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46 Articles found on Monday, 8 August 2005
In Brief
08-08-2005
PRETORIA - South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has said the country's rand currency may strengthen following an upgrade of the country's credit rating by Standard & Poor's on
readSouth Africa maize flat as rally ends
08-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African maize prices ended flat on Friday as the rand and US prices failed to give the market direction, traders said.September white maize futures closed one rand lower at 626
readAlcoa, Ghana to re-start Valco aluminium smelter in 2006
08-08-2005
NEW YORK - Alcoa Inc., the world's No. 1 aluminum producer, finalised agreements to restart the 200 000 tonne-per-year Valco aluminum smelter in Tema, Ghana, the company said on Thursday.The restart
readBarclays reports pre-tax profits rise
08-08-2005
LONDON - Barclays, the third-biggest British bank, said on Friday that interim pre-tax profits had increased by 9 per cent, helped by steady growth across most of its divisions, and sounded a
read'Altech wants EWG wound up'
08-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's Allied Technologies wants to wind up African cell phone operator, Econet Wireless Global (EWG) less than nine months after taking a majority stake, because it fell out
readAnglo H1 as expected, coal and copper disappoint
08-08-2005
LONDON - Anglo American Plc, the world's third-largest miner, reported an expected 43 per cent jump in first-half profit last week, led by Asian demand, but earnings at its key base metals and coal
readSouth Africa house prices rise at slowest pace
08-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African house prices recorded their slowest growth in three years in July on a monthly basis and growth is expected to ease further this year, mortgage lender Absa said
readImplats workers mull wage offer
08-08-2005
JOHANNESBURG - The world's second biggest platinum producer, South Africa's Implats, has made a fresh wage offer to workers, the company and the country's biggest mining union said on Friday.Workers
readEffects of liberalising textile trade market
08-08-2005
IN a bid to survive in the global market and intensify developing the local textile industry, the government has set up measures to ensure the industry thrives.Speaking at a roundtable discussion on
readPilot dies in city helicopter crash
08-08-2005
A HELICOPTER crashed near the Daan Viljoen Game Park on the outskirts of Windhoek late yesterday afternoon, various aviation sources confirmed last night.The pilot, who was the single occupant, was
readNabta to discuss fare hike
08-08-2005
THE Namibia Taxi and Bus Association (Nabta) will meet with the Permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Transport and Communication and the Ministry of Mines and Energy today to discuss possible
readDiplomats urged to tighten their belts
08-08-2005
THE need to exercise financial prudence and to learn to do more with available resources, was the thrust of President Hifikepunye Pohamba's instructions to Namibia's diplomats."We expect our
readRehoboth man stabs co-worker to death
08-08-2005
AN 80-year-old Rehoboth man allegedly went berserk on Saturday morning and stabbed to death a colleague in an argument.Eyewitnesses said the aged man had a quarrel with Maria Beukes (29) after which
readSuspect tries to implicate victim's wife
08-08-2005
ONE of the men accused of robbing, kidnapping and murdering Windhoek businessman Gero Schaum three and a half years ago, on Friday tried to shift the focus of suspicion from himself and his brother
readSwapo calls for 'maximum unity'
08-08-2005
A CRUCIAL meeting called by the Swapo Party to take stock of its performance ended in the capital city yesterday with a call for "unity of purpose" within the ranks and the elimination of
readStruggle for democratic UN must continue: Pohamba
08-08-2005
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba says Namibia will continue to fight to "democratise" the United Nations by pushing for Africa to hold permanent seats on its Security Council."We as Africa are calling
readAvid enquiry: Still no sign of missing SSC millions
08-08-2005
THE court enquiry into probably the most notoriously bad investment deal in Namibia since Independence is set to resume tomorrow, with little progress having been made in the search for millions of
readFather gave away child as 'sex slave'
08-08-2005
AN Outjo district farmworker who gave away his 10-year-old stepdaughter to become a colleague's common-law wife, and the man who took the child as his concubine and proceeded to rape her numerous
readSouthern skills, northern design
08-08-2005
HOW to find work for Namibian artisans? The recipe is to mix traditional woodcarving and basket weaving, and combine these local handicraft skills with Scandinavian design.Satu Miettinen, a Finnish
readToddler beaten to death
08-08-2005
A three-year-old Okahao girl was tragically beaten to death by two of her relatives last week.It is alleged that the teen nieces aged 10 and 13 hit the deceased with sticks all over her body on
readSan rights study completed
08-08-2005
THE African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations and Communities in Africa has finished its study with San people in Namibia.The working group was invited to carry out its mission by
readKaras Regional Governor's son arrested
08-08-2005
THE eldest son of the Karas Regional Governor, Dawid Boois, has been charged with malicious damage to property.Mokganedi Boois allegedly stoned a vehicle, damaging its windows and doors. The incident
readNedBank a gandja omagano kOosikola omulongo mOshikandjo sha Shakati
08-08-2005
OMBAANGA ya tseyika nawa ya Namibia yedhina NedBank, omasiku ga zi ko, oya gandja omagano gIikwathitholongo kOosikola omulongo dhomOshikandjosikola sha Shakati noshaNamutai mOshitopolwa sha
