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58 Articles found on Monday, 15 November 2010
African Briefs
15-11-2010
SA backtracks on Eskom JOHANNESBURG – A planned R20 billion equity injection into South African utility Eskom will be funded by the nation’s budget, not an asset sale, the government has said.South
readMuch to be done to secure financial system
15-11-2010
SEOUL – The Group of 20’s financial task force said on Friday there is still much work to be done on its regulation agenda to ensure that financial stability is secured.In a progress report to the
readRainy season starts
15-11-2010
THE north-eastern and central parts of Namibia are set to be soaked for the next five days, as a tropical weather system from Angola, which caused the first rain drops of the season to fall this
readSmall window to seal trade deal in 2011
15-11-2010
GENEVA – Leaders of the G20 rich and emerging economies called on Friday for intensified efforts to complete the long-running Doha round of global trade talks, saying next year offers a narrow window
readWindhoek could run dry
15-11-2010
SHOULD Windhoek residents not start to “consider their water consumption patterns and employ water saving measures”, the city will face a serious water shortage by 2012.In fact, the Von Bach Dam,
readManagement Tip
15-11-2010
Leverage Your Best Too often managers unintentionally hinder or discourage their star performers. This counter-productive behaviour is not ill-intended. It’s often because the manager isn’t sure how
readFuel price up 10c/l
15-11-2010
MOTORISTS will have to dig deeper into their pockets from Wednesday when fuel becomes ten cents per litre more expensive. The new pump price at Walvis Bay will be N$7,11 per litre for 93 Octane lead
read‘Oil prices of US$90 won’t hurt global growth’
15-11-2010
TEHRAN – Iran’s Opec governor said oil prices of US$70 to US$90 per barrel would not hurt the global economy, the oil ministry’s official website Shana reported yesterday.“Consumers and producers are
readGuilty plea in toddler murder
15-11-2010
THE suspect accused of abducting, raping and murdering Queen Dausab (4) at Keetmanshoop on October 27 pleaded guilty in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.Easter Michael Rooy was
readGold experiences four month setback
15-11-2010
GOLD suffered its biggest fall in four months on Friday, tumbling three per cent as Chinese rate-hike talk, eurozone debt worries and weaker treasuries prices triggered widespread unwinding of risk in
readSA keen to join Bric
15-11-2010
SEOUL – South Africa has “applied” to join the four-member “Bric” grouping of fast-growing emerging markets, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at the Group of 20 meeting on Friday.South Africa
readSomali pirates release Brits
15-11-2010
MOGADISHU – Somali pirates released British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler yesterday after holding them hostage for more than a year, Somali officials said. Somali pirates kidnapped the retired
readIn Brief
15-11-2010
Netanyahu presents US plan to cabinet JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a US plan to his cabinet on Sunday that would extend a freeze on West Bank settlements for 90
readOkay for increases for telecoms workers
15-11-2010
THE Namibia Post and Telecom Holdings (NPTH) has approved basic salary increases of 11 per cent and other benefits across the board for the current financial year for members of the Namibia Public
readNew French government expected under PM Fillon
15-11-2010
PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reappointed Francois Fillon as prime minister and asked him to create a new government.Sarkozy’s office issued a statement yesterday morning to announce
readSexy posters liven up dull municipal poll in Poland
15-11-2010
WARSAW – A Polish singer and tabloid celebrity has put up posters of herself stretched out on the sand in a provocative bikini as part of her campaign to win a Warsaw district council seat in
read‘A one-woman show is not a democracy.’ - Suu Kyi
15-11-2010
YANGON – Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for freedom of speech in army-ruled Myanmar yesterday urged thousands of supporters to stand up for their rights and not lose heart, indicating
readGerman judge lets speeding drivers off the hook
15-11-2010
BERLIN – A German judge has shot to popularity after letting 42 speeding drivers off without charges in the last week because he thinks speed controls merely serve to fill the state’s coffers rather
readCuba frees the first of 13 political prisoners
15-11-2010
HAVANA – The first of 13 remaining Cuban dissidents jailed since 2003 was released from prison on Saturday and returned to his home in the capital, a strong signal the government intends to release
readBA end Ramblers’ unbeaten streak
15-11-2010
