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45 Articles found on Thursday, 29 September 2005
Aviation flying out of control
29-09-2005
LONDON - Britain should drastically reduce the growth of air travel to bring greenhouse gas emissions within levels that will avoid dangerous climate change, says a report by leading environmental
readSmallest beings in ocean hold valuable secrets
29-09-2005
AMSTERDAM - Meet the smallest creature in the world's oceans: the humble microbe.It provides the planet with oxygen and helps combat global warming.A staggering number of the single-celled organisms
readLynndie England's jail term 'a travesty'
29-09-2005
BAGHDAD - Iraqis expressed fury yesterday over the three-year jail sentence for Lynndie England, the US soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in Abu Ghraib prison, saying it exposed
readBritish growth weakest in 12 yrs
29-09-2005
LONDON - The British economy grew at its weakest annual pace in 12 years in the second quarter of 2005 but consumer spending growth was revised up, official figures showed yesterday.The Office for
readConnie Malusi to head print media SA
29-09-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Johnnic Communications chief executive Connie Malusi has been elected president of Print Media SA, the body said on Monday.He succeeded Mail & Guardian chief executive, Zimbabwean
readBanks scramble for staff as M&A surges in Europe
29-09-2005
LONDON - A spike in takeovers and mergers in Europe is feeding a hiring spree in investment banking on a scale not seen since the 2000 technology merger boom.Headhunters and recruitment specialists
readSouth African mining magnate murdered
29-09-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Brett Kebble, the controversial mining magnate, has been shot dead.A witness who arrived at the scene before the police on Tuesday night said that Kebble's bullet-riddled body was found
readFNB to partner emerging farmers
29-09-2005
KEETMANSHOOP - Emerging commercial farmers in the country would soon find much-needed assistance from a tailor-made product by a local banking institution.The product is designed to meet the farmers'
readShow fever grips Windhoek
29-09-2005
IT is show time again and the organisers of the annual Windhoek Show are promising a bigger and better event this year.Despite the City of Windhoek having pulled the plug on the subsidy facility it
readBarloworld employees on strike
29-09-2005
SEVENTEEN employees of Barloworld Plascon Namibia have downed their tools after coming to a deadlock with the company's management over wage increases.The 17 who are members of the Metal and Allied
readGovt says Nujoma paid for helicopter trip
29-09-2005
THE Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication yesterday said that the Office of former President Sam Nujoma had paid to use a State helicopter to fly to Omaheke two weeks ago where he addressed a
readNewspaper to apologise for ad attacking Nazi hunter
29-09-2005
A German-language local weekly will publish an apology after an advertisement appeared in its pages celebrating the death of "the big monster" Simon Wiesenthal, the publisher said yesterday.Hans
readPaedophile blames 'urges'
29-09-2005
UNCONTROLABLE sexual urges were to blame for a string of illegal sexual encounters that an elderly farmer from the Gobabis district had with at least six street children at Gobabis between 2000 and
readOpawa 100!
29-09-2005
OPAWA Junior Secondary School at Tsumeb marks its centenary today.Celebrations will kick off with a live performance by local sensation Phura at the Nomtsoub Community Hall at 20h00.The official
readLet's chat about violence
29-09-2005
The Embassy of Finland this week donated N$75 000 to the 16 Days of Gender-based Violence campaign organised by Gender and Media Southern Africa (Gemsa).For the first time in Namibia, gender-based
readInfo day for Karas farmers
29-09-2005
AN independent strategist and agricultural economist, Professor Kobus Laubscher, has urged emerging commercial farmers in the Karas Region to focus their efforts on market-driven farming.He urged
readInstitute for civil servants
29-09-2005
GOVERNMENT is to establish a training institute especially for civil servants, to be known as the Namibian Institute of Public Management and Administration (Nimpa).It will cost more than N$44
readCo-operative gets off ground
29-09-2005
A COLLECTIVE effort, combined with resources, is needed to successfully ward off the twin evils of hunger and poverty.This was said by the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Willem Konjore, at the
readCourt finds in favour of Osire refugees
29-09-2005
FIVE refugees accused of inciting public violence when they disrupted World Refugee Day commemorations by picketing last year, were acquitted in the Otjiwarongo Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.The five
readLuxury tax could send inflation soaring further
29-09-2005
THE possible reintroduction of value-added tax (VAT) on luxury goods could steer inflation upwards, an economic analyst has warned.First National Bank economist Martin Mwinga told The Namibian that
readSwapo MPs try to drown out criticism on Opuwo water
29-09-2005
GOVERNMENT ministers yesterday tried to swat off as "cheap politicking" criticism from opposition MPs about its handling of the water situation at Opuwo.Responding to a motion from DTA leader
readAugustineum school liquid again
29-09-2005
THE water supply at the Augustineum Secondary School was reconnected late on Tuesday afternoon - after the City of Windhoek received a minimum instalment for the payment of its account.Municipality
readNo arrests, no head in slaying case
29-09-2005
