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45 Articles found on Tuesday, 17 June 2008
RSA land bill unconstitutional
17-06-2008
SOUTH Africa's new land expropriation bill is unconstitutional and will impact negatively on the economy, food security, business confidence and property rights and civil society, political parties
readAfrican ministers discuss food security
17-06-2008
NAIROBI - African ministers gathered in Nairobi yesterday to discuss food security as the world's poorest continent reels from a global food crisis triggered by surging energy and commodity prices.The
readMutorwa urges deal on small stock marketing
17-06-2008
SMALL livestock farmers are adamant about boycotting local abattoirs at the end of this month, if no solution can be found to the present levy system and reduced exports imposed by Government.A group
readSMS of the Day : Tuesday
17-06-2008
* CHILD labour and abuse is still in practised in the Ohangwena Region. I'm worried and very disturbed to learn that a girl of 16 years has been behind bars for five months in the Ohangwena Police
readInflation biggest world threat
17-06-2008
JEJU - The world economy faces its gravest threat since the oil shock of the 1970s due to soaring prices, South Korea's president said yesterday, underlining concern among global policy makers about
readPossible twinning of Swakopmund
17-06-2008
SWAKOPMUND - The Swakpomund Town Council at its ordinary council meeting in May this year, approved in principle the town twinning of Swakopmund and Florianopolis in Brazil.Ambassador of Namibia to
readAfrican transfer pricing survey
17-06-2008
In this series of articles, Cameron Kotze the Tax Partner at Ernst and Young discusses some topical tax issues for our readers.Recent international tax surveys highlighted transfer pricing as the
readNew communications bill required
17-06-2008
THE absence of an Information and Communications Bill is causing immense harm to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector as a whole in the country.Information and Communication
readInvestors ask if Manuel will stay as minister
17-06-2008
LONDON - South Africa is only a year away from a new president and with economic risks mounting, foreign investors are apprehensive about who will head the continent's most important finance
readRich nations fall short on Africa aid
17-06-2008
LONDON - The world's richest nations are falling short on pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010 at a time when soaring food prices risk destroying decades of economic progress on the continent, a
readGovt to change Constitution
17-06-2008
GOVERNMENT has been working secretly to change a number of provisions in the Namibian Constitution - including major changes to criteria for citizenship, reducing the terms of regional councils and
readAir Namibia let's fly on 'racism'
17-06-2008
AIR Namibia yesterday claimed that a Republican Party statement that the airline is a major disaster risk was infested with racial undertones and a direct assault on the country's affirmative action
readMugabe pens a script of fear in Zimbabwe
17-06-2008
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe, campaigning for re-election in a presidential runoff on June 27, has again warned that he will not cede power to those he claims are Western-backed opponents, the
readDrugs for deadly TB 'on the way'
17-06-2008
A MONTH after Health Minister Dr Richard Kamwi officially announced the presence of the deadly extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in Namibia, the country has yet to start treating the
readIt's all GO at Gobabeb!
17-06-2008
A TRADITIONAL Topnaar dance and endemic !Nara seeds and oils on sale were among the community displays at the Gobabeb Open Day, held on June 7.Close to 300 people attended the annual event, which
readBlast from the past at State hospitals
17-06-2008
MINIMALLY invasive surgery at Windhoek's two State hospitals has been put on hold after the Katutura State Hospital's laparoscopic machine broke down last week.Hospital authorities say surgeries won't
readConcerned Mbanderu group rejects Kilus' chieftainship
17-06-2008
THE most senior traditional councillor of the Ovambanderu community says the nomination and subsequent endorsement of Deputy Fisheries Minister Kilus Nguvauva as successor to the late Chief Munjuku II
readNamibia urged to speak out on Zim
17-06-2008
INTERNATIONAL human rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has sent a team to Namibia to arm-twist Windhoek to speak out on the conditions in Zimbabwe.The team, led by campaigner on Zimbabwe Amy
readOtto Huebschle waits for new heart in Paris
17-06-2008
THE Director of Veterinary Services in the Agriculture Ministry, Dr Otto Huebschle, remains hospitalised in France after he collapsed there at the end of last month.He is waiting for a donor heart.
