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37 Articles found on Wednesday, 31 August 2005
Oil prices at US$70 not sustainable
31-08-2005
JAKARTA - Oil prices that soared above US$70 (N$455) a barrel are ultimately unsustainable as they will erode consumption, the chief executive of Chevron Corp, the No.2 US oil company, said
readPaladin ready to mine uranium in Nam
31-08-2005
WINDHOEK - Paladin Resources Ltd has obtained bank approval for the debt component of the funding required to develop the Langer Heinrich Uranium Project in Namibia.Paladin announced on Monday that
readKeetmans show starts today
31-08-2005
KEETMANSHOOP - The Keetmanshoop Show, which starts today, is expected to surpass all previous shows that the town has held.Altogether 64 exhibitors will showcase their wares inside the main hall of
readEstimates put Katrina insurance claims at US$26b
31-08-2005
NEW YORK - The property and casualty insurance industry, hit hard last year when four separate hurricanes slammed into Florida, now faces as much as US$26 billion (N$169 billion) in claims from
readKeetmanshoop terminates SELCo contract
31-08-2005
THE Keetmanshoop Town Council has terminated its controversial power supply deal with the Southern Electricity Service Company (SELCo).In the year 2000, the South African-controlled company acquired
readGovernment to decide on Kunene hydropower plan
31-08-2005
GOVERNMENT has yet to decide whether Namibia should pursue new studies into a hydropower project on the lower Kunene River.Studies at two sites - Epupa and Baynes - caused considerable controversy in
readNBC cash crisis deepens, owes Receiver N$29m
31-08-2005
FINANCIAL worries continue to haunt the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) with revelations that the State broadcaster has struggled to pay the Receiver of Revenue millions in taxes, The
readBlaauw quits NYC post
31-08-2005
THE Acting Secretary General of the National Youth Council, Ralph Blaauw, is resigning from his post as a result of the messy collapse of the N$30 million Social Security Commission investment deal
readBody remains unidentified
31-08-2005
WINDHOEK - The Police at Katima Mulilo are appealing to members of the public to help identify a man who was shot and killed at OK Foods at Katima Mulilo on Sunday.The Police say that efforts to
readArmed robbery at Olemba shebeen
31-08-2005
TWO men raided the Olemba Shebeen in the Ombili informal settlement, Katutura, on Monday and stole cash money, liquor and other items.In their daily crime bulletin yesterday, the Police indicated
readSADC ministers to drive cultural agenda
31-08-2005
WINDHOEK - The 2004 Pretoria Statement of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Colloquium of Ministers of Culture has not been implemented because of a lack of structures.Minister of
readDrowning murder bid at coast
31-08-2005
POLICE at Walvis Bay arrested five suspects on charges of attempted murder at the weekend, NamPol reported yesterday.Eyewitnesses said the gang allegedly tied one Tuhafeni Haufiku's hands with a
readOnly three Cymot workers reinstated
31-08-2005
CYMOT has failed to adhere to a recent ruling by labour consultant Sacky Aipinge that all 79 workers who were dismissed after a wildcat strike in May should be reinstated.The Secretary General of the
readMUN to meet this weekend
31-08-2005
The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) is to hold its ninth annual congress from tomorrow to Saturday with the theme 'Building a Stronger Union through Education, Solidarity, Networking and Economic
readThose hazy, crazy days of August
31-08-2005
STRONG winds in and around Windhoek are responsible for the hazy conditions that many residents have mistaken for smoke from veld fires on the outskirts of the city."There is no burning anywhere. You
readNSHR slams 'hate speech' by protesters
31-08-2005
THE National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has strongly condemned hate speech it says emanated from a march by the Herero community to the Prime Minister's office last week.A demonstrator was
readStolen millions must be returned, says Pohamba
31-08-2005
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba says all the public money that has gone missing in dubious investments must be returned as soon as possible, as it belongs to the Namibian people.Addressing more than 10
readTjihumino suspension 'not over GIPF losses'
31-08-2005
THE Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance and Chairman of the GIPF Board, ZM ('Maru') Tjihumino, was not suspended because of massive losses reported at the State pension body, Permanent
readStock Theft Act sentences present challenge to courts
31-08-2005
ONE of Namibia's more controversial pieces of legislation, the Stock Theft Amendment Act that prescribes minimum jail terms as high as 30 years for stealing livestock, remains the subject of some
readOomiliyuna dha ODC odhi li peni?
