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37 Articles found on Monday, 29 August 2005
DBMN and workers sign wage agreement
29-08-2005
DE Beers Marine Namibia, De Beers Marine South Africa, the Mineworkers Union of Namibia and the National Union of Mineworkers (SA) signed a two-year wage agreement for the 2005/06 period in Windhoek
readEC Mandelson to propose unblocking Chinese textiles
29-08-2005
BRUSSELS - European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said on yesterday he would make proposals to EU member states on Monday to release millions of euros' worth of Chinese-made garments stuck
readStrike looms at Rosh Pinah
29-08-2005
KEETMANSHOOP - Attempts by Labour and Social Welfare Minister Alpheus !Naruseb to ward of a possible strike action by workers on the Rosh Pinah road rehabilitation projects failed to yield the
readOATF attracts 580 exhibitors
29-08-2005
ONGWEDIVA - The chairperson of the Ongwediva Annual Trade Fair (OATF), Damian Egumbo, says more than 580 local and international exhibitors will exhibit their products and services at this year's
readECB gets N$1,8m for power investment study
29-08-2005
THE Electricity Control Board (ECB) and the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) last week signed a grant agreement to provide US$275 700 (around N$1,8 million) for technical assistance
readBad investments cost GIPF N$650m
29-08-2005
THE Ministry of Finance has suspended its Accountant General, Maru Tjihumino, with effect from last Tuesday after losses of more than N$650 million were reported at the Government Institutions
readAvid-SSC inquiry will go on without Kandara
29-08-2005
THE death of Lazarus Kandara will not stop the High Court inquiry into the Social Security Commission's doomed investment of N$30 million with Kandara's Avid Investment Corporation.The inquiry will
readKapia quits his Ministerial post
29-08-2005
THE political career of Swapo Party Youth League Secretary Paulus Kapia has become the latest casualty of the debacle around the Social Security Commission's investment of N$30 million through Avid
readQuestions stalk death of Kandara
29-08-2005
THE Namibian Police yesterday withdrew an explosive statement issued on Thursday, which contained an allegation that a gun might have been hidden in a blanket given to Avid Investment CEO Lazarus
readNujoma film back in town
29-08-2005
HAVING completed filming in Katima Mulilo and Oshakati, the film crew and cast of 'Where Others Wavered' are back in Windhoek.According to Uazuva Kaumbi, executive producer of the film about the life
readBilling hitches at City Council
29-08-2005
THE City of Windhoek is experiencing technical problems with its computer system.The Municipality is at the moment unable to process payments and account enquiries at its cash hall.The cash hall will
readNSHR calls for an independent probe
29-08-2005
THE National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has called for an independent investigation to be launched into the circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide of Lazarus Kandara.The NSHR said that
readThe arrest of Avid's CEO: The Congress of Democrats Demands Accountability from the Govt
29-08-2005
THE following is a statement issued by the Congress of Democrats: The entire Namibian nation is shocked, perplexed and angry to learn about the death of Mr Lazarus Kandara in police custody yesterday
readThe Kandara death: What NamPol said on Thursday
29-08-2005
ON Thursday evening, the Namibian Police issued a statement, signed by its Inspector General, Lieutenant General Sebastian Ndeitunga, to give the Police's version of events that led to the gunshot
readAvid coverage boosts investigative reporting: PM
29-08-2005
WHILE the Avid saga "has been turned into entertainment", it had nevertheless "encouraged investigative reporting in other questionable financial deals which stand unresolved", says Prime Minister
readThe truth must out, say people in North
29-08-2005
MANY people in the North have expressed shock at the death of Lazarus Kandara, the AVID CEO alleged to have shot himself after his arrest on Wednesday night.They are also worried about the impact on
readKandara's last testimony
29-08-2005
IN what would turn out to be the last testimony the High Court inquiry would hear from Avid Investment Corporation Chief Executive Officer Lazarus Kandara, he pledged to sign an acknowledgement of
readA tale of two investors
29-08-2005
ONCE they were business associates who worked together on what has become Namibia's most scrutinised investment deal in years, but last week Lazarus Kandara and Nico Josea just could not seem to
readKandara planned to branch out into debt collecting
29-08-2005
