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35 Articles found on Monday, 9 May 2005
2 million tonnes food aid
09-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Southern Africa will likely need more than two million tonnes of food in the next year after a late drought in Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi hit crops, the World Food
readLaw to set prison terms for trading US dollars on black market
09-05-2005
CARACAS, Venezuela - Moneychangers shout "dollars, euros!" on the sidewalk in front of Congress, offering to trade cash on the black market while Venezuelan legislators consider a new law that seeks
readBusinesses under attack at Keetmans
09-05-2005
KEETMANSHOOP - Keetmanshoop Urban Constituency Councillor Hilma Nicanor has accused major retailers and chain shops at the southern town of paying low wages to their employees.Speaking at Cassinga
readUnilever Q1 profit up 8 per cent
09-05-2005
LONDON - The Anglo-Dutch consumer group Unilever reported an eight per cent rise in first quarter operating profit Friday, after stabilising market shares, but warned conditions remained tough in key
readAfri-Can announces an equity rights offering
09-05-2005
* TONDERAI KATSWARA AFRI-CAN Marine Minerals Corporation has announced that it will issue transferable rights to holders of its common shares.Shareholders of record at the close of business on
readLabour court against Harmony job cuts
09-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's labour court has ruled against plans by gold miner Harmony Gold to cut 5 000 jobs, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said in a statement on Friday."The court has
readCrash victims named
09-05-2005
WINDHOEK - The Police have released the names of the five people who died in a chain collision between Otjiwarongo and Okahandja on Friday a week ago. All five were occupants of a Toyota Venture,
readBicycle marathon passes through Namibia
09-05-2005
THE third annual 11 500 km bicycle expedition Tour D'Afrique passed through Windhoek last weekend.The expedition, which started on January 16 in Cairo, Egypt, is expected to finish on May 15 in Cape
readNantu worried about apathy
09-05-2005
RUNDU - The Deputy Secretary General of the Namibia National Teachers Union (Nantu), Basilius Haingura, has expressed concern about the lack of participation by union members in the commemoration of
readEat better, drink less
09-05-2005
RUNDU - Health Deputy Minister Petrina Haingura has called on people in the Kavango Region to refrain from bartering mahangu for alcohol. She issued the appeal when addressing a Cassinga Day
readRegional body out to counter cheap textile imports
09-05-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Sub-Saharan African textile and garment manufacturers are set to develop a regional trade association in response to heavy competition from low-cost Asian producers in a quota-free
readA centre of excellence
09-05-2005
THE Gobabeb Training and Research Centre in the Namib Desert will be inaugurated as a Centre of Excellence today because of the major role it has played, and continues to play, in the world of science
readCivil servants must be honest
09-05-2005
OUTAPI - President Hifikepunye Pohamba says all civil servants who hold positions of trust are expected to be honest, courteous and respectful towards their colleagues and the public. Pohamba said
readNo mediation on Rhino layoffs yet
09-05-2005
THE Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) is still waiting for a response from the Office of the Labour Commissioner to the union's request to help mediate in its dispute with Rhino Garments.
readYoung woman stoned to death
09-05-2005
An 18-year-old woman has been found murdered - stoned to death - at Luderitz.The Namibian Police's Public Relations and Liaison Division was unable to provide further information yesterday on the
readBurglar comes unstuck
09-05-2005
BURGLARIES in general have become so common that they are no longer regarded as news, but at Swakopmund one burglar made sure of headline coverage last week. In an incident that contains all the
readIgnorance about AIDS kills ...
