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58 Articles found on Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Africa praised for better currency management
13-10-2010
WASHINGTON – African states rebounding from the global downturn are far better placed than in the past to ensure currencies do not become overvalued and damage competitiveness, World Bank Managing
readTrade blocs: ‘Choose where you belong’
13-10-2010
WASHINGTON – Overlapping African regional trading blocs are limiting progress towards integration of the continent as a single market, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has said.Africa
readOpec stands by price, output policy
13-10-2010
VIENNA – Opec stands by its US$70-US$80 oil price target and is almost certain to maintain an output policy that has served it well for nearly two years, but will monitor bloated inventories as the
readConradie takes chair at MTC
13-10-2010
ATTORNEY and retired president of the Namibian Rugby Union (NRU), Dirk Conradie, has taken over the chairmanship of MTC. Conradie replaces Steve Motinga.Cabinet appointed the new board at its meeting
readSept inflation edges up
13-10-2010
THE price monster clawed back weakly last month with annual inflation rising to 3,7 per cent from 3,6 per cent in August.Month-on-month, the Namibia Consumer Price Index (NCPI) rose by 0,1 per cent.
readBleak picture for US persists
13-10-2010
WASHINGTON – Top forecasters say the US economy will grow this year and next at a slower pace than previously thought, weakened by governments and consumers spending less so they can pay down
readChasing the dots ... The End Of The World Is Nigh?
13-10-2010
ALL this stuff about brand loyalty, trust and customer focus is absolute garbage! My 42 year loyalty to Mr Rothman (blue) of Pall Mall has been shattered by a little note in each packet stating that
readFinancial crisis could become currency crisis
13-10-2010
BEIJING –The world faces risks of a currency war that could boost inflation and asset prices in emerging markets, an official Chinese newspaper said yesterday.The China Securities Journal said in a
readBourses should unite in chasing African dream
13-10-2010
JOHANNESBURG – The African continent is now being seen as presenting opportunities, Sunil Benimadhu, newly appointed President of the African Stock Exchange Association (ASEA) and CEO of the Stock
readBig Brother Africa: Win an All Stars T-shirt!
13-10-2010
MULTICHOICE Namibia and The Namibian have a great fan prize for a number of lucky winners.This week a number of BBA All Stars t-shirts are up for grabs. This week four branded t-shirts can be won! All
readBig Brother Africa: You can win N$1 000!!
13-10-2010
YOU can win with Big Brother Africa and The Namibian! Up for grabs this week is another N$1 000. Just send an SMS to 45045. All you have to do is type in BB. It’s as simple as that! Each SMS costs
readBig Brother Africa: Calling BBA fans!
13-10-2010
ARE you the ultimate Big Brother fan? Do you vote like crazy for your favourite? Do you invest time and money in the show, stay up all hours in case you might miss something? If you’re a dedicated fan
readHalt urged to Obiang Prize
13-10-2010
PARIS – Citizens of Equatorial Guinea and prominent African figures including Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, and author Chinua Achebe wrote to the United
readZim PM Tsvangirai: Don’t recognise our six ambassadors
13-10-2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s prime minister has asked the United Nations, the European Union and four nations not to recognise six ambassadors the president appointed without consulting him, his party said
readIn Brief
13-10-2010
Joy at Chile mine as rescue nears COPIAPO - Nervous excitement swept over the San Jose mine in Chile on Tuesday as emotional family members and exhausted engineers prepared a final push to save 33
readPlayboy son raps North Korea succession plan
13-10-2010
BEIJING – The casino-loving eldest son of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il - once tipped to succeed him before trying to sneak into Japan to go to Disneyland - says he opposes a hereditary transfer of power
readPrivate spaceship flies high
13-10-2010
LOS ANGELES – The world’s first commercial spaceship made its first manned free flight over California on Sunday and successfully landed at Mojave Air and Space Port, its creator announced.Virgin
readCondoms a threat to Village drains
13-10-2010
NEW DELHI – Thousands of flushed condoms threaten to choke the Commonwealth Games village’s drainage system, media reports said, in the latest problem to hit the venue from hidden snakes to outbreaks
readToo much TV, computers is bad even for active children
13-10-2010
NEW YORK – More than two hours a day spent watching television or playing computer games could put a child at greater risk for psychological problems regardless of their activity levels, according to
