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57 Articles found on Friday, 11 June 2010
Trustco reinstates suspended manager
11-06-2010
SUSPENDED Trustco Life managing director Lucille Jones is back at work less than a month after she was suspended for breaching company policy, despite being found guilty of misconduct.Trustco
readUruguay, France have point to prove at World Cup
11-06-2010
CAPE TOWN – Uruguay and France both have a lot to prove in their opening Group A game at the World Cup today.Although they have won three World Cups between them, Uruguay in 1930 and ‘50, France in
readPato follows Brazil around South Africa as a fan
11-06-2010
JOHANNESBURG – Alexandre Pato is following Brazil around South Africa as a fan after failing to make his country’s World Cup squad.Pato might have been expected to seek the comfort of family and
readMadiba magic to shine on Bafana
11-06-2010
BAFANA Bafana are ready to roll back the years to 1996 when they last tasted glory and hope a large slice of Madiba Magic will shine on them in the opening World Cup Group A showdown against Mexico at
readSMSes for 11 June 2010
11-06-2010
SMS Of The Day I WANT to thank the lady City Police officer who chased after thieves alone after witnessing a lady’s handbag being stolen in front of Nandos on Independence Avenue. This
readAnother polytechnic needed: Hangala
11-06-2010
THE MINISTRY of Education has been asked to look into the viability of establishing another university of science and technology.The request was made by businessman Leake Hangala at a prize-giving
readPotgieter bling and booze on the block
11-06-2010
LUXURY jewels, paintings and rare bottles of wine and whiskey valued at close to N$4 million belonging to the late Riaan Potgieter will be auctioned off in Windhoek next week.Still, a legal
readCopper thieves paralyse sewage pumping station at Keetmans
11-06-2010
THIEVES have paralysed a municipal sewage pumping station at Keetmanshoop by cutting and stripping copper cable from a power pylon supplying electricity to the station. The Keetmanshoop
readRehoboth’s Dax accuses Ekandjo of hypocrisy
11-06-2010
FORMER Rehoboth mayor George Dax has hit back at media reports where Local Government Minister Jerry Ekandjo was quoted as backing Dax’s removal as mayor.Last week Ekandjo said Dax’s removal was
readNotable Quotes
11-06-2010
What we want is to recruit all of us who have come and we want this corruption to stop. – Golden Nekongo, leader of the children of the liberation struggle who marched from their camp at Berg Aukas
readSA Receiver gives tax breaks for Fifa gear
11-06-2010
JOHANNESBURG - The SA Revenue Service (Sars) yesterday announced it would be giving tax exemptions of R750 on the purchase of Fifa-related products.“The exemption will only apply to 2010 Fifa World
readNuctech accuses EU of dumping scanners
11-06-2010
BEIJING – European makers of x-ray security scanners have dumped their equipment in China and harmed the local industry, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Wednesday after concluding an initial
readMTN, Orascom call deal off
11-06-2010
JOHANNESBURG – Shares in Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator MTN rose over four per cent yesterday after the collapse of talks with Egypt’s Orascom Telecom about a potential acquisition.MTN shares
readChina accused of ‘honey laundering’
11-06-2010
WASHINGTON – A US senator accused China of honey laundering, circumventing decade-old sanctions by exporting the sweet product to the United States via third countries.Democratic Senator Charles
readRussia may double min vodka price
11-06-2010
MOSCOW – Russia is considering doubling the minimum price of a bottle of vodka to 200 roubles (US$6,30) and the excise tax on filtered cigarettes to 590 roubles (US$18,67) per 1 000 units by
readBP buys Google ads for search term “oil spill”
11-06-2010
LONDON – BP Plc has bought terms such as ‘oil spill’ from search engine providers including Google Inc to help direct Internet users to its website as it attempts to control the worst oil spill in US
readSA seeks fresh approach to poverty targets
11-06-2010
GENEVA – South Africa’s Trade Minister Rob Davies this week called for a new approach to UN poverty-cutting targets based on industrial development instead of aid handouts and social progress
readEast Africa, EU set deadline for trade deal
11-06-2010
NAIROBI – The East African Community (EAC) trade bloc and the European Union have set November as the new deadline for signing a trade deal, a top Kenyan official said this week.The EAC and the
readZim battles for power funding
