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59 Articles found on Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Gunmen at large
13-01-2009
AN Angolan national was assaulted and robbed by two men in Steerlock Street, Windhoek West, on Sunday morning, the Police reported yesterday.The duo apparently broke two car windows before pointing a
readKeetmans hospital gets facelift
13-01-2009
THE Keetmanshoop State Hospital, opened in 1984, is to get an extensive revamp.The 200-bed hospital, the second largest State hospital in the country, was built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The
readUncertain future for chief’s widow
13-01-2009
THE future of Aletha Nguvauva, the widow of the late Ovambanderu Paramount Chief Munjuku II who died a year ago, hangs in the balance as old traditions might overrule modern civil law.“I was reliably
readPolice Inspector’s son in hit-and-run at Swakopmund
13-01-2009
THE son of Police Inspector JP Viljoen, Andries Viljoen (21), is facing several charges in connection with an alleged hit-and-run accident at Swakopmund over the weekend.The accident took place at a
readWitnesses recount deadly Khomasdal club stabbing
13-01-2009
TWO friends of a 17-year-old Windhoek resident who was killed in a stabbing outside a Khomasdal club on Workers’ Day in 2005 relived the incident that ended their friend’s life in the Windhoek
readMan in court over murder of street kid
13-01-2009
A SECURITY guard is being kept in custody after appearing in the Mariental Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of a 13-year-old street child. Frederick Thituthi Karimina allegedly
readMedicines act faces challenge
13-01-2009
GOVERNMENT has rejected a request by medical practitioners to put a moratorium on its earlier decision not to allow doctors to dispense medicine from their practices.Dr Pieter Pretorius, speaking on
readTucna claims unfair treatment
13-01-2009
THE arrest of a number of striking factory workers and a union leader at Lüderitz over the weekend yesterday prompted an angry response from the Trade Union Congress of Namibia (Tucna).A delegation
readOgilvy captures Mercedes-Benz Champs
13-01-2009
KAPALUA – Australian Geoff Ogilvy fired a five-under-par 68 to win the season-opening US$5.6 million PGA Mercedes-Benz Championship on Sunday.Ogilvy finished with a 24-under 268 total, six strokes
readMendis, Kulasekara bowl S Lanka to win
13-01-2009
DHAKA – Ajantha Mendis became the fastest bowler to complete 50 wickets in one-day internationals as Sri Lanka crushed Zimbabwe by 130 runs in a triangular series match yesterday. The unorthodox
readSainz keeps Volkswagen on track
13-01-2009
LA SERENA – Spain’s Carlos Sainz edged closer to winning the Dakar rally on Sunday when he captured the eighth stage, keeping Volkswagen on course for a clean sweep.Sainz, a former double world rally
readFerguson savours sweet riposte to Rafa’s rants
13-01-2009
MANCHESTER – Sir Alex Ferguson will savour the riposte provided by his players to Rafael Benitez’s criticism: a 3-0 win over Chelsea that puts Manchester United in the driving seat in the Premier
readUnited covet Benzema as Tevez heads for exit
13-01-2009
LONDON – Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has pinpointed Lyon’s French international striker Karim Benzema as his chief summer target, suggesting the European champions will let Carlos
readCrisis looms for Scolari at Chelsea
13-01-2009
MANCHESTER – Luiz Felipe Scolari is only one defeat away from the first full-blown crisis of his reign at Chelsea but the Brazilian insists he will not seek be plunging into the transfer market in
readStars to test SKW
13-01-2009
PREMIERSHIP table-toppers SKW start the new year with an opener against African Stars tomorrow night in a match that could test their stranglehold at the summit, as Stars come fresh from a win at the
readVan Wyk is new BA coach
13-01-2009
FORMER Ramblers coach Tollie van Wyk has been appointed as head coach of Black Africa until the end of the premiership season in August, club chairman Boni Paulino confirmed yesterday.Paulino told
readSMSes for 13 Tues 08
13-01-2009
* THE Government and all parastatals are funded by all taxpayers’ money. These taxpayers are members of different political parties. Thus if Government only wants Swapo members to be employed in these
readNamibia a tya sha kombinga ya Gaza
13-01-2009
EPANGELO lya Namibia oli ikwata iiponokela mbyoka tayi ningilwa Palestina ku Isreali, mbyoka ya faalele oomwenyo dhaantu ye li 600, mwa kwatelwa aakwashigwana itaya vulu okwiigamena nokweehameno aantu
readOvaliyambi kwali mOpolifi yaShakati tava twikile nekangha
13-01-2009
OVANYASHA veli 32 kwali ha veliyambe metanga lopolifi ya Shakati okudja 2001 ovo inava kutwa metanga ekalekipomhango, ova tokola oku wikila komesho nekangha fiyo eindilo lavo lokukutwa moilonga la
readAaniilonga ya NovaNam mboka ye li mekanka ya kwatwa po
13-01-2009
AAPOLISI yoshikondo sho Special Field Force oya kwata po aaniilonga yatano ye li mekanka yOkampani yoohi ya NovaNam.Aaniilonga mbaka oya kwatelwa pofaambulika yOkampani ndjika pOliindil, molwashoka
readOhandje ya pandulwa mokukalekapo oushitwe
13-01-2009
EHANGANO lovanhu ovo hava longo oihongomwa yokomake ledina Ohandje Artist Cooperative, ola pandulwa molwaashi tali kambadala oku kaleka po oushitwe moshilongo, oku diilila mopoloyeka yalo yokutwika
readGolden Globes go slumming as Indian film hits jackpot
13-01-2009
