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47 Articles found on Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Big Brother Africa: To Vote: SMS the word
22-08-2007
'VOTE' and the name of the Housemate you would like to see EVICTED from the Big Brother Africa House to 15626.If you would like to vote Justice out of the house, SMS - VOTE JUSTICE to 15626. If you
readBig Brother Africa: Uganda's Maureen has a bimbo eruption
22-08-2007
ZIMBO Bertha was definitely blindsided by the announcement that she'd been nominated for evictions.And boy, she couldn't stop chewing over it. Was it this? Was it that? I don't get it. I thought I'd
readBig Brother Africa: Game on! J-men face axe
22-08-2007
THE game is now well and truly in full swing with the first nominations announced on Monday night, and the housemates with their heads on the chopping block are the muscled Jeff from Kenya and the
readSMSes of the day : Wednesday
22-08-2007
* TAKE CARE OF YOUR RELATIVES WHILE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE. I wonder why many rich people spend their money on preparing the funeral of a poor man on their side but when the person is alive, you don't
readSomalia struggles to tap Western oil investment
22-08-2007
LONDON - Western oil majors who quit Somalia at the beginning of its long civil war have no plans to take up a government invitation to return, and their insistence that 1980s deals remain valid
readSierra Leone looks to shine its unpolished gems
22-08-2007
FREETOWN - As it pieces together its shattered mining sector after a 10-year civil war fuelled by so-called "blood diamonds," Sierra Leone is turning attention to processing its uncut gemstones.For
readECB withdraws 35 billion euros from market
22-08-2007
FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank withdrew 35 billion euros (N$350 billion) from the market yesterday in its first withdrawal since injecting more than 200 billion euros in the wake of the US
readInvestors on edge as fears remain over credit
22-08-2007
LONDON - Fears about a global credit crunch kept investors on edge yesterday, providing for see-sawing stock markets and a low appetite for riskier assets such as emerging market debt.Wall Street
readZim in bid to end beef shortage
22-08-2007
HARARE - Zimbabwe's government has reopened dozens of private slaughterhouses to try to end severe meat shortages after it slashed consumer prices and assumed temporary responsibility for meat
readKenya signs deal for geothermal plant
22-08-2007
NAIROBI - The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) plans to construct a new geothermal plant that will boost generation by 35 megawatts (MW), the power producer said.KenGen said it had signed
readWorker fired for N$1m theft
22-08-2007
PROSPERITY Group Namibia has sacked an employee after it was discovered that hundreds of thousands of dollars had gone missing.Managing Director Kobus Struwig confirmed that an internal investigation
readRoessing looks to 2021 and beyond
22-08-2007
ROESSING Uranium intends to extend its operations to 2021 and beyond with an extension project costing more than N$830 million.This is quite a turnaround from the mine's stance in 2005, when it
readThree fired for illegal power connections
22-08-2007
THREE employees of northern electricity distributor Nored have been dismissed for illegally setting up electricity meters in the Kapako Constituency of the Kavango Region.The Deputy Minister of Mines
readMisa condemns attack on press freedom
22-08-2007
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) has demanded that a motion tabled in the National Council on Monday to regulate two newspapers by legislation be withdrawn."Misa Namibia has learnt with
readGuidelines for coastal development in offing
22-08-2007
THE boom in urban development, mining and aquaculture projects along the coast is necessitating the speedy finalisation of the Namibian Coast Conservation and Management project's Strategic
readLet's get AIDS wise, urges the President
22-08-2007
WINDHOEK - President Hifikepunye Pohamba has urged Namibia's youth to engage in aggressive and broad-based campaigns to halt further infections of HIV-AIDS and help reduce the spread of the deadly
readAll hunky dory at Forestry
22-08-2007
THE DIRECTOR of Forestry in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has played down a claim that many skilled people in his directorate are leaving and that this could leave it with nobody to
readCultural heritage of Haikom preserved
22-08-2007
A PROJECT to preserve the ancient knowledge of one of Namibia's indigenous San tribes has borne the first fruits with the launch of information collected from the Haikom people, who used to live in
readSecurity guard mediation kicks off
22-08-2007
TWO unions representing security guards and the Security Association of Namibia (SAN) have proposed Otniel Podewiltz of the Employment Equity Commission as the chairman of a conciliation board to
readPresident annoyed by youth
22-08-2007
THE Swapo Youth League wants tarred roads, electricity, schools, clinics, water and affordable housing in rural areas "with immediate effect".However, the demand made by newly elected Secretary Elijah
read18 years for New Year's Eve murder
22-08-2007
THE murder that former Rundu resident Manuel Alberto da Silva committed when he shot his girlfriend several times in the head in Windhoek on New Year's Eve 2003 could cost him more than 20 years of
readEpangulo lya Taylor lya tsilikwa
22-08-2007
T HE HAGUE - Aapanguli mboka taya ungaunga nEpangulo lyaangoka a li nalie Omupresidende gwa Liberia, Charles Taylor, mOmaandaha goshiwike shika oyu undulila epangulo lya Taylor ku Januali gwomumvo tu
readOmukwathi gwa mwene gwomukunda gwEhenye a hulitha
22-08-2007
T ATEKULU Lameck Antonius Amugongo ngoka a kala oomvula odhindji Kapatashu komukunda Ehenye popepi nOshakati mOshitopolwa sha Shana okwa hulithile megumbo lye mepipi lyomimvo ethele lwaampoka mEtitano
readOmuhingi gwOtaxi a yugwa iimaliwa nohauto
