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48 Articles found on Thursday, 14 September 2006
Baboons halt class
14-09-2006
LESSONS ground to a halt at a remote South African school when a troop of baboons crashed through the ceiling of a packed classroom terrorising students, public radio said.The baboons got into the
readRWANDA: Counting the cost of modernisation
14-09-2006
KIGALI - New buildings sprout like mushrooms across Kigali's skyline but this splash of modernity in a once rundown capital city belies a grimmer reality: thousands of poor have been pushed out to
readMalawi inflation dips to 2yr low
14-09-2006
BLANTYRE - Malawi's annual inflation rate slowed to 12 per cent last month from 14,9 per cent in July due lower food prices, the National Statistical Office (NSO) said yesterday."This huge decline is
readMiners face challenges in war-ravaged DRC
14-09-2006
RUASHI TOWNSHIP - Ruashi Mining brought reliable water and electricity to the poor town near its copper mine in war-ravaged DRC, but tackling social problems like illegal child miners is posing a
readJapan enjoys foreign investment returns
14-09-2006
TOKYO - Japan's current account surplus in July beat forecasts as growing returns on overseas investments helped offset rising oil costs while the labour market showed more signs of improving,
readKebble fraud: JCI in R5 b claim
14-09-2006
JOHANNESBURG - Randgold & Exploration is claiming R5 billion from associated company JCI largely for fraud committed by former CEO Brett Kebble, Business Day reported yesterday.After forensic audits
readMoz could cope without IMF
14-09-2006
MAPUTO - Mozambique may be able to do without International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending as early as next year, which could open the way to commercial loans, an IMF official said.Mozambique is now a
readOil price rout deepest in 16 years
14-09-2006
SINGAPORE - Oil prices have fallen as much as US$16 from their peaks, their steepest reversal in 16 years, in a correction that traders say may be harder to shake off than past setbacks in the
readCourt delays in the dock
14-09-2006
JUSTICE is increasingly being delayed at the highest level in the Namibian legal system, with as many as 10 judgements outstanding in matters heard by both the High Court and the Supreme Court as long
readMulti-millionaire dreams of turning Namibia into a game park
14-09-2006
MILLIONAIRE Gert Joubert, who is the owner of a 65 000-hectare game lodge near Omaruru, is still on a mission to turn the whole of Namibia into a vast game park where animals can roam freely and the
readWhat now for conjoined twins?
14-09-2006
IF an operation is done to separate conjoined baby girls born at Oshakati on Monday, one twin would definitely die while the other would have a very low chance of survival.This was spelled out
readTwo drown in wells
14-09-2006
A 64-year-old woman from Outapi drowned in a well on Saturday, after trying to draw water.She has been identified as Ndaapekeka Amunyela. The incident took place at a village in the Ombalantu area. *
readSADC discusses labour policies
14-09-2006
NAMIBIA is drafting an Employment Service Bill to regulate conditions of employment, Labour Minister Alpheus !Naruseb said this week.!Naruseb said the legislation was intended to support economic
readDams holding up well
14-09-2006
THE levels of Namibia's storage dams are still quite high despite a lack of inflow during the dry season, usage and evaporation.The country's main reservoirs - the Von Bach and Hardap dams - are
readElderly man run over
14-09-2006
THE Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide against a man from Okahao who allegedly ran over an elderly pedestrian on Tuesday.The driver, whose name has been withheld, claims that he was
readOffshore diamond prospecting licence granted
14-09-2006
COMPUPRINT, an energy technology company that combines satellite-based technology with traditional exploration services, announced yesterday that its Namibian subsidiary, Namterra Mineral Resources,
readNew approach to disaster risk management
14-09-2006
GOVERNMENT plans to make the national response to risks and disasters like floods, drought and veld fires more effective.The objective of a three-day workshop which started yesterday is to raise
readWorkers demand compensation for pre-Independence dismissal
14-09-2006
FORMER Ohlthaver & List Group (O&L) employees, claiming that they were unfairly dismissed 17 years ago, say they're prepared to take to the streets unless they are compensated.More than 30 former
readPrisoner escapes from city hospital
14-09-2006
A 17-year-old trial-awaiting prisoner escaped from the Windhoek Central Hospital on Sunday, the Police reported yesterday.He made a break for it when the Police officer guarding him left him alone
readEveryone's a comic...