readPo Aussenkehr ya pewa omasiku 30
13-10-2010
AANAFAALAMA yomandjembele poprojeka yokutekela pomulonga gwa Range oya pewa omasiku 30 opo ya shaine euvathano, ndyoka ta ya ti ota li ya tula pomutenya pamahupilo.Ngele ishewe ina ya shaina
readElundululo moompangu lya kundathanwa
13-10-2010
OMUKALO iipotha ha yi ningwa moompangu dhopombanda dha Namibia ogwa pumbwa okulundululwa opo nguka gu gandje oonkondo kompangu nokaapanguli opo mbaka ya kale ta ya wilike iilonga yokupullakena iipotha
readIiyenditho yomashete yimwe ta yi shunithwa
13-10-2010
AALONGI yomahauto goludhi lwo Mashete oya ti iiyenditho 85 000 nayi shune koongalashe okathimbo omolwa uupyakadhi woshihingitho. Nuumvo aahambudhi yiiyenditho oya gandja omalombwelo kutya omahauto
readOpolisi ya Namibia ya gwedhwa aapolisi 763
13-10-2010
OMINISTA yEgameno nEpopilo lyOshigwana Nangolo Mbumba oya nyanyukwa noonkondo sho Etanga lyOpolisi lya Namibia Omaandaha ngaka ga zi ko lya mono Aapolisi aape aagundjuka ye li omathele gaheyali
readA mangwa sho inaa popya iimaliwa yAmerika
13-10-2010
OMUGANDJIMALOMBWELO omukulu metanga lya Angola, Joaquim Pinto omushona [54] okwa pewa egeelo lyokufuta oodola 15 000 nenge a kale mondholongo oomwedhi 18.Egeelo ndika Pinto okwe li pewa kompangu
readOonakwiikuthila omahala ya indilwa ya zepo
13-10-2010
OSHILANDO sha Venduka osha gandja omalombwelo kaantu mboka yi ikuthile omahala mepandaanda etihetatu mOtjomuise ya kuthepo omagumbo gawo pomahala mpoka meni lyootundi 48. Aakalimo mbaka oya tsondumbo
readEngambeko lyokutuma oonzi pondje lyeehameke aanafaalama
13-10-2010
OMUTOTIMPANGO gwoRally for Democracy and Progress okwa ti ompango yuundjolowele wiimuna oya pumbwa omulandu gu li nawa naanguka ina gu kala tagu pe epangelo uuthemba okwii idhopa mo ngaashi hali shi
readEwilikongundu epe lya Namcor
13-10-2010
OKABINETE oka ulike iilyo ine yewilikongundu lyehangano lyomahooli lya Namibia, Namcor. Okabinet ina ka shunamo iilyo yimwe mewilikongundu, ngaashi, Festus Lameck,Immanuel Mulunga, Wilhencia Uiras na
readOmatuntilo goshiligalala moVenduka ga tameke
13-10-2010
UUMINISTELI wUundjolowele owa thaneka okutuntila konyala aantu omayovi 300 000 moVenduka mboka ye li pombanda yoomvula mbali komukithi gwoshiligalala. Omukithi nguka ogwa dhipaga aantu yatano sigo
readNPL to go live in two weeks
13-10-2010
NAMIBIA Premier League (NPL) matches will be beamed live on NBC television in two weeks time, the league’s chairman Johnny Johnson Doëseb said yesterday.The premier league’s supremo told The Namibian
readTwo new Cups for NPL
13-10-2010
NU Diamonds Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd will sponsor two new competitions that will involve NPL teams in December and January.This was announced by NPL chairman Johnny Johnson Doëseb yesterday. Doëseb,
readVolleyball elite to do Cup battle
13-10-2010
THE Namibian Volleyball Federation (NVF) will host its annual Cup championships from October 15 to 30 in Windhoek. The first two days of the games will be held at DTS - where the official opening
readDiehl, Brinkmann win beach volleyball title
13-10-2010
THE second last of seven tournaments in the 2010 DTS Maerua Superspar Volleyball Series took place on Saturday.A total of 28 teams battled it out in scorching heat, but still managed to deliver a high
readAnother Nigerian athlete fails drugs test
13-10-2010
NEW DELHI - A second Nigerian runner at the Commonwealth Games has failed a doping test for the same banned substance.Commonwealth Games Federation President Mike Fennell said Samuel Okon, who was
readLiverpool ownership battle goes to court
13-10-2010
LONDON - The battle for control of Liverpool went to court yesterday, with a bank trying to force through the sale of the club to the owners of the Boston Red Sox because of the current American
readFifa studying goal-line technology proposals
13-10-2010
PARIS - World football’s ruling body Fifa are currently poring over a raft of proposals that could finally end years of goal-line controversy.Fifa initially asked 17 companies to submit proposals for
readSMSes for Wednesday 13 October 2010
13-10-2010
* I THINK Cabinet and the SOEGC as the ultimate overseers of SOE’s should do a crash course in sound corporate governance principles. It is baffling how an MD of a company whose subsidiary is an oil
readAfrica praised for better currency management
13-10-2010
WASHINGTON – African states rebounding from the global downturn are far better placed than in the past to ensure currencies do not become overvalued and damage competitiveness, World Bank Managing
readWatch out for fraudsters: Walvis mayor
13-10-2010
“OUR city has become a magnet for fraudsters, con artists and other criminal elements whose existence is fuelled by our thriving economy on one hand, and greed and lack of experience in distinguishing
readUDF candidate fined for poaching
13-10-2010