readGovt follows up Red Cross official's deportation
17-06-2008
THE Namibian Government is to approach their Ethiopian counterparts over the deportation of the Red Cross deputy chairperson, Lorrette van Zyl, from that country.She travelled to Ethiopia over the
readNantu mum on lecturers strike
17-06-2008
LECTURERS from the country's four education colleges are set go on an indefinite strike today after negotiations with the Government on salary adjustments failed.However, the Namibia National Teachers
readKobi attacks plans for extradition hearing
17-06-2008
THE Minister of Justice and Attorney-General is "a flip-flop artist", it was argued in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.Attorney-General and Justice Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, who as
readYahamano ya hupa moshiponga shondhila komunkulofuta sho ya nambele mombuga
17-06-2008
O MUHINGI gwokadhila okashona pamwe naafaalelwa yatano oya galuka koshakapalu konima sho okadhila kawo ki indwangula po mOlyomakaya poSwakopmund pethimbo kali taka nambale okuza ko Sossusvlei, hoka ka
read'Ota tu ka kondjela oshilongo shetu,' Mugabe
17-06-2008
H ARARE - Omupresidende gwa Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe okwa ti ye okwiilongekidha okulwa opo ongundu yompilamena yo Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) kaayi sindane momahogololo ngoka taga ka shuna mo
readOpolisi tayi konakona eso limwe mOnooli
17-06-2008
O POLISI otayi konakona oshiningwanima moka omuntu gumwe a sile owala koshipundi pomukunda gumwe moshitopolwa sh Musati ongula yEtitano lyoshiwike sha zi ko.Nakusa nguka taku popiwa kutya oye Iipinge
readAakadhona naya futwe tashi pitile mOveta: Omalelo
17-06-2008
A AKADHONA mboka ya yonwa po naya futwe tashi pitile mOveta, Omalelo gOpamithigululwakalo ga hetatu gomOwambo kwali taga ti ngawo, she ya puuyelele pethimbo lyoshigongi oshinene shoshilongo shOndonga
readUufuthi wOongombe wa kundathanwa pOnesi
17-06-2008
A AWILIKI yOpamuthigululwakalo yUukolonkadhi mOshitopolwa sha Musati nosho wo mboka yoRegina ya Musati kumwe nOpolisi yomOmusati mOlyomakaya ga zi ko, oya li ya gongala pOombelewa dhoshilongo
readEtungo lyOshiputudhilo sha Unam shUuwindjinia mOngwediva
17-06-2008
MONGWEDIVA E TUNGO lyOshiputudhilo sha Unam shUuwindjinia mOngwediva ndyoka lya tamekelwe pehulilo lyomvula ya zi ko konima sho Omupresidende Hifikepunye Pohamba pamwe nOmukuluntu gwa Unam
readA yugwa N$4 000 komulungu gwondjembo
17-06-2008
O TAKU popiwa kutya omunamimvo 42 okwa yugwa komulungu gwondjembo molukanda lwa Freedomland mu Katutura mOvenduka - sha ningilwe ongulohi yEtitano lya zi ko.Aniwa omulumentu nguka gwOmunigeria okwa
readOld foes scrap for their Euro lives
17-06-2008
ZURICH, Switzerland - France go into their do or die clash with Italy tonight beset by doubt, reports of internal strife and player fatigue.The backdrop to this latest instalment of the rivalry
readWorld Sport Briefs City courting Ronaldinho
17-06-2008
BANGKOK - Manchester City owner and ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed yesterday that his club was courting Brazilian football star Ronaldinho.Thaksin said new manager Mark Hughes
readYoung footballers in healthy talks
17-06-2008
OVER 200 young footballers took time off from the playing fields on Saturday to attend a motivational workshop, that had them engaged in talks ranging from HIV-AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse and how to
readTurkey hit by injuries and suspensions
17-06-2008
GENEVA - Turkey have seven players injured or suspended ahead of Friday's Euro 2008 quarter-final against Croatia.Emre Gungor, carried off in the second half of Sunday's thrilling Group A win over
readKaura, Mutelo advance in karate
17-06-2008
TOP Namibian karatekas, Ellison Kaura and Ace Mutelo moved a step up in their quest to become senseis (karate teachers) when they graduated as Sandans during the graduation ceremony of Karate Zen
readGurirab, Jacobs out
17-06-2008
BRAVE Warriors coach Arie Schans left out playmaker Brian Gurirab for the fourth consecutive time, when he announced the team for Guinea for the return leg of the 2010 World/African Nations Cup tie in
readColdplay heats up Top 40
17-06-2008
LONDON - British pop giants Coldplay released their highly anticipated fourth studio album on Thursday, having already smashed the iTunes pre-sale record.'Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends' is
read'Hulk' grabs a muscular US$54,5m
17-06-2008
LOS ANGELES - 'The Incredible Hulk' was a box-office bruiser, yanking in US$54,5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-screen adventure five years
readJolie and Jen set for film face-off
17-06-2008
LOS ANGELES - Brad Pitt's current romantic partner Jolie and ex-wife Aniston will go head-to-head at theatres on October 24, when both have a movie coming out.Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood's
readRokia Traore ups beat on new album
17-06-2008
PARIS - Award-winning Malian singer Rokia Traore, acclaimed for her fresh treatment of traditional sound, trades a bass guitar and drums against the African rhythms of a calabash and balafon in her
readFrance assists Djibouti in clash with Eritrea
17-06-2008
DJIBOUTI - Djibouti says French warships will arrive off its coast in coming days after the tiny Red Sea state clashed with neighbouring Eritrea last week, killing a dozen Djiboutian soldiers and
readRepublican tea party at Nepal ex-king's palace
17-06-2008
KATHMANDU - There have been countless tea parties on the immaculate lawns of Kathmandu's royal palace but none like the latest one, when the edifice, now stripped of its monarch, officially became a
readBerlin urges Iran to study and accept new nuclear offer
17-06-2008
BERLIN - Germany urged Iran yesterday to study and accept the latest offer from world powers aimed at ending the stand-off over its contested nuclear programme."We hope that the Iranian side will take
readEU postpones decision on Cuba sanctions
17-06-2008
LUXEMBOURG - European Union foreign ministers postponed a potentially contentious decision yesterday on whether to lift sanctions on Cuba, leaving the decision for a summit of the 27-nation bloc on
readAl Qaeda linked outfit kidnaps journalists
17-06-2008
JOLO - Muslim extremists who abducted a broadcaster and her crew in the Philippines have threatened to harm them unless their demands are met today, negotiators said.The ultimatum came after troops
readHamas, Israel closer to truce
17-06-2008
GAZA - Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday that a successful end was in sight for Egyptian-sponsored talks on a truce in the Gaza Strip between his Islamist group and Israel.In separate
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