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49 Articles found on Thursday, 22 November 2007
Big Brother Africa, Big Bother Windhoek!
22-11-2007
SORRY BBA peeps.I only heard late yesterday evening that the Big Brother Africa housemate party had to be cancelled at the last minute. Apparently there was a hitch with the travel and other
readNew publications on Sperrgebiet
22-11-2007
BENEDICT Libanda and Morgan Hauptfleisch have written books providing guidance to the people responsible for managing the Sperrgebiet as a biodiversity hotspot.Libanda is the Small Grants Manager at
readEtosha from another perspective
22-11-2007
SOME people are stealing and illegally copying or recording the artworks of others who spent time working on them, President Hifikepunye Pohamba says."These practices do not only constitute a crime,
readBig Brother Africa: Your SMSes to us
22-11-2007
* SOMETIMES you wonder why and how some people can be so heartless. I am so shocked by Richard's family's behaviour towards Rickie. Oshili how can a person behave so cruelly because of money? How can
readSMSes of the Day: Thursday
22-11-2007
* SWAPO'S behaviour can be compared to that of a dinosaur fighting extinction while refusing to adapt to a new environment. The madness and frenzy going on with Swapo today can be compared to the days
readS Leone bans exports of mineral samples
22-11-2007
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone has banned exports of mineral samples in a bid to stop valuable diamonds, gold and other commodities being illegally shipped out of the country.President Ernest Bai Koroma, who
readGermany seeks new Einsteins for new scientific age
22-11-2007
GOETTINGEN - It may have brought the world aspirin, rocket science, quantum physics and the diesel engine, but Germany's days of scientific glory are long gone and it is now hunting for a new
readOil soars above US$99 as US dollar sinks
22-11-2007
LONDON - Oil soared to an all-time high yesterday, closing in on the US$100 milestone as the US dollar sank to new lows and cold weather in the world's biggest fuel consumer stirred anxiety over
readStandard Bank scoops regional award
22-11-2007
STANDARD Bank has emerged the winner of the African Infrastructure Deal of the Year Award.The award was presented to the bank at the Africa Investor Projects Summit recently held in Lagos, Nigeria.
readCocktails get personal
22-11-2007
SINGAPORE - The cocktail just got personal: for a few thousand dollars, a Singaporean firm will create a drink as individual as you are.Provocachic, owned by Sinaporean marketing expert Damian Sim,
readChina a big, but not only, contributor to oil prices
22-11-2007
BEIJING - China's unquenchable thirst for oil is contributing to sustained high prices, but it is not the main factor in crude's latest surge toward new records, analysts said Wednesday.Speculative
readI killed her, body parts suspect tells magistrate
22-11-2007
KENYAN nurse and murder suspect Kenneth Orina admitted in the Grootfontein Magistrate's Court this week that he killed his wife, cut her body into pieces, and then discarded her remains around
readDetention case to High Court
22-11-2007
AN urgent application was lodged in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday, arguing for the release from prison of a 67-year-old Jamaican man who has spent the last 19 months in jail over money he
readTwist in race for positions in Swapo
22-11-2007
DEPUTY Speaker of Parliament Doreen Sioka says she has no ambitions to stand for the position of Deputy Secretary General at next week's Swapo congress.Sioka's name was thrown into the mix of surprise
readKaribib man shot accidentally in torso
22-11-2007
A 31-year-old man from the farm Tsaobis in Karibib was admitted to the Usakos State hospital after he was accidentally shot in the stomach.According to the Police, the victim had been a passenger in
readFrom the crime bulletin
22-11-2007
A 34-year-old man was arrested at Okahandja on Sunday after he allegedly shot an 18-year-old man in the chest, arm and leg.The incident happened that morning in Tgo-Eiseb Street in the Nau-Aib
readSwapo rejects DTA elections motion
22-11-2007
