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66 Articles found on Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Brain drain, low investment hamper African science
13-04-2010
LONDON – Africa’s contribution to the global body of scientific research is very small and does little to benefit its own populations, according to a report from Thomson Reuters released
readLower inflation spells rate relief
13-04-2010
YEAR-ON-YEAR inflation continued to ease up last month with the Namibia Consumer Price Index (NCPI) dropping from 6,3 per cent in February to 5,6 per cent in March.Coupled with the relatively strong
readFrench banks among worst hit by capital uncertainty
13-04-2010
PARIS – French banks may be among the most exposed in Europe to tighter capital requirements due in 2012, despite having emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis.Fears that
readAfrica Business Briefs
13-04-2010
Anglo Coal sees coal prices steady LANDAU COLLIERY – Anglo American’s South African coal unit chief executive said yesterday he expects the price of coal to remain strong, while exports would match
readZim Chamber of Mines slams growth forecast
13-04-2010
HARARE — The Chamber of Mines has expressed doubt that the mining sector could achieve the 40 per cent growth predicted by Finance Minister Tendai Biti in the 2010 budget statement due various
readMore rate cuts possible in SA
13-04-2010
JOHANNESBURG – It is possible that interest rates could decline even further, although the prime lending rate is currently at a record low. The South African Reserve Bank has announced that its net
readSet aside cultural differences for air security: US
13-04-2010
ABUJA – Cultural, political and legal differences must be set aside to heighten global aviation security, a senior US official urged African ministers ahead of a regional air security conference
readChina says bank lending fell in March
13-04-2010
SHANGHAI – New loans issued by Chinese banks fell to 510,7 billion yuan (74,8 billion dollars) in March, the central bank said yesterday, suggesting Beijing’s efforts to curb lending could be
readGreek EU deal positive, says Fitch
13-04-2010
ATHENS – The euro zone’s rescue package for Greece is positive but not decisive, Fitch Ratings said yesterday.Fitch senior analyst Chris Pryce said Greece’s government will grab the euro zone rescue
readBrown pledges to support recovery, police deals
13-04-2010
BIRMINGHAM – Britain’s ruling Labour Party, trailing in the polls before a May 6 election, sought to regain the initiative yesterday with plans to support a fragile economic recovery and police
readRundu farmers wait for loans
13-04-2010
THE ten small-scale farmers at the Uvhungu-Vhungu Dairy Farm near Rundu have not started farming, as they are still waiting for loans from the Agricultural Bank of Namibia. The small-scale farmers
readGood grain harvest for Zambia
13-04-2010
NEWS of a bumper harvest could not have come at a better time in Zambia, where rising food and fuel prices have made it more and more difficult for John Banda, a taxi driver in the capital, Lusaka, to
readNamibian beef products to Denmark and USA
13-04-2010
MEATCO’S sought-after Nature’s Reserve export meat products for premium markets will get international exposure soon. Millions of television viewers watching the 2010 Soccer World Cup will be
readMalema: Zanu-PF support final straw?
