel to the tune of N$800 million a year will today launch a court interdict against the South African oil giant,
readRail work voluntary, says PS
04-11-2004
SOME staff from the Ministry of Trade and Industry were up in arms yesterday, saying they were being forced to do volunteer work on the northern railway, a pet project of President Sam Nujoma.About
read'Terrorism', evangelicals gave Bush edge
04-11-2004
WASHINGTON - US voters credited President George W Bush with protecting the country and trusted him more than Senator John Kerry to take on the terrorists.That offset their displeasure with the
readBlack day for Africa, world
04-11-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South Africans yesterday bemoaned a black day for the world and its poorest continent Africa as George W Bush headed for another term in office."I have been keeping my fingers crossed
readKeetmans faces water restrictions
04-11-2004
RESIDENTS at Keetmanshoop owe the municipality N$8 million in outstanding water bills, making it difficult for the town council to pay its bulk water account.This was revealed by Keetmanshoop Mayor
readA rather large tourist
04-11-2004
A RARE and unusual visitor has called at Walvis Bay's Pelican Point for the third time.An elephant seal has been beaching herself for about three weeks around October every year. It is not certain
readTight controls in ekipa trade
04-11-2004
ABSALOM SHIGWEDHA ONLY registered Namibian ivory carvers will be allowed to obtain ivory for the production of traditional ekipas, says the Ministry of Environment and Tourism.The 13th Convention on
readLink between water, poverty ignored
04-11-2004
THE vital role of water in the alleviation of poverty has not been given the attention it deserves, a recent survey of national Poverty Reduction Strategy papers by the Global Water Partnership (GWP)
readSmuggled cattle raise anthrax fears
04-11-2004
THE Ministry of Agriculture has taken blood samples from some eleven cattle suspected to have been smuggled from Botswana to the Omaheke Region.Dr Frans Joubert, the Acting Deputy Director for Animal
readNudo won't join NBC boycott
04-11-2004
THE National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) has rejected a call by other opposition parties to pull out of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation's Election Forum.The Congress of Democrats (CoD),
readLife term inmate's appeal dismissed
04-11-2004
THE lingering ghost of a cold-blooded double farm murder of a decade ago made one more return to court last week, but without changing the outcome of the trial that followed on that crime:
readSA's Gold Fields warns against hostile takeover
04-11-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South African gold mining giant Gold Fields yesterday warned its shareholders that rival Harmony was "financially stretched" and was offering them over-valued shares in a hostile
readGrabbing opportunities to make dreams come true
04-11-2004
TONDERAI KATSWARA AS a little girl growing up in Opuwo, Tulimeyo Kaapanda, was always fascinated by the powder that women around her smeared on their faces and bodies to enhance their natural
readBEE investment company lists on the local bourse
04-11-2004
A NEW investment company, Stimulus Investments Limited, was listed on the Namibia Stock Exchange yesterday with preferential shares worth more than N$123 million.Stimulus, an empowerment private
readBoosting labour relations
04-11-2004
Windhoek Schlachterei and Nafau entered into a Recognition and Procedural Agreement.This will regulate the relationship between employees within the bargaining unit and the union, while Model Pick 'n'
readFTSE gains as White House says Bush wins
04-11-2004
LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 share index held morning gains to hover just below its highest level in more than two years on Wednesday after the White House said US President George W.Bush had won
readStrike stops Ivory Coast cocoa exports
04-11-2004
ABIDJAN - Warehouses of leading cocoa exporters in Ivory Coast ports were closed yesterday in anticipation of further strike action by cocoa farmers who are demanding a higher, guaranteed price for
readNDF officer dies in car crash
04-11-2004
OUTAPI - Police have identified the driver of a car that crashed near Outapi in the Omusati Region on Saturday as a senior member of the Namibia Defence Force (NDF).Four people died in the accident.
readWage deal
04-11-2004
The Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) and the Namibia Breweries (NBL) have finally reached an agreement on wage increases - bringing an end to a nine-month dispute.Yesterday, the two sides
readVaalgras gets to grips with land reform
04-11-2004
KEETMANSHOOP - The Vaalgras Traditional Authority in the Karas Region has started registering people in line with the Communal Land Reform Act of 2002.The Act gives communal land boards, in
readSwakopmunders eager to clean up town
04-11-2004
MORE than 600 Swakopmund residents have already registered for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative launched by the Municipality.Many more are expected to sign up for the two pilot projects
readSELCo is history, promises mayor
04-11-2004
THE Keetmanshoop local council has obtained legal assistance to terminate the controversial electricity contract with SELCo.At a public meeting on Tuesday, Keetmanshoop Mayor Simon Petrus Tiboth said
readKeetmans faces water restrictions
04-11-2004
RESIDENTS at Keetmanshoop owe the municipality N$8 million in outstanding water bills, making it difficult for the town council to pay its bulk water account.This was revealed by Keetmanshoop Mayor
readA rather large tourist
04-11-2004
A RARE and unusual visitor has called at Walvis Bay's Pelican Point for the third time.An elephant seal has been beaching herself for about three weeks around October every year. It is not certain
readTight controls in ekipa trade
04-11-2004
ABSALOM SHIGWEDHA ONLY registered Namibian ivory carvers will be allowed to obtain ivory for the production of traditional ekipas, says the Ministry of Environment and Tourism.The 13th Convention on
readLink between water, poverty ignored
04-11-2004
THE vital role of water in the alleviation of poverty has not been given the attention it deserves, a recent survey of national Poverty Reduction Strategy papers by the Global Water Partnership (GWP)
readSmuggled cattle raise anthrax fears
04-11-2004
THE Ministry of Agriculture has taken blood samples from some eleven cattle suspected to have been smuggled from Botswana to the Omaheke Region.Dr Frans Joubert, the Acting Deputy Director for Animal
readNudo won't join NBC boycott
04-11-2004
THE National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) has rejected a call by other opposition parties to pull out of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation's Election Forum.The Congress of Democrats (CoD),
readLife term inmate's appeal dismissed
04-11-2004
THE lingering ghost of a cold-blooded double farm murder of a decade ago made one more return to court last week, but without changing the outcome of the trial that followed on that crime:
readRail work voluntary, says PS
04-11-2004
SOME staff from the Ministry of Trade and Industry were up in arms yesterday, saying they were being forced to do volunteer work on the northern railway, a pet project of President Sam Nujoma.About
readBEE company takes Sasol to court over fuel deal
04-11-2004
A NAMIBIAN company that was hoping to benefit from a tender to supply Namibia with fuel to the tune of N$800 million a year will today launch a court interdict against the South African oil giant,
read'Terrorism', evangelicals gave Bush edge
04-11-2004
WASHINGTON - US voters credited President George W Bush with protecting the country and trusted him more than Senator John Kerry to take on the terrorists.That offset their displeasure with the
readBlack day for Africa, world
04-11-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South Africans yesterday bemoaned a black day for the world and its poorest continent Africa as George W Bush headed for another term in office."I have been keeping my fingers crossed
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