14-09-2006
DTA president Katuutire Kaura caused laughter in the National Assembly yesterday afternoon when CoD leader Ben Ulenga posed some questions to Home Affairs Minister Rosalia Nghidinwa.Ulenga was asking
readNo response yet on Northlands challenge
14-09-2006
THE Helao Nafidi Town Council this week declined to comment on a letter written to them by the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), criticising the council's decision to give the green light to developers
readSwapo women to hold congress this December
14-09-2006
THE Swapo Women's Council has decided to hold its next Congress in December this year to elect new leaders.Linea Shaetonhodi, Deputy Secretary for the Women's Council, announced on Tuesday that the
readUlenga poses questions on Shevanyenga 'assassination'
14-09-2006
THE murder of an Oukwanyama leader back in 2003 yesterday surfaced in the National Assembly - again.Opposition leader Ben Ulenga fired a salvo of questions at the benches of the ruling party, wanting
readAshipembe case: Ex-Scorpion testifies
14-09-2006
PRETORIA - A former Scorpions investigator, who once led the investigation of Schabir Shaik, testified in the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday in the trial of a Namibian who allegedly tried to rape
readA Matter of Fact
14-09-2006
A REPORT on the latest appointment of acting Judges that was published on page 5 of yesterday's edition of The Namibian under the headline 'Former Chief Justice returns to bench' erroneously stated
readTa kongwa kOpolisi ya Shakati
14-09-2006
O mumati nguka gwedhina Japhet Nashidengo Mvula (Mdu), ota kongwa kOpolisi ya Shakati shi na sha noshipotha sheteyo lyOsitola yedhina VIP Bar kOngwediva onkulu meti 4 Juli 2006 nosho wo neteyo lyObaa
readBethanie oku li natango momilema
14-09-2006
A AKALIMO yomokandoolopamukunda ka Bethanie oye li natango momilema konima sho NamPower a teteko olusheno lwe omutenya gwOmaandaha goshiwike shika.Sigo omEtiyali Olaata yElelo lyokandoolopamukunda
readYinchuan a gandja ookoompiuta 100 nooprinta 30 kOutapi
14-09-2006
POUATAPI E LELO lyOndoolopa yAutapi Omaandaha ga zi ko olya pewa ookoompiuta ethele limwe nOoprinda omilongondatu kElelo lyOndoolopa ya Yinchuan yomOrepulika ya China ndjoka omathimbo ga zi ko ya
readMawisa ota pewa egeelo ngula mEtitano
14-09-2006
L UNGILE Mawisa gwomimvo 21, ngoka a dhipaga okakanona ke kwali, Ipula Akwenye kuyele momumvo 2003, ota pewa egeelo moshipotha shika ngula mEtitano.Akwenye, ngoka a li e na oomvula 17 pethimbo ndyoka,
readA yahwa pOutapi
14-09-2006
O MULUMENTU gwomimvo 39 gwomOutapi okwa dhitikwa nokutamanekelwa oshipotha shonkambadhala yedhipago konima sho a yaha mukwawo momutse pethimbo lyoontamanana pomukunda gumwe mOmbalantu.Oshiningwanima
readOmuNdowishi a sa omeya petulilo lya Liindili
14-09-2006
O MULUMENTU gumwe gwOmundowsihi, a li mu Namibia pakathimbo - okwi istuwa a sa omeya petulilosikepa lya Liindili mOlyomakaya.Opolisi oya lopota kutya omudhimba gwa Rudolf Huber (67) ogwi itsuwa
readAapangi otaya fala Epangelo kOmpangu
14-09-2006
A APANGI mboka haya longo mIipangelo yEpangelo otaya fala Epangelo kOmpangu sho lya tokola okushunitha pevi oshimaliwa shoka haya futilwa iilonga yomOosoondaha noyomasiku gopashigwana.Ehangano
readSilver, Swartz are junior chess champs
14-09-2006
THE Namibia Chess Federation recently hosted one of its biggest events yet -the Standard Bank Namibia Junior Chess championships.Players came from all over the country and towns such as Arandis,
readArmstrong denies doping claims
14-09-2006
LOS ANGELES - Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong angrily dissociated himself from doping admissions by two former teammates on Tuesday and called the article citing them