09-05-2005
RUNDU - The regional Chairperson of the Namibia National Women Organisation's (Nanawo), Magdalena Vendura, has called on HIV-infected people to stop ignoring appeals about preventing the further
readSatan made me rape girl, claims headman
09-05-2005
THE headman of Othingo village near Oshakati in northern Namibia, Thomas Gabriel (61), has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for raping a nine-year-old girl.During his trial in the Oshakati Regional
readDefy us at your peril, Govt warns hundreds of farmers
09-05-2005
GOVERNMENT has warned the owners of more than 1 000 farms to complete forms regarded as crucial in determining commercial land holding in Namibia, or face five years behind bars.The Ministry of Lands
readOndando yomahooli oya ya pombanda noonkondo mu Namibia, Nabta ta ti
09-05-2005
* ABSALOM SHIGWEDHA O MUGANDJIMULOMBO gwehangano lyOombesa nOotaxi mu Namibia nenge Namibia Bus and Taxi Association (Nabta), Tomas Mulunga, okwa ti ondando yomahooli oya gwedhelwa noosenda
readYomOshipangelo sha Shakati taya ti moshipangelo moka omu na okatongo
09-05-2005
* OSWALD SHIVUTE T HE Namibian omasiku ga zi ko oya kala nokuyakula omikanda dhomanyenyeto tadhi zilile mOshipangelo shEpangelo sha Shakati moka yamwe yomaaniilonga moshipangelo shoka, unene tuu
readSouth Afrika okwa pandula etokolo lya Gbagbo
09-05-2005
ABIDJAN - Omupresidende gwa South Afrika Thabo Mbeki, ngoka a kala ta kondjo nokweeta ombili mu Ivory Coast, okwa popi kutya etokolo lyOmupresidende gwa Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo kutya omukondjithi
readLopota mboka taya lungu tayi itapula
09-05-2005
•OSWALD SHIVUTE POKATANA OMUPRESIDENDE Hifikepunye Pohamba okwa ninga eindilo lya thinda moshigwana sha Namibia ashihe kutya nashi kale uupathi nokulopota mboka taya li po iimaliwa yEpangelo nenge
readCivics and Blue Waters tight on points
09-05-2005
* CORRY IHUHUA CIVICS closed the gap on Blue Waters and are now tight on 58 points, while Life Fighters slipped further into relegation in the Namibia Premiership over the weekend.Civics had a
readThe Hitman still unbeaten Paulus
09-05-2005
'The Hitman' Moses maintained his unbeaten record as he beat South Africa's Clinton Kinnear on a fourth-round technical knockout at Swakopmund's Hotel and Entertainment Centre on Saturday.The fight
readNFA fails to announce new technical director
09-05-2005
* CORRY IHUHUA NAMIBIAN football authorities on Thursday once again failed to officially confirm who will be the technical director for Namibia's football development programme.An executive meeting
readOmukithi gwo Marburg otagu yi komeho mu Angola
09-05-2005
L UANDA - Omwaalu gwaantu mboka ya si komukithi gwo Marburg ogwa yi pombanda mu Angola sigo opaantu ye li 257, uuyelele mbuka owa tseyithwa molopota ndjoka ya gandjwa kehangano li na sha
readMarburg death toll up to 277
09-05-2005
GENEVA - Twenty-two more people have died of the Marburg virus in Angola over the past week, taking the toll to 277, and more deaths are feared, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
readIraq appoints new ministers
09-05-2005
BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament approved the selection of six new government ministers yesterday but the proposed human rights minister rejected the post, leaving Iraq with an incomplete cabinet three
readProtest mars WWII defeat Commemoration in Germany
09-05-2005
BERLIN - A neo-Nazi protest clouded Germany's commemorations yesterday of the Allied victory over Hitler in World War II, as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder appealed for forgiveness for the crimes of
readBlair's allies dismiss calls for him to quit
09-05-2005
* ANDREW GRAY LONDON - Members of Tony Blair's Labour party yesterday called for him to stand down sooner rather than later even after he won a record third term as British prime minister but his
readIN BRIEF
09-05-2005
*BLASTS - Military-ruled Myanmar wrapped a tight security blanket over the sites of three bombings in the capital, with the junta blaming the unprecedented attacks on ethnic guerrillas and
readBanned Zim daily could bounce back HARARE
09-05-2005
- Owners of a banned Zimbabwean daily expressed hope Friday that they could soon resume publication following a "positive" meeting with members of a state-run media body which had ordered the
readHRW urges speedy troop deployment in Darfur
09-05-2005
ADDIS ABABA - A leading international rights group yesterday urged African Union (AU) to hasten the deployment and increase the number of peacekeepers to Sudan's war-ravaged region of Darfur in order
readPalestinian fury after Sharon freezes release of prisoners
09-05-2005
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivered a new blow to the troubled Middle East peace process yesterday by deciding to place an agreement for the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners
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