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45 Articles found on Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Jaguars beat Namibia
19-05-2009
THE Namibia Invitational rugby team suffered yet another blow when they went down by 19 -7 to Argentina on Friday.In their first match on May 8 in Argentina, the southern African country was hammered
readUnited, Barca and Inter win league titles
19-05-2009
LONDON – Manchester United and Barcelona, who meet in the Champions League final later this month, sealed their respective domestic league titles at the weekend with games to spare.Inter Milan won
readNPL to decide on interim chair
19-05-2009
THE Namibia Premier League Board of Governors (BoG) will decide today when they will hold an extraordinary annual general meeting to elect a new chairman for the body, after Hendrik Dawids resigned at
readTembo okwi inyateka na Banda
19-05-2009
JOHN Tembo- e li okandindaate momahogololo ngoka taga ka ningwa moshilongo shika, opaati yawo ka ku wetike tayi ka za mo nomawi ogendji momahogololo molwashoka opaati yawo yo Malawi Congress Party
readMeekulu Nandjaba ya Heelu a dhana evalo lye lyoomvula 105
19-05-2009
OMUKULUPE Meekulu Ndatyoonawa Nandjaba Rauna yaHeelu gwomomukundaEhafo popepi nOmutemo mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Shana mOlyomakaya ga zi ko geti 16 Mei 2009 okwa dhana oshituthivalo she shoomvula
readAagundjuka ya MDC 15 ya kwatwa po
19-05-2009
BULAWO – Aagundjuka ye li 15 yongundu yo Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) mu Zimbabwe oya kwatwa po, sho oonkambadhala dhawo dhokutota po ehangano lyaagundjuka lyopashigwana dha piyagenekwa
readNatu kaleni twa hangana: Iivula-Ithana ta indile
19-05-2009
SWAPO ota ka popya nOminsita yIilonga nOmakwatakanithokumwe gopangodhi, Helmut Angula nOmuunganeki gwOpaati moshitopolwa sha Shikoto, Armas Amukwiyu ya ethe iinima mbyoka tayi vulu okweeta etopoko
readKanime a ningilwa oshipotha shuufuthi
19-05-2009
NGOKA a li nale Omukuluntuwiliki gwOkomisi yOmahogololo ya Namibia, Fillemon Kanime pamwe nayakwawo yaali, oya lombwelwa ya holoke mOmpangu omwedhi tagu.Shika oshi na sha aniwa nOmahogololo ga Muni
read‘Slumdog’ star’s home torn down
19-05-2009
MUMBAI – City authorities in Mumbai demolished the shanty home of a ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ child star on Thursday, forcing his family into the streets months after the Oscar-winning film shot him to
readOoh, ahh: Cantona romps home again at Cannes
19-05-2009
CANNES, France – Temperamental football legend Eric Cantona scored a new triumph yesterday, this time as star of a potential Cannes festival award-winner, British director Ken Loach’s ‘Looking for
readWilliam Kerr, priest of note
19-05-2009
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Monsignor William A Kerr, a leading human rights figure whom serial killer Ted Bundy sought out to be his spiritual counsellor on death row, died on Wednesday. He was 68.Kerr
readMario Benedetti, famed Uruguayan writer
19-05-2009
BUENOS AIRES – One of Uruguay’s best-known writers, Mario Benedetti, whose poems on love and politics became popular songs and whose muse was the unassuming Uruguayan capital Montevideo, died on
readCourt rules out Muluzi for election
19-05-2009
BLANTYRE – Malawi’s constitutional court ruled on Saturday that the African nation’s first democratically elected president cannot compete in next week’s election.The court disqualified former
readVaalgras On My Mind
19-05-2009
MY interaction with the people of Vaalgras came during the years of upheaval. Apartheid challenged Namibians to repel Bantu Education and the Council of Churches in Namibia teamed up with the
readStudent forced to change out of kilt
19-05-2009
WEST HAVEN – The principal of a Utah middle school has been asked to apologise for forcing a kilt-wearing student to change his clothes.Weber School District spokesman Nate Taggart says Craig Jessop
readSri Lanka declares final victory
19-05-2009
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s military declared a final victory yesterday in its decades-old conflict with the Tamil Tigers, after routing the remnants of the rebel army and killing its leader Velupillai
readNdebele accepts ‘thank you’ Merc
19-05-2009
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Transport S’bu Ndebele has accepted a N$1,1 million Mercedes Benz S500 from a group of contractors with contracts worth more than N$400 million in the department, the Star
readChina urges mainland investment in Taiwan
19-05-2009
SHANGHAI – China has outlined plans for encouraging mainland Chinese businesses to expand their investments in Taiwan, and has scheduled several purchasing missions to buy food and consumer
readNoteable Quotes
19-05-2009
UNITY of the party is supreme. – Swapo Party Secretary General Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana saying the party will request members to desist from behaviour that could cause division in the party
readZCI to provide African Copper with extra funding
19-05-2009
LONDON – Mining investment firm Zambia Copper Investments Ltd (ZCI) yesterday threw a US$25,4 million lifeline to African Copper Plc, allowing the copper miner to repay a bond and sending its shares
readSA banks defend margin between prime and repo
19-05-2009
SOUTH African bank executives have tried to justify their interest rate policies after Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni criticised the 3,5 per cent margin between the central bank’s official repo
readNam slow on Confed Cup
19-05-2009
NAMIBIA has so far made little, if any, progress to lure football-playing nations here for possible friendly matches and training camps ahead of the 2009 Fifa Confederations Cup in South Africa next