BEVERLY HILLS, California – Heath Ledger got his Golden Globe, and Kate Winslet came away with two. Yet the Globes otherwise went slumming, with ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ taking top honours and other key
readMozambique floods kill 19, worse may lie ahead
13-01-2009
MAPUTO – Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains have killed 19 people in the past few days and worse flooding may lie ahead. Jose Domingos, a disaster management official, says most of the
readBritish PM condemns prince’s racial slur
13-01-2009
LONDON – Prime Minister Gordon Brown says a racial slur used by Prince Harry to describe a fellow soldier is unacceptable and has no part in British life. Lawmakers, Muslim groups and the family of
readFiji floods kill 8, thousands seek shelter
13-01-2009
SUVA, Fiji – Authorities rushed yesterday to deliver clean drinking water and other supplies to thousands of villagers who fled flooding from tropical storms that have killed at least eight people on
readGreek ship owner reportedly kidnapped
13-01-2009
ATHENS – Greek police say three gunmen have kidnapped a man in a seaside suburb of Athens. Local media say the man is the founder of a major ferry company. Police say the gunmen stopped a car in
readChina closes 91 websites in online crackdown
13-01-2009
BEIJING – China has shut down 91 websites for pornographic and other “vulgar” content, as well as a political blog portal, since announcing its latest bid to ensure Internet morality, state media said
readThai PM says he wants ‘changes’ in military-run Myanmar
13-01-2009
BANGKOK – Thailand’s new premier said yesterday he wanted to see change in neighbouring military-ruled Myanmar but said his country would take a different tack from Western nations, which slap
readIsrael weighs seizing Gaza border corridor
13-01-2009
JERUSALEM – Israeli military plans in the Gaza Strip include the option of retaking the narrow stretch of land that separates the coastal enclave from Egypt to try to prevent Hamas from rearming,
readBemba of Congo used mass rape as weapon
13-01-2009
THE HAGUE – War crimes prosecutors have accused former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba of using systematic rape to intimidate civilians during a bloody power struggle in neighbouring
readArmed police patrol as Zimbabwe’s crisis deepens
13-01-2009
HARARE – Armed riot police patrolled the Zimbabwean capital Harare yesterday as frustrations grew over a deepening economic crisis. President Robert Mugabe’s government has routinely used police to
readUgandan LRA rebels kill 22 in Congo raids
13-01-2009
KINSHASA – Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed 22 people during weekend raids in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said on Sunday. Around 100 LRA fighters
readSA court judgment blow to ruling ANC
13-01-2009
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s appeals court yesterday overturned a previous court’s judgment throwing out corruption charges against ruling ANC party leader Jacob Zuma. The judgment, which effectively
readPorn makers surfing the mobile Internet wave
13-01-2009
LAS VEGAS – Adult entertainment powerhouse Pink Visual saw visits to its mobile video service soar after Christmas as people turned on new iPhones and tapped into porn.Sex video makers and
readNew travel rules to USA take effect
13-01-2009
LONDON – New rules went into effect yesterday requiring people travelling to the United States under the visa waiver programme to register online in advance, instead of filling out paper forms in
readNo alarm over Ebola spreading to Angola
13-01-2009
LUANDA – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday there was no indication the deadly Ebola virus had crossed to Angola from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it has killed 13
readRural garden teaches pupils self-sufficiency
13-01-2009
IN EARLIER days it was common practice for families to have a kitchen garden. Even schools used to have their own vegetable gardens. This practice might be revived again, with school children in the
readProgress with Green Scheme: Pohamba
13-01-2009
GOVERNMENT will spend about N$63 million on further development of the Green Scheme, President Hifikepunye Pohamba said over the weekend. Speaking at a Swapo party rally at Helao Nafidi in the
readImplats reopens shaft, output loss ‘not material’
13-01-2009
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s Impala Platinum, the world’s No. 2 platinum producer, reopened a large shaft at a big platinum mine that was closed for three days after a worker died in an incident, it
readEU probes Standard & Poor’s for monopoly abuse
13-01-2009
BRUSSELS – EU regulators are investigating whether credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s broke monopoly abuse rules by forcing banks and investment funds to pay fees for using its identification
readRockwell Diamonds likely to cut jobs
13-01-2009
JOHANNESBURG – Rockwell Diamonds is likely to cut jobs at its Wouterspan operations, the mid-tier diamond mining and exploration company said yesterday. “Global economic conditions have brought
readSA power generation plans
13-01-2009
SOUTH Africa expects its next nuclear power plant to come on stream by 2019 to ease strained energy supply, which led to a near-collapse of the national grid early last year and cost Africa’s biggest
readAbsa wins award for Islamic banking
13-01-2009
ABSA Islamic Banking has won the Best Islamic Bank in Africa Award for the second consecutive year, the bank said yesterday. This was according to the latest Islamic Finance News poll results.
