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56 Articles found on Thursday, 14 October 2010
Not paying minimum wages ‘criminal’
14-10-2010
CAPE TOWN – Employers who do not meet minimum wage levels are no better than thieves and should face criminal sanctions, South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has said.“What I am
readZesa closes Hwange power station
14-10-2010
HARARE — Zesa Holdings has indefinitely shut down Hwange Thermal Power Station owing to technical problems, forcing the utility to increase load-shedding outside normal schedules in most parts of the
readBusiness ‘celebs’ sell Nam brand
14-10-2010
‘LOCAL is lekker’ got a new twist in Team Namibia’s latest campaign to buy Namibian products with well-known business personalities lining up for billboards in which they sport locally designed
readMore uranium talks with Moscow
14-10-2010
MOSCOW – RUSSIA’S Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev is on his way to Namibia for uranium talks with Foreign Minister Utoni Nujoma, who also co-chairs the Russian-Namibian Trade and Economic
readAfrica Business Briefs
14-10-2010
Rand touches new high JOHANNESBURG – South Africa's rand firmed to a fresh 2-1/2 year high against the dollar yesterday as the US currency came under selling pressure globally and investors sought
readPetroSA eyes oil-rich Angola
14-10-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa and Angola are close to signing an oil deal that could see South African national oil company PetroSA enter exploration and refining operations in Angola, state media has
readBillions for bigger Walvis port
14-10-2010
NAMIBIA plans to spend N$3 billion in the next three years on expanding the capacity of the port of Walvis Bay.Johny Smith, the chief executive of public-private partnership Walvis Bay Corridor
readBig Brother Africa: You can win N$1 000!!
14-10-2010
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: Win an All Stars T-shirt!
14-10-2010
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: From You To Us ..
14-10-2010
Messages sent by SMS or on our BBA e-mail address: I’VE been sending my votes to 15626 but never get a reply from BB. – Thanks. I’ve forwarded your e-mail to MultiChoice. – JeanBBA must be
readPlayers in rural tourism to meet this week
14-10-2010
STAKEHOLDERS in the communal conservancy tourism sector will gather in Windhoek this week to discuss the constraints and opportunities in this sector of the Namibian tourism industry.The two-day
readNamibian conservationist lures adventurers
14-10-2010
NAMIBIA’S success story of how it managed to help rural people to gain benefits from natural resources and community tourism has impressed the Adventure Travel Trade Association
readSkorpion’s Enviro Junkies green the South
14-10-2010
MORE than 100 trees were planted by the Skorpion Zinc Environment Department and the Enviro Junkies during a tree-planting campaign as their contribution to the Mine’s Bio-diversity Action Plan and
read17 inmates escape Moz jail
14-10-2010
MAPUTO – Officials say prisoners serving long jail terms have escaped from a prison in northern Mozambique.A Justice Ministry statement yesterday said the prisoners cut the bars at Nampula Industrial
readZambian lawmaker calls journos ‘dogs’
14-10-2010
LUSAKSA – Scores of Zambian journalists marched to the country’s parliament on Tuesday to deliver a petition against an opposition lawmaker who described reporters from state media as
readLiu’s wife slams ‘house arrest’
14-10-2010
BEIJING - The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo slammed the government yesterday for keeping her under “illegal house arrest” since her husband won the award last week.Liu Xia has
readSouth Africa needs to test all HIV patients for TB
14-10-2010
JOHANNESBURG - Health officials in South Africa said yesterday they recommend screening all HIV patients for tuberculosis and want automatic TB tests for HIV patients to become normal procedure
readChile joyous at clockwork-like mine rescue
14-10-2010
SAN JOSE MINE – The miners emerged like clockwork, jubilantly embracing wives, children and rescuers and looking remarkably composed yesterday after languishing for 69 days in the depths of a mine
readEkanitho lyomeya oli na ondilo
14-10-2010
ELELO lya Kaiti palongelokumwe nookuume yoko Finland ota ya longo opo ya kuthe po ekanitho lyomeya ndyoka ngoka taga kanene kohi yevi. Omeya otaku tiwa oha ga kana omolwaashoka ominino mevi otadhi
readNamibia ota gandja oodola oomiliona ntano
14-10-2010
