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41 Articles found on Wednesday, 3 August 2005
Barclays now holds voting control in Absa
03-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Britain's Barclays Plc has pushed its stake in South Africa's biggest consumer bank Absa to 56,1 per cent, giving it voting control of the banking group, the groups said
readLargest gold strike in 18 years looms in SA
03-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, the world's top gold producer, is facing its worst strike in 18 years with unions threatening to launch the work stoppage at all gold mines as early as next week,
readBEE-fronting costs SA R44m
03-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Fifteen companies have cost the South African Department of Public Works R441,1 million in the past two years by fronting as black economic empowerment (BEE) entities, Minister of
readRyanair enjoys record profit
03-08-2005
LONDON - Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost airline, saw a 21 per cent increase in net profit during its first quarter, as a 30 per cent hike in passenger numbers helped to offset a doubling of fuel
readEU ruling boosts Africa plan for vaccine fund
03-08-2005
BRUSSELS - The European Union's statistics office removed a potential obstacle to a proposal to fund vaccination schemes in Africa yesterday when it ruled money spent on the plan would not count
readPilots ballot to strike at SAA
03-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African Airways (SAA) pilots have approved a motion of no confidence in management and began balloting for a strike, their association said yesterday, raising the spectre of a
readFruit firm thief just couldn't get enough
03-08-2005
HAVING confessed that she embezzled close to a quarter of a million Namibia dollars from her employers in little over half a year, a young Oshakati woman also admitted to a Magistrate this week that
readLazarus Kandara, where are you?
03-08-2005
THE man who may yet be able to provide the answers that High Court Acting Judge Raymond Heathcote has been looking for in his search for a N$30 million Social Security Commission investment that has
readNSP shareholding raises legal questions
03-08-2005
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba's call for greater corporate accountability and transparency a fortnight ago, may well be put to a serious test at the very place where he issued the warning - the
readMystery surrounding ODC millions grows
03-08-2005
THE Botswanan outfit in which the Offshore Development Company invested just short of N$100 million, appears to no longer be operational in that country.A dead director, a telephone number that
readDangerous suspect on run
03-08-2005
POLICE in Windhoek are appealing to members of the public to report the whereabouts of Erastus Nuuyoma Nangolo alias Erassy (31) who escaped from the Wanaheda Police cells in Windhoek on July 24.The
readKatutura parish to receive 4 priests
03-08-2005
WINDHOEK - The Roman Catholic Holy Redeemer Parish in Katutura will celebrate the swearing-in of four priests this weekend.Father Teddy Lennon told Nampa yesterday that the four priests are
readCity's Saturday market now 'only for Namibian vendors'
03-08-2005
A DECISION by the Windhoek City Council to give strict preference to Namibian vendors selling their goods at Post Street Mall on Saturdays, has left foreign vendors dangling in the wind.In the past
readBilingual education in the spotlight
03-08-2005
EDUCATION specialists from 17 African countries and a variety of backgrounds will join educationalists from France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States for a conference
readFarmers urged to go with agri flow
03-08-2005
DEPUTY Minister of Agriculture, Paul Smit, has called on commercial farmers in the Karas Region to re-double their efforts on agricultural development.Focus needed to be placed on the primary sector
readCorporate conduct: Namibia's challenge and crisis
03-08-2005
THE challenge facing the Namibian economy is that of diversification and inclusion. Our economy needs to be diversified from primary production to value-added production, resource dependent to
readAnalysts believe the DBN faces 'a daunting task'
03-08-2005
AFTER joining the financial services sector amid huge expectations from both the public and the small business sector, analysts agree that the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN), faces a daunting task
readHusband accused of beating wife to death
03-08-2005
A 50-year-old Ohangwena man allegedly beat his wife to death in what is becoming a recurring trend in domestic violence in Namibia.Police reports said Julia Shikongo (64) was struck to death by her
readMore heads roll at Unam as another scam is uncovered
03-08-2005
THE University of Namibia has suspended the head of its Centre for Public Service Training (CPST) after a second suspected scam was uncovered in less than two weeks.Unam's Director for Communication,
readEmotional second day in Simon accident hearing
03-08-2005
IN the midst of an avalanche of scientific testimony that characterised the second day of boxer Harry Simon's court case, there was an emotional moment when Dr Bert Coene, one of the survivors of the
readSpar workers in the North demonstrate
03-08-2005