31-08-2005
NATANGO Okampani ya Off-shore Development Company (ODC) inayi hala okupopya ngele opwa ningwa sha shomupundo molukongo lwoshimaliwa shOondola oomiliyuna ethele ndhoka ya li ya gandja kOkampani ya
readOshigongi shi na sha nOveta yevi shuundulilwa komeho
31-08-2005
O SHAKATI - Oshigongiilonga tahi popi kombinga yetopolululo lyevi momahala gokomikunda - sha li sha longekidhwa kUuministeli wOmavi nOmatulilo pOshakati, oshuundulilwa komeho oshiwike sha zi ko
readOpolisi otayi konakona omaso gatatu
31-08-2005
OPOLISI ya Ndangwa otayi konakona eso lya Joseph Elias, ngoka a si omeya mondama olukanda lwa Mahenene momundhingoloko gwa Ndangwa mOmaandaha goshiwike sha zi ko.Natango Opolisi ya Ndangwa oya
readOntanda nomathigathano megongalo lya Hosiana
31-08-2005
OONGUNDULWIIMBO adhihe niimpungulonga ayihe mEgongola lya ELCIN lya Hosiana mOvenduka nodhopuushiinda, otadhi hiywa kontanda yoondjimbo tayi ka ningilwa mEgonalo ndika.Montanda ndjika otamu ka kala wo
readOta ku kongwa Mateus Kavela
31-08-2005
OTA KU kongwa omulumentu gwedhina Mateus Ndeutapo Kavela gwoomvula 21, omupopi gwElaka lyOshiwambo.Otaku popiwa kutya Mateus okwa li a monika lwa hugunina a zala ohema ombulau yomaako omafupi
readIimaliwa yoshigwana mbyoka ya yakwa po nayi galulwe, Presidende ta ti
31-08-2005
O SHIMALIWA shOndola oomiliona omilongondatu shoka ndhoka dha kuthwa mo Social Security Commission (SSC) pamukalo gwiikengelela ndele tayi kana noshowo mbyoka yoomiliona ethele ya ODC ya kana,
readSerena fumbles
31-08-2005
NEW YORK - Serena Williams posted the expected tennis result in her opening match at the US Open on Monday but the style-conscious former champion fumbled her first fashion test of the
readNFA offers coaching course
31-08-2005
THE Namibia Football Association will conduct a Basic Coaching and Youth Development Training course at Soccer House from Monday, September 5.Coaches of the first and second division who are based in
readOwen agrees to join Newcastle
31-08-2005
NEWCASTLE - England striker Michael Owen agreed a four-year contract to join Newcastle United yesterday, ending an unhappy year at Real Madrid.The 25-year-old former European Footballer of the Year
readCycle Classic time is here
31-08-2005
THE time has come to dust off the bicycle languishing in the garage and join the cyclists already getting into the swing of things on the Okahandja road on weekends.This keenly anticipated event on
readIndonesia's foremost liberal Islamic thinker
31-08-2005
JAKARTA - Nurcholis Madjid, Indonesia's foremost liberal Muslim thinker, died last week Monday from liver cancer.He was 66. Madjid, better known as Cak Nur, was a tireless advocate of pluralism and
readIn Brief
31-08-2005
* PROBE - Lebanon arrested three former pro-Syrian security chiefs over the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, the first major development in the probe six months after the attack that sent shockwaves
readBrother Roger, founder of the Taize community
31-08-2005
PARIS - A Romanian woman slipped into a choir of singing monks during an evening prayer service and fatally slit the throat of the 90-year-old founder of an ecumenical Christian community in the
readHurricane Katrina kills at least 50
31-08-2005
BILOXI, Mississippi - A widespread disaster unfolded on the US Gulf coast yesterday as at least 50 people were reported dead in Mississippi and flood waters poured into low-lying New Orleans through
readUN ambassadors launch crisis negotiations on reform plans
31-08-2005
UNITED NATIONS - Some 32 UN ambassadors have begun a week of crisis talks in an effort to rescue a mid-September world summit on extreme poverty, human rights, terrorism, proliferation and UN
readZim's parliament votes on controversial legal reforms
31-08-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe's parliament was set yesterday to vote on a highly controversial bill that will stop white farmers from legally challenging land seizures and bar travel abroad to citizens deemed to
read7 immigrants die in new Paris blaze
31-08-2005
PARIS - A blaze in a rundown building housing African immigrants in Paris - the second in four days - killed seven people overnight, officials said yesterday, deepening a sense of shock over the
readUS air strikes on al Qaeda suspects kill at least 56
31-08-2005
BAGHDAD - At least 56 people were killed in multiple US air strikes in Iraq against suspected al Qaeda hideouts near the Syrian border at dawn yesterday, an Iraqi security source said.The attacks,
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