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50 Articles found on Monday, 1 December 2008
Internationals win Lexus Cup
01-12-2008
SINGAPORE – American Cristina Kim birdied the last to hand the Internationals a nailbiting 12.5/11.5 win over Asia at the Lexus Cup yesterday and give Annika Sorenstam a fitting send-off into
readWales beat Wallabies, NZ dominant
01-12-2008
LONDON – Wales’s 21-18 win over Australia on Saturday did not even come close to papering over the cracks in northern hemisphere rugby as 2008 ended with a balance sheet of 19 defeats and one victory
readGebrselassie Aussie race win
01-12-2008
MELBOURNE - Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie burnt off his rivals for a commanding win in the Great Australian Run over 15 kilometres through the city streets yesterday.Gebrselassie, 35, backed only
readFerguson still on
01-12-2008
MANCHESTER – Sir Alex Ferguson has upset predictions on his possible retirement date after declaring he will remain in the Manchester United hot seat for some time yet.Having won all there is to win
readBolton on rise after Sunderland rout
01-12-2008
LONDON – Bolton Wanderers illuminated a dull day in the Premier League on Saturday with a 4-1 victory at Sunderland that lifted them to seventh in the standings.Djibril Cisse gave Sunderland an early
readHayatou to be re-elected
01-12-2008
CAIRO – Cameroonian Issa Hayatou will be re-elected African Football Confederation (CAF) president next year after no other nominations were received.A CAF statement released here said 62-year-old
readSweden win World Cup
01-12-2008
SHENZHEN - Sweden’s Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson won the 54th World Cup of Golf by three shots yesterday after a masterful nine-under-par 63 in the final round foursomes.The Swedes sparkled with
readFootball Results
01-12-2008
Played Sunday, Nov 30 Man City 0 -1 Man Utd Played, Saturday, Nov 29 Barclays Premier League Aston Villa 0 - 0 Fulham Middlesbrough 0 - 0 Newcastle Stoke 1 - 1 Hull
readCity shoot down Arrows
01-12-2008
SEASONED striker Cascas Angula dished out a fabulous display by scoring a brace to take his team to a 2-1 victory Eleven Arrows at the Kuisebmond Stadium on Saturday. Angula opened the scoring in the
readTjongarero stays
01-12-2008
AGNES Tjongarero was re-elected as the president of the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) after she successfully fought off challenger Kelly Nghixulifwa to the position at the Hage Geingob
readSMSes for Monday 1 Dec 08
01-12-2008
* WHAT about us who ‘fought’ inside the country? We have also suffered. Are the exile ‘children’ more special than us who were left behind by our parents? Some people were killed inside the country
readHailulu gwa NHE a kwatwa
01-12-2008
OMUKULUNTUWILIKI gwehangano lya National Housing Enterprises (NHE) Vincent Hailulu okwa kwatwa po kOkomisi yi na sha nekondjitho lyiilonga yOkoraputo/Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) mEtine
readPateleni pondje Zimbabwe, Botswana ta ti
01-12-2008
JOHANNESBURG – Ominista yIikwapondhje ya Zimbabwe oya ningi eindilo kiilyo yAafrika lyUumbugantu kutya nayi edhila oongamba dhayo na Zimbabwe opo Omupresidende Robert Mugabe e ye koongolo.Phandu
readMwiila a fumvikwa kengathithi pOngwediva
01-12-2008
OMUKALIMO a tseyika nawa gwomomukunda Elyambala mOngwediva moshitopolwa sha Shana, tate Dominikus Mwiila, ngoka a manene oondjenda dhe moshipangelo shEpangelo sha Shakati ongulohi yEtitano lyeti 21
readYaali ya kwatwa po shi na sha nekwatopo lyaatoolinkundana
01-12-2008
MOGADISHU – Aalumentu yaali oya kwatwa po mu Somalia shi na sha nekwatopombambyona lyaatoolinkundana yaakwiilongo yaali mEtitatu lya zi ko.Aafekelwa yalwe ye li yahamno oye li natango mokashoko.
