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66 Articles found on Thursday, 30 April 2009
Jacob Zuma’s SA Must Overcome A ‘Perception Deficit’ In The West
30-04-2009
FOURTEEN years have passed since the majority of South Africans were first given their right to vote in a free South Africa. Last week, their right to vote was renewed for the fourth time.The ruling
readPublic Institutions, Information And The Democratic Ideal
30-04-2009
INFORMATION society, information highway, knowledge economy. These are some of the buzzwords of our time. And they are used freely – sometimes in a parrot-like manner even by people who don’t attach a
readA Bumpy Ride To Media Freedom
30-04-2009
“The government cannot look on when the nation is misinformed through the media.”Information Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at the opening of the Media Roundtable (July 13 2005) WORLD Press Freedom
readDRFN, NNF form alliance
30-04-2009
THE Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) and the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) have decided to set up a strategic alliance and to create a Namibia Institute for Sustainable Development.
readNoteable Quotes
30-04-2009
I BELIEVE this child was sent to us for a reason. – Windhoek resident Deklan Gowases who found a newborn baby girl abandoned near a dumpster in KhomasdalIF you visit someone, don’t exchange kisses...
readTeams invited to Kerina Cup
30-04-2009
THE organisation Namibia Youth for Development invites teams from all the regions to join in a football tournament that will be held at Gobabis on June 20 and 21.The registration fee is N$1 200 per
readHitman vows to win over Pacman
30-04-2009
LAS VEGAS – Britain’s Ricky Hatton confidently predicted victory in his IBO light-welterweight title defence against Filipino Manny Pacquiao after being welcomed by cheering fans in Las Vegas on
readAPP to hold first congress
30-04-2009
THE All People’s Party is to hold its first congress at Rundu this weekend. Agapitus Hausiku, interim secretary for information of APP, said they will gather under the theme: ‘Towards change and a
readCan Blue make it?
30-04-2009
THE rise of Blue Waters to the premiership will come at a cost this season, but they have to do that to bring back their supporters to the stadium.Last weekend, Blue Waters coach Lucky Shipanga, some
readSponsoring a child’s future
30-04-2009
THROUGH hope and education Family of Hope Services (FHS) in Hakahana, Katutura, is trying to uplift children who would probably end up illiterate on the street.FHS was founded in 2003 with the aim of
readNamibia lose in semis
30-04-2009
NAMIBIA blew their chances of securing a final place at the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy after they went down 29-24 to the United States in Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday.Two tries in the last eight
readMexican toddler first US flu death
30-04-2009
WASHINGTON – A Mexican toddler in Texas has died of the H1N1 flu strain, the first confirmed death outside Mexico from a virus which health officials fear could cause a pandemic as it spread to two
readDBN gets flak from Kawana, NA
30-04-2009
WHILE the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) celebrated its successes during its fifth anniversary celebrations this week, Members of Parliament were less impressed, accusing the Bank of not “looking
readGuardiola slams Chelsea
30-04-2009
BARCELONA – Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola reacted angrily at what he saw as the referee’s leniency towards English side Chelsea’s physical approach in their 0-0 Champions League semi-final first leg
readSquash juniors head down south
30-04-2009
TOMORROW morning 36 young Namibian squash players will complete a 17-hour journey to take part in the South African Country Schools Invitation Squash event in Bloemfontein.The event, which takes place
readPirates get Stars
30-04-2009
AN epic encounter is in the offing when premiership defending champions Orlando Pirates take on African Stars in a Cell One NFA Cup quarter-final match in Windhoek on May 16.Eleven Arrows, Ramblers
readIUM on track with building
30-04-2009
BUILDING plans for the new campus of the International University of Management (IUM) in Dorado Park are back on track, after a temporary halt in construction due to heavy rains earlier in the year.
