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41 Articles found on Monday, 5 September 2005
European countries issue airline blacklists
05-09-2005
THE following airlines have been blacklisted by Belgium, Britain, France and Switzerland because of safety concerns:1.United Kingdom has blacklisted: Star Air and Air Universal, both of Sierra Leone;
readOld Mutual bid for Skandia likely
05-09-2005
STOCKHOLM - Shares in Swedish savings firm Skandia were suspended from trade on the Stockholm bourse on Friday morning, the exchange said, with a bid for the firm from South Africa's Old Mutual
readZinc price high on Katrina woes
05-09-2005
LONDON - Speculators have pushed the price of zinc, a metal used as an anti-corrosive coating, to the highest for five months anticipating that Hurricane Katrina will cause supply snags.Slightly less
readNo Telecom tariff increases
05-09-2005
TELECOM Namibia has announced that there will be no tariff increases for the rest of the year, nor other price increases for telecommunication products and services, except for call barring
readBenefits of regional integration
05-09-2005
WINDHOEK - Namibia should determine its priorities among the competing demands of participating in various regional integration arrangements.In his presentation at the seventh annual symposium of the
readCentral RED hits a brick wall, electricity law to be rewritten
05-09-2005
THE country's biggest regional electricity distributor, Central RED, appears unlikely to be established before the end of the year because of a number of shortcomings in the legal framework.Concerns
readKeetmanshoop thumbs nose at Govt, SELCo on power deal
05-09-2005
THE Southern Electricity Service Company (SELCo) is seeking a High Court interdict against the Keetmanshoop Town Council after the Council terminated an exclusive 15-year contract the parties entered
readHuman head paraded in cuca shops
05-09-2005
THE Police at Okongo and Eenhana in the Ohangwena Region are investigating a murder case in which a 60-year-old man was beheaded and the murder suspect paraded the head on a stick in nearby villages
readSPYL puts Kapia 'on leave'
05-09-2005
THE political career of Swapo Party Youth League Secretary Paulus Kapia has received the latest in a series of blows, with a decision that he will have to take a month's leave from his post as leader
readHowes regional head of Rotary
05-09-2005
Ken Howes has been appointed as the District Governor for Rotary International in Namibia, Angola and part of South Africa.There are 61 Rotary Clubs in the district - 16 in Namibia, one in Angola and
readBaby found dead in a well in the North
05-09-2005
WINDHOEK - The body of an unidentified baby has been found in a well at Ohali village in the Okaku area in northern Namibia, the Police report.The body was found on Wednesday by bricklayers who were
readSuicide, murder, accidents claim 4
05-09-2005
The Police yesterday reported four deaths over the weekend.On Friday afternoon, 30-year-old Stefanus Jafet hanged himself with a rope in his sleeping hut.The incident occurred at Omalungwandjamba
readSwapo Party elders tackle social issues
05-09-2005
CORRUPTION, crime, poverty and the state of education featured prominently on the agenda of the annual central committee of the Swapo Elders' Council in Windhoek this past weekend.Opening the meeting
readMUN wants end to the export of Namibian minerals in raw form
05-09-2005
ALMOST 16 years after Independence, Namibia's minerals continue to be exploited and exported in raw form without adding any significant value to the economy.This was the main concern of outgoing
readIllegal fencing of communal land continues unabated
05-09-2005
OSHAKATI - A one-day workshop on the implementation of the Communal Land Reform Act has heard that many wealthy people are fencing off large portions of communal land.The workshop took place at
readKandara hailed as 'a saint' at funeral
05-09-2005
ABOUT 1 000 people turned out to pay their last respects to the late Lazarus Kandara at the town cemetery at Otjiwarongo on Saturday.Kandara died on August 24 in front of the Windhoek Police
readWorkers urged to expose graft
05-09-2005
NAMIBIAN workers should learn the art of whistle-blowing if the fight against corruption is to be won, the Acting Secretary General of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), Peter Naholo, said
readSam Nujoma Foundation to repay gift from Namangol Investments
05-09-2005
THE trustees of the Sam Nujoma Foundation say they will pay back the N$20 000 that the foundation received from Namangol Investments as soon as the authorities indicate to whom it should be
readMassacre victims' son to plead this week
05-09-2005
THE son of slain farm owners Justus and Elzabé Erasmus, who were killed in Namibia's largest massacre since Independence, heard on Friday that he will have to plead to charges of murdering his
readNaholo a holoka mOmpangu
05-09-2005
OMUSAMANE Festus Naholo, ngoka a li nale Amushanga gwOmaliko goSwapo, okwa holoka mOmpangu ya Mengestrata mOvenduka mEtine lya zi ko.Naholo okwa lopotelwa oshipotha shonkambadhala yedhipago. Ina pulwa
readGumwe i idhipaga manga ina kwatwa po
05-09-2005
