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44 Articles found on Wednesday, 22 April 2009
ANC predicts landslide
22-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s likely next president Jacob Zuma was confident yesterday of a landslide win in a general election, brushing aside concerns that corruption charges had dented his
readNotable Quotes
22-04-2009
THIS will be the most expensive book made in Namibia – and all with taxpayers’ money. – An opposition MP commenting on a coffee table book on the new State House being budgeted at around N$1
readKelly hits NSC below belt
22-04-2009
BOXING Namibia president Kelly Nghixulifwa challenged the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) to prove themselves as competent or get abolished as a sports authority.He said the NSC is “hugely incompetent
readSMSes for Wed 22 Apr 09
22-04-2009
* IT is criminal that nothing has been done to recover the oil from the wrecked Meob Bay trawler. If our environmentalists had been on the ball, our birds would not be fighting for their lives.
readZuma promises a smooth transition
22-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – The ANC is confident of a “decisive” victory in today’s polls, with party president Jacob Zuma assuring a smooth transition to a new administration.The ANC had “better policies” than
readThe search for oil is on
22-04-2009
DRILLING for oil off the Namibian coast might start by late 2011. Tower Oil, a British exploration company, remains confident that they’re sitting on ten billion barrels of oil on Walvis Ridge off
readYoung South Africans see little hope from voting
22-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – A new generation of South African voters with little memory of apartheid doubts today’s election will meet hopes of change in a country where some leave high school unable to use a
readPunjab blown away
22-04-2009
DURBAN – Chris Gayle hammered an explosive 44 not out to power Kolkata Knight Riders to an 11-run victory over Kings XI Punjab in a rain-hit Indian Premier League match yesterday.The West Indies
readSpringbok coach starts to see Red
22-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – A bad week for South Africa in the Super 14 coupled to the naming of the British and Irish Lions side would have had the effect of placing Springbok coach Peter de Villiers on full
readUnam make it nine in a row
22-04-2009
UNAM men once again successfully defended their status as the best men’s hockey team in Namibia when they won their ninth consecutive Indoor league title over the weekend.Unam beat the X Team 3-2 in
readNNOC adjusts entry criteria for Commonwealth Games
22-04-2009
FOR Namibia to win medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) has unveiled the new adjusted qualification criteria for affiliated sport
readIsaacs shown the door at Pirates
22-04-2009
ORLANDO Pirates coach Brian Isaacs has left the club after he was asked to do so late last week.Isaacs confirmed to The Namibian Sport yesterday that he was asked to leave the team by former Orlando
readAthletes to suffer
22-04-2009
NAMIBIA National Olympic Committee (NNOC) president Agnes Tjongarero says athletes competing in events organised either by Athletics Namibia (AN) under Alpha Kangueehi or the Interim Committee (IC),
readFidentia’s Goodwin gets jail sentence
22-04-2009
CAPE TOWN – A key figure in the Fidentia saga in South Africa, Steve Goodwin, has been convicted of fraud and corruption, and of money laundering involving about N$93 million.In terms of a plea
readTourism slump ‘overestimated’
22-04-2009
THE expected effect of the global financial crisis on Namibian tourism this year is not as serious as estimated by the Bank of Namibia (BoN) recently, according to Namibia Tourism Board CEO Digu
readChanges at Ohorongo Cement
22-04-2009
THE board of Ohorongo Cement has announced changes in the company’s senior management structure.Uwe Müller, who has acted as General Manager of Technique at Ohorongo Cement, will take up a senior
readNamibia’s regional trade slides down
22-04-2009
NAMIBIA’S trade with Southern Africa has dropped from 60,4 per cent in 1998 to 51,3 per cent in 2006, showing that, despite regional governments and the international donor community’s push for
readRio shareholders dispute bosses’ pay
22-04-2009
LONDON - Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto faced anger from shareholders with nearly one in five rejecting a proposed pay package for its directors, it revealed after an annual meeting on
readEmerging commercial farmers flex muscles
22-04-2009
THE growing number of new commercial farmers, also referred to as emerging commercial farmers, feel that existing farming organisations do not represent their interests and therefore decided to form
readHigh-grade phosphate deposit found offshore
22-04-2009
AUSTRALIAN mining company Bonaparte Diamond Mines NL has announced a substantial find of high-grade phosphate deposits off the coast of Namibia.The discovery was made at the Sandpiper/Meob Phosphate
readElection won’t affect rand: Analyst
22-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – The rand remained firm in early trade on Monday, trading around R9 to the dollar ahead of the national elections today.At 8.35am the rand was bid at R9,0100 from an overnight close of
readTime to clean up bad banks: IMF
22-04-2009
BERLIN – Governments the world over are acting too slowly when it comes to cleaning up their banks’ balance sheets, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying on Sunday.“In Germany, other