ABOUT 32 employees of Dr Frans Indongo's Continental Spar supermarkets at Oshakati and Ongwediva held a peaceful demonstration in Oshakati on Sunday morning to demand better working conditions.In a
readODC ina kanitha oomiliyuna, Ndishishi ta ti
03-08-2005
OKAMPANI ya Offshore Development Company (ODC) oya popi kutya oyi li moonkundathana okutala nkene yi na okumona oshimaliwa shoka ya kuthilwe.Nande ongaaka, ODC okwa tindi okutya sha komapopyo kutya
readJoseph Kauandenge a ndjoina ishewe ongundu yilwe
03-08-2005
JOSEPH Kauandenge okwa za mo mongundu yo DTA nokwa ndjoina ongundu yo Republican Party ya Henk Mudge.Shika okwe shi ningi ashike konima yoomwedhi ndatu lwaampoka, sho a shunununa mo DTA okuza ko Unity
readAguste 2005 omwedhi gwa simana kAanuumbesa nUuteksi
03-08-2005
U UPYAKADHI mboka wa kala po wEhangano lyOombesa nUuteksi moNamibia kali na Aawiliki uule woomwedhi, otashi vulika tau ka kanduka po omwedhi nguka Aguste.Omwedhi nguka koyendji gwa talika ko kutya
readOsenda yokuyambula po oshigwana momikunda onkee tayi pula komeho
03-08-2005
O SENDA yi na sha nEyambulopo lyoshigwana shomomikunda, ya tseyika nawa moshitakumi nedhina Ongwediva Rural Development Centre, mOngwediva, ya tulwa po kEpangelo nelalakano lyokuyambula po Uunamapya,
readMeekulu Mukwanekambama okwa li omunambili
03-08-2005
Omukalimo a shivika nawa womomukunda Eembahu mOukwanyama moshitopolwa sha Hangwena meekulu Natalia Ndeshiteelela Kayoo, a shivika yo nawa nedina Mukwanekamba, oo a manena oweenda waye moshipangelo sha
readKapia oku li wo moshipyu sha SPYL
03-08-2005
ONKALO nenge tutye onkatu mpoka pwa thikama Amushanga gwEwawa lyaagundjuka mongundu yo Swapo/Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL), ngoka wo e li Omupevi Minista mUuministeli wIilonga, Paulus Kapia, oya
readHiveluah ina kuthwa miilonga
03-08-2005
OMUKULUNTUWILIKI gwOkampani ya Social Security Commission (SSC) Tuli Hiveluah, natango oku na opoosa ye ndjika na ina kuthwa miilonga pakathimbo shi na sha noshimaliwa shOondola oomiliyuna omilongo
readNamibian Strikers to hold tourney at Rehoboth
03-08-2005
THE Namibian Strikers Football Club will hold a tournament on August 6 and 7 in Rehoboth.The total prize-money is N$8 000 and the winner will receive N$4 000.The runner-up pockets N$2 400, while the
readBaros to stay at L´pool
03-08-2005
BERLIN - German Bundesliga side Schalke 04 have pulled out of a potential deal to buy Czech striker Milan Baros from Liverpool but have completed the transfer of Danish forward Soren Larsen.Schalke
readRossi extends Yamaha deal for 2006
03-08-2005
LONDON - Six-times world champion Valentino Rossi will ride for Yamaha in MotoGP next season after extending his contract until the end of 2006.The announcement ends speculation that the 26-year-old
readArbitration case far from being finalised
03-08-2005
AN arbitration case involving premiership side Life Fighters and the Namibia Premier League (NPL) Disciplinary Committee, will possibly be concluded later next week, a lawyer involved in the case
readNujoma Stadium opens next week
03-08-2005
THE Sam Nujoma Stadium will officially be opened on August 13, a senior official at the City of Windhoek announced yesterday.The N$64 million facility, which is popularly known as the Katutura Stadium
readCompany connections: politicians in spotlight
03-08-2005
NEW YORK - Many former US politicians and diplomats have moved on to plum jobs as board members of big companies, but a backlash may be brewing as businesses face more scrutiny over who they bring in
readIn Brief
03-08-2005
* FUNERAL - Saudis and foreign dignitaries were to pay their respects to King Fahd in a funeral which is the final act in a 23-year reign that saw him steer the kingdom through the most turbulent
readTerror suspect 'sold CDs' in SA
03-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - A Briton arrested in Zambia on suspicion of terrorism was a known flea-market salesman in South Africa and described by a colleague as a "nice family man", the Johannesburg-based daily
readNASA orders emergency repairs on Discovery
03-08-2005
HOUSTON - Discovery astronauts were yesterday preparing tools and techniques they will use for an unprecedented repair operation on the shuttle's thermal shield to ensure it can make a safe return to
readSudan prepares for Garang succession
03-08-2005
NEW SITE, Sudan - Salva Kiir yesterday prepared to replace the charismatic John Garang as head of Sudan's southern movement after his death in a helicopter crash rocked a fragile peace process and
readThousands protest Gaza pullout
03-08-2005
SDEROT - Thousands of settlers and their supporters were gathering in southern Israel yesterday for a giant rally to protest against the imminent pullout of troops and settlers from the Gaza
readTreason case against Zim opposition leader dropped
03-08-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe's government yesterday withdrew its remaining treason case against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who last year was acquitted of separate charges of plotting to kill President
readSA white farmers fear landless push for reform
03-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's white commercial farmers fear a government move away from market-based land reform may cost them dearly, but the main body representing South Africa's landless says quick
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