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48 Articles found on Wednesday, 9 May 2007
All eyes on South Africa's new opposition leader
09-05-2007
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's new opposition leader Helen Zille has a rare chance to reposition her party and increase its black appeal.Analysts believe the new Democratic Alliance (DA) leader,
readSA business confidence picks up
09-05-2007
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's business confidence ticked up slightly in April helped by global investor demand for emerging market assets, the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on
readCell One rolls out in the North
09-05-2007
MOBILE service provider Cell One launched its cellphone service in the North on Monday.Chief Executive Officer Lars-Christian Iuel said Cell One's network coverage now extends to all four
readUS$9 billion pitch for Qantas over
09-05-2007
SYDNEY - The saga of a private equity group's A$10,8 billion (US$8,9 billion) pursuit of Qantas shuddered to a messy end yesterday, dragging down the share price and leaving senior management at one
readNigerian militants blow up oil pipelines reducing production
09-05-2007
ABUJA - Fighters from the rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) destroyed three major oil pipelines in Nigeria's southern delta yesterday, the group said in an email
readWolfowitz fights on, as aide is sent packing
09-05-2007
WASHINGTON - World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz was fighting to keep his job after a top-level Bank ethics panel ruled he was guilty of a conflict of interest over his girlfriend's pay raise, US
read'No major rand firming'
09-05-2007
PRETORIA - South Africa's rand has not recorded a major strengthening and has moved largely in response to a rapid fall in the US dollar, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday."In real
readChavez threats are real
09-05-2007
CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez could well deliver on threats to nationalise banks, a steelmaker and cement companies, having taken over Venezuela's largest media firm despite its attempts to meet his
readBattle lines harden in CoD
09-05-2007
SENIOR members of the Congress of Democrats yesterday threw down the gauntlet: they challenged incumbent president Ben Ulenga group to declare hotly disputed party election results null and void if he
readLAC sounds alarm on Zim lawyers
09-05-2007
THE Legal Assistance Centre has expressed alarm about reports that two lawyers in Zimbabwe were arrested without charge and held incommunicado despite two court orders to allow them access to their
readCoastal B&Bs the main culprits with bed levies
09-05-2007
MOST small accommodation establishments at the coast have failed to pay their bed levies.Digu //Naobeb, CEO of the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) says that some establishments really did not have any
readFoetus found in dustbin
09-05-2007
THE discovery of an aborted foetus led to the arrest of a 16-year-old girl at Mariental's Aimablaagte settlement on Saturday, Police there report.The foetus was found in a dustbin, wrapped in a
readSolar lights can save millions
09-05-2007
SOLAR-POWERED streetlights, which will save municipalities large sums of money, are being installed in Namibia.The first of these are set to be handed over to the Okahandja Town Council tomorrow. A
readThree escape injury in aircraft fire
09-05-2007
A PILOT and two passengers escaped unscathed from a Cessna 182 aeroplane that burst into flames following a landing at an airstrip on a farm in the Omaruru area late on Thursday.The aeroplane, piloted
readWater rationing in North
09-05-2007
THE water supply to some areas in the North is being rationed because of problems at NamWater's Oshakati purification plant.The affected towns are Oshakati, Ondangwa, Ongwediva, Omuthiya, Omafo,
readWalvis weighs cost of introducing city police force
09-05-2007
A FINAL survey to determine the viability of a municipal police force for Walvis Bay is in full swing, and an "informal" outcome can be expected as soon as next week.The official outcome will,
readMinister takes councils to task over hospital woes
09-05-2007
HEALTH Minister Richard Kamwi has blamed the water woes at the Keetmanshoop State Hospital on the town council, which he called "unreasonable".The council has cut the hospital's water supply on
readMeat Board to handle small stock exports
09-05-2007
THE Ministry of Agriculture yesterday gave the Meat Board permission to administer exports of goats and sheep to other markets, while the export restrictions of last month will be lifted.Drought
readMillions set aside for malaria
09-05-2007
NAMIBIA'S efforts to reduce the number of people dying from malaria received a major boost yesterday with a grant of US$8,5 million (N$59,5 million) from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and
readBishop James Kauluma: bishop, freedom fighter
09-05-2007
James Hamupanda Kauluma, born c 1932; died April 21 2007 BISHOP James Kauluma, who has died from prostate cancer aged 75, was bishop of the Anglican church in then South West Africa at the height of
readSA man dies on desert road
09-05-2007
A SOUTH African man, Henry Fourie (57), died on the spot after the vehicle in which he was travelling overturned in the South on Monday.Lynnette Christiaans (50),who was the driver of the Nissan
readUranium theft case postponed
09-05-2007
ONE of the more prominent cases in the Swakopmund Magistrate's Court - the Roessing uranium theft case - has been postponed once again.Gerhard Karulab (49) appeared in court last Tuesday on a charge
readPolice hunt prisoners in Kavango
09-05-2007
POLICE in the Kavango Region are investigating the escape of three prisoners from a Police van approximately 110 km from Rundu on Friday night a week ago.The suspects are Mika Paulus Mussanga (25),
readRape cases reported in Windhoek and Walvis
09-05-2007
A 25-year-old Walvis Bay resident was allegedly raped at the town's rubbish dump on Saturday night.No suspect has been arrested yet. * In Windhoek, another rape was reported in Hochland Park on Friday