readBangalore clinch last-over thriller
30-04-2009
DURBAN - Mark Boucher hit an unbeaten 25 off 13 balls as Bangalore Royal Challengers posted an exciting five-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League yesterday.Kevin
readKeetmans council budget down
30-04-2009
THE Keetmanshoop Town Council will spend less this year after approving a decreased budget at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday last week. The Council budget for 2009-2010 is N$38,8 million, down
readGondwana game count lower
30-04-2009
THE latest game count indicates a drop in the number of game in the Gondwana Canyon Park at the Fish River Canyon in the South. The count took place over the Easter weekend in the 126 000-hectare
readMore computer theft cases reported
30-04-2009
Computer theft is continuing in Windhoek, with two more cases reported in the Hochland Park suburb over the weekend. On Saturday night between 19h00 and 20h00, unknown suspects broke into a house in
readHunting season starts Friday
30-04-2009
THE 2009 hunting season will start on May 1 on commercial farms with officially registered game-proof fences, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism announced on Tuesday.Huntable game species are
readMagistrate’s Courts finalised 29 415 cases: Justice Minister
30-04-2009
MAGISTRATE’S Courts finalised close to 30 000 cases in the past financial year which ended last month, while the High Courts finalised 17 of the 135 cases on their roll, Justice Minister Pendukeni
readSMSes for Thu 30 Apr 09
30-04-2009
* HERE comes swine flu. It has no boundaries at all. Question – Is the Government doing anything to handle this? We have tourists every day. The time is now! – Mr Kapweya * THE Ministry of Health
read‘Protect Me’
30-04-2009
NINE years ago, Corinna Schauenburg and Fransiska Eises founded the Soutere Child Care Centre in a small shack at Windhoek’s Goreangab Dam informal settlement.Just over 20 children received one hot
readWalenga appointed Ondonga headman
30-04-2009
POLITICIAN and businessman John Walenga was recently appointed senior headman of the Ondangwa District of the Ondonga Traditional Authority. At a ceremony officiated by Ondonga King Immanuel Kauluma
read‘Tombstones’ along roads unlawful
30-04-2009
Defence Minister Charles Namoloh said that the country’s national roads should not be turned into “graveyards”.Speaking in the National Assembly on Monday, Namoloh denounced the erection of crosses
readTribal divisions flare at Vaalgras
30-04-2009
TRIBAL division has again reared its head among the Orlam people at Vaalgras ahead of this weekend’s annual commemoration of the Nama genocide of 1904. A faction led by Daniel Apollus yesterday said
readMPs fear resettlement farms going to waste
30-04-2009
Fears that resettled farmers are turning formerly productive land into useless tracts of land surfaced in the National Assembly yesterday. Various MPs who took part in the budgetary discussion of the
readFireworks expected at SPYL meeting
30-04-2009
THE Swapo Party Youth League will hold a potentially watershed Central Committee meeting at Swakopmund today amidst reports of division and threats of a boycott among its members.Former youth league
readYamwe yi iyaka mondholongo pOshomeya
30-04-2009
AANANDHOLONGO yane ya li ya tegelela epangulo oyi iyaka mokakuma kopOpolisi ya Shomeya mOsoondaha.Aalumentu mbaka teya oosela dhawo nomiyelo dhomeni. Oyo nee: David Shutuhanga (20), Richard Guiob
readOunona wOfikola yetu kawa li komaashinga: Hanghuwo ta ti
30-04-2009
MOMBAPILA ya ye yenyenyeto, a shangela kOshifo eshi, Omukulunhufikola manga wOfikola younona ya Paulus Hamutenya pEenhana moshitopolwa sha Hangwena me Olivia Tuyenikelao Takatu yaHanghuwo
readOonyati odha kondekwa natango komeya
30-04-2009
OSIPANA yoonyati dha konda pomathele gaali ndhoka omwedhi gwa zi ko dha li dha kondekelwa komeya puuntuntu uyali moshitopolwa sha Caprivi, odhi li natango dha kondekelwa komeya puuntuntu
readAanuulema taya tidhwa mo mOshipangelo
30-04-2009
AANUULEMA yokuutemba ye li 21 lwaampoka mboka ya kala mOshipangelo shEpangelo sha Shakati ethimbo ele lela noya li ya tala kutya Oshipangelo osho egumbo lyawo monkalamwenyo yawo, omasiku ga zi ko oya
readSqueezing tax out of NBC is ‘futile’
30-04-2009
PROSECUTING the NBC for not paying employees’ income tax deductions to the State is futile, as the beleaguered broadcaster has neither the money to defend itself nor to pay the outstanding tax,
readOondjamba dha shunwa mo mEtosha
30-04-2009
OONDJAMBA dhi li 13 ndhoka dhi iyaka mOpaaka yIiyamakuru ya Etosha National Park uusiku wOsoondaha, odha shunwa mo mOshikunino shika, Omunambelewa Omukuluntu mUuministeli wEgameno lyUuntshitwe
readOkahanona ka ekelwahi mu Khomasdal
30-04-2009
OMUKULUKADHI gumwe a li a ka talela po kuume ke, okwa li i itsu okahanona ka ekelwahi popepi nendoloma limwe lyiiyagaya mu Khomasdal mOmaandaha.Okahanona haka ke na ondjundo yokilogalama 1,5 oka li ka
readAanona ya velelwa kombanda onkee ye li pOombelewa dhoSwapo
30-04-2009
AANONA ya valelwa mekondjelomanguluko ye li 480 onkee ye li pOombelewa oonene dhoSwapo mOshana pu Kandjengedi mOshakati, taya ti itaya zi po mpoka manga inaya mona iilonga.Oonakuvalelwa muupongekwa
readAir Namibia Can Do More
30-04-2009
WHILE it is good news to learn that Air Namibia is rationalising its flight schedules in an effort to “minimise its losses and optimise its opportunities”, as announced at a press conference this
readHunting trip goes badly wrong
30-04-2009
AN encounter with an aggressive leopard almost cost a South African hunter his life on Friday, when he was accidentally shot in the stomach with a hunting rifle.Punki Swelinao (41) is being treated in
readThe battle of the shows
30-04-2009
THIS year’s Windhoek Agricultural and Industrial Show will have to compete for visitors with a Lifestyle Expo organised by MTC at the same time.Held at the Windhoek Independence and Rugby stadiums at
readHas globalisation made us more catastrophe-prone?
