Archive
45 Articles found on Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Super dairy farm for Hardap
01-07-2008
CABINET has given its approval for Namibia Dairies to lease State land to establish a super dairy for about 1 500 cows.Namibia Dairies, a subsidiary of the Ohlthaver & List Group, will now lease
readBotswana government kills suspected
01-07-2008
FMD-infected cattle Veterinary officers in Botswana started killing cattle suspected of being infected with foot and mouth disease (FMD) last week in the Okavango area, amidst complaints by farmers
readCourses for new farmers
01-07-2008
NEW and emerging farmers or those who are to be resettled can attend a course on how to successfully run and manage a farm.The four-day course offers an opportunity to participants who are
readSMS Of The Day : Tuesday
01-07-2008
* NAMIBIAN leaders, are you saying that Zimbabweans are not dying? Saying that international news is also lying to us? Get real, you are not confusing us, we know what's happening? Are you ashamed to
readeBay fined for selling fakes online
01-07-2008
PARIS - A Paris court yesterday ordered Internet auctioneer eBay to pay 40 million euros in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online.The commercial court also barred eBay from
readWorld oil demand/supply balanced
01-07-2008
ALGIERS - World oil supply and demand are in balance and high prices are due to speculation, the weak dollar and geopolitics, the head of Algerian state energy conglomerate Sonatrach said
readGrowth risks to emerging economies increasing
01-07-2008
BASEL - Emerging economies risk taking a harder hit than so far anticipated from the slowdown in major industrial countries, the Bank for International Settlements said in its annual report.Emerging
readG8 leaders to set up task force on food crisis
01-07-2008
TOKYO - Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers will agree to establish a task force at their summit next month to tackle the world food crisis, a report said yesterday.The group will aim to
readMining experiences unprecedented growth
01-07-2008
THE Namibian mining industry last year had one of its best years ever, with a record amount of diamonds and uranium produced while mining's contribution to the country's Gross Domestic Product grew to
readEconomy set for worse-than-expected downturn
01-07-2008
BASEL - The global economy could be heading into an unexpectedly severe downturn, the top world central banking body warned yesterday, saying that cheap lending rather than the subprime drama was to
readEverything's going UP
01-07-2008
ELECTRICITY'S going up by 12,3%, water by 10% and property tax by eight per cent.They are among a string of stiff tariff increases the Windhoek City Council tabled last night. By the time you woke up
readMajor Chinese building firms 'not AA compliant'
01-07-2008
FEW, if any, Chinese state-owned construction companies - despite some having been in business in Namibia for 18 years, and having landed over N$1 billion in State construction contracts in total -
readZim farmer beaten over land challenge
01-07-2008
A ZIMBABWEAN farmer, whose farm expropriation case is set to resume at the SADC Tribunal in Windhoek this month, was abducted along with his family in Zimbabwe at the weekend.They were and severely
readMugabe's one-man election condemned
01-07-2008
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - African Union observers condemned Zimbabwe's one-man election as undemocratic yesterday, intensifying pressure on Robert Mugabe as he faced his peers after a vote much of the
readHalf-humans on Planet Earth
01-07-2008
HERE and there you'll find some nut cases amongst otherwise rational proponents of homo sapiens, having pipe dreams of clasping the rubbery fingers of extraterrestrials.I, myself, have discarded my
readMinistry to investigate tourist claims of abuse
01-07-2008
THE Ministry of Environment and Tourism says it will investigate a guest farm in the Kunene Region following allegations by two Italian tourists that it was abusing cheetahs.The owners of Otjitotongwe
readDTA in labour dispute
01-07-2008
THE Directorate of Legal Aid in the Ministry of Justice has decided to assist a DTA former employee in a civil case against the party.South West Africa People's Democratic United Front (Swapduf)
readSwanu pair questions neutrality of Unam disciplinary committee
01-07-2008
THE disciplinary hearing of two senior lecturers of the University of Namibia facing charges because of their involvement in politics got under way in Windhoek yesterday with their lawyer asking Unam
readTaximan arrested for alleged assault
01-07-2008
An argument over payment due to him on Sunday night apparently led to a Windhoek taxi driver beating up a female customer and spending the night in jail.The man, who may only be identified once he
readOutjo Police Station arson sentence cut on appeal
01-07-2008
AN Outjo area resident who was jailed for 10 years for his role in the theft and burning of Police dockets after a break-in at the Outjo Police Station was rewarded handsomely last week for his
readCase of suspected killers of Russian couple postponed
01-07-2008
TWO young men who are accused of murdering a Russian farming couple near Okahandja in early May made their second joint appearance in the Okahandja Magistrate's Court yesterday.With their second
readNamugongo to deny corruption charges in Regional Court today
01-07-2008
THE corruption trial of Ministry of Environment and Tourism official Sackey Namugongo is scheduled to begin in the Windhoek Regional Court today, after its start was delayed by a day
readAantu ya yugwa manga yamwe ya yahwa mehuliloshiwike
01-07-2008
