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38 Articles found on Wednesday, 2 April 2008
SMSes of the Day : Wednesday
02-04-2008
* WHY should backbenchers such as Dr Ankama blame Namibian students for not paying back their GRN loans? Did he ever question why the Government changed bursaries to loans while keeping income tax
readZam imposes higher taxes on foreign miners
02-04-2008
LUSAKA - Zambia began enforcing a new tax code yesterday that will see mining firms pay more in royalties and other taxes despite objections that the government has reneged on tax exemption deals with
readMoz sells more power to eskom
02-04-2008
MAPUTO - South Africa's state power utility is near a deal to buy more electricity from Mozambique's Cahora Bassa development in a bid to ease an energy crisis threatening Africa's largest economy, a
readHungry crowds spell trouble for world leaders
02-04-2008
YAOUNDE - "Is it not said 'A hungry man is an angry man'?" commented Simon Nkwenti, head of a teachers' union in Cameroon, after riots that killed dozens of people in the central African country.It is
readTimber harvesting permits suspended in Rundu
02-04-2008
RUNDU - The Rundu District Forestry office has suspended issuing permits for harvesting timber in communal areas in an effort to minimise the over-harvesting of trees.The decision to stop issuing
readMugabe on brink
02-04-2008
HARARE - Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is ready to step down after he accepted he failed to win the country's presidential election, a senior source in his ruling party and diplomats told AFP late
readBessinger declared hero
02-04-2008
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has declared former Minister of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism Niko Bessinger a national hero.A statement from the Ministry of Information yesterday said Bessinger
readLethal TB strain now in Namibia
02-04-2008
HEALTH professionals are quietly treating up to 24 confirmed cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) - the worst form of TB with seriously limited treatment options and chances of
readSwapo wants one-party Parliament
02-04-2008
SWAPO has launched a full-scale campaign to win 71 out of 72 seats during the next National Assembly elections."Our aim is to capture 71 seats and leave one for Hidipo [Hamutenya]," Swapo's
readVocational students unhappy with new system
02-04-2008
POOR management and unqualified lecturers were the allegations raised by trainees of the Windhoek Vocational Training Centre (WVTC) during a march in Windhoek on Friday.They claimed that instructors
read269 charges in pension fraud case
02-04-2008
THE extent of the charges being faced by eight people who are accused of having been involved in an allegedly illegal loan scheme orchestrated by now former employees of pension fund administrators
readVillager with 'visions' convicted of murder
02-04-2008
A NORTHERN Namibia resident, whose High Court trial last year was marked by fantastical claims of visions of levitating, donkey-eared people, was found guilty of murder yesterday.Cattle herder Vilho
readChurches disturbed by intolerance
02-04-2008
THE political situation in Namibia has become disturbing, untenable and characterised by intolerance and has to be addressed urgently, otherwise Namibia could experience "mass loss of lives
readChildren's feeding scheme stopped
02-04-2008
A FEEDING scheme for around 90 000 orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia came to an end on Monday, the World Food Programme and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare have
readEsiku lyOondholongo, olya li kombinga yomazulo
02-04-2008
A ANAMBELEWA yOondholongo pondholongo onene yegameno lya shigako moshitopolwa sha Hardap nenge tutye Hardap Maximum Security Prison, oya li ya ndjiona aanambelewa yoondholongo dhilwe moshilongo
readNamdeb a gandja ekwatho lyOshimaliwa shoondola/N$255 000 koonakuhepekwa komeya gefundja moNooli yoshilongo
02-04-2008
N AMDEB, Okampani yedhina Namibia Diamond Trading Company nosho wo ndjoka yo Namibia Disaster Relief Fund, Ongeleka yaUniversal mOshakati noshowo Aanasikola yokoUnam, oshiwike sha zi ko oya gandja
readEpangelo lya dhika Ombelewa yokuungaunga nefundja mOnooli
02-04-2008
E PANGELO olya eta po Ombelewa yokuungaunga noshiponga shomeya gefundja nonkalo ayihe tayi etwa po nenge ya etwa po komeya gefundja muumbangalantu wa Namibia.Ombelewa ndjika otayi adhika pOombelewa
readAaingilisa ya ehamekelwa moshiponga shohauto
02-04-2008
A APASHIYONI yahamano Aabriteina oya mono oshiponga konima ohauto yawo moka ya li ya kandomene mondjila ya C14 kuumbugantu-zilo wa Walvis Bay mEtine lyoshiwike sha zi ko, Opolisi osho ya lopota ngaaka
readAanafaalama ye vulithe po 70 mu Zimbabwe otaya vulu okukala moofaalama dhawo manga iipotha yawo tayi pulakenwa
02-04-2008
