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52 Articles found on Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Big Brother Africa: Richard, Tatiana, Kwaku are up for eviction
10-10-2007
WE'RE in the thick of week 10 in the Big Brother Africa reality show and while some may question whether it is still providing as much entertainment as it used to, there are those who are more hooked
readBig Brother Africa: The Unbearable Lightness of Laughter and Being!
10-10-2007
HELLA, some BBA2 viewers just have no sense of humour! There were Lerato, Max and Meryl (love you, girl) outside the house for Bertha's eviction on Sunday night wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with
readSMSes of the Day : Wednesday
10-10-2007
* WHY is it that the Ministries of Education and Health receive the highest budget allocations, but offer the poorest level of services? Please, we need answers! - A Imbili * AFTER months of denials,
readAfrican monetary union long way off
10-10-2007
SUN CITY - Africa is a long way off a common monetary union as the continent continues to struggle to harmonise economic policies, South Africa's central bank Governor Tito Mboweni said yesterday."A
readPohamba calls for harmonious working environment
10-10-2007
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has urged employers to embrace a culture of regular consultations with their employees in order to prevent labour disputes that are on the increase in the country.The
readZambia rations fuel as refinery closes
10-10-2007
LUSAKA - Zambia is rationing fuel following a shortage caused by the closure of its sole oil refinery, with long queues of motorists becoming a common feature amid panic buying across the country,
readFinancial crime on the rise
10-10-2007
BANK of Namibia (BoN) Governor Tom Alweendo has expressed dismay at the increase in international financial crimes in spite of all the laws put in place to curb such social ills.He said money
readDiamond breaks record
10-10-2007
HONG KONG - One of the rarest gems in the world, a flawless blue diamond, has sold for US$7,98 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, making it the most expensive gemstone in the world, per
readUnilever to close factories in the Netherlands
10-10-2007
ROTTERDAM - Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch maker of consumer goods and food products, said yesterday it plans to close three factories in the Netherlands by the end of 2008, making 474 people
readSimbra bull goes for N$135 000
10-10-2007
A SIMBRA bull reached an exceptional price of N$135 000 at the Agra/Standard Ring during the Windhoek show auction that took place on Friday.The price achieved is a new Namibian record price for all
readPOWER CRISIS!
10-10-2007
A POWER supply emergency in South Africa hit Namibia yesterday.Power utility NamPower is calling on Namibians to turn off all non-essential lighting, geysers and household appliances in standby mode
readPolice intercept saw blades
10-10-2007
AN Angolan woman was arrested on Monday after Police officers at Swakopmund caught her trying to take her brother-in-law more than just two loaves of bread and a bottle of cooldrink in jail.According
readAppeal bid against Teek thrown out
10-10-2007
THE State suffered another humiliating - and also costly - defeat yesterday in its so far luckless quest to prove former High Court Judge President and Supreme Court Judge of Appeal Pio Teek guilty on
readBrace for another cold front!
