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42 Articles found on Monday, 31 March 2008
SMSes of the Day : Monday
31-03-2008
* IT'S scandalous that NBC TV is using a high-profile trial-awaiting corruption suspect as commentator in broadcasts on events like Independence Day and Minister John Pandeni's funeral. Do they really
readCameroon cuts costs to fund food price help
31-03-2008
YAOUNDE - Cameroon has suspended the purchase of government vehicles and cut official travel abroad to fund a public sector wage increase aimed at countering high food prices, the prime minister's
readBHP phases out Standard Bank business
31-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - Mining group BHP Billiton will phase out annual business with Standard Bank in the first corporate spat brought on by South Africa's power crisis.Financial daily Business Day reported
readIMF on members' voting power
31-03-2008
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund board on Friday was to recommend a landmark overhaul in the voting power of member countries, with emerging economies saying they would settle for less
readKatima-Sesheke bridge a milestone
31-03-2008
KATIMA MULILO - The Katima/Sesheke Bridge is a milestone that has enhanced travelling between Namibia and Zambia, which not only has improved trade between the two countries, but also improved trade
readEskom receives bids for co-generation
31-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - South African electricity utility Eskom has received more than 100 bids for future electricity co-generation projects, the company said on Wednesday.The company hopes that co-generation
readCentral banks should be patient on monetary policy
31-03-2008
CAPE TOWN - Central bankers should be patient when implementing monetary policy and be wary when faced with short-term shocks, a South African Reserve Bank official said on Friday.In general,
readNamibia/India in diamond trade talks
31-03-2008
INDIA and Namibia are considering setting up a training facility to polish and cut diamonds in an initiative to establish systems for the direct imports of diamonds from Africa to India.India's
readZimbabwe on tenterhooks
31-03-2008
HARARE - The opposition claimed victory yesterday in Zimbabwe's general election as concerns mounted over a delay to the results of a contest which could see veteran President Robert Mugabe turfed out
readMore than 70 Zimbabwean farmers can remain on land
31-03-2008
MORE than 70 white Zimbabwean farmers evicted from their land can remain on their property as they await further legal proceedings, a regional tribunal ruled on Friday."The tribunal grants the
readBoys claim cell rape
31-03-2008
TWO teenage boys claim that an adult man raped them on repeated occasions while they were locked up together in a holding cell at the Rundu Police Station during the past two weeks.The boys - brothers
readSwapo retains Eenhana
31-03-2008
SWAPO Party candidate Nehemia Haufiku won an easy victory in the Ohangwena Regional Council by-election in the Eenhana constituency on Friday.With 4 494 valid votes cast in the by-election, Haufiku
readIndividuals can turn the tide on Tuberculosis
31-03-2008
HEALTH Minister Richard Kamwi has urged proactive, focused and tireless action in response againsts tuberculosis (TB) and the HIV-AIDS pandemic.In his keynote address at the World TB Day commemoration
readPolice seize contraband cigarettes worth millions
31-03-2008
THE Police on Thursday seized a container full of contraband cigarettes worth millions of dollars at the port of Walvis Bay, reliable sources informed The Namibian.It is believed that a Walvis Bay
readNo mercy for pirate tour operators
31-03-2008
ILLEGAL tour operators and corrupt establishments failing to pay tourism levies will be "smoked out", the Erongo Police Chief warned at a dinner of the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) at Swakopmund on
readHundreds bid Pandeni farewell
31-03-2008
POEMS, songs and speeches marked the farewell of the late Regional and Local Government Minister John Pandeni, who was laid to rest on Saturday at Heroes' Acre after being accorded the status of a
readOverwhelming Swapo win at Eenhana
31-03-2008
THE by-election held at Eenhana in the Ohangwena Region on Friday was won the Swapo Party with an overwhelming majority.Only about half the 8 214 registered voters in the constituency - 4 494 - turned
readThree people drown in North
31-03-2008
THREE people - children aged six and five and a 65-year-old woman - have drowned in northern Namibia during the past week, the Namibian Police reported on Friday.The 65-year-old Letta Ipinge drowned
readTribal tension at Bethanie
31-03-2008
TRIBAL mistrust between local Police and villagers at Bethanie village in the South, apparently sparked by the language barrier between the two parties, is said to be close to spilling over.On
readCourt ends suspension of Hardap official
31-03-2008
THE Hardap Regional Council was ordered on Friday to end the almost two-year-long suspension without charge of its Chief Regional Officer, Sankwasa James Sankwasa.The Hardap Regional Council informed
readOondjila oompe mOnooli-yopokati inadhi tungwa dhi ihwapo
31-03-2008
O ONDJILA oompe ndhoka opo dha tungwa miitopolwa itatu yomOnooli kadhina naanaa oopaipi nenge tutye uuntopa wokweenditha meya okuza kombinga okuya kombinga onkwawo nuupu shoka sha eta nee omeya
