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50 Articles found on Friday, 3 April 2009
Governance Is About Substance And Not Form
03-04-2009
WHEN President Pohamba assumed the highest office over four years ago he promised Namibians an era of frugal public financial management. He intoned that he would cut on waste, including corruption,
readMafeje on Development and Democracy
03-04-2009
HE crossed rivers, trekked deserts, navigated oceans and climbed mountains like the conqueror of past. This man, however, was not a conqueror. He was simply exploring the frontiers, boundaries of
readAfrica’s Immunity
03-04-2009
ACCRA – The United States suffers rising job losses. Britain nationalises its banks. Once high-flying small economies like Ireland, Hungary, and Iceland break down. Even robust China and India are
readBethanie Village corruption probe nears end
03-04-2009
AN investigation into alleged corruption at the Bethanie Village Council will be completed soon. The Anti-Corruption Commission Director, Paulus Noa, yesterday said the ACC was just waiting for
readDisaster management policy adopted
03-04-2009
PARLIAMENT on Wednesday passed a policy on national disaster risk management, which was recently introduced by Prime Minister Nahas Angula.I will be sent to the National Council, which is the House of
readAir Namibia and defence budgets get MPs going
03-04-2009
THE budget allocations for the Defence Ministry and the new State House are too high, McHenry Venaani, Secretary General of the DTA, said during the Budget debate on Tuesday.Defence received the third
readDamara clicks against Geneva Convention
03-04-2009
AN international traffic convention prevents Namibia from allowing the symbols for Damara-Nama click sounds or German umlauts to be used on personalised number plates.This answer, given by Works and
readShortage of tents for flood victims
03-04-2009
A SPECIAL committee set up to co-ordinate flood management in northern Namibia is only responsible for the four north-central regions, the Ministry of Information said yesterday.The Flood Emergency
readRebecca not coming for concert
03-04-2009
SOUTH African gospel star Rebecca Malope will not be coming to Windhoek for the Healing Song Concert, her spokesperson Thabo Malo of Beyond Destiny has confirmed.The award-winning gospel star,
readRebecca not coming for concert
03-04-2009
The award-winning gospel star, together with Deborah Fraiser and Winnie Mashaba, both renowned gospel singers in South Africa, were scheduled to perform at the Independence Arena in Katutura tomorrow.
readKamati denies rumours over missing money
03-04-2009
NDALI Che Kamati, Namibia’s former ambassador to Zimbabwe, has denied allegations that he mismanaged over N$500 000 of Government funds or is paying back over N$63 000 a month to compensate for the
readGovt wins treason assault claims case
03-04-2009
THE first full High Court trial on damages claims against the Minister of Home Affairs because of the alleged assault and torture of suspects in the Caprivi high treason trial has ended in a victory
readCouple fight off attackers at Swakopmund
03-04-2009
SOUTH African couple Bronwyn Andreka and Gert Nel put up the fight of their lives on Tuesday night when two men attacked them in their rented flat at Swakopmund.Andreka was preparing dinner for her
readA Chance For Our Churches
03-04-2009
THE Church Leaders Declaration on Elections in Namibia, while long overdue, is a welcome step. The Declaration was launched in the capital this week.Nobody can deny the crucial played, in particular
readNoteable Quotes
03-04-2009
IF all communities could organise themselves like Orania, we will fight poverty. – ANC President Jacob Zuma after a recent visit to the whites-only enclave in South AfricaTO say anything against the
readGuinea’s ex PM released after accepting fraud rap
03-04-2009
CONKARY – Guinea’s ex-prime minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare was released from prison on Wednesday after accepting responsibility for massive embezzlement related to the west African nation’s key mining
readAmbitious development planned for Hosea Kutako
03-04-2009
A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR project including hotels, logistics companies and truck ports is planned for the area around the Hosea Kutako airport. The project is estimated to cost around N$11 billion over
readOur Education System fails US
03-04-2009
I WOULD like to share my concerns and views about our education system. We are a very young nation with a small population that our government can afford to support 100% but our government is failing
readDr Shejavali Takes Issue over Report
03-04-2009
I WISH to draw your attention to the fact that the article in The Namibian of April 1st, titled ‘Churches get active for peaceful elections’, is inaccurate and incomplete in many instances. It is my
readletter
03-04-2009
NAMIBIA is a land characterised by brave people, starting with its forbears who had made selfless sacrifices to attain the goal of independence. The brave men and women of independent Namibia have
readWho Is Fooling Who?
03-04-2009
I HAVE been following the utterances expressed by the SPYL these days. Sometimes I wonder if they have ever had an opportunity to live with adults. I honestly do not know what they are up to. I am a
readAppeal For Humanity
03-04-2009
THIS note is an appeal for humane treatment of our fellow people, in this case, domestic workers. I find it very disturbing that certain individuals still feel comfortable while paying their domestic
readRisks Involved In Aviation
03-04-2009
AS aviators we fly through the wind and unlike cars and similar means of transport, if something major should go wrong we have nothing to hold on to. That’s simply why redundancy is of vital
readMalaria in North claims 32
03-04-2009
THIRTY-TWO people have died of malaria so far in the four northern regions of Oshana, Omusati, Ohangwena and Oshikoto while 71 017 people are in critical need of flood relief, says the Co-ordinator of
readBusinesses drowning in flood-stricken North
03-04-2009
BUSINESSES in the flood-stricken North are drowning in losses of millions of dollars as many of them enter their fourth month of closure.Following an urgent relief appeal by the Namibian Chamber of
readBloody shootout
03-04-2009
TWO suspects were shot dead in a fierce gun battle between the Police and an armed gang in Windhoek’s Ausspannplatz area yesterday.The shootout raged for more than 15 minutes, according to a number of
readSMSes for Fri 03 Apr 09
03-04-2009
* LAST week we lost our older brother, due to a car accident. The same week we lost our lovely sister, killed by her boyfriend at Oshikango. She was killed in the eyes of public. My question is why
readA football tribute
03-04-2009
THIS week I would like to pay tribute to various football officials, administrators, teams, players and sponsors who do their best to promote and develop the game of football on all levels in the
readNotice and Fixtures
03-04-2009
* THE Mario Soccer Academy will hold a parents’ meeting at the Thüringer Hof Hotel on Monday, April 6 at 17h00. The meeting is to give an overview of the activities of the academy. For more
readBA, Civics to square off
03-04-2009
BLACK Africa face Civics tonight as both sides will vie to improve on their current standings in MTC Namibia Premier League.The crunch fixture will be decided at the Khomasdal Stadium and starts at
readLadies closed squash champs: A Schnoor thing?