DESPITE having been convicted on a charge of hunting protected game, Bartholomeus Gaingob remains in the run to become a councillor in the Outjo Constituency next month.Gaingob (38), a UDF candidate
readDon’t miss the NamPort Erongo Trade Expo
13-10-2010
THE NamPort Erongo Trade Expo 2010 will be living up to its mission of putting on the biggest exposition at the Namibian coast yet.Not only will it host more exhibitors than previous years, but more
readRapist gets suspended sentence for escaping
13-10-2010
RHEINHARDT Tjitandi (23), the convicted rapist who escaped from Police custody in June after hiding in a rubbish bin, was sentenced two years’ imprisonment, wholly suspended for five years, in the
readQuick sentence in stabbing case
13-10-2010
FOUR days after Shipanga Halutari (25) stabbed his girlfriend three times with a knife in Swakopmund, a sentence of five years’ imprisonment was handed down by Swakopmund Magistrate Bernhard Tjatjara
readNew vessel calls at Walvis Bay
13-10-2010
Once again Namport’s Marketing efforts are reaping the rewards of a new feeder line service calling at Walvis Bay. The Port of Walvis Bay was visited by MV African Coastal One for her first call at
readLaw on indigenous people’s rights coming
13-10-2010
NAMIBIA will soon draft legislation on protecting the rights of indigenous people and marginalised communities. This was revealed at the opening of a conference on the rights of indigenous people and
readKlein Aub Police nab stock-theft suspects
13-10-2010
SWIFT action by the Klein Aub Police over the weekend saw to it that two alleged stock thieves landed behind bars. Moreover, the Police say they are hot on the heels of the alleged mastermind. The
readKeetmans cell death: wife testifies
13-10-2010
FIVE Police officers and a civilian, Charles Vries, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and culpable homicide in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.Vries and Police officers Gert Titsol, Lodwika
readHarare’s jacarandas and Zanu PF’s cockerel
13-10-2010
WE arrive at a dark, seemingly dingy Harare International Airport. The air is damp. Heavy. Or is that just my nervous breathing?Crisis, these black skinnies really ARE tight. And the red shoes. Red
readCouncillor listens to squatters
13-10-2010
AN opposition councillor in the Windhoek City Council says the City and the residents of 8ste Laan in Otjomuise need to meet to iron out their differences.Since the weekend the municipality has issued
read52 Swakop taxi drivers in court
13-10-2010
FIFTY-TWO taxi drivers operating in Swakopmund appeared in the town’s Magistrate’s Court after being summoned for a variety of traffic offences that they had not settled.Each of them was fined N$300
readRamblers and Tigers vie for Premier League supremacy
13-10-2010
SOLE supremacy at the top of the Namibia Premier League log standings will be the main priority for both Ramblers and Tigers when they kick-off at 20h00 at the Sam Nujoma Stadium tonight.Ramblers
readEpangelo wants chunk of uranium
13-10-2010
GOVERNMENT’S mining company, Epangelo, wants “a stake in the most significant uranium projects”, get as many exploration licences (EPLs) as possible in Namibia and would also like the State to
read‘Rural Swag’ Takes A Bow!
13-10-2010
THE self-proclaimed ‘Mr Rural Swag’ has left the Big Brother All Stars house. Evicted for a second time, once again alongside Angola’s Tatiana, Kaone Ramontshonyana wasn’t as lucky this time around.
readWorld urged to tackle threat of water shortage
13-10-2010
LONDON - Water shortages will be the world’s most pressing problem in the next decade, compounded by a growing global population, Britain’s chief scientist John Beddington said yesterday.Climate
readOrina accuses Police of torture and abuse
13-10-2010
SELF-INCRIMINATING statements that Kenyan nurse Kenneth Orina made to Police officers and two magistrates after he was arrested for the alleged murder of his wife three years ago were the result of
readThe Healing Church member drowns during coastal ‘cleansing’ ceremony
13-10-2010
A MEMBER of the Windhoek-based ‘The Healing Church’, Vetjituavi Cloete (25), was swept away by waves and drowned during a ‘cleansing’ ceremony in the sea at Vierkantklip, just south of Swakopmund.A
readDisgraceful conduct towards Moria Grace children
13-10-2010
THE REAL victims in the saga of the Moria Grace children’s shelter are the children themselves, who face threats of eviction from the place they consider their home, amidst allegations of fraud
readNapwu divided on GIPF
13-10-2010
IT has come to light that the acting president of the Namibia Public Workers’ Union (Napwu) has misrepresented to the public the union’s decision to support the recent NUNW resolution to go after
readNotable Quotes
13-10-2010
They live in mansions but now they want people who live in ghettos to move. – Jessica Garoës, a resident of 8ste Laan. The City of Windhoek has issued eviction orders to squatters at 8ste Laan in
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