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65 Articles found on Friday, 9 July 2010
Ex-Swakop municipal worker jailed
09-07-2010
A FORMER assistant to the building inspector of the Swakopmund Municipality, Chadrat Mbuuru, was sent to prison on Tuesday for fraud.During the course of 2005, Mbuuru, who was working in the
readJarman goes professional
09-07-2010
ON May 29 Namibians went numb as Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses lost his world title, completely ignoring the fight that followed this high-profile contest.That fight featured national welterweight
readOmaheke region wins Newspaper Cup bid
09-07-2010
THE Namibian Newspaper Cup organisers have ‘provisionally’ given the Omaheke Region the green light to host the 2011 youth football development tournament. Despite being declared the hosts for the
readWe lacked courage, conviction – Germany
09-07-2010
GERMANY showed a lack of courage against European champions Spain and paid the price with a 1-0 defeat in their World Cup semi-final, coach Joachim Loew and his players said after Wednesday’s match.
readSpain coach says players were in ‘magnificent’ form
09-07-2010
DURBAN – Spain coach Vicente del Bosque says his players were “magnificent” in the semi-final win over Germany, but urged them to not lose their focus ahead of Sunday’s World Cup final against the
readOctopus oracle to pick World Cup final
09-07-2010
BERLIN – Prescient Paul, the octopus oracle who has correctly predicted the outcome of every World Cup match played by Germany, is branching out and will weigh in on the final between Spain and the
readTri-Nations set for explosive opener in Auckland
09-07-2010
WELLINGTON – New Zealand take on South Africa in the Tri-Nations opener tomorrow with the Southern Hemisphere powerhouses expected to serve up a mouth-watering clash that carries greater significance
readMcLaren upgrade to be tested at Silverstone
09-07-2010
SILVERSTONE, England – As McLaren prepare for the British Grand Prix at the redesigned Silverstone circuit this weekend, home heroes Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are hoping upgraded cars will give
readSpain-Netherlands poised for classic World Cup final
09-07-2010
JOHANNESBURG – A new champion will be crowned at the World Cup on Sunday, when Spain meets the Netherlands in a final which has the potential to be a classic, as South Africans savour the final days
readSMSes for Friday 9 July 2010
09-07-2010
SMS Of The Day CAN our Parliament not talk about or table things affecting us daily instead of just debating unnecessary views. Is that what they are paid for? – Ipinge Sierra Food
readRosh Pinah’s pioneer trader dies
09-07-2010
WILLEM Hilifa, a pioneering entrepreneur in Rosh Pinah’s Tutungeni township, has died. Hilifa had two businesses in Tutungeni, both trading under the name Okano. Expressing sympathy to the Hilifa
readNORED a gwedhela olusheno lwe nooperesenda 16,5%
09-07-2010
OKAMPANI ya NORED oya tseyitha kutya omasiku ngaka oya gwedhela olusheno lwayo nooperesenda 16,5%, ano okuza podola yimwe pashiyelekitho shotango sigo opoN$1,17.Omunambelewa Omukuluntupitithi gwa
readAafuthi yiimuna ya kwatwa
09-07-2010
OPOLISI pOtjiwarongo oyi itsu mongundu oshona yaantu mboka ta ya fekelwa ha ya longele kumwe mokuyaka iimuna.Ongundu ndjika oya etwa puuyelele konima sho opolisi ya kwata omukiintu pOtjiwarongo ngoka
readOpolisi ya Shakati tayi konaakona uulingilingi
09-07-2010
OPOLISI ya Shakati, otayi konaakona oshiningwanima shuulingilingi wu na sha aniwa nokufuta gumwe gwomookaansela yElelo lya Shana obonasa nonande ookaansela ka ya futwa oobonasa.Shika aniwa osha
readOmundohotola Ndume a tameka netando lyomeho mOshakati
09-07-2010
NGASHI ngaa omumvo kehe, ndohotola gwomeho, Helana Ndume ha tanda aavu yomeho moNamibia, nonuumvo okwa tameka nale noshikonga shetando lyomeho moshilongo ashihe, unene okukutha oongala koomoni dhomeho
readKondjitheni iikolitha
09-07-2010
OSHIKONGA shoku papudhula oshigwana kombinga yoku kondjitha iikolitha osha tulwa miilonga moWindhoek etiyali.Oshikonga shedhina “Thikama”osha kwatelwa komeho kUuministeli wUundjolowele, omahangano