13-04-2010
JOHANNESBURG – The tipping point for the ANC’s leadership on outspoken ANC Youth League president Julius Malema was his interference in the Zimbabwe matter, Director of the Centre for the Study of
readSudan vote ‘smoother’ on day two
13-04-2010
KHARTOUM – Voting was proceeding generally smoothly on the second day yesterday of Sudan’s multi-party elections after a chaotic start which had prompted cries of foul and forced officials to admit
readClimate talks end with deal to do more
13-04-2010
BONN – Delegates to the first United nations climate talks after Copenhagen have agreed to intensify their negotiations on curbing greenhouse gases before this year’s decisive ministerial conference
read‘American Idol’ finalist saved from elimination
13-04-2010
LOS ANGELES – Michael ‘Big Mike’ Lynche didn’t get the big boot on ‘American Idol’.The soulful 26-year-old personal trainer and father from Queens, New York, was saved this week by the judges on the
readRevealed: the link between Wayne Rooney and Picasso
13-04-2010
LONDON – Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney and Chelsea’s Didier Drogba are just two of more than 40 players and managers of soccer’s English Premier League to have drawn self-portraits for a charity
readIyambo a uvaneke okwoopaleka elongo
13-04-2010
OMINISTA yElongo, Abraham Iyambo okwa lombwele aakuluntu yomanongelo kutya otapa ka etwa omalunduluko omanene moshikondo shelongo nayo oya tegelelwa ya kale oshitopolwa shomalunduluko ngaka.Iyambo
readEwawa lyaakiintu lyoSwapo lya tula Shaetonhodi pevi
13-04-2010
EWAWA Lyaakiintu moSwapo olya tula omuwiliki gwalyo omutiyali nenge omupevi wiliki gwalyo, Linnea Shaetonhodi pevi.Oonzo dhishi kwiinekelwa odha koleke kutya SPWC okwa tokola opo a tule Shaetonhodi
readOmauvaneko nomasimaneko
13-04-2010
OSHIWIKE shotango shoonkundathana kombinga yiimaliwa yepangelo osha li shuudha omapandulo okuza kaatotimpango yongundu ta yi pangele taya tanga engongo lyomutengeneko thaneko.Yamwe yomuyo oya
readOondando dhomagumbo odhi li pombanda
13-04-2010
AAKWIILONGO mboka haya landa omagumbo koomuma noshowo aalandi yomagumbo mboka ha ya pula okommissi oyindji okuyeleka naandjoka ya uthwa kompango aniwa oyo taya londeke oondando dhomagumbo unene
readKamwi a indile pu longwe nawa kombinga yoH1N1
13-04-2010
MINISTA yUundjolowele, Richard Kamwi okwa pandula oshifo sho The Namibian sho sha hokolola kombinga yoshiningwanima shomukithi gwekunku lyo H1N1. Ndele okwa ti okwa uvithwa nayi kaanambelewa
readNghimtina a popitha aaniilonga
13-04-2010
OMINISTA yIilonga Nomalweendo, Erkki Nghimtina okwa popitha aaniilonga yopoministeli ye metitano oshiwike shayi nokwe ya endulululile oompango nomalandulathano ngoka yena okulandula.Nghimtina okwe ya
readOmukiintu a dhipagwa pofaalama poAranos
13-04-2010
OPOLISI po Aranos oya kwata omunafaalama gumwe ta fekelwa aniwa a yaha nokudhipaga omukulukadhi gwe nondjembo yombistoli. Komufala gwopolisi gwopevi moshitopolwa sha Hardap, Kobus Meyer okwa ti
readEgwedhelo lyolusheno ina li pandika
13-04-2010
OSHIGWANA oshindji otashi ulike okwaa uvite ombili kombinga yethaneko lya Nampower opo ando a gwedhele ondando yolusheno nooperesenda 35 nuumvo. Mboka ya tsondumbo negwedhelo oya kwatelamo oshikondo
readTennis veterans off to South Africa
13-04-2010
THE Namibian veterans’ tennis team is set to participate in the 45+ age B category of the Inter-Provincial Tournament in South Africa from May 2 to 8. The tournament will be held in Port Elizabeth
readLiverpool and Man United falter again
13-04-2010
LONDON – Manchester United’s hopes of retaining the Premier League title suffered a major blow as the champions were held to a 0-0 draw by Blackburn on Sunday, and Liverpool’s challenge for the fourth
readHaitengi shatters triple jump record
13-04-2010
RODGER Haitengi was the star performer at the Bank Windhoek National Athletics Championships on Saturday as he leapt to a new Namibian triple jump record of 16,74m.In the process he shattered his
readYoung Warriors lose first leg to Amajimbos
13-04-2010
THE national men’s U/17 football team were thumped 3-0 by neighbours South Africa in the CAF Youth Championships first leg qualifier at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The Young Warriors
readLeon Smith appointed Britain’s Davis Cup coach
13-04-2010
LONDON – British tennis officials have attempted to halt the country’s international free-fall by appointing Andy Murray’s former coach Leon Smith as the new captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup
