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40 Articles found on Monday, 10 September 2007
Big Brother Africa: Weekend Watch
10-09-2007
AS usual the results of the weekly task were announced on Thursday.Housemates had to put up with physically taxing activities and sleep deprivation in a task that saw them compete for sleep minutes.
readBig Brother Africa: Funny SMSes
10-09-2007
* Bertha, child ... put your hand on the Bible ... you are healed, drop the crutches, get up and walk ... oh no, you could walk all along! * Miaaaaaow. Bertha is so catty she gives cats a bad name. *
readSMSes of the day : Monday
10-09-2007
* ACCOUNTABILITY and responsibility are a foreign concept when it comes to our GRN. If the so-called leaders do not want to take accountability for their actions, how do you expect the civil servants
readComedy team penetrates Apec security
10-09-2007
SYDNEY - Television comedians, including one dressed as al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, penetrated tight security around an Asia-Pacific summit in Sydney on Thursday, driving a fake motorcade
readIMF sees progress in Angola, more transparency needed
10-09-2007
LUANDA - Angola has made its oil-driven economy more transparent, but the African nation must do more to ease concerns about government corruption and unorthodox fiscal practices, the International
readMTN to spend billions
10-09-2007
JOHANNESBURG - Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest mobile operator MTN plans to roll-out a 5 000 km optical fibre network across South Africa estimated to cost 1,3 billion rand over the next two years, it
readIllegal diamond miners to be punished
10-09-2007
MONROVIA - Liberia warned yesterday it would punish any diamond miners caught without a licence with a US$10 000 fine and a year's imprisonment as it tries to regulate the trade following the lifting
readGiant 'diamond' still unverified
10-09-2007
THE giant 'diamond' found last month in the North West has still not been verified.The President of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses, Ernest Blom, told Sapa on Friday that he was waiting to be
readCoD MPs must stay: Judge
10-09-2007
THE Shixwameni faction of the Congress of Democrats (CoD) opposition party won a partial victory over Ben Ulenga in a court case on Friday.The Judge ordered that three MPs must retain their seats in
readFoetus found at Swakopmund
10-09-2007
A HUMAN foetus was found dumped next to the railway line at Swakopmund yesterday morning.According to people at the scene where the foetus was found, it had been placed in a plastic shopping bag and
read170 Epukiro children not at school
10-09-2007
OVER half of the 300 children attending a Roman Catholic school at the Epukiro settlement in the Omaheke Region will miss school again this week because Government funding has still not arrived.The
readHerero, Nama leaders unite on reparations
10-09-2007
HERERO and Nama traditional leaders have formed a "united front" to enter into dialogue with the German government on reparations and development projects for communities affected by German colonial
readAncient crafts help San to survive
10-09-2007
THE hands of the San woman nimbly move the head of the axe to chop ostrich eggshells into small pieces, as she hunches in soft sand under the sparse shade of a small tree.Next to her another family
readStudent unrest at Polytechnic
10-09-2007
STUDENTS and management at the Polytechnic of Namibia appeared set on a collision course at the end of last week over long festering issues, which the Student Representative Council (SRC) says the
readDead baby found in Katutura
10-09-2007
THE body of a baby boy was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a yard in Katutura on Friday morning, the Police reported yesterday.Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu said the house where the body was found
read3-year jail term given for shooting
10-09-2007
A LATE-NIGHT shooting incident that had tragic consequences when it left a young Windhoek resident paralysed in December 2003 resulted in a 32-year-old father of three children being sent to prison
readPolice urgently need more dogs
10-09-2007
THE Namibian Police have renewed their appeal to the public to donate puppies that can be trained as Police sniffer dogs to detect narcotics or explosives.The Police are looking for three specific
readRepeat rapist sentenced 22 years
10-09-2007
AN unemployed Karasburg area resident, Petrus Jaartze (36), convicted for the second time on a count of rape, was jailed for 22 years in the High Court at Keetmanshoop on Thursday.In 1991, Jaartze was
readKaras CRO Jacobs back in court again
10-09-2007
THE Karas Regional Council's Chief Regional Officer, Salmaan Jacobs, who faces corruption charges, made a second appearance in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate's Court on Friday.Jacobs is accused of
readSecond Outjo arsonist jailed for 6 years
10-09-2007
AN Outjo resident who last month admitted that he had started a fire in which 64 Police dockets were destroyed in an office at the town's Police Station was sent to prison for six years on