BLACK Africa’s Brian Bantam handed log-leading Ramblers their first league defeat this season when the two sides met at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Friday.The lively midfielder pounced on an
readSMSes for Monday 15 November 2010
15-11-2010
SMS Of The Day n AFTER independence in many African countries, the gap between rich and poor grew many times. Is it capitalism we fought for to divide us into social classes? – Hendrik Lucas,
readOfabilika yomiti dho ARV yotango muAfrica
15-11-2010
OMUPERESIDENDE gwa Brazil , Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva okwa talelepo ofabilika yotango yokulonga omiti dho kulelepeka onkalamwenyo menenevi. Etalelopo lye olyo lya hugunina muAfrica ongo omutse
readNotable quotes
15-11-2010
Now they are left without work, and people are forced to go elsewhere to be counselled and tested. – Ivanna Kriner speaking on the redirection of funds to more remote areas of Namibia which will see
readAawiliki yoongeshefa ya indile ongundu yo 20 yi kuthepo okwiigamena
15-11-2010
OMITSE dhomahangano gaanangeshefa muuyuni odha indile aaleli yiilongo 20 opo ya kuthe nokushunitha monima omukalo gwokugamena omahupilo giilongo yawo yo ya longe okweeta po omalanditho ga manguluka
readAngula a tsike ewilikongundu lya NIPAM omutenge gwa lyo
15-11-2010
OMUPRIMA Minista, Nahas Angula okwa tula omutenge komapepe gewilikongundu lyenongelo lyaaniilonga yomepangelo[Namibia Institute for Public Administration and Management]NIPAM], moVenduka oshiwike
readUukatalume womahangano gaaniilonga wa pangulwa
15-11-2010
ONGUNDU yo Rally for Democracy and Progress oya pangula ondundahangano yaaniilonga ya Namibia[NUNW] sho aniwa ya ndopa oku kalelapo aaniilonga pethimbo lyuudhigu, nopethimbo ndyoka aaniilonga ya li ye
readKanye’s media trainer quits
15-11-2010
Kanye West’s media trainer has quit after just three days of working with the singer, it has been revealed. The singer lost his cool with the ‘Today Show’s’ Matt Lauer during an interview which aired
readUutile waakwiilongo nomo Namibia otawu adhika mo
15-11-2010
AANAMIBIA na yo oyena ombepo yokutila Aafrica yokiilongo yilwe,pamushangwahokololo gwa gandjwa kendiki lya Legal Assistance. Endiki ndika olya ningile ekonaakono kombinga yoshinima shika omathimbo ga
readEhangano lya SORED lye edhile iilonga
15-11-2010
OMALONGE-KIDHO oge li pokupwa opo ehangano lyokwaandjaganeka olusheno miitopolwa yomuumbugantu SORED li hala kanithwepo, nomaliko galyo ga topolwe mokati kaamboka yena mo iipambuliko.Oshifo shika osha
readNamibia a tonata kombinga yopolio
15-11-2010
NAMIBIA oku li komalwilo nokwiilongekidha, konima sho kwa kundanwa eholoko lyomukithi gwopolio moCongo Brazzaville nomo Angola. Omundohotola Jack Vries omunashipundi gwongundu yeilongekidho okwa ti
readKamwi a hala miipangelo iinene yopaitopolwa mu kale oosala dhopaumwene
15-11-2010
PETHIMBO ta popitha aakalimo moshituthi sheegululo pambelewa dhoosala nomatungo omape gamwe, ngashi omukunda nenge tu tye osala yaavu yopaumwene,osala yaanona, osala yOTB, okombitha ompe noshililo,
readOmandiki gaheyali go New Start ga edhilwapo
15-11-2010
EHANGANO lyAmerica lyomapendulepo gopaigwana [USAID] olya mweneke egandjo lyiimaliwa komandiki gaheyali gomomandiki 19 ga New Start. Pomahala mpaka ohapa ningilwa ehungomwenyo noshowo ekonakono
readSaintfiet faces Zim axe after work permit denial
15-11-2010
HARARE – Belgian Tom Saintfiet, who signed a four-year contract to coach Zimbabwe in August, appears set to lose his post in a country he was forced to flee three days into the job after he failed in
readMazembe retain African Champions League title
15-11-2010
RADES, Tunisia – TP Mazembe of Congo retained the African Champions League title despite drawing with Tunisia’s Esperance 1-1 in the second leg of the final at the November 7 Stadium on
readVidic’s header salvages United, record at Villa
15-11-2010
LONDON – Nemanja Vidic preserved Manchester United’s unbeaten start to the season with a late equaliser Saturday at Aston Villa, while Liverpool’s four-match unbeaten streak in the Premier League was
readHaye stops Harrison in 3rd round
15-11-2010
MANCHESTER – David Haye stopped Audley Harrison in the third round to retain his WBA heavyweight title on Saturday.Haye proved too strong for 39-year-old Harrison, knocking him down in the third round
readPacquiao outclasses Margarito for eighth title
15-11-2010
LAMPORT-STOKES ARLINGTON, Texas – Manny Pacquiao cemented his place in the pantheon of boxing greats by recording a unanimous points victory over Antonio Margarito on Saturday to claim the vacant
readRampant Chiefs sink poor Pirates
15-11-2010
REVENGE never tasted sweeter than it did for Kaizer Chiefs at a packed FNB Stadium on Saturday when they crushed traditional rivals Orlando Pirates 3-1 in an Absa Premiership Soweto derby.Chiefs not
readBoks give beleaguered De Villiers another boost
15-11-2010
CARDIFF – After a dreadful Tri-Nations campaign, world champions South Africa took another step on the road to redemption on Saturday by withstanding a fierce assault from Wales.The Springboks,
