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38 Articles found on Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Taxi drivers roped in to boost tourism
29-06-2005
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe's Tourism industry, once the country's second largest foreign currency earner, has declined sharply in the past few years as a result of the ongoing economic and political
readEskom 2004/05 net profit R5,2 b
29-06-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings on Tuesday reported a net profit of 5,2 billion rand for the 2004/05 financial year and said it did not expect record growth in
readSteelmaking reshapes world markets
29-06-2005
SHANGHAI, China - Not since the Great Leap Forward of nearly a half-century ago, when revolutionary leader Mao Zedong ordered the nation to build backyard steel mills, has China's steel industry
read11 jailed in Parmalat case
29-06-2005
MILAN - A Milan judge sentenced 10 former Parmalat executives and a lawyer to jail on Tuesday in the first guilty ruling over the 14-billion-euro (N$112 billion) collapse of Italy's biggest listed
readShell investors to ditch dual listing
29-06-2005
LONDON - Royal Dutch/Shell shareholders were expected to end a century of history yesterday when they voted on scrapping the group's dual-listed structure.Shell hopes the unification of its Dutch and
readPohamba gets tough on diamond industry
29-06-2005
GREAT challenges still face the local diamond industry and it is high time these issues were addressed.These were the words of President Hifikepunye Pohamba when he visited the country's biggest
readNational Assembly approves Budget
29-06-2005
THE National Assembly passed the National Budget yesterday, leaving Ministries with less than nine months to spend the money that was approved.Finance Minister Saara Kuu-gongelwa-Amadhila apologised
readEnviro alert sounded on new uranium mine
29-06-2005
THE absence of a final environmental assessment for the planned Langer Heinrich uranium mine in the Namib Desert has come under attack from Earthlife Namibia, which warns that 'a second Ramatex'
read'Elusive Namibian' nabbed in SA is Gibeon murder suspect
29-06-2005
FOR more than five years murder suspect Efraim Rachimo Haradoëb, accused of killing his teacher girlfriend in late 1998 by dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire, has managed to evade facing
readAround the world in ten years
29-06-2005
A CHINESE man who is travelling around the world on a motorcycle arrived in Windhoek on Sunday.Chen Liangquan (43), who is a volunteer from the Suzhou Red Cross in China, says he wants to visit 160
readScience & Technology Fair opens in city today
29-06-2005
THE 5th Namibian Science & Technology Fair opens in Windhoek today.This year's event has been organised at the Polytechnic of Namibia in Windhoek West, Brahms Street, in partnership with the Ministry
readRevolutionary sandboard designed
29-06-2005
A SWAKOPMUND artist has dreams of causing a revolution in adventure tourism with a new dune-board design.Laidlaw Peringanda (30), who is known for his controversial art exhibitions, claims his new
readMan arrested for fatal stabbing at Gobabis
29-06-2005
POLICE at Gobabis are investigating the murder of Petrus Shekupe Nangolo (45), who bled to death after being stabbed several times in a bar on Saturday night.A 31-year-old suspect has been arrested.
read20 years for rape, homicide
29-06-2005
GOBABIS - A Tallismanus resident, Abraham Eiseb (33), was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by the Gobabis Magistrate's Court on Monday on charges of rape and culpable homicide.Eiseb was convicted
readKaras Council CEO clips wings of joyriding officials
29-06-2005
THE Karas Regional Council has taken a tough stance on the misuse of council vehicles.The Chief Regional Officer, Salmaan Jacobs, has asked the local Police to impound all council vehicles found
readMan tries to castrate himself
29-06-2005
OUTAPI - A 35-year-old man from Omufitu Wanauyala village in the Ombalantu Traditional District is recovering in the Oshakati State Hospital after he apparently tried to castrate himself on
read'Energy Fund not depleted'
29-06-2005
THE Ministry of Mines and Energy has denied reports that Namibia's National Energy Fund (NEF) has been depleted.In a telephonic interview with The Namibian, Joseph Iita, Permanent Secretary in the
readOondholongo odhu udha noonkondo, Inspeka !Goraeb
29-06-2005
OMUGANDJIMULOMBO gwOpolisi Inspekta omukuluntu Hieronymous !Goraseb okwa ti uukuma wopIitaasi yOpolisi moshilongo owa udha aanandholongo ya pitilila noonkondo.Pethimbo a li ta kuthile ko
readMeekulu Elisia Shimanda ta kongo omonakadona Lucia Hangula
29-06-2005
MEEKULU Elisia Shimanda weedula 85 womomukunda Omakelo popepi nOnamunama mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena ota kongo omonakadona Lucia Hangula oo nghee a dile meumbo lavo mOmakelo omo mu Auguste
