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47 Articles found on Wednesday, 8 June 2005
SA's Telkom profit jumps
08-06-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African fixed-line phone company Telkom unveiled a 47,5 per cent jump in annual headline earnings per share on Monday but said its core margins would stagnate this year as it
readSugar growers look to Europe for salvation
08-06-2005
MAPOU, Mauritius - Mauritian sugar farmers are pinning their hopes on European Union aid to save their centuries-old industry from ruin when the bloc starts slashing prices, growers said
readEU gives green light to Alitalia
08-06-2005
BRUSSELS - The European Commission gave conditional approval yesterday to a restructuring plan for Alitalia, which the Italian government hopes will save the loss-making national carrier.European
readZim security forces gear up for mass strike
08-06-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe's security forces were bracing for a mass strike this week against a highly controversial urban clean-up campaign that has left thousands destitute and led to the detention of at
readAnglo sells Boart Longyear
08-06-2005
LONDON - Global mining group Anglo American said yesterday it had agreed to sell mining equipment unit Boart Longyear to private equity group Advent International for an enterprise value of US$545
readAfrica to grow anti-malarial plant
08-06-2005
ZURICH - Novartis has teamed up with Kenya's East African Botanicals (EAB) group to boost cultivation in Africa of a plant containing a key ingredient in the Swiss drugmaker's anti-malarial Coartem
readRegional trade policy course starts
08-06-2005
THERE is a need to strengthen African capacity in the key economic sectors that would help foster growth, development and industrialisation and at the same time make meaningful progress in poverty
readStandard Bank posts higher net income
08-06-2005
THE past year proved a better year for Standard Bank Namibia compared to 2003, as the bank realised a net income after taxation derived from banking and related operations of N$175,5 million compared
readBush, Blair pledge aid
08-06-2005
WASHINGTON - US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were expected to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars yesterday in aid to Africa, but Bush would possibly stop short of
readWork starts on mass grave for victims of horror crash
08-06-2005
RUNDU - The Rundu Town Council yesterday started cleaning up a site identified for the mass grave of 28 victims who died in Namibia's worst road accident since Independence.The 28, many of them
readSupreme Court overturns six-year-old conviction
08-06-2005
AS slowly as the wheels of justice may turn, they can still - eventually - bring relief to someone feeling he has been wronged, it was shown in the Supreme Court yesterday, when a more than
readNew bill to send criminals home
08-06-2005
THE Minister of Safety and Security, Peter Tsheehama, yesterday introduced a bill that would allow Namibians convicted and sentenced in other countries to return home to serve prison time.The same
readFinance Minister on attack
08-06-2005
FINANCE Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila strongly defended Government's spending priorities in the National Assembly yesterday, as she set out to shoot down critics who accuse it of spending beyond
readTop chefs lend a hand
08-06-2005
TANJA BAUSE THE Kalahari Sands Hotel & Casino and Bethesda Gospel Ministries yesterday started serving soup to pensioners who queue at the Katutura post office to collect their pensions.Pensioners and
readAfrikaner clan stage festivities
08-06-2005
THE Chieftain of the Afrikaner Nama clan, Hendrina Afrikaner, has called on fellow traditional leaders to guard against infighting."Do not waste your time and energy on internal squabbles and smear
readTwo more suicides
08-06-2005
AN 82-year-old man on Monday became the latest person in Namibia to end his life by suicide.Thomas Winterbach shot himself in the head at a house in Tempel Road, Walvis Bay, early on Monday, the
readLazy teachers taken to task
08-06-2005
SWAPO'S Chief Whip in the National Assembly, Ben Amadhila, took a swipe at lazy teachers as the first round of budget debate concluded in the House last week.Recalling his school days in the 1940s,
readPoverty should be priority: Geingob
08-06-2005
GOVERNMENT is not spending nearly enough on poverty alleviation, Swapo MP Hage Geingob said in the National Assembly at the end of last week.As the first round of debate on the National Budget reached
readElephants plague Kavango
08-06-2005
RUNDU - The Chief Control Warden in the Environment and Tourism Ministry here, Colgar Sikopo, says his office continues receiving reports of elephants destroying crops in some inland areas of the
readAIDS 'hits food security'
08-06-2005
THE devastating effect of HIV-AIDS and its threat to development was highlighted as a cause of major concern by Deputy Prime Minister Libertina Amathila in her remarks on the National Budget debate in
readPoverty strategy launched
08-06-2005
ALTHOUGH Namibia is perceived as a middle-income country with a high per capita income, realities on the ground are different, a senior Government official re-emphasised this week.The Director
readObey rules, city's taxi drivers told
08-06-2005
THE City of Windhoek has warned that it will not tolerate unruly behaviour, such as the blockade of streets by some taxi drivers last Monday.In a strongly worded statement, the municipality said it
readSaved. Half a jetty better than no jetty at all ...
