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56 Articles found on Friday, 21 November 2008
Suzuki Night of Jumps postponed
21-11-2008
THE Suzuki Night of the Jumps FIM Freestyle MotoCross World Championships that were scheduled for November 29 at Iitumba in Windhoek had to be postponed due to technical reasons, F&H Promotions
readIndia takes one-dayer
21-11-2008
KANPUR - India won the truncated third one-dayer against England by 16 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis system yesterday to go 3-0 up in the seven-match series. India were 198-5 after 40 overs when
readKangaroos favourites
21-11-2008
SYDNEY – Everything points to an Australian victory over New Zealand in the rugby league World Cup final in Brisbane on Saturday.The Kangaroos outpointed the Kiwis 30-6 in the tournament opener on the
readSports Notices
21-11-2008
Cheetahs hold race * THE Golden Cheetahs Athletic Club will host a 2,5 kilometre HIV-AIDS Awareness Fun Run in Katutura on November 29. The race starts at 07h00 at Soweto Market and ends at the
readBoks overcoming poor displays
21-11-2008
LONDON – South Africa hoped by now to have its pride back.After another last-place finish in the Tri-Nations, the enigmatic Springboks believed they could arrive in Europe and clean up a messy World
readSuperSport TV highlights
21-11-2008
* Broadcast live FRIDAY, NOV 21 SuperSport on DStv Cricket: *Australia v New Zealand, first test, day 2, Brisbane — 01:45 on SS Highlights at 18:30 on SS 2 *South Africa v Bangladesh, first test,
readEngland buries Germany
21-11-2008
PARIS – England’s young generation laid the foundations for a 2-1 triumph over bitter rivals Germany on Wednesday while old nemesis Diego Maradona enjoyed a winning start as Argentina coach with a 1-0
readPirates host Arrows
21-11-2008
DEFENDING champions Orlando Pirates will once again be put to the test when they engage coastal giants Eleven Arrows at the Khomasdal Stadium tomorrow. Both teams collected maximum points last Friday.
readBoxing titles at stake
21-11-2008
BOXING fans will once again be treated to what could be thrilling bouts when three national titles are up for grabs during a season-ending boxing tournament slated for Windhoek on December 11.The
readAanuulema taya indile kaanambelewa ya kale taye ya pe omauyelele gomakwathelo
21-11-2008
AANTU ye na omaulema gi ili nogi ili mOshikandjohogololo sha Shakatiuzilo moshitopolwa sha Shana Oshiwike sha zi ko oya li ya gongala pombelewa yawo pOmege nokukundathana iinima ye ya pamba, unene tuu
readOonkundana paufupi
21-11-2008
KINSHASA – Oorebele dhAatutsi omathele odhi i tadhi zi ko komahala hoka ku na iita mu North Kivu, nelalakano okuyambidhidha oonkambadhala dhIigwanahangano dhokweeta po ombili mu DRC, Omugandjimulombo
readmOngwediva otamu tungwa Endiki enene lyoongeshefa ku Tuhumeko
21-11-2008
ENDIKI enene lyoongeshefa ota li tamekwa okutungwa mOngwediva, muuninginino wOshipangelo shOpaumwene sha Ngwediva, okuza sho Meya gwa Ngwediva Erastus Uutoni a the oshilambo shotango shofundamende
readInternational Briefs
21-11-2008
China to overhaul battered dairy industry * BEIJING – China announced a complete overhaul of its dairy industry yesterday to improve safety at every step – from cow breeding to milk sales – saying its
readAfrica rejoices over Obama win, but seeks own answers
21-11-2008
JOHANNESBURG – Two weeks after Africans danced for joy to see a black man elected president of the United States, a Kenyan newspaper columnist delivered a crisp warning to this complex and troubled
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21-11-2008
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21-11-2008
readCope like Jesus’s donkey - Zuma
21-11-2008
POLOKWANE – Those who have broken away from the ANC are like the donkey on which, according to the Bible, Jesus rode into Jerusalem.Jacob Zuma, leader of the ANC, used this metaphor yesterday when he
readIrate man wields bat to liberate cat
21-11-2008
DALLAS – Police are looking for an irate pet lover so intent on liberating his lost cat that he wielded a bat to fend off animal shelter employees. Dallas Animal Shelter manager Kent Robertson said
readAU warns against piracy
21-11-2008
NAIROBI – The African Union urged the United Nations yesterday to quickly send peacekeepers to Somalia, as piracy off the east African nation’s sprawling coast spiraled out of control.An anti-piracy
readUS teen lives 118 days without heart
21-11-2008
MIAMI – An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in
readNo clashes in eastern Congo after pullback
21-11-2008
