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51 Articles found on Tuesday, 6 September 2005
Ivory Coast's Young Patriots gear up for polls
06-09-2005
ABIDJAN - The slight man sitting in the lobby of an expensive hotel in Ivory Coast's main city was wearing a red T-shirt and a Manchester United baseball cap.But the waitress addressed him as
readPohamba Will Do It
06-09-2005
I AM writing this letter to urge the Namibian people to wait calmly until President Hifikepunye Pohamba is ready to get rid of each and every one who is guilty of corruption.Let us not blame or rush
readRelease Us From Corruption
06-09-2005
I'M a concerned Namibian who is angry, frustrated and disappointed by the way our once beloved country is run by the selfish, careless and reckless government or should I say individuals, since most
readBringing Us To Our Knees
06-09-2005
ALLOW me space in your esteemed newspaper to air my views on the current SSC-Avid saga.It is shocking to learn that people who are entrusted with enormous government responsibilities are now
readConcerns About The Zambezi
06-09-2005
WE have been coming to Namibia for years, have always enjoyed your newspaper, and while sitting on the banks of the Zambezi River we read that it is your 20th Anniversary, well done. The reason that
readSomebody Stole The Jewel
06-09-2005
IN response to your reader who asks plaintively "What happened to the jewel in the crown (Namibia)?" on September 2 - the unfortunate obvious answer: Somebody stole it! Bill Torbitt Windhoek
readAdvice For Kauandenge
06-09-2005
ALLOW me space in your daily newspaper to register my comments and advice on Mr Kauandenge's recent political marathon.While I fully understand and respect his freedom of association, including
readMore Banking Queries
06-09-2005
I WANT to mention two concerns to Bank Windhoek (Main Branch).I appeal to the bank management: firstly, to improve their system on the issuing of ATM cards.My card expired end of August 2005 and I
readProud Of Desert Express
06-09-2005
I WANT to give credit to the Desert Express staff who were on duty on the evening of the 25 August 2005.It was my first time on this train and I must admit that it was worthwhile.We were a group from
readPolice Incompetence
06-09-2005
HAVING followed the Avid corruption scandal for some time, I feel that the death of Lazarus Kandara needs just a little explanation.It is difficult to believe that the Police could have been so
readOn The Corruption Technocrats
06-09-2005
IF you steal a cow in Namibia, you have to either walk it away, or kill it and carry it away, or put it on a bakkie and drive it away.What if you steal millions of dollars, or even a few hundred
readPeermont boosts profit solid year ahead
06-09-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's second-biggest hotel and casino company Peermont Global boosted first-half headline earnings per share by 52 per cent and forecast solid results for the full year
readJapan's Uniqlo to go global
06-09-2005
TOKYO - Fast Retailing, the operator of Japanese clothes store operator Uniqlo, said yesterday it had up to 400 billion yen (US$3,7 billion) to spend on acquisitions to become the world's number one
readCourt makes landmark ruling
06-09-2005
SYDNEY - The Australian music industry yesterday welcomed a landmark court decision which ruled that the popular music file-swapping software Kazaa infringes artists' copyright.In a decision that
readOil losses up as world set to open stockpiles
06-09-2005
SINGAPORE - Oil fell almost US$1 yesterday, extending Friday's drop to near pre-Katrina levels as industrialised nations agreed to release 60 million barrels of emergency oil stocks to ease a US fuel
readNamibian Estate Agents Board holds first meeting
06-09-2005
WINDHOEK - The new Namibian Estate Agents Board (NEAB) held its first meeting here on Friday.Speaking at the meeting, Trade and Industry Minister Immanuel Ngatjizeko said the board must develop and
readMbeki urges cheaper phone tariffs
06-09-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa must find ways to cut the cost of communications and catch up with emerging market peers like India, President Thabo Mbeki said late on Sunday.Mbeki was quoted on SABC
read122 Ohlthaver & List staff to be retrenched
06-09-2005