readAipinge ina mana natango oshinima sha Cymot na Manwu
29-06-2005
OMUPWIIKINI gwomaupyakadhi pokati kaaniilonga naagandji yiilonga Sacky Aipinge, natango ota konakona uumbangi mboka wa gandjwa poshigongi sha ningwa pokati kaanavetakalelipo yOkampani ya Cymot
readYe li 34 yi iyaka mondholongo
29-06-2005
AANANDHOLONGO ya tegelela epangulo ye li omilongo ndatu nayane (34) oyi iyaka mondholongo yopOshitaasi shOpolisi po Wanaheda mOvenduka ongula onene yOlyomakaya ga zi ko.Omugandjimulombo gwOpolisi
readGumwe a teta omukulukadhi gwe sho e mu adha ta lika
29-06-2005
N AIROBI - Onkundana ontilithi okuzilila ku Nairobi sha Kenya otayi ti kutya omulumentu gumwe, a adha omukulukadhi gwe e li pamwe nomulumentu gulwe, okwe mu tete omagulu agehe nekatana, oshikundaneki
readLeefa a talela po ondoolopa ye, ya Shakati
29-06-2005
OKAKADHONA okawanawa ka Namibia Leefa Shiikwa mEhuliloshiwike oka talele po ondoolopa ya Shakati moka ka li ka tsakanekwa kaakalimo oyendji, mwa kwatelwa aakuluntu yako tate Eino Shiikwa na meme
readAdministrators in NNOC course
29-06-2005
OLYMPIC Solidarity, through the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC), held a two-day course for sport administrators in Windhoek last week.Facilitating the Olympic Solidarity course was
readBenni wants out of FC Porto
29-06-2005
LISBON - Porto's South African striker Benni McCarthy, linked recently to English Premiership side Blackburn Rovers and Bolton, wants to leave the Portuguese club because he has fallen out with its
readDTS/AIDA Beach Volleyball Results of matches played Saturday
29-06-2005
Ladies: 1.Wiebke Brockmann/Antje Kesselmann 2.Anita Kinder/Katja Biesemann 3. Tina Hovari/Teja Lueck Men: 1. Achim Lueck/Antero Epifanio 2. Heiko Diehl/Stefan Sickel 3. Uwe Selck/Torsten Horenburg
readAdriano expected to be fit for Argentina
29-06-2005
FRANKFURT - Brazil expect Adriano to recover in time for tonight's Confederations Cup final against Argentina when one of the fiercest rivalries in world soccer resumes on unfamiliar
readFormer Bafana stars here tomorrow
29-06-2005
PLAYERS of the Dr Khumalo and Friends side, which is expected to play a former Brave Warriors team in Windhoek on Saturday, will start arriving in the country from tomorrow.Namibia's class of 1998,
readTension brews at NFA
29-06-2005
TENSION is brewing among some of the Namibia Football Association (NFA) executive members, as the ordinary congress of the football controlling body draws closer.The suspension of First Vice President
readAid organisations battle with starving population in Sudan
29-06-2005
MAYO - Tiny southern Sudanese Martin Atiyan's hollowed cheeks screwed up into a scowl as he hit out at his thin diseased mother trying to breast-feed him.At 3 months he weighs half as much as a
readIvory Coast peace process founders again
29-06-2005
OUANGOLODOUGOU - Lacina Traore is a rebel with a cause, but without a gun.This month, he handed in his ancient Kalashnikov rifle to his commander at the small town of Ouangolodougou in northern Ivory
readTwo decades on, people power haunts Philippines
29-06-2005
MANILA - Tom Talledo has seen it all before.He hit Manila's streets to join the million-strong "people power" protests that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and was there 15 years later when
readWorld waits as countdown to Live 8 enters last 4 days
29-06-2005
LONDON - Eight global cities were in the last stages of preparation yesterday ahead of the biggest music event in decades on July 2, when top artists will rock the planet to raise awareness of
readMalawi speaker dies after collapse
29-06-2005
BLANTYRE - The speaker of Malawi's parliament, who collapsed in the legislature last week as it debated moves to impeach the president, has died at a South African hospital, the health minister
readZim releases jailed white opposition MP
29-06-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe has freed from jail an outspoken white opposition lawmaker, Roy Bennett, who was serving a one-year jail sentence for shoving a minister to the ground, his lawyer said."He has been
readPakistan supreme court orders rearrest of gang rape suspects
29-06-2005
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday ordered the rearrest of 13 men linked to the internationally condemned gang rape of a woman, including members of a village council that ordered the
readUgandans protest moves to scrap president's term limit
29-06-2005
KAMPALA - Ugandan police fired tear gas yesterday to disperse scores of demonstrators protesting a parliamentary move critics say is designed to install Yoweri Museveni as president for
readSharon vows to stop pullout foes
29-06-2005
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday the "wild behaviour" of ultranationalist Jews bent on scuttling his Gaza pullout plan posed a threat to Israeli democracy and would be stamped
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