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36 Articles found on Wednesday, 13 April 2005
Along the pavements on a Friday night
13-04-2005
AFTER six pm on a Friday a stillness drapes the streets of central Windhoek.The early evening is laden with expectancy and the pavements are almost deserted. And then, as the sky slowly darkens, dark
readLike Nujoma, Africa needs to go back to university
13-04-2005
IN A rare display of enlightened leadership, former Namibian president Sam Nujoma (75), has enrolled at the University of Namibia (Unam) as a masters student in geology.His choice of subject shows
readEU cautions Zambia against overspending
13-04-2005
LUSAKA - The European Union has cautioned Zambia not to relent on fiscal discipline after it got a US$3,8 billion (N$22,8 billion) World Bank debt waiver under a scheme for heavily indebted poor
readJacobs leaves AngloGold
13-04-2005
Fritz Jacobs resigned from his post as the General Manager of AngloGold Namibia last month.Jacobs, who was the head of the Navachab gold mine at Karibib, tendered his resignation with 24 hours'
readHIV/AIDS could cut Kenyan income by 14%
13-04-2005
NAIROBI - HIV-AIDS will reduce Kenya's per capita income by 14 per cent and chop economic growth by 10 per cent by 2010 if left unchecked, the government said in a report to donors on Monday. The
readAbsa buys stake in Angola bank for US$7,5m
13-04-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African banking group Absa has acquired a 50 per cent controlling stake in Banco Comercial Angolano, a financial services provider based in Luanda, Angola.The stake, which
readHeineken CEO to leave in October
13-04-2005
AMSTERDAM - Dutch brewer Heineken's chief executive, Anthony Ruys, will leave on October 1 as part of a management restructuring and geographical reshuffling of activities, the company said
readTwo rape cases at coast
13-04-2005
TWO rape cases were reported at Swakopmund over the weekend.On Saturday night at a house in Mondesa, a 26-year-old woman was raped, the Police reported in their crime bulletin on Monday. The suspect,
readNam considered leader in desert fight
13-04-2005
NAMIBIA has been asked to make a presentation on its efforts to combat desertification at a meeting of the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD) in Germany.Sam Shikongo, who
readEmerging farmers push for skills and collateral
13-04-2005
NAMIBIANS who have taken up farming under Government's land reform programme are in dire need of skills and farm management training, as well as collateral for obtaining credit, according to a new
readChildbirth mortalities a disgrace: WHO
13-04-2005
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a new report calling the exclusion of hundreds of millions of mothers and babies from access to potentially life-saving care "a disgrace". The report
readThe honeymoon is over, President tells top officials
13-04-2005
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has told his newly appointed executive team of ministers, deputy ministers and directors general that their honeymoon is over.Addressing them for the first time as a
readCreche manager says she'll be 'cleared'
13-04-2005
THE woman at the centre of a row over the Tsumeb Community Development Children's Centre says she is confident that an investigation by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare will clear
readAnother fish factory pleads poverty ...
13-04-2005
ONE of the last two operating pilchard canneries at Walvis Bay, United Fishing Enterprises, yesterday announced the retrenchment of permanent employees.The news of yet another fishing company
readReggie Diergaardt makes comeback
13-04-2005
VETERAN Namibian politician Reggie Diergaardt is scheduled to make a formal return to the political arena today.He will be sworn in as a Member of Parliament this morning on the nomination of
readDesert Run kicks up dust
13-04-2005
CONDEMNATION of the environmentally destructive Desert Run held at the Swakopmund-Walvis Bay dune belt area shortly after Easter is pouring in from all over the country.
