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46 Articles found on Thursday, 13 August 2009
Brazil evangelical leader Macedo accused of fraud
13-08-2009
RIO DE JANEIRO - Prosecutors have accused the leader of Brazil’s most influential evangelical church of diverting millions of dollars in untaxed donation money to personal and business interests.The
readRand firms after power strike averted
13-08-2009
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s rand reversed losses to trade firmer for the session yesterday after the country’s biggest union said it would not strike at power utility Eskom today.The rand was
readFor Africa’s poor, oil resource is no gift
13-08-2009
LAGOS – Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching derricks.Corruption has long kept oil
readRio Tinto says China has no case against Hu
13-08-2009
SYDNEY – Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said yesterday China’s move to “downgrade” the case against a detained executive by formally arresting him on lesser charges showed there was no evidence
readChina to lend Tanzania $400m for coal project
13-08-2009
DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzania will receive a US$400 million loan from China for a 200 megawatts (MW) coal power project, the government said yesterday.Energy and Minerals Minister William Ngeleja said the
readTschudi Weatherly’s only mining lifeline
13-08-2009
WEATHERLY Mining’s copper-mining presence in the country in the foreseeable future is likely to be limited to an open-pit mine at Tschudi near Tsumeb, the group said.Plunging copper prices resulting
readZambia willing to revise current mining taxes
13-08-2009
LUSAKA – Zambia will not refund foreign mining companies millions of dollars they paid in taxes when a new controversial law was in force, but could revise existing taxes, the attorney-general said on
readOusted Honduran leader asks for more US help
13-08-2009
BRASILIA – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says the United States could help restore him to power by putting more economic pressure on the Central American country’s interim
readClinton nudges Nigeria to move on corruption
13-08-2009
ABUJA – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraged Nigeria yesterday to take a firmer line on corruption and offered US help to implement badly needed electoral reforms in Africa’s biggest
readDrug smuggling into South Africa ‘staggering’
13-08-2009
CAPE TOWN – The number of people smuggling drugs into South Africa is “staggering”, an Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) manager said yesterday.The company’s head of security, Jason Tshabalala,
read1 000 survivors found after Taiwan typhoon
13-08-2009
CISHAN – Rescuers have found nearly 1 000 people alive in the area around three remote villages devastated by Typhoon Morakot, which pummeled the island over the weekend, Taiwan’s military said
readMan faces 6 months in jail for yawning
13-08-2009
JOLIET – Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court
readCommuters taken on 925km trip
13-08-2009
SYDNEY – Six Sydney commuters who got on the wrong bus on their way home from work were not allowed off until it arrived in Brisbane the next morning.The six were aghast yesterday that after being
readJackson tribute in Vienna set for September 26
13-08-2009
VIENNA – A global tribute to Michael Jackson on the grounds of a 17th century palace in Vienna will be held September 26, and Jackson’s brother Jermaine will announce the concert line-up soon,
read‘C-Murder’ convicted of shooting
13-08-2009
GRETNA, Louisiana. – Rapper Corey ‘C-Murder’ Miller was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder for the 2002 shooting of a fan during a night-club brawl, capping tumultuous jury deliberations at
readSwapo a tula ongundu longekidho yomahogololo miilonga
13-08-2009
OMUPELESIDENDE Pohamba okwa tula ongundu yokulongekidha omahogololo yoSwapo miilonga.Pethimbo ta popitha oshigongi shaatoolinkunda moVenduka, Pohamba okwa ti ongundu ye oya pumbwa okwiilongekidha nawa
readOmanongelo noohostela ota dhi eti tha oshimpwiyu kombinga yekunku
13-08-2009
OMANONGELO moshilongo sigo oompaka kage na ontseyo shoka ge na okuninga kombinga yomukithi gwekunku ngele ogu holoke momanongelo gatya ngaaka.Okwaa na uunongo komanongelo kombinga ndjika ota ku etitha
readOsikola ya Ngenga ya pewa Okoompiuta nOprinda ku Metropolitan
13-08-2009
OSIKOLA yaanona ya Ngenga mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena Omaandaha ngaka ga zi ko oya pewa omagano gOkoompiuta nokashina kokwiindjipaleka oombapila kEhangano Ekwashilipaleki lya Metropolitan Namibia, sha
readOmpango yokutidhamo tayi kondjithwa
13-08-2009
ONGUNDU opo ya totwapo oya yi kompangu yOpombanda opo yi tokole kutya ompango ndjoka ha yi gandja epitikilo opo omuntu a kuthwe egumbo lye ngele ina vula okufuta oongunga dhe, ye inaa pulakenwa
readOmaso, nokweehamekwa moondjila oya londa pombanda
13-08-2009
IIPONGA yiihauto oya faalele omwenyo dhaantu oopelesenda 68 noopelesendsa 88 oya ehamekwa meni lyoomwedhi hamano dhotango dhomumvo nguka okuyeleka nomvula ya ziko.Konyala aantu 258 oya sile miiponga
readAssassin wants world title before calling it quits
13-08-2009
NAMIBIAN welterweight boxer Ali ‘The Silent Assassin’ Nuumbembe says he won’t quit the sport before landing a world title.“Age is not an issue for me now. What matters is the world title. I want to
readNPL to meet PSL
13-08-2009
A four-member delegation headed by the acting Namibia Premier League (NPL) chairman, Johnny Doëseb, left for South Africa yesterday to meet top football officials from that country’s league today.The
readDibaba facing double test
13-08-2009
BERLIN – Reigning Olympic 5 000m and 10 000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba faces a potential double test against bitter rival and compatriot Meseret Defar at the World Athletics Championships here.In what
readRathbone quits rugby
13-08-2009
SYDNEY – Australia winger Clyde Rathbone announced his retirement yesterday after suffering a nasty facial injury.The South African-born Rathbone, 28, said the facial fractures suffered in a ruck had
readSteyn cleared of doping offence
13-08-2009
JOHANNESBURG – Fast bowler Dale Steyn has been cleared of any doping offence by the Indian Premier League (IPL), Cricket South Africa (CSA) said yesterday.Steyn had been asked by the IPL to clarify
readSunderland’s Leadbitter caught speeding
13-08-2009
LONDON – Sunderland midfielder Grant Leadbitter, explaining to a court why he was caught speeding, said he thought the police patrol car following him was in fact a car full of Newcastle United fans
readRugby looks to score an Olympic try
13-08-2009
BERLIN – Rugby Union International Rugby Board (IRB) supremo Bernard Lapasset can see a dream come true today if his sport is chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board as one
readSport Notices BA to meet Spoilers
13-08-2009
BLACK Africa Football Club will play two friendly matches against Spoilers Football Club at the Nau-Aib sports grounds at Okahandja on Saturday.The first match starts at 13h00 and the second at 15h00.