readIndjipalekeni okunguna yuutalelipo pukwathwe iilonga ya Air Namibia
09-07-2010
OMUPRIMA Minista , Nahas Angula okwa indile oshikondo shomatalelopo opo shi kwathele iilonga yomalweendo goondhila dha Namibia[Air Namibia] yi kale miilonga. Shika Angula okwa ti otashi vulu oku
readOmupolisi Kaizer a hulitha
09-07-2010
OMUPOLISI omukonakoni mOshikondo oshikonakoni shiimbuluma, a li ha longele mopolisi ya Shakati – Jason Kamwele, a tseyika nedhina ‘Kaizer,’ okwa mana oondjenda dhe mOshipangelo sha Nandjokwe meti: 5
read//Naosan/Aes ya hala omatamaneko ga kuthwepo
09-07-2010
OSHIGWANA shaa //Naosan /Aes osha indile epangelo opo li ethepo oshipotha shoka lya ningile iilyo yaantu mbaka yi li omugoyi, nokutya oshikumungu shevi shi kundathanwe mbala nopwaana omaongaongo.Mboka
readA classic final
09-07-2010
MILLIONS of eyes will be fixed on Johannesburg’s Soccer City when Holland clash with Spain in the final of football’s most prized crown – the World Cup trophy.Forget about the way both teams
readOn A Matter Of Rights
09-07-2010
THE NAMIBIAN, since its founding nearly 25 years ago, has prided itself on its outspoken commitment to human rights. Its record is a proud one, and includes campaigning against violence against women
readAn Ambitious Africa Demands Africans With High Expectations
09-07-2010
ON Sunday, the first African World Cup will reach what appears to be a peculiar conclusion. For the first time in the history of the Fifa World Cup, two European teams will play in the final on a
readRegional Integration In Southern Africa: Frozen In Infancy?
09-07-2010
THE hype and euphoria that gripped Southern Africa during the World Cup will be over on Sunday. It is now clear that South Africa’s neighbours didn’t benefit much from this global event. They were
readParties seem to have gone back to sleep
09-07-2010
LAST year’s presidential and national elections had one thing in common – Caprivi and the two southern regions of Namibia seemed to be rethinking their allegiance to Swapo.The performance of the
readPolitical Perspective
09-07-2010
THE National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) is really acting like a bunch of mixed-up kids over the Basic Income Grant (BIG) issue. For me the BIG is not necessarily the answer to poverty in this
readNored hikes power tariffs by 16,5%
09-07-2010
THE Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) has a 16,5 per cent increase in power tariffs effective from July 1.That means that people in the North now have to pay N$1.17 per unit of
readEmbezzlement hit NBC hard: Biwa
09-07-2010
CLOSE to N$350 000 was not small change to lose for an already struggling Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). In fact, this was “a burden” for its “financial dire straits”.So said Ben Biwa,
readNamfisa investigator attacked at home
09-07-2010
A CENTRAL figure in the ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities at Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa), forensic computer expert Wayne Phillips, survived an
readUN Takes Issue With Advert
09-07-2010
GLOBALLY, the media have embraced the understanding that freedom of expression and of opinion carries duties and obligations. This was especially well learnt within cultures that suffered from racial
readWhy Africa Can’t Win The World Cup
09-07-2010
WHY do the African countries not perform at the World Cup? As pointed out in a previous article in The Namibian by Mr Hengari, maybe it reflects on those countries’ way of governing or the lack
readNeed Action In Okahandja
09-07-2010
I AM sick and tired of this municipality and I really want ACC to read my letter in order to take appropriate action.What happens in Okahandja is a daylight robbery. I am working in Walvis Bay and
readNow For Church Degrees
09-07-2010
IN The Namibian newspaper on Wednesday 9 June 2010, in Oshiwambo there was an article about a prominent businessman in Oshakati, Mr Erastus Mvula Mnyango, conferred or awarded with a Honorary
readHome Affairs Hampers All
09-07-2010
