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44 Articles found on Wednesday, 9 November 2005
Sun City gets BEE investors to bury apartheid past
09-11-2005
JOHANNESBURG - The South African owners of gambling resort Sun City - which became a world-famous symbol of apartheid-era repression - is seeking to bury its past by drafting in black
readMTC in deal with Business Connexion
09-11-2005
NAMIBIA'S only cellular service provider, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) and Business Connexion Namibia have entered into a business deal worth N$9,6 million.The deal is for Business
readZambia halts power exports on low capacity
09-11-2005
LUSAKA - Zambia's state power utility Zesco has halted power exports as generation capacity fell after shutdowns due to rehabilitation work, and the country is now importing power, a senior company
readAfrican scientists need to leave their Ivory Towers
09-11-2005
NAIROBI - Elite science institutions in Africa must do more to ensure their research is put to practical use against agricultural, health and other problems, and the continent's governments must
readDisputes over WTO talks easing
09-11-2005
MUMBAI - The subsidies deadlock between rich and developing nations which is dogging World Trade Organisation talks appears to be easing and the United States is prepared to do more to bridge the
readDe Beers to sell 26% of SA unit to BEE
09-11-2005
JOHANNESBURG - The world's biggest diamond producer, De Beers, will sell 26 per cent of its South African unit to a new black-owned firm for about 3,8 billion rand to meet government demands to
readNamdeb managers nabbed for gem theft
09-11-2005
TWO senior members of the Namdeb management team at Pocket Beaches' Mine and three other employees have been arrested on allegations of involvement in illegal diamond trafficking.A sixth accomplice
readNamibia urged to decriminalise sex workers
09-11-2005
THE Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) yesterday called for the decriminalisation of prostitution in Namibia.The co-ordinator of LAC's Gender Research and Advocacy Project, Dianne Hubbard, said it is the
readLaw to be passed to bestow official title on Nujoma
09-11-2005
R A LAW will be introduced next week to confer an official title upon former President Sam Nujoma.He will become known as the Founding Father of the Namibian Nation.Prime Minister Nahas Angula
readJones brothers get 111 years
09-11-2005
BROTHERS Ian and Chris Jones received prison terms of 61 and 50 years respectively yesterday for the armed robbery, kidnapping and murder that they committed in Windhoek in early 2002.The robbing and
readPedal power 'the way'
09-11-2005
WITH fuel prices skyrocketing, more people are looking for cheaper means of transport and increasingly find the solution in bicycles.But for the poorest of the poor, buying a bicycle is often beyond
readSwakop jetty facelift on course
09-11-2005
THE renovation of Swakopmund's much-loved jetty will be finished by February 2006.Only the 17 columns closest to the shore are being strengthened - the last 21 will be left at the mercy of the sea
readPacon mourns 'mother of civil rights'
09-11-2005
THE Pan African Centre of Namibia (Pacon) recently paid tribute to the late Rosa Parks, who died two weeks ago at her home in Detroit, Michigan.Parks earned the moniker "mother of the civil rights
readAngloGold expects Namibian mine reserves to rise
09-11-2005
NAVACHAB MINE - AngloGold Ashanti's Navachab open-pit mine in Namibia is making good progress in finding more gold reserves, which could soon jump by a quarter and extend operations at the mine, an
read11 prisoners escape from Wanaheda cells
09-11-2005
WINDHOEK - Eleven trial-awaiting prisoners escaped from custody at Wanaheda Police Station in Windhoek at about 01h00 on Friday.They made their getaway by sawing through the the roof of the cell, the
readProposed graft busters are dark horses: MPs
09-11-2005
OPPOSITION parties yesterday expressed concern that the two people nominated to head the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) are little known to them and the public.Those who raised concern said that
readCivil service 'bloated, yet inefficient'
09-11-2005
GOVERNMENT'S failure to implement performance management to improve public service delivery has resulted in a bloated, yet inefficient, civil service.Presenting a paper at last week's Cabinet retreat
readMusicians tussle with awards promoters
09-11-2005
WITH less than a month to go before the Sanlam/NBC Namibian Music Awards, the sponsors of the event this week had to clear a second hurdle after fending off a rival awards show in August.This past
readChildren's Status Bill revamped
09-11-2005
A CONTROVERSIAL bill which aims to give children equal rights irrespective of the marital status of their parents, returned to the National Assembly yesterday, a year and nine months since a first
readAmbasanda Dell otashi vulika a ka shunithwe kaandjawo
09-11-2005
H ARARE - Onkundana okuzilila ku Harare sha Zimbabwe otayi ti kutya Omukalelipo gwa Amerika ku Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, otashi vulika a ka tidhwe mo moshilongo shika sho i idhipo miinima yasho
readEmbo lya Nakambale otali ka longithwa mOosikola
09-11-2005
E MBO lyondjokonona yOmutumwa Omusuomi, a simana noonkondo mondjokonona yOngeleki Onkwaevaangeli pa Lutheri mu Namibia/Evangelical Luthern Church in Namibia (Elcin) Martin Rautanen (a tseyika nawa
readNdeutala a ya nEkopi kOntananga
09-11-2005
O NGUNDULWIIMBO yedhina Ndeutala yehangano lyoongundulwiimbo lya M'uambo Musical Works (MMW) oyo ya yi nEkopi mokwiimba, ndyoka lya li tali kondjelwa koongundulwiimbo dhehangano ndika, sha li
