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57 Articles found on Friday, 5 November 2010
Eskom gets R15 billion loan
05-11-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South African power company Eskom said yesterday it has received a loan of R15 billion from the Development Bank of Southern Africa to fund new power projects.The five-year loan will
readAfrica Business Briefs
05-11-2010
Gazprom discovers gas in Algeria CAPE TOWN – Gazprom International has made its first commercial gas discovery on the African continent in Algeria and is scanning other countries in search of
readBold new plan to rescue US economy
05-11-2010
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve announced a bold plan this week to try to invigorate the US economy by buying US$600 billion more in Treasury bonds.The Fed said it would buy about US$75 billion a
readZim arrests diamond magnates for fraud
05-11-2010
HARARE – Six top officials of two diamond-mining firms have been arrested for fraudulently obtaining a licence to mine the gems in Zimbabwe's controversial Marange fields, their lawyer said
readOld Mutual unfazed by failed Nedbank deal
05-11-2010
LONDON – Insurer Old Mutual yesterday reported better-than-expected sales and said plans to streamline the company were on track despite a failed attempt to sell banking subsidiary Nedbank to HSBC.Old
readKill More Good Ideas
05-11-2010
To come up with a few good ideas, you need to generate a lot of bad ones. And to give your good ideas a chance of reaching their full potential, you need to do some serious pruning. But don't just
readIMF downgrades global growth outlook
05-11-2010
PARIS – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its expectations for world economic growth this year and next to three to four per cent yesterday, but also praised a new funding strategy by the US
readIn Brief
05-11-2010
Second Tanzanian party criticises poll DAR ES SALAAM – A second Tanzanian opposition party, the Civic United Front (CUF), criticised the country’s presidential and parliamentary electoral process
readMalema’s Zille insult ‘bad manners’: Motlanthe
05-11-2010
CAPE TOWN – South Africa’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on Wednesday took ANC youth league leader Julius Malema to task for referring to Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille as a cockroach.“We
readSirleaf sheds ministers ahead of poll
05-11-2010
MONROVIA – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced yesterday she had fired all but one member of her cabinet, seeking a clean slate in government ahead of her re-election bid in 2011.A
readIn Brief
05-11-2010
Greek police detonate bomb sent to embassy ATHENS – Greek police detonated a parcel bomb yesterday addressed to the French embassy in Athens and were investigating others packages at a courier
readYemen bomb defused just in time
05-11-2010
PARIS – One of two mail bombs sent from Yemen last week was disarmed just 17 minutes before it was set to go off, the French interior minister said yesterday.Brice Hortefeux provided no other details
readYouTube cans calls to war by cleric
05-11-2010
NEW YORK – YouTube has removed from its site videos featuring calls to holy war by an al Qaeda-linked Muslim cleric after pressure from British and United States officials.The New York Times reported
readNative Australian too ‘white’ for Aboriginal charity
05-11-2010
SYDNEY – An Australian Aboriginal woman said she was “humiliated” yesterday after being told she was too white to work for an indigenous rights charity.Tarran Betterridge, a Canberra university
readUpset About Back Tax
05-11-2010
IT is disturbing to be told by an officer at the revenue office that “you paid N$ 900 less tax than you were supposed to in 2006 and now you owe us N$1700”. I ask myself: why are you telling me only
readAre We Succumbing To EU Pressure On EPAs?
