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23 Articles found on Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Tunacor suspends fishing operations
23-03-2005
WINDHOEK - Tunacor Fisheries Limited has temporarily suspended its wet-fish operations, comprising the wet-fish fleet and processing facility.The Managing Director of the Tunacor Group, Luis
readEconomic climate improves as Zim votes
23-03-2005
HARARE - Joseph Chironda says his life has improved from three years ago, when finding basic commodities like bread, milk and cooking oil in Zimbabwe's shops was a small miracle.A staunch supporter of
readEconomic climate improves as Zim votes
23-03-2005
HARARE - Joseph Chironda says his life has improved from three years ago, when finding basic commodities like bread, milk and cooking oil in Zimbabwe's shops was a small miracle.A staunch supporter of
readNew NamPost CEO ready to take the reins
23-03-2005
THE Board of Namibia Post Limited (NamPost) yesterday announced the appointment of Sakaria Haufiku Nghikembua as the new Chief Executive Officer of NamPost with effect from April 1, following the
readSon of massacre couple out on bail
23-03-2005
THE son of the Erasmus couple who were killed three weeks ago in Namibia's worst mass murder case since Independence was released on bail of N$20 000 yesterday.Justus Christiaan ('Shorty') Erasmus,
readAngula comeback a result of 'reconciliation
23-03-2005
FORMER Agriculture Minister Helmut Angula, who resigned from Cabinet and the National Assembly last year, says he was included in the new Cabinet because Swapo leaders settled their differences at
readThe Pohamba 'puzzle'
23-03-2005
THE jury's out on President Hifikepunye Pohamba's new Cabinet and revamped Ministries. Reactions yesterday ranged from caution, "still too big", conciliatory and gender-friendly to a "balancing
readLast Cabinet decisions
23-03-2005
CABINET took the following decisions at its last two meetings on March 5 and March 15, before being dissolved by former President Sam Nujoma on Tuesday last week.* It endorsed the Information
readA Thumbnail Guide to President Hifikepunye Pohamba's Government
23-03-2005
Dissolved...* Agriculture, Water and Rural Development * Basic Education, Sport and Culture * Higher Education, Employment Creation and Training * Labour * Prisons and Correctional Services * Home
readTelecom fraud trial set for September
23-03-2005
THE trial of a former Telecom Namibia manager and a co-accused who are charged with defrauding the telecommunications parastatal of some N$1,18 million has been set down to take place in the High
readDemonstration over top Karibib officials
23-03-2005
MORE than 160 members of the Karibib community blocked the Municipal entrance last Wednesday in support of the Town Council's decision to suspend its chief executive officer and two senior
readOld woman robbed, murdered in capital
23-03-2005
AN elderly woman, Magdalena West, was found dead in her flat at No 82 Olaf Palme Street in Eros, Windhoek, on Sunday.Police suspect that the 86-year-old woman was handcuffed and then beaten to death
readThieving bank clerks escape jail sentences
23-03-2005
TWO former bank clerks who admitted that they committed fraud or theft could consider themselves lucky for not having been sent straight to prison last week. A former credit control clerk at First
readBanker 'spoke for himself'
23-03-2005
A SENIOR banker severely criticised by former Fisheries Minister Abraham IyamÂbo for statements on the alarming state of the fishing industry was not speaking as a representative of the Bankers
readYouth drowns at Vineta beach
23-03-2005
A RELAXING day at the sea ended tragically for a group of friends at Swakopmund yesterday, when an 18-year-old boy drowned around at the Vineta beach at around 14h30.Dennis Thomas Thaniseb, a Grade
readConcerns over new Security Ministry
23-03-2005
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba's new Government has drawn immediate criticism from some political analysts and politicians who find the creation of the Ministry of Safety and Security somewhat
readBA retains New Era Cup
23-03-2005
BLACK Africa proved too strong for Civics and beat them 3-0 in the second edition of the New Era Newspaper Cup at the Independence Stadium on Monday.Black Africa defended the title they won at Walvis
readTough derbies at Newspaper Cup
23-03-2005
THE Namibian Newspaper Cup will provide two interesting derbies when the Hardap Region goes head-to-head against neighbours Karas, while Otjozondjupa has the daunting task of shaking off Kunene on
readDutchman on Liberia war charges
23-03-2005
A Dutch lumber merchant has been arrested and charged with war crimes, accused of murders and arms smuggling during Liberia's civil war.Guus van Kouwenhoven, 62, allegedly ran militias in the west
readAmbush leaves 17 insurgents dead
23-03-2005
BAGHDAD - Militants targeted a US patrol with a roadside bomb on Tuesday that killed four nearby civilians in the northern city of Mosul, where an assassination attempt against top police officials
readJackson suffering as trial continues
23-03-2005
SANTA MARIA - Michael Jackson, who is said to be suffering from back problems, trembled and wept in apparent pain at the counsel table during testimony in which an expert described symptoms of sexual
readTen dead after US student rampage
23-03-2005
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA - A high school student shot dead nine people and then killed himself on Monday at Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation in the worst school shooting since the 1999 Columbine
readIN BRIEF
23-03-2005
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan faced hard bargaining on Monday on Security Council expansion, the use of military force and anti-poverty goals, several of many sweeping proposals to
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