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46 Articles found on Monday, 19 March 2007
African AIDS victims fret over India patent case
19-03-2007
NAIROBI - AIDS patients line up at dawn outside a small medical centre in one of Kenya's teeming slums.Dr Ivy Mwangi has 1 800 HIV sufferers on her books, but as the winding queue outside steadily
readZimbabwe 'holding Africa back'
19-03-2007
CAPE TOWN - Zimbabwe's economic collapse is likely to accelerate with inflation topping 5 000 per cent by year-end as President Robert Mugabe's government loses control of a crisis already rippling
readFor some, an injury to one IS an injury to all
19-03-2007
STAFF REPORTER THE brutalities inflicted on Zimbabwe's opposition last weekend have sparked reaction from various quarters in Namibia.The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) called upon SADC and
readZim central bank likens inflation to HIV
19-03-2007
HARARE - Zimbabwe's central bank chief has compared the country's surging inflation, which is the highest in the world, to the deadly HIV pandemic, as the high cost of living ravages
readMalawi's parliament rejects mini-budget
19-03-2007
LILONGWE - Malawi's parliament has rejected an US$80 million supplementary budget for the 2006/07 fiscal year, as legislators battle government over how to spend billions of dollars in debt relief.The
readBorder closure to Zambia hits Congo miners
19-03-2007
LUBUMBASHI - A decision by the governor of Congo's mineral-rich province of Katanga to halt the export of ore to neighbouring Zambia for processing is hurting foreign mining firms, executives said on
readCell One launches in Windhoek
19-03-2007
CELL One, the second mobile operator in Namibia, officially launched its services in Windhoek on Friday, offering Namibians a choice in the cellular communications market.This will provide competition
readEconomists happy with Budget
19-03-2007
ECONOMISTS say the 2007 Budget tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila on Thursday is in line with expectations.Old Mutual Chief Executive Officer Johannes !Gawaxab
readRussian PM jets in: Nuke power on the agenda
19-03-2007
RUSSIA has intensified its efforts to set up a nuclear power plant in Namibia with the visit, on Saturday, of its Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to Windhoek.During a brief stopover, Fradkov held
readThe Budget: Figuring out the figures
19-03-2007
A CLOSER look at some of the figures in Government's spending plans for the next three years shows that far less money is to be allocated to economically productive infrastructure development than
readStop the silence, protesters demand
19-03-2007
A GROUP of human rights activists, organised by the Media Institute of Southern Africa, marched in Windhoek on Friday to demonstrate their anger at the silence from SADC countries on the deteriorating
readTutu lambasts African silence on Zimbabwe
19-03-2007
CAPE TOWN - Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lambasted African silence about the brutal treatment of democracy activists in Zimbabwe."We Africans should hang our heads in shame," said
readPohamba consults with opposition parties
19-03-2007
PRESIDENT Pohamba is conducting his annual consultations with opposition parties, churches and civil society, a tradition he started soon after taking over the presidency two years ago.After meeting
readFive Rand Camp gets own centre
19-03-2007
THE Five Rand Camp community outside Okahandja last week inaugurated their newly renovated community hall.The old farmhouse was renovated at a cost of N$350 000 by the NamGem Diamond Manufacturing
readYoungsters 'don't lack moral fibre'
19-03-2007
YOUNG people in Namibia are not as bad as their elders believe, as many of them do voluntary work in their communities or do their country proud in music, art and sport, a Member of Parliament has
readUnidentified body found near cemetery
19-03-2007
POLICE have requested members of the public to help identify a man killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident near the Hochlandpark cemetery.Police Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu said the body of the
readBorder post to close
19-03-2007
NAMIBIA and South Africa have decided to close the Holweg/Noenieput border post permanently at the end of this month.The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration announced on Friday that the Joint
readBad week for KAT
19-03-2007
THE slaughterhouse of the Karas Abattoir and Tannery (KAT) near Keetmanshoop was brought to a standstill by a mechanical failure and a water shortage last week.KAT's Managing Director, Willem Swartz,
readStrikes in spotlight
19-03-2007
HOSTILE attitudes between trade unionists, employers and striking workers came under scrutiny last week during a round-table discussion between those involved in labour disputes.The discussion, hosted
readInfighting costs Keetmans dearly
19-03-2007
KEETMANSHOOP Mayor Simon Petrus Tiboth says infighting in the Town Council is hampering the towns economic growth."Local people are suffering as a result of internal bickering within the council," he
readPatient commits suicide in hospital
19-03-2007
OSHAKATI - A patient committed suicide in Ward 10 at the Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital last week.The Police spokesperson for the Oshana Region, Constable Christine Fonsech, identified the deceased as
readMurder suspect arrested
19-03-2007
A MAN who is suspected of the axe murder of Gerda van Heerden in Walvis Bay last week was arrested on Thursday.The suspect, a 28-year-old man, was tracked down to a house in Kuisebmond where a
readParliament adopts national AIDS policy
19-03-2007
SEVENTEEN years after Independence, Namibia finally has an official HIV-AIDS policy, which the National Assembly adopted last week.Health Minster Dr Richard Kamwi tabled the 40-page document a month