05-11-2010
IT is very disturbing to note that the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry supported by the Deputy Minister of Finance both indicated that Namibia is ready to sign the controversial EPAs.The Deputy
readOn GIPF And City Savings
05-11-2010
I SEE from the SMS page of Thursday’s The Namibian that I am not the only one scratching my head over the huge profit GIPF claims to have made from its investment in City Savings & Investment Bank
readThe ‘Backwardness’ Of Religion
05-11-2010
I WAS interested in the letter ‘Education needs the Bible’ (October 29) by Mr Cuana Angula, because such a letter is usually more appropriate for some religious newspaper or magazine.Religion is a
readToo Many Chiefs And Not Enough Indians
05-11-2010
THE article of the highly valued Alexactus T Kaure ‘Riches Below Ground, Poverty Above’ in The Namibian of 29.10.10 hits the nail on the head, but in one aspect doesn’t go far enough. He just
readHow To Destroy A Country
05-11-2010
THE relentless scramble for uranium and raw minerals from the rich sands of Namibia holds the great danger of risking the well-being of our communities and so damaging the environment that all future
readProgressive Solution To The Jobs Crisis
05-11-2010
I REFER to the article ‘Govt over-keen to pass Employment Services Bill’ (October 29). In my opinion, the Employment Services Bill is an attempt by the Swapo government to be seen to be tackling
readCivil Service Must Condemn Corruption
05-11-2010
IT would perhaps be more meaningful if the civil service took a strong stance towards corruption as a whole, rather than confine itself simply to protests over the Government Institutions Pension Fund
readGIPF’s Genetic Disorder On Ethics Reflects A National Malaise
05-11-2010
THE Government Institutions Pension Fund has become a nuisance and an albatross in the public life of this country. The meek response by Government in the form of an audit is simply not sufficient in
readThe Loans That Were, And The Development That Wasn’t
05-11-2010
IT’s a familiar story in international development circles. And the story is that developing countries are poor and they thus need massive financial infusions from international financial institutions
readI’ve Got A Feeling It’s Over Between Ithana And Geingob
05-11-2010
ONE of Gregory Abbott’s most well-known songs is entitled ‘I Got The Feelin’ (It’s Over)’ and he sings about the “funny feelin’” he had that his relationship with a girl was on the rocks.I got the
readEpangelo ta li kambadhala oku keelela ehololomadhiladhilo etitatu tuuka
05-11-2010
AMUSHANGA gwo Kabinete, Frans Kapofi oye omunambelewa gwepangelo a landulako monkambadhala yokukeelela ehololomadhiladhilo ndyoka lya thanekwa li ka ningwe kaaniilonga yomepangelo momasiku 10 ga
readOmeya na ga longithwe nawa
05-11-2010
OMWAALU gwaakalimo ya Venduka ota gu indjipala naashika osha eta ekoko mompumbwe yomeya moshilando. Omolwa ompumbwe ndjika iilongitho noshowo iiyenditho yomeya oya pumbwa okunenepekwa opo yi vule oku
readIikundaneki nayi kundaneke mondjila Kaapanda a indile
05-11-2010
OMINISTA Yuuyelele nOmakwatathano gOpautechnologi, okwa indile iikundaneki yi kundaneke noshinakugwanithwa, inaa yi gama ombinga, ya shanga sha yelekathana kombinga yomahogololo gomalelo giitopolwa
readEtokolo kombinga ya Kudu omumvo taguya
05-11-2010
OPENA ompito opo epangelo lyi kale inaali gwanithapo edhiladhilo lyalyo lyokukala ta li pombo omuku nenge ogas okuza kelundu lyogasa yopaushitwe poKudu kuuninginino woshilando shOrange.Elundu ndika
readAatalelipo aa New Zealand ya ponokelwa nokuyugwa koombotsotso metitatu
05-11-2010
AATALELIPO yaali ya za ko New Zealand, omusamane Hanso Hasso Weichbrodt gwoomvula 68 nomukadhi Borm Jan Gesa Weichbrodt gwoomvula 63 oya ponokelwa, taya dhengwa nokuyugwa iinima yawo, unene iimaliwa
readAa ikuthili yevi muupyakadhi nompango
05-11-2010
Ongundu yaa ikuthili yevi moVenduka oye li pokakololo konima sho ompangu ya tokola kutya ita ya vulu okwiindila opo yi pulakene eindilo lyawo okutala kutya oveta ndjoka ya longithwa ku muni opo a teye
readAfrican Stars to play in Angola
05-11-2010
Defending Premier League champions African Stars will leave for Lunda Norte Province in Angola on Monday to compete in a football tournament marking that country’s independence celebrations on 11
readReal, Bayern, Chelsea through, Jose laughs last
05-11-2010
LONDON - Real Madrid scored seconds from time to force a 2-2 draw at AC Milan, secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League and leave coach Jose Mourinho with a smile on his face on his
readGerman basketball expert coaching in Namibia
05-11-2010
A BASKETBALL expert from the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund in Germany, Peter Schey, donated basketball equipment to the Oshana Region Basketball Association last weekend.The development officer for
readAfrican Stars, Black Africa in pulsating draw
05-11-2010
BLACK Africa moved to within a point of log leaders Ramblers after playing to a goalless draw against defending champions African Stars on Wednesday night.Despite there being no goals, there were
readVolvo winners off to Sun City
05-11-2010
TWO of the winners of the Volvo-sponsored Individual Stableford competition held at the Windhoek Golf and Country club last Saturday will be guests at the 5 million US dollar Nedbank Golf Challenge at
