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47 Articles found on Monday, 20 July 2009
Pope at ease in cast blessing the faithful
20-07-2009
ROMANO CANAVESE – A beaming Pope Benedict XVI raised his cast-encased right arm to bless thousands of faithful yesterday during his first public appearance since surgery to set a wrist fractured in a
readDeadlocked Honduras crisis talks resumed yesterday
20-07-2009
SAN JOSE – Talks to resolve Honduras’ political crisis deadlocked over a proposal to reinstate the ousted president and form a national unity government, leading the mediator to appeal for more
readMan charged after six slain in US
20-07-2009
FAYETTEVILLE – Six people believed to be from one family were slain in a two-state spree and authorities charged a man who was sitting on the porch when authorities arrived at one home in the
readPeople do good deeds as Mandela birthday gift
20-07-2009
JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela’s fans celebrated the anti-apartheid icon’s 91st birthday Saturday by emulating him with good deeds, reading to the blind, distributing blankets to the homeless or
readNude man lied about robbery
20-07-2009
LINCOLN – Lincoln police arrested a man who they said made up a story about being robbed to explain why he was walking around a city park naked. Police spokeswoman Katie Flood said the man was
readBritish students in Chinese swine flu quarantine
20-07-2009
BEIJING – Members of a British student group quarantined by Chinese authorities over swine flu were “shocked” by their detention but were being treated well, a teacher said.The group of 52 students
readImaging centre provides latest healthcare techniques
20-07-2009
HERITAGE Square opposite the old State House is the home of Windhoek’s newest medical imaging centre, Proqual Diagnostic Imaging. According to head radiographer, Sarah Markus, the practice was opened
readAfrica’s struggle to be heard in global summits
20-07-2009
PARIS - The pledges trip easily off the tongues of global leaders on summit occasions, but experts canvassed by AFP fear African nations may forever struggle to be truly heard no matter the global
readSeeff predicts upturn in property market
20-07-2009
SEEFF Properties is looking forward to many more successful years in Namibia, after recently celebrating 25 years of operation in southern Africa.Since opening the Windhoek branch, Seeff Properties
readAngola merits Opec exemptions
20-07-2009
LUANDA - Angola should get special treatment within Opec, the organisation’s president and Angolan oil minister told reporters Friday, comparing his country to Iraq’s post-war reconstruction.José
readJinx or Jubilee: New oil booms test African democracies
20-07-2009
CAPE TOWN – Oil finds highlighting energy potential in Ghana and Uganda pose new challenges as the countries seek to avoid the “oil trap” that has left many producers mired in poverty and violence,
readMadoff auditor pleads not guilty
20-07-2009
NEW YORK – A federal judge has granted prosecutors more time to negotiate a possible plea bargain with Bernard Madoff’s long-time auditor.Accountant David Friehling pleaded not guilty Friday to
readRio Tinto employees face China criminal probe
20-07-2009
ADELAIDE, Australia - China has told Australian officials it is conducting a criminal investigation of Rio Tinto Ltd. employees with a focus on commercial and economic issues rather than espionage,
readSwapo oku shi okwiidhidhimika: Geingob ta ti
20-07-2009
SWAPO kumwe nAaleli ye na pandulwe nokusimanekwa molwashoka okwa eta emanguluko, ombili, engungumano nedhiminathanepo moshilongo sha li sha kolonyekwa nayi, sha topagulwa kOmukolonyeki nosha li
readNORED a gandja N$6000 kOsikola ya Valombola
20-07-2009
OKAMPANI ndjoka hayi gandja olusheno koshigwana shomoNooli, yedhina Nored, mEtitatu lyoshiwike shika oya gandja omagano gOondolaN$6000 kOsikola yUungomba ya Valombola mOngwediva opo yi kiikwathe nasho
readInamu landa we mOositola dhAanangeshefa yoompilameno: Amukwiyu ta ti
20-07-2009
PETHIMBO ta popitha oshigongi shOswapo, shoka wo a li ta wilike, Omukuluntu gwoSwapo moshitopolwa sha Shikoto, Armas Amukwiyu okwa ninga eindilo e li ukitha mAakwaSwapo moNooli, unene tuu moshitopolwa
readRDP mOshana ta yamukula Kaansela Mupetami
20-07-2009
ETHIMBO lyongula Omaandaha geti 29 Juni 2009 mOprograma yomatumwalaka gowina gopambelewa mOradio NBC yOsshiwambo, Omusimanekwa Kaansela gwOshikandjohogololo Okatyali mOshitopolwa sha Shana okwa
readDoëseb quits Arrows
20-07-2009
JOHNNY Doëseb quit Eleven Arrows Football Club as owner and chairman due to constant interferences from some community members in managing the team.Doëseb told The Namibian Sport in an interview
readBirds are back!
20-07-2009
QUINTUPLE Premiership champions Blue Waters are back in top-flight football after pipping fellow challengers Friends to the post with a 2-0 win over Monitronic College in Karibib on Saturday.Blue
readOwen strike gives United win
20-07-2009
KUALA LUMPUR - Substitute Michael Owen scored the winner on his Manchester United debut as the English champions opened their pre-season tour of Asia with a 3-2 victory over a plucky Malaysia XI on
readTour de France Notes
20-07-2009
*RUSSIAN Serguei Ivanov won the 14th stage of the Tour de France, a 199-km ride from Colmar to Besancon on Saturday.Ireland’s Nicolas Roche was second and Hayden Roulston of New Zealand came home
readDoëseb quits Arrows
20-07-2009
JOHNNY Doëseb quit Eleven Arrows Football Club as owner and chairman due to constant interferences from some community members in managing the team. Doëseb told The Namibian Sport in an interview
readCity lose opening game to Pirates
20-07-2009
POLOKWANE - Orlando Pirates beat Manchester City 2-0 on Saturday at the start of the English Premier League side’s three-match tour of South Africa.A makeshift City side, who played without any of
readTerror group behind attacks
20-07-2009
JAKARTA – Indonesian police yesterday confirmed regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah as the culprits behind twin suicide blasts at Jakarta hotels, and said one of the bombers had been identified.
