100 Articles found on Thursday, 11 September 2008
11-09-2008
I MUST say, what a sight it is to see some of the more 'gangsta' guys dancing around looking less than masculine while learning the complicated steps for the samba, cha-cha and tango.TK especially,
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OKOSHI Camp, the first accommodation facility to be built in the Etosha National Park since Independence, was officially opened on Monday.The luxury camp was built in an eco-friendly way, using
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THE Namibia Bird Club will have a morning walk at the Gammams Sewerage Works on the outskirts of Windhoek on Sunday.The walk will start in Otjomuise Street at 07h00. Bird watchers should not forget
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REPRESENTATIVES of environmental organisation Greenspace met with Niilo Taapopi, Chief Executive Officer of the Windhoek municipality, on Tuesday and handed over a petition requesting the City not to
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CABINET has approved the proclamation of the Mangetti Game Camp along the Grootfontein-Rundu road as a national park and authorised the Ministry of Environment and Tourism to conclude the
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* AT Independence 5% of the population controlled 50% of the country's wealth. Now, 10% of the population controls 65% of wealth. Was the struggle worth the effort if we cannot see better results? For
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SA finance minister says rising global military expenditure undermines peace D evelopment was the only way to ensure peace, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told the United Nations
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HARARE - Zimbabwe said yesterday that it would license shops to sell goods in foreign currency to help ease shortages, the clearest sign authorities are losing the battle against a thriving black
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ITUC says global lender rewards countries that have not ratified ILO conventions B russels - The 2009 edition of World Bank's highest circulation publication, Doing Business, which the bank launched
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Just a few years ago, most car manufacturers in Brazil were losing money and laying off workers in droves, as the huge market they had anticipated had not materialised.But these days, business is so
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Chicago - Falling commodity prices and a slowing global economy would convince investors to support BHP Billiton's $121,5 billion (N$957 billion) hostile bid for Rio Tinto Group, the world's largest
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AGRIBANK is throwing a lifeline to farmers.The finance house will consolidate different loans into one single loan facility for them and will further provide the option to extend loan repayments.
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T HE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FNB Namibia Holdings, Vekuii Rukoro, has thrown down the gauntlet.FNB is ready for any challenge ahead, especially new entrants in the local banking sector, he
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South African manufacturing companies are seeking alternative means of powering their factories in the face of persistent problems with supplies from the country's main coal producers.The companies
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TRANSNAMIB employees returned to work yesterday after a seven-day strike that paralysed Namibia's rail network and cost the transport parastatal millions of dollars of lost income.In the aftermath of
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WASHINGTON - President George W Bush said he didn't care how terrorism architect Osama bin Laden was brought to justice, dead or alive."We'll smoke him out of his cave and we'll get him eventually,"
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LEGENDARY news hound Hannes Smith has made a return of sorts to the place where he spent countless hours going through thousands of files in search of stories for his newspaper.At the Office of the
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TEL AVIV - Israel's Evogene, Ormat Industries and the Leviev Group of Companies said yesterday they will set up a joint venture to grow castor beans in Namibia for the production of biodiesel.The
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A SELECTION of messages appearing on the BBA3 TV text strip.African union: * WHEN I watch this lot I realise Africa is in good hands. * BBA z a good forum for integration. Keep it up Africa! * IT'S
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AT 14h46 today, the American Cultural Centre will air 'In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 With the Honourable Rudolph W Giuliani', to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist
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A DELEGATION of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) arrived in Namibia yesterday on a three-leg tour which includes South Africa and Ethiopia.The delegation is led by the Chair of
read11-09-2008
THE Karasburg Town Council has dropped a charge of water theft against Mayor Julius Kalopa.Kalopa was charged with bypassing his water meter to avoid paying for water consumption. In a press statement
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NAMPOWER last week held a public meeting at the coast where it proposed two locations for its planned coal-fired power plant near Walvis Bay.The two potential sites are between Dune 7 and the Walvis
read11-09-2008
A SWAPO member from Omalindi village in the Omuthiya area of the Oshikoto Region has been disqualified as a voter in this month's Omuthiya local authority election after it was found that she had