11-06-2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe is failing to attract funds to build new power stations and upgrade existing ones because of continuing investor fears, despite the end of years of political turmoil after forming a
readAfrica not more risky than Europe, US
11-06-2010
LONDON – Investors interested in Africa’s resources but afraid of its political risks should consider that recent events in Europe and the United States have shown they are far from risk-free, a
read‘Crossbow cannibal’ in suicide bid
11-06-2010
LONDON – A man accused of killing three prostitutes in Britain has been treated by medics after an apparent suicide attempt, officials and newspaper reports said yesterday.Criminology student Stephen
readMore empowerment of disabled people needed
11-06-2010
DOZENS of people with disabilities marched through the streets of Swakopmund yesterday morning to commemorate National Disability Day.Speaking at the occasion on behalf of Prime Minister Nahas Angula,
readShaduka threatened to kill wife, witness claims
11-06-2010
BUSINESSMAN and murder suspect Lazarus Shaduka made several threats that he would kill his wife before her gunshot death almost two years ago, a witness claimed at Shaduka’s trial in the High Court in
readOhangwena Police look for baby’s mother
11-06-2010
THE Police in the Ohangwena Region are looking for the mother of a newborn baby girl who was found alive next to the road at Ongha in the Ohangwena Region on June 2.According to Sergeant Abner Kaume
readGovernment websites are badly out of date
11-06-2010
DESPITE much talk in Government about the need for wider use of information technology and ‘e-governance’, Government ministries’ presence on the Internet remains dismal. The Namibian conducted a
readElias: A man on a mission
11-06-2010
ELIAS SIRUKA (45) is literally and figuratively saddled with a heavy burden. Spotted on Monday about 40 kilometres from Windhoek on the Okahandja Road, Siruka was pushing a trolley filled to the rim
readJapan demands jail for whaling activist
11-06-2010
TOKYO – Prosecutors demanded a two-year prison sentence Thursday for an activist who boarded a Japanese vessel in the Antarctic Ocean to try to prevent it from hunting whales.New Zealander Peter
readBashir not going to 2010 SWC
11-06-2010
JOHANNESBURG – Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir will not be among the 20 African heads of state invited to South Africa for the World Cup, international relations director general Ayanda
readIsraelis back Gaza aid ship ban
11-06-2010
TEL AVIV – An overwhelming majority of Israelis believe their country should stop the next blockade-breaking aid flotilla to Gaza if there is one.As many as 91 per cent replied positively to a
readSuicide attack kills 40 at Afghan wedding party
11-06-2010
NADAHAN VILLAGE – A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with ties to police in the Taliban’s heartland in Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more,
readBrazilian dad imprisons daughter for 12 years
11-06-2010
RIO DE JANEIRO – A man in a remote fishing village in Brazil kept his daughter imprisoned for 12 years, raped her repeatedly and had seven children with her, police said on Wednesday.The man is also
readTaking Issue With NBC’s ‘Experts’
11-06-2010
THE Supreme Court case hearing of the appeal on election case has brought joy and disappointment in some quarters. I am very happy that at least the truth has come out in public. NBC, at least
readPolytechnic and Unam: Why pick a fight?
11-06-2010
THE long knives are out again. Our esteemed two institutions of higher learning are at it again. They are all-out competing at the expense of complementing each other.Universities and Polytechnics of
readCity Let us Down Over The Khomasdal Market
11-06-2010
LET me express my views, as a citizen by birth, living in a so-called democratic state, Namibia. Long before the inauguration of the Khomasdal Market, I was a prospective ambitious businessman who
readHamutenya Putting Government in Bad Light
11-06-2010
THE article: ‘Lack of accountability: A crippling ill in our public sector management’ in The Namibian of June 1 2010, refers:Paragraph three 3 of the said article reads as follows: “indeed the United
readNamPower Bursary Complaint
11-06-2010
I’M a Namibian currently in USA. I would like to know if Mr Shilamba is aware that a group of eight trainees at NamPower are not receiving any monthly allowance which is stipulated in their
readOn Kazenambo Shouting The Odds
11-06-2010
An Open Letter To Minister Kazenambo. I WANT to inform all those who congratulated Kazenambo in the SMS column to be honest with themselves. Kazenambo, you must have diplomacy, if you haven’t
readNamibia Pricing Itself Out Of The Market?