GOMA – Hundreds of rebel forces have pulled back from three front lines in eastern Congo, the UN confirmed, as aid workers scrambled to reach more of the 300,000 hungry, exhausted refugees displaced
readZim bans visit by Elders
21-11-2008
HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s regime has banned a visit planned by a distinguished group of international “Elders” to assess Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis, state media reported
readSA slams Zim impasse
21-11-2008
PRETORIA – South Africa yesterday lambasted Zimbabwe’s political leaders for failing to reach agreement on outstanding issues and announced immediate help to deal with the cholera outbreak
readSMS Of The Day : Friday 21 Nov 08
21-11-2008
* NAMIBIANS stop the blame game and work!! RDP is blaming Swapo and Nujoma, Swapo is blaming the West and RDP!! The public is blaming the GRN.!! When do we, capable blacks and whites, put our energy
readDriving Licence Woes
21-11-2008
CAN someone from Roads Authority please advise the public when their “new system” will be fixed so that driver’s licences can be issued.A student is currently studying in Cape Town, and during her
readSymbiosis Between Govt and Think-Tank
21-11-2008
WITHIN weeks of the think-tank being formed, some already jumped on the bandwagon criticising such an idea as violating the rules and regulations governing the conduct of civil servants, not
readThe Obama ‘Baster’ Reference
21-11-2008
I REFER to the article in the Weekender: ‘Pasop Obama is ‘n Baster’. If the purpose of the writer was to point in a satirical way to the shortcomings of the Baster nation, then he failed for the
readNeed To Develop Revolutionary Consciousness
21-11-2008
THE writing by Herbert Jauch on ‘Venezuela’s transition to socialism’ (The Namibian, November 11) is an important contribution to the left-wing debate in our country. The progressive reforms that
readWater/Roads Issues
21-11-2008
I HAVE two points I need to convey to NamWater and the Roads Authority.Last week I read in one of your papers that NamWater wants to set up a huge desalination plant at the coast. As a long term
readPolitics Won’t Attain The ‘Vision’
21-11-2008
WHEN I walk the streets I hear about the ‘vision’ for Namibia. The question mark lies on whose vision, because it seems it is not meant for those who are in late fifties and above that. It is meant
readPorn On TransNamib Trains
21-11-2008
I WAS horrified when I travelled on Friday 14th of November for the first and the last time on a TransNamib Starline passenger train. I was with my three-and-a-half-year-old son and my colleague.
readGRN Driver Misbehaviour
21-11-2008
ALLOW me to air my concern on the way GRN drivers behave towards security and the way they drive in public.According to the incident that took place on the 14th November 2008. It was Friday at 21:15pm
readJustice Delayed Is Justice Denied
21-11-2008
THE Ombudsman’s recent report concerning the situation in police holding cells cries out for action to address the human rights abuses of trial-awaiting prisoners. The Ombudsman reports that many of
readCultural tourism gets N$60m
21-11-2008
Cultural tourism has been earmarked as a development resource, and to this effect, the Spanish government, through the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) Fund, has provided N$ 60 million. A Joint
readIMF finally approves US$2,1bn loan to Iceland
21-11-2008
WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a two-year, US$2,1 billion support programme for Iceland designed to restore confidence and stabilise the country’s shattered economy.The
readLena Blomstrand: Nuclear power is an environmental disaster
21-11-2008
Outgoing Swedish Charge d’Affaires Lena Johansson Blomstrand has had a long-standing relationship with liberation movements in southern Africa. As a section head at the Swedish International
readFNB offers cross-border prepaid airtime
21-11-2008
First National Bank (FNB) Namibia becomes the first commercial bank in the country to offer cross-border prepaid airtime purchases.According to a media statement issued by the bank on Wednesday, FNB
readGovernments and business collude in deaths of trade unionists, survey reveals
21-11-2008
Brussels – The publication of International Trade Union Confederation’s Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights Violations reveals an appalling record of union-busting, anti-union laws, intimidation and
readBig Brother Africa 3: Quirky SMSes
21-11-2008
MESSAGES from across Africa appearing on the BBA3 text strip:* MUNYA and Ricco have jobs waiting for them on the goat farm. * MUNYA for the goat, Hazel for the hyena, Ricco for the 100 000. *
readBig Brother Africa 3: The audacity of Hazel!