readEmisa Eyapuki lyAakulupe po Anamulenge
09-05-2007
N GASHI he shi ningi noshito nonuumvo omunangeshefa a tseyika nawa gwomOshipaya mOmbalantu mOshitopolwa sha Musati tate Johannes Andjamba okwa longekidha ku kaningwe Emisa lyAakulupe yomepata lye,
readChiluba na shunithe oshimaliwa shEpangelo: Ompangu ya London tayi popi ngaaka
09-05-2007
N GOKA a li nale Omupresidende gwa Zambia, Frederick Chiluba okwa monika ondjo mOmpangu yOpombanda mu London nokwa pewa elombwelo kutya na kale a shunitha oshimaliwa shoopelesenda 85 dhoshimaliwa
readYe li 23 ya shunwa miilonga ku Meatco
09-05-2007
A ANIILONGA ye li omilongo mbali nayatatu (23) yomaaniilonga ye li 149 mboka taku popiwa ya kutha ombinga mekanka lyaali paveta mokampani ya Meatco mOvenduka oya tameke ishewe iilonga mOmaandaha
readSwapo a falwa kOmpangu yOpombanda
09-05-2007
O ONTAMANANA ndhoka dha kala pokati kaangoka a li nale Mayola gwOndoolopa ya Kahandja Christophine Paulus, Omukuluntuwiliki Omukuluntu gwaMuni Regina Alugodhi nosho wo Swapo - ndhoka dha tamekele
readHelao Nafidi a shaina euvathano lyuukuume na Nantong City
09-05-2007
O NDOOLOPA ya Helao Nafidi mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena mEtitatu lya zi ko lyeti 2 May 2007 oya shaina euvathano lyokulongela kumwe nOshilando sha Nantong shomo Republika yOpashigwana ya Kiina.Meya
readPopular Business Relay returns
09-05-2007
THE ninth annual Bank Windhoek National Business Challenge Relay was launched in Windhoek yesterday.The event, which has increased in popularity over the years, is happening on July 14 and 15 at the
readNine-year wait ends on cue
09-05-2007
SHEFFIELD - New world snooker champion John Higgins has admitted he never imagined it would take him nine long years to reclaim the title he first won in 1998.Then only 24, Higgins was expected to go
readBasso admits doping bid
09-05-2007
ROME - Italian cycling star Ivan Basso denied on Tuesday having ever taken banned drugs or used blood transfusions, but he did admit to having made an attempt to do so that was never concluded.Basso's
readNamibian sprint jewel hot in the US
09-05-2007
NAMIBIAN sprinter Tangeni 'Dasheek' Akwenye has not proven himself on the Namibian athletics front, but he is fast moving up the ladder as one of the finest sprinters at Utah State University (USU) in
readDeflated Chelsea reluctant party hosts
09-05-2007
LONDON - Deflated and leg-weary, Chelsea host Premier League champions Manchester United today in a dress rehearsal for the FA Cup final on May 19.Chelsea's hopes of securing a third successive league
readAustralian officials laugh off Sri Lankan complaint
09-05-2007
SYDNEY - Australian cricket officials have dismissed suggestions from a top Sri Lankan official that Adam Gilchrist breached the sport's ethics by batting with a squash ball in his glove during last
readWoolmer probe still on
09-05-2007
KARACHI - A Pakistani investigator yesterday said that a probe into the cause of death of national cricket coach Bob Woolmer was still inconclusive.Woolmer, 58, was found dead in his Jamaican hotel
readWoods seeks better driving at PGA
09-05-2007
LOS ANGELES - Although fresh from winning his third PGA Tour title of the year, Tiger Woods is under self-imposed pressure to improve his driving accuracy for this week's Players Championship at Ponte
readGladiators match off
09-05-2007
THE international friendly match between Namibia's Brave Gladiators and South Africa's Banyana Banyana, which was due this Sunday in Johannesburg, has been postponed.The match was called off because
readWarriors to meet Chipolopolo
09-05-2007
NAMIBIA'S Brave Warriors will play Zambia's Chipolopolo as preparation for their upcoming African Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Libya and the DR Congo next month.Namibian coach Ben
readNorthern Ireland to resume self rule
09-05-2007
BELFAST - Northern Ireland's Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders, arch-foes during decades of sectarian conflict, launch a new power-sharing, home-rule government on Tuesday aiming to put a final
readIn Brief
09-05-2007
Drunks try to open plane door HANOI - Two inebriated passengers who tried to open an exit door during take-off forced a Vietnam Airlines flight to return to the gate, local news reported yesterday.The
readNeutral Canada to study plane black box: Kenya
09-05-2007
NAIROBI - Kenya wants Canada to analyse the black box from a Kenya Airways plane that crushed in the Cameroonian mangrove swamp on Saturday."Canada, unlike Kenya and Cameroon and also the United
read'We did not ordain Zuma'
09-05-2007
JOHANNESBURG - The Full Gospel Church yesterday distanced itself from the ordination of ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma as an honorary pastor."An independent Charismatic organisation had used the
readOlmert survives confidence vote
09-05-2007
JERUSALEM - Two Israeli college students have set up camp outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's home in a grassroots attempt to force him to resign after being criticised for mishandling last year's
readChina, Russia in weapons breach: Amnesty
09-05-2007
LONDON - Human rights group Amnesty International accused Russia and China yesterday of breaching a United Nations arms embargo by letting weapons into Sudan, where they are used in 'grave violations'
readQueen praises UK-US partnership
09-05-2007
WASHINGTON - The Queen has delivered a strong defence of the special relationship between Britain and the US.At a White House banquet, she said "the lesson of my lifetime" had been that the
readNorthern Ireland to resume self rule
09-05-2007
BELFAST - Northern Ireland's Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders, arch-foes during decades of sectarian conflict, launch a new power-sharing, home-rule government on Tuesday aiming to put a final
readTaylor wants more lawyers
09-05-2007
THE HAGUE - The defence of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, due to go on trial for war crimes here next month, said on Monday that they needed more senior counsels for the complex case.In a
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