08-06-2005
IT'S final.Swakopmund's most famous landmark, the jetty, will be saved - but only half of it.If all goes well, the "new" jetty might be open by the time the annual Christmas rush to the coast
readIikulya ya hola omanga aantu taya si ondjala
08-06-2005
KONYALA ooshako dhuusila wepungu dhi li 18 400 otadhi holele mongulu yomapungulilo yOpakwiita pondje ya Katima Mulilo, aniwa molwashoka aanambelewa ihaya futwa omalutayima okufala iikulya mbyoka
readOmukiintu a tamanekelwa onkambadhala yedhipago
08-06-2005
OMUKIINTU gwomimvo 49 okwa holoka mOmpangu ya Mengestrata pOutjo ohela metamaneko lyonkambadhala yedhipago.Omugandjimulombo gwOpolisi Warrant James Matengu okwa hokolola ngeyi kutya omukiintu nguka
readAyehe mboka ya sila mOkambesa kOshaanda ya dhimbululwa
08-06-2005
A ANTU ayehe 27 mboka ya sila mOkambesa hoka kiidhengele mumwe nOloli popepi nOshaanda mondjila onene ya Shaanda noRundu ongulohi yEtiyali lyoshiwike sha zi ko, oya dhimbululwa kaakwanezimo yawo
readPohamba ota ka talelapo ku Amerika
08-06-2005
OMUPRESIDENDE Hifikepunye Pohamba ota ka talelapo ko Washington D.C.sha Amerika oshiwike tu uka, hoka ta ka kala a monothana nOmupresidende gwoshilongo shoka, George W Bush.Ombelewa yOmukalelipo gwa
readManwu okwa hala etidho lyaaniilonga 79 li talululwe
08-06-2005
EHANGANO lyaaniilonga lya Metals and Allied Workers Union (Manwu) olya ninga eindilo kutya etidho lyaaniilonga ye li 79 mOkampani yokulanditha iipaarte yoohauto ya Cymot nali talululwe.Aaniilonga
readMboka ya sila mOkatekisa pOmpumbu osho ya tseyithwa
08-06-2005
A ANTU mboka ya sila mOkatekisa hoka kiidhenge mumwe nokahauto kokatuukara pontopa yopOmpumbu popepi nOshakati mOndjila onene ya Shakati noshikuku ongula yEtine lyoshiwike sha zi ko, ya tseyithwa
readOmupresidende Nguema a mangulula aafekelwalandwakwiita ya hamano
08-06-2005
MALAMBO - Omupresidende gwa Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, mOsoondaha okwa gandja elombwelo kutya aahingindhila yAaArmenia yahamano - mboka ya li ya tulwa mondholongo ya lopotelwa
readNam second at youth champs
08-06-2005
NAMIBIA ended second out of 12 countries in the African Athletics Confederation (AAC) Southern Region youth championship that took place in Pretoria, South Africa over the weekend.This was the highest
readMedal Table
08-06-2005
gold silver bronze Total South Africa 23 13 5 41 Namibia 3 4 7 14 Zambia 3 4 4 11 Botswana 1 3 4 8 Zimbabwe 1 2 4 7 Mozambique 1 1 3 5 Malawi 1 1 0 2 Lesotho 0 1 1 2 Seychelles 0 1 0 1 Mauritius 0 0
readWHS girls scoop hockey champs
08-06-2005
THE first tournament to mark the start of the Schools Hockey League took place at the Doc Jubber fields on Saturday.Windhoek High School (WHS) used the experience gained from a recent tour to South
readBusiness squash league starts tonight
08-06-2005
THE Legal Shield Business Squash League starts tonight, June 8, at the Wanderers and Klein Windhoek courts.Games will be played each Wednesday and Thursday evening till September 2005. Nine teams
readTop two
08-06-2005
Namibian long-distances athletes Matthew Hoeb (showing medal) and Lucketz Swartbooi (insert), competed at the Fast and Flat 10-km race against AIDS in South Africa last weekend.Hoeb ended third in the
readGolden Bees to appeal Haimbodi's suspension
08-06-2005
GOLDEN Bees chairman Zandry Haimbodi yesterday said they would appeal against a decision by the Namibia Premier League to suspend midfielder Harold Haimbodi for one football season.Haimbodi, who also
readLast athletics event this weekend
08-06-2005
THE senior and junior track and field athletics championships will be held at the Independence Stadium this weekend.The event has been sponsored by Bank Windhoek to the tune of N$53 000 and will be
readIN BRIEF
08-06-2005
* VIOLENCE - Car bombers struck in Baghdad and northern Iraq yesterday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40, the latest attacks in a surge of suicide bombings that have killed
readMichael Jackson jurors deliberate
08-06-2005
SANTA MARIA - Michael Jackson's jurors yesterday resumed their deliberations over child sex charges against the superstar, after a first day of commotion and confusion.The eight men and four women of
readMugabe denies death rumours
08-06-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has laughed down rumours that he died of heart failure last week, the official Herald newspaper reported yesterday.Speculation has been rife in the capital
readAustralian mining company denies involvement in DRCongo massacre
08-06-2005
SYDNEY - An Australian mining company yesterday denied complicity in the massacre last year of more than 100 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as victims of the alleged atrocity
readNo date set for Saddam trial
08-06-2005
BAGHDAD - Iraq's government backed away yesterday from recent claims that Saddam Hussein could be tried within weeks, saying it was up to the country's independent Special Tribunal to decide when he
readNigerian university expels 40 students over cult activities
08-06-2005
LAGOS - A university in Nigeria's oil-rich but restive south has expelled 40 students for acts of violence or the practice of cults on campus, a spokesman said yesterday."The vice-chancellor of the
readANC split over Zuma looms
08-06-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Thabo Mbeki met his beleaguered deputy Jacob Zuma on Monday for the first time since a court implicated him in a high-profile corruption case that risks opening
readIllustrious SA surgeon started out as gardener
08-06-2005
HAMILTON Naki (78) was a poorly-educated gardener who became one of South Africa's most skilled surgeons, contributing to pioneering research at Cape Town's Groote Schuur hospital and becoming a
readAir support
08-06-2005
PRETORIA - South African arms procurer Armscor has sold spare parts to the value of more than R1 million to the Zimbabwean government despite European sanctions, News24 reported yesterday.It said the
readSA graft verdict opens up presidency race
08-06-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma's once clear path to the presidency has been severely obstructed by a close aide's conviction for corruption.Zuma was not on trial and remains
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