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41 Articles found on Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Mobsters buck downturn, may target bourse
03-02-2010
ROME – Italy’s mafia crime syndicates bucked the recession in 2009 to raise “profits” by almost eight per cent with the financial crisis making companies and even the stock market even more vulnerable
readGerman Development Minister visits Namibia
03-02-2010
GERMAN Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development Dirk Niebel will arrive in Namibia today for a three-day official visit. It will be Niebel’s second visit to the African continent since
readEU to pump millions into SAPP
03-02-2010
LUSAKA - The European Union (EU) will finance the southern and eastern African power pool projects estimated at some US$800 million, nearly N$6 billion, China’s Xinhua news agency reported
readChasing the dots ... The Devil’s Disciples of Davos
03-02-2010
DAVOS, once a sanatorium for wealthy TB sufferers in the Alps of Gnomeland whose wealth is based on dormant accounts of dictators and criminals, tax dodgers, money launderers and accumulated dental
readCopper prices destined for record high
03-02-2010
CAPE TOWN - COPPER prices are forecast to high record highs in the next couple of years with limited supply and increased demand from China and the 30 member countries in the Organisation for Economic
readRio Tinto warns against Zim’s mining indigenisation
03-02-2010
CAPE TOWN - Rio Tinto said yesterday that Zimbabwe’s planned indigenisation of mines posed a major threat to its diamond operation in the country.Harry Kenyon-Slaney, Rio’s chief executive for
readMining Indaba upbeat on Africa
03-02-2010
CAPE TOWN – The next decade could be shaping up to be the very best for Africa in terms of economic development according to Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll.Addressing the Mining Indaba Conference
readA round-up of 2009 and a look ahead at 2010
03-02-2010
LAST year marked the end of the recession and provided markets with ample opportunity to retrace some of the losses sustained in the wake of the worst global financial and economic crises in decades.
readConcorde crash trial probes who was responsible
03-02-2010
PONTOISE – Ten years after an Air France Concorde crashed, killing 113 people and foreshadowing the end of the jet that embodied elegance at supersonic speed, a French court yesterday began probing an
readZuma must apologise and behave: Zille
03-02-2010
JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma must apologise for fathering an illegitimate child and strive to set a better example, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said yesterday.Zille said Zuma’s
readSouth Africa remembers news of Mandela’s release 20 years on
03-02-2010
CAPE TOWN – Twenty years after announcing Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, former South African president FW de Klerk was due yesterday to commemorate the speech that began dismantling the
read‘Eggs come from sheep’
03-02-2010
LONDON – Many young children do not know where their food originates from, a survey showed on Tuesday, with some youngsters believing bacon comes from horses and eggs come from sheep.Less than one in
readAye, Angelique!
03-02-2010
ANGELIQUE KIDJO is set to release her next studio album titled OYO on February 9th 2010.Kidjo is said to have returned back to her roots during the recording of OYO, by interpreting the music that
readStars re-record ‘We Are the World’ to aid Haiti victims
03-02-2010
LOS ANGELES – The charity anthem ‘We Are the World’ has been re-recorded by 80 artists who came together in the same Hollywood studio where the original was cut 25 years ago.Pink, Natalie Cole, Kanye
readSouth Africa’s aliens invade the Oscars!
03-02-2010
THE biggest surprise among this year’s Oscar nominees is a movie about aliens.No, it’s not ‘Avatar’, but rather the made-in-South Africa ‘District 9’, a left-field hit from the summer of 2009, and now
readAakwashigwana ye li 26 ya sa omeya mo Nooli yopokati
03-02-2010
NONANDO efundja inali ya natango unene, okuniwe uumbanda kutya aakalimo moNooli, otaya ka sa omeya oyendji ngele inapu ningwa omakunkililo giihwapo, unene tuu sho omvula ya tameke okuloka mu Desemba
readShiwana lungama uhapiyanekwe
03-02-2010
Momafiku 30 December 2009 pefimbo lokomatango ondali handi pwilikine oradio yOshiwambo moNBC omo mwa li ovapopi vavali (2) tava popi kombinga yeengudu 9 dopapolotika odo itadi pangele moNamibia(
readAtlantic iikala enwethemo lyoSwapo
03-02-2010
EHANGANO ndyoka hali gandja iikulya momihandjo kuumbangalantu woshilongo,olya ti lyo inali pewa iilonga mbika molwaashoka lya popilwa kombapila ya shangwa koSwapo mu May 2009.Omukuluntuwiliki
readOlusheno lwa tema ishewe miilando kuumbu-gantu
03-02-2010
NAMPOWER okwa galulile olusheno kiilando yokuumbugantu woshilongo mbyoka omalusheno gawo gali ga tetwako, molwaashoka mbika ya li inaayi futa mbala.Iilando noshowo omikunda dhomiitopolwa sha Hardap na
readIyambo okwa indile opo a kwathelwe paumwene
03-02-2010
KOMUFALA gwopevi gwopolisi moshitopolwa, Erongo, Andrew Iyambo okwa lombwele ommpangu yopashitopolwa yaSwakopmund kutya eindilo lye okukwathelwa paumwene, ndyoka a ukitha kehangano limwe moWalvisbay