readZambia ota ka shunitha oshikulofekelwa
08-08-2005
L USAKA - Omupresidende gwa Zambia Levy Mwanawasa okwa ti omulumentu ngoka a kwatwa po moshilongo shika (taku fekelwa kutya oha longo iilonga yuukulo), ota ka shunithwa ku London.Omulumentu nguka,
readMeti 31 Aguste Omatala ga Shakati itaga longo
08-08-2005
MOSHIGONGI shoka sha ningilwa Aamatala ga Shakati kElelo lyawo lya Shakati mEtitatu lya zi ko, Aamatala oya lombwelwa kElelo lyawo kutya Elelo lya Shakati olya kutha ko Omatala ga Shakati ku NDC okuza
readSimon a pewa ondholongo
08-08-2005
OMUDHENGINGONYO kwali kamana mUuyuni, Harry Simon okwa pewa egeelo lyondholongo omimvo mbali mEtine lya zi ko konima sho a monika ondjo moshipotha shedhipago lyaa shi lyoshiningilawina.Egeelo ndika
readOkampani moka mu na iimaliwa ya ODC itayi longo we
08-08-2005
OKAMPANI ompunguli yoku Bostwana moka Okampani ya Off-shore Development Company (ODC) omo a pungula oshimaliwa she shOndola oomiliyuna ethele, osha fa shi li ngeyi kutya kali mo we moshilongo
readBekele hot favourite for 10,000m
08-08-2005
HELSINKI - Ethiopian running phenomenon Kenenisa Bekele goes into the world championships 10 000m today as firm favourite after announcing he was concentrating solely on this race and would not be
readIvanova set world record
08-08-2005
HELSINKI - Olimpiada Ivanova of Russia set the first world record of the world athletics championships yesterday clinching US$160 000 to win the 20-kilometre walk.Justin Gatlin has said he is also
readHeroic Boks upset All Blacks
08-08-2005
CAPE TOWN - Heroic South Africa triumphed 22-16 by tackling New Zealand into submission Saturday in the Tri-Nations championship.The score was indentical to last weekend when title holders South
readPremiership transfers top 100 million
08-08-2005
LONDON - English Premiership clubs have dug deep paying out millions of pounds on players for the 2005-2006 season.Chelsea are the big spenders once again, splashing out 21 million pounds on
readAgnes bows out at championships
08-08-2005
NAMIBIA'S middle distance runner Agnes Samaria bowed out of the World Athletics Championships in Finland yesterday, after she ended her second 800 metre semi-final heat in fifth place.Samaria clocked
readHitman punches his way to title
08-08-2005
GALVANISING boxer, Paulus 'The Hitman' Moses became the first Namibian to capture the World Boxing Association's (WBA) Pan African title after he stopped South Africa's Joni Simphiwe in the sixth
readGospel world mourns Winans
08-08-2005
NASHVILLE - The gospel community is mourning the death of Ronald Winans (48).Winans began his career when he and brothers Marvin, Carvin and Michael were discovered by the legendary Andrae Crouch.They
readIbrahim Ferrer, 'Buena Vista' singer
08-08-2005
HAVANA - Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, known worldwide for his work on the 'Buena Vista Social Club' project, died at a Havana hospital Saturday at the age of 78.Ferrer, who had just completed a
readIn Brief
08-08-2005
* CRASH - Thirteen people were confirmed dead from the crash off Sicily of a Tunisian plane carrying Italian tourists, while two people were missing and there are 23 survivors, Italian officials
readTime running out for deal on United Nations reform
08-08-2005
UNITED NATIONS - With the General Assembly less than six weeks away, UN diplomats scramble to hammer out a deal on the most ambitious UN reform in 60 years but agreement on key issues, including an
readTributes pour in for Robin Cook
08-08-2005
LONDON - Tributes flooded in from around the political world yesterday to former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook who died after collapsing on a Scottish mountainside.Cook, who was 59, quit the
readNetanyahu quits over Gaza pullout
08-08-2005
JERUSALEM - Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tendered his resignation yesterday over his opposition to this month's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, official sources said.Netanyahu,
readMauritanians vow support for army rulers after coup
08-08-2005
ROSSO - Jubilant at the ousting of their president, Mauritanians have cast aside international condemnation and pledged support for a military junta that has promised to lead them to democratic
readZambia deports terrorism suspect
08-08-2005
LUSAKA - A British man arrested in Zambia two weeks ago was yesterday deported to his home country, where he is reportedly suspected of being the mastermind behind last month's deadly bomb attacks in
readA fighter short on diplomatic finesse
08-08-2005
LONDON: Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook was a tenacious political fighter whose undoubted intellect was not always matched by diplomatic finesse.Below are some facts about Cook: * Cook, a
readCook, the man who quit govt over Iraq invasion
08-08-2005
LONDON - Robin Cook, the former British foreign secretary who died on Saturday aged 59, was regarded as a brilliant speaker with a forensic debating style, who dramatically quit the government in
readChina says it will introduce anti-graft lessons at schools
08-08-2005
BEIJING - China plans to introduce lessons in schools outlining the "evil" of corruption with graft rife across the country and few signs of it getting better, state media reported on Friday.The
readPrivatisation of symbol of revolution sparks a furore
08-08-2005
KIEV - Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko is facing new criticism after media reports that his son, whose extravagant lifestyle has come under fire, has acquired the copyright of trademark symbols of
readSaudis warned of London attacks
08-08-2005
LONDON - The British government declined to comment yesterday on reports that Saudi officials warned well ahead of last month's deadly London bombings that terrorists were planning to attack the
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