readPhil Mickelson seals an emotional US Masters win
13-04-2010
AUGUSTA, Georgia – A week that began with Tiger Woods making his highly anticipated return to competition ended on Sunday when Phil Mickelson wrapped up an emotional three-shot victory at the US
readSMSes for Tuesday 13 April 2010
13-04-2010
* ALCOHOL abuse is at the core of 96 per cent of the evils in our society. Shebeens are the breeding place of most ills in our localities. Everybody is concerned about alcohol abuse in Namibia yet
readWanted by the Namibian Police
13-04-2010
THE Protected Resources Unit of the Namibian Police in Windhoek is requesting the public’s assistance in tracing Johannes Christiaan Kruger (28).He is wanted for allegedly impersonating a Police
readThousands to attend youth festival
13-04-2010
AROUND 600 young Namibians and 3 000 from other SADC countries are expected to participate in the third National Youth Week Festival scheduled from April 27 to May 1 at Keetmanshoop.Officiating at the
readTender Board should stick to rules: Ankama
13-04-2010
THE new Deputy Works and Transport Minister, Chief Ankama, says the Tender Board should start sticking to rules and regulations. “The tender system seems to be invaded by few individuals under the
readRoad accident claims three lives
13-04-2010
Three TransNamib workers – two passengers and a driver – died and four others were injured when a company vehicle in which they were travelling overturned on the B1 road between Keetmanshoop and
read‘Pool acid’ e-mail is a hoax
13-04-2010
AN e-mail that freaked out Windhoek residents last week by claiming that “a new style of hijacking” was being used in the capital was a hoax. This widely circulated e-mail was ostensibly written by
readOshakati floodwater recedes
13-04-2010
FLOODWATER in low-lying informal settlements at Oshakati is subsiding and the situation will soon return to normal, a spokesperson for the Oshakati Town Council says.A total of 1 142 people from the
readMove to end strife between Isaak and Goliath clans
13-04-2010
A MEETING will soon be called in an effort to end a bitter and long-standing rivalry fuelled by a chieftainship dispute between the Isaak and Goliath factions of the /Hai-/Khaua clan of Berseba.
readMinister Nujoma pledges to promote Nam for investors
13-04-2010
WHILE Government revenue had been reduced due to the effects of the global economic meltdown and other revenue had to be sourced, the Foreign Affairs Ministry would promote Namibia as investment
readMan dies in freak accident at Henties Bay
13-04-2010
LOURENZIUS Adams (30) from Keetmanshoop was killed when a truck he was working on rolled over him in a freak accident just south of Henties Bay on Friday morning.Adams and three other employees of the
readLight tremor confirmed
13-04-2010
THE tremor that hit northern Namibia late Sunday afternoon is estimated to have measured between 2 and 3 on the Richter scale, Dave Hutchins, chief geophysicist at the Geological Survey, said
readAlcohol fuels arson rampage at Uis
13-04-2010
AN all-night drinking binge at ‘Dam 4’ at Uis ended in disaster on Sunday morning when a man set fire to a shack, three cars and a goat kraal before stabbing three men with a knife and a broken
readFormer project co-ordinator faces fraud charge
13-04-2010
AFTER a prolonged Police investigation that started towards the end of 2008, a former project co-ordinator of the Namibia Association Norway (Namas) yesterday appeared in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s
readFloods in Caprivi not over yet
13-04-2010
THE level of the Zambezi River continues to drop at Katima Mulilo and stood at 6,55 metres yesterday, three centimetres down from Sunday. However, another flood wave is moving down the Zambezi
readElection court case remains hot topic
13-04-2010
THE anticipated Supreme Court hearing of an opposition challenge against the November 2009 elections remains a recurring topic in the National Assembly.Presidential Affairs Minister Dr Albert Kawana
readArandis HIV-Aids victims start work on garden
13-04-2010
ABOUT 30 Arandis-residents living with HIV-Aids last Friday received garden-equipment, seeds and food in order to get them started with a vegetable garden that will help them become
readKabeljou spawned at Henties
13-04-2010