NO arrests have yet been made as the Police yesterday continued with their investigation into the killing of the late Juanitha Mabula, whose beheaded body was found lying next to Windhoek's Western
readTake action on corruption: Ulenga
29-09-2005
ACTION to bring those guilty of corruption to book is what is required to match all the talk of rooting out corruption.This is what Congress of Democrats President Ben Ulenga called on the National
readArcadia North eviction postponed
29-09-2005
A GROUP of people, ordered by the court to get off farm Arcadia North in the Omaheke Region, will know their fate next Thursday.A meeting to discuss the eviction order against Thusnelde Kamutjemo and
readKapia ina holoka mOparliamende
29-09-2005
KONIMA sho a holoka mOmutumba gwOpashigwana sho gwa tameke iilonga yago oshiwike sha zi ko nokutukula omapopyo moshigwana mpaka naampeyaka, Amushanga gwEwawa lyAagundjuka Paulus Kapia okwa ndopa
readRoad Authority a falwa kOmpangu
29-09-2005
OMUKULUNTU gwosipana ndjoka ya li ya patelwa mongulu pethimbo ya li taya ningi omakonakono mokampani ya Road Authority ota pula ofuto sho ya ningilwa oshinima shika.Fanie Pienaar ngoka e li mwene
readTate Sacky Nangolo ta nyenyeta efumvulomo lyomunino gwe gwomeya
29-09-2005
OMUKALIMO gwomomukunda Okashanakiingo popepi nOmuthiyagwiipundi mOndonga mOshitopolwa sha Shikoto, tate Sacky Nangolo oku li ke uvite ombili nota nyenyeta omunino gwe gwomeya, ngoka a li a tula po
readOmukulupe a kwatwa onkonga
29-09-2005
WINDHOEK - Omukulupe gumwe gwomimvo 66 okwa kwatwa koonkondo momulamba gumwe pOkaiti (Keetamanshoop) mEtine lya zi ko, shika osha holoka molopota yOpolisi oshiwike shika.Omulumentu gwomimvo 49 okwa
readTelecom a kutha aaniilonga ye li 163 miilonga
29-09-2005
E HANGANO lyomakwatathano mu Namibia nenge tutye Telecom Namibia olya ningi etokolo okukutha miilonga aaniilonga yalyo ye vulithe po 160 pehulilo lya Septemba 2005.Oshinima shika osha ningwa pamukalo
readOtashi vulika Ben ita ka galukila kOsikola mbala
29-09-2005
OMUKULUNTUSIKOLA pOsikola ya Concordia College, Ben Awoseb ngoka a kuthilwe miilonga pakathimbo konima sho a ningilwa oshipotha shi na sha niihulo heyi ningile aanasikola nosho wo aaniilonga pOsikola
readYatatu yasila miikolokosha mu Nigeria
29-09-2005
Lagos - Omakuyunguto noontamanana ndhoka dha kwata omasiku gaali pokati kaaleli yopamuthigululwakalo mu Nigeria oga thigi aantu yatatu ya sa, Opolisi osho ya lopota ngaaka mEtiyali.Omugandjimulombo
readOsekundosikola ya Augustineum ka yi na omeya
29-09-2005
OSEKUNDOSIKOLA yOpombanda ya Augustineum mOvenduka oya kala yaana omeya uule womasiku gatatu konima sho omeya gawo ga tetwa ko sho ya ndopa okufuta oongunga dhomeya gawo ku Muni gwa Venduka.Nando nee
readMalaria hits Pompey star
29-09-2005
LONDON - Portsmouth will be without striker Tresor Lomana Lua Lua for several weeks after he was confined to a hospital isolation unit with malaria.The former Newcastle man, who missed Pompey's recent
readJacobs signed by Ajax
29-09-2005
FORMER Ramblers midfielder Quinton Jacobs have been offered a two year contract with South African Premiership club, Ajax Cape Town after successful trials for two weeks there, his business manager
readRonaldinho makes life Messi for Udinese, United bounce back
29-09-2005
PARIS - A hat-trick by Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho handed Barcelona a comfortable 4-1 victory over Italian side Udinese in the second round of Champions League group matches on Tuesday.While his
readBoois announces new coaches for national teams
29-09-2005
NAMIBIAN football´s technical director Seth Boois yesterday announced the new coaches, their assistants and team managers for the various national teams.Boois announced the appointment of the new
readApologised for prison abuse photos but still an 'American patriot'
29-09-2005
FORT HOOD, Texas - Lynndie England apologised on Tuesday for her actions in the scandal and said she remained an American patriot.England, who spoke at length about her 11-month-old baby, testified
readIn Brief
29-09-2005
* HOMELESS - Hundreds of thousands of residents along the Gulf of Mexico coast remained homeless after two devastating hurricanes as US leaders fought over the government's response to the
readHaiti told to speed up poll plans
29-09-2005
PORT-AU-PRINCE - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Haiti's interim government, struggling to contain political and criminal violence, to speed up planning for November's elections and urged
readPakistan arrests most wanted Sunni militant
29-09-2005
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces have arrested the chief of a Sunni extremist group who allegedly masterminded a string of suicide attacks that killed scores of Shi'ites, officials said
read5 seats up for grabs on UN Council
29-09-2005
UNITED NATIONS - Six nations are competing in October 10 elections for five coveted two-year seats on the 15-nation UN Security Council, UN diplomats said on Tuesday.Council members are elected by
readZim orders eviction of 70 new farmers
29-09-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe has ordered the eviction of some 70 families given farms under the controversial land reform programme, to make way for an agricultural research station, the Daily Mirror said
readSchroeder and Merkel in new round of talks
29-09-2005
BERLIN - Aides to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and rival Angela Merkel showed no signs of compromise on their competing leadership claims as the pair prepared for a second round of talks yesterday on
readFactions, neighbours block peace in Congo - Amnesty
29-09-2005
KINSHASA - Congo's neighbours and former warring factions are stoking tensions in the country's volatile east which could derail a peace process and trigger off widespread fighting, Amnesty
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