readAanuumbashu poSwakopmund ya gunwa yi iyuthe kooveta dhokulanditha omalovu
31-03-2008
A ANUUMBASHU poSwakopmund oya indilwa ya tule uundingosho wawo momulandu gu li nawa opo kaau patwe koveta.Omukuluntu gwOpolisi moshitopolwa sha Erongo Komufala gwOpevi Festus Shilongo okwa li a
readUumbangi kau na oshili: Omutamanekwa
31-03-2008
G UMWE gwomoonakutamanekelwa edhipago lyaantu oyendji Sylvester Beukes okwa lombwele Omupolisi kutya mumwayinamati yo nomutamanekwa gulwe moshipotha shedhipago lyaantu yahetatu pofaalama yimwe
readSwapo a sindana ishewe uukansela pEenhana
31-03-2008
mEENHANA S wapo ya Namibia ya sindana po oshipundi shUukansela mOshikandjohogololo shEenhana pethimbo lyomahogololo gopokati ngoka ga ningwa mOshikandjohogololo shoka shoka mEtitano lya zi ko.Oongundu
readMcKenzie hits century as India-South Africa test is drawn
31-03-2008
CHENNAI - South Africa opener Neil McKenzie scored his second century in successive tests as bat dominated ball again on Sunday and the first test against India petered out into a tame draw.Stumps
readCarter injury clouds Crusaders' win to stay top
31-03-2008
SYDNEY - Canterbury Crusaders may have paid a price for cementing their eight-point lead at the top of rugby's Super 14 with their hard-fought New Zealand derby win over Wellington Hurricanes this
readNamibia go top of ICC Intercontinental log
31-03-2008
Namibia's national cricket team beat Holland by seven wickets to move to the top of the ICC Intercontinental log.Namibia wrapped up the match within three of the scheduled four days to obtain 20 bonus
readThree-month training camp for hosts SA
31-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's domestic football season is to end early in 2010 to give national coach Carlos Alberto Parreira three months to whip the struggling World Cup hosts into shape at a
readKasuto: Sensational performance
31-03-2008
Desmond Kasuto gave a sensational performance to beat Nickson Abaka of Kenya 7-0 on points in the 69kg category to win a gold medal at the AIBA African Olympic Qualifying Tournament.In the process,
read'Killing Fields' survivor dies of cancer
31-03-2008
NEW YORK - Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the
readMariah Carey set to rule the singles chart
31-03-2008
LOS ANGELES - Mariah Carey is on track to collect her 18th No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.'Touch My Body', the first single from her upcoming album, dipped one place to No 15 on the
readMadonna says the media should leave Britney alone
31-03-2008
NEW YORK - Madonna wants the media to leave Britney Spears alone."They need to step off," she told the 'Yo on E!' satellite radio show. "For real ... Let's go save her." Madonna (49) said her
read'Kiss Kiss' crooner Chris Brown, Rihanna 'just kissing cousins ...'
31-03-2008
LOS ANGELES - Rihanna and Chris Brown both walked the orange carpet at the Kids' Choice Awards.Separately. "We're not in a relationship or anything," Brown told The Associated Press before Saturday's
readLA Times apologises over article on Tupac
31-03-2008
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Times apologised Thursday for an article based on bogus documents that linked rap mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs to the 1994 armed assault of late rapper Tupac Shakur.The
readKey figure in South African anti-conscription campaign
31-03-2008
JOHANNESBURG - A South African doctor who played an important role in the campaign to end conscription of young white men to bolster the racist apartheid security forces died on Tuesday, police
readCambodia 'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies
31-03-2008
NEW YORK - Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the
readJudge wraps up Diana inquest
31-03-2008
LONDON - After almost six months and more than 250 witnesses, the judge presiding over the inquest into Princess Diana's death wraps up the case today with his summary to the jury.Few areas of the
readShiite cleric al-Sadr offers Iraq truce
31-03-2008
BAGHDAD - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr yesterday offered to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held
readThick ice hinders Canada's controversial seal hunt
31-03-2008
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island - Canada's annual seal hunt, which the government promised would be more humane this year, cranked up slowly on Friday because of thick ice.The government is
readThick ice hinders Canada's controversial seal hunt
31-03-2008
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island - Canada's annual seal hunt, which the government promised would be more humane this year, cranked up slowly on Friday because of thick ice.The government is
readMissing pastor found at strip club
31-03-2008
Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club.A police officer patrolling the KC Lounge parking lot on Friday morning in the
readSearch for survivors in flooded Tanzania mine
31-03-2008
MIRERANI - Rescuers searched for dozens of miners trapped by floods in a pit in northern Tanzania on Sunday, as families gathered with little hope of seeing their relatives alive.Only six bodies have
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