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40 Articles found on Wednesday, 19 March 2008
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19-03-2008
* OF course teaching is a noble profession. However, it is pictured as allegedly tiring, stressful and unrewarding. Is this the reality or a subjective perception? The fact is that the teaching
readAngola expects to reach 2 mil bpd
19-03-2008
CAPE TOWN - Angola's state-owned oil company Sonangol is expected to reach two million barrels per day output later this year, maintaining production to 2014 before tapering off, a senior official
readSA markets battered by global credit worries
19-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - South African markets were battered along with other international stocks on Monday as investors shunned riskier assets on the widening fallout from a global credit crisis.The rand
readStrategy for poverty eradication to focus on regional economic integration
19-03-2008
THE 14 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will meet in Mauritius next month for high-level consultations on poverty eradication and regional development.The SADC
readEskom forced to cut power to mines
19-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - Power may have to be cut to South Africa's vital gold and platinum mines if more generators fail because of bad weather, state electricity firm Eskom said yesterday, sending local
readInflation minefield for Africa
19-03-2008
DAKAR - African governments, which often face catastrophic droughts, floods and crop failures, are now confronting spiralling inflation and creeping deficits as they seek to contain popular anger over
readBots-Nam business forum on
19-03-2008
THE Botswana-Namibia business forum officially kicked off in Windhoek yesterday with presentations from the visiting Botswana business delegation and the Namibia Investment Centre.The four-day indaba
readImms told to pay back over N$1 m to donors
19-03-2008
FORMER Namibian Football Association President Immanuel ('Imms') Namaseb has been ordered by the High Court to repay about N$1,2 million of donor funding to the Finnish Embassy.Acting Judge Nate
readGovernment honours Pandeni as a hero
19-03-2008
THE Government of the Republic of Namibia has conferred the status of hero on the late John Alphons Pandeni, Minister of Local Government, who died in a car accident on Friday.The Media Affairs
readRamatex needles Filipinos
19-03-2008
RETRENCHED Filipino workers at Ramatex yesterday refused to bow to company demands that they leave the country now or risk taking responsibility for getting home under their own steam.No deal has yet
readPresident Kim Yong Nam due in Namibia tomorrow
19-03-2008
THE President of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, Kim Yong Nam, is scheduled to arrive in Namibia tomorrow for an official visit during which he will attend the Independence celebrations and
readNamib Times loses N$130 000 defamation lawsuit
19-03-2008
THE Namib Times lost a defamation lawsuit brought by Walvis Bay Municipal employee Johanna Shidute and Walvis Bay legal practitioner Gert van Rooyen in the High Court last week.The coastal newspaper's
readKeetmans street kids a concern
19-03-2008
THE growing number of children roaming the streets at the southern town of Keetmanshoop has elicited mixed responses from residents.Residents expressed different sentiments on the issue at a community
readGovt failed on education, job creation: Gurirab
19-03-2008
The allocations to education in the 2008-09 Budget were welcome but would not solve Namibia's education crisis, a member of the opposition said yesterday.Tsudao Gurirab of the CoD group led by Ben
readPoliticians implicated in shebeen brawl
19-03-2008
A NATIONAL Council member, Barakias Namwandi, and Swapo regional co-ordinator Nico Mugenga were allegedly involved in a shebeen brawl over the weekend.The fight allegedly started at the Private Eye
readFood aid not expired: Bokomo
19-03-2008
FOOD donated to flood victims at Oshakati was not past its expiry date as reported in some media this week, says Bokomo marketing officer Natasja Pieterse.However, she said the company removed some of
readN$6 b health budget not enough: LAC
19-03-2008
THE new budgetary allocation for the health sector is not sufficient to overcome the challenges the Health Ministry has to face, the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) has criticised."The LAC does not
readErongo Council to appeal Wlotzkas case
19-03-2008
THE Erongo Regional Council has decided to turn to the Supreme Court in an attempt to force through its plans to expand Wlotzkasbaken against the wishes of people who have been leasing land at the
readBail granted in licence scam case
19-03-2008
THE five suspects arrested last Monday for alleged involvement in a Roads Authority (RA) licence scam were released on N$5 000 bail on Friday.The five, who made a second appearance before Magistrate
readSem a pandula oonakumukwatha
19-03-2008