readItapa tungwa ehala lyokupaluthila iimuna pEtunda
03-02-2010
NAMIBIA otashi vulika a kanithe iimaliwa mbyoka ya li ya nuninwa okutunga po omalugumbo moka ta mu paluthilwa iimuna omanga inayi ka dhipagwa muutomeno omolwonyama.Iimaliwa mbika oodola oomiliona 13
readPacquiao honoured as best
03-02-2010
NEW YORK – Manny Pacquiao was honoured as the fighter of the decade by the Boxing Writer’s Association of America on Monday, along with matching Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield by winning his third
readFarewell to Kruger
03-02-2010
SPRINGBOK flanker Ruben Kruger’s funeral will take place today in Pretoria, where thousands of rugby colleagues, fans and friends will say goodbye to one of South Africa’s rugby legends.Former
readBrazil strikers go home
03-02-2010
RIO DE JANEIRO – Ronaldo, Adriano, Fred and now Robinho, Brazil’s four strikers at the 2006 World Cup, have returned home looking to revive their careers and earn a place at this year’s finals in
readTeams reach last 32 in NFA Cup
03-02-2010
THE Leo NFA Cup reaches the second round of competition after the preliminary round were completed recently.The most lucrative competition in Namibian football saw action-filled games across the
readSMSes of Wednesday 3 February 2010
03-02-2010
* STOP blaming the matric farewell for the poor Grade 12 results!! If the farewell is the problem, what excuse are we using for poor Grade 10 results? Food for Thought * WHEN will our Government give
readSwapo succession race heats up
03-02-2010
THE debate around who will succeed Hifikepunye Pohamba as Swapo Party president is again ruffling feathers in the ruling party.The ascendancy of Pohamba to the party presidency saw a bitter rivalry
readSwapo playing Russian roulette with peace and stability: CoD
03-02-2010
THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) has called on Information Minister Joel Kaapanda to stop using State media for unfounded allegations and “poisoning the political climate” in the country. This CoD said
readPolitical trash-talking heats up
03-02-2010
SWAPO Secretary General Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana says those who go against the party are destined to end up in the “political dustbin”. Ithana was talking about independent candidate Ben Katamila at a
readNPC clerk charged with corruption
03-02-2010
TWO women, one a record clerk at the National Planning Commission and the other her child minder, appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with using public office for
readNMDC backs RDP Okahandja regional election candidate
03-02-2010
ANOTHER political party has thrown its weight behind the collective candidate of the opposition for the Okahandja regional by-election later this month.The Namibia Movement for Democratic Change
readLawyers hit back at union
03-02-2010
THE Society of Advocates has urged the National Union of Namibian Workers to expose allegedly corrupt judges and magistrates through the proper channels instead of making sweeping statements.The
readChances of rain evaporate
03-02-2010
NAMIBIANS can expect clear skies for the rest of the summer, with a very slim chance of further rainfall, unless El Niño continues to weaken as it has done over the past few weeks.Professor Kobus
read26 drownings in the North
03-02-2010
WITH the big seasonal flood still to come, 26 people have already drowned in northern Namibia since the beginning of December.The Oshana Police commander, Commissioner Ndahangwapo Kashihakumwa, says
readPirates face tough Rammies
03-02-2010
ORLANDO Pirates’ poor finishing in their clash against Oshakati City last Saturday can easily cost them points when they come up against a tough Ramblers side in an MTC Premiership match at the Sam
readPrivate experts sourced for Minerals Bill
03-02-2010
THE complete overhaul of the existing law on mining is still not completed, as the compiling of regulations for mining licences is still outstanding, The Namibian has learnt.“The task of drawing up
readAfrica leaders end summit
03-02-2010
ADDIS ABABA – African leaders were yesterday wrapping up their annual summit less divided and looking at brighter economic propects but still facing a raft of conflicts, including Sudan’s predicted
readSuspects in N$20m cocaine trial plead not guilty
03-02-2010
TWO Angolan nationals charged in Namibia’s largest case of alleged cocaine trafficking to date pleaded not guilty to all charges against them at the start of their trial in the High Court in Windhoek
readTender Board tightens rules to protect jobs
03-02-2010
COMPANIES making use of foreign unskilled and semi-skilled workers will no longer qualify for Government tenders.The Tender Board announced in the Government daily New Era yesterday that “henceforth
readNam uranium spooks the US
03-02-2010
THE White House force to prevent nuclear and radiological materials from falling into the wrong hands, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), has told Rio Tinto Rössing Uranium to sharpen its
readNotable Quotes
03-02-2010
THERE is nothing wrong that the president has done. There is nothing ‘shameful’ when two adults have a relationship. – ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu on the media and others’ comments on President
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