AVID Investment Corporation CEO Lazarus Kandara was in the process of setting up a debt collecting business in South Africa, the High Court inquiry into the Social Security Commission's N$30 million
readCops were warned that Kandara talked of suicide, says his lawyer
29-08-2005
SO distraught was the head of Avid Investment Corporation, Lazarus Kandara, at being arrested and accused of stealing the Social Security Commission's N$30 million, that he told his lawyer Lucius
readHeroes' Day marked at Opuwo
29-08-2005
OPUWO - President Hifikepunye Pohamba has urged Namibians to make sure that that the gains of Independence are not reversed and that the country will never again be a colony."We must never forget
readTop Prisons officials arrested for fraud
29-08-2005
ONE of the Deputy Commissioners of the Windhoek Central Prison, Joseph Peter Martin, as well as two other senior correctional officials, Leonard Okeyo Obego and Lodewyk Bartell, have been arrested for
readOshipotha sha Teek shu undulilwa ku Oktoba
29-08-2005
OMUPANGULI gwOmpangu yopombanda Pio Teek, okwa holoka mOmpangu oshikando oshititatu mEtitatu lya zi ko noku lombwelwa kutya oshipotha she oshuundulilwa komasiku 17 ga Oktoba.Teek (gwoomvula 58), okwa
readMeekulu Mukwanambwa e tu tetekela mepipi leedula 101
29-08-2005
O NGHUNDANA oluhodi ye tu dilila momukunda Onandova mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena otayi ti kutya omukulupe womomukunda omo meekulu Paulina Nghidengwa, a shivika nawa nedina Meekulu Mukwanambwa
readKandara okwa li a hala okwiikalela
29-08-2005
" ALIKANA, ethandje ndi ikalele," Lazarus Kandara osho a li a popi ngaaka, konima yotundi ontiheyali manga a li ti ilongekidhile uusiku we wotango konima yekumba.Konima sho a kala nokugandja uumbangi
readLazarus Kandara i idhipaga
29-08-2005
OMUTOTIPO gwOkampani ya Avid Investments, Lazarsus Kandara, uusiku wEtitatu lya zi ko okwa halutha oshigwana sho i idhipaga manga a li ta ka patelwa mokakuma kopOshitaashi shOpolisi shoka sha li
readNSC takes on arbitration case
29-08-2005
THE Namibia Sport Commission (NSC) will now have the mandate to decide on the prolonged arbitration case involving Life Fighters and the Namibia Premier League (NPL), a top official confirmed
readNamibia top in WC qualifiers
29-08-2005
NAMIBIA overcame a determined Uganda by three wickets to win the final of the ICC Africa/EAP under-19 World Cup qualifiers played at Willowmoore Park in Benoni, South Africa, on Saturday.Both teams
readNam rugby side on course for final
29-08-2005
THE Namibian under-18 rugby side will play in the semi-finals of the Confederation of Africa Cup after they scored emphatic wins over Uganda and Kenya at the Hage Geingob Stadium over the weekend.In
readIn Brief
29-08-2005
* BLOCKED - Robert Mugabe's government has blocked a US$30 million (about N$195 million) United Nations fundraising drive to provide food and medicine to Zimbabweans hardest hit by the state
readFBI searches US home of Nigerian vice president
29-08-2005
WASHINGTON - US federal agents have searched the US home of Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar as part of an international anti-corruption probe, officials disclosed late on Saturday.State
readAt least 30 wounded in bomb attack on ferry in Philippines
29-08-2005
LAMITAN - At least 30 people, including several children, were wounded yesterday in a bomb attack on a ferry believed to have been carried out by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants, officials said.The
readSA ruling alliance in turmoil over Zuma
29-08-2005
* JAN HENNOP JOHANNESBURG - South Africa experienced a politically tense week as signs of divisions within ruling party ranks over the axing of corruption-tainted deputy president Jacob Zuma crept to
readZim minister dies in South Africa
29-08-2005
HARARE - Josiah Tungamirai, Minister for Black Empowerment and Indigenisation in Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government, died while receiving treatment at a clinic in South Africa, state
readBurundi swears in new president
29-08-2005
BUJUMBURA - Burundi's new President, Pierre Nkurunziza, was sworn in Bujumbura on Friday as the country's first elected leader after 12 years of war at a ceremony attended by several other African
readSuicide blast punctures Mideast peace hopes
29-08-2005
BEERSHEVA - A Palestinian blew himself up while trying to board a bus in southern Israel yesterday in the first suicide attack since the evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip, puncturing hopes
readIraq crisis deepens as Sunnis reject deal
29-08-2005
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament convened yesterday to consider a draft constitution that minority Sunnis immediately rejected, despite strenuous US mediation in weeks of wrangling between main ethnic and
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