readFarm massacre scene still haunts suspect
19-03-2007
THE events that he witnessed when eight people were killed at the Mariental district farm Kareeboomvloer two years ago continue to haunt massacre suspect Gavin Beukes, the High Court heard on
readAir Namibia a kwathelwa natango oshimaliwa oshindji kEpangelo
19-03-2007
O KAMPANI ya Air Namibia, ndjoka ya kala tayi nana nondatu kombinga yiiyemo okuza momumvo 2000, onkee tayi tsikile nokukutha oshimaliwa oshindji miiketha yEpangelo.Ominista yIimaliwa Saara
readRamadan ota ka tulwa kohake
19-03-2007
B AGHDAD - Okangundu kAapanguli aatalululi yiipotha mu Iraq oke shi koleke kutya Taha Yasssin Ramadan - ngoka a li nale Omupevipresidende gwa nakusa Saddam Hussein, ota ka pewa egeelo
readAakengeli naya hingilile: Nambinga ta ti
19-03-2007
A AHINGI yiihauto yondilo ngaashi ooVolvo, ooMercedez-Benze nosho wo ooCamry naya pitikwe okuhinga ookilometa 160 motundi moondjila ndhoka dhu ukilila pondje yoondoolopa, ashike iihauto yoombaki nosho
readMwene gwomukunda Onghili mOmbalantu a hulitha
19-03-2007
O NKUNDANA yoluhodhi ye tu zilila momukunda Onghili mOmbalantu mOshitopolwa sha Musati, otayi ti kutya mwene gwomukunda ngoka tatekulu Isidor ya Kalola okwa hulithila moshipangelo shAutapi ongula
readMwene gwomukunda Onghili mOmbalantu a hulitha
19-03-2007
O NKUNDANA yoluhodhi ye tu zilila momukunda Onghili mOmbalantu mOshitopolwa sha Musati, otayi ti kutya mwene gwomukunda ngoka tatekulu Isidor ya Kalola okwa hulithila moshipangelo shAutapi ongula
readEthigathano lyOombasikela mOshakati, Man of Action ta ti
19-03-2007
O MUKULUNTUWILIKI gwEhangano lyokulonda Uumbasikela lyedhina Ituyeni Cycling Club tate Eddy Natangwe Willibard, a tseyika nawa nedhina Man of Action, Omunangeshefa gwomOkahao mOngandjera nOvenduka,
readCricket produces day of shocks
19-03-2007
KINGSTON - An already eventful cricket World Cup took a dramatically unexpected turn on Saturday with two of the biggest shocks in the history of the competition.Ireland, playing in their first World
readFlintoff dropped
19-03-2007
GROS ISLET - England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff was dropped for the World Cup Group C match against Canada yesterday.Flintoff, who was not at the ground, was omitted after reports he'd been one of a
readDhoni's home attacked after Indian loss
19-03-2007
RANCHI - Furious Indian cricket fans stormed the home of national wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sunday to protest a five-wicket rout by Bangladesh in their opening World Cup match, police
readWho's saying what at the WC "WHAT can you say?
19-03-2007
I told Daan after the third ball, 'try to bowl a quicker one' and he said, 'I just did'.There were a few good balls in it and a few shit ones." Dutch captain Luuk van Troost on Daan Van Bunge's over
readSuper Sharks rise to surface
19-03-2007
WELLINGTON - South Africa's Coastal Sharks maintained their unbeaten record and returned to the top of the Super 14 ladder, while the Canterbury Crusaders were the big movers in the weekend's seventh
readManchester United and Chelsea cruise to victory
19-03-2007
LONDON - Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Manchester United to a 4-1 rout of Bolton Wanderers on Saturday, but their Premier League lead was kept to six points after champions Chelsea beat Sheffield United
readPirates away from the base
19-03-2007
ORLANDO Pirates elevated themselves from the base of the MTC Namibia Premiership table when they comprehensively put away Blue Waters with a 4-win yesterday, a day after they squeezed past Eleven
readChurch critic
19-03-2007
BRAZILIAN Bishop Ivo Lorscheiter (79), a prominent critic of Brazil's former military regime, died last week.Lorscheiter was a leading advocate of liberation theology, which promotes social, political
readLucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance
19-03-2007
LUCIE Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance who helped free her husband from the Gestapo and whose dramatic life story became a hit film, has died.She was 94. Aubrac, whose maiden name was Lucie
read6 US soldiers die in Iraq
19-03-2007
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed four US soldiers patrolling western Baghdad as part of a month-old security crackdown, the military said yesterday.The four soldiers died Saturday, and small arms fire
readThabo Mbeki wins spy war
19-03-2007
JOHANNESBURG - President Thabo Mbeki scored a major political victory on Friday when the ANC national executive committee (NEC) rejected a report into the origins of the hoax e-mails and divisions in
readLawyers say Uganda faces US$60 million payout to former soldiers
19-03-2007
KAMPALA - Uganda must pay compensation to troops who served under dictator Idi Amin that could top US$60 million, lawyers said on Saturday.The Ugandan appeal court has upheld a claim by 45 000 former
readNigerians fear for ailing presidential front-runner
19-03-2007
AGOI LAGOS - One month ahead of a crucial presidential vote, Nigerians are worried over the prospect of electing an ailing candidate who may be unable to perform his official duties.Fears have risen
readBritons want Cameron as PM
19-03-2007
LONDON - Britain's opposition Conservatives have strengthened their lead over the governing Labour Party by a percentage point since last month, a poll showed yesterday.The YouGov survey published in
readObama rally draws 10 000
19-03-2007
OAKLAND - Democratic presidential candidate senator Barack Obama attracted a crowd of 10 000 or more to his first rally in the San Francisco Bay Area.Having glided to the top tier of Democratic
readMore opposition beatings in Zimbabwe
19-03-2007
HARARE - Zimbabwe's crackdown on dissent continued yesterday as an opposition activist was stopped from leaving the country at Harare International Airport and badly beaten, his colleagues
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