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38 Articles found on Monday, 6 February 2006
Liberia's 'Iron Lady' moves to dismiss Finance officials
06-02-2006
MONROVIA - Liberia's newly installed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, living up to her reputation as an 'Iron Lady', has dismissed a number of Finance Ministry officials in a bid to curb the rampant
readWorld Bank urges Kenya to act on graft revelations
06-02-2006
LUSAKA - The World Bank wants Kenya to act on a report by a former anti-corruption chief linking senior ministers to graft, a senior bank official said on Saturday.World Bank African region Vice
readMbeki says SA to review willing buyer-seller policy
06-02-2006
CAPE TOWN - The South African government will spend R372 billion on infrastructure and growth projects over the next three years and speed up land reform to help the poor, President Thabo Mbeki said
readBuck up!
06-02-2006
HARNESSING scarce skills and raising government efficiency were singled out for urgent attention by Mbeki.The country's current skills shortage threatened the ability of the public and private sectors
readBafana damaged SA's image
06-02-2006
CAPE TOWN - The national soccer team's performance in the African Cup of Nations dented South Africa's winning image as it prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday."I
readGod, Mandela, a poet and a newspaper
06-02-2006
QUOTES from God, Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare, Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker and Business Day newspaper were all used by President Thabo Mbeki on Friday to illustrate points in his State of the Nation
readRepo rate stays steady
06-02-2006
THE Bank of Namibia (BoN) has once again maintained its bank rate at seven per cent, as expected, after a review by its Monetary Policy Committee last week.Addressing a press conference on Thursday,
readEnron chiefs hid losses
06-02-2006
HOUSTON - Enron's chief executives concealed key data before the company's 2001 collapse that would have shown two supposedly fast-growing businesses were "underperforming", a witness testified.Mark
readZambian economy shows improvement
06-02-2006
LUSAKA - Zambian Finance Minister Ng'andu Magande was to present the 2006 fiscal budget in parliament Friday amid signs the economy of the impoverished southern African nation is
readPolice probe death in custody
06-02-2006
THE autopsy of a robbery suspect who died in Police custody at Keetmanshoop a week ago is to be carried on in Windhoek, the Police said at the weekend.Makarius Likali (36) was allegedly beaten to
readKapia back on the Swapo Party payroll
06-02-2006
SWAPO has resumed paying the salary and benefits of Paulus Kapia, its suspended youth wing leader whose company lost the ruling party and the State at least N$37 million last year.Kapia was added to
readCity shrugs off flood risk
06-02-2006
THE City has given the green light for another developer to build a townhouse complex - to be known as Rock View Estate - along the Arebbusch River, about two kilometres upstream from Acacia, between
readLands Minister visits Mangetti area
06-02-2006
THE Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Jerry Ekandjo, is in the Kavango Region where he is expected to visit the Mangetti area, Kavango Governor John Thighuru told The Namibian yesterday.According to
readTreason trial focus moves onto ex-MP Mwilima
06-02-2006
FORMER National Assembly member Geoffrey Mwilima became the focus of much of the testimony in the main Caprivi high treason trial as the long-running case marked its 90th day of court proceedings last
readPensioner shoots himself in old-age home in city
06-02-2006
A 76-year-old man shot himself at the JT Potgieter Old Age Home in Windhoek West on Saturday.He has been identified as Karl Hendrik Willem Jordaan.The incident happened shortly before midday. Jordaan
read'Serial thief' in North nabbed
06-02-2006
POLICE at Outapi have caught a 35-year-old man who is alleged to have broken into a house at Kasikili location on January 31, stealing items worth N$1 400.Earlier that day at Oshihenge village, he is
readFurncity in CBD to close
06-02-2006
ELLERINES Holdings Limited plans to close its Furncity furniture shop in Windhoek's city centre this month.Ellerines' Director for Foreign Holdings, Marais Kock, confirmed the closure from
readTrigger-happy in Okuryangava
06-02-2006
POLICE in Windhoek reported two shootings in Katutura last week, one of which claimed the life of 25-year-old Ronald Shikongo.During the early hours of Wednesday, three men were on their way from the
readDTA MP pleads for development unity
06-02-2006
RUNDU - Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) Secretary General Aloys Gende has warned that interference with traditional authorities could delay development in the Kavango Region.Gende told Nampa that
readThe gift of vision
06-02-2006
BETTA Kao was overjoyed on Thursday morning - she could see for the first time in 10 years.Kao, who is estimated to be about 70 years old, had severe cataracts in both eyes, which blinded her
readSOE Bill public hearing
06-02-2006
WINDHOEK A National Council Select Committee will hold a three-day public hearing on the State-Owned Enterprises Bill (SOE) in two weeks' time.The Select Committee is expected to receive comments on
readUunonasikola otau si ondjala pOtavi
06-02-2006
K ONYALA aanona ye vulithe pomayovi gahamano (6 000) moshitopolwa sha Kaokoland mboka haya mono omauwanawa moprograma yokugandja iikulya kaanonasikola nenge tutye School Feeding Scheme, oya kala
readNafau okwa hala oshigongi na NovaNam
06-02-2006
E HANGANO lyaaniilonga lya Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau), olya hala okuya moonkundathana nOkampani onkwati yoohi pOliindili ya NovaNam, kombinga yaaniilonga 356 mboka ya tidhwa
readOmufekelwa gumwe a sila mokakuma po Keetmanshoop
06-02-2006
A APOLISI yoshikondo shIimbuluma iinene mOpolisi po Keetmanshoop otaku popiwa kutya mOmaandaha ga zi ko oya dhenge okusa omulumentu gwedhina Makarius Iikali a li a edhilila mOkakuma kOpolisi
readOshike ano tashi inyenge mOmbalantu?