NAMIBIA okwa uvaneke ta ka gandja oodola oomiliona ntano koshiketha shuuyuni shoku kondjitha omukithi gwo HIV-AIDS, OTB, nomalaria. Euvaneko ndika okwe li ningi pethimbo lyoshigongi kombinga yomavu
readOmulongi omukulu nomukokoli gwIikokola a hulitha
14-10-2010
Omulongi omukulu, ngoka a kokola po osikola yIikokola Combined, Matheus Nashandi okwa mana oondjenda dhe momasiku 9 ga Kotoba nuumvo, taku tengenekwa mepipi lyoomvula 103.Matheus Nashandi omuleli
readNdeshihafela Shiweda a kwatwa po kOpolisi
14-10-2010
OMUKULUKADHI gwoomvula 51 Esther Ndeshihafela Shiweda ngoka aniwa a kala ta tidha uutekulu womusamane gwe megumbo lyawo mOnghuwo mOukwanyama mOhangwena, oshiwike sha zi ko, okwa kwatwa po kopolisi ya
readOshigongi kombinga yegameno lyomoondjila
14-10-2010
OSHIGONGI kombinga yegameno lyomoondjila otashi ningwa pOmbaye oshiwike ta shiya. Oshigongi shika osho shotango sholudhi nduka tashi ningwa moNamibia.Oshigongi otashi yambidhidhwa ko National Road
readConradie omunashipundi omupe gwoMTC
14-10-2010
OMUNAVETA noshowo omuperesidende omukulu gwehangano lyo Rugby lya Namibia, Dirk Conradie oye omunashipundi omupe gwehangano lyoongodhi dhopeke lya MTC. Conradie okwa landula Steve Motinga ngoka oye a
readOfaalama yoondjuhwa pondje ya Venduka
14-10-2010
EHANGANO lyokumuna oondjuhwa lya Namibia[Namibia Poultry Industries] ota li longitha oodola oomiliona ntano okweetapo ofaalama yokumuna oondjuhwa pokati kOkahandja noVenduka.Elalakano okugandja onyama
readMeya gwaMbaye a londodha aakalimo
14-10-2010
MEYA gwoshilando sha Mbaye, Uilika Nambahu okwa londodha aakalimo yomoshilando shoka opo ya kotokele aakotokeli naalongi yalwe yiikulumuna mboka ya ndhindhilikwa yi iteyela moshilando
readOpena olutandu moNapwu kombinga ya GIPF
14-10-2010
OKWA kundanwa kutya omuperesidende gwo kulipo gwa Namibia Public Workers Union [Napwu] Sarafina Kandere ina popya oshili kombinga yetokolo lyehangano okuyambidhidha etokolo lyaNUNW opo mboka ya
readDoeseb still confident of Swallows bid
14-10-2010
JOHNNY Johnson Doëseb says he still has his sights firmly set on acquiring South African Premiership side Moroka Swallows. The mining tycoon said he was confident that his application would be
readTyson Uushona, Ambunda to defend titles at month-end
14-10-2010
BOXING promoter Nestor Tobias is confident that his African boxing champions, Bethuel ‘Tyson’ Uushona and Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda, will retain their crowns in their next fights.Both fighters will
readNOTICE: Southern Stream consultative meeting
14-10-2010
The league coordinator of Southern Stream First Division League is inviting all the affiliated members to the consultative meeting this Saturday at Namibia Premier League’s head office in Windhoek,
readIndian race walker Yadav fails dope test in Delhi
14-10-2010
NEW DELHI – Indian race walker Rani Yadav tested positive for a banned steroid and was provisionally suspended from the Commonwealth Games yesterday, the Games Federation (CGF) said.The 20-year-old,
readGymnasts get medals at SA Games
14-10-2010
NAMIBIAN Gymnasts picked up six gold medals, two silver and a bronze medal from the SA Gymnastic Games that concluded at Wits University in Johannesburg last week.Sport Klub Windhoek’s (SKW) Lakshani
readJudge backs RBS in Liverpool ownership battle
14-10-2010
LONDON - Premier League side Liverpool inched closer to a sale yesterday when a High Court judge ruled against their unpopular American owners and backed the club’s board and its right to negotiate a
readSMSes for Thursday 14 October 2010
14-10-2010
* LIVE coverage of the Chilean miners is so heart-warming and it shows how rescue missions of this magnitude can unite nations. Long live both Presidents Penira and Morales. – Omaheke Food for
readTelecom hikes salaries
14-10-2010
TELECOM Namibia and the Namibia Public Workers’ Union (Napwu) have signed an agreement on salary increases.The agreement was signed by Telecom managing director Frans Ndoroma and Napwu secretary
readSuspended sentence for illegal border crossing at Noordoewer
14-10-2010
A YOUNG man, who had crossed the border into South Africa at Noordoewer in March by concealing himself in the undercarriage of a truck, got off lightly when he received a suspended sentence for
readSudden outbreak of illness scares town
14-10-2010
An unknown disease almost caused the closing of the Nuuyoma Senior Secondary School in Omusati Region on Monday. Children began to get sick last week Thursday. The principal, Silas Mulongeni, told The
readStarving horse needs urgent help
14-10-2010
AN emaciated horse was reported to the Windhoek SPCA on Friday, after concerned motorists spotted it next to the road at the Baumgartsbrunn farm school in the Khomas Hochland.The horse is one of
