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36 Articles found on Monday, 30 May 2005
Kenya air's profits up
30-05-2005
NAIROBI - Kenya Airways said on Friday its annual net profit tripled to 3,88 billion shillings (about N$380 million) from 1,3 billion due to cost-cutting and an increase in passengers.Posting the
readLaugh It Off bests SAB in court
30-05-2005
CAPE TOWN - T-shirt maker Laugh It Off has won its fight against SA Breweries over its right to mock the Carling Black Label brand.Justice Dikgang Moseneke, handing down a unanimous judgment in the
readNew business survey paints positive SA picture: Mbeki
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - A recently-conducted international business survey paints a picture of a South Africa with a growing and resilient economy, offering increasing job opportunities, President Thabo Mbeki
readNamibia needs to train entrepreneurs
30-05-2005
WINDHOEK - A visiting South African lecturer says the Polytechnic of Namibia needs an appropriate entrepreneurial education model to equip students with the necessary skills to become entrepreneurs
readBig hikes in food prices in Zim but capital calm
30-05-2005
HARARE - The government imposed dramatic price increases for certain staple food products, after a week-long clampdown on street traders and urban poor apparently intended to head off mass
readWater pipeline deal in the bag
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - A R500 million agreement was signed between Rand Water and a Belgian company last week to detect and monitor water pipeline faults throughout Africa.Rand Water chief executive officer
readAfricans trust businessmen more than politicians: poll
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - More Africans trust businessmen than the politicians running their countries, according to a Gallup poll released ahead of this week's World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa summit.Asked
readMarkets eye Absa results, rand rate
30-05-2005
Annual results from Africa's biggest retail bank Absa will be this week's primary focus on the South African stock exchange but the market expects no surprises on the numbers.Absa is expected to post
readPohamba, Mkapa push for UN reform
30-05-2005
DAR ES SALAAM - The presidents of Tanzania and Namibia have urged their African colleagues to push for changes that would strengthen the continent's position in world affairs as part of broader
readUDF fires mayor at Khorixas
30-05-2005
CHRISTOF MALETSKY THE United Democratic Front has "withdrawn" its Mayor at Khorixas following allegations of betrayal.UDF President Justus //Garoeb confirmed that the party had withdrawn newly
readVeteran Namibian politician Appolus dies
30-05-2005
EMIL Appolus, a veteran figure on Namibia's political landscape, died at the age of 70 this weekend.Appolus passed away at Keetmanshoop on Saturday. His family said he suffered a stroke last year and
readWomen and children bear brunt of abuses: Amnesty
30-05-2005
THREATS to the independence of the judiciary and increased violence against women and children are cause for concern in Namibia, Amnesty International says in its latest report on the state of human
readMatter of Fact
30-05-2005
IT was erroneously stated in the Political Perspective of May 27 2005 on page 6 that the Congress of Democrats (CoD) and DTA had challenged the 2004 election outcome.In fact it was the CoD and the
readWarmbad hot springs project starts
30-05-2005
THE vision of the Warmbad settlement in the Karas Region to become a tourist attraction is finally becoming a reality.On Thursday, Chieftain Anna Christiaans of the Bondelswarts community lay the
readCoD says Swapo breaking election promises
30-05-2005
CONGRESS of Democrats Vice President Nora Schimming-Chase has accused Government of breaking the promises made in its election manifesto in its allocation of resources through the National
readBomb threat suspect granted bail
30-05-2005
A 47-year-old mechanic accused of having staged a bomb threat at his employers' business premises in Windhoek on Thursday last week was released on bail of N$500 after an appearance in the Windhoek
readNo solution to Otji ructions
30-05-2005
A HIGH-LEVEL team of investigators into alleged malpractices at the Otjiwarongo Municipality is likely to go back to the town after spending a week there last week.Frans Nghitila, spokesperson of the
readTown engineer quits over tender irregularities
30-05-2005
A SENIOR official at the Keetmanshoop Municipality has quit his job after the Town Council pressured him to resign.The town's Chief Executive Officer, Jerry Shangadi, confirmed to The Namibian that