readSeesita Shetunyenga oye Omukuluntukuluntu gwOoseesita Aabenedictine ya Shikuku
01-12-2008
MOSHIGONGI shawo shokomumvo shoka sha kala pOmissioni ya Shikuku mUukwambi mOshitopolwa sha Musati okuza meti 9 Novemba sigo 30 Novemba 2008, mewiliko lyOmumbiishofi Omukuluntu Omusimanekwa Liborius
readNujoma a ekelahi omapopyo ga RDP
01-12-2008
OMUKOKOLI-PRESIDENDE Sam Nujoma, ngoka gumwe gwomaawiliki yopaati yo Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) ya ti kutya oye a li konima oshinima shekelelo lyongundu yawo kayi ninge oshigongi pOutapi
readInternational news briefs
01-12-2008
100 missing after boat accident * KINSHASA – At least five people were drowned in a river boat accident that left some 100 missing in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said on
readSome patients confuse lives with reality shows
01-12-2008
NEW YORK – One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life.Another was convinced his every move was secretly being filmed for a
readObama as role model for black youth? Not so fast
01-12-2008
ATLANTA – The election of the first black president in US history should send a powerful signal to young black Americans: If Barack Obama made it, so can you.But some African Americans living in inner
readSomali pirates reach deal on ship
01-12-2008
MOGADISHU – Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian ship yesterday said agreement had been reached to release it, but the fate of a Saudi oil carrier was unclear ahead of the expiry of a
readLate workers, students get notes blaming NY subway
01-12-2008
NEW YORK – People late for school or work because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to their teachers or bosses.The New York City Transit division says it
readObama to nominate Clinton as Sec of State
01-12-2008
ST PAUL – President-elect Barack Obama planned to nominate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state today, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and
readProtesters wounded in Thailand explosions
01-12-2008
BANGKOK – Attackers set off explosions at anti-government protest sites yesterday, wounding 51 people and raising fears of widening confrontations in Thailand’s worst political crisis that has
readZim parties agree on constitutional amendment
01-12-2008
HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s party and the opposition MDC have agreed on a draft constitutional amendment but still have several differences over a power-sharing government, the MDC
readZim offers free graves as cholera spreads
01-12-2008
HARARE – The Zimbabwean capital, Harare, is offering free graves for victims of a cholera outbreak sweeping the southern African state, which a United Nations agency says is only the tip of a health
readCheeky thief steals Thanksgiving dinner
01-12-2008
OREGON – A Wisconsin family found it hard to be thankful after a thief made off with their turkey dinner.Lillian Moore says she sent a cooler stuffed with Thanksgiving food to her daughter Cindy, only
readReligious clashes kills hundreds in Nigeria
01-12-2008
LAGOS – There were no violent incidents yesterday in the central Nigerian city of Jos, a Nigerian army spokesman said, after two days of clashes between Muslims and Christians that witnesses said left
readIndia security chief resigns after Mumbai attacks
01-12-2008
MUMBAI – With corpses still being pulled from a once-besieged hotel, India’s top security official resigned yesterday as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures
readEconomic Briefs
01-12-2008
Pick n Pay introduces community recycling bank * Namibian retailer Pick n Pay, a member of the Ohlthaver & List Group, has in co-operation with waste management company, Rent-a-Drum, introduced the
readBusiness Unusual
01-12-2008
DOHA – French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the global economic crisis is an opportunity to “change the world” and raise developing nations out of poverty.Sarkozy was speaking at a United Nations
readUN chief raises spectre of water wars
01-12-2008
Today 1 billion people do not have enough clean water to drink, and at least 2 billion cannot rely on adequate water to drink, clean and eat — let alone have enough left for nature.Lack of water is
readAED and Nantu sign agreement to fight AIDS
01-12-2008
WINDHOEK – The Academy for Educational Development (AED) and Namibia National Teachers’ Union (Nantu) on Friday signed a strategic agreement worth N$566 161 in the capital.The AED’s sponsorship is