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NAMPOWER yesterday cut electricity supply to Tses village in the South because the Village Council has not paid its electricity bill for the past two months.The council owes NamPower N$176 000, which
read11-09-2008
A MEMBER of the Namibian Police's VIP Protection Unit who was convicted of murder for shooting dead a fleeing burglary suspect in Windhoek in mid-2005 was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
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PRISONERS at the Wanaheda Police Station reportedly started a riot early Monday morning after a fellow inmate died in his cell.They claim that the death of Clive Hibsch (28) was the result of
read11-09-2008
THE site where the remains of a centuries-old shipwreck were found near Oranjemund at the start of April was reopened this week, after having been covered by sand for the past four months.A team of
read11-09-2008
A SWAPO MP in the National Council says the TransNamib strike was caused by those running the parastatal, who he accused of paying themselves huge salaries.Jhonny Hakaye said yesterday if TransNamib
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P ETHIMBO ta koleke aakolekwa ye li 107 mEgongalo lyOngeleki ya Katoolika ka Roma mOngwediva mOsoondaha ya zi ko, Omumbiisofi Omukuluntu gwOngeleki ya Katoolika Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, okwa
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O MBELEWA Onene yEtanga lyEgameno lya Namibia oya tseyitha kutya ngula mEtitano otaku ka kala oshigongi oshinene shOokakukutu kEtanga lyEgameno lya Namibia na South Afrika, tashi ka ningilwa mOhotela
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A ANTU ye li 50 oya mona iilonga (tayi kalelele) mOkamba ompe yokulala aatalelipo yedhina Onkoshi Camp yOkampani ya Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), ndjoka ya egululwa pambelewa mOmaadaha goshiwike
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KINSHASA - Etanga lyEgameno mOrepublika yuundemokoli ya Congo otali tumu aakwiita komahala gokuushayi muumbangalantu woshilongo shoka opo ya ka keelele oorebele dha Uganda dhongundu yoLord's
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O MUUNGANEKI gwoRDP mOshitopolwa sha Shikoto Ismael Shailemo okwa tseyitha kutya mOlyomakaya ngaka twa thinda geti 13 Septemba 2008 Ongundu yo RDP otayi ka kala nOshigongi oshinene pOmuthiya mOndonga
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Titus Haimbili ngoka a kutwa miilonga pakathimbo okwa ningi etokolo lyokufala TransNamib nosho wo Omunashipundi gwe Festus Lamek kOmoangu - konima sho aniwa a kuthwa miilonga shaali paveta.Oshipotha
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SYDNEY - All Blacks coach Graham Henry retained the same winning combination from their last two Tri-Nations matches for Saturday's decider against Australia in Brisbane.The All Blacks beat Australia
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CALAHORRA - Lance Armstrong's former team manager, Johan Bruyneel, said on yesterday that physically there is no reason why the American cannot stage a successful comeback next year at the age of
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LONDON - Gianfranco Zola said he wanted to excite West Ham United's fans with attacking football as he prepared to be named manager of the east London club."This is an opportunity in the Premier
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BEIJING - The Paralympics suffered its second doping scandal in as many days yesterday, with a German wheelchair basketballer kicked out of the event for taking a banned drug contained in hair-loss
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LONDON - After being stripped of a stirring victory in Belgium, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton must fight to keep his Formula One lead in Ferrari's home race on Sunday.Italian fans will be hoping Ferrari's
read11-09-2008
OSHAKATI Karate-Zen will compete at the national championships in Windhoek at the weekend, it was announced this week.The head coach of Oshakati Karate-Zen, Sensei Freddie Mwiya, says 52 contestants
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THE vice-chairperson of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC), Agnes Tjongarero, says the annual Sports Awards must continue as planned, even if there are no sports achievers.Tjongarero, also the
read11-09-2008
THE National under-17 football side will take on Zambia in a return leg of the African Championships at the Khomasdal Stadium on Sunday.Kick-off is at 16h00 and entrance is free. The young side drew
read11-09-2008
BRAVE Warriors coach Tom Saintfiet says the delayed start of the premiership has a negative effect on the national teams.At this stage, league authorities have not yet decided on the date for the
read11-09-2008
BRAVE Warriors striker Costa Khaiseb was yesterday banned from the national side after he used vulgar language towards coach Tom Saintfiet and was drunk while on national duty.Khaiseb, who accompanied
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* CAIRO - The death toll from the rockfall which crushed dozens of houses in Cairo last week has risen to 61, the state news agency MENA said yesterday.Turkish Cypriot leader upbeat on deal chances *
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BRASILIA - Brazil offered humanitarian aid to Haiti and Cuba on Tuesday after hurricanes Gustav and Ike caused substantial damage to both nations.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke with Cuban
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LOS ANGELES - Dead rapper Tupac '2Pac' Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music
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SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is not ill, a top official in the secretive state was quoted as saying yesterday, dismissing speculation of a possible power shift in the world's first