03-04-2009
FOLLOWING Tyk Kakehongo’s victory in the men’s event last weekend, Isabell Schnoor is the hot favourite in The Namibian-sponsored Windhoek Ladies closed squash competition at the Wanderers today and
readLewis stripped of third place
03-04-2009
SEPANG – World champion Lewis Hamilton was Thursday disqualified from the Australian Grand Prix and his third place given back to Toyota’s Jarno Trulli.The sport’s governing body ruled that the Briton
readChannel 7 ya gandja omagano kOosikola nokoothigwa
03-04-2009
ORADIO ya tseyika nawa, ya nika iinima yUukwambepo, yedhina Channel 7 Oshiwambo ya gandja omagano gOondola/N$50,000 kOosikola mbali dhomoNooli, ano kOsikola ya Hashiyana mOngwediva mOshitopolwa sha
readANC ku shi Kalunga: Tutu ta ti
03-04-2009
JOHANNESSBURG – Omumbiishofi omukuluntu gwOngeleka ya Angilikan a simana muuyuni, omusamane Desmond Tutu, okwa ponokele ongundu tayi pangelo mu South Afrika yo African National Congress (ANC) e te yi
read71,017 oye li mompumbwe yiikulya
03-04-2009
OMUKULUNTU gwOmbelewa tayi ungaunga niinima yopaulumompumbwe ya pamba omeya gefundja mUumbangalantu wopokati, Erastus Negonga ngoka wo e li Amushanga ta Kalelele mUuministeli wOmapangelo gOpaitopolwa,
readObama makes yet another taxing nomination
03-04-2009
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than US$7 000 in back taxes after finding
readSex abuse teachers to be named
03-04-2009
CAPE TOWN – Teachers who sexually abuse pupils will be named and shamed and lose their jobs, the SA Council for Educators (SACE) said on Tuesday.“SACE is deeply concerned that some of our teachers
readAfrikaners true S Africans: Zuma
03-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – ANC president Jacob Zuma called Afrikaners the only true South Africans among whites, during a meeting with representatives of Afrikaner groups in Sandton yesterday.“Of all the white
readTutu comments ‘despicable’
03-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG – The Congress of SA Trade Unions has described Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s comments that he is not looking forward to a Jacob Zuma presidency as “despicable”.The trade union
readGuinea’s ex PM released after accepting fraud rap
03-04-2009
CONKARY – Guinea’s ex-prime minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare was released from prison on Wednesday after accepting responsibility for massive embezzlement related to the west African nation’s key mining
readRock lobster sector to suffer as prices tumble
03-04-2009
THE rock lobster industry is expected to suffer huge losses because of tumbling rock lobster prices this season.The CEO of Seaflower Fishing Company, Ronnie Coppin, told The Namibian that the price of
readPolitical Perspective
03-04-2009
I AM for once in agreement with the Minister of Veterans’ Affairs, Ngarikutuke Tjiriange, on the inadvisability of lump sums being paid out to former combatants. (I don’t necessarily concur with him
readChina extends yuan’s global reach
03-04-2009
BEIJING – China’s currency swap with Argentina is the highest-profile move yet in a quiet campaign by Beijing to reduce reliance on the dollar by expanding the reach of its own tightly controlled yuan
readMore uranium finds in Namibia
03-04-2009
CANADIAN-BASED uranium mining company Xemplar Energy has made new uranium finds at Aluriesfontein, which is part of its Warmbad exploration site.Xemplar CEO Simon Tam said the company has identified
read‘Perfect storm’ to wreck world growth
03-04-2009
ECONOMIC growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to halve from 4,9 per cent last year to 2,4 per cent this year as the world faces its first decline in global output since World War II, according to
readRecession task force wraps up its work
03-04-2009
THE task force responsible for a strategy to ensure that Namibia weathers the global financial storm will wrap up its brainstorming this week and ministers are likely to see a survival blueprint as
readPolygamous politicians may lose female votes
03-04-2009
JAKARTA - Polygamy is turning into an election issue among some women voters in officially secular, predominantly Muslim Indonesia, after a feminist group listed several Islamist politicians alleged
readUS calls for stronger Sudan ties
03-04-2009
KHARTOUM – US President Barack Obama’s new envoy began a visit to Khartoum yesterday with an appeal for stronger relations with Sudan, whose President Omar al-Beshir has been accused of war crimes in
readA Chance For Our Churches
03-04-2009
THE Church Leaders Declaration on Elections in Namibia, while long overdue, is a welcome step. The Declaration was launched in the capital this week.Nobody can deny the crucial played, in particular
readCoke mules made to sweat ‘it’
03-04-2009
FOUR of five Angolan men arrested on charges of cocaine possession earlier this week could not appear in court yesterday, as the drugs are still being flushed out of their systems.By yesterday
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