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52 Articles found on Friday, 25 July 2008
From the Sidelines: Bribes and fixing, out !
25-07-2008
THIS week we reported on the allegations of match fixing, bribery and cover-ups in the Otjozondjupa Second Division football league.These allegations stem from an abandoned match between Eleven
readUS foreign policy towards Zimbabwe: Supporting the Zimbabwean people
25-07-2008
THE people and the government of the United States are very concerned about the political crisis in Zimbabwe, and our foreign policy is dedicated to supporting the people of Zimbabwe in their efforts
readSwapo must mint the new comrade
25-07-2008
FEW would doubt the sincerity and the noble objectives of the founders of the ruling party, Swapo.However, as the years after Independence wear on, we are in a conundrum about the generous foundations
readMugabe exit strategy - Mbeki's redemption
25-07-2008
YOU probably saw that photo in this Tuesday's edition of The Namibian.It was of President Thabo Mbeki and Robert Mugabe firmly holding hands like a Hollywood couple being whisked out of an airport
readFlawed Justice for Sudan
25-07-2008
THOSE who follow events in Darfur closely know very well that Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir leads a group of political and military leaders responsible for the serious and large-scale crimes
readPolitical Perspective
25-07-2008
THE Ombudsman's probe into racism may open up a hornet's nest in certain respects, but perhaps it's a good thing that will give this vexatious issue some light and air.The somewhat simplistic
readNo Lasting Solution In Climate Of Fear
25-07-2008
MANY people were taken by surprise by the news that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, and opposition Movement for Democratic Change's Morgan Tsvangirai, had agreed to meet after years of open
readSMS of the Day : Friday
25-07-2008
* WHY are some Namibians scared of democracy? Is it not democratic to form a political party? Why is it called mushrooming or tribal politics? If a tribe feels left out, what is wrong if it forms a
readThe Saga Of A Greedy Air Hostess
25-07-2008
I WAS recently in Windhoek, to do some medical exams and to get away from Luanda's routine for a few days, taking advantage of the short University's holidays.The choice for Windhoek is due to several
readClarity On College Music Fest
25-07-2008
THIS is in response to concerns by one Japie de Aarde in The Namibian of June 27.The Music Festival is an annual College of the Arts' event aimed at establishing a showcase opportunity for students.
readDream Or Nightmare?
25-07-2008
LIKE a respected leader before me, I have a Namibian dream, and if it could come true, half if not all of our country's problems will be a thing of the past.During the apartheid struggle, Namibians
readDivine Right and 'Moron'
25-07-2008
THAT uncomfortable relationship between religion and politics returns to the agenda.You know, the one where it is great when churches give support and elevate "the cause" to a higher level of
readInvestors grab Fannie, Freddie after House vote
25-07-2008
NEW YORK - Investors snapped up shares of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before Wall Street opened yesterday, a day after the US House of Representatives passed a massive rescue
readInvestors sue bank for downplaying exposure to US subprime mortgages
25-07-2008
OTTAWA - Investors launched a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit on Wednesday against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, alleging it downplayed its exposure to the US subprime mortgage
readCentres fight for Islamic finance
25-07-2008
LONDON - From Africa to Paris to Britain's former industrial heartland, Islamic law-compliant investment products are springing into existence as financial centres try to compete for a slice of the
readIndustry chiefs hope Zim talks stop the rot
25-07-2008
HARARE - Captains of industry are pinning their hopes on talks between Zimbabwe's political rivals as a chance to stop the rot after a survey yesterday showed investor confidence at a new low of two
readFrench threat deepens WTO gloom
25-07-2008
GENEVA - A threat by France to torpedo a new global free-trade pact deepened the gloom surrounding troubled WTO negotiations yesterday, with scant progress having been made so far toward a