readMiss USA 2009 crowned
22-04-2009
LAS VEGAS – Miss North Carolina USA Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA 2009 on Sunday, beating out 50 other beauty queens in the live pageant televised from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las
read‘Slumdog’ star in child-sale dispute
22-04-2009
MUMBAI – Indian police in Mumbai are probing accusations that the father of a child star of the Oscar-winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ tried to sell his daughter for US$290 000.The mother of
readBees buzz up the economy
22-04-2009
LONDON – Britain will earmark 10 million pounds (US$14,6 million) for research into the main threats to bees, butterflies and other insect pollinators, whose decline jeopardises agricultural
readLotto winner wants a nude dude ranch
22-04-2009
BROOKSVILLE, Florida. – You’ve heard of nude beaches, but how about a nude dude ranch? Tim Clements hit a $3.3 million jackpot in 2004, and wants to return to the farm life he grew up in. Clements and
readTamil say 1 000 civilians die in government raid
22-04-2009
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels said yesterday that 1000 civilians died in a government raid on their territory that the military says freed thousands of noncombatants from the war zone. The
readKenyan villagers, gang clash killing 28
22-04-2009
GATHAITHI – Villagers in central Kenya clashed with an outlawed criminal gang using machetes, axes and clubs, killing at least 28 people and leaving streets stained with blood, police said
readGumwe i imangeleka sho a pumu omuntu nohauto
22-04-2009
OMULUMENTU gwoomvula 38 okwi imangeleke konima sho a pumu okamatyona kamwe nohauto molukanda lwa Tseiblaagte po Keetmanshoop omutenya gwOsoondaha.Komanda gwOpolisi moshitopolwa sha Kara, Komufala
readmEtitano esiku lyOmalaria mUuyuni
22-04-2009
ONKUNDANA ye tu zilila mUuministeli wUukalinawa nOnkalonawa otayi ti kutya mEtitano ndika twa thinda otali ka kala Esiku lyokudhimbulukwa omukithi gwOmalaria mUuyuni.Uuministeli wUuhaku owa
readGovt assesses oil spill
22-04-2009
THE oil spill near Lüderitz does not seem to pose an immediate threat to the fish and rock lobster stocks along the 100 km of coastline affected.“We are not too worried at this stage,” the Ministry of
readUunona woonakulwa aakulu wa pewa iikulya komalenga nokaanangeshefa
22-04-2009
AANONA ye li nhanga ethele limwe yOonakulwa aakulu yEkondjelomanguluko mboka ya ndumbala pombelewa Onene yOswapo pu Kandjengedi mOshakati moshitopolwa sha Shana, mEtitano lya zi ko oya pewa iikulya
readYamwe oya pumbwa natango ootenda
22-04-2009
AANTU yamwe ya gumwa komeya gefundja moshitopolwa sha Kavango, oye li natango ya pumbwa ootenda, omakumbatha noonete dhokwiigamena koomwe. Ndhika odha popiwa ku Ngoloneya yoshitopolwa shika John
readmOnoolo otamu kala hamu limwa olwishi
22-04-2009
PETHIMBO ta popitha Oshituthi shegandjo lyoonzapo dhaailongi yi ilonga moUNAM, sha ningilwa mOsenda yOmaulikilo gIipindi mOngwediva mEtitano lya zi ko, Omukuluntu gwoshiputudhilo shoPombanda sha UNAM
readDrug mule escapes from Magistrate’s Court holding cells
22-04-2009
Five days after being arrested at Hosea Kutako International Airport on a drug smuggling charge, Angolan citizen Ditomena Nzuzi Jisela has managed to slip out of Police custody unnoticed.Jisela (27)
readBaggage, Legacy and Vision
22-04-2009
The State of the Nation Speech disappointed. An assemblage of good bits of the MTEF budget document with repetitive promises to improve productivity, service delivery and “cutting the fat”. It
readRice research a success: Nujoma
22-04-2009
THE rice research project that was carried on by the University of Namibia’s Department of Crop Science has been a success, Unam Chancellor Sam Nujoma said at a graduation ceremony at Ongwediva on
readParliament set to move?
22-04-2009
NAMIBIA might soon have a brand new Parliament building outside Windhoek, as well as a single-chamber Parliament, the Speaker of the National Assembly has indicated.Introducing the budget vote for the
readFormer TCL miners won’t give up
22-04-2009
FORMER TCL workers at odds with the country’s financial supervisory body, Namfisa, are picketing on the pavement in front of the High Court in Windhoek.They set up camp there on Monday morning and
readPolice pay in limelight
22-04-2009
MEMBERS of the Namibian Police are resigning because some earn salaries at the level of security officers, an opposition MP claimed yesterday.Elma Dienda of the Congress of Democrats said Police
readCity works on enviro policy
22-04-2009
THE City of Windhoek says it is concerned about the impact the city’s continuous expansion may be having on the survival of plant and animal life within its boundaries.The municipality recently
readNavy’s ‘iron maiden’ arrives in Walvis Bay
22-04-2009
THE Namibian Navy’s new 47-metre vessel, the Brendan Simbwaye, armed with a 40mm cannon and two machine guns, arrived in Walvis Bay from Brazil yesterday.The ship was built by Brazil Empresa Gerencial
readPoison fears dog woman’s death
22-04-2009
THE Police are investigating a possible case of murder after a 72-year-old woman dropped dead on her way home from a pension payout point. The deceased, Teresia Kapwita,collected her pension at
readOtavi shot in foot by age-old contracts
22-04-2009
THE Otavi Village Council will auction over 80 plots next week, but may only gain about N$300 000 to N$400 000 instead of the full value of the plots – a possible N$3,2 million.This is because initial
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