11-06-2010
AS a travel writer returning to Namibia, I sense a gradual greediness.A couple of brief examples: the cheapest double room in Etosha’s Namutoni is a hefty N$3 000 or so a night including the daily
readEnglish Before Maths Priority
11-06-2010
I WOULD like to congratulate the Education Minister and Deputy for prioritising Mathematics as a subject, and calling on Maths teachers to put more effort. Well done. However Maths as a subject
readAmbassador Kamati On Soggot Death
11-06-2010
A Message To Mrs Soggot I HAVE learnt with profound sadness the passing away Advocate David Soggot on May 24 2010.Advocate Soggot was a staunch fighter for justice and human rights and equality
readCaprivi Secession Pardon Is Possible
11-06-2010
ALLOW me to comment on the editorial of The Namibian of June 4 2010 titled ‘Caprivi Treason Trial must be brought to a close now’.It is clear that some Namibians are fixated with the possible solution
readNamibia’s Missed Opportunities With The Soccer World Cup 2010
11-06-2010
IT will probably be a long time before the Fifa World Cup comes to Africa again, and it will probably be even longer before it is held in the southern part of our continent.Few would deny the euphoria
readConstructing A Critical Democratic Consensus With The President
11-06-2010
PRESIDENT Barack Obama related during one of his many press conferences what Malia, his 12-year-old daughter asked him while he was busy shaving his beard one morning: “Did you plug the hole yet,
readReconfiguring And Deconstructing The State-Owned Enterprises
11-06-2010
FOR the past 20 years Government has been creating these monsters called parastatals and yet it’s now unable to regulate them. It is a sector that is totally out of control and the hub of most of the
readDeliver Us From Vision 2030
11-06-2010
A COLLEAGUE of mine can’t stand words such as ‘stakeholders’, ‘synergies’ and ‘dovetailing’. She has advised reporters to steer clear from those words in their stories. I wish she could do the same
readPolitical Perspective
11-06-2010
PERHAPS it is time for the Ministry of Information to tell the country what is happening in terms of the hastily passed Communications Act which provides for the interception of communications. I ask
readIt’s our time!
11-06-2010
JOHANNESBURG - Vuvuzela trumpets blasted and flags flew proudly across South Africa on the eve of the continent’s first World Cup which Africans hope will transform negative global perceptions of them
readOpolisi ka yina oshinakugwanithwa meyugo
11-06-2010
EYUGO lyoshimaliwa oshindji mondjokonona ya Namibia oshiwike sha ziko oli na oku longithwa okutala nkene omahangano goku gamena omaliko ha ga longo unene moku humbata omwaalu gwiimaliwa oyindji.
readNCCI okwa hala omayinda gamwe gaanasha niifuta ga kuthwepo
11-06-2010
ONDILO yokweenditha noshowo oondjila dhaapo dha gwana oyo iinima yimwe tayi imbi omakwatathano gopaku landitha mokati kiilongo yAfrica.Ndhika odho oohapu dhomuwiliki gwehangano lyoongeshefa
readMboka yamangululwa moondholongo naya pewe iilonga
11-06-2010
AANTU mboka dheulwa omanga ya li mondholongo ngashingeyi otaya ningwa okatongo. Mbaka otaya ningwa okatongo komahangano omagandji giilonga ngoka aluhe taga pula opo omwiindili kehe a ulike kutya
readNamibia a thikama ponkatu ombwaanawa yopambili muuyuni
11-06-2010
NAMIBIA oku li pondondo 59 ongo oshilongo shina ombili muuyuni.Shika osho onkatu Namibia a pewa kehangano lyedhina Global Peace Index, pamushangwa gwalyo gwa tulwa puuyelele omaandaha
readOoonkondo dholute odhili kokule natango
11-06-2010
NAMIBIA oku na natango ondjila onde okweenda opo a vule okudhiga olusheno talu zi moonkondo dhiikwalute. Ngaka ogo omadhiladhilo gomuwiliki gwa Nampower, Paulinus Shilamba.Shilamba okwa ti edhiladhilo
readAanamikunda ya thigwa nenota uule womwedhi gumwe
11-06-2010
AANAMIKUNDA pOkakukanyaluwili nOkapyakambidhi moshitopolwa shOmusati otaya nyenyeta kutya oya kala yaana omeya omawanawa gokunwa konyala uule womwedhi gumwe.Omulongi gwosikola yoshikunino
readMMW ota pititha UuCD u li 26
11-06-2010
OMWIIMBI nomutoti gwoondjimbo dhopambelo a simana mu Namibia, omusamane Peter Ambambi (a tseyika nawa nedhina Omuwambo gwa Ambambi), okwa pita ko noondjimbo oompe ndhoka ta ka pititha mUuCD petameko
readMvula Mnyaango a pandula Epapa lye a pewa kOngeleka
11-06-2010
OMUNANGESHEFA a tseyika nawa gwomOshakati tate Erastus Kakokolo Mvula, a tseyika wo nawa nedhina Mvula Mnyaango, mOsoondaha ya zi ko okwa pelwe Epapa lyepandulo kOshitayingeleki sha Elim, e li pelwa
readWORLD CUP 2010 UPDATE SHEET
11-06-2010
readBREAKING NEWS - Namugongo jailed for 8 years
11-06-2010
FORMER Ministry of Environment and Tourism Deputy Director Sackey Namugongo, found guilty on 19 corruption charges two weeks ago, was today (Friday) sent to prison for an effective eight years.
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