readExtra relief for the poor
25-07-2008
GOVERNMENT has set aside more than N$228 million to feed more half a million vulnerable Namibians for six months starting from August.Prime Minister Nahas Angula told a media briefing in Windhoek
readRacism alive in Namibia
25-07-2008
RACISM and discrimination against certain language groups in Namibia is alive - more than is apparent on the surface - a public hearing in Windhoek heard yesterday.Paul Smith, aged 76, minced no words
read'Penniless' Josea applies for legal aid
25-07-2008
ONE of the key figures in the Avid Investment Corporation fraud case, Nico Josea, is in such a financial pinch that he can no longer afford to pay his own lawyers and has applied to be given
readScholarships for community tourism
25-07-2008
SIX Namibians from community-based tourism enterprises have been awarded scholarships by the South African College of Tourism to do a one-year course there.This was announced recently by the Executive
readProudly Namibian: Gehr's lemon schnapps
25-07-2008
IN 2000 Eugen and Angelica Gehr left their hotel in Germany and moved to a farm in Namibia.Here they found a field full of prickly pears and thought it a shame that this fruit was just wasting away
readDouble housing benefit troubles Nantu leader
25-07-2008
SEVERAL members of the Namibia National Teachers' Union (Nantu) are up in arms after information was leaked that the Secretary General is getting N$1 700 each month as housing allowance, while staying
readHelao Nafidi CEO on suspension
25-07-2008
THE Chief Executive Officer of Helao Nafidi Town was suspended on Wednesday.Chris Shivolo told The Namibian he did not know the reason for his suspension, but suspected that it was motivated by
readUnam says it wants to hear from Swanu duo
25-07-2008
THE University of Namibia has given two senior academics holding political office in Swanu seven days to state whether they want to continue with politics or in the academic field.A disciplinary
readCoD disunity far from over
25-07-2008
A HIGH Court ruling made last week, which ordered the main opposition party Congress of Democrats (CoD) to reinstate the membership of six expelled members and to "restore them to their positions",
readTCL case heads to court
25-07-2008
CIVIL action over a pension dispute involving former TCL workers who claim they were robbed of approximately N$116,9 million when the mining company went bankrupt in 1998 got out of the starting
readMore than 1 000 land right claims at Olukonda approved
25-07-2008
EXPERTS attached to the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement have verified the customary land rights of more than 1 000 people in the Olukonda area in north-central Namibia during the past four
read4 die in hut fires
25-07-2008
AN 83-year-old woman and two of her grandchildren died at Onanghulo village when their hut caught fire on the night of July 19.The Ohangwena Police's Constable Abner Kaume Iitumba said that Meekulu
readViolence against women to the fore in Shaduka case
25-07-2008
ABOUT 50 Windhoek residents, mainly women, yesterday protested outside the Windhoek Magistrate's Court over an upcoming application for bail by murder suspect and former City of Windhoek Chief of
readCap killing leads to 14-year prison term
25-07-2008
A WALVIS BAY fisherman who shot another man five times in an argument over a hat was sentenced to a 14-year prison term after being convicted on a charge of murder in the Swakopmund Regional Court
readOmupresidende gwa Sudan Omar al-Bashir a talelapo Darfur
25-07-2008
K HARTOUM - Omupresidende gwa Sudan Omar al-Bashir mEtitatu lyoshiwike shika okwa li a talelepo oshitopolwa sha Darfur oshikando shotango, konima sho Ompangu yokupangula aantu mboka ya longa iikoya
readUuyuni wa gandja oshimaliwa shOomiliyuna 637 kIigwanahangano
25-07-2008
N AIROBI - Uuyuni owa gandja ashike etata lyoshimaliwa shOondola oomiliyuna dha Amerika omathele ga hamano nomilongo ndatu na heyali ($ 637 million) shoka sha pumbiwa kIigwanahangano okukwathela
readMugabe okwa pumbwa okuza ko koshipundi pambili
25-07-2008
L ONDON - Onkundana okuzilila ku London sha Britai otayi ti kutya Omupresidende gwa Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe osha pumbiwa a pewe ompito okuthiga po oshipundi shUupresidende pambili opo moshilongo shoka
readOongeleka hamano dha gandja omagano koonakuhepekwa kefundja moNooli
