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42 Articles found on Monday, 17 May 2010
Profitt off to the Youth Olympics
17-05-2010
RHYTHMIC gymnast Anica Profitt has become the latest addition to the team going to the Youth Olympics in Singapore this August. She qualified at the African Gymnastics Championships in Walvis Bay in
readBanyana romp home against Gladiators
17-05-2010
GOALS by former ‘African Player of the Year’ Noko Matlou, Sana Mollo, Mamphasha Popela and Leandra Smeda saw Banyana Banyana through to a 4-1 win over Namibia in a friendly soccer international played
readMexico beat brave Angola
17-05-2010
ANGOLA fought bravely but ultimately went down 1-0 to 2010 FIFA World Cup finalists Mexico in a friendly international in Houston on Thursday. The match was the first in charge for new Angola coach
readThousand Chinese to cheer for North Korea
17-05-2010
FEW North Koreans will be able to cheer their team at the World Cup in South Africa. So the country is recruiting Chinese fans.China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency said the Beijing office of the
readAnkle injury could keep Ballack out of World Cup
17-05-2010
LONDON – Germany captain Michael Ballack has admitted the ankle injury he suffered in Saturday’s FA Cup final could threaten his World Cup place.The 33-year-old limped from the Wembley Stadium pitch
readEriksson aims for knockout rounds with Ivory Coast
17-05-2010
MILAN – Reaching the knockout rounds of the World Cup is Ivory Coast’s “primary objective,” said coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.Ivory Coast is in Group G with Brazil, Portugal and North Korea. “The
readBayern stay on track for treble
17-05-2010
BERLIN – German champions Bayern Munich clinched the German Cup with a crushing 4-0 win over holders Werder Bremen on Saturday to stay on track for a treble.Bayern, who face Inter Milan in the
readDrogba hails best season of his life
17-05-2010
LONDON – Didier Drogba insists Chelsea’s Premier League and FA Cup double triumph means this season has been the best of his career.Drogba scored the only goal of the game in Saturday’s FA Cup final
readSouth African teams book home semis
17-05-2010
WELLINGTON – Defending champions Northern Bulls and the Western Stormers both booked home semi-final ties in South Africa after finishing in the two spots in the Super 14 table over the weekend.The
readNPL title down to the wire ... Hotspurs, United Stars out
17-05-2010
ORLANDO Pirates thumped relegated United Stars 6-1 on Saturday to move within one point of log leaders and defending champions African Stars who were held to a one-all draw by ten-man Civics on
readSMSes for Monday 17 May 2010
17-05-2010
SMS of the Day THE people behind the BIG project must run comprehensive information in the media to provide better insight to the public. They need to clarify how they envisage the BIG to be
readNotable Quotes
17-05-2010
The electricity supply industry in Namibia and the entire Southern African Development Community (SADC) is in a crisis caused primarily by power supply shortages. – Electricity Control Board Chief
readKolmanskop, where no expense was spared
17-05-2010
KOLMANSKOP is a ghost town in the Namib Desert about 10 kilometres inland from Lüderitz.The town was named after Johnny Colemann who abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement
readNRU taken to the cleaners
17-05-2010
THE Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) could find itself in a financial fix after a travel agent obtained a default judgement of more than half a million Namibia dollars against it for unpaid bills.This came
readOnyose garden gets to the root of self-sufficiency
17-05-2010
HISKIEL Iimbambah, a technical manager and consultant for the Onyose Trust in Khomasdal, is reviving the organisation’s vegetable and herb garden. He is passionate about horticulture and hopes to
readPetrol goes up again
17-05-2010
FOR the third time this year, Namibian consumers will bear the brunt of a fuel price hike effective from Wednesday.This comes in the wake of a bulk power price increase of 18 per cent that was
readRough seas delay Mercury Island case
17-05-2010
ROUGH seas around Mercury Island in the Spencer Bay area of the Namib-Naukluft National Park is making it difficult for authorities to investigate the destruction caused by a helicopter that landed
readSeafarers worried about dark lighthouse
17-05-2010
LÜDERITZ residents have expressed concern over navigational dangers to mariners sailing along the southern coast due to the Namibian Ports Authority’s failure to keep the Diaz Point lighthouse
readTalk of doctors’ strike ‘premature’
17-05-2010
REPORTS of a looming strike by State doctors over salaries are premature, unhelpful and serve only to erode progress.This was how the Namibian Medical Society (NMS) finally broke its silence on the
readHuge underwater oil plumes in Gulf
17-05-2010
ROBERT – Scientists have found huge plumes of oil lurking under the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico, as BP hit a snag in its latest effort to slow down the oil blasting out of a broken
readBittersweet return for Dutch boy crash survivor
17-05-2010
AMSTERDAM – The 9-year-old Dutch boy who miraculously survived a plane crash in Libya returned to the Netherlands aboard an airborne ambulance Saturday and was whisked away to a hospital in his
readVan Zyl Slabbert ‘died peacefully’
17-05-2010