readChiefs banned for three-years
30-05-2005
CAIRO - South African champions Kaizer Chiefs have been banned from playing in African club competitions for the next three years, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on
readDeportivo, Friends, Life Fighters and KK Palace out of premiership
30-05-2005
ROOKIES Deportivo Alaves, Friends, Life Fighters and KK Palace were relegated from the Namibia Premier League yesterday.Deportivo were a certainty ahead of the weekend matches, while KK Palace, Life
readCivics are NPL champions
30-05-2005
CIVICS scooped their first Namibia Premier League (NPL) title since Independence after defeating Tigers 1-0 in a decisive encounter at the Independence Stadium yesterday.Blue Waters, who were the
readRwandan rebels ready to quit Congo
30-05-2005
KASHUNGU - The scene is common in rural Africa: in the shade of eucalyptus trees in lush green valleys, women lay out beans and rice on the red earth, men haggle over cattle and goats, and children
readHungry Malawians brave crocs to eat water lilies
30-05-2005
MPONDE - Malawians are risking crocodile attacks to fetch water lilies for food after a sudden rain failure early in the year destroyed key crops leaving 7 million short of food across southern
readGlobal peace activist and writer
30-05-2005
AUCKLAND - Owen Wilkes, the New Zealand peace activist who once faced jail for allegedly spying in Scandinavia, has died in Hamilton.He was 65. Wilkes went to the International Peace Research
readGrim, HCFI founder dead
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Francis Grim, the founder and president emeritus of the Healthcare Christian Fellowship International (HCFI), died in Benoni on Gauteng's East Rand this month.Grim (92) also founded
readPaul Keene, organic pioneer, missionary
30-05-2005
MECHANICSBURG - Paul K Keene, a former missionary who founded one of the oldest US organic farms and proved that growing natural foods can be good business, has died.He was 94. He had lived at the
readFamed filmmaker dies
30-05-2005
LONDON - Merchant-Ivory, synonymous with classy movie making, is left with only Ivory after the death of Indian-born filmmaker Ismail Merchant at the age of 68.Merchant died at a London hospital,
read33,5% to pass Grade 12?
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Grade 12 pupils in South Africa could achieve their Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC) with a minimum aggregate mark of 33,57 per cent from 2008, says a new draft policy
readReform puts food output at risk
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's drive to give more land to blacks to address apartheid imbalances is poorly executed and could hamper economic growth and food production in Southern Africa, a new
readDisadvantaged in SA 'more interested in housing than farms'
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Most black South Africans did not want to farm but wanted jobs, houses and effective services in urban areas, a Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) study has found."South
readIn Brief
30-05-2005
*UNREST - One person was killed in an attack on British forces in southern Iraq, a British military spokesman said without specifying if the dead person was a Briton.*KILLED - At least five Iraqis
readMugabe hopes to ease Zim land takeovers
30-05-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Friday that his party is considering amending the country's Constitution to make it easier for the government to take over land owned by the
read75 dead in tribal clashes in south Sudan
30-05-2005
KHARTOUM - Up to 75 people have been killed and dozens more wounded since mid-April in tribal clashes in the south of Sudan, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. It said in a
readFrance votes on EU constitution
30-05-2005
PARIS - A divided France voted yesterday in a historic referendum on the European Union's first-ever constitution, with final opinion polls pointing towards a "no" that would send a shockwave across
readIsrael approves Palestinian prisoner release
30-05-2005
JERUSALEM - The Israeli government yesterday approved the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners and declared itself ready to allow the United States to mediate a coordinated pullout from Gaza with the
readGraft verdict hangs over SA deputy president
30-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Popular South Africa Deputy President Jacob Zuma's political future may hang on this week's verdict in the high-profile trial of his financial adviser in a corruption case that has
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