readDiscord in Otjozondjupa Second Division
15-11-2010
FOUR clubs from the Otjozondjupa Region’s Second Division say they are fed up with the perennial incompetency of their football administrators and are threatening to defect from the league, The
readUndertaker responsible for illegal burial
15-11-2010
THE net is tightening around a Windhoek funeral undertaker who was allegedly responsible for at least one illegal funeral.Police spokesperson Inspector Kauna Shikwambi said the investigation is “90
readToilets a ‘political tool’ in Uganda
15-11-2010
SOME politicians in Uganda are using the provision of basic needs such as toilets to win votes, Uganda’s minister of housing said in Windhoek on Wednesday. Michael Werikhe said some people took
readSeven years in jail over cocaine in underpants
15-11-2010
A LITTLE more than a hundred grams of cocaine that the Police found hidden next to his private parts has left Angolan citizen Francisco Binda with a seven-year prison sentence.A day after he pleaded
readCourt delay is to save Swapo: RDP
15-11-2010
THE finalisation of the 2009 election court challenge by the High Court is being held back to save the Swapo Party from losing the upcoming regional and local authority elections, said Rally for
readParties jostle for ‘pole position’
15-11-2010
WITH the regional and local authority elections just around the corner, political parties are racing to the polls – or rather to the ‘poles’.Like in most towns in Namibia, parties are erecting their
readPohamba switches on power link
15-11-2010
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba on Friday officially commissioned the N$3,2 billion Caprivi Link Interconnector Transmission Line at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Region.Three heads of state – Botswana’s
readErongo governor compares opposition parties to ‘Satan’
15-11-2010
ERONGO governor Samuel Nuuyoma compared opposition parties to Satan, and like Satan was rejected and driven out of Heaven, so Namibians should reject and drive out “unpopular political
readNo bail in Omaruru farm murder case
15-11-2010
A BID to be released on bail on Friday ended in failure for one of the men charged with the murder of an elderly Omaruru farming couple in their home in March last year.Gabriel Uazeua (33) is a former
readNo bail in Mariental poaching case
15-11-2010
THE alleged poacher who was arrested on Tuesday for poaching on the state-owned farm Haribes in the Hardap Region was remanded in custody following a brief appearance in the Mariental Magistrate’s
readNew fishing rights being screened
15-11-2010
THE number of applicants who have been awarded fishing rights will only be known next year, Fisheries Minister Bernard Esau said on Friday.Esau told The Namibian that the Ministry had received over a
readMedia should give opposition parties enough election coverage
15-11-2010
DEMOCRATIC Party of Namibia (DPN) Secretary General Adam Isaak says the local media should give enough coverage to opposition parties during election time, because they need it the most.Isaak told
readJudgement reserved in knife murder trial
15-11-2010
THE High Court murder trial of Okakarara resident Nahson Muvangua, who is accused of killing his girlfriend in a knife attack in September 2006, is set to reach a key point in three weeks’ time.The
readAfrican resources still exploited by outsiders
15-11-2010
ALTHOUGH the southern African region is blessed with abundant resources such as natural gas, coal, uranium and perennial rivers, outsiders are still exploiting these resources immensely.Zimbabwean
read/Hai-/Khaua Nama tribe picks new leaders
15-11-2010
A BITTER and longstanding rivalry that had been driven by a leadership impasse between the /Hai-/Khaua clan’s Isaak and Goliath factions finally ended with the election of Johannes Isaak as new leader
readIn Brief
15-11-2010
Outcry over Senegal president’s plane DAKAR – Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade’s purchase of about N$290 million aeroplane from French President Nicolas Sarkozy triggered an uproar on Friday in
readMiley’s racy tattoo
15-11-2010
Miley Cyrus wore an open-back dress that showed off her chest tattoo last Sunday night at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid. Miley unveiled the ‘Just Breathe’ tattoo last year while wearing a
readEngagement imminent for Prince William and Kate
15-11-2010
LONDON – Reports suggest Prince William and Kate Middleton are considering a couple of dates for their wedding.According to the British newspaper the Daily Mirror on Tuesday, the couple is looking at
readMel’s ‘Communist’ love letters
15-11-2010
Mel Gibson had a pet name for Oksana Grigorieva, his “dark eyed beautiful little communist” ... this according to love letters entered into court and obtained by TMZ. Oksana saved dozens of love notes
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