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39 Articles found on Thursday, 10 August 2006
Chinese labour policies mar African welcome
10-08-2006
When Chinese investors bought struggling copper producer Chambishi Mining Plc, miners in this Zambian town gave them a heroes' welcome for averting its closure and for creating more jobs.Three years
readAdidas beats forecasts
10-08-2006
FRANKFURT - German sporting goods firm Adidas reported a better-than-forecast 24 per cent rise in second-quarter net profit yesterday on the back of a surge in sales spurred by the soccer World
readAirbus gets 200 orders
10-08-2006
Airbus won 200 gross orders for new planes by the end of July, data released by the European planemaker showed on Tuesday, versus 525 for US rival Boeing Corp.France-based Airbus does not report net
readZim nets US$40m in blitz
10-08-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe security agents have seized more than 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollars in old banknotes at the country's main airport in a drive against money laundering, state media reported
readWar vets stick to their guns
10-08-2006
WAR VETERANS demanding financial and material compensation from Government say they will not give up despite President Hifikepunye Pohamba turning down their request.The group of war veterans also say
readTreason suspects slapped with 7-year-old stock theft charge
10-08-2006
AS if they don't have enough legal problems to contend with, two of the men accused in the main Caprivi high treason trial - including former Member of Parliament Geoffrey Mwilima - now also face
readHostel food probe finished
10-08-2006
THE report compiled by an inter-ministerial technical committee probing alleged irregularities in the hostel catering trade has been submitted to the responsible Ministers, after which it is to be
readBurnt sheep to be put out of misery
10-08-2006
BADLY burnt sheep on the farm Springboklaagte in the Dordabis area, which lost about 600 sheep and goats in a veld fire on Monday, will be destroyed.Mrs Visagie, the wife of the farm owner Kobus
readPresident makes a plea for safer roads
10-08-2006
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has expressed his grief over 12 people losing their lives in an accident on the road between Kalkrand and Rehoboth on Sunday."This is one of the worst accidents this
readOkahandja protesters want Mayor back
10-08-2006
OUSTED Okahandja Mayor Christofine Paulus can at least count on the support of around 25 residents who yesterday marched up and down the steps leading to the municipality, demanding her return to the
readPetrol hike next week 'likely to be steep'
10-08-2006
FOLLOWING an announcement by Government of an impending fuel price increase, reliable sources indicated to The Namibian yesterday that the hike was likely to come into effect on Wednesday, August
readCasual workers in a fizz as strike ends in dismissal
10-08-2006
MORE than 90 casual workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Oshakati downed tools yesterday, complaining about alleged maltreatment by the factory management and labour-hire company Africa
read2 South African truckers held after woman claims she was repeatedly raped
10-08-2006
TWO South African long-distance truck drivers yesterday made a brief appearance in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate's Court on charges of rape.They are Willem Jacobs (47) and Bonganie Mjuangu (25),
readCop convicted of murder
10-08-2006
POLICE Constable Samwel Kaudimomunhu (50) has been sent to jail for 15 years for murdering his wife.Eight years of the sentence were suspended for five years. Kaudimomunhu was convicted of murder by
readNew Era's News Editor suspended
10-08-2006
GOVERNMENT has suspended New Era News Editor Da'oud Vries with immediate effect after the newspaper recently published an inflammatory letter.Vries, who is apparently being held responsible for the
readDisappointment for shebeen owners
10-08-2006
MORE than 100 unlicensed and prospective shebeen operators left the Katutura Magistrate's Court disappointed yesterday, after the Khomas regional liquor licensing board postponed the consideration of
readNurses want to take Govt to court over slashed pay
10-08-2006
THE Namibia Nurses' Union (Nanu) has started consulting its members with the hope of getting an overwhelming majority support to take Government to court over the decision to cut their payment in half
readOndando yomahooli natango otayi londo
10-08-2006
N ATANGO ondando yomahooli mu Namibia otayi ka gwedhelwa ishewe, manga nokuli inaku thikwa pehulilo lyomwedhi nguka.Nande ongaaka, Uuministeli wOomina nIikwankondo, mboka owo wa tseyitha egwedhelo
readKomanda gwa Hardap a pingenwa po
10-08-2006
K OMANDA gwOmupolisi mu Hardap Bollen Sankwasa kwa holoka olutiyali mOmpangu ya Mengestrata pOmalinda mEtiyali.Sankwasa okwa ningilwa oshipotha shuufuthi mo 24 Mei 2006. Otaku fekelwa kutya okwa yaka
readOmunafaalama gumwe a dhengwa ondhimbo kepeya
10-08-2006