readHigh Court halts hit-and-run accident trial
13-04-2005
THE trial of a Leonardville area resident accused of killing a relative of former Deputy Prime Minister Hendrik Witbooi in a hit-and-run accident in Windhoek was stopped in its tracks by the High
readJustice Minister Iivula-Ithana cracks the whip
13-04-2005
THE Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, has come out strongly against countless delays and postponements of court cases, especially in the lower courts, saying staff
readWindhoek enters 'dark age' Power rations kick in
13-04-2005
NAMIBIANS are starting to feel the effect of NamPower's announcement at the beginning of the month that its main power supplier, Eskom of South Africa, can no longer provide a steady supply of
readNORED otaka teta ko olusheno
13-04-2005
O MUPOPILIKO gwOkampani yokugandja olusheno mUumbangalantu, ya tseyika nawa nedhina NORED (Northern Regions Electricity Distribution Company- NORED), tate Frans Niikondo, okwa tseyitha Omaandaha ngaka
readUupyakadhi pOkinda pOshomeya
13-04-2005
UUMINISTELI wUuthikepamwe pokati kaalumentu naakiintu nEgameno lyaakiintu nAanona, owa tuma aanambelewa kOshomeya ya ka konakone omapopyo kutya mOkinda yAanona mondoolopa ndjika omu na elongithonayi
readZimbabwe ota ka futa aanafaalama yaatiligane
13-04-2005
HARARE - Epangelo lyOmupresidende Robert Mugabe otali ka futa aanafaalama yaatiligane omathele mboka ya kuthwa oofaalama dhawo kohi yOprograma yetopolululo lyevi, Oshifokundaneki shEpangelo osho sha
readEpangelo ota li ka konaakona omukithi gwo Marburg pOkapale ka Hosea Kutako
13-04-2005
MOMAANDAHA Namibia okwa katuka oonkatu dhomeendelelo nelalakano okukeelela omukuthi gwa nyika oshiponga gwedhina Marburg ngoka gwa monika muumbangalantu wa Angola omasiku ga zi ko.Etokolo ndyoka lya
readBelgium ota ka kwathela DRC
13-04-2005
BRUSSELS - Epangelo lya Belgium otali ka longitha OoEuro oomiliyuna mokukaleka omatulilo (Oopoota) dhOrepublika yUundemokoli ya Congo (DRC) dhi li monkalo yi li nawa notayi opalele.Belgium oye a li a
readKrenz, van Staden score victories at Bike Challenge
13-04-2005
JUNIOR riders Falco Krenz and Heletje van Staden won the Tuhafeni Mountain Bike Challenge at Outjo on Saturday.Krenz and van Staden took the race by storm and outclassed all rivals by crossing the
readOtto is chess champ
13-04-2005
THE chess pilot project initiated by Gísli Pálsson, Charge d'Affaires of the Icelandic Embassy, came to an end with a bang last weekend in Windhoek.The tournament was well attended by 53
readNedbank revives women football
13-04-2005
NEDBANK Namibia yesterday announced a sponsorship of N$46 500 for the Khomas Women's Football League (KWFL), which is expected to kick off in Windhoek on April 20.The league currently has nine active
readCongo, Helu and Shipanga dropped
13-04-2005
THE Brave Warriors technical team yesterday dropped a bombshell by axing three of Namibia's most experienced players ahead of the Cosafa Castle Cup match against Botswana in Windhoek.The technical
readIN BRIEF
13-04-2005
*VIRUS - A total of 203 people have died in Angola from the Marburg virus, the worst outbreak ever recorded of the Ebola-like bug, the Angolan health ministry and the World Health Organisation
readCardinals discuss sainthood for Pope
13-04-2005
VATICAN CITY - Cardinals meeting daily in Rome to discuss the main issues facing the Roman Catholic Church ahead of a conclave to elect a pope next week have signed a petition asking a future pope to
readSA probing mercenary recruitment claims
13-04-2005
PRETORIA - South Africa, which is trying to mediate an end to Ivory Coast's long civil war, said yesterday it was probing rebel claims that President Laurent Gbagbo was recruiting mercenaries to
readRumsfeld says US has no strategy to exit Iraq
13-04-2005
BAGHDAD - The United States has no exit strategy from Iraq and any pullout depends on the readiness of Iraqi forces to ensure security, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on a surprise visit here
readBush rebuffs Sharon over settlements
13-04-2005
JERUSALEM - Israel's hopes of cementing its hold over parts of the West Bank in exchange for withdrawing from Gaza were dented after US President George W. Bush warned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
readCastro accuses US of harbouring terrorists
13-04-2005
HAVANA - President Fidel Castro said the United States was harbouring anti-Cuban terrorists and wondered why the European Union kept mum about it while it supported a US move to criticise Cuba for its
readRescuers hunt for missing in collapsed Bangladesh factory
13-04-2005
PALASH BARI - Rescue workers trying to reach 90 people trapped under the rubble of a collapsed factory in Bangladesh warned yesterday time was running out to find survivors, as the death toll reached
readZim opposition to challenge elections outcome in court
13-04-2005
JOHANNESBURG/HARARE - Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said yesterday it would lodge court challenges to results from polls it says were rigged.The move
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