A MOTION by DTA President Katuutire Kaura to change the election law so that agents of political parties could be paid by Government for working during elections was rejected by the Swapo majority in
readWe have come a long way, babe
22-11-2007
ABOUT 1 000 women participated in the first Women's Celebratory March down Windhoek's Independence Avenue to the Parliament Gardens yesterday.The march was organised by Women's Action for Development
readWalvis Bay man shoots girlfriend, himself
22-11-2007
A DOUBLE tragedy shook Walvis Bay's Kuisebmond suburb on Tuesday when a man shot his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself.The incident took place in the morning after a quarrel allegedly broke
readRacism against 'Boers' flares up
22-11-2007
ALMOST 18 years after Independence and of Government's national reconciliation policy the derogatory term 'Boers' reverberated through the Parliamentary Chamber on Tuesday as a deputy minister lost
readPohamba to Commonwealth summit in Uganda
22-11-2007
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba and a Government delegation will leave for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) today.The summit will take place in Kampala, Uganda, from Friday to
readNo quorum in Parliament
22-11-2007
THERE was no debate in the National Assembly yesterday, because once again there were not enough members present to form a quorum.Only 35 MPs were in the Chamber and Deputy Speaker Doreen Sioka
readNC report reveals appalling living conditions
22-11-2007
CLOSE to 70 households at the southern village of Gruenau receive water for only one hour a day, says a report of one of the Standing Committees of the National Council.The report of the Standing
readVeterans to march again
22-11-2007
THE National Committee on the Welfare of Ex-Combatants is back.The group led by Alex Kamwi and Rusa Malulu, who earlier this year had authorities frustrated with their week-long demonstration in front
readTakamitheni oombotsotso hadhi iyakele moshipangelo sha Shakati
22-11-2007
O ONAKUPANGWA yamwe mOshipangelo shEpangelo sha Shakati oye yile kOshifo shika taya nyenyeta oombotsotso tadhi ya piyaganekele nokuyaka po iinima yawo mOshipangelo shEpangelo sha Shakati sho taya ka
readMontopa ya Shakati otashi vulika mwiiyekela natango omuntu
22-11-2007
O NGULA yohela pontopa ya Shakati, mpoka hapu iyekelele aantu momeya, opwa adhika oongaku, iikutu noshikayiwa, yi li pomunkulo gwomeya pontopa mpoka notaku tengenekwa kutya otashi vulika pu na omuntu
readOmukithi gwekondo mo Caprivi
22-11-2007
A ANIIMUNA moshitopolwa sha Kavango oya lombwelwa kutya inaya dhipaga nenge ya fale iimuna yawo komahala galwe, molwashoka pomukunda gwa Nakuntwe opwa monika omukithi gwekondo nelaka oshiwike sha zi
readOmakonakono mu ECN taga ka ningwa kOkomitiye yi ithikamena mpee
22-11-2007
O SHIKONDO shOmahogololo mu Namibia nenge tutye Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) osha ningi etokolo lyokuulika osipana ndjoka tayi ka ninga omakonakono ga manguluka kombinga ya nkene
readShigwana kwatha Opolisi
22-11-2007
O MUDHIMBA gwomukiintu gu li owala ogwi itsuwa gwa mangelwa momuti pofaalama yedhina Leeupast, konyala ookilometa 38 okuza pOshivelo moshitopolwa sha Oshikoto, mEtine lya zi ko.Opolisi moshitopolwa
readSwapo ota sokona iilyo ye oku udha
22-11-2007
N GASHIINGEYI uumbanda owa tameka okwiinyenga mokati kiilyo yongundu tayi pangele molwashoka konyala omuntu kehe ta fekelelwa uukwawo wanankali na Hidipo Hamutenya ota undulwa mo mongundu.Molyomakaya
readRugby In Focus Kankowski to make debut
22-11-2007
LONDON - Number eight Ryan Kankowski will make his debut for world champions South Africa in the one-off test against Wales on Saturday.The 22-year-old replaces injured loose forward Danie Rossouw in
readLandis files doping appeal
22-11-2007
LOS ANGELES - Disgraced US cyclist Floyd Landis filed his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday, his final attempt to overturn a two-year doping ban that cost him the 2006 Tour
readBlackball team fourth at African champs
22-11-2007
THE Namibian national blackball team participated in the African Championships in Bloemfontein, South Africa, recently.Nine countries played in the tournament, of which six had a full national team.