21-11-2008
WHY not Hazel? I mean why shouldn’t Hazel win Big Brother? At first I thought it would be way weird if Hazel emerged as the ultimate winner of this year’s Big Brother Africa show, now I think it
readFrom the Sidelines: Solutions needed
21-11-2008
IT is good step that the football season, or in this case the Namibia Premier League (NPL), has kicked off, but what remains worrying is the lack of clarity on the status of both the first and second
readOur Politics Must Transcend The ‘Logic Of Cruelty’
21-11-2008
EVERY society generates its own forms of violence.When Smuts Ngonyama, the former ANC Head of the Presidency, resigned from the ANC last week to join the rival Congress of the People, the ANC issued a
readThe State of Rural Development in Namibia
21-11-2008
THE story of rural development, or lack of it, starts in the cities. The young men hanging around street corners under scorching sun looking for a piece job, the shanty towns and informal settlements
read‘Never Waste A Crisis’:Can Obama Change The Game?
21-11-2008
US president-elect Barack Obama inherits the in-box from hell, but an all-points crisis like the present one also creates opportunities for radical change that do not exist in more normal times. As
readPolitical Perspective
21-11-2008
I FAIL to see why Swapo is making a fuss about something they all know to be true and making this newspaper the scapegoat for ‘telling it like it is’! Anyone denying that there is a move afoot to
readRevealing The Interests In The MCA Saga
21-11-2008
PRIME Minister Nahas Angula and Minister of Works and Transport Helmut Angula, who spearheaded the MCA process as the former director general of the National Planning Commission, scored a pyrrhic
readEx-Namdeb worker fined over diamond theft
21-11-2008
A 47-year-old former Namdeb employee was sentenced in the Keetmanshoop Regional Court this week for stealing diamonds worth N$428 778 from his employer in early December 2006.Paulus Haungeda, who
readGive the gift of life
21-11-2008
RHIANA Potgieter, Businesswoman of the Year 2007/2008 and owner of Shadonai Beauty College, says: “Make it your business to donate!”Potgieter has been hosting several blood donation clinics with the
readTent school to be replaced
21-11-2008
THE Hage Geingob Project tent school in Windhoek might be a thing of the past in the next school year. A brand new school is being built next to the tents, which easily accommodate the 330 pupils
readSave a little girl’s leg this Christmas
21-11-2008
IN this time of giving, sharing and spreading the Christmas joy, a little girl is about to lose her leg to cancer if her urgent appeal for funds is not heard.Although Almaze Beukes (13) is very thin,
readFirst round victory for NHE
21-11-2008
THE National Housing Enterprise (NHE) yesterday won a request to put on hold a recent District Labour Court judgement which ordered it to reinstate a number of employees retrenched in 2006.Acting High
readWet weekend promised
21-11-2008
GOOD showers are expected in most parts of Namibia this weekend and until Wednesday next week, weatherman Odillo Utsile Kgobetsi told The Namibian yesterday.“Partly cloudy periods are expected in the
readFormer elections boss joins RDP
21-11-2008
FORMER Director of Elections Philemon Kanime, who resigned from the ruling Swapo Party last month, has joined the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) opposition party. “I sent a letter to Swapo on
readMining royalties ‘may backfire’
21-11-2008
THE proposed royalties to be levied on all unprocessed minerals exported in raw form could scare investors away, a Member of Parliament has cautioned. “Many mining companies operating in Namibia spend
readLocation of the Struggle Children a secret
21-11-2008
THE ‘Children of the Liberation Struggle’, who on Wednesday vacated TransNamib’s premises after protest lasting two and a half months, are not at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura where the Swapo
readGovt wants to spy on you
21-11-2008
THE Communications Bill will give Government free rein to monitor telephone calls and electronic mail in the name of crime prevention and national security, if it is passed in the current form.The
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