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34 Articles found on Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Global business gains strength
07-12-2005
WASHINGTON - The global private-sector economy continued to grow briskly last month, even if a shade cooler than October, bolstering speculation the world economy will be stronger in 2006 than many
read'Recognise workers' rights'
07-12-2005
WASHINGTON - Eleven Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including former US President Jimmy Carter, have joined with a labour group in urging full recognition of workers' rights in the lead-up to
readMboweni upbeat on inflation
07-12-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's central bank governor, Tito Mboweni, said on Monday several factors had changed since the Reserve Bank held its last monetary policy (MPC) meeting, when it warned that
readJapan to concede at WTO talks
07-12-2005
TOKYO - Japan signalled yesterday it is ready to make painful concessions at a World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong next week to help break the deadlock in talks on a global free-trade
read2nd phone licence for SA
07-12-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African communications regulator ICASA has said it will issue a licence for a second fixed-line phone operator on Friday, paving the way for competition to state-controlled
readCoast gears for holiday influx
07-12-2005
CAMPING sites along the coast are ready for visitors, says Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) public relations officer Peter Mietzner.According to Mietzner, services at the camping sites will be available
readODC faces legal action
07-12-2005
A Mauritian-Namibian information technology company, Silnam, is putting the squeeze on the Offshore Development Company to return N$7 million it invested with it and plans to take legal action
readFelesiana's surgery a success
07-12-2005
FELESIANA Nauwake (3), who suffers from the disfiguring disease noma, has returned from South Africa after surgery to prevent her from going blind.Surgeons also released her tongue and jaw muscles,
read2 children, old man reported dead
07-12-2005
POLICE are investigating the events that led to the death of a four-year-old girl at a village in the Kunene Region.The girl, Veriakunje Murumbwa, was found dead at around 22h00 on Sunday, two days
readCity taxi driver locked in boot
07-12-2005
A 28-year-old taxi driver from Windhoek was robbed and locked in the boot of his car on Friday.The incident occurred at the intersection of the Daan Viljoen and Otjomuise roads at around 19h30.The
readBig dagga haul in the South
07-12-2005
THE Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Police at Keetmanshoop on Monday arrested a South African national, Eunha Siaki (40), on a charge of dealing in dagga.Karas Regional Commander Josephat Abel said
readNujoma bill on last lap
07-12-2005
PARLIAMENT yesterday moved a step closer to officially bestowing the title of Founding Father on former President Sam Nujoma.Debate on the Conferment of Status of Founding Father of the Namibian
readFarming boards deny Nefa claims
07-12-2005
THE Karakul Board of Namibia and the Namibian Agronomic Board have disputed allegations by the Namibia Emerging Farmers Association (Nefa) that they are "shutting out black communal and emerging
readCourt rules plot auction illegal, discriminatory
07-12-2005
THE High Court has ruled that the Walvis Bay Municipality's land policy and the way it was applied at an auction of plots two years ago was racially discriminatory and violated the Constitution.In
readEvicted farmers stay put in west Kavango
07-12-2005
CATTLE farmers from the former Owambo who are occupying grazing areas in the Ukwangali tribal area of the Kavango Region have not yet moved an inch despite a Government order that they should
readNamibia could have done much better
07-12-2005
NAMIBIA'S economy has failed to perform as well as could have been expected and growth has been inhibited because of a myriad of political factors, an economic analyst has suggested.The editor of the
readArchitects lose libel suit
07-12-2005
A DRAWN-OUT libel battle between three Windhoek architects ended in a costly defeat for two of them in the High Court last week.Remarks that architect Katrin Vaatz made more than five years ago about
