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50 Articles found on Thursday, 12 August 2010
Suspected thief shot and killed
12-08-2010
A MAN who was allegedly caught red-handed while stealing a tourist’s belongings from a car at the Gariganes Giant Playground campsite was shot and killed by the camp’s owner on Tuesday afternoon.
readMeroro to finally vie for world title
12-08-2010
VIKAPITA ‘Beast Master’ Meroro’s wish for a world title fight has been granted, after WBO light heavyweight Juergen Braehmer eventually agreed to the challenge of the African champion in September or
readNam descends for Singapore games
12-08-2010
THE Namibian team arrived in Singapore for the Youth Olympics yesterday morning.Chef de Mission Ndeulipula Hamutumwa said the team needed to quickly acclimatise to the hot and humid conditions of the
readCycling fun ride
12-08-2010
THE Faith Reformed Baptist Church, will have its annual cycling family fun ride on August 26.The ride starts at 07h30 from BP Katutura and finishes at Beukes Spar in Khomasdal, with a shortened route
readBrave Warriors up four places on Fifa rankings
12-08-2010
DESPITE not having played an international match for months, Namibia’s Brave Warriors climbed four places on the Fifa/Coca-Cola World Rankings released on Tuesday.The Brave Warriors are now ranked
readSports health with Donatha Gawanas: Head injuries in sport
12-08-2010
ALL head injuries are potentially serious so it is important to assess them carefully. H ead injuries can cause impaired consciousness, which is a state anything less than being fully conscious. S
readBlatter defends international scheduling
12-08-2010
SINGAPORE – Fifa president Sepp Blatter yesterday defended the scheduling of international matches this week just days ahead of the European football season, telling critics to stop making so much
readNew-look Brazil impress against USA
12-08-2010
A YOUTHFUL Brazil side enjoyed an impressive 2-0 win over the United States in a friendly at the New Meadowlands stadium on Tuesday, handing new coach Mano Menezes a victory in his first game in
readIvory Coast pip Prandelli’s Italy
12-08-2010
IVORY Coast beat former world champions Italy 1-0 at a rainy Upton Park on Tuesday in a lively friendly from which both teams could take plenty of satisfaction. The Ivorians scored with a powerful
readWelwitschias engage PM for World Cup funding
12-08-2010
ARMED with the International Rugby Board (IRB) Nations Cup trophy and Africa Cup shield, Namibia’s senior rugby national team yesterday approached Prime Minister Nahas Angula over possible financial
readSMSes for Thursday 12 August 2010
12-08-2010
SMS Of The Day IF you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have time to do something about it. Food for Thought I WAS shocked by the Cabinet resolution to give the
readShocking findings about child labour
12-08-2010
GOVERNMENT will tighten controls on child labour and also on trafficking of foreign children from neighbouring countries into Namibia to work, after recent inspections revealed that about 120 children
readEgumbo ekulu lyoshilongo ombala yomuPrima Minista
12-08-2010
EGUMBO ekulu lyoshilongo mepandaanda lya Robert Mugabe olyo olukalwa lwopambelewa lwoMinista onkuluntu ngashingeyi osho okabinete ka tokola.Omuprima Nahas Angula ota kala woo ha longele moombelewa
readOmugundjuka itaala ondjo monkambadhala yedhipago
12-08-2010
MARTHA Shilongo [18] okwa holokele mompangu ya mengestrata mo Shiwakopo metamaneko lyonkambadhala yedhipago.Okwa tamanekwa mekwatathano noshiningwanima sho kweekelahi omunona opo a valawa mokandjugo
readSADC a pumbwa iimaliwa oyindji
12-08-2010
OSHITOPOLWA shuumbugantu wAfrica nenge SADC osha pumbwa konyala oodola obiliona 720 molwa iilonga ye andjaganeko lyoondjila, noshowo ehumokomeho.Uuyelele mbuka owa ngongwa momushangwahokololo kombinga
readOomiliona ne moSADC ya pumbwa oondya
12-08-2010
KONYALA oomiliona ne dhaantu moSADC odha pumbwa oondya , nonando oshitopolwa shika osha longa iilya oyindji nuumvo.Omuwiliki gwoshikondo shiikulya, uunamapya, noonzo dhopaushitwe, Margaret Nyirenda
readOogavena ta ya ulikwa ku Pohamba
12-08-2010
OOGAVENA yiitopolwa ota ya ka ulikwa komuperesidende gwoshilongo monakuyiwa. Pethimbo ndika oogavena yiitopolwa oha ya hogololwa kookansela dhiikandjohogololo yiitopolwa yopapolitika 13 moshilongo.
