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48 Articles found on Monday, 8 June 2009
China’s CNMC to invest $400m in Zambia mines
08-06-2009
LUSAKA – China Nonferrous Metal Mining Corp. (CNMC) on Saturday pledged to invest US$400 million in Zambia’s Luanshya Copper Mines (LCM) after formally taking over the running of the mines, officials
readMboweni wants low inflation regardless of target
08-06-2009
MAGOEBASKLOOF, South Africa – Central banks would pursue low inflation regardless of whether they had an inflation target or not, South Africa’s central bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Friday.South
readCartel action ‘will be a crime’ in South Africa
08-06-2009
CARTEL activity will inevitably become a criminal offence in South Africa to prevent the collusion of companies to manipulate prices, according to competition tribunal chairman David Lewis.“We’ve
readCongo’s president takes control of public spending
08-06-2009
KINSHASA – All public spending in cash-strapped Democratic Republic of Congo must now be pre-approved by President Joseph Kabila, according to a letter published in several local newspapers on
readNew railway line to connect Botswana and Namibia
08-06-2009
GABORONE - Botswana and Namibia on Thursday signed an agreement to develop a railway line to connect the two southern African countries and ease transportation bottlenecks in the region.The line will
readOil bosses talk up prices at Russian forum
08-06-2009
ST PETERSBURG - Top Russian energy executives gave a flurry of upbeat oil price predictions at the country’s main investment conference on Friday and westerners joined them in warning of low
readNew business survey to have local flavour
08-06-2009
AS reported last week, a new business survey called the Namibia Business and Investment Climate Survey (namBIC) will be launched soon.So what makes this survey, envisioned by the Namibian Chamber of
readErongo schools’ entrepreneurship programme launched in Walvis
08-06-2009
THE Namibian Ports Authority and AfriSam Cement became partners in the Afrisam Entrepreneurship Development Programme for schools in Erongo on Tuesday.Eighty grade 11 pupils from four schools in the
readSA refineries need N$40 billion for clean fuels
08-06-2009
JOHANNESBURG - Refineries in South Africa will need to spend N$40 billion (US$4,95 billion) to upgrade facilities to conform with cleaner fuel specifications, a senior executive of petrochemicals
readWhitney to release comeback album
08-06-2009
LOS ANGELES – Pop diva Whitney Houston will release a new album in September, her first in seven years, Arista Records said on Thursday, announcing the long-awaited comeback for the talented but
readDeath pics upset Carradine family
08-06-2009
LOS ANGELES – David Carradine’s family members, dissatisfied with Thai investigators and “profoundly disturbed” by the publication of a forensics photo in a Bangkok tabloid, are seeking help from the
readEx-soldier depicts crackdown through art
08-06-2009
BEIJING – An eerie realism permeates Chen Guang’s oil paintings of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, for he was one of the first soldiers to arrive in the square on the night China’s democratic hopes
read‘Queen of the blues’
08-06-2009
CHICAGO – Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet ‘Queen of the Blues’, has died after complications from surgery.Taylor (80) died on
readBernard Leon Barker, Watergate burglar
08-06-2009
MIAMI – Bernard Leon Barker, one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America’s biggest political scandal, died on Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92.The Cuban-born former CIA
readMugabe calls for action against strife
08-06-2009
VICTORIA FALLS – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the new chair of Africa’s largest trade bloc yesterday called on its members to act against the “cancer” of conflict on the continent.“You
readGun-loving pastor to his flock: Piece be with you
08-06-2009
LOUISVILLE - A Kentucky pastor is inviting his flock to bring guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment. New Bethel Church is welcoming “responsible handgun owners” to
readMexico day-care fire kills 38 children
08-06-2009
HERMOSILLO - Grieving parents began burying their children after a devastating day-care fire killed 38 infants and toddlers in a tragedy that has stunned the nation and prompted Mexico’s president to
readIndicted al-Bashir arrives in Zimbabwe
08-06-2009
HARARE, Zimbabwe – President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has arrived in Zimbabwe for a regional economic summit,
readTwo bodies found near Air France crash site
08-06-2009
RECIFE – Investigators were combing a huge swath of ocean yesterday in search of more evidence of the doomed Air France Flight 477 after finding the bodies of two passengers and a briefcase.The
readOmudhimba kagu na omutse gwa adhika monete
08-06-2009
OMUDHIMBA kagu na omutse ogwi itsuwa monete yOkampani onkwati yoohi ya Ludwani mehuliloshwike lya lya zi ko.Omudhimba nguka, gwa zala oongaku dhokumatu niikutu ya tuuka, ogwa li gu li
readEpangelo olya hala okudhika uundjugo pooha dhoondjila
08-06-2009
EPANGELO lya Namibia oli na edhiladhilo okudhika uundjugo pooha dhoondjila dhopashigwana. Pethimbo ndika, aalongithi yoondjila ohaya ikwathele miihwa, ihe aanfaalama otaya ti kutya oshinima shika
readmOnandjaba mOkalongo omu na egumbo ewanawa lyaayenda
08-06-2009
MONANDJABA mOkalongo ka Haudano mOshitopolwa sha Musati omu na egumbo lyAayenda ewanawa nolyopashinanena naayendindjila lwaahoka kaye li we muudhigu wokwiimonena ehala mpoka taya kala nokulala uuna
readTatekulu Ya Toivo a simanekelwa Ombandi ye ku kuume ke
08-06-2009
EPENDAFULE lyOpolotika lya Namibia ngoka wo a kala kwali Ominista mEpangelo lya Namibia, tatekulu Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo ngoka a pelwe Ombandi yesimano yOshisiliveri ya O.R. Tambo
readSheya na ze mo mUukuluntusikola
08-06-2009