O MUNAFAALAMA gumwe momundhingoloko gwa Dordabis okwa thigwa i itsa omutse koongolo sho iikombo noonzi dhe komwe ayihe yi li 600 lwaampoka, ya dhipagwa komulilo gwepeya ngoka gwa fike po wo
readAayugi otaya pewa uusama meyimangeleko lyomugundjuka
10-08-2006
E KANITHO lyoshimaliwa shondjambi ye meyugo kwahomatiwa, okwa etitha omulumentu gumwe omugundjuka petokolo lyokwiikutha omwenyo mOmaandaha goshiwike shika.Jonas Shuuveni gwmimvo 25 ngoka a kala
readOonakusila moshiponga shiihauto shi nyanyaleka ya tumbulwa komadhina
10-08-2006
O KWA pulandwa ku ningwe oshituthihupulutho pehala lyoshiningwanima mpoka pwa ningilwa oshiponga shiihauto shoka sha dhipaga aantu ye li 12 pondje ya Rehoboth mOsoondaha.Omadhina gaamboka ya sila
readOmudhimba gwa adhika momulamba
10-08-2006
O MUDHIMBA gwomukiintu gumwe ngoka ina ku tseyika kutya olye ogwi momulamba gumwe pokati kondjila onene ya Hosea Kutako nEshina lyokolutenda mo Windhoek West omutenya gwOmaandaha, Opolisi osho ya
readAakulupe otaya ka mona egwedhelo lyawo mbala
10-08-2006
A AKULUPE naantu mboka haya mono openzela mboka ya kala ya tegelela okupewa egwedhelo lyawo okuza kEpangelo nOondola/N$70 okuza mu Apilili nuumvo, otaya ka mona egwedhelo ndika mbala.Amushanga
readAanaimbungu ya hala okuninga ehololomadhilaadhilo
10-08-2006
A AKALIMO yomomukunda Onaimbungu popepi nOmundaungilo mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena otaya thiminike mpoka kutya otaya ka ninga ehololomadhilaadhilo omasiku ngaka shi na sha namwenengwomukunda
readNFA to rule on Bees, Mighty Gunners case
10-08-2006
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) Disciplinary Committee is expected to give its verdict on the promotion dispute between Northern Stream First Division sides Mighty Gunners and Golden Bees next
readWorkshop for administrators
10-08-2006
THE Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) has organised an administration workshop for all its affiliates at the Greiters Conference Centre this Saturday.More than 50 representatives of various sports codes
readExciting beach volleyball at DTS
10-08-2006
EIGHTEEN teams competed in an exciting DTS-NHP beach volleyball tournament held in Windhoek last weekend.Four teams entered for the men's competition, and the experienced team of Deon Cloete and
readKhomas, Erongo dominant in darts
10-08-2006
THE Namibia Darts Association hosted its third final for the Pro-4 Championships and Super League at Walvis Bay last weekend.The Super League winner will be decided between Erongo and Khomas on
readIsrael advances in Lebanon
10-08-2006
Israeli troops thrust deeper into Lebanon yesterday and were reported to have lost four dead to Hezbollah rocket fire as Israel's inner cabinet debated whether to order a bigger advance before any UN
readRichard T Greene Sr, pioneering financier
10-08-2006
RICHARD T Greene Sr, who for 30 years was the president and a director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank, which he built into the country's largest African-American financial institution, died at his
readIn Brief
10-08-2006
DISPUTE - Sri Lanka's government says troops reopened a reservoir that was the focus of weeks of fierce fighting with Tamil rebels who blocked its flow into a canal in a dispute over water
readElisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
10-08-2006
VIENNA - Famed soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, a 20th century legend who won global acclaim for her renditions of Mozart and Strauss, died at her home in Austria. She was 90. Schwarzkopf, who ranked
readGustavo Arcos, Cuban militant
10-08-2006
Veteran Cuban dissident Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, a former Fidel Castro loyalist who was wounded in the attack that launched the revolution but was later imprisoned as a dissident, died here on
read110 forest fires rage in northwest Spain
10-08-2006
Emergency services were fighting 110 forest fires yesterday in wooded areas of northwest Spain, many started deliberately, officials said.The fires, which have charred around 10 000 hectares of forest
readMcCartney locks ex out of matrimonial home
10-08-2006
LONDON - Heather Mills McCartney laughed off being locked out of estranged husband Paul McCartney's London home, her spokesman said Tuesday, but her divorce battle with the former Beatle appears to be
readUS senator Lieberman concedes defeat
10-08-2006
Iraq loomed larger on the US political landscape yesterday, after a prominent Democratic senator was denied renomination for a fourth term largely because of his support for the war.Long time US
readKarzai might not run for re-election in 2009
10-08-2006
WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggested in an interview with Forbes magazine that he might not run for reelection in 2009, and complained of lack of international support on crucial
readThree arrested for royal phone tap
10-08-2006
An editor of a tabloid newspaper and two other men faced charges yesterday for allegedly intercepting phone calls from staff close to Prince Charles, heir to the British throne. The three - including
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