25-07-2008
MONGWEDIVA O ONGELEKA dhi li hamano dhomoNamibia oshiwike shika odha gandja omagano goonguyo omathele nomathele noshowo iikulya koonakumonithwiihuna komeya gefundja kuyele nuumvo muumbangalantu wa
readOndjokana ya Geingob mehalakano
25-07-2008
E NYANYU ndyoka lya li mofamili yOmupilima gwotango gwa Namibia Hage Geingob Olyomakaya gamwe mu Septemba 1993 sho a hokana omuholike gwe Loini Kandume gwoomvula 37 mOvenduka oli li pokuhula po
readEvans faces uphill battle
25-07-2008
L'ALPE D'HUEZ - Cadel Evans faces a tough battle to win the Tour de France, even though the Australian will be the favourite in tomorrow's decisive time trial, his Silence-Lotto team's sports director
readDeans factor gives Wallabies hope
25-07-2008
SYDNEY - The Robbie Deans factor has given Australian rugby fans hope the Wallabies can upset the All Blacks here on Saturday and boost their chances of success in the Tri-Nations and Bledisloe Cup
readFederer loses first spot
25-07-2008
WORLD No. 1, Roger Federer playing his first match since losing the Wimbledon final to Rafael Nadal, suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Gilles Simon in the second round of the Rogers Cup in
readTjipee vies for a place
25-07-2008
NAMIBIA'S 400m women's record holder, Tjipekapora Herunga will make a last-ditch effort to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Zimbabwe national championships this weekend.Herunga stands
readNam hockey on form in SA
25-07-2008
THE Namibian invitational women hockey side competing at the South African Hockey Association President's Cup in Pretoria, South Africa has won two of their matches at the tournament so far.The
readRonaldinho happy
25-07-2008
SINGAPORE - A smile has returned to the face of superstar Ronaldinho following his transfer to AC Milan, Brazilian coach Dunga said yesterday as he prepared his young team for the Olympics.Ronaldinho
readPaulino unhappy about football awards
25-07-2008
BLACK Africa chairman Boni Paulino has expressed dissatisfaction with the selection criteria used for the annual Namibia Football Association (NFA) awards which are due at the end of this
readKaimbi strikes a winner
25-07-2008
THE Brave Warriors produced a fantastic 1-0 win over Malawi yesterday to propel them to the quarter-finals of the Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup in South Africa yesterday.The trickery of Jomo Cosmos
readOfficial says gunmen kill 3 in Baghdad
25-07-2008
* BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed three guards from a United States-allied Sunni group yesterday in drive-by shootings in northern Baghdad, an official said.Disaster as fire rages on island * ATHENS -
readBarack Obama 'faking it'
25-07-2008
[BARACK] Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of
readMerkel measured over meeting
25-07-2008
BERLIN - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama discussed global hotspots yesterday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a foreign policy speech in the heart of Berlin late yesterday.Obama, who
readThree children jailed for armed hold-up
25-07-2008
BEIJING - Three Hong Kong children have been sentenced to more than three years for the armed hold-up of a jewellery shop, a newspaper said yesterday, with the court saying the stiff sentence was in
readLibya halts fuel supplies to Swiss
25-07-2008
Tripoli - Libya yesterday said it would halt fuel supplies to key oil client, Switzerland, in the latest reprisal for last week's brief detention in Geneva of Hannibal, a son of Libyan leader Muammar
readF 1's Max Mosley wins sex privacy case
25-07-2008
LONDON - Motor racing boss Max Mosley won damages in London's High Court yesterday when a judge ruled his privacy was violated after The News of the World published a story about his part in a
readUS schools eye four-day week to cut fuel costs
25-07-2008
NEW YORK - Facing a crippling increase in fuel costs, some rural United States schools are mulling a solution born of the '70s oil crisis: a four-day week.Cutting out one day of school has been the
readZimbabwe crisis talks begin in South Africa
25-07-2008
PRETORIA - Talks began in earnest yesterday on resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis after President Robert Mugabe gave his senior lieutenants the final go-ahead to negotiate power-sharing with the
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