readAakatoolika ya Kando ya monongeleki ompe
12-08-2010
OOITAALI yOngeleka ya Katoolika ka Roma mOkando mOmusati ya mona ongeleki ompe ndjoka ya yapulilwe kOmukuluntumbiishofi gwOngeleka ya Katoolika ka Roma moNamibia,Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda
readOmufekelwa muufuthi woomiliona 6,4 ina monika
12-08-2010
OPOLISI onkene yi li mompadhi yomufekelwa ngoka ta ku tiwa oye a longekidha eyakepo lyiimaliwa yoodola oomiliona 6,4 konima yoomwedhi ndatu dha pitipo.Natango opolisi ota yi kongo Simson Matias, ngoka
readNamcor a etha okulanda BP
12-08-2010
EHANGANO lyomahooli lya Namibia, NAMCOR olya tseyitha kutya olya etha oshilalakanenwa shalyo okulanda ko ando omaliko gehangano lyomahooli lya Britania lyedhina BP moNamibia.Eikuthemo ndika olya
readIigunda yoongombe momahala gaayehe
12-08-2010
EDHIKO lyiigunda yoongombe nenge shoka hakutiwa oomanga momahala gaayehe osha tameka okweeta iiyimati.Sigo oompaka opwa dhikwa nale oomanga dhili 70 miitopolwa yomahala gaayehe muumbangalantu
readEtotongwe lyopoShiwakopo
12-08-2010
ETOTONGWE ndyoka lya kwatelwe poShiwakopo omaandaha olya li lya mangululwa okuya mokuti omwedhi gwa ziko popepi na Sossusvlei konyala ookilometa 250 kuumbugantu wa Shiwakopo.Ombishi ndjika oya li
readOlutu lwegameno ta lu ende pokati
12-08-2010
OLUTU lwegameno nepopilo lwehangano lyomapendulepo lyuumbugantu wAfrica ngashingeyi olwa kwatelamo woo oshilonga oshipe sho kupulakena pethimbo lyomaipumomumwe.Oshilonga shika oshi na woo elalakano
readEhololomadhilaadhilo nomaashinga mewiliko lyo RDP
12-08-2010
AANYASHA yongundu yo RDP moshigongi shawo shiikundaneki sha ningilwa mOngwediva mEtiyali, oya tseyitha kutya mOlyomakaya otaku ka kala ehololomadhilaadhilo noomaashinga oonene moshilongo ashihe, moka
readOmukiintu omuNamibia a kwatwa moZambia
12-08-2010
OSHIKONDO shokukondjitha iingangamithi mo Zambia osha kwata omukiintu gwomimvo 34 omuNamibia. Naku kwatwa nguka ota fekelwa a li a humbata okokaine yondjundo yokilograma yimwe.Omupopiliko gwokommissi
readNobody missing in Kavango
12-08-2010
REPORTS that Kavango villagers have mysteriously vanished into thin air seem to be nothing but rumours. So said the Kavango Regional Police Commander, Commissioner Olavi Auanga, this week.He was
readMVA fraud trial halts
12-08-2010
THE Motor Vehicle Accident Fund fraud trial of Ondangwa-based lawyer Arumugam Thambapilai and ten co-accused came to a sudden halt in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.The trial came to a stop
readPhotocopying royal scandal article lands Swaziland man in jail
12-08-2010
JOHANNESBURG – Police in Swaziland have arrested a man for making photocopies of a newspaper article that detailed a royal sex scandal that has shaken the small kingdom, reports said yesterday. The
readChina’s landslide toll at 1117
12-08-2010
ZHOUQU – Heavy rains lashed a remote section of northwestern China as the death toll from weekend flooding that triggered massive landslides jumped to 1 117, although the fading hopes of rescuers got
readDramatic message
12-08-2010
The Ministry of Mines and Energy held an HIV-AIDS information-sharing day yesterday as part of its commitment to educate staff on the pandemic. Pictured are the Flandu Tsumkwe Cultural Group
readBread price up soon
12-08-2010
NAMIBIANS should brace themselves for more expensive bread by October, following Russia’s suspension of wheat exports.The increase should not be more than ten per cent, Namib Mills managing director
readSanlam washes hands of GIPF pension fiasco
12-08-2010
SANLAM Investment Management (SIM), one of the asset managers that advised GIPF in its failed multimillion-dollar investments in unlisted start-up firms, is refusing to take even part of the blame for
readMunyama found guilty
12-08-2010
FORMER Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) boss Gerry Munyama (54) almost landed in jail immediately following a fraud conviction in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.In a judgement that lasted
readExtract strikes it rich at Rössing South
12-08-2010
NAMIBIA officially has the sixth largest uranium deposit in the world, sitting on at least a quarter of a billion pounds of uranium oxide at Rössing South, Extract Resources confirmed yesterday.The