ONE hundred and twenty-two people will lose their jobs at Midgard Lodge and Asgard-Schenckswerder Farm as part of the massive restructuring exercise being undertaken by the Ohlthaver & List Group of
readChina sees EU textile row as passing
06-09-2005
BEIJING - A dispute between China and the European Union over China's surging textile exports is a temporary difficulty that will not mar burgeoning commercial ties, Premier Wen Jiabao said
readThree rapes reported at Grootfontein
06-09-2005
A 75-year-old Grootfontein man has been arrested in connection with the rape of a four-year-old girl on Friday afternoon, the Police reported yesterday.It is alleged that the elderly man fetched the
readWoman killed at Swakop
06-09-2005
REPORTS of a violent murder stunned inhabitants of the Tamariskia township at Swakopmund on Sunday morning.The Police were alerted after the body of a woman was found on an open piece of land near the
readMicro-finance training course
06-09-2005
TWO Namibians working in micro-financing will meet with fellow practitioners from several countries at this year's training programme in Indonesia, which started this week.Selinah Meroro of the
readPower of the plough
06-09-2005
OPUWO - About 15 farmers from the Etanga area have attended a three-week workshop on how to use draught animals such as oxen and donkeys in cultivating their fields.The workshop was funded by the
readOshakati pleads for fire support
06-09-2005
THE Oshakati Town Council has called on residents to support its fire-fighting efforts.Municipal spokesman Lot Nehemia said in a statement yesterday that it was the responsibility of every Oshakati
readGerman town reaches out to Namibia
06-09-2005
ROLAND Grebner, a maths and geography teacher from the Gymnasium Hochstadt an der Eisch in Germany, has collected 5 600 Euro (about N$45 500) among students, friends and townspeople for various
readHealth fraud inquiry nears end
06-09-2005
WINDHOEK - The inquiry into alleged large-scale fraud in the Health Ministry is still under investigation, according to sources at the Office of the Ombudsman.A major scam involving fraudulent
readTop Prisons official held
06-09-2005
A DEPUTY Commissioner of Prisons, Nelzin ('Melvin') Martin, has been arrested in connection with an ongoing fraud investigation involving the Ministry's Entertainment Fund, Permanent Secretary of
readKeetmans misses deadline
06-09-2005
THE Keetmanshoop Town Council did not meet a deadline set by the Electricity Control Board (ECB) to reinstate its power supply contract with the Southern Electricity Service Company (SELCo) by noon
readYouth League committee to probe Kapia, Blaauw's Avid involvement
06-09-2005
THE Swapo Party Youth League yesterday confirmed that SPYL Secretary Paulus Kapia has been "put on leave from his duties as SPYL Secretary" in terms of a decision taken at a meeting of its Central
readCharges mount over Telecom copper scam
06-09-2005
THE number of fraud, theft and corruption charges against a Windhoek businessman and a former Telecom Namibia manager, accused of involvement in an alleged multi-million dollar scrap copper sales
readAnti-corruption commission will not be ready this year
06-09-2005
THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), as envisaged by the Anti-Corruption Act (Act 8 of 2003) cannot be constituted before the National Assembly and National Council have approved the appointees,
readECB ups pressure on SELCo deal
06-09-2005
THE Keetmanshoop Municipality could lose its electricity distribution and supply licence if it fails to reinstate the Southern Electricity Company (SELCo), its contracted electricity distributor, the
readGovernment in hot pursuit of medical aid fraudsters
06-09-2005
THE Ministry of Finance is hot on the heels of medical service providers who overcharge, over-dispense or submit fraudulent claims on behalf of civil servants, costing the State millions of dollars.It
readOmusamane a teta mukwawo omutse e te gu humbata komutenge
06-09-2005
O MUSAMANE ngoka a kala e na ohambo momukunda Ongumi popepi nOkongo mUukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena okwa dhipaga omusamane mukwawo sho e mu tete omutse ongulohi yOlyomakaya ga zi ko, Opolisi
readMuni gwa Keetmanshoop okwa dhika oonyala mevi
06-09-2005
