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33 Articles found on Thursday, 20 April 2006
Spiders galore
20-04-2006
PEOPLE travelling around the country will notice yellow cobwebs spanning from tree to tree in the veld.Millions of black-and-yellow orb weavers, also known as garden spiders, can be seen everywhere.
readScientists find rivers deep under ice in the Antarctic
20-04-2006
LONDON - Rivers as big as the Thames in England that may connect sub-glacial lakes have been found deep under the Antarctic ice, scientists said yesterday.British researchers who discovered the
readDon't give up your rights: Minister
20-04-2006
FORMERLY disadvantaged Namibians getting rights to earn an income from tourism on State land, whether in or outside protected areas, should not sell or lease such rights, Environment and Tourism
readMogae urges Namibia to join WAFS project
20-04-2006
THE visiting Botswana President Festus Mogae has appealed to Namibia to join the West African Festoon Systems (WAFS) initiative that connects countries along the western coast of Africa from Nigeria
readDiamonds double
20-04-2006
LUANDA - Angola's diamond production doubled last year to seven million carats and phenomenal growth is expected in 2006, a senior industry official said on Tuesday. Production would reach 10 million
read'Boost funds or face court backlogs'
20-04-2006
ATTORNEY General and Justice Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana yesterday gave Government an ultimatum - allocate more money to the administration of justice or continue facing perpetual backlogs in the
readBakondja expresses remorse for actions
20-04-2006
"BAKONDJA is sorry." This, said Bakondja Katjiuongua as his fraud trial moved into the home stretch in the Windhoek Regional Court yesterday, was the message that he wanted to convey to the people
readSam Nujoma Stadium caused Dolam floods
20-04-2006
SERIOUS design flaws in the construction of the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura caused the flooding of about 14 homes in the adjacent Dolam location at the beginning of January.This is one of the
readSalary increases dominate Prime Minister's budget
20-04-2006
IMPROVING the salaries of civil servants, political and other office bearers will swallow more than 70 per cent of the N$270 million budget allocated to the Prime Minister's Office for 2006-07. Prime
readAuditor General set on meeting goals
20-04-2006
THE Office of the Auditor General has set itself the mammoth task of tabling 166 audit reports during the 2006-07 financial year and conducting at least 18 asset inspections countrywide to ensure
readInvestigation into rotten food drags on
20-04-2006
THE team investigating why more than 6 000 kg of maize meal destined for the food-for-work programme in the Karas Region was left to rot has asked for an extension. The Karas Regional Council's
readWorker runs over sleeping colleague
20-04-2006
A CASE of culpable homicide has been opened against a road construction worker who allegedly ran over a colleague with a truck on Saturday. The two men were apparently part of a Grinaker Road
read2 more road deaths reported
20-04-2006
TWO more fatal Easter weekend road accidents were reported yesterday, bringing the death toll for the four days to 23. A seven-year-old girl from Windhoek, Dantago Harases, died in the early hours of
readNamibia slides down global ICT scale
20-04-2006
PRIME Minister Nahas Angula has expressed disappointment that Namibia has dropped in world rankings measuring successes in information and communication technology (ICT).The World Economic Forum and
readGetting to grips with ways to beat back desertification
20-04-2006
AN international seminar on the role of information in scientific and practical approaches to combat desertification was recently held in Ondangwa.The seminar, hosted by the Desert Research Foundation
readPolice find murder suspect hiding in field
20-04-2006
A SUSPECT has been arrested for the murder of Gerhard Naftali Shinyemba (44), Constable Christina Fonsech of the Oshana Police reported on Tuesday.Shinyemba was shot dead at his cattle post at
readSpending on social welfare goes up
20-04-2006
GOVERNMENT plans to increase its expenditure on social welfare this financial year, allocating N$652,2 million for this purpose through the 2006-07 National Budget.This amount is N$133 million more
readDisabled empowered
20-04-2006
THE National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia recently hosted a graduation ceremony at Ongwediva.It followed a four-week programme aimed at empowering disabled people to serve as
readScouts get together
20-04-2006
MORE than 80 representatives from national Scout organisations around the region meet in Windhoek next weekend for the 33rd annual Southern Zone Scout Conference. The two-day event will be held at
readOmpangu yOpombanda oyi li mOshakati
20-04-2006
OMPANGU yOpombanda ya Namibia yi li mewiliko lyOmupangulipresidende Petrus Damaseb, omasiku ngaka oyi li mOshakati moka tayi pangula iipotha iinene ngashi yomadhipago, oonkambadhala dhomadhipago
readVan Zijl, Ray on the rise in swimming
20-04-2006
WHEN Namibian swimmers compete internationally, they strive to use the opportunity to establish personal best times, national records and international rankings, and gain competitive experience. Once
readDanielsen supreme at chess champs
20-04-2006
THE Namibian Chess Federation hosted the second Namibian-Icelandic International chess tournament over the long weekend at BluNote in Windhoek. The tournament was sponsored by ICEIDA and also
readBusiness relay slated for July
20-04-2006
THE eight annual Bank Windhoek National Business Challenge Relay will be held in Windhoek on July 15, with more than 1 000 people from different companies expected to take part in walking, running and
readMugabe warns to crush protests
20-04-2006
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe used Zimbabwe's 26th independence celebrations on Tuesday to warn the opposition he will ruthlessly crush street protests against his government and to remind
readSolomon Islands violence widens
20-04-2006
HONIARA - Australia and New Zealand deployed more troops and police to the riot-torn Solomon Islands yesterday as thousands of protesters threatened to destroy the capital unless the new prime
readIraq on edge as UN steps in to solve deadlock
20-04-2006
BAGHDAD - The UN's envoy to Iraq stepped in yesterday to try to break the country's political deadlock, with tensions running high in Baghdad after two days of running battles between rebels and
readUS fails to secure support for Iran sanctions
20-04-2006
WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy
readSA urged to tread carefully on land
20-04-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa was yesterday urged to tread carefully on land reform in a report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). "Land reform is a
readCable car riders suspended above New York City's East River for hours
20-04-2006
NEW YORK - What should have been a routine ride across the East River became an hours-long ordeal after what authorities described as a power failure left two cable cars carrying almost 70 people
readTanzania cholera kills 21
20-04-2006
ZANZIBAR - A month-long outbreak of cholera has killed 21 people and sickened 253 in mainland Tanzania and the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago, officials said yesterday.
readIn Brief ISRAEL ON ALERT
20-04-2006
* TRIAL - The trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity resumed, with the chief judge ruling that signatures linking the ousted Iraqi leader to a massacre in the 1980s were "authentic".
readBarry Bingham, US newspaper publisher
20-04-2006
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Former publisher Barry Bingham Jr (72), who guided The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times to three Pulitzer Prizes before the newspapers were sold as the family battled over
readRudolf Slansky, Czech ambassador dies.
20-04-2006
PRAGUE - Rudolf Slansky, a former ambassador to Russia and son of the Czechoslovak Communist leader of the same name who was put to death during the Stalinist purges, died last week. He was 71. His
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