readAxed SA vice president Zuma charged with rape
07-12-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma was charged in court with rape yesterday in a case that analysts say has practically dashed any hope of his becoming the country's
readTaku kongwa Shikoye Paulus
07-12-2005
T ATE Festus Shimhanda womomukunda Ondobe popepi nOngwediva mOshitopolwa sha Shana ota kongo neenghono lela okaana Paulus Shikoyeni, taka kongwa shi na sha noufiye waxe Andreas Shikoyeni oo a manene
readShipanga ota ndjoina Net1
07-12-2005
O NGOKA e li ngashiingeyi Omukuluntuwiliki gwOmbaanga ya Nedbank mu Namibia, Martin Shipanga, ngoka ta ka thiga po Ombaanga ndjika ota ka ndjoina okampani yedhina Net1 Universal Electronic Payement
readOmainyanyudho po Rochas Restaurant
07-12-2005
O NGESHEFA ya tseyika nawa yomOshakati nOshikango yedhina Rocha's Restaurant oya longekidha po Esiku lyomainyanyudho lyaaholi, ano lyOosapota dhOosipana dhAaingilisa dha simana ngashi Arsenal,
readEpangelo otali ka eta po omiyelo omipe koongamba
07-12-2005
O KABINETE oka ninga etokolo kutya naku totwe omiyele omipe mbali dhokoongamba pu Mata Mata na Sendlingsdrift popepi nokandoolopa ka Rosh Pinah, nelalakano okweeta ompito ombwaanawa yaatalelipo
readOmatamaneko guukiliminola ga ekelwahi moshipotha sha Kandara
07-12-2005
O MUTAMANEKI-NDJAYI okwa ningi etokolo lyokwaatamaneka nando olye shi na sha noshipotha sheso lya Lazarus Kandara ngoka a si koshilalo shondjembo pOsasiona mOvenduka.Oshipotha sheso lya Kandara otashi
readNamibia beat Malawi
07-12-2005
NAMIBIA'S under-20 side beat Malawi 2-1 yesterday in their third Vodacom Cosafa Youth Cup match played at the King Zwelethini Stadium in Durban, South Africa, yesterday.The young side won its second
readBotes 'officially expelled' from athletics
07-12-2005
ATHLETICS Namibia yesterday announced that the former chairperson of its Doping Committee, Quinton-Steele Botes, has been expelled from his position after a decision made by AN's National
readKelly hangs up spikes
07-12-2005
LONDON - Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes has announced her retirement from athletics and will not now bow out at next year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne as planned.The 35-year-old former
readOptimism about Nations Cup bid
07-12-2005
NAMIBIA has the best chance to host the 2010 African Nations Cup of all the countries that submitted bids, Sport permanent secretary Peingondjabi Shipoh declared yesterday.Shipoh spoke at the
readBiafran youths step up protest
07-12-2005
ONITSHA - Riot police fired teargas at stone-throwing youths yesterday as business remained paralysed in much of southeastern Nigeria on the second day of protests called to demand an independent
readIslamic group threatens to kill American hostage
07-12-2005
DOHA - A militant group, the Islamic Army in Iraq, claimed yesterday the kidnapping of a US national and threatened to kill him within 48 hours unless all prisoners are released in Iraq, Al-Jazeera
readIsrael targets radicals after suicide attack
07-12-2005
JERUSALEM - Israel beefed up security and vowed to target the leadership of the radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad yesterday as the victims of a suicide bomb attack at a shopping mall were
readSaddam Hussein trial hears chilling testimony on torture
07-12-2005
BAGHDAD - The court heard chilling evidence from a tearful woman testifying yesterday from behind a curtain in the gripping trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein over a Shi'ite massacre 23
readEx-Rwandan leader faces life in jail
07-12-2005
KIGALI - Rwandan prosecutors called for life in prison for the country's first post-genocide president, Pasteur Bizimungu, during his appeal at the Supreme Court over his conviction on criminal
readAt least 100 dead in Iran plane crash
07-12-2005
TEHRAN - At least 100 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military C-130 transport plane crashed into a residential area of the capital Tehran, official media and local officials said.State
read36 Iraqi police officers killed in Baghdad double suicide attack
07-12-2005
BAGHDAD - At least 36 Iraqi police officers and cadets were killed and 72 others wounded yesterday when two women suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Baghdad police academy classroom, police
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