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27 Articles found on Wednesday, 6 October 2004
SA business confidence hits record high
06-10-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's business confidence rose to record levels in September, the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB) said yesterday, adding to a raft of good news about Africa's biggest
readMadagascar seeks to produce oil from bituminous rock deposits
06-10-2004
ANTANANARIVO - Madagascar is seeking to produce oil from bituminous rock deposits in the south of the country to take advantage of record high oil prices, government officials said.The Office of
readUS Airways in pay cuts
06-10-2004
ARLINGTON, Virginia - US Airways announced plans to cut US$45 million (N$292,5 million) a year in pay and benefits to roughly 3 700 management employees, a move the airline hopes will convince its
readZimbabwe roots out corrupt bankers
06-10-2004
HARARE- Two executives of Zimbabwe's troubled Royal Bank yesterday were remanded in police custody without being formally charged by a Harare magistrate.The two men, chief executive officer Jeffrey
readSADC nations urged to set up grain reserves
06-10-2004
LILONGWE - Southern African nations were discussing setting up strategic grain reserves to tackle food shortages that, according to experts, were becoming endemic in the region, officials said
readRoad delays fuel discontent
06-10-2004
GROOTFONTEIN - Taxi drivers in Grootfontein's Omulunga Township are unhappy with the snail's pace at which the tarring of Wilfred Eigowab Street is proceeding.They say the delay is taking bread off
readMan drowns in sewage
06-10-2004
OPUWO - The body of an Angolan man who drowned in the Oshakati sewerage dam on Saturday night has not yet been recovered.The deceased, who was fishing in the dam, reportedly fell in and drowned
readNafau re-opens discussions with Shoprite management
06-10-2004
THE Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) has called off a planned strike by staff at Shoprite/Checkers after the company agreed to meet the union.Nafau's General Secretary Kiros Sackarias
readMP with a passion for people
06-10-2004
SHE rushes into the office like the energetic politician I've come to know through the media.My first thought is ... "the busy life of a parliamentarian". There is something about her that reminds me
readHerero leader's remains returned, reburied
06-10-2004
THE remains of one of the veterans of the Herero-German war, King Michael Tjiseseta, who fled to South Africa in the early 1900s, were reburied at Omaruru in the Erongo Region last weekend.The return
read'Circus time' at the DBC probe
06-10-2004
A FORMER top manager alleged to have plundered the Patriotic Construction Company (PCC), a subsidiary of the Development Brigade Corporation (DBC), yesterday turned the Presidential inquiry into the
readGive State House to Nujoma, urges MP
06-10-2004
PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma should receive his current official residence as a gift when he retires next year, Swapo backbencher Doreen Sioka said yesterday.Sioka, who was nominated as one of the President's
readNamfisa targets Legal Shield
06-10-2004
THE insurance industry regulator yesterday attempted to take over the management of Namibia's biggest legal insurance company, a step usually taken to protect policy holders' funds.The Namibia
readNTB head calls for high standards in tourism
06-10-2004
HIGH standards are a key factor in ensuring that tourists get their value for money during their visits to Namibia, says the head of the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB).Gideon Shilongo, NTB Chief
readPoor teacher turn-out
06-10-2004
THE President of the Teachers Union of Namibia (TUN), Gert Jansen, addressed a poorly attended World Teachers Day event in Windhoek yesterday.About 45 teachers turned up for the lunchtime event at
readOstrich farming gets wings
06-10-2004
KEETMANSHOOP - Communal ostrich farmers in the Karas Region will receive their first batch of day-old ostrich chicks next week to revive the ailing industry.The Agricultural Information Technician in
readGrinaker employees dig in
06-10-2004
NEARLY 200 construction workers employed by Grinaker LTA who downed tools last Thursday after negotiations with their employer reached a stalemate, have returned to work.The workers demanded a
readUnions fail to make Swapo cut
06-10-2004
TRADE unions and regions were among the biggest losers at the Swapo electoral convention held at the weekend.The National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), which is affiliated to Swapo, had six
readAnthrax still sweeping through Caprivi
06-10-2004
WILD animals continue to die of anthrax in large numbers in eastern Caprivi, the Deputy Director for Parks and Wildlife Management in the Ministry of Environment told The Namibian yesterday.Sacky
readNo cash for Nigeria's champs
06-10-2004
LAGOS - Nigeria Football Association (NFA) chairman Ibrahim Galadima says his body has no money to pay the country's African women champions who have stayed in South Africa until their bonus is
readCorruption 'wrecking Chinese league'
06-10-2004
A leading Chinese soccer club manager said yesterday that the country's professional league was facing collapse because of rampant corruption and match-fixing.Yang Zuwu, general manager of premier
readMan mistakenly cuts off penis, dog eats it
06-10-2004
BUCHAREST - An elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it, the state Rompres news agency said on Monday.It said 67 year-old Constantin
read'Everything' theory gets Nobel
06-10-2004
STOCKHOLM - David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel physics prize yesterday for explaining how the basic building blocks of nature, quarks, interact to make a coin spin or
readRumsfeld was 'misunderstood'
06-10-2004
WASHINGTON - US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday he was misunderstood when he stated hours earlier that he knew of no "strong, hard evidence" linking Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al
readThree headless bodies found in Iraq
06-10-2004
BAGHDAD - Three decapitated bodies have been discovered over the past two days in and around the northern Iraq city of Mosul, a hospital coroner said yesterday.Two of the corpses were those of Iraqis
readDefiant Mugabe says West won't derail land reform
06-10-2004
HARARE - A defiant president Robert Mugabe said his land reforms had earned Zimbabwe many enemies in the West, but his government would not be bullied into abandoning the controversial policy.Mugabe
readBlair, Geldof try once again 'to help Africa'
06-10-2004
LONDON - British prime minister Tony Blair, who has called Africa's poverty and AIDS crisis "a scar on the conscience of the world," was left yesterday for Ethiopia, where he planned to join Band Aid
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