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46 Articles found on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Ministry of Education responds
25-03-2008
THE Ministry of Education has taken time out to respond to a number of the complaints about the Education Sector, which have been SMSed to The Namibian:* IS it fair for some pupils to be allowed to
readSMSes of the Day : Tuesday
25-03-2008
* EDUCATION and politics do not work hand in hand in the sense that we have in power people who lack proper planning skills and really care about the nation. The directives from the Ministry of
readLivestock permits now online
25-03-2008
THE Meat Board has decided to make veterinary movement permits for livestock available on the Internet.The application form can be downloaded from the website of the Meat Board at www.nammic.com.na.
readEthiopia could teach world about hunger
25-03-2008
AS food prices hit record highs, analysts warn that a re-think of food aid strategies is needed Ð and Ethiopia, a traditionally food-insecure country, could offer some answers.Globally, the World
readVodafone wants stake in MTN
25-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - Global mobile phone giant Vodafone is in preliminary talks seeking a stake in South African-based cellphone company MTN's international operations, a newspaper reported on
readBusinesses crippled by floods
25-03-2008
ONGWEDIVA - The Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) is extremely worried about the effect of the floods on business and on the employment opportunities created by local entrepreneurs.NCCI
readNCCI to restructure northern branches
25-03-2008
ONGWEDIVA - The Board of Directors of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) is planning to establish representative committees in the northern regions of Oshana, Ohangwena, Omusati and
readIndian Minister in Nam on diamond hunt
25-03-2008
INDIA'S Minister for Commerce, Jairam Ramesh, will visit Namibia tomorrow, along with a delegation of rough diamond buyers.The visit, which will also take Ramesh to Angola, is aimed at exploring ways
readInvestors warm to water as shortages mount
25-03-2008
LONDON - As liquidity is drained from credit and money markets and pours into oil and gold, another asset class that could offer long-term returns to the discerning investor is water.Water shortages
readNo price on 'People's House'
25-03-2008
THE people were absent when the 'People's House' - the new State House - was inaugurated in Windhoek on Friday, Independence Day.Also missing was any mention of the cost of the sprawling new State
readTwo fatal shootings in Windhoek
25-03-2008
THREE members of the Namibian Defence Force face a charge of murder and attempted murder after they allegedly shot and killed a young man and wounded another following an alleged robbery.Police
readNamibia and North Korea 'to strengthen supreme ties'
25-03-2008
NAMIBIA and North Korea want to "re-energise" their ties and strengthen bilateral co-operation on trade, commerce, transport, energy and defence."The Namibian side wishes to specifically explore
read4 foreigners die on Namibia's roads
25-03-2008
FOUR foreign visitors to Namibia - Chinese and South Africans - were killed in two separate car accidents on coastal routes over the Easter weekend.The first accident, in which five cars were
readWAD women in court again
25-03-2008
TWO former members of Women's Action for Development (WAD), who were charged with stealing from the organisation's Rehoboth centre in January, were back in court last week.The case against Elizabeth
readBar shooting case postponed
25-03-2008
JOSEPH Auchamub (45) on Friday made his second court appearance in connection with a shooting incident that took place at Windhoek's Club Weekend earlier this year.Auchamub stands accused of shooting
readFamily murder suspect set to deny all charges
25-03-2008
WINDHOEK resident Angels Mikini, who is accused of murdering his wife and a cousin of his wife and attempting to murder the cousin's wife in a shooting incident in Katutura, will plead not guilty to
readGirl (13) drowns in well
25-03-2008
A 13-year-old girl drowned in a well in the Omusati Region in northern Namibia on Saturday a week ago.The Police reported that the deceased had been identified as Maria Petrus. The incident happened
readOfficer to be tried for killing wife
25-03-2008
THE trial of an officer in the Namibian Police who is accused of murdering his school principal wife at Rundu in September last year is scheduled to take place in the High Court in Windhoek between
readSADC tribunal postpones Zimbabwe farmer case
25-03-2008
A REGIONAL Tribunal has agreed to postpone a case in which a white Zimbabwean farmer is contesting the seizure of his land until after the country's March 29 elections.The Southern African Development
readHundreds of Mbanderu people witness appeal case
25-03-2008
ALMOST a thousand people of the Mbanderu ethnic group arrived at the Supreme Court in Windhoek on Thursday to hear an appeal case against a judgement made in the High Court last April to reinstate 11
readEaster roads claim one life in Karas
25-03-2008
THREE road accidents were reported in the Karas Region over the Easter weekend.In the first accident, a 79-year-old South African woman was killed instantly after the car in which she was travelling
readJudgement reserved in wrongful arrest case
25-03-2008
A HEARING over the overnight detention of a pregnant northern Namibia businesswoman in a dark, cockroach-infested Police cell in early 2005 ended in the High Court in Windhoek on Thursday.Lavinia
readOparliamende ya Kenya ya pititha oveta yi na sha nokweeta ombili nengungumano moshilongo shoka
25-03-2008
N AIROBI - Onkundana okuzilila ko Nairobi sha Kenya otayi ti kutya Oparliamende yoshilongo shika oya zimine elundululo mooveta mbali li na sha nokweeta po Epangelo lya gandja wo oonkondo niipundi