10-10-2007
WHILE Namibians are still shivering from highly unusual cold weather that set in on Sunday, another cold front is expected to make landfall in the Cape tomorrow evening.The next front will have little
readDisaster risk reduction Changing climates and development perspectives
10-10-2007
NAMIBIANS, as individuals and as a collective whole, are well acquainted with the devastating impacts of droughts, floods and other natural disasters.To raise awareness about disaster risk reduction
readDisaster risk reduction Changing climates and development perspectives
10-10-2007
NAMIBIANS, as individuals and as a collective whole, are well acquainted with the devastating impacts of droughts, floods and other natural disasters.To raise awareness about disaster risk reduction
readForeign Ministry takes stock
10-10-2007
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday held a strategic planning conference to improve service delivery.Speaking at the conference, Foreign Affairs Minister Marco Hausiku, emphasised that the
read'Rich' parents should pay teachers
10-10-2007
A SWAPO MP wants Government to stop paying salaries to teachers at private schools and instead use the money to improve the salaries of teachers at State schools.Kilus Nguvauva argued that most
readShixwameni resigns as Councillor
10-10-2007
RUNDU - The Regional Councillor for the Rundu Rural West constituency, Herbert Shixwameni, has resigned from his post with effect from next week Monday.Shixwameni cited personal reasons for his
readSuspect admits fatal stabbing at Katima
10-10-2007
THE murder trial of a Caprivi Region resident who is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death at Katima Mulilo in April 2005 started in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday with the accused man
read'Nincompoop' runs water show: MAG
10-10-2007
A MOTION re-introduced by Parliamentarian Jurie Viljoen of the Monitor Action Group (MAG) not to exclude white Namibians from affirmative action measures was withdrawn just an hour after it was heard
readNew border post to South Africa opens
10-10-2007
THE new Mata-Mata border post in southeastern Namibia will be officially opened by President Hifikepunye Pohamba on Friday.The new border post was established to accommodate tourists entering the
readFirst cement factory gets off the ground
10-10-2007
THE long-awaited Cheetah Cement Factory, a multi-million-dollar project which should see Namibia produce its own cement for the first time, was launched at Otjiwarongo yesterday.Great hype accompanied
readShorty 'ordered parents' killing'
10-10-2007
IN testimony marked by a pattern of reticence and repeated requests to only answer some questions later in his trial, farm massacre suspect Sylvester Beukes this week again claimed that the son of two
readOndoolopa mu Sudan ya fikwa po
10-10-2007
K HARTOUM - Onkundana okuzilila ku Khartoum sha Sudan otayi ti kutya ondoolopa yimwe moshitopolwa shoka shi na iita sha Darfur, oya pi po na shika osha thiminike aakalimo yamo ye yi thige po.Shika
readOpolisi mOhangwena ya kwata po Omukwiita gwa Angola shi na sha neyako
10-10-2007
O POLISI mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena oya lopota kutya oya kwata po Omukwiita gwa Angola gwokOndjiva gwedhina Joao Frerico Severino gwoomvula omilongondatu (30) shi na sha neyakopo lyOopanela dhOlusheno
readEgumbo lya tate Amon Kashihalwa lya pya po
10-10-2007
pOKAMBEBE O MUKALIMO gwomomukunda Okambebe mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena tate Amon Kashihalwa gwoomvula 44 oku li i itsa omutse koongolo konima sho etungo lyegumbo lye lya pi po thiluthilu
readOmugundjuka mOshakati a kwatwa po meso lya Shivute Ishitile nefikopo lyokahauto ke
10-10-2007
O POLISI mOshakati oya tseyitha kutya oya kwata po omugundjuka gwoomvula omilongo mbali nayimwe (21) gwomOshakati shi na sha neso lya Shivute Immanuel Ishitile gwoomvula 36 ngoka ongulohi yEtitano lya
readTony Mbok a kwatwa po
10-10-2007
M WENE gwOkampani hayi tungu omagumbo yedhina Dignity Housing Initiative Tony Mbok, oku li konima yekumba.Mbok (gwoomvula 34) na Mateus Niklas Katamba (28) oya kwatwa po mEtitano lya zi ko shi na sha
readAakwaswapo otaya lili poRehoboth
10-10-2007
A AKWASWAPO yomoshitopolwa sha Hardap otaya lili ompombolodhi aniwa sho aakalelipo yoshitayi shokuuzilo wa Rehoboth ya patelwa pondje na inaya tulwa nokuli mewililogundu lyopashitopolwa.Oshinima shika
readFirst ever dope tests at Rugby World Cup
10-10-2007
PARIS - French and South African players were subjected to drug tests on Monday evening, a first for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, sources said.The French players were blood tested on their return home
readFootball Briefs Fifa inspections start
10-10-2007
JOHANNESBURG - After all the understandably starry-eyed assessments about South Africa's readiness to stage the 2010 World Cup from what might be termed friends and family, a Fifa inspection