readSan man buried alive during porcupine hunt
14-10-2010
KARUKUVISA - A San man was buried alive in the ground while attempting to dig out a porcupine at Karukuvisa village in the Kavango Region on Monday morning.The deceased, identified as Paulus Muruti,
read3 arrested for petrol theft outside Keetmans
14-10-2010
THE Police at Keetmanshoop yesterday arrested three suspects who were allegedly syphoning petrol from a tanker truck belonging to Slabbert Burger Transport. The incident happened about 40 kilometres
readNo money to rebuild craft market
14-10-2010
THE woodcarvers’ market at Okahandja, which burned to the ground on September 24, has still not been cleaned properly, nor has reconstruction begun.The craft sellers yesterday started to do business
readMunyama appeals against sentence
14-10-2010
THE 10-year prison term for fraud imposed on former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) boss Gerry Munyama two weeks ago “is cruel, inhumane or degrading punishment”.This is “because it is grossly
readDesert Star raises over N$1,5 m for charity
14-10-2010
DESERT Star raised more than N$1,5 million at a charity event dubbed ‘Night of the Stars’ at the Windhoek Country Club on Monday.The funds will benefit the envisaged Desert Star Film Academy and
readAPP wants referendum on regional governors
14-10-2010
A BILL that aims to have regional governors appointed by the Head of State came under heavy fire from the opposition benches in the National Assembly. “This bill should be voted on in a referendum,”
read763 Police recruits graduate
14-10-2010
THE Namibian Police increased in manpower after 763 new recruits graduated at Oshakati on Monday morning. They completed six months of basic Police training at the Ondangwa Police Training Centre. The
read40 000 veterans to cost Govt N$3,4 billion
14-10-2010
SUPPORT for about 40 000 war veterans will cost taxpayers about N$3,4 billion, including efforts that have been made already to alleviate their plight.“The amount of money Government has made
readAlgeria’s press bucks trend in Arab media
14-10-2010
ALGIERS – Algerian newspaper columnist Hakim Laalam pours scorn on his country’s leaders in a way most journalists in the Arab world would never dream of doing.In his daily column, he describes the
readUutoni surrenders gold
14-10-2010
NEW DELHI – Jafet Uutoni lost his light-flyweight Commonwealth Games title to Northern Ireland’s Paddy Barnes yesterday.Barnes – the first British European champion in 19 years - beat defending
readRussian wheat ban hits Namibia pockets
14-10-2010
RUSSIA’S severe drought, forcing the world’s third biggest wheat exporter to stop supplying global markets and driving up wheat prices by nearly 35 per cent, has started to leave local consumers high
readChinese Communist elders issue free speech appeal
14-10-2010
BEIJING – A group of eminent Chinese Communist Party elders has issued a bold call to end the country’s wide-ranging restrictions on free speech, just days after the government reacted angrily to the
readBig Brother Africa: It’s Time To Choose!
14-10-2010
WITH Big Brother Africa All Stars quickly drawing to an end, looking back it seems as though the last three months have flown by.Anything but! Filled with chats and tasks and parties and arguments.
readOrina’s fingerprint on body parts bag
14-10-2010
DNA evidence and a single fingerprint connect Kenyan nurse Kenneth Orina to one of the scenes where the dismembered remains of a woman, alleged to have been his wife, were found at Grootfontein three
readStepdad tells how he drowned toddler
14-10-2010
“I GRABBED him by the throat and I pressed him down into the water. After I put him in the water, I took the bucket with him into the bedroom. I left him inside.” This is how Ewald Gaweseb (31)
readCabinet freezes GIPF scheme
14-10-2010
GOVERNMENT has finally come down on the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF), halting in its tracks a N$4 billion loan scheme of the fund to unlisted businesses.The scheme, known as Unlisted
readBack in business
14-10-2010
Craft sellers, whose woodcarvers’ market at Okahandja burned to the ground on September 24, started doing business again yesterday with the few items they could salvage. Many of the crafts are damaged
readNotable Quotes
14-10-2010
Every single one of them cried. It was heartbreaking. I have never experienced anything like it. – Philip Ellis, Chairperson of the Moria Grace Trust, describing the events of last week, during which
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