readOmaupyakadhi gopauntshitwe otaga vulu okwiilongekidhilwa
25-03-2008
N ONANDE aantu itaya vulu okukelela omaupyakadhi gopauntshitwe kaga holoke, otaya vulu ngaaka okushunitha pevi omaudhigu ngoka haga eta.Aantu otaya vulu wo okwiilongekidhila omaupyakadhi ngaka, opo
readOmasiku gatatu gokulila Minista John Pandeni
25-03-2008
O MAPANDELA agehe gopapangelo mu Namibia oge na okutsilikwa etata okuza mEtine lyoshiwike shika nelalakano lyokugandja esimaneko ku nakusa hailwa Minista John Pandeni.Omapandela otaga kala haga
readEendukumende kOvaAngola mOshakati
25-03-2008
O MBELEWAKALELIPO yEpangelo la Angola moNamibia, oya shivifa kutya OvaAngola aveshe ava va kala vehe na Omikanda dhOukwashiwana wa Angola, okudja paife otava dulu oku di mona peembelewa dOukalelipo
readIikulya inayi kwisha nande ngashi yamwe ya lopota, Bokomo ta ti
25-03-2008
G UMWE gwomAanambelewa aakuluntu mOkampani ya Bokomo, meme Natasha Pieterse okwa tseyitha kutya omapopyo ngoka ga kala po taga ti kutya Okampani yawo Bokomo oya gandja iikulya ya yonuuka nenge ya
readFerguson happy after Liverpool 'morale booster'
25-03-2008
MANCHESTER - Sir Alex Ferguson acclaimed a 3-0 victory over Liverpool as an ideal "morale booster" after his Manchester United side strengthened their bid for a second successive Premier League title
readTactical changes help Chelsea win
25-03-2008
LONDON - With Chelsea losing to Arsenal late in the match, manager Avram Grant made a double substitution that prompted boos from his own fans and a song praising predecessor Jose Mourinho.Twelve
readCalling Brave Warriors supporters
25-03-2008
The Brave Warriors Supporters Club is meeting tonight at 18h00.Supporters are invited to attend in large numbers in preparation for the Namibia versus Malawi international friendly. The meeting will
readSerb pair win at Indian Wells
25-03-2008
Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic have given their home country reason to be proud.The 20-year-old Serbs who practised together as children won his and her titles in the Pacific Life Open on Sunday.
readSchans prepares Brave Warriors for Malawi
25-03-2008
The Brave Warriors have been hard at work in preparation for tomorrow evening's friendly match against Malawi.New coach Arie Schans arrived in Namibia from Holland on Independence Day, March 21, and
readNaule surrenders Pan African title to Mabuza
25-03-2008
Jason Naule lost his WBA Pan African Junior Welterweight title when South Africa's Kaizer Mabuza beat him on a 10th round TKO in the early hours of Friday morning.Naule's trainer Nestor Tobias threw
readChina rights activist jailed
25-03-2008
BEIJING - A Chinese activist who had petitioned for land rights was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison and then shocked with electric batons when police scuffled with his family, his lawyer
readChange on hold in Cuba
25-03-2008
HAVANA - Cubans expecting their new president to transform their strained lives are tempering their hopes as they gradually accept him at his word: Small improvements will come with time, but nothing
readBlues legend buys legendary juke joint
25-03-2008
INDIANOLA, Mississippi - Blues legend BB King is the new owner of a club in his Mississippi Delta hometown.Mary Shepard has owned Club Ebony in Indianola for the past three decades. King and other
readRick, the celeb hickster
25-03-2008
LOS ANGELES - Pamela Anderson's husband appears ready to move on to his next famous fling.Rick Salomon - who has become something of a specialist in short relationships with celebrities - agrees with
readDrugs suspected in death of Brit singer's husband
25-03-2008
LONDON - Jason Rae, musician husband of Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, has been found dead of a suspected drugs overdose, police said on Sunday."At 3:15 pm (1515 GMT) yesterday
read'Push for revenge'
25-03-2008
CAIRO, Egypt - Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an audiotape released yesterday, called on Muslims to strike Jewish and American targets in revenge for Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip
readPope Benedict calls for peace in Tibet, Iraq
25-03-2008
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI denounced injustice and violence as scourges of humanity and singled out the Middle East and Tibet among places needing peace in his Easter Sunday message to the
readCall for Eskom relief
25-03-2008
Leaders of the Apostolic Faith Mission yesterday appealed to the South African government not to allow Eskom to increase its tariffs, nor to make customers pay backdated increased tariffs."It is
readZim prints extra ballot papers
25-03-2008
HARARE - The opposition on Sunday accused Zimbabwe's authorities of printing millions of surplus ballot papers, raising the risk of vote-rigging in next week's presidential and legislative
readProtest mars Olympics torch lighting ceremony
25-03-2008
ANCIENT OLYMPIA - Human rights demonstrators breached tight security and tried to hijack the Beijing Olympics torch lighting ceremony and relay in ancient Olympia yesterday.Just before the torch was
readGilani new Pakistani prime minister
25-03-2008
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's National Assembly yesterday elected as prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, a top official in assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party, five weeks after it won a
readPolitically incorrect
25-03-2008
"Nappy-headed hos," the phrase that cost radio shock jock Don Imus his job and triggered a debate on how far free speech can go, was named on Thursday as the most egregious politically incorrect turn
readUS Iraq toll hits 4 000
25-03-2008
BAGHDAD - The overall United States death toll in Iraq rose to 4 000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal
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