readWorld Cup not just about money
10-10-2007
PARIS - Syd Millar, the chairman of the International Rugby Board (IRB), has said the World Cup is more than just about making money.The ongoing World Cup in France is expected to post some
readGerman football chiefs expected in Namibia
10-10-2007
NAMIBIA Football Association president John Muinjo says the Deutscher Fussball Bund (DFB) has accepted an invitation by the NFA for bilateral talks, which will culminate in re-activating cooperation
readProteas seize initiative in Lahore
10-10-2007
LAHORE - South Africa hit back and took a grip on the second Test on day two yesterday after Pakistan spoiled their solid start.The home team were precariously placed at 140-4 when bad light stopped
readTen Cate heads for Chelsea
10-10-2007
AMSTERDAM - Dutch club Ajax announced on Monday that they have reached agreement with Chelsea to release coach Henk ten Cate.The 52 year-old Ajax coach has been linked with a role on Chelsea manager
readRamblers, a threat for the title
10-10-2007
ORLANDO Pirates may have netted some of the biggest fish for the current season, but they would be surprised to hear what Ramblers have been up to.Ramblers, who lost some of their influential players
readOttey in for a medal
10-10-2007
LJUBLJANA - Jamaican-born sprinter Merlene Ottey could add to her record tally of eight Olympic medals thanks to the fall from grace of US rival Marion Jones.Jones, who won the 100 metres gold at the
readEliakim out for six months
10-10-2007
BRAVE Gladiators defender Helvi Eliakim will only be available for the national side next April, after she recently had an operation on her right knee.Eliakim, 22, torn ligaments in her knee during an
readTour de Windhoek rolls
10-10-2007
THE competitive Tour de Windhoek, which precedes The Namibian Model Pick and Pay Cycle Classic, gets rolling in the capital today.The event is set to attract some of the best junior riders in the
readFloods leave Africans without money, food
10-10-2007
DAKAR - Aime Assou should have started his final year of school this week but like hundreds of thousands of farmers across West Africa, floods have left his family without enough money to buy food let
readBolivian town cashes in on Che Guevara legacy
10-10-2007
VALLEGRANDE, Bolivia - The bearded image of guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a pop icon splashed on mugs, T-shirts and even bikinis 40 years after his death, and this Bolivian town is
readCuba pays homage to Che
10-10-2007
HAVANA - Fidel Castro paid homage to Ernesto "Che" Guevara as an "exceptional combatant" as many of the Argentine guerrilla's relatives and former comrades gathered in central Cuba to mark the 40th
read3 scientists win Nobel in medicine
10-10-2007
AS a child in Italy during World War II, he lived for years on the streets and in orphanages.Six decades later, as a scientist in the United States, Mario Capecchi joined two other researchers in
readIranian students call president 'dictator'
10-10-2007
DAREINI TEHRAN - About 100 students staged a rare protest on Monday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a 'dictator' as he gave a speech marking the beginning of the academic
readZimbabwe bombs: MDC activists freed from jail
10-10-2007
HARARE - In an impressive climbdown, state lawyers in Zimbabwe have withdrawn charges against more than 20 opposition activists arrested earlier this year in connection with a spate of petrol bomb
readPhysics Nobel goes to German, Frenchman
10-10-2007
TWO European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard disks.France's
readFraud police question Israel's Olmert
10-10-2007
JERUSALEM - Police questioned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday over suspected corruption just as he appeared to have won a reprieve from a Lebanon war inquiry key to his political future
readBombings kill 33
10-10-2007
TIKRIT - Bombings and shootings in central Iraq and Baghdad, including twin suicide truck bomb attacks on leading figures in the fight against Al Qaeda, killed at least 33 Iraqis, officials said
readBattles rage on at Pakistani borders
10-10-2007
MIRAN SHAH - Four days of fierce fighting between Islamic militants and security forces near the Afghan border has killed as many as 250 people in some of the deadliest clashes on Pakistani soil since
readBlackwater in trouble
10-10-2007
BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities want the US government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months.They also want the firm to pay $8 million in compensation to each of the 17
read60% say no to Jerusalem deal
10-10-2007
JERUSALEM - More than 60 per cent of Israelis oppose sharing sovereignty over Jerusalem with the Palestinians as part of a final peace deal, in a poll published yesterday.Asked if Israel should agree
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