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35 Articles found on Wednesday, 1 September 2004
African nations to create first telecoms link
01-09-2004
LUSAKA - Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya will open their first direct phone lines with each other as the Southern and East African countries add telecommunications links to a multi-million dollar power
readCommittee urges tighter SA bank rules
01-09-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South African banks may face tighter regulation after an official report called for more competition and disclosure in the sector, a source familiar with the report said yesterday.The
readWomen in business vital to boosting regional trade
01-09-2004
WOMEN entrepreneurs from 10 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries recently gathered in Botswana's capital, Gaborone for the 4th Women in Business SADC Fair and Investment Forum
readJCC study urges closer engagement between FDIs and SME sector
01-09-2004
THE Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), a national umbrella body for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) service providers has called for stronger engagement between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
readBye, bye Boeing
01-09-2004
NAMIBIA'S Boeing 747-400 Combi left Windhoek's Hosea Kutako International Airport for the last time as a commercial aircraft yesterday morning.It is scheduled to undergo a maintenance check this week
readNored hearing date set
01-09-2004
THE Nored Board of Directors is to proceed with a disciplinary hearing against its Managing Director, Martin Heita, who has challenged their legality.Sources told The Namibian yesterday that lawyers
readNAC forensic audit 'a hot potato'
01-09-2004
THE Namibia Airports Company (NAC) would rather accept guilt for the unfair dismissal of some of its senior staff than release a forensic audit report, alleged to implicate some top managers in
readFirms snub second cell licence
01-09-2004
TWO parastatals may end up competing in the cellular phone market in the coming months after it was announced yesterday that NamPower had applied for the second mobile telephone license.The Namibian
readThe Night Sky in September
01-09-2004
ACCORDING to a Greek legend, the Archer (Sagittarius, Sgr) is said to have invented the arrow and bow.The stars s, t, z, f in the constellation Archer represent the Archers fist, the stars f, d, g the
readNafau decries 'slave' conditions in Namibia's pelagic industry
01-09-2004
THE Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) has condemned alleged unfair labour practices in the pelagic industry, claiming that sea-going workers were being marginalised like slaves.In a
readPresidential escort vehicle accident victim identified
01-09-2004
THE woman who was hit and killed by a Presidential escort vehicle in the North on Friday has been identified as Cesilia Josef (40).Josef was crossing the Oshakati-Ongwediva main road, at the Oneshila
readGovt approves Swakopmund's budget
01-09-2004
THE Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing has approved the 2004-2005 budget of the Swakopmund Council on condition that overtime is reduced by 40 per cent.Another condition is that
readDemolition of historical building at Swakopmund gets go-ahead
01-09-2004
DAMAGE inflicted on one of Swakopmund's oldest buildings by a developer will not be repaired as the National Monuments Council has given its consent for the complete demolition of the structure.The
readToetemeyer bids farewell
01-09-2004
AFTER four and half years of service as a Member of Parliament, Deputy Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing Gerhard Toetemeyer, yesterday bade farewell to his colleagues in the
readMore soldiers head for Liberia
01-09-2004
A GROUP of 430 Namibia Defence Force soldiers left for Liberia yesterday morning to relieve the troops who have been stationed there since February as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping
readKaribib stays connected - for now
01-09-2004
THE debt-ridden town of Karibib averted a second power cut within a month when they made a part payment to NamPower at the last minute this week.The Chief Executive Officer of the Municipality faxed a
readBail beckons due to series of teen murder case delays
01-09-2004
A YOUNG Windhoek resident accused of bludgeoning his 17-year-old girlfriend, Ipula Akwenye, to death in the capital 18 months ago is on the brink of being granted bail because of delays in getting his
readECN moves to clear way for Namibians overseas to vote
01-09-2004
THOUSANDS of Namibians residing in foreign countries as well as sea-going workers will be able to vote in national elections if the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) gets its way.ECN Director
readJudge uses murder sentencing to highlight farm safety concerns
01-09-2004
PRISON terms of five, 35 and 45 and a half years yesterday marked the end of the latest farm murder trial to have kept the High Court in Windhoek occupied.The trial concluded before Judge Judge Mavis
readPirates inline hockey tourney end in style
01-09-2004
THREE days of fast, furious inline hockey held players, supporters and first-time spectators captive recently, as the battle for this year's national (NISA) league hit boiling point at the Amila
readNFA snub media at congress
01-09-2004
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) snubbed the mainstream media at its 15th Ordinary Congress, which was held secretly at Soccer House in Windhoek last Saturday.The Congress, which was postponed
readBed nets newest weapon for malaria-prone Tanzania
01-09-2004
KIBAHA - Oblivious to the crying of other babies around her, 19-month-old Nasla Juma bounced happily on her mother's lap, pausing momentarily to stare at a nurse's blue cap.The two were at a Village
readSky hunters find four new planets
01-09-2004
ASTRONOMERS have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds.While none of these new bodies would be mistaken
readBranigan, 'Gloria' singer, dead at 47
01-09-2004
NEW YORK - Laura Branigan, a Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her 1982 platinum hit 'Gloria', has died.She was 47. Branigan died of a brain aneurysm on Thursday in her sleep at her home in
readKubler-Ross, an authority on death
01-09-2004
LOS ANGELES - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who helped shape the public discourse about death and dying, and a champion of the hospice movement, has died in Scottsdale, Arizona.She was 78. The
readPaul Ngei, Mau Mau rebel and cabinet minister
01-09-2004
NAIROBI, Kenya - Paul Ngei, a former cabinet minister and one of the heroes of Kenya's independence movement, died here on August 15, an official of the MP Shah Hospital said.He was 81. He died after
readDavis, winner of Pulitzer for editorials
01-09-2004
HORANCE Gibbs Davis Jr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer who became an influential journalism educator at the University of Florida, died in Florida last week.He was 80. The cause was heart
readTriumph for hip-hop at MTV Video Awards
01-09-2004
LOS ANGELES - Hip-hop duo OutKast have won four prizes at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, held in Miami on Sunday night.The pair won Best Video of The year and Best Hip-Hop Video for Hey Ya!,
readBeckhams announce third baby on the way
01-09-2004
LONDON - British pop singer Victoria Beckham announced on Sunday she was pregnant with her third child.The 30-year-old and her husband, England football captain David Beckham, said in a joint
readBrits divided on lout crackdown
01-09-2004
LONDON - A teenager is forbidden to say "grass." A great-grandfather is banned from being sarcastic. And two record companies are told not to put up posters.All have fallen foul of the British
readNew Pakistan cabinet today
01-09-2004
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's new prime minister Shaukat Aziz will name a cabinet today with changes in more than half the portfolios, but he will retain finance and there will be no change at the foreign
readPutin links plane disaster to al Qaeda
01-09-2004
SOCHI, Russia - Russian president Vladimir Putin linked the downing last week of two passenger airliners to al Qaeda and said yesterday this proved the presence of organised international terrorism on
readVolunteers kidnapped in Darfur
01-09-2004
KHARTOUM - Rebels from Sudan's western Darfur kidnapped 22 volunteers who had joined a programme to vaccinate an estimated two million people affected by fighting in the remote region, Sudanese
readE Guinea suspends coup trial, seeks more on Mark Thatcher
01-09-2004
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea - The court hearing a coup trial in Equatorial Guinea yesterday suspended proceedings indefinitely, heeding prosecutors' requests for more information about the alleged role
readTwo buses explode in Israel - at least 15 dead
01-09-2004
JERUSALEM - Two buses blew up in a southern Israeli city yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 44, in what appeared to be the first Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel in six
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