30-04-2009
SINGAPORE - As the world grapples with the worst economic downturn in decades and the possibility of a flu pandemic, a growing body of research suggests the complexity of the modern global economy may
readKenyan women’s group tells men: Make war? No love
30-04-2009
NAIROBI - A coalition of women’s groups says thousands of women will go on a weeklong sex strike to urge Kenya’s top leaders to stop a feud they say could reprise the bloody chaos that followed the
read‘Don’t blame the pigs’
30-04-2009
WHAT to call the new strain of flu raising alarms around the world has taken on political, economic, and diplomatic overtones, the Boston Globe reports.Pork producers question whether the term ‘swine
read‘Swine’ flu: Nam remains on full alert
30-04-2009
HEALTH Minister Dr Richard Kamwi’s cellphone will be switched on 24 hours a day this long weekend as he keeps abreast of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, which has spread to countries around the
readShift Workers And Noise Levels
30-04-2009
I AM a shift worker at Rössing Mine, and I, like many other shift workers at Rössing, Areva and Langer Heinrich Mine, feel that the town Swakopmund is a mining town and that other people should
readEgypt kills all pigs due to swine flu
30-04-2009
CAIRO – Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300 000 pigs in the country yesterday as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu even though no cases have been reported here yet, the
readMum says she stole a million ‘for my children’
30-04-2009
A FORMER employee of Swabou, who claimed she stole close to N$1 million from her employer so she could buy food and clothes for her children, has been jailed for five years.Over a period of about 34
readMost in US live with unhealthy air
30-04-2009
LOS ANGELES – Sixty per cent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung
readIn Defence Of Chiefs
30-04-2009
ALLOW me to comment on the article reported in The Namibian of April 24, 2009 – titled ‘Too many chiefs bloat the council’. The supposedly “unending applications for recognition of traditional
readMan cuts off finger to protest overdue wages
30-04-2009
BELGRADE – A Serbian union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said on Monday he did it to show how desperate he and
readWhy We DO Need The Military
30-04-2009
IN The Namibian of April 17 2009 Alexactus Kaure argued about abolition of the armed forces. He maintains that “the Namibian Army is becoming a black hole” and that “Namibia has no capacity/capability
readZim teachers threaten strike over pay
30-04-2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s teachers yesterday vowed to go on strike when the new school term begins next week after government reneged on a pledge to increase their salaries.“There has not been any concrete
readTaliban kidnap dozens of Pakistani security forces
30-04-2009
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them from a district near the capital, while the militants took over police stations and kidnapped more
readStriking A Balance In Swakop
30-04-2009
WHAT’s wrong with Swakopmund’s ratepayers and their elected representatives and municipal management to continuously end up on the wrong side of every shortcut attempt of self-enrichment at the cost
readRemember Chernobyl And Be Warned
30-04-2009
ON April 26 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, releasing 90 times the radioactivity of the atomic bombs
readSwaziland textile factories close down
30-04-2009
MBABANE - Four textile factories have closed down in Swaziland, leaving hundreds of workers unemployed in a country already battling high unemployment rates, a government official said on
readMiners drag SA bourse lower
30-04-2009
JOHANNESBURG - Falling mining shares, hit by a sharp drop in metals prices, dragged South Africa’s stock market down on Tuesday, but the rand powered ahead to a near seven-month high, extending a
readEU proposes hedge fund registration law
30-04-2009
BRUSSELS - The European Commission proposed a draft law yesterday that would make it mandatory for hedge funds to register and disclose information on leverage to supervisors if they want to operate
readPensions to put more cash with hedge funds - experts
30-04-2009
BEVERLY HILLS, California - Institutional investors like pension funds will put fresh money into hedge funds this year but they will bargain for more concessions on fees and transparency, industry
read‘Com-rates’ cause uproar in Parliament
30-04-2009
GOVERNMENT is selling hundreds of vacant houses to get money to build new houses for lower-earning civil servants that they can afford to maintain.Works and Transport Minister Helmut Angula gave this
readAfrica not benefiting from foreign land deals
30-04-2009
ADDIS ABABA - Africa is giving vast tracts of farmland to rich nations looking to feed their own people without ensuring those on the world’s hungriest continent benefit, the African Union (AU) said
readAgriBank drops interest rates
30-04-2009
Agribank is dropping interest rates on long- and medium-term loans with effect from May 15, the bank announced yesterday.“Interest rates on long-term loans for purchasing farmland or for loan
readZimbabwe secures US$400 million credit lines in region
30-04-2009
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s new power-sharing government has secured US$400 million in credit lines from neighbours to revive the country’s moribund economy, a state daily reported yesterday.Citing industry
readFinancial Intelligence Act finally in operation
30-04-2009
THE Bank of Namibia (BoN) yesterday announced that the Financial Intelligence Act (FIA) of 2007 will come into force tomorrow. BoN governor Tom Alweendo said the act’s implementation had been
readPolitical Perspective
30-04-2009
IF there is indeed infighting in the Swapo Youth League, and it’s about the ethnic makeup of the current leadership, then it’s really an issue that needs to be dealt a death blow. Swapo has always
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