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40 Articles found on Monday, 31 May 2010
Govt should exempt mining firms from BEE
31-05-2010
THE mining sector should be exempted from Government’s black economic empowerment (BEE) equity targets and instead the recently established State-owned mining outfit Epangelo should take minority
readMusic legend Kaujeua dead
31-05-2010
VETERAN local musician Jackson Kaujeua (56) died in the Katutura State hospital on Thursday afternoon after being admitted on Wednesday. Kaujeua had been in and out of hospital frequently since
readMusic legend Kaujeua dead
31-05-2010
VETERAN local musician Jackson Kaujeua (56) died in the Katutura State hospital on Thursday afternoon after being admitted on Wednesday. Kaujeua had been in and out of hospital frequently since
readSwapo loses at Keetmans
31-05-2010
THE opposition parties have delivered a political blow to the Swapo Party’s hope of retaining the mayoral seat in the Keetmanshoop Town Council for a fifth term. During the election of new office
readBattling Henin edges Sharapova
31-05-2010
PARIS – Four-time champion Justine Henin battled past fellow former world number one Maria Sharapova 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to reach the French Open fourth round yesterday after surviving a rollercoaster final
readSteyn kicks Bulls to Super 14 title
31-05-2010
SOWETO, South Africa – Flyhalf Morné Steyn kicked 20 points to help the Bulls clinch their third Super 14 title in four years with a 25-17 win over South African rivals the Stormers in the final at
readEto’o ponders not going, Maradona sets out for WC
31-05-2010
LONDON – Cameroon captain Samuel Eto’o threatened to stay away from the World Cup, while Diego Maradona, another man who has endured a turbulent relationship with his national side, got a lively
readLouw secures Stars double
31-05-2010
AFRICAN Stars midfielder Rudi Louw secured a historic clean sweep of domestic football honours for his side this season as they won the Leo NFA Cup to add to their league crown. Stars defeated Civics
readAcosta KO’s ‘The Hitman’
31-05-2010
MIGUEL Acosta knocked out Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses to claim the WBA World Lightweight title in Windhoek on Saturday. The Venezuelan champion kept true to his pre-match tout as he caught a hapless
readAviation up in arms with DCA
31-05-2010
THE request by Namibian authorities to have an airworthiness expert replaced at the Directorate of Civil Aviation has exposed the rift between the aviation industry and the DCA.“To save us a lot of
readMan killed in shack fire
31-05-2010
A 33-year-old Lüderitz man was burnt beyond recognition when his shack caught fire in the town’s Area 7 residential area early yesterday morning. It is believed that the fire was started by a candle.
readTwo deny Keetmans rape and murder
31-05-2010
THE two men accused of raping and murdering a Karas Region education official in her home at Keetmanshoop near the end of 2007 denied guilt on all charges at the start of their trial in the High Court
readWalter Plowright: Veterinary scientist whose vaccine has all but eradicated Rinderpest
31-05-2010
WALTER Plowright was a veterinary scientist who developed the means to rid the world of an animal disease that the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) described as important as smallpox. For
readVeteran judge dies
31-05-2010
A VETERAN member of Namibia’s judiciary, Judge John Manyarara, died in Windhoek on Friday. Manyarara died at the age of 79. He had been ill since April, and was starting with chemotherapy for
readFreedom struggle lawyer Soggot dies
31-05-2010
A HUMAN rights advocate who appeared in several high-profile political cases in Namibia’s courts before Independence, David Soggot, died in Johannesburg at the age of 79 on Monday last week.Soggot was
readWoman dies in truck crash near Windhoek
31-05-2010
A WOMAN died outside Windhoek yesterday when a truck she had been a passenger in overturned.The driver is said to have lost control over the truck near Aris between Rehoboth and Windhoek. The female
readRio condemns Zimbabwe diamond ban
31-05-2010
VICTORIA FALLS – The head of Rio Tinto’s diamond unit in Zimbabwe said on Friday he was disappointed with the government’s ban on diamond exports and hoped to resolve the issue quickly.The country’s
readMines survived tough 2009
31-05-2010
LAST year was one of the most challenging years yet for both the Namibian and the international mining industry and served as a wake-up call how important the sector was to Namibia, said Mike Leech,
readFrance seeks business at Africa summit
31-05-2010
PARIS – France will today attempt to claw back some economic influence in Africa as it welcomes some 40 government leaders to a summit that will for the first time include the heads of top French
readTransnet needs months to recover from strike
31-05-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South African logistics group Transnet said it may take up to three months to restore rail freight services to levels seen before a strike that has caused bottlenecks in transport of