06-02-2006
O MUNASHIPUNDI gwOkomitiye yotangotango yokupendulapo Ouhamba waMbalantu, Omusita Titus Heita pOnakayale mOmbalantu, ota ningi epulo kutya; "Oshike ano tashi inyenge mOmbalantu shi na sha nependulopo
readOpolisi otayi kongo ekwatho moshigwana
06-02-2006
O POLISI ya Swakopmund otayi indile koshigwana shi yi kwathele mokudhimbulula omudhimba gwomukiintu gumwe ngoka i idhipaga mEtitatu lya zi ko.Omukiintu nguka gwoomvula dhopokati okwa adhika e
readAakwanegongalo ya lulilwa kOmusita gwawo
06-02-2006
A akwanegongalo yOngeleki ya Elcin mOshakati otaya nyenyetele Omusita gwawo taya ti ngeyi: O, yakwetu tu popileni.Tse itatu mu popi noshiteta, otatu shi tula mpee opo tu popye. Omusita iha dhiginine
readRace for Cup glory wide open
06-02-2006
CAIRO - The African Nations Cup has been thrown wide open after the holders and the tournament's top player were shown the exit door in the quarter-finals.Hosts Egypt have been left to battle for
readFootball Results
06-02-2006
African Nations Cup Quarter Finals Played Friday, Feb 3 Egypt 4-1 DR Congo Senegal 3-2 Guinea Played Saturday, Feb 4 Nigeria 1-1 Tunisia Nigeria win 6-5 on penalties after 120 minutes of play
readTop scorers at Nations Cup
06-02-2006
5 - Samuel Eto'o (CMR)\ 4 - Pascal Feindouno (GUI), Francileudo dos Santos (TUN)3 - Ahmed Hassan and Emad Moteab (EGY), Flavio Amado (ANG) 2 - Ousmane Bangoura and Kaba Diawara (GUI), Mohamed
readBlack Africa garner full points
06-02-2006
BLACK Africa had the best weekend of all teams in the domestic MTC Namibia Premiership with a 2-1 victory over coastal sides Eleven Arrows on Saturday and a similar margin against Blue Waters
readX Team, Sparta in worthy wins
06-02-2006
THE two teams from the coast, X Team and Sparta, made their trip to Windhoek worthwhile with only Sparta losing one match in the 2006 Indoor Hockey League played at the Deutsche Turn and Sportverein
readFootball Results
06-02-2006
English Premiership Played Saturday, Feb 4Birmingham 0 2 Arsenal Bolton 1-1 Wigan Everton 1 0 Man City Man Utd 4 2 Fulham Boro 0 4 Aston Villa Newcastle 2 0 Portsmouth West Brom 2 0 Blackburn
readIn Brief
06-02-2006
* POLL LIMBO - Angola is sliding back into electoral limbo after President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said the country's first post-war polls, due this year, could only be held in 2007.Dos Santos last
read1 000 feared dead in Egypt ferry disaster
06-02-2006
SAFAGA, Egypt - Close to 1 000 people were feared dead yesterday as chances dwindled of finding many more survivors two days after an ageing Egyptian ferry caught fire and then sank in the middle of
readIran calls halt to UN checks
06-02-2006
TEHRAN - Iran has ended all voluntary co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced yesterday.The president had ordered the move a day before
readMuslims torch Danish, Norwegian embassies in rage over cartoons
06-02-2006
DAMASCUS - Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam's revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies on Saturday - the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in
readPalestinian officials may have stolen billions
06-02-2006
GAZA CITY - The Palestinian attorney general yesterday said a corruption investigation has concluded that senior officials in the Palestinian Authority may have stolen billions of dollars of public
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