readEkwatakanitho lya tatekulu Boonzaaier lya hololwa
09-11-2005
U UMBANGI otau koko nokuya puuyelele kutya omunangeshefa gwehangano lyomakwashilipaleko Pieter Boonzaaier oye a dhana onkandangala onene mokutseyitha Okampani ya Great Triangle Investments kOokampani
readNkene sha ende pefumviko lya nakusa Omukwaniilwa Kornelius Shelungu
09-11-2005
E FUMVIKO lyOmukwaniilwa gwUukwanyama tatekulu Mwetupunga Kornelius Shelungu ngoka a fuvikwa ohela pOmedi popepi nOhangwena mUukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena, olya li lya ende ngaa nawa, ashike
readI will not step down: Conradie
09-11-2005
NAMIBIA Rugby Union president Dirk Conradie says he will not step down unless the clubs that voted him into office ask him to do so.Conradie spoke to The Namibian Sport yesterday in the wake of the
readSport Shorts
09-11-2005
* LONDON - The India women's cricket team is set to play its first match at Lord's when they take on England in a one-day international fixture at the 'home of cricket' next year.The match, England's
readWorld's best prepare to do battle in Shanghai
09-11-2005
SHANGHAI - Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, the two best players in the world of golf, line up alongside Colin Montgomerie and Michael Campbell, the leading money winners on the 2005 European Tour, at
readBlack Africa superior in netball
09-11-2005
IT'S official! Black Africa are the netball queens in the Khomas Region.The announcement was made during the Khomas Region Netball League Annual General Meeting held over the weekend.Black Africa won
readMariental triathlon attracts record number, as foreigners take titles
09-11-2005
THE annual First National Bank (FNB) Mariental Triathlon saw a record number of 220 athletes participating on Saturday.Organiser Mariete Grobler was very pleased with the turnout and said most
readEngland slip to defeat in Pakistan
09-11-2005
LAHORE - England's preparations for the first test against Pakistan suffered another blow yesterday when they lost a three-day tour match to a Pakistan 'A' side by six wickets.Already facing the
readFootball Log Standing English Premiership
09-11-2005
Team P W D L GF GA Pts Chelsea 12 10 1 1 28 7 31Wigan 11 8 1 2 13 5 25 Bolton 12 7 2 3 14 11 23 Man Utd 11 6 3 2 16 11 21 Arsenal
readDefenders get better with age: Hummel
09-11-2005
MOROKA Swallows defender George 'Road Block' Hummel says he believes defenders improve with age.The 29-year-old returned to the Dube Birds side at the end of last season after his stint in Russia
readIn Brief
09-11-2005
* WAR ON TERROR - The US Supreme Court said it would rule on the legality of special military courts set up for "war on terror" detainees after a former driver to Osama bin Laden made the most serious
readUS pushes UN for year-long extension of Iraq mandate
09-11-2005
WASHINGTON - The United States has urged the UN Security Council to extend the mandate of the US-led forces in Iraq for at least a year after the Iraqis elect their first government, The Washington
readMain German parties make 'big step' toward coalition
09-11-2005
BERLIN - Germany's two main parties on Monday made a big step towards an accord on a power-sharing "grand coalition" government, the future finance minister said after talks here.Peer Steinbrueck
readIsrael's Ariel Sharon dealt a blow
09-11-2005
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a humiliating parliamentary rebuke by rebellious members of his own party on Monday, reflecting fallout over Israel's Gaza pullout that could lead to
readFrance slaps curfew to stem riots
09-11-2005
PARIS - The French government yesterday approved giving curfew powers to regional authorities to stem the worst urban violence the country has seen in nearly four decades, Interior Minister Nicolas
readBurundi army says rebels in Congo plan joint attack
09-11-2005
BUJUMBURA - Three militias in eastern Congo are plotting a joint attack on Burundi and Rwanda, Burundi's army said on Monday as it prepared to welcome UN Security Council officials touring Africa's
readLiberians vote again
09-11-2005
MONROVIA - Liberians were yesterday choosing between a wealthy international soccer star and a Harvard-educated female politician vying for the country's top job in a brains-versus-brawn presidential
readAustralia foils major terror attack
09-11-2005
SYDNEY - Australian law enforcers said they foiled a "catastrophic act of terrorism" inspired by a radical Islamic cleric after police raids yesterday in which a militant suspect was shot and 15
read106-year-old medicine woman dies
09-11-2005
UNCASVILLE, Connecticut - Gladys Tantaquidgeon, the Mohegan Indian Tribe's venerable medicine woman, has died.She was 106. Tantaquidgeon, the tribe's oldest living member, wrote several books on
readJournalist, jazzman, gentleman
09-11-2005
WHEN our colleague Tom Masland stepped off the curb onto West End Avenue on the rainy night of October 24, he had his funky little black bag over his left shoulder and his sax in a case in his right
readFamily factor
09-11-2005
THE violence in France's poor out-of-town estates highlights the breakdown of parental authority in many immigrant families, with mothers and fathers powerless to influence their rebellious
readUnemployment, discrimination fuel nihilism of rioting youth
09-11-2005
PARIS - The anger and frustration of the youths wreaking havoc in France's blighted suburbs is directly linked to chronic unemployment and the discrimination many face in the job market, say racism
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