E LELO lyondoolopa ya Keetmanshoop olya dhika oonyala mevi kutya ita li ka galulula etokolo lye lyokukutha po okondalaka yawo nOkampani ya SELCo yokugandja olusheno mondoolopa.Ngashiingeyi SELCo okwa
readPaulus Kapia a pewa efudho ko SPYL
06-09-2005
O NAKUYIWA mopolitika ya Amushanga gwEwawa lyAagundjuka moSwapo,Paulus Kapia, ngashiingeyi oya nyika iipa yombwa, unene tuu sho kwa ningwa etokolo kutya na kuthe efudho lyuule womwedhi okuza mopoosa
readEwi lyOomeme mOmusati lya hogolola Ewilikongundu epe
06-09-2005
E HANGANO lyOomeme lya tseyika nawa moNamibia lyedhina Women Action for Development (WAD), tali wilikwa ku Efolo Veronika De Klerk, li na sha nokuhumitha komeho oomeme mboka unene yomiitopolwa
readIiponga iinene mehuliloshiwike
06-09-2005
OPOLISI ya Namibia oya lopota omaso gane mehuliloshiwike.Omunamimvo 30, Stefanus Jafet, okwi imangeleke mondunda ye yokulala omutenya gwEtitano.Oshiponga shika osha ningilwa pomukunda
readNFA coaching course attracts 65
06-09-2005
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) Technical Department kicked off its first beginners coaching course at Soccer House yesterday.The course attracted 65 enthusiasts, including two women. The
readVenus eclipses Serena to reach US Open quarter-finals
06-09-2005
NEW YORK - Wimbledon champion Venus Williams beat her little sister Serena 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open here Sunday, but the sister act was hardly a show-stopper."I don't
readKimi fastest, but Alonso consistent
06-09-2005
MONZA - Luckless Finn Kimi Raikkonen is currently the fastest driver in Formula One, but Spaniard Fernando Alonso will win the drivers' championship because of his consistency, Ferrari's experienced
readPirates, BA to clash in derby
06-09-2005
WITH no date in sight for the kick-off of the new football season, two of Namibia's most prominent clubs, Orlando Pirates and Black Africa, decided to go into battle this Saturday in a friendly match
readRehnquist: a conservative, enigmatic and a dissenter
06-09-2005
WASHINGTON - US Chief Justice William H Rehnquist, who oversaw the high court's conservative shift and presided over the impeachment trial of President Clinton, died on Saturday evening.He was 80
readEgypt gears for polls
06-09-2005
CAIRO - Veteran President Hosni Mubarak urged Egyptians to go to the polls for the nation's first contested presidential election, but a ban on independent monitors fuelled concerns yesterday about
readDRC toll 'comparable to tsunami'
06-09-2005
BRUSSELS - United Nations relief co-ordinator Jan Egeland on Saturday urged the world to help the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as it experiences one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in
readPresident Obasanjo orders probe of his own finances
06-09-2005
ABUJA - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered his country's anti-graft agency to probe his own finances after being accused by a state governor of skimming commissions from oil and defence
readIn Brief
06-09-2005
* TOLL - The death toll in Mississippi, the state worst hit by Hurricane Katrina after Louisiana, stood at 152 on Sunday, an official with the state's Emergency Management Agency said.* KILLED - At
readUS troops brace to harvest the dead of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
06-09-2005
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans began counting its dead yesterday as US troops turned to the gruesome task of harvesting bloated corpses from the hurricane-torn city's flooded streets and homes.Seven days
readToll rises to 16 in Paris apartment block fire
06-09-2005
PARIS - The death toll from an apartment block fire in a suburb south of Paris has risen to 16 after a young man suffering from severe smoke inhalation died in hospital late on Sunday, police
read13 Taliban killed in US-Afghan raid
06-09-2005
KANDAHAR - Afghan and US forces searching for a kidnapped election candidate have killed 13 suspected rebels and arrested another 40 in a raid on a Taliban hideout, local officials said yesterday.The
readOver 130 dead in Indonesia plane crash
06-09-2005
MEDAN - A Boeing 737-200 crashed in a residential area of Indonesia's third biggest city just after takeoff yesterday, killing more than 100 people onboard as well as 30 bystanders in an inferno on
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