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43 Articles found on Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Wenger demands maturity
02-12-2008
LONDON – Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger demanded that his youthful players learn how to beat the lesser sides if they are to keep their newly revived English Premier League title hopes alive.The Gunners
readMTC NPL Log Standings
02-12-2008
MTC Namibia Premier League Team P W D L GF GA Pts 1 Cymot SKW 3 3 0 0 7 1 9 2 African Stars 3 2 1 0 6 4 7 3 Hotspurs 3 2 0 1 4 4 6 4 Oshakati City 3 2 0 1 3 2 6
readInline hockey Cup at Swakop
02-12-2008
WHILE the Brazilian teams are getting ready for their trip to Namibia the Windhoek clubs are putting finishing touches to their team preparations.Although the regular inline hockey season has ended
readDel Piero and Messi dish out best
02-12-2008
PARIS – Veteran striker Alessandro Del Piero and Argentine international Lionel Messi sprinkled a little stardust over European football at the weekend with the Italian striking a memorable blow for
readResilient United impress Ferguson
02-12-2008
MANCHESTER – Sir Alex Ferguson claimed Manchester United’s steely will-to-win could make the difference in the title race after his side’s 1-0 victory at Manchester City.United played the final 22
readCarter must wait
02-12-2008
PERPIGNAN – All Black flyhalf Dan Carter has been ruled out of Perpignan’s European Cup game against Leicester on Saturday despite starting a six-month contract for the French side yesterday.The
readCodes fall short on drug tests
02-12-2008
LONDON – Gymnastics, wrestling and volleyball were among five Olympic sports cited by the World Anti-Doping Agency for failing to implement consistent out-of-competition testing programmes.Handball
readSMSes for Tuesday 2 Dec 08
02-12-2008
* I WISH to pay tribute to the Government, private companies, churches and all people who participate in HIV-AIDS events. It shows that you really care for our nation. – BaloyiFood For Thought *
readAgri unions discuss merger
02-12-2008
THE Joint Presidency Committee of representatives of the farmers’ organisations NNFU, NAU and Emerging Farmers Forum held its last meeting for the year in Windhoek last week under the chairmanship of
readFMD alert in Omaheke
02-12-2008
THE Directorate of Veterinary Services (DVS) has announced the temporary suspension of all livestock movement in some communal areas of the Omaheke Region due to a foot-and-mouth disease scare.The
readDeal with hoodia ingredient falls through
02-12-2008
THE international company Unilever is severing a multi-million euro arrangement with the British hoodia supplier Phytopharm after concluding the South African plant extract P 57 used in slimming pills
readEconomic Briefs
02-12-2008
Ryanair makes new takeover bid for Aer LingusDUBLIN – Budget airline Ryanair has announced a new takeover bid for its Irish rival, Aer Lingus. Ryanair says it will pay €1,40 ($1,78) a share for the
readChinese manufacturing drops sharply
02-12-2008
BEIJING – China’s manufacturing activity contracted sharply in November as a downturn in the world’s fourth-largest economy worsened, raising the threat of politically volatile job losses, according
readFortescue shares surge on bid rumours by BHP and China
02-12-2008
MELBOURNE – Shares in Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group soared 40 per cent yesterday, boosted by rumours that BHP Billiton may make a takeover bid or Chinese firms may seek a stake in
readHouse market will worsen in South Africa, says Absa
02-12-2008
Pretoria – Absa expects the residential property market to deteriorate further next year, despite containing its mortgage bond foreclosure rate to less than 50 a month with its debt repair line and
readUnion asks leaders not to back down on aid for decent work
02-12-2008
Doha – As negotiations reach an impasse at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) said that crucial commitments to
readUS$500m biofuels project wants Mozambican labour to produce ethanol
02-12-2008
Maputo – The company Procana, established to produce ethanol from sugar cane in the southern Mozambican district of Massingir, says it wants to use Mozambican labour, including Mozambican engineers,
readMaputo remains optimistic about foreign aid flows
02-12-2008
Doha – Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo believes that, despite the current international crisis, foreign aid will continue to flow to developing countries. Speaking to the Mozambican journalists
readBEE firms in SA must bail themselves out, say black managers
02-12-2008
Johannesburg – Jimmy Manyi, the president of the Black Management Forum (BMF), on Friday spurned the possible government financial bailout of black economic empowerment (BEE) companies whose deals
readNam moves to get ban on exports to SA lifted
02-12-2008
Talks with the South African government to lift the export moratorium on various Namibian horticultural products are set to commence this week, with the Namibian side citing the action as “unfair”.The
readBritney says she feels old and boring
02-12-2008
LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears says her life is so dull under her father’s watchful eye that she feels old and boring.With her new album ‘Circus’ out next week, the 26-year-old singer is working on a
readCelebrity blogs let stars speak for themselves
02-12-2008