readA tasty reward for James Pizza
31-05-2010
WHEN James David got married, his wife wanted to use a N$30 000 gift to buy leather sofas but he convinced her that “a plastic chair was enough to sit on!” and that it was better to invest it in a new
readUAE denies Djezzy talks
31-05-2010
DUBAI – Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) has not bid for the Algerian unit of Orascom Telecom, a spokesman for the UAE telecoms provider said yesterday.“We did not discuss with Orascom and
readDe Beers’ strike plans suspended
31-05-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Saturday it would suspend a strike at the world’s biggest diamond producer De Beers while it considers a new company wage
read‘People Are Funny’ host dies
31-05-2010
LOS ANGELES – Art Linkletter, who encouraged both kids and grown-ups to say the “darndest things” during his decades as a genial but gently mischievous television personality, has died at age 97.The
readCritics, fans at odds on ‘Sex and the City 2’
31-05-2010
NEW YORK – ‘Sex and the City’ may have lost the scandalous story lines and antics that once left fans both shocked and delighted, but box office experts and devotees predict that won’t stop fans
readFreed Malawi gay couple return to their villages
31-05-2010
BLANTYRE – A Malawian gay couple granted a presidential pardon for a 14 year jail sentence were at their separate home villages after being released from prison, a local underground gay movement said
readMore human remains found in missing women search
31-05-2010
LONDON – Police investigating the deaths of three women in Britain found what are believed to be human remains in a river on Saturday.The search team made the grim discovery in the River Aire in
readDeath toll from India train accident at 145
31-05-2010
CALCUTTA – Normal railway service resumed across an eastern Indian state yesterday, two days after a train accident blamed on Maoist rebels that killed 145 people, officials said.Thirteen cars from a
read‘SA risks 2010 terror attack’
31-05-2010
CAPE TOWN – South Africa is at high risk of a World Cup terror attack, a Sunday newspaper reported, but the country’s intelligence ministry ruled out any threat less than two weeks ahead of
readSA’s Sam Rogers wins CNN African journalism top prize
31-05-2010
KAMPALA – The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2010 is was Sam Rogers, an executive producer at Third Degree, South Africa for her story, “Curse of the Nobody People.” Rogers had earlier won the
readIn Brief
31-05-2010
Storm kills 15 in Guatemala, El Salvador GUATEMALA CITY – Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly
readAfter another failure, BP scrambles to stem leak
31-05-2010
ROBERT – With BP declaring failure in its latest attempt to plug the uncontrolled gusher feeding the worst oil spill in US history, the company is turning to yet another mix of risky undersea robot
readOpwa pumbiwa oshiketha shenkondopeko
31-05-2010
OMAHANGANO gaakwiilongo ngoka inaa ga hala okugandja iipambuliko kaaNamibia otaga vulu okufuta oomwaalu gwontumba gwiiyemo yago moshiketha shopashigwana shenkondopeko. Iimaliwa mbika ota yi vulu ihe
readOmatuntilo gopashigwana ga tameke
31-05-2010
OMATUNTILO gopashigwana omatimulongo 14 oga tameke netulomiilonga lyago poshilando sha Swakopmund ,metine na oga tegelelwa ga tameke oshilongo ashihe ongula metiyali. Pethimbo lyomatuntilo ngaka
readIna ku liwa we iikulya tayi zi pondje yoshilongo
31-05-2010
PETHIMBO ta popitha engathithi enene lyaakalimo yomOmbalantu mOshitopolowa sha Musati noshowo yalwe yomIikandjohogololo yomOshitopolwa sha Musati mOlyomakaya ga zi ko pOutapi, omukokolipresidende, Sam
readOkabinete ka koleke oondjambi dhaawiliki yomahangano gepangelo
31-05-2010
OKABINETE oka zimine omulandu omupe gwoondjambi dhaawiliki yomahangano gepangelo. Omulandu nguka ogwa guma, ondjambi yopetameko, noshowo olupandu mokulonga nawa talu gandjwa sigo ooperesenda 30
readAaMaruru ina ya panda obonas ya pewa omunambelewa omukuluntu
31-05-2010
OTAKU hokololwa pwaana euvo nawa pOmaruru, kombinga yetokolo lyelelo lyoshilando shoka oku pa omunambelewa gwalyo omukuluntu Werner Iita obonasa yooperesenda 16.Mboka ya uvite ombili naashika ota yi
readEpangelo lya gandja oomiliona 80 okutamununa uunamapya poNaute
31-05-2010
EPANGELO ota li ka tula mo iimaliwa yoodola oomiliona 80 moshitopolowa sha Karas oku tamununa iilonga yokulonga oondunga dhuushimba noshowo omandjembele poshitopolwa shuunamapya pondama ya
readQuote of the day
31-05-2010
If you want to optimise on that 30 per cent you must see that you fulfill all targets of your performance agreement 101 per cent. – Prime Minister Nahas Angula when he addressed bosses of State-owned
readSMS Of The Day 31 May 2010
31-05-2010
LET there be peace for the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Isn’t it what Africa wanted? Food for Thought SOMEONE doesn’t know languages! The correct use of language: A name stays in its original form in the use
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