readMarcus to head SA central bank
20-07-2009
PRETORIA - South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday named former deputy governor Gill Marcus as head of the central bank from November in a surprise appointment that will likely be welcomed by
readKhan overwhelms Kotelnik at age 22
20-07-2009
LONDON – Briton Amir Khan was crowned World Boxing Association (WBA) light-welterweight champion at the age of 22 on Saturday after convincingly beating Ukraine’s Andreas Kotelnik with a unanimous
readFour athletes chase jackpot
20-07-2009
PARIS – Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the 100 metres at a Paris Golden League meeting on Friday in 9.79 seconds, recording his best time of the season despite a poor start in damp, chilly
readWanderers put campaign on track
20-07-2009
WANDERERS got their faltering campaign back on track with a convincing 25-16 victory against Western Suburbs on Saturday. Wanderers were in unfamiliar territory at second last on the log going into
readWallabies refuse to give up
20-07-2009
SYDNEY – The Wallabies believe they can still reclaim the Bledisloe Cup this year by defeating the All Blacks in their three remaining internationals.The Australians yet again left Auckland’s Eden
readAll Blacks warn Springboks
20-07-2009
AUCKLAND – The All Blacks moved their sights to South Africa after beating the Wallabies 22-16 in the opening Tri-Nations clash Saturday with coach Graham Henry warning his side can only get
readNoteable Quotes
20-07-2009
HOW can I chase my own son, own child, from my house where he was born. – Rosalia Gideon, a widow from Onyoka village in the Oshikoto region denying she threw her RDP supporting son Sackeus Inyemba
readSwapo manifesto to be finalised
20-07-2009
SWAPO’s Politburo and the Central Committee are to meet this week to finalise the party’s manifesto for the November presidential and national elections. The ruling party was working towards
readSwakop woman busted over N$200 000 fraud
20-07-2009
STANDARD Bank Swakopmund employee Desiree le Roux (25) appeared in the Swakopmund Magistrates’ Court on Friday on a charge of defrauding the bank of over N$200 000. Le Roux apparently worked in the
readPSC praises ACC for good work
20-07-2009
THE Public Service Commission has kept mum about the arrest of one of its Commissioners, Teckla Lameck on allegations of fraud and corruption, involving N$120 million. In an ironic twist of fate,
readStruggle kids label registration ‘fake’
20-07-2009
AN angry mob of ‘children of the liberation struggle’ descended on the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture on Friday demanding answers around what they called the “fake registration
readSeal cull reporters found guilty, fined
20-07-2009
TWO journalists arrested for trespassing in a marine protected area were found guilty and fined N$5 000 each in the Swakopmund Magistrates’ Court on Friday. The court appearance and sentencing
readNo bail for record heist attempt suspect
20-07-2009
A FORMER prison guard who has been charged with armed robbery over a record attempted cash-in-transit heist in Windhoek almost two months ago is set to remain in Police custody after his bail bid
readNgoma hosts Boundless Southern Africa celebrations
20-07-2009
THE usually sleepy settlement of Ngoma – 60 kilometres outside the Caprivi regional capital of Katima Mulilo – came to life on Friday morning with impressive traditional dances of learners and adults
readImms Namaseb faces bankruptcy over ‘misuse’ of donor money
20-07-2009
THE Republic of Finland has set its sights on the personal assets of former Namibian soccer chief Imms Namaseb and his wife in an effort to recover over N$1,1 million in donor funding intended for
readCongolese refugees ‘prefer death’ to returning to Nam
20-07-2009
AFTER nearly two weeks in a single tent on the border between Namibia and Botswana, a 41-strong group of Congolese refugees remains adamant they would “rather die” than return to Namibia. This is in
readCourt orders freeze on 2,8m SA property of fraud suspects
20-07-2009
THE High Court has ordered a Cape Town-based golf estate to freeze all property deals involving suspects in the Teko Trading CC multi-million dollar fraud case that burst into the open a week and a
readFrom a Delhi kebab stand, lessons in Indian life
20-07-2009
NEW DELHI – While the grill man stirred the glowing coals and the bread man rolled balls of dough, Akram Khan, the waiter, watched the traffic rumble down the pocked road. Soon, crowds would start
readJudgement reserved in Gobabis house saga
20-07-2009
JUDGEMENT was reserved on arguments concerning procedures in the case of a Gobabis woman who challenged the sale of her house to pay a bank debt of N$1 000. The house, worth N$280 000, was sold to
readWounds fester a year after Kenya election violence
20-07-2009
NAIROBI – More than a year after a stray police bullet tore through his chest, paralysing him from the waist down, George Ifedha winces in pain from bed sores that have been left to fester. Ifedha’s
readCouncillors deny supporting City budget
20-07-2009
CITY councillors of the DTA and the Congress of Democrats (CoD) have distanced themselves from the 2009-10 municipal budget and its implementation after the majority of the City Council last Thursday
readCuba’s Raúl Castro arrives in Namibia
20-07-2009
WINDHOEK – Cuban president Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, also known as President of the Cuban Council of State and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, arrived in Namibia yesterday afternoon.
readBasters rise against Rehoboth council
20-07-2009
LONG-STANDING disappointment with the Rehoboth municipality has apparently forced the Baster community in the town into action. The Rehoboth Baster Congregation, a non-profit organisation that became
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