read11-09-2008
LUANDA - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's ruling MPLA party scored a landslide parliamentary election victory yesterday with nearly 82 per cent of the vote, provisional final results
read11-09-2008
CARACAS - In speech after speech, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stares at the television camera and unleashes a hail of colorful insults against his opponents."Oligarchs," "fascists," "mafia
read11-09-2008
WASHINGTON - The United States is reaching out to help Cuba in the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike despite Havana's rejection of an earlier offer to send assistance, the US State Department said on
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BERLIN - Emergency patients in the German city of Stuttgart will be rushed to hospital with extra speed and style after the fire brigade added two custom-made luxury Porsche cars to its fleet.Each
read11-09-2008
MBABANE - South African President Thabo Mbeki has told the king of Swaziland that he expects to end his latest mediation efforts in Zimbabwe by the end of this week, Swaziland's foreign minister said
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VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict and French President Nicolas Sarkozy would appear to be unlikely allies in a battle to inject more Christian values back into Europe.Yet when he welcomes Benedict to
read11-09-2008
SYDNEY - All Blacks coach Graham Henry retained the same winning combination from their last two Tri-Nations matches for Saturday's decider against Australia in Brisbane.The All Blacks beat Australia
read11-09-2008
CALAHORRA - Lance Armstrong's former team manager, Johan Bruyneel, said on yesterday that physically there is no reason why the American cannot stage a successful comeback next year at the age of
read11-09-2008
BEIJING - The Paralympics suffered its second doping scandal in as many days yesterday, with a German wheelchair basketballer kicked out of the event for taking a banned drug contained in hair-loss
read11-09-2008
LONDON - Gianfranco Zola said he wanted to excite West Ham United's fans with attacking football as he prepared to be named manager of the east London club."This is an opportunity in the Premier
read11-09-2008
LONDON - After being stripped of a stirring victory in Belgium, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton must fight to keep his Formula One lead in Ferrari's home race on Sunday.Italian fans will be hoping Ferrari's
read11-09-2008
OSHAKATI Karate-Zen will compete at the national championships in Windhoek at the weekend, it was announced this week.The head coach of Oshakati Karate-Zen, Sensei Freddie Mwiya, says 52 contestants
read11-09-2008
THE vice-chairperson of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC), Agnes Tjongarero, says the annual Sports Awards must continue as planned, even if there are no sports achievers.Tjongarero, also the
read11-09-2008
THE National under-17 football side will take on Zambia in a return leg of the African Championships at the Khomasdal Stadium on Sunday.Kick-off is at 16h00 and entrance is free. The young side drew
read11-09-2008
BRAVE Warriors coach Tom Saintfiet says the delayed start of the premiership has a negative effect on the national teams.At this stage, league authorities have not yet decided on the date for the
read11-09-2008
BRAVE Warriors striker Costa Khaiseb was yesterday banned from the national side after he used vulgar language towards coach Tom Saintfiet and was drunk while on national duty.Khaiseb, who accompanied
read11-09-2008
P ETHIMBO ta koleke aakolekwa ye li 107 mEgongalo lyOngeleki ya Katoolika ka Roma mOngwediva mOsoondaha ya zi ko, Omumbiisofi Omukuluntu gwOngeleki ya Katoolika Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, okwa
read11-09-2008
O MBELEWA Onene yEtanga lyEgameno lya Namibia oya tseyitha kutya ngula mEtitano otaku ka kala oshigongi oshinene shOokakukutu kEtanga lyEgameno lya Namibia na South Afrika, tashi ka ningilwa mOhotela
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A ANTU ye li 50 oya mona iilonga (tayi kalelele) mOkamba ompe yokulala aatalelipo yedhina Onkoshi Camp yOkampani ya Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), ndjoka ya egululwa pambelewa mOmaadaha goshiwike
read11-09-2008
O MUUNGANEKI gwoRDP mOshitopolwa sha Shikoto Ismael Shailemo okwa tseyitha kutya mOlyomakaya ngaka twa thinda geti 13 Septemba 2008 Ongundu yo RDP otayi ka kala nOshigongi oshinene pOmuthiya mOndonga
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KINSHASA - Etanga lyEgameno mOrepublika yuundemokoli ya Congo otali tumu aakwiita komahala gokuushayi muumbangalantu woshilongo shoka opo ya ka keelele oorebele dha Uganda dhongundu yoLord's
read11-09-2008
Titus Haimbili ngoka a kutwa miilonga pakathimbo okwa ningi etokolo lyokufala TransNamib nosho wo Omunashipundi gwe Festus Lamek kOmoangu - konima sho aniwa a kuthwa miilonga shaali paveta.Oshipotha
read11-09-2008
ITUC says global lender rewards countries that have not ratified ILO conventions B russels - The 2009 edition of World Bank's highest circulation publication, Doing Business, which the bank launched
read11-09-2008
Chicago - Falling commodity prices and a slowing global economy would convince investors to support BHP Billiton's $121,5 billion (N$957 billion) hostile bid for Rio Tinto Group, the world's largest
read11-09-2008
J ust a few years ago, most car manufacturers in Brazil were losing money and laying off workers in droves, as the huge market they had anticipated had not materialised.But these days, business is so
read11-09-2008
AGRIBANK is throwing a lifeline to farmers.The finance house will consolidate different loans into one single loan facility for them and will further provide the option to extend loan repayments.