O KANDJATO mu na oondola N$5 nokamutse oya li yimwe yomiinima mbyoka ya yugwa omuntu kongenga yaalumentu yatatu ya homata pethimbo lyeyugo ndyoka lya ningwa momulamba gumwe mOvenduka oshiwike sha zi
readOotsotsi yane dha kwatwa shi kuufuthi wohauto mOshakati
01-07-2008
O OKALYAMUPOMBO yane oya kwatelwa mOshakati ongula onene yohela shi na sha nonkembadhala yokuyaka po ohauto yoToyota hayi nana akuhe ya Tuhafeni Kainge Nghililewanga gwomOlukanda lwa Shikango mUupindi
readTu kwateni onkalo yoshilongo shetu: Veronika De Klerk ta ti
01-07-2008
P ETHIMBO ta popitha Oshiithanene shEgandjo lyOonzapo kaalongwa 97 yo Women Action for Development (WAD) yomOshitopolwa sha Hangwena pEenhana mEtiyali lya zi ko, Omuwiliki gwa WAD, Veronika de Klerk,
readMugabe a sindana omahogololo
01-07-2008
H ARARE - Robert Mugabe okwa popi kutya okwa sindana momahogololo gopaupresidende ngoka ga li ga shuna mo ishewe mEtitano lya zi ko, ashike uumbanda nomakuyunguto ogo lela oonakusindana.Kapwa li
readTrickett passes up shot at six golds
01-07-2008
SYDNEY - Australian Libby Trickett has passed up the opportunity to chase a record-equalling six gold medals at this year's Beijing Olympics by dropping the 4x200m freestyle relay from her swimming
readWatson, Burger to fight for a place
01-07-2008
LOOSE forwards Luke Watson and Schalk Burger have to compete for a place in the Springbok team.They certainly won't be partners in South Africa's run-on team for the Tri-Nations rugby test against New
readReho Falcons overcome United
01-07-2008
REHO Falcons came from behind to beat United 33-31 in a thrilling rugby Premier League match at United's home ground in Olympia on Saturday afternoon.United seemed to be heading for victory when they
readSisters upstaged at Wimbledon
01-07-2008
LONDON - Venus and Serena Williams edged closer to another Wimbledon final showdown yesterday but the superstar sisters found themselves upstaged by the exploits of two unheralded stars from Asia.For
readBlack Africa go third
01-07-2008
BLACK Africa moved up to third position on the log after a thrilling 3-2 victory against Eleven Arrows on Sunday.In other matches on Sunday, log leaders Orlando Pirates were held to a goalless draw by
readSizzling football as Euro ends
01-07-2008
VIENNA - Euro 2008 will enter soccer's record books as an outstanding tournament for what happened both on and off the field - and in the skies above the Austrian and Swiss cities where the 31 matches
readMeyer appointed Leicester coach
01-07-2008
LONDON - South African Heyneke Meyer has been appointed the new head coach of English Premiership rugby union side Leicester, the club confirmed yesterday.Meyer, 40, has signed a three-year deal with
readKhmer Rouge minister seeks release
01-07-2008
PHNOM PENH -The former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary, 82, appeared before Cambodia's UN assisted genocide tribunal yesterday to press for his release from pretrial detention.Iran minister
readBritney and the boys have a sleepover
01-07-2008
LOS ANGELES - While Kevin Federline partied in Miami Beach this weekend, Britney Spears stayed at home ... with the children! E! News can confirm that Britney had a 12-hour overnight visit with her
readLedger brilliant as 'The Joker'
01-07-2008
LOS ANGELES - The buzz over Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight' for the last several months was justified.With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered
readParis Hilton makes good on her promise to do good
01-07-2008
LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton is making good on her promise to become a better person.The 27-year-old socialite made an "extremely generous" donation toward the construction of a medical building at
readGlobal warming chases plants uphill
01-07-2008
WASHINGTON - Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills.A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favoured locations to higher, cooler
readMilitary drill turns into bloodbath
01-07-2008
CARCASSONNE - By the time the frantic call of "cease fire" rang out, 17 people lay shot and wounded as a fun family day to watch a military drill turned into a bloodbath on Sunday."Suddenly, people
readCargo plane explodes in Khartoum killing crew
01-07-2008
KHARTOUM - A cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from Khartoum airport yesterday, exploding into a fireball and killing all four crew, witnesses and officials said.It was the fourth fatal air
readIran sentences man to death for spying for Israel
01-07-2008
TEHRAN- An Iranian court yesterday sentenced to death an Iranian businessman on charges of spying for Israel after a two-day trial, media said.The Tehran court handed down its sentence at a time of
readUN expands food aid to NKorea
01-07-2008
SEOUL - The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which has warned of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea due to a food shortage, yesterday announced that it reached a deal with Pyongyang to rapidly expand
readZambian president hospitalised
01-07-2008
LUSAKA - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa who was rushed to hospital in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, ahead of an African Union summit is being treated for high blood pressure, a Zambian government spokesman
readAfrican Union condemns Eritrean attack on Djibouti
01-07-2008
SHARM EL-SHEIKH - The African Union condemned Eritrea yesterday for taking military action against Djibouti near a strategic Red Sea shipping route and told Asmara to withdraw its forces, AU officials
readRice presses China and Africa on Zimbabwe
01-07-2008
BEIJING - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday pressed China and African powers to back international action on Zimbabwe, while also raising hopes of fresh nuclear talks soon with North
read