readSMS Of Thursday 13 August 2009
13-08-2009
* HERE’S constructive advice to our Hon Minister Iilonga. Now that he has identified our future leaders’ destruction as the white enemies’ hatched shebeens and alcohol, why not close all shebeens
readSwapo must stop dictating to other parties, says Nudo
13-08-2009
ALL political parties in Namibia are equal and the ruling Swapo party should not prescribe to others what to do, the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) said yesterday in response to a
readEnviro Ministry sets record straight on NWR
13-08-2009
THE Ministry of Environment and Tourism, which was blasted by the Swapo Party Youth League for allegedly deliberately delaying the transfer of State assets to Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) , which is
readDaniels appointed Media Ombudsman
13-08-2009
HUMAN rights lawyer Clement Daniels has been appointed as Media Ombudsman by the Editors’ Forum of Namibia (EFN).The announcement, made yesterday, said that after almost two years of deliberating the
readShark Island bones to be reburied
13-08-2009
TRADITIONAL leaders in the Karas Region have supported a request by President Hifikepunye Pohamba to have a mysterious mass grave containing human bones, found north-west of Lüderitz Airport in the
readKaras trust fund not being used
13-08-2009
ONLY the Warmbad settlement and Aroab Village Council have benefited from a trust fund created in 2000 for regional development and equity provision.The Karas Regional Council and local councils in
readOver 300 wildlife moved
13-08-2009
LIVAYI - Over 300 species of wildlife have been moved to two conservancies in the Kavango Region this month.This included 49 zebras, 200 impalas and 100 kudus, which were moved to the George Mukoya
readSwapo Party gears up for the national elections
13-08-2009
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday proclaimed that he is sure of a Swapo election victory this year.He expressed this confidence when he introduced his party’s national preparatory committee for
readBurglars raid house
13-08-2009
COMPUTER equipment worth about N$56 300 was stolen in a burglary at a house in Olof Palme Street in Windhoek’s Eros area on Friday, the Police announced earlier this week.A window of the house was
readSwine Flu for Grown-ups
13-08-2009
PRINCETON – No one knows how the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic will evolve. Will it keep spreading, or will it fizzle? Will it retreat during the northern hemisphere’s summer and return in the fall? Will
readSwapo Lubango dungeon victims also war veterans
13-08-2009
FORMER detainees in Swapo’s notorious Lubango dungeons will be eligible for the status of war veterans. This was confirmed yesterday by the Minister of Veterans’ Affairs, Ngarikutuke Tjiriange.
readMassacre trial to continue in April
13-08-2009
THE fifth anniversary of the Kareeboomvloer farm massacre will have passed before the trial of the four people being prosecuted in Namibia’s largest murder case since Independence will continue next
readNamibia on high flu alert
13-08-2009
NAMIBIA is on high alert over the outbreak of H1N1 flu after the number of confirmed ‘swine flu’ cases in the country rose to 10, but Health and Social Services Minister Richard Kamwi has urged people
readClimate change and gender
13-08-2009
South African President Jacob Zuma has identified climate change as a critical area of concern. “Natural disasters affect women directly and severely because of their social roles and the impacts of
readBird Club outing
13-08-2009
THE Namibia Bird Club is inviting people interested in nature and birding to an outing to Friedenau Dam. Date: Sunday, August 23. We will meet at the Parking Area opposite Kalahari Sands at 07h00
readAssassin wants world title before calling it quits
13-08-2009
NAMIBIAN welterweight boxer Ali ‘The Silent Assassin’ Nuumbembe says he won’t quit the sport before landing a world title. “Age is not an issue for me now. What matters is the world title. I want to
readMarines assault Taliban town in Afghanistan
13-08-2009
DAHANEH – Helicopter-borne US Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn yesterday, the launch of a new operation to uproot Taliban fighters from a
readNam Competition Commission flexes muscle in first case
13-08-2009
NAMIBIA’S long-awaited Competition Commission yesterday flexed its muscles for the very first time when it called a stakeholder conference on a proposed merger in the labour industry. Its first case
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