I WOULD like to know why we should have a Minister of Home Affairs who does nothing except get paid and enjoys all the exalted perks of her position? Every week we see complaints about the lack of
readA Dog Is A Person’s Best Friend
09-07-2010
I FEEL obliged to write this letter on behalf of all the ill-treated dogs in Namibia. Some sections of our community are known for mistreating our animals.There are several cases that are still very
readNamibia In Good Position To Promote Transformation
09-07-2010
An Open Letter to the Office of the Prime MinisterMrs Caroline Sitongo – Office of the Prime Minister Dear Ms Sitongo I AM writing to you, not as a citizen of Namibia, but as a keen observer of
readAnger Over Hospital Money Matter
09-07-2010
ON the morning of 30 June 2010 at 02h00 I got a distress call from my elderly father that my mother of 80 was feeling very sick with severe chest pain and a very high pulse rate. I started calling
readNew land bill disappointing
09-07-2010
THE newly drafted Land Bill, which will combine the existing Commercial and Communal Land Acts, has missed the opportunity to improve on some major deficiencies of the existing Acts, a local land
readIran girls’ soccer team may miss Singapore event
09-07-2010
TEHRAN – Iran may not send its girls’ soccer team to the Youth Olympics in Singapore next month because of a dispute over the players’ Islamic attire.The deputy head of Iran’s physical education
readSolar plane lands after completing 24-hour flight
09-07-2010
PAYERNE – An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely yesterday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to
readCNN fires top editor over Tweet
09-07-2010
WASHINGTON – CNN has fired a senior editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter message that said she respected a Lebanese Shi’ite cleric branded a terrorist by the United States, US and
readKenya: Iraq, Afghan, Pakistan fighters in Somalia
09-07-2010
NAIROBI – Kenya’s foreign minister says fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are relocating to what he called a “safe haven” in the failed state of Somalia.Moses M. Wetangula tells The
readBenin president fires minister
09-07-2010
COTONOU – Benin’s President Boni Yayi has sacked his interior minister, the government said yesterday, accusing him of involvement in a financial scheme that may have swindled thousands of people out
readConvicted Russian spy in Vienna for swap with 11 charged in US
09-07-2010
MOSCOW – Russian news agencies say Igor Sutyagin, a Russian convicted of spying for the United States, has been flown to Vienna in what appeared to be the first step of a Russia-US spy swap.The state
readThree arrested in Norway al Qaeda bomb plot
09-07-2010
OSLO – Three suspected al Qaeda members were arrested yesterday for what Norwegian and US officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans to bomb New York’s subway and blow up a shopping
readItalian media strike in silence
09-07-2010
ROME – Italy faced a day without news today as the media began a strike yesterday against a bill curbing the use of wiretaps and their publication proposed by the government of Silvio Berlusconi.“The
readBlast kills World Cup fans in Somalia
09-07-2010
MOGADISHU – A grenade ripped through a Mogadishu house where people were watching the Spain-Germany World Cup semi-final, killing two, witnesses said yesterday.The grenade exploded in the last minute
readGam animals in quarantine
09-07-2010
THE Gam area east of Grootfontein has been quarantined following three incidents in June in which unidentified people cut the ‘Red Line’ Veterinary Cordon Fence bordering on the Nyae-Nyae
readCivilian driver charged for 2009 motorcade crash
09-07-2010
THE driver of a black Mercedes Benz that crashed into the ‘sweeper vehicle’ of the presidential motorcade near Swakopmund in October last year will have to appear in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s court
readStrike at Namdeb
09-07-2010
