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36 Articles found on Monday, 24 November 2008
Chief Santos push Stars all the way
24-11-2008
AFRICAN Stars had to pull out all the stops before beating Chief Santos 3-2 at a packed Khomasdal Stadium in a MTC Namibia Premier League match on Saturday. Stars dominated possession in the first
readAthletics reach deadlock
24-11-2008
THE presidential election for Athletics Namibia (AN) resulted in a deadlock as both Alpha Kangueehi and track legend Frank Fredericks each garnered four votes, resulting in no new president being
readNZ win world champs
24-11-2008
AUCKLAND – Members of the world champion New Zealand rugby league team flew home to a heroes’ welcome yesterday, greeted by hundreds of ecstatic supporters as they arrived in Auckland with their
readSpain in Davis Cup driving seat
24-11-2008
MAR DEL PLATA – Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco put Spain in the driving seat in the Davis Cup final Saturday, beating Argentina’s David Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3
readSmit aim for Lions after England
24-11-2008
LONDON – South Africa captain John Smit was in buoyant mood after the world champions saved the best for last on their UK tour with a record-breaking 42-6 defeat of England here at Twickenham.
readWeekend Sport Briefs
24-11-2008
Cricket - Two days after a senior ICC delegation turned up to assess Zimbabwe’s suitability for a return to Test cricket the country’s batsmen ruined everything by cobbling together only 67 runs in a
readHatton takes out Paul
24-11-2008
LAS VEGAS – Ricky Hatton re-inforced his reputation as the best light welterweight in the world, with a punishing TKO victory over Paul Malignanni on Saturday. The Briton dominated the fight from the
readBangladesh fail to cope with pace
24-11-2008
BLOEMFONTEIN – Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful admitted his side failed to cope with South Africa’s fast bowlers after they crashed to an innings and 129 runs defeat on the fourth day of the
readArsenal still in the hunt: Fergie
24-11-2008
LONDON – Crisis-hit Arsenal cannot be ruled out of the English Premier League title race, despite their disasters on the pitch and dressing-room dust-ups, according to bitter rival Sir Alex Ferguson.
readSMSes for Monday 24 Nov 08
24-11-2008
* Shame to the Windhoek municipality for evicting the people who owed them money in Katutura. We have ministers who have huge debts that are still owed, and they are still living luxurious lives while
readCoD a nyengwa okufuta aalongekidhi yOkongresa ye
24-11-2008
O MUNAVETA gumwe naagandjimayeli ye li yane, mboka ya li ya longekidha Okongresa yopaati yo Congress of Democrats (CoD) omwedhi nguka, oya hala okufala opaati ndjika kompangu molwashoka CoD ina hala
readSwapo a kelela RDP a ninge oshigongi mOutapi
24-11-2008
O SHIGONGI sho RDP shoka sha li shi na okukala ko pOutapi mOmbalantu mshitopolwa sha Musati mOlyomakaya ga zi ko, inashi ningwa we molwashoka sha kalwa moshipala koSwapo, ndjoka ya dhenge iilyo yoRDP
readOhauto ya Pombili ya yakwa po mOvenduka
24-11-2008
O POLISI otayi kongo ohauto yomugundjuka John Pombili Shivute ndjoka ya yakwa po ongula yEtitano lya zi ko, ya yakelwa mOndoolopa ya Venduka manga Pombili e li miilonga, pethimbo lyongula. Ohauto
readAahenye onkee taya pula ya futwe nawa
24-11-2008
M OSHIGONGI SHAWO na Amushanga Omukuluntu gwUuministeli wOmapangelo gOpaitopolwa, Omagumbo nEhumokomeho lyiitopolwa yokomikunda tate Erastus Negonga mEtitano lya zi ko, aakalimo yomomukunda Ehenye
readInternational Briefs
24-11-2008
Pakistanis rally against suspected US strike * ISLAMABAD – Pakistanis yesterday protested a suspected American missile strike that intelligence officials said killed a British citizen linked to a plot
readKenyan PM wants AU peacekeepers in Zimbabwe
24-11-2008
NAIROBI – Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday called for the deployment of African Union peacekeepers to Zimbabwe to bring President Robert Mugabe back into line.“Because there is no
readSurvey shows ANC power
24-11-2008
JOHANNESBURG – If South Africans were to vote now, the ANC would get the votes of 74 per cent of decided voters, the Sunday Times reported.This was five per cent more than the 2004 elections.