readHong Kong business lobbies against workers’ rights in China
01-12-2008
Brussels – Despite the serious problems faced by workers in China, some Hong Kong companies are using the financial crisis as a pretext to demand that China reverts to the low labour standards of
readIndia is growing fat
01-12-2008
Fifty years from now, if current trends persist, obesity will be up there with climate change and water shortage as one of the biggest problems facing India.There is something very real about
readSADC free trade a boon for Namibian market, says report
01-12-2008
The size of the domestic market has long been a thorn in the flesh for local businesses. There is a perceived difficulty to support the economies of scale required by an independent business
readLocal investment key to parry crisis
01-12-2008
Namibia’s central bank governor has placed the global financial crisis high on the agenda of the country’s business community.Tom Alweendo says that it is necessary to create a sound environment for
readEmployers of disabled people awarded
01-12-2008
THE Ministry of Health and Social Services last week awarded two Ministries and two private-sector entities for creating enabling environments for employees living with disabilities.The City of
readGender violence takes centre stage
01-12-2008
A HIGH-LEVEL inter-ministerial committee on gender-based violence was launched last week, following a 2002 Cabinet resolution to improve monitoring and evaluation on the strategies of gender-based
read2008 a year of political violence: DTA
01-12-2008
THIS year was one of political violence, according to Philemon Moongo, vice president of the DTA.Referring to the political violence of November 22, which erupted at Outapi when hundreds of Swapo
readUnion wants NHE bosses’ heads
01-12-2008
THE National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) has called for the immediate suspension of the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) Chief Executive Officer and the chairman of the board.NHE CEO Vincent
readPolice kill suspect after ‘struggle’
01-12-2008
POLICE officers stationed at Tses in the Karas Region shot and killed a suspect who allegedly attacked them with a knife.The shooting happened yesterday at a farm about 70 kilometres north of
readN$20 000 fine for computer corruption
01-12-2008
THE owner of a Windhoek-based computer equipment company who was caught paying a bribe to an official of the Polytechnic of Namibia was sentenced to a N$20 000 fine on Friday.Samander Belete (38) had
readProject money missing
01-12-2008
THE Karas Regional Education Office has registered a case of theft against a former project co-ordinator of the Namibia Association-Norway (NAMAS) after an internal investigation into alleged
readDoctors to court over dispensing rights
01-12-2008
MEMBERS of the Medical Association of Namibia (MAN) are heading to court to challenge Government’s decision not to allow doctors to dispense medicine from their practices.The Chairperson of MAN, Dr
readHishongwa hits out at ‘newcomers’
01-12-2008
SWAPO founding member and the country’s High Commissioner to Botswana, Hadino Hishongwa, says the ruling party has been infiltrated by newcomers who are out to sow hatred and disunity through
readFloodgates open over Windhoek
01-12-2008
A DRAMATIC electric storm brought a deluge to parts of Windhoek early on Friday, with up to 100 millimetres of rain measured in the city after hours of heavy early-morning rain.More rain can be
read78 Zim farmers win land case
01-12-2008
THE SADC tribunal ruled on Friday that 78 white Zimbabwean farmers can keep their farms because that country’s land reform process discriminated against them.The ruling came 13 months after the first
readClosure of copper mines adds gloom to Nam mining outlook
01-12-2008
MINEWORKERS Union of Namibia representatives are scheduled to meet with the management of Weatherly Mining Namibia today in an effort to save at least some of the more than 600 mining jobs that are on
readEveryone except Swapo to blame for the violence, claims President
01-12-2008
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has come out in defence of unruly Swapo mobs who have attacked opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress members over the past couple of months.Pohamba charged at the
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