THE Sam Nujoma Marine and Coastal Resources Research Centre (SANUMARC) announced recently that they have successfully spawned and reared silver kob (kabeljou) larvae to the juvenile stage.Dr Larry
readSwakop Municipality wins several awards
13-04-2010
THE Swakopmund Municipality recently received eight ‘professional management’ awards, which included a diamond award for being rated the best town doing most to attract local investment, hence
read‘Muddy’ Fischreiher Street to be interlocked
13-04-2010
THE 1,7km long Fischreiher Street stretch from central to north Vineta in Swakopmund will be interlocked.The N$3,5 million project is scheduled to start by mid-April according to the Swakopmund
readUsakos school goes online
13-04-2010
Rossing Uranium donated 20 refurbished computers to Festus !Gonteb Junior Primary School in Usakos recently as part of a bigger initiative whereby 180 computers will eventually be distributed to nine
readKaribib’s smelly water is getting attention
13-04-2010
KARIBIB-residents are still complaining of smelly and bad tasting water – even after Namwater said they had allegedly ‘solved’ the problem about three weeks ago. The residents had to endure several
readMondesa Municipal complex sale in dispute at Council
13-04-2010
A DECISION by the Swakopmund Municipal Council to alienate and sell the Mondesa Municipal Building as construction of the town’s new N$60 million municipal complex is nearing completion, did not go
readLuxury vehicles trash the dunes
13-04-2010
GONE is the perception that quadbikes are the only reason for environmental carnage in Namibia; on Saturday, at least four luxury 4x4 BMWs were seen and videoed as they were trashing a protected
readSwakopmund is ‘financially sound’
13-04-2010
ALTHOUGH no specific compliments have been issued in the Auditor-General’s 2008/2009-financial report for Swakopmund, the report does show that the town’s financial statements have met the audit
readMysterious black mussel carnage at Wlotzkasbaken
13-04-2010
MILLIONS of black mussels and big ‘snail’ mussels lay dead and rotting over a 2,8km stretch of beach just north of the Erongo Desalination Company’s intake facility north of Wlotzkasbaken.Fisheries
readSouth Africa’s race debate should be a lesson
13-04-2010
WHILE we’ve laughed at the comical, cringed at the ridiculous and shook our heads at the sad images dished up by our neighbours down south over the last couple of weeks, we should think twice before
readEducation Reform Is A Must
13-04-2010
‘TURNING the despair and pessimism that cha-racterise large sectors of the African people into hope and optimism will demand from the planners of African development to re-inspect the premises upon
readGladiators dispute with Football Association
13-04-2010
THE Namibia Football Association’s (NFA) financial disputes continue and it is alleged that it has failed to pay the national women’s teams their dues dating back to last year. Earlier this year
readA marriage of two Rössings on the cards?
13-04-2010
THE top brass of Extract Resources, owners of Rössing South, is meeting with President Hifikepunye Pohamba this afternoon to brief him on plans to develop the uranium deposit into one of the biggest
readReuters TV cameraman’s chilling last picture show
13-04-2010
BANGKOK – Seven minutes of film taken by Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto illustrate how a scrappy street protest turned deadly on a balmy Bangkok night.It is some of the last video Muramoto, 43, a
readNamibia among top 10 African health spenders
13-04-2010
NAMIBIA is among only 10 countries in Africa that have consistently spent above 12 per cent of their total government spending on health, a new report released by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
read40 years for Otjinene farm murder
13-04-2010
OTJINENE farm killer Matheus Kazondjou, who last month admitted in the High Court in Windhoek that he robbed and murdered his 80-year-old employer in her home in early 2006, was sent to prison for an
readLong jail terms for killers
13-04-2010
THE killing of his two children is set to cost Kavango Region resident Herbert Cimu Nkasi 44 years of his freedom.Nkasi (31) was sentenced in the High Court at Oshakati yesterday, almost three weeks
readNotable Quotes
13-04-2010
The Electricity Control Board (ECB) as a regulator has a moral obligationto aid Namibia in it’s efforts to curb and reduce poverty, especially since its action or inaction is having a direct impact on
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