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47 Articles found on Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Taxi drivers' 'paradise'
13-12-2005
I'M writing in response to a letter in your December 9 issue regarding taxi brutality.Three months ago, my mother drove into the rear end of a taxi, which had stopped in the middle of the road to pick
readSport is embarrassing
13-12-2005
KINDLY allow me space in your newspaper to air my views about the management and the administration of sports in our country.It is embarrassing as a Namibian national staying abroad to associate
read'Permanent markers' for school exams
13-12-2005
PLEASE allow me space in your newspaper to air my concern on the marking of external examinations, especially of the Grade 10 and 12 exams.For the past three years, I have been trying to get into
readMayhem at the movies
13-12-2005
YESTERDAY, a year after my last visit to the cinemas of Ster Kinekor at Maerua Mall, I went back there to watch the latest Harry Potter film.During the past year, I've read with interest letters,
readWhat is the WTO?
13-12-2005
GENEVA - The World Trade Organisation (WTO) was established in January 1995 with the aim of helping global commerce flow as freely and fairly as possible and overseeing agreed rules.* Based in
readMandela urges for fight against poverty
13-12-2005
HONG KONG - Former South African president and Nobel peace laureate Nelson Mandela yesterday urged the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to do more to fight poverty, on the eve of crucial
readNamPower gets investment grade
13-12-2005
THE Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower) last week became the first Namibian company to be granted an investment grading, for both national and foreign currency ratings, by the internationally
readSun Int sees earnings rise
13-12-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's biggest hotel and gaming operator, Sun International, expects first-half headline earnings to jump by up to 40 per cent compared to the previous year, the group said
readASEAN delivers the HOGs and HOS
13-12-2005
KUALA LUMPUR - In the alphabet soup of Asian diplomacy, a HOG's no animal, the ARF doesn't bark, and everybody's in the same ZOPFAN.A summit without acronyms is like a day without SEANWFZ - as the
readWTO seeks pact for poor nations
13-12-2005
HONG KONG - Trade powers yesterday promised steps to help poorest nations sell more goods while Europe came under renewed pressure to give ground over farm tariff barriers on the eve of a key World
readWorld Bank sees 5% SA growth in 2005
13-12-2005
PRETORIA - Growth in South Africa's economy looks set to accelerate to five per cent this year in an upswing which is having tremendous impact on the rest of the world's poorest continent, the World
readPlayboy to open store in mainly Muslim Malaysia
13-12-2005
KUALA LUMPUR - Playboy Enterprises, the company behind the Playboy magazine empire, said yesterday it will open a store in conservative mainly-Muslim Malaysia, even though the raunchy publication is
readSA fuel shortage 'is easing'
13-12-2005
PRETORIA - South Africa's fuel shortage was easing, the SA Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) said yesterday."Things are improving rather than worsening," Sapia director Colin McClelland said. It
readLawyer in North arrested for fraud
13-12-2005
POLICE yesterday arrested a legal practitioner in the Oshana Region, northern Namibia, for allegedly trying to defraud the Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund.Police Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu
readCity takes back land from fired manager
13-12-2005
THE City of Windhoek has cancelled the sale of two plots to its former chief of property, Lazarus Shaduka, and decided to discipline other employees who played a part in the alleged scam or bought
readGruesome child murder: Community living in fear
13-12-2005
THE Rundu community has been gripped by fear and anger over the murder of an 11-year-old boy, Petrus Toto Biyete, who was kidnapped and found murdered in the bush at Sekanduko, near the Rundu Military
readCentre changes hands
13-12-2005
THE Rural Development Centre at Ongwediva was handed over to the Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Rural Development yesterday.The centre used to fall under the Ministry of Agriculture,
readSaving our precious ocean
13-12-2005
THE 'Friends with Fins' environmental awareness project of De Beers Marine Namibia and the Swakopmund Aquarium was officially launched on Thursday.At the occasion, Fisheries Minister Abraham Iyambo
readPermits for forest use
13-12-2005
RUNDU - The Directorate of Forestry in the Kavango Region is to introduce a new permit system to give communities the opportunity to benefit from forests.The system will only be implemented in areas
readKeetmans fails to renew car licences
13-12-2005
THE Keetmanshoop Municipality has been penalised for not renewing the registrations of 15 Council vehicles on time.The municipality's public relations officer, Epsom Jossop, yesterday cited
readFormer lodge manager disputes workers' claims
13-12-2005
ALL the rules prescribed in the Labour Act were followed in the claimed eviction of four workers from the Onduruquea Lodge, says Frank Eichhorn, former manager of the lodge.In reply to a recent
readTeenager arrested for rape
13-12-2005
POLICE have arrested a 14-year-old boy at Okahandja for allegedly raping a 41-year-old woman at the town, the Police reported at the weekend.The incident happened at around 05h00 on Saturday.