readOmuprima omukulu gwa Bangladesh a kwatwa po
10-09-2007
D HAKA - Ngoka a li nale Omuprimaminista gwa Bangladesh Khaleda Zia, okwa li a kwatwa po omasiku ga zi ko sho a lopotelwa ekoraputo nelongithonayi lyombelewa.Epangelo lya Bangladesh olya kaleke
readOmakuyunguto ga holoka ishewe mu Congo
10-09-2007
K INSHASA - Metitatu lya zi ko, aaleli yopaigwana oya ningi eindilo kutya naku ningwe oonkundathana dhi na sha nokutala nkene omakuyunguto moshitopolwa sha Congo-Uzilo ge na okumonenwa
readOmukiintu a tsuwa okusa
10-09-2007
O MUKIINTU gwoomvula 19 okwa tsuwa okusa komulumentu gwoomvula 22 pObaa yedhina Hot Spot molukanda lwa Khoabeb pOtavi uusiku wEtiyali lya zi ko.Opwa kwatwa omufekelwa noshinima shika na omakonakono
readTsvangirai a ningilwa oshipotha
10-09-2007
H ARARE - Opolisi ya Harare oshiwike sha zi ko oya li ya ningile oshipotha omuwiliki gwongundu yompilameno Morgan Tsvangirai sho aniwa i ihumbata nayi.Opaati ya Tsvangirai yoMovement for Democratic
readOmulongi ngoka a kwatelwe po i ifutila mo noN$1 000
10-09-2007
O POLISI mOshakati oya tseyitha kutya omulongiskola gwopOniimwandi mUukwambi mOshitopolwa sha Shana ngoka a kwatelwe po meti 26 Aguste 2007, ta fekelwa mekwatonkonga lyokakadhona koomvula 19 mOshakati
readKamwi ya tsakanena newiliko lyaElcin pOniipa kombinga yOshipangelo
10-09-2007
pONANDJOKWE O MINSITELI yUuhaku Omundohotola Richard Nchabi Kamwi nosheendo she, okwa thikile pOnandjokwe ongula yEtitatu lya zi ko nokuninga oonkundathana nElelo lyOngeleki ya Elcin, ano
readWorld Sport Briefs Springboks beat Samoa
10-09-2007
PARIS - Bryan Habana scored four of the Springboks' eight tries to help his team record an emphatic 59-7 victory over Samoa in their Rugby World Cup opening fixture in Paris on Saturday.Laporte was
readEngland hopes to improve
10-09-2007
LENS - England coach Brian Ashton insisted the world champions' lacklustre start to the defence of their title against the United States would be an irrelevance when they faced South Africa on
readAbsa Currie Cup WP fend off Sharks
10-09-2007
VODACOM Western Province survived a ferocious second-half comeback from an otherwise disappointing Sharks side to win their Absa Currie Cup match 22-19 (halftime 16-6) at Newlands on Saturday.Western
readTries galore in opening matches
10-09-2007
PARIS - Australia crushed Japan 91-3 and New Zealand outplayed Italy 76-14 on the day the Rugby World Cup got over its initial shock.Although England was restricted to 28-10 by underdog United
readOshakati wins Karate
10-09-2007
ONGWEDIVA - Oshakati Karate-Zen won 80 per cent of the medals of the Karate-Zen National Championships, which took place for the third time in northern Namibia at Ongwediva's Sam Nujoma Multi-purpose
readEngland cruise to victory
10-09-2007
LONDON - England clinched the one-day international series against India on Saturday with a seven-wicket victory in the seventh and final match at Lord's.After India's thrilling run chase at the Oval
readAlonso wins Italian GP to close gap on Hamilton
10-09-2007
MONZA - Defending world champion Fernando Alonso reduced his McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton's lead at the top of the world championship to just three points yesterday when he led him home at the
readHenin proves a few points with victory
10-09-2007
NEW YORK - Justine Henin confirmed her status at the top of the women's game on Saturday with a US Open singles victory that the player believes could be her most significant triumph."This one is
readWarriors into Nations Cup
10-09-2007
NAMIBIA will be at the 2008 African Nations Cup in Ghana! That´s official.The Brave Warriors secured a last-minute goal through young striker Muna Katupose to land a place in Africa's biggest
readZimbabwe unions call for strike over salary freeze
10-09-2007
HARARE - Zimbabwe's main labour federation called on Saturday for a two-day strike this month to protest President Robert Mugabe's wage freeze, but said there would be no street marches for fear of
readIraq govt urges regional cooperation
10-09-2007
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said yesterday his government had made progress on all fronts and urged neighbouring countries to work together to stop what he called 'evil'
readIsraeli 'neo-Nazi gang' arrested
10-09-2007
JERUSALEM - Immigrants from the former Soviet Union formed a neo-Nazi cell in Israel that assaulted religious Jews and foreign workers and daubed swastikas in synagogues, police said yesterday.A
readMadeleine's parents return to UK
10-09-2007
ROTHLEY - A British couple named as suspects in the disappearance of their 4-year-old daughter returned to England yesterday, days after being grilled by Portuguese police about new forensic evidence
readUN chief warns of tough work ahead for Darfur peace
10-09-2007
TRIPOLI - UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday of hard work ahead to restore peace to Darfur as he wrapped up an African tour in which he secured the Sudanese government's commitment to new talks
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