O MUUNGANEKI gwOmaudhano mo NFA mOshitopolwa sha Shana Sem Nekwaya, okwa pandula noonkondo ookuume ke mboka ye mu kwathelele sho a ka kwatele mbushe pOsikola yaanona Ekuku mOshikandjosikola sha
readAafilipino mu Ramatex inaya tseya shoka ye na okuninga
19-03-2008
A ANIILONGA yAafilipino ye li 250 lwaampoka mboka ya kala haya longo mu Ramatex okwa li kwa tegelelwa ya shune kegumbo ohela, nonande ina ku ningwa natango euvathano nOkampani ndjika li na sha noofuto
readOyendji ya tembudhwa natango kefundja mOshakati
19-03-2008
NATANGO aakalimo oyendji mOshakati okuza komalukanda ngashi Oshoopala, Evululuko, Oneshila, Uupindi, Eemwandi na Sikai ya tembudhwa pomaha gawo okuza ongulohi yEtine lya zi ko konima sho omahala gawo
readGumwe a dhengwa ishewe pOmuthiya
19-03-2008
O POLISI pondoolopa ompe pOmuthiya otayi tamanekwa kutya oya tindi okuningila omuntu gumwe ngoka a li a dhengwa ku mukwawo pondoolopa mpoka a ningile nakumudhenga oshipotha.Omahogololo gookansela
readAanahambo yAawambo ya za mo mOkavango
19-03-2008
A ANAHAMBO yAawambo mboka ya lombwelwa kOmpangu yOpombanda meti 11 Februari 2008 kutya naya ze mo mUukwangali mOkavango moompadhi oontalala, osho ya zi mo Oshiwike sha zi ko, ashike otaya nyenyeta
readDarrell Hair reinstated
19-03-2008
DUBAI - Darrell Hair has been reinstated as a test match umpire by the International Cricket Council.Hair had been banned since November 2006 because of his conduct during a test between Pakistan and
readInter regain six-point lead
19-03-2008
ROME - Inter Milan beat Palermo 2-1 at home on Sunday to restore the champions' six-point lead at the top of Serie A after a troubled week.Goals by Patrick Vieira and Luis Jimenez settled nerves at
readKaizer Mabuza arrives today
19-03-2008
SOUTH African challenger Kaizer Mabuza is scheduled to jet in today on for his fight against Namibian World Boxing Association (WBA) Pan African Welterweight c h a m p i o n J a s o n "Taks" Naule
readOlympic Games events to be delayed if pollution rises
19-03-2008
PORT OF SPAIN - Beijing's air quality is "better than we have feared" but the International Olympic Committee is prepared to postpone some long-duration events if pollution levels rise, IOC President
readNamibia to play Malawi
19-03-2008
NAMIBIA'S Brave Warriors will be back in action on March 26 when they take on Malawi in an international friendly match at Windhoek's Independence Stadium.The Namibia Football Association yesterday
readUpsets at Badgers Inline Tournament
19-03-2008
THE OPENING tournament of the 2008 Inline Hockey season produced some major surprises as Windhoek-based Cazadores and Badgers each won three age group categories, while former multiple champions
readPower state 'extremely serious'
19-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - The current power situation is "extremely serious" as nine of Eskom's generators have tripped over the last few days, the power utility said yesterday.Spokesperson Andrew Etzinger said
readBurrell says the butler took off Diana's ring
19-03-2008
LONDON - Princess Diana's butler took a bloodstained engagement ring from her body after the fatal Paris car crash in 1997, the butler's former bodyguard said on Monday.The former royal butler Paul
readKenyan parliament approves law for power-sharing deal
19-03-2008
NAIROBI - Kenya's parliament yesterday unanimously approved a key constitutional amendment, the first of two laws needed to enact a February power-sharing deal that ended deadly post-election
readDalai Lama offers to resign
19-03-2008
The Dalai Lama said yesterday he would resign as leader of Tibet's exiles if unrest in his Himalayan homeland worsened, as aides said a Chinese crackdown had claimed 19 more lives.The Buddhist leader,
readElton, Hillary, one night only!
19-03-2008
NEW YORK - Elton John is to give a solo fundraising concert in New York next month for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, under the unlikely billing 'Elton and Hillary: One Night
readBomber kills 49 in Iraq
19-03-2008
A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 49 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to
readMortars near US embassy in Yemen kill 1
19-03-2008
* SAN'A, Yemen - Two mortar shells exploded yesterday near a high school next to the US embassy, killing a Yemeni guard and wounding three students and three other guards, an Interior Ministry
readMe a ditzy moron? I get it: Mariah
19-03-2008
NEW YORK - Mariah Carey knows her indisputable talent clashes with her sexed-up image as a "ditz"."It's a dichotomy, I understand," the 37-year-old Grammy winner tells Allure magazine. "I understand
read'Diddy' denies his associates planned attack on Tupac
19-03-2008
LOS ANGELES - Sean 'Diddy' Combs has denied a report by the Los Angeles Times that his associates were responsible for the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at a New York recording studio, and that he
readIran Conservatives sweep election seats
19-03-2008
TEHRAN - Iran's conservatives swept up all the Tehran seats already decided in last week's general elections, official reports said yesterday, prompting claims of foul play from beaten
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