readKing confident of no fixing
22-11-2007
LONDON - Tennis great Billie Jean King said she would be surprised if women's tennis became embroiled in the match-fixing allegations that have overshadowed the men's game in 2007.Asked if she had
readTable tennis season ends on a high
22-11-2007
THE junior table tennis season was concluded at Swakopmund recently when ten teams participated in the FNB Inter-schools Coastal Championships in the Haus der Jugend.Two teams from Rehoboth, Dr Lemmer
readColombia, Venezuela in wins
22-11-2007
RIO DE JANEIRO - Argentina lost their unbeaten record in 2010 World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday as Colombia took advantage of a first-half red card for Argentina's Carlos Tevez to win their match 2-1,
readMayweather's trainer dismisses Hatton's form
22-11-2007
LAS VEGAS - England's Ricky Hatton is in the best shape of his career for his showdown with fellow unbeaten Floyd Mayweather here December 8 for the World Boxing Council welterweight crown."He is
readModise double hands Bafana win
22-11-2007
DURBAN - South Africa defeated Canada 2-0 in an international friendly played at Durban's Absa Stadium on Tuesday evening, with Orlando Pirates midfielder Teko Modise notching his second brace for the
readCroatian official held before England game
22-11-2007
LONDON - The secretary general of the Croatian Football Association was briefly arrested for alleged shoplifting at London's Gatwick airport on the eve of a crunch Euro 2008 qualifier against England,
readNamib Woestyn FC revived
22-11-2007
WINDHOEK - After spending eight years below the radar of local football, Namib Woestyn FC, one of the oldest clubs in the country, is back in the mainstream of Namibian football.The club, also known
readKidman says scared of crash in paparazzi car chase
22-11-2007
SYDNEY - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said on Monday she crouched on the back seat of her car, tearful and frightened that it would crash as she was pursued by a paparazzi photographer in Australia in
readIan Douglas Smith, the rebel who held the world at bay
22-11-2007
JOHANNESBURG/HARARE - The last white Prime Minister, Ian Smith (88), of former Rhodesia now Zimbabwe died on Tuesday in Cape Town.When Ian Smith, a lanky farmer from the small white minority-ruled
readFallen Savoy royals seek damages
22-11-2007
ROME - The son and grandson of Italy's last king are seeking damages from the country for sending the men of the once illustrious House of Savoy into exile after World War Two when Italians voted to
readUS polygamy sect leader jailed
22-11-2007
ST GEORGE - US polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, self-proclaimed prophet of a breakaway Mormon sect, was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years to life in prison for forcing a 14-year-old to marry her first
readYar'Adua may lose job
22-11-2007
ABUJA - Umaru Yar'Adua looks serene in the official portrait hanging in a courtroom, where lawyers in black robes are trying to unseat him as president of Nigeria.But his position might be less secure
readOpposition parties wavers on whether to boycott crucial Pakistan elections
22-11-2007
ISLAMABAD - Opposition parties wavered yesterday on whether to boycott crucial Pakistani elections, backing off their most strident calls to shun the vote unless President General Pervez Musharraf
readBush 'involved' in CIA leak case
22-11-2007
A FORMER White House press secretary has said the US president was involved in misinforming the public over the leaking of a CIA agent's identity.In an excerpt from his book, Scott McClellan says
readGhana court finds British girls guilty
22-11-2007
ACCRA - Two British teenage girls were found guilty yesterday of trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop bags, officials and lawyers said.The 16-year-old students from London were to be
readSabotage hits French railways, strike continues
22-11-2007
PARIS - Widespread sabotage has damaged France's high-speed rail network and caused huge delays to services already hit by an 8-day transport strike, a senior executive at the SNCF state railways said
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