OMULUMENTU gumwe a li ta konakonwa kOshikondo hashi ungaunga niikoya iinene shOpolisi, otaku popiwa kutya okwi idhipaga manga Aapoliskonakoni ya li ye li popepi noku mu tula momalyenge mEtine lya zi
readSELCo okuuvitile nayi etokolo lya Muni gwa Keetmanshoop
05-09-2005
EHANGANO egandjilusheno moondoolopa dhokuumbugantu lya Southern Electricity Company (SELCo) olya popi kutya otali ka falaa Eelo lyondoolopa ya Keetmanshoop kOmpangu ngele itali shunitha shunitha mo
readOndjugo ya meekulu Febronia ya pya po
05-09-2005
O NKUNDANA ye tu zilila momukunda Onalumbololo mOkalongo mOshitopolwa sha Musati, otayi ti kutya ondjugo yokulala ya meekulu Febronia Johannes gwoomvula omilongoheyali nambali (72) oya pipo thilu
readYaali ya monika ondjo melongitho lyiingangamithi
05-09-2005
GOBABIS - Onkundana okuzilila ku Gobabis moshitopolwa sha Maheke otayi ti kutya aalumentu yaali oya pewe egeelo mOmpangu ya Mengestrata mEtine lya zi ko moshipotha shelongitho lyepangwe noopela dho
readCymot ina hala okukutula aaniilonga mboka a tidha
05-09-2005
O FEEMA hayi landitha iipaalte yiihauto ya Cymot oya tinda okutula miilonga elombwelo lyOmutseyinawa miinima ya guma aaniilonga naagandji yiilonga, Sacky Ipinge, kutya aaniilonga ayehe ye li 79 mboka
readOshindji shomoshimaliwa shoka ODC a kanitha osha zi ku NDC
05-09-2005
OSHIMALIWA sha konda petata lyoomiliyuna ethele shoka Okampani ya Off-shore Development Company (ODC) ya kanithile mOkampani yokuBotswana ya Great Triangle Investments, osha zile kOkampani ya Namibia
readAll Blacks seal Tri-Nations title
05-09-2005
AUCKLAND - The New Zealand All Blacks ground out a 34-24 win over an injury-ravaged Australian Wallabies at Eden Park here Saturday to win the Tri-Nations rugby series for the sixth time in the
readTunisia move within one point of World Cup finals
05-09-2005
JOHANNESBURG - A fifth successive World Cup win on Saturday left Tunisia needing only a draw from their last match to qualify for the 2006 World Cup finals.The African champions beat Kenya 2-0 behind
readLebedeva jumps to million dollars
05-09-2005
BERLIN - Russian triple jumper Tatyana Lebedeva won the one-million-dollar Golden League jackpot with victory in the ISTAF meeting in Berlin yesterday.The 29-year-old two-time triple jump world
readRugby's under-18s secure 2006 World Cup spot
05-09-2005
NAMIBIAN under-18 rugby coach Riaan Jantjies praised his charges for showing great spirit throughout the Confederation of Africa Cup tournament which landed them a place in next year's Under-18 Rugby
readNRU suspends United
05-09-2005
ONE of the oldest clubs in Namibian rugby, United Rugby, has been suspended until 2007 by the Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) after United players declined to make themselves available for national duty
readCourt rules in favour of fat man in a Merc
05-09-2005
BERLIN - A German court has ruled that Mercedes must release a man from a car lease deal after a dispute over whether he was too heavy to drive the luxury vehicle.Bild newspaper reports that Mercedes
read'A time of greatness'
05-09-2005
WARSAW - From the heady days of 1980 when Solidarity rose out of the victory of a Polish workers' battle for greater rights and better working conditions, the movement has now become just another
readPoland's Solidarity returns to its roots after 25 years
05-09-2005
POZNAN, Poland - Pawel Pawlak, who was seven when Poland's Solidarity trade union was born, now spends his time doing what the movement's founders did 25 years ago - telling fellow workers not to be
readIn Brief
05-09-2005
* HURRICANE - - Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the US Gulf coast this week, has incited a storm of enthusiasm among Islamist bloggers who claim the destruction was sent by God to torment the
readAngolan refugees stranded in Zambia
05-09-2005
LUSAKA - More than 700 Angolan refugees wanting to return home are stranded in Zambia after an unexplained delay by their country's authorities to clear the plane used in their repatriation, a United
readMother hacks HIV-positive son to death with axe
05-09-2005
BLANTYRE - A Malawian woman hacked her 9-year-old son to death with an axe on Friday after discovering they both had HIV, police said.Mother and son both tested positive for HIV, the virus that
readUS chief justice dies
05-09-2005
WASHINGTON - William Rehnquist, chief justice and a leading conservative voice on the US Supreme Court, died late on Saturday from thyroid cancer, setting the stage for a new political battle for
readArson blamed as new Paris fire kills 14
05-09-2005
PARIS - Fourteen people, including two children, were killed and more than 30 injured in an apartment block fire in a southern Paris suburb early yesterday - the third fatal fire to hit the French
readSaddam to go on trial on October 19
05-09-2005
BAGHDAD - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and seven of his henchmen will go on trial on October 19 over the massacre of 143 people more than two decades ago, a government official announced
readHurricane refugees flee flood chaos
05-09-2005
NEW ORLEANS - President George W. Bush has ordered more troops to secure New Orleans as rescuers evacuated thousands of desperate refugees and closed two huge shelters plagued by murder, rape and
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