readArtificial turf planned for Oshakati
05-11-2010
THE deplorable state of the Oshakati Independence Stadium pitch will soon be something of the past as the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC), in conjunction with the Directorate of Sports, plans to
readIsaacs quits Tigers, replaced by Kanalelo
05-11-2010
RONNIE Kanalelo has taken over as Tigers’ coach after the resignation of Brian Isaacs on Wednesday. Isaacs resigned as Tigers’ coach after being put on temporary suspension by Tigers’ management
readSMSes for Friday 5 November 2010
05-11-2010
* MINISTER Joel Kaapanda, I agree that media must be truthful, honest and unbiased. Make sure that this also applies to NBC, as they are also in the category of media. Food for Thought * HOW is the
readSwakop River pigs in “even worse state”
05-11-2010
AN SPCA inspection on Wednesday revealed that the pigs on the Richtenhofen Pig Farm along the Swakop River were in an “even worse state” than before their owner was charged with animal cruelty.Two
read‘Nujoma healthier than most of us’
05-11-2010
REPORTS about the fading health of founding President Sam Nujoma are far from the truth, those close to him say.Nujoma’s senior special assistant, John Nauta, yesterday said the report that Nujoma was
readNo signing of EPA this year: Geingob
05-11-2010
NAMIBIA will not sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union this year, Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob said yesterday.Briefing the media yesterday afternoon at the
readNo bail in Okahandja murder case from 2002
05-11-2010
MORE than eight years after their arrest, the two men accused of robbing and murdering an elderly jeweller at Okahandja in September 2002 heard this week that they will be remaining in custody while
readNGOs support GIPF march
05-11-2010
CIVIL servants will have outside support when they start their planned mass protest to pressure Government to take tangible and swift action on the Government Institutions Pension Fund’s (GIPF) failed
readEviction D-Day for Orange River grape growers
05-11-2010
A TOTAL of 20 small-scale grape farmers at the Orange River Irrigation Project (ORIP), who have refused to sign a contract with Afribank, are to be evicted from their vineyards today.The Permanent
readEmpathy makes a difference
05-11-2010
DEEPLY touched by photographs published in The Namibian last month, a group of friends were motivated to travel to the Okahandja rubbish dump last Saturday where they handed out cooked food to 48
readCourt sanctions Ovambanderu burial
05-11-2010
EXACTLY one month after the death of Peter Nguvauva, a leading member of Namibia’s deeply divided Ovambanderu community, he can finally be buried on ‘sacred’ ground.Judge Collins Parker yesterday
readCity and NamWater call for water saving
05-11-2010
THE Windhoek municipality and NamWater have called on residents to start saving water so that water restrictions do not become necessary.In a joint statement yesterday, they said although the algae in
readSKW aiming for the top
05-11-2010
CYMOT SKW have a chance to go top of the log when they take on Civics in an MTC Premiership Round 7 match at the Independence Stadium tonight.SKW are currently in third place, but a win will put them
readBig Brother Africa: No Place To Hide …
05-11-2010
It’s less than a month since Namibia’s Meryl Shikwambane waved goodbye to her second stint on Big Brother Africa, the most popular reality show on the continent.The outspoken Namibian was the original
readRössing South changes name to Husab
05-11-2010
EXTRACT Resources, owner of the Rössing South uranium deposit, said Japanese trading house Itochu Corp wants to purchase production from its Husab mine in Namibia.“Itochu is very interested in taking
readQantas grounds A380 f leet after engine blows out
05-11-2010
SINGAPORE – Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine yesterday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing
readTrafigura gets hands on BP assets
05-11-2010
TRAFIGURA, controversial commodities conglomerate and the third largest independent oil trader in the world, has bought BP’s assets in Namibia.The deal, struck through the Trafigura subsidiary, Puma
readGlencore takes off gloves for Namcor
05-11-2010
GOVERNMENT should brace itself for a fight with Glencore over its existing contract with Namcor, currently hanging in the balance after Cabinet suspended the local oil corporation’s power to import
readTourists attacked near Oshakati
05-11-2010
A COUPLE from New Zealand, Hanso Hasso Weichbrodt (68) and his wife, Borm Jan Gesa Weichbrodt (63), were attacked and robbed at Oshandumbara village southeast of Oshakati early on Wednesday
readDaggers out for Kaaronda
05-11-2010
THE knives are out for the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) secretary general, Evilastus Kaaronda for his uncompromising stance to go ahead with a planned civil servants’ demonstration.At a
readNotable Quotes
05-11-2010
The GIPF scandal is not only a matter for civil servants but truly a matter of national concern, therefore any lawful actions by the unions will be fully supported by the civil society movement. – A
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