readSA media find another ally in Mamphela Ramphele
12-08-2010
JOHANNESBURG – The media found another ally in businesswoman Mamphela Ramphele yesterday, who warned that statutory control of the media would not solve the government’s problems.“Where are the
readAlways ‘political talk’ at Kebble home
12-08-2010
JOHANNESBURG – There was always “political talk” in the home of deceased mining magnate Brett Kebble, the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg heard yesterday.Kebble’s former housekeeper, Andrew
readNot Strapped For Comment!
12-08-2010
A selection of some of the messages from the SMS ticker tape running across the bottom of the BBA All Stars Screen:* Barnhouse more enjoyable than the main house. Dat’s a challenge, guys in da house
readThieves, Fights and The Art of Being Politically Incorrect
12-08-2010
EISH! With thievery so rife in the land of the brave, it was something of a disappointment to discover that Max, (yes Lerato’s ex saliva-exchanging buddy in BBA2) who was shipped to the Big Brother
readEducation key in protecting environment
12-08-2010
THE director of the Namibia Desert Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET), Victoria Keding, has called on environmental centres in the country to be role models in promoting environmental
readUranium mining versus tourism, biodiversity
12-08-2010
HAVE you heard of the ‘uranium rush’ in the central Namib Desert? If you have, perhaps you have heard that it will create many jobs and benefit the local economy. This may be true, but have you
readDriving licence scam unearthed at Rundu
12-08-2010
RUNDU – The Namibian Police (Nampol) on Tuesday unearthed a fake driving licence manufacturing and selling scam at Rundu in the Kavango Region.The scam was discovered after Police arrested a
readCaprivi repatriation stalls
12-08-2010
A PLANNED mission by the Namibian Government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Botswana government to the Dukwe refugee camp has been cancelled.The mission was supposed to
readAll in Caprivi need food aid
12-08-2010
PEOPLE in the whole Caprivi Region will be in need of food aid throughout the year as many people’s crops were destroyed by floods this year, Governor Leonard Mwilima told The Namibian
readNotable Quotes
12-08-2010
THE aim is to stem the flow of corruption by expressing in clear and unequivocal language that those who participate in corrupt practices would be dealt with by our courts to protect the interest of
readEskom ups power supply
12-08-2010
CAPE TOWN – South Africa’s power utility Eskom expects to almost double the level of generating capacity that its grid will get from independent power producers (IPPs) by next March, a senior official
readForeign buyers in Zim for diamond sale
12-08-2010
HARARE – Foreign buyers arrived yesterday at Harare’s airport for the first authorised sale of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange fields since the partial lifting of a ban imposed over human rights
readModest growth in oil demand
12-08-2010
WASHINGTON – The US government on Tuesday modestly boosted its forecast for global oil demand growth this year and next, with developing countries driving consumption despite a slower outlook for the
readNigeria to fund election with bond issue
12-08-2010
ABUJA – Nigerian lawmakers yesterday approved a planned bond issue to fund an 88 billion naira (US$585 million) budget for the electoral commission to overhaul voter lists and buy more ballot boxes
readSA autoworkers start indefinite strike
12-08-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South African autoworkers seeking wage increases more than triple the inflation rate went on an indefinite strike yesterday, hitting auto production in Africa’s largest economy.The
read‘Drive economic integration’
12-08-2010
NAMIBIA stands to reap huge benefits from an integrated Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region with a single currency, Bank of Namibia (BoN) Governor Ipumbu Shiimi has said.Namibia as a
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