readEls tells rivals to forget about Tiger
14-09-2006
WENTWORTH - South Africa's Ernie Els has told the rest of the world's top golfers to concentrate on their own games and forget about trying to beat Tiger Woods.Woods is on a hot streak and at the
readOshakati to go abuzz with boxing
14-09-2006
OSHAKATI will be the venue of the Nedbank National Boxing Championships in early October.Nedbank Namibia this week committed itself to a massive sponsorship of N$100 000 for the championships, which
readSports awards on the cards for October
14-09-2006
THE Namibia Sports Commission yesterday launched its annual sports awards, to be held in Windhoek on October 27.Yesterday, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) and the Namibia Breweries splashed
readBall boy scores in Brazil
14-09-2006
A Brazilian football referee faced suspension on Tuesday after she awarded a goal that television pictures showed was scored by a ball boy.The 89th-minute goal allowed Santacruzense to snatch a 1-1
readCricket on at Wanderers
14-09-2006
DOMESTIC cricket will come alive this Saturday with the MTC-Wanderers six-a-side tournament to be held at the Wanderers grounds in Windhoek.All eight of Namibia's premier cricket clubs will
readArsenal midfielder Fabregas agrees eight-year deal
14-09-2006
LONDON - Arsenal's Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas has agreed on a new eight-year contract, manager Arsene Wenger has been quoted as saying by British media."Cesc will sign a new contract, yes, for
readBarcelona, Bayern and Roma lead charge
14-09-2006
LONDON - European champions Barcelona led the charge of the fancied teams over the first obstacle of the Champions League course when they nearly all scored emphatic victories on Tuesday.Barcelona
readHigh school dropouts earn far less money: New report
14-09-2006
PARIS - Dropping out of high school has its costs around the globe, but nowhere steeper than in the United States.Adults who don't finish high school in the US earn 65 per cent of what people who have
readSudan peace 'unfulfilled'
14-09-2006
NEW YORK - Many of the most important promises made under a peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war in Sudan's south have not been met, threatening to plunge the long-suffering region back into
readSenegal to help Spain
14-09-2006
DAKAR - Senegal said on Tuesday it would cooperate with Spain to repatriate hundreds of illegal Senegalese migrants from the Canary Islands as long as their "dignity and human rights" were
readBaghdad death squads kill 60, bombs kill 22
14-09-2006
BAGHDAD - Police recovered 60 bodies over the past day across Baghdad, most bound and tortured, officials said yesterday, highlighting how sectarian death squads are still plaguing the Iraqi capital
readDisappearance of Mbeki's son probed
14-09-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South African authorities have launched an investigation into the 1981 disappearance of President Thabo Mbeki's son, who is believed to have been killed by agents of the apartheid-era
readSyria sees chance to improve ties with US
14-09-2006
DAMASCUS - Syria suggested yesterday that its efforts in foiling a brazen daylight attack on the US embassy in Damascus could pave the way for an improvement in tense relations between the two
readSecurity tight ahead of Zimbabwe protests
14-09-2006
HARARE - Armed police fanned out across Harare yesterday, conducting body searches and spot checks of cars at roadblocks, in a bid to thwart a series of protests against Zimbabwe's mounting economic
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