JOHANNESBURG - Former opposition leader and political analyst Frederik van Zyl Slabbert died at home in Johannesburg on Friday morning, his daughter Tania said.“He died peacefully, with his family,”
readDeath sentence for China school attacker
17-05-2010
BEIJING – A Chinese court sentenced a man to death on Saturday for an attack on a school that wounded 29 children and three kindergarten teachers last month.The attack was one of five major assaults
readVolcanic ash cloud closes British airports
17-05-2010
LONDON – Civil aviation officials said yesterday a drifting, dense cloud of volcanic ash is “rapidly encroaching” on British airspace, forcing the closure of airports in Northern Ireland.The National
readBangkok fighting leaves 30 dead
17-05-2010
BANGKOK – Thailand’s main emergency medical centre says 30 people have been killed in four days of street fighting between ‘Red Shirt’ protesters and troops in central Bangkok.It says 232 people have
readCourt fines 19 over SSC fraud scheme
17-05-2010
THE fraud scheme around false sick-leave benefit claims that was uncovered at the Social Security Commission in late 2006 turned into a costly endeavour for 19 of the people who had been charged in
readStalemate in Keetmanshoop mayoral election
17-05-2010
THE election of a new mayor at Keetmanshoop was postponed indefinitely on Friday after the vote was tied in two rounds of voting.The two candidates were Basil Brown and Petrus Simon Tiboth, both
readRift Valley fever in Namibia
17-05-2010
NAMIBIAN meat farmers face huge losses as a result of a ban on all exports following an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the Hardap and Karas regions.Key role players in the industry under the
readEducation officials having a ball at Keetmanshoop
17-05-2010
A PROCESSION through the streets of Keetmanshoop by educational officials displaying flags of country’s 13 regions last week marked the start of the Education Ministry’s third annual national sport
readDefinition of nationhood and dealing with past not yet easy
17-05-2010
TWENTY years after Independence the definition of Namibia being one nation and the question of nationhood are still difficult to answer, while the unfinished business of dealing with the former
readChild rapist sentenced to 16 years
17-05-2010
KOËS resident Hendrik Awaseb (50) was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment in the Keetmanshoop Regional Court on Friday for raping an eight-year-old girl.Awaseb had pleaded guilty. Awaseb raped
readBusinessman found not guilty on fraud counts
17-05-2010
A SWAKOPMUND businessman who was accused of having been the mastermind behind a fraud scheme that cost a Windhoek accounting services company more than N$1,2 million was acquitted on all charges in
readAroab man convicted of rape on elderly woman
17-05-2010
AROAB resident Riaan Swartbooi was convicted of rape in the Keetmanshoop Regional Court on Friday.He had pleaded not guilty to the charge of raping a 61-year-old woman in a riverbed on February 19
read2 new textile factories coming
17-05-2010
CABINET has approved N$30 million to build three medium-sized garment factories in Windhoek and at Ongwediva to help some of the nearly 3 000 workers who lost their jobs when the Malaysian company,
readWa-Ka pulling ahead in the business of trailers
17-05-2010
WHILST employed at a trailer manufacturer, Sem Kandjimwena and Mutoma Kasera started working on their own projects in the evenings and weekends doing things such as trailer repairs. And when they had
readUS confident EU will resolve crisis
17-05-2010
SINGAPORE - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he is confident Europe will resolve its debt crisis and that the US economy can withstand any fallout, Bloomberg reported.Geithner also said he
readPape applauds Namibia European trade relations
17-05-2010
WINDHOEK – The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Namibia, Elisabeth Pape, has applauded the trade relations between Namibia and the EU.Citing the World Trade Organisation’s review of the Southern
readPohamba wants diamond aggregation in Botswana
17-05-2010
GABORONE - Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has said the time has come for aggregation to move from Diamond Trading Company (DTC) International in London to Botswana to make southern Africa a
readBHP, Rio joint venture plan still under consideration
17-05-2010
SINGAPORE - BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto might re-evaluate plans to merge their Western Australian iron ore operations if an agreement is not reached by year end, the Wall Street Journal said on
readCrisis stills once-bustling ancient Greek port
17-05-2010
PIRAEUS, Greece - The giant container cranes lie still in the haze of a warm spring afternoon in the port of Piraeus near Athens - a vital commercial hub for the economy since the days of ancient
readChina defends Africa investment as South African deal reported
17-05-2010
A TOP Chinese commerce official has defended Beijing’s investment policies in Africa as a giant deal was announced Thursday for a cement plant in South Africa.“China’s presence in Africa is becoming
readOld Mutual rebuffs
17-05-2010
JULIAN Roberts, the chief executive of wealth management group Old Mutual, on Thursday refused to comment on persistent rumours that its majority-owned Nedbank Group was poised for a takeover by
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