LOS ANGELES – In the fast-paced world of celebrity news, stars are increasingly turning to their own Web sites and blog postings to talk about themselves in a do-it-yourself approach to managing their
readGlobal AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so
02-12-2008
LONDON – As World AIDS Day is marked, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs.They argue that the world has
readAnti-apartheid activist Nthato Motlana dies
02-12-2008
JOHANNESBURG – Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died after a long battle with cancer, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said yesterday.He died on Sunday
readMumbai gunmen trained in Pakistan
02-12-2008
MUMBAI – Indian investigators said yesterday the militants who attacked Mumbai underwent months of commando training in Pakistan, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours as
readNo ransom for seized Saudi tanker
02-12-2008
RIYADH – Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said in an interview published yesterday that a Saudi oil tanker seized by Somali pirates will be freed soon without a ransom.“It is not true that the
readBombs kill over 30 in Baghdad, Mosul
02-12-2008
BAGHDAD – A series of bombs struck United States and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul yesterday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more, Iraqi officials
readCongolese refugees brave lions to flee violence
02-12-2008
ISHASHA – Tree-climbing lions are among the perils facing thousands of Congolese refugees as they flee into neighbouring Uganda to escape a new upsurge of fighting.The route to sanctuary leads through
readAPP postpones congress
02-12-2008
THE All People’s Party (APP) has postponed its inaugural congress scheduled for this weekend.APP interim national chairman Ignatius Shixwameni announced yesterday that the congress, which was to run
readNew plan for Cuvelai Basin
02-12-2008
A PROJECT on the sustainable use of water in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin will be launched at Oshakati this morning.Integrated Water Resources Management in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin is a joint project
readOmbudsman complains about Justice Ministry
02-12-2008
MOST complaints received by the Office of the Ombudsman last year were about the Ministry of Justice, with nearly 1 000 complaints, Ombudsman John Walters said in his annual report tabled in the
readJob equity has improved
02-12-2008
MORE companies have submitted their employment equity reports this year.In its latest report, tabled in Parliament last week, the Employment Equity Commission (EEC) says 506 companies sent in their
readJustice driver accused of looting
02-12-2008
WITNESSES to a truck accident on the road between Otjiwarongo and Otavi on Thursday claim that the occupants of a Government vehicle were among a large crowd of looters who ransacked the truck’s
readACC nabs Otavi Village Council CEO
02-12-2008
THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday swooped on the Otavi Village Council, arresting the municipality’s CEO on charges of embezzling money from the village’s Build Together Fund.Village CEO
readShamil Dirk’s graft case postponed again
02-12-2008
A CORRUPTION case against the Managing Director of fresh produce importers and suppliers Dirk Fruit, Shamil Dirk, has been postponed for the Prosecutor General’s decision. Dirk, charged under the
readOshakati nervously eyes the sky
02-12-2008
AFTER the rainy season started in all earnest last week, people in Oshakati fear a repeat of last summer’s disastrous flooding. After good showers were received on Wednesday night and Thursday
readHigh Court upholds labour-hire ban
02-12-2008
A BID by Namibia’s biggest labour-hire company, Africa Personnel Services (APS), to challenge the ban on labour hire in the new Labour Act failed in the High Court yesterday.In his judgement, Judge
readHigh Court upholds labour-hire ban
02-12-2008
A BID by Namibia’s biggest labour-hire company, Africa Personnel Services (APS), to challenge the ban on labour hire in the new Labour Act failed in the High Court yesterday.In his judgement, Judge
readYouth gets four years for rape
02-12-2008
THE youthfulness of an 18-year-old Mariental resident who has been convicted on two rape charges that date back to 2005 saved him from being sentenced to more than a four-year prison term at the end
readImmigration locks up SA journalist
02-12-2008
A JOURNALIST working for a South African investigative journalism television programme is stuck in Namibia after immigration officials detained her at Hosea Kutako International Airport on Friday
readZim to ignore tribunal ruling
02-12-2008
THE government of Zimbabwe has rejected a regional court ruling that said 78 white Zimbab-weans could keep their farms despite that country’s land reform scheme, according the state newspaper The
readSwapo closes ranks
02-12-2008
THE ruling Swapo Party has called on its members to ignore “unnecessary provocations and acts of violence” from opposition parties and some unnamed individuals and organisations.Secretary General
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Dreaming of a white Christmas? Heavy rain accompanied by hail fell in Khomasdal yesterday afternoon. Esmerelda Bock collected some of the hail at her home. More rain is expected over most parts of
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