A ANAFAALAMA ye vulithe pomilongo heyali (70) mboka ya li ya kuthwa oofaalama dhawo kEpangelo lya Zimbabwe, ngashiingeyi otaya vulu okukala moofaalama dhawo omanga ya tegelela iihokolola yi manithwe,
readYe li 858 ya monika Okolela mOhangwena
02-04-2008
A ANTU ayehe kumwe ye li 858 oya monika omukithi gwoKolela mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena, Omuwiliki gwUuhaku mOshitopolwa sha Shana Omundohotola Naftali Hamata, ngoka wo e li Omuunganeki gwUuhaku moNooli
readSouth Africa devise plan for Sehwag
02-04-2008
AHMEDABAD - South Africa will target swashbuckling Indian batsman Virender Sehwag with short-pitched bowling in the rest of the series, coach Mickey Arthur said yesterday.Sehwag tore apart the
readQueens beat Beauties after late Lucas goal
02-04-2008
A goal by Leandri Lucas in the dying minutes of the game gave Rehoboth Queens a surprise 2-1 victory against log leaders Okahandja Beauties on Saturday.The match seemed to be heading for a draw when
readIndia soccer captain spurns Olympic torch
02-04-2008
NEW DELHI - India soccer captain Bhaichung Bhutia has refused to carry the Olympic torch this month in protest against China's response to the recent unrest in Tibet, an Olympic official said
readLiverpool count on Torres for tonight
02-04-2008
LONDON - Fernando Torres believes a Liverpool goal at Arsenal tonight will make Rafael Benitez's men strong favourites to progress from their all-English Champions League quarter-final clash.The
readMurphy wins Verizon Off Road Triathlon
02-04-2008
Great conditions contributed to the hugely successful Verizon Off-Road Triathlon that took place on Sunday at the Friedenau Dam.Over 120 participants took part in the Off-Road Triathlon - making it
readJunior athletes in great form
02-04-2008
Namibia's top junior athletes excelled at the weekend's Namibia School Sports Union's National Athletics Coca-Cola Championships with 20 new NSSU records being established.A total of 572 of Namibia's
readCuba opens consumer economy to nationals
02-04-2008
HAVANA - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans on Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward creating a
readCollapsed Luanda police base claims 30
02-04-2008
LUANDA - The death toll from the collapse of a police squad headquarters in Angola's capital this weekend rose to 30 yesterday as rescuers scoured the rubble for bodies, said state media.Another 145
readProtesters tear gassed in Nairobi
02-04-2008
NAIROBI - Kenyan police tear gassed around 100 protesters - including a Nobel prize winner - who were demonstrating in the capital on Tuesday against proposals to increase the number of Cabinet
readIraqi PM: Basra operation a 'success'
02-04-2008
BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki claimed yesterday that a week-old operation against Shiite militias has been a "success" despite a cease-fire that did not disarm the gunmen and left him
readChildren find head in bag
02-04-2008
Children playing on a Scottish beach discovered a woman's severed head in a plastic bag, police said yesterday.The discovery, along with a hand, was made in the town of Arbroath, Tayside police said.
readCameroon arrests two former ministers for graft
02-04-2008
YAOUNDE - Cameroon arrested former economy and finance minister Polycarpe Abah Abah and former public health minister Urbain Olanguena Awono on Monday on allegations of fraud, corruption and
readSMS scandal forces Finnish foreign minister out
02-04-2008
Finland's foreign minister was sacked yesterday after newspapers and magazines published suggestive text messages he sent to an erotic dancer, his party said.Ilkka Kanerva sent about 200 text messages
readBotswana marks peaceful transfer
02-04-2008
GABORONE - Seretse Khama Ian Khama was inaugurated as Botswana's president yesterday, inheriting a rare political and economic success story on the world's poorest and most unstable continent.Just
readChina claims Tibet plans suicide squads
02-04-2008
BEIJING - China yesterday accused 'Tibet independence forces' of planning to use suicide squads to trigger bloody attacks - the lastest in a string of accusations that have taken aim at supporters of
readSixteen dead and 49 missing in flooded mine
02-04-2008
NAIROBI - Sixteen miners have been confirmed dead and 49 others were feared killed in northern Tanzania after floods swept through a remote gemstone mine, a senior government official said
readSinger son of O'Jays star dies
02-04-2008
CLEVELAND - Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39.Authorities said on Monday
readEarth, population zero!
02-04-2008
OUR planet has seen much more than what is regarded as its normal share of floods, drought and hurricanes in the past few years.Scientific evidence pinpoints the cause as climate change, caused by
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