readKeetmans hikes go ahead
13-12-2005
THE Keetmanshoop Town Council has refused to budge on its decision to drastically increase the rent of municipal houses.A month and half ago, residents and municipal workers staged a demonstration
readWoermann Brock suspects all caught
13-12-2005
LESS than a week after their Wild West-style shootout with Police in Windhoek's Greenwell Matongo area, all five suspects in an armed robbery case at the Woermann Brock supermarket have been
readRobbery at Pep Stores
13-12-2005
PEP Stores at Otjiwarongo was robbed of N$68 000 worth of goods and cash between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.The Police reported yesterday that robbers broke in through the roof, broke open
readKyoto should not hamstring poor countries, says Konjore
13-12-2005
CLIMATE change cannot and should not retard the economic and social development of developing nations, says the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Willem Konjore.Addressing the United Nations
readCity to borrow money for infrastructure
13-12-2005
THE Windhoek Municipality plans to get a loan of more than N$184 million to finance major projects within the city.These include the Robert Mugabe Road extension at a total estimated cost of N$82,9
readGumwe a pewa omimvo 24 mokakuma
13-12-2005
Omunamimvo 32 okwa pewa ondholongo yoomvula 24 konima yekumba mOmpangu yOpashitopolwa poSwakopmund mEtitatu lyoshiwike sha zile ko.Mengestrata Gert Retief okwa pe Steven Visage egeelo lyomimvo 32
readAazaizai kaye na oombapila ya kwatwa po
13-12-2005
O POLISI mOvenduka (oshiwike sha zile ko) oya tula pokati aazaizai ye li 20 ye li moshilongo kaye na oombapila dhokukala mo.Ye li 19 Aangola omanga gumwe a za ko DRC. Opolisi oyo tuu ndjika oya gandja
readZuma a kuthwa oshipundi she mu ANC pakathimbo
13-12-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Ongundu tayi pangele mu South Afrika yo African National Congress (ANC) oya kutha miilonga pakathimbo Omupevipresidende gwayo, Jacob Zuma, manga taku ninga omakonakono moshipotha
readOmalimbililo kombinga yetidho lya Nyamu
13-12-2005
O PU NA oshipulitho oshinene kombinga ya ngele oshi li tuu mondjila nopakotampango sho Opolitburo ya ningi etokolo lyokutidha Ominista yIipindi nIikwafaabulika Jesaya Nyamu moSwapo.Nyamu okwa li a
readBolanos leads Deportivo Saprissa to win over Sydney FC
13-12-2005
TOYOTA - Midfielder Christian Bolanos scored early in the second half yesterday as Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa defeated Australia's Sydney FC 1-0 to set up a Club World Championship
readMoller takes Ultra Triathlon
13-12-2005
Cordula Moller was in superb form to win the Swakopmund Ultra Triathlon on Saturday.Moller covered the gruelling event, which consisted of a 1,9km swim, a 90km cycle and a 21km run in a total time of
readBolanos leads Deportivo Saprissa to win over Sydney FC
13-12-2005
TOYOTA - Midfielder Christian Bolanos scored early in the second half yesterday as Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa defeated Australia's Sydney FC 1-0 to set up a Club World Championship
readMuindi repeats win at Honolulu Marathon
13-12-2005
HONOLULU - Defending champion Jimmy Muindi of Kenya won the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday for the fifth time, finishing 49 seconds short of his record-setting pace of last year.Olesya Nurgalieva won
readFlintoff wins top British sports award
13-12-2005
LONDON - England cricket all-arounder Andrew Flintoff went to extra lengths to receive Britain's most prestigious annual sports award.Unable to attend the nationally televised ceremony in London,
readCivics pull away at the top
13-12-2005
Civics opened up a four-point lead at the top of the MTC Namibia Premier League log after beating African Stars 2-0 at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Sunday.Blue Waters moved up to second position after
readSudan leaders to blame for Darfur
13-12-2005
NAIROBI - Sudan's top leadership, including President Omar Beshir, bears responsibility for widespread atrocities committed in the troubled western Darfur region, a leading human rights watchdog
readSaddam casts a long shadow over elections
13-12-2005
BAGHDAD - He sits alone in a cell, writing poetry, reading and preparing for appearances before a court that could sentence him to hang.But Saddam Hussein is very much a player in Thursday's national
readIn Brief
13-12-2005
* BIG DAY - Special voting began in Iraq's hospitals and prisons on Monday, with security forces, detainees and the ill kicking off the country's first elections for a full-term parliament since the
readPolice interview Prince Charles in Diana probe
13-12-2005
LONDON - A senior British detective has interviewed Prince Charles as part of an inquiry into the death of his former wife Princess Diana, the heir to the throne's office said on Sunday.John Stevens,
readPolice say 16 arrested, 31 injured in Sydney race riots
13-12-2005
SYDNEY - Prime Minister John Howard yesterday condemned a day and night of race riots in Sydney beachside suburbs but said he does not believe Australian society has an undercurrent of racism.Howard
readAustralian youth 'too fat, too drugged'
13-12-2005
SYDNEY - Young Australians are becoming too drugged and too fat to serve in the military, the defence force said in a recruiting plan published yesterday.Unhealthy lifestyles combined with an ageing
readFirefighters tackle inferno
13-12-2005
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England - Firefighters were tackling a massive blaze at a key oil depot north of London early yesterday, after explosions sent orange fireballs and a pall of thick black smoke into
readFirefighters tackle inferno
13-12-2005
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England - Firefighters were tackling a massive blaze at a key oil depot north of London early yesterday, after explosions sent orange fireballs and a pall of thick black smoke into
readBomb kills anti-Syrian MP Tueni in Beirut
13-12-2005
BEIRUT - A car bomb explosion killed Gebran Tueni, a staunchly anti-Syrian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate, in Beirut yesterday.Three other people died and 10 were wounded in the
readNigerian crash death toll rises
13-12-2005
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Investigators picked over the scorched wreckage of an airliner that was ferrying schoolchildren home for the holidays when it crashed, killing 107 people on board in Nigeria's
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