read4th Employment Equity Commission launched
19-05-2009
THE fourth Employment Equity Commission was inaugurated recently. The commission’s mandate is to ensure that affirmative action is implemented in Namibia’s workplaces. The term of office of the
readExperts meet at WHO as new flu spreads in Japan
19-05-2009
GENEVA/TOKYO – The new flu strain is spreading widely in the United States and Japan and is likely to circulate worldwide, health officials said yesterday.The H1N1 flu outbreak has put the world on
readVodacom makes strong first day debut on JSE
19-05-2009
JOHANNESBURG – Shares in South Africa’s Vodacom made a strong debut on the Johannesburg stock exchange yesterday, reassuring investors after a union almost blocked one of the biggest listings in
readLocal business goes with global flow
19-05-2009
COMPANIES in Namibia are acclimatising to the harsher business conditions presented by the global economic crisis and finding ways to cope, the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) says in the
readSmall firms exhibit at big expo
19-05-2009
TWELVE small firms will be showcasing their goods and services at the Namibia Tourism Expo 2009 taking place in Windhoek from May 27 to 30.In an arrangement between the event organiser, Democratic
readWB to give Zim US$22m grant
19-05-2009
HARARE - The World Bank will soon make its first grant to Zimbabwe since the country’s politicians agreed a power-sharing deal, but said yesterday it would provide loans only after arrears were
readLanger Heinrich ups production
19-05-2009
PRODUCTION at Langer Heinrich during the first quarter (Q1) of 2009 increased by 40 per cent to 685 874 pounds of uranium oxide compared to the same period last year, and exceeded production targets
readLighting up the public smoking ban
19-05-2009
WHAT’S happened to Namibia’s proposed law to ban smoking in public places? Well, according to the Ministry of Health, the initiator of the proposed legislation, the Tobacco Control Bill is with the
readSADC agriculture ministers meet this week
19-05-2009
THE cluster meeting of Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Ministers responsible for Agriculture and Food Security will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa on May 21.During the meeting,
readNAU president visits Aranos farmers
19-05-2009
AT the request of the Aranos Farmers’ Association, NAU President Ryno van der Merwe and NAU Executive Manager Sakkie Coetzee visited farmers in the Aranos area on Thursday to discuss the virtual ban
readExport bans stoke food fears: FAO
19-05-2009
WASHINGTON – Export bans during last year’s food crisis hurt global confidence in trade and helped push investors to buy up farmland in developing nations, an official from the United Nations’ food
readSmses for Tue 19 May 09
19-05-2009
* JUST as motor vehicle driver licensing, firearm licence applicants should be subjected to more or less the same procedure, taxi and drivers of public sector vehicles should undergo advanced driving
readBakkie careens into Keetmans house
19-05-2009
A FAMILY of six escaped unhurt when a Toyota bakkie, with a Lüderitz registration number, crashed into their home at Keetmanshoop’s Tseiblaagte area during the early hours of Saturday. The owner of
read3 die in road accident
19-05-2009
A DRIVER and two passengers died instantly when the vehicle in which they were travelling veered off the road and overturned on Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred on the gravel road between
readMoses returns to Swanu
19-05-2009
VETERAN politician Moses Katjiuongua has returned to the South West African National Union (Swanu) fold after renouncing his Congress of Democrats (CoD) membership.Katjiuongua was a founder member of
readRichardine Kloppers, teacher of the nation
19-05-2009
KHOMASDAL this weekend said goodbye to a pioneering member of its community, 83-year-old former teacher Richardine Kloppers. A mother of 15 who founded the St Andrew’s school named after her late
readFarmer denies access to infected livestock
19-05-2009
VETERINARY officials have been denied access to brucellosis-infected livestock on the quarantined Farm Bethal in the Hardap Region since the infectious disease was detected among livestock in
readInflation pressure eases in April
19-05-2009
INFLATION in April dropped by 1,2 percentage points to 10 per cent, the lowest inflation rate in Namibia for 11 months. Although not back in single-digit territory yet, it is a significant relief
readInvasion herds moved to NDC farms
19-05-2009
Thousands of cattle used in the invasion of western Kavango by Owambo farmers will be relocated to National Development Corporation (NDC) farms in the Mangetti area. According to sources, 3 466
readKwando River level rising in Caprivi
19-05-2009
THE water level of the Kwando River in the Caprivi Region is rising rapidly at the Kongola bridge, with 3,55 metres measured yesterday, close to the maximum level of 3,8 metres measured last year.
readRailroad to North disintegrating
19-05-2009
THE railway line between Kranzberg near Karibib and Tsumeb in the North is in such poor shape that there is a high risk of trains getting derailed, TransNamib’s acting Chief Executive Officer Mike
readDust around Namfisa ‘deal or no deal’ drama refuses to settle
19-05-2009
THE Namfisa board says taking the route of a settlement with its now resigned CEO, Rainer Ritter, would not have served in anyone’s interest, and the financial watchdog intends to resume his
readGam farmers ‘steal’ back their cattle
19-05-2009
FARMERS from the Gam area who early this month invaded the Nyae-Nyae conservancy, sparking an animal health crisis, have allegedly stolen their cattle back.The 28 farmers, released late last week
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