NAMDEB workers have voted to go on strike on Monday.Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia (MUN) branch secretary Polivester Hangula said 96 per cent of the workers voted for a strike that could cripple
readSwapo squabbles continue
09-07-2010
LEADERSHIP feuds continue in Swapo’s from national and regional to district level.The latest leadership infighting to surface is in the Grootfontein district, where last year’s district elections were
readItalian motorists steal thousands in coins
09-07-2010
ROME – Money makes the world go round – or in this case brings an Italian highway to a halt.A truck carrying some US$2,5 million in coins overturned in southern Italy, unloading its contents onto the
readTaiwan MPs brawl over trade deal
09-07-2010
TAIPEI – Taiwan legislators threw objects, splashed water and kicked one another yesterday, sending two to the hospital in a brawl over how fast to ratify a trade pact with China that is shaping up as
readUK banks say robberies up
09-07-2010
LONDON – Mortgage lending by British banks last year fell to the lowest net level since 2000 and bank robberies rose for the first time in seven years as the economic recession took its toll.Net
read‘Great time to market Africa’
09-07-2010
AFRICA is the region that is growing fastest out of the global recession.“Our prediction is that this year the continent will have a growth of 4,5 per cent, next year 5,5 per cent and then 6,0 per
readWorld Cup green shoots surface
09-07-2010
JOHANNESBURG – The buzz from Africa’s first Soccer World Cup is being heard in investment houses across the globe, drawing new business and even capital to the continent that has evolved in the last
readEurope’s HSBC eyes Nedbank
09-07-2010
JOHANNESBURG – HSBC Holdings, Europe’s biggest bank, is in the early stages of evaluating a bid for Nedbank Group, Sky News reported yesterday.HSBC has appointed investment bank Lazard to advise on a
readIMF raises 2010 world growth forecast
09-07-2010
HONG KONG – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast yesterday, citing robust expansion in Asia and renewed US private demand, but warned the euro area’s debt
readNotable Quotes
09-07-2010
We tried and we now understand that if poverty limits people then it must be tackled. So we address the structure that produce poverty. Creating wealth should be the priority and not providing
readTerms of regional councillors reduced
09-07-2010
LOCAL and Regional Government Minister Jerry Ekandjo yesterday tabled the long-awaited amendment to the Regional Councils Act in Parliament, which will reduce the term of office of regional
readCoastal schools already full for next year
09-07-2010
UP to 600 children, ready for Grade 1 next year, may hear at the end of this month that there is no space for them in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay schools.In the first week of Grade 1 enrolments for
readCity slashes capital budget
09-07-2010
THE Windhoek City Council has cut back on the development of the capital in its new financial year, but has nevertheless approved about N$1,6 million for entertainment, refreshments, parties,
readDesigners of butt-kicking advert campaign happy
09-07-2010
PARAGON Investments Holdings, the designers of the Metcalfe Attorneys advertisement displaying the backside of a woman with the text ‘still kicking it’, said yesterday that they expected the
readGovt scraps AIDS clause from visa forms
09-07-2010
THE Ministry of Home Affairs has removed a controversial requirement on entry visa application forms to declare one’s HIV-AIDS status and other infectious diseases like tuberculosis. “Even though
readAfricans ‘f….d around’, Riruako says
09-07-2010
MEMBERS of Parliament were in rare unison on Wednesday about the opinion that western countries seemed to have different agendas than countries in Africa, as Justice Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
readCan’t believe it!
09-07-2010
Thousands of fans of the German national football team look on after the public viewing at the ‘Fan- meile’ (Fan Mile) in Berlin on Wednesday night of the Fifa World Cup semi-final match Germany
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