22-08-2007
O MUHINGI gwOtaxi gumwe mOvenduka a li ta felefula uusiku, okwa yugwa ohauto ye yOtaxi noshimaliwa.Otaku popiwa kutya omuhingi gwOtaxi nguka gwoomvula 32 okwa li a thikamene aalumentu yane
readOmukiintu a lalwa koonkondo popepi noUnam mOvenduka
22-08-2007
O MUKIINTU omugundjuka okwa kwatwa koonkondo iikando iyali nokuyugwa sho a ponokelwa kaalumentu yaali popepi nOyunivesiti ya Namibia mOvenduka oshiwike sha zi ko, Opolisi tayi lopota ngaaka
readOmbuga yUukwambi na Ndonga ya dhengwa unene komulilo
22-08-2007
O SHITOPOLWA oshinene shuunapelo kombuga yUukwambi na Ndonga osha hanagulwapo komulilo gwepeya, ngoka gwa tameke uusiku wEtitatu lyoshiwike sha zi ko.Kansola gwoshikandjohogolo shUuvudhiya Sebulon
readAafekelwa yaali monkonga oya hala okumangululwa
22-08-2007
A ALUMENTU yaali mboka taya tamanekelwa oshipotha shoku kwata onkonga omukiintu gumwe konima sho ya tokelwa taya nu pokambashu kamwe molukanda lumwe poKeetmanshoop otaya ka pulakena nena (mEtitatu)
readOonakunyana Nujoma naya pakele e taa yi, Omupresidende ta londodha
22-08-2007
M BOKA inaya hala epangelo li gamene nokupopila Omupresidende omukulu tatekulu Sam Nujoma, naya pakele iinima yawo e taya yi, nepangelo otali keya pa uutekete wondjila yimwe oku shuna kiilongo yawo
readMarconnet ruled out
22-08-2007
PARIS - France received a World Cup blow Monday when veteran prop Sylvain Marconnet was ruled out of the competition after failing to recover from an ankle injury.The Stade Francais player will be
readUnam tops Tisan Games
22-08-2007
WINDHOEK - The University of Namibia (Unam) yet again stamped its authority on sports for tertiary institutions when it won the most medals on offer at the 2007 edition of the Tisan Games in Windhoek
readAustralia to host 2009 women's World Cup
22-08-2007
SYDNEY -- The Australian state of New South Wales will host the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in 2009, Cricket Australia said yesterday.Chairman Creagh O'Connor said CA's Board confirmed the NSW bid
readFeast of squash at Nashua Open
22-08-2007
WANDERERS Squash Club treated players and fans to a feast of squash over the weekend with the annual Nashua Wanderers Open.Young and old from Windhoek and the coast turned out to compete in what was a
readBoks banking on monster pack
22-08-2007
JOHANNESBURG - Four years of meticulous planning and building a squad of 30 versatile players is what South Africa coach Jake White will be banking on when the Springboks launch their challenge for
readHanekom, Thorpe golf champs
22-08-2007
THE Annual Club Championships of the Windhoek Golf and Country Club took place last weekend.Seventy 70 players took part in the men's and women's categories. Seasoned golfer Francois Hanekom was
readAbsences as England battle Germany
22-08-2007
LONDON - One of the most keenly contested rivalries in international football kicks off again tonight as England take on Germany at Wembley.But the so-called friendly clash between the age-old foes
readWarriors in financial fix
22-08-2007
THE financial crisis in which the Brave Warriors find themselves can ruin their preparations for their crucial African Nations Cup qualifier against Ethiopia on September 8 in Addis Ababa.The Namibia
readJohn Barnes coming soon
22-08-2007
WINDHOEK - Former English soccer legend John Barnes is expected in Namibia at the end of September on invitation from Helmo Communications, who will be launching the first Namibian Personality of the
readGermans warm to vilified Prussia
22-08-2007
BERLIN - Germans are starting to rethink their negative views about Prussia, the state which ruled much of northern Germany for centuries and which has been viewed for decades through the prism of
readBill Deedes, inspiration for journalism classic 'Scoop'
22-08-2007
LONDON - Veteran British journalist Bill Deedes, the inspiration for the naive young reporter in the novel 'Scoop', has died aged 94, ending a 76-year career during which he was a cabinet minister and
readIrene Morgan Kirkaldy, desegregation pioneer
22-08-2007
IRENE Morgan Kirkaldy (90), whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers led to a landmark court decision more than a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the same, has
read35 Zim prosecutors quit
22-08-2007
HARARE - More than 35 prosecutors have quit the attorney general's office in Zimbabwe this year, leaving the Justice Ministry facing a serious staff squeeze, said reports yesterday.The ministry's
readSaddam aides go on trial in Iraq
22-08-2007
BAGHDAD - Former commanders of Saddam Hussein's military went on trial in Baghdad yesterday for their role in crushing a Shi'ite rebellion in southern Iraq at the end of the 1991 Gulf War in which
readTerrorist accused wins back visa
22-08-2007
BANGLORE- The family of an Indian doctor charged in Australia over failed car bombings in Britain welcomed yesterday's Brisbane court decision to reinstate his work visa."Haneef is happy and so is the
readSunday Times prepares for court
22-08-2007
JOHANNESBURG - The Sunday Times was to file papers in the Johannesburg High Court yesterday replying to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's application to silence any comment on her medical
readUgandans hold anti-gay protest
22-08-2007
Kampala - Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital yesterday and called for the deportation of an American journalist who covers gay issues in the east African nation.Pastor
readLibya looks at new constitution
22-08-2007
BENGHAZI - Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi's son Seif al-Islam, viewed as a possible successor, has outlined plans for the country's first constitution since his father seized power 38 years ago and
readHurricane hits Mexico
22-08-2007
PLAYA DEL CARMEN - Hurricane Dean, a monster Category 5 storm, made landfall on Mexico's Caribbean coast yesterday, with roaring winds and heavy rain that battered beach resorts where thousands of
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