readNBL shines in Group Awards
13-01-2009
NAMIBIA Breweries Limited (NBL) came out tops among its sister companies when it was announced the overall winner at the Ohlthaver and List Group’s seventh annual ‘12 Seasons Awards’ held recently.
readANC election manifesto raises questions, applause
13-01-2009
JOHANNESBURG - Economists and other analysts on Sunday applauded the broad objectives set out in the ANC’s election manifesto, released at the weekend, but questioned the ability of the proposed
readCopper price slips on China purchase doubts
13-01-2009
LONDON – Copper lost six per cent to reverse earlier gains yesterday after a source said China’s State Reserves Bureau (SRB) could have suspended planned copper purchases and rising stockpiles
readOil falls US$2 to below US$39 as demand weakens
13-01-2009
LONDON – Oil fell more than US$2 to below US$39 a barrel yesterday, dragged down by growing evidence that recession is reducing global energy consumption. The decline came despite news that Saudi
readAgriBank to raise N$900m for loans
13-01-2009
THE State-owned Agricultural Bank (Agribank) says it wants to obtain a loan of N$900 million to provide loans at favourable interest rates to farmers. “AgriBank should be in a position to raise N$900
readBritish PM announces half-billion-pound jobs scheme
13-01-2009
LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday announced a 500-million-pound plan to tackle rising unemployment in a Britain, which faces a deepening recession.As part of the plan, which he detailed
readCiti, Morgan near deal on brokerage
13-01-2009
WASHINGTON - Ailing US banking giants Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are near a deal for a joint venture to create the world’s biggest brokerage, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.Such a deal
readRussia gas deal collapses
13-01-2009
MOSCOW - An EU-brokered accord on terms for Russia to resume gas supply to Europe collapsed Sunday when Russia accused Ukraine of secretly altering the deal and declared it null and void.“I am
readContractors slip up on drought aid
13-01-2009
NON-DELIVERY of products for drought relief packages to residents in the Ohangwena Region is hampering Government’s efforts. According to Gabriel Kangowa, Deputy Director of the Emergency Management
readWarnings about Namibia's air safety
13-01-2009
SHORTAGES of air traffic controllers at Namibian airports, lack of radar equipment and long working hours seriously threaten airspace safety over Namibia, an organisation for local air traffic
readZuma faces graft trial after ruling
13-01-2009
BLOEMFONTEIN – South Africa’s appeals court yesterday opened the way for prosecutors to pursue graft charges against ruling party leader Jacob Zuma only months before he is expected to stand for
readLast days of school holidays
13-01-2009
Children in Windhoek are making the most of the last few days of the school holidays by cooling off in the municipal swimming pool. Schools open tomorrow. Kauna Kalinga enjoys the cool water in the
readZuma faces graft trial after ruling
13-01-2009
BLOEMFONTEIN – South Africa’s appeals court yesterday opened the way for prosecutors to pursue graft charges against ruling party leader Jacob Zuma only months before he is expected to stand for
readLast days of school holidays
13-01-2009
Children in Windhoek are making the most of the last few days of the school holidays by cooling off in the municipal swimming pool. Schools open tomorrow. Kauna Kalinga enjoys the cool water in
readContractors slip up on drought aid
13-01-2009
NON-DELIVERY of products for drought relief packages to residents in the Ohangwena Region is hampering Government’s efforts. According to Gabriel Kangowa, Deputy Director of the Emergency Management
readWarnings about Namibia's air safety
13-01-2009
SHORTAGES of air traffic controllers at Namibian airports, lack of radar equipment and long working hours seriously threaten airspace safety over Namibia, an organisation for local air traffic
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