YAMWE yomaavali yaanona taya sikola mOseko yOpombanda ya Haimbili Haufiku pEenhana moshitopolwa sha Hangwena, ye li momizalo dhOngundu yoSwapo, mOlyomakaya ngaka ga zi ko oya maashingile mEenhana
readButton celebrates sixth win
08-06-2009
ISTANBUL – Jenson Button ran away with the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday to stretch his overall Formula One lead to 26 points with a sparkling sixth victory from seven races.Australian Mark Webber
readAustralia gear up for Sri Lanka
08-06-2009
NOTTINGHAM – Ricky Ponting’s Australia must perform or face an embarrassing early exit from the World Twenty20 when they take on emotionally-charged Sri Lanka today.The Australians, stunned by a
readSafina in French Open meltdown
08-06-2009
PARIS – Heartbroken Dinara Safina insisted on Saturday she will learn from suffering a third Grand Slam final defeat.The Russian top seed slumped to a 6-4, 6-2 French Open loss to compatriot Svetlana
readLions survive Cheetahs scare
08-06-2009
BLOEMFONTEIN – The British and Irish Lions battled their way past the Free State Cheetahs on Saturday, winning 26-24 in the third game of a 10-match tour of South Africa.The Lions remain unbeaten
readWorld Football Results
08-06-2009
Played Sunday, June 7 World Cup Qualify - Concacaf - Round 4 El Salvador 2 - 1 Mexico United States 2 - 1
readSouth Africa opens first 2010 stadium
08-06-2009
JOHANNESBURG –South Africa’s first newly-built 2010 World Cup stadium officially opened yesterday in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth a year before kick-off next June.“For us today’s first opening
readFootball Results
08-06-2009
MTC Namibia Premier League Played Sunday, June 7 Eleven Arrows 1-1 African Stars Chief Santos 1-1 SKW
readFederer wins final
08-06-2009
PARIS - Roger Federer gloriously completed a career Grand Slam yesterday by capturing a first French Open title, and a record-equalling 14th major, with a 6-1, 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 win over Robin
readSMSes for Monday 08 June 2009
08-06-2009
• ARE our leaders really that insecure or do they believe that the people of Namibia mean to harm them? We, as a people, had enough of draconian behaviour under the previous government and now have to
readAfrican singer criticised by Muslims plays NYC
08-06-2009
NEW YORK – African music star Youssou N’Dour who ignited worldwide controversy among fellow Muslims with one of his albums was in the city on Saturday to perform at an arts festival aimed at spreading
readSA leads hunt for killer TB vaccine
08-06-2009
WORCESTER, South Africa - Baby Hisinawa is permanently semi-comatose after TB spread to his brain, his board-stiff body shivering as a doctor pushes a rubber tube down his nose to clear away thick
read‘Crumbling’ Swakop runway closed
08-06-2009
THE Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA) last week ordered the main runway at the Swakopmund airport closed because of its poor condition. According to the Traffic Control Officer at the airport, Noël
readWoman ‘accidentally’ shot in stomach
08-06-2009
A WOMAN in Katutura laid a case of attempted murder against her husband last week after a gun lying on a table in their house went off. Frederika Harases (39) was shot in the stomach. According to
readElection fraud case postponed to January
08-06-2009
THE court case against the former Director of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), Fillemon Kanime, and two others for alleged election fraud has been postponed until January 2010. Magistrate
readFine of N$20 000 given for N$1,2 million fraud
08-06-2009
A FORMER creditors clerk with a Windhoek accounting company, who admitted that she committed fraud involving more than N$1,2 million during her employment with the company, got off lightly with a fine
readNo penalty for not signing EPA, says EU
08-06-2009
NAMIBIA will not be punished for refusing to join Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland in signing the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) in Belgium on Thursday. Lutz
readSecond Prowealth firm bankrupt
08-06-2009
ANOTHER part of the collapsing Prowealth group of companies ended up in bankruptcy court on Friday. Fourteen weeks after the provisional winding up of a key company in the Prowealth group, Prowealth
readNoteable Quotes
08-06-2009
THE skin was off totally, and the head was gone. – Detective Warrant Officer John Mwatongwe on the headless corpse pulled from the sea by a fishing vessel 190 nautical miles north-west of Walvis Bay
readWarriors freeze out DRC
08-06-2009
A SPECTACULAR brace by Heini Isaacks and a goal apiece by Rudolf Bester and skipper Quinton Jacobs, froze out a disorganised Democratic Republic of Congo side as they succumbed to a 4-0 drubbing to
readBrown set for poll mauling
08-06-2009
LONDON – Under-fire British Prime Minister Gordon Brown readied yesterday for the results of European elections that could see his Labour party savaged and deal a potentially fatal blow to his fragile
readLocal crop production booms
08-06-2009
A POLICY introduced five years ago to stimulate local fruit and vegetable production is starting to pay dividends. The rule states that local retailers have to buy a certain percentage of their stock
readTrain coach smashes into car workshop
08-06-2009
HENNIE Cillier has been running Cillier’s Body Repairs at Swakopmund for the past 27 years, and never have imagined that one day he would have a train carriage “parked” in his workshop. This was
readHappie wins the crown!
08-06-2009
HAPPIE Ntelamo is our new Miss Namibia 2009. The striking, 1,85-metre-tall law student was crowned Miss Namibia 2009 at the annual pageant that took place on Saturday at the Windhoek Country Club.
readSpy bill spooks experts
08-06-2009
THE controversial “spy clause” in the new Communications Bill may not only be unconstitutional, but also in conflict with certain fundamental aspects of the National Intelligence Service Act, as well
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