read11-09-2008
T HE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FNB Namibia Holdings, Vekuii Rukoro, has thrown down the gauntlet.FNB is ready for any challenge ahead, especially new entrants in the local banking sector, he
read11-09-2008
South African manufacturing companies are seeking alternative means of powering their factories in the face of persistent problems with supplies from the country's main coal producers.The companies
read11-09-2008
HARARE - Zimbabwe said yesterday that it would license shops to sell goods in foreign currency to help ease shortages, the clearest sign authorities are losing the battle against a thriving black
read11-09-2008
SA finance minister says rising global military expenditure undermines peace D evelopment was the only way to ensure peace, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told the United Nations
read11-09-2008
* CAIRO - The death toll from the rockfall which crushed dozens of houses in Cairo last week has risen to 61, the state news agency MENA said yesterday.Turkish Cypriot leader upbeat on deal chances *
read11-09-2008
LOS ANGELES - Dead rapper Tupac '2Pac' Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music
read11-09-2008
BRASILIA - Brazil offered humanitarian aid to Haiti and Cuba on Tuesday after hurricanes Gustav and Ike caused substantial damage to both nations.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke with Cuban
read11-09-2008
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is not ill, a top official in the secretive state was quoted as saying yesterday, dismissing speculation of a possible power shift in the world's first
read11-09-2008
LUANDA - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's ruling MPLA party scored a landslide parliamentary election victory yesterday with nearly 82 per cent of the vote, provisional final results
read11-09-2008
CARACAS - In speech after speech, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stares at the television camera and unleashes a hail of colorful insults against his opponents."Oligarchs,"
read11-09-2008
WASHINGTON - The United States is reaching out to help Cuba in the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike despite Havana's rejection of an earlier offer to send assistance, the US State Department said on
read11-09-2008
BERLIN - Emergency patients in the German city of Stuttgart will be rushed to hospital with extra speed and style after the fire brigade added two custom-made luxury Porsche cars to its fleet.Each
read11-09-2008
MBABANE - South African President Thabo Mbeki has told the king of Swaziland that he expects to end his latest mediation efforts in Zimbabwe by the end of this week, Swaziland's foreign minister said
read11-09-2008
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict and French President Nicolas Sarkozy would appear to be unlikely allies in a battle to inject more Christian values back into Europe.Yet when he welcomes Benedict to
read11-09-2008
A SELECTION of messages appearing on the BBA3 TV text strip.African union: * WHEN I watch this lot I realise Africa is in good hands. * BBA z a good forum for integration. Keep it up Africa! * IT'S
read11-09-2008
AT 14h46 today, the American Cultural Centre will air 'In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01 With the Honourable Rudolph W Giuliani', to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist
read11-09-2008
A DELEGATION of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) arrived in Namibia yesterday on a three-leg tour which includes South Africa and Ethiopia.The delegation is led by the Chair of
read11-09-2008
THE Karasburg Town Council has dropped a charge of water theft against Mayor Julius Kalopa.Kalopa was charged with bypassing his water meter to avoid paying for water consumption. In a press
read11-09-2008
NAMPOWER last week held a public meeting at the coast where it proposed two locations for its planned coal-fired power plant near Walvis Bay.The two potential sites are between Dune 7 and the Walvis
read11-09-2008
A SWAPO member from Omalindi village in the Omuthiya area of the Oshikoto Region has been disqualified as a voter in this month's Omuthiya local authority election after it was found that she had
read11-09-2008
NAMPOWER yesterday cut electricity supply to Tses village in the South because the Village Council has not paid its electricity bill for the past two months.The council owes NamPower N$176 000, which
read11-09-2008
A MEMBER of the Namibian Police's VIP Protection Unit who was convicted of murder for shooting dead a fleeing burglary suspect in Windhoek in mid-2005 was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
read11-09-2008
PRISONERS at the Wanaheda Police Station reportedly started a riot early Monday morning after a fellow inmate died in his cell.They claim that the death of Clive Hibsch (28) was the result of
read11-09-2008
THE site where the remains of a centuries-old shipwreck were found near Oranjemund at the start of April was reopened this week, after having been covered by sand for the past four months.A team of
read11-09-2008
A SWAPO MP in the National Council says the TransNamib strike was caused by those running the parastatal, who he accused of paying themselves huge salaries.Jhonny Hakaye said yesterday if TransNamib
read