readAid resumes behind DRC rebel lines
24-11-2008
GOMA – The distribution of medical aid to 40 000 people trapped behind a rapidly changing front line in eastern Congo has resumed after last week’s territory grab by the rebels, an aid group said
readZim: Kofi Annan didn’t plan properly for trip
24-11-2008
HARARE – Zimbabwe said it blocked Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate from visiting on a humanitarian mission because they had not properly consulted with officials
readPresident’s home attacked in Guinea Bissau ‘mutiny’
24-11-2008
BISSAU – The residence of Guinea Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira came under fire yesterday from troops in a post-election “mutiny” that left one soldier dead and three others arrested, officials
readIslamists on trail of Somali pirates
24-11-2008
MOGADISHU - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world’s biggest hijack, a local elder said.
readLocals must benefit from resources, says Govt
24-11-2008
* Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said government must do everything possible to encourage local people to benefit from Namibian resources in order to create employment opportunities
readOld Mutual donates N$300 000 to the Polytechnic Library
24-11-2008
Old Mutual Namibia and the Polytechnic of Namibia signed a three-year agreement. The insurer and assurance giant will provide financial support to the Polytechnic’s library. The agreement is worth
readUS$30bn a year needed to get rid of hunger
24-11-2008
Rome – Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) director-general Jacques Diouf last week appealed to world leaders to meet next year to design a new agricultural order and find US$30 billion a year to
readOngwediva gets shopping mall
24-11-2008
A 10 000-square-metre shopping mall is being built at Ongwediva by Makalani Real Estate in conjunction with Tuhumeko Property Developers and M.R. Scmidt Construction at a cost of N$54 million. During
readLiving rights of Baumgarts residents renegotiated
24-11-2008
DESPITE heated argument on the part of farmworkers and residents at farm Baumgartsbrunn near Windhoek that they are being evicted contrary to an agreement with their late employer, the executor of the
readNurses have to wait longer
24-11-2008
THE High Court has reserved judgement in a case in which the Namibia Nurses’ Union (Nanu) challenges the recognition agreement between Government and the Namibia Public Workers’ Union (Napwu).Lawyers
readConfusion about conjoined twins
24-11-2008
THE deaths of month-old conjoined twin girls from Liberia on an airplane en route to New York last Thursday led to The Namibian receiving phone calls from overseas reporters inquiring whether the
readAlgeria and Namibia to co-operate on war vets
24-11-2008
THE Algerian Minister of Veterans’ Affairs, Mohammed Cherif Abbas signed a co-operation agreement with his Namibian counterpart, Ngarikutuke Tjiriange, in Windhoek on Friday. Abbas on Friday concluded
read‘Confessions’ allowed in goldsmith murder trial
24-11-2008
MOST of the allegedly self-incriminating statements that were made by two young men who are charged with robbing and murdering a 79-year-old goldsmith at Okahandja more than six years ago were ruled
readFormer MTC employee jailed over card fraud
24-11-2008
A WARNING about the inherent perils of defrauding your employer was again issued in the Windhoek Regional Court on Friday, when a former employee of cellphone company MTC was sent to prison for two
readPolice guard Nguvauva homestead
24-11-2008
A FACTION of the deeply divided Ovambanderu community barred the recently inaugurated Chief Keharanjo Nguvauva and his mother, Aletha, from entering the family’s homestead in the Omaheke Region on
readSwapo protesters threaten opposition in Greenwell
24-11-2008
THE Police had to intervene on Saturday to restore order after a group of Swapo members tried to prevent an opposition party from holding a meeting in Windhoek’s Greenwell Matongo area. The newly
readSeal mauls surfers at Cape Cross
24-11-2008
TWO surfers narrowly escaped death on Saturday when they were attacked by an adult female seal at Cape Cross. Chris Nel and Neels Engelbrecht went to Cape Cross, about 130 km north of Swakopmund, to
readRDP driven out of Omusati, Swapo disrupts opposition rally
24-11-2008
ABOUT 12 supporters of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) were injured on Saturday when a large crowd of Swapo supporters prevented the party from holding a meeting at Outapi in the Omusati
readPope had prophecy of crisis
24-11-2008
Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the global financial crisis in a “prophecy” contained in a paper he had written when he was a cardinal, according to Italian finance minister Giulio
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