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19 Articles found on Thursday, 3 February 2005
Eco investment essential: FAO one and a half cols
03-02-2005
WINDHOEK - Investments in agriculture and ecosystems in poor countries are essential to reduce by half the number of hungry people by 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday.A
readPirates, Chiefs in cellphone deal
03-02-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs have teamed up with the huge Zionist Christian Church to sell mobile phone cards at matches and services on behalf of top national
readDe Beers announces cutbacks
03-02-2005
JOHANNESBURG - The world's largest diamond producer, De Beers, plans to cut production and employees at its South African Koffiefontein mine to reduce losses at the operation, the firm said
readBusiness success in Africa
03-02-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Businesspeople contemplating investing in Africa need to develop a new mindset about the continent which reflects Thabo Mbeki's view of the 21st century as "the century of Africa",
readPromising and firm Nam economic forecast - OM
03-02-2005
NAMIBIA has been challenged to aggressively seek alternative sources of revenue, rein in public expenditure, attract foreign direct investment and improve its tax collections.Such actions, according
readGovt education record slammed
03-02-2005
THE Young Democrats, youth wing of the Congress of Democrats, have launched a scathing attack on the Swapo Government's education record, accusing the ruling party of "feeding on the nation's
readKeetmans fuel depot manager arrested
03-02-2005
POLICE in the Karas Region have arrested the manager of the Keetmanshoop BP fuel depot in connection with the theft of petrol.Randolph O'Brien and two other suspects were allegedly caught red-handed
readCaprivi is now anthrax free
03-02-2005
NO new cases of anthrax among people or animals have been reported since November last year, a senior official in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism said this week."The situation is now
readNujoma prepares to face new challenges
03-02-2005
ABUJA - President Sam Nujoma, who visited Nigeria this week after attending the African Union summit, said that Africa was fighting for economic emancipation."We have achieved one phase of the
readExperts give thumbs up to Namibia for development efforts
03-02-2005
NAMIBIA is ranked 32nd out of 146 countries on the newly released Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale and Columbia Universities.Namibia is the
readMbaeva's law firm 'will not close down'
03-02-2005
TITUS Mbaeva, the lawyer whose trust and business bank accounts have been placed under the control of a curator, says the practice will not close down.On Friday Mbaeva consented that the High Court
readJoy and tears for Nowaseb boys
03-02-2005
NOW that her three children are finally in school, Susanna Nowases will not be there to assist them with their homework.Nowases died of tuberculosis in the Katutura State Hospital on Sunday morning. A
readCity properties revaluated
03-02-2005
THE Windhoek Municipality has begun the revaluation of properties throughout the city.By law, all rateable properties must be valuated every five years to determine a new tax base. The last general
readCity Police not yet fully operational
03-02-2005
WINDHOEK residents appear unimpressed with the country's first municipal police force, saying they are not seeng the effects of their presence.The Namibian has received several phone calls since the
read3 in court over diamonds
03-02-2005
THREE men appeared in the Oranjemund Magistrate's Court on Monday on charges of diamond theft.Two brothers, Colin and Sebolen Vries, and a friend, Jason Iyambo, were allegedly nabbed in possession of
readTreason trial goes on regardless
03-02-2005
A PRAGMATIC ruling in the face of firm intransigence managed to get the Caprivi high treason trial back on track in the High Court at Grootfontein yesterday.With 15 of the 120 accused stubbornly
readUsakos cops 'not good enough'
03-02-2005
RESIDENTS at Usakos are furious with the Police for their slow response to a stabbing incident on Tuesday night that left a young man dead.Elvis Eichab (23) was stabbed in the chest with a broken
readTough bail terms set for Teek
03-02-2005
A WORRIED-Looking Judge Pio Teek yesterday had his case of alleged rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, kidnapping and supply of liquor to minors postponed for six weeks.Supreme Court Judge of
readBid to save fish industry
03-02-2005
THE Deputy Minister of Labour, Rosalia Nghidinwa, will today start meeting with stakeholders at Walvis Bay as Government tries to help rescue Namibia's ailing fishing industry from total collapse.The
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