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51 Articles found on Monday, 25 October 2010
Flaws limited to certain Lexus models only
25-10-2010
ONLY certain Lexus RX300 models built between February 2003 and February 2006 are affected in the special service campaign announced by Lexus South Africa last week, Pupkewitz Motors said on
readMalawi opens trade waterway to Mozambique
25-10-2010
NSANJE, Malawi – President Bingu wa Mutharika on Saturday opened a waterway linking inland Malawi to the Indian Ocean and opening up trade opportunities for neighbouring Zambia and Zimbabwe.The
readG20 inks pact to avert trade war
25-10-2010
GYEONGJU – The Group of 20 major economies agreed on Saturday to shun competitive currency devaluations but stopped short of setting targets to reduce trade imbalances that are clouding global growth
readFraudsters up to old tricks
25-10-2010
“IT seems as if an old scam perpetrated by fraudsters has reared its head again – this time targeting individuals,” Dawn Humphries, corporate communications manager at FNB Namibia, has
readLogistics and transportation in the spotlight
25-10-2010
THE Namibian-German Centre for Logistics (NGCL) will hold its annual logistics and transport workshop at Walvis Bay this week. The centre, based at the Polytechnic of Namibia, says it would like to
readBoN warns against two pyramid schemes
25-10-2010
THE Bank of Namibia (BoN) on Friday warned against Holidays and Cash (H&C) and TVI Express, saying their activities “resemble those of a selling and marketing pyramid schemes” and that their
readSouth Africa budgets billions for power infrastructure
25-10-2010
ERMELO – South Africa promised on Saturday to spend more than R800 billion to bulk up its power grid and prevent future blackouts, as its main electricity provider warned urgent action was needed this
readClaims of fall from Grace
25-10-2010
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono could be in trouble with the law amidst revelations that he is having an affair with the first lady.The Sunday Times reported that Grace Mugabe
readSA post-apartheid poll tampered with, says new book
25-10-2010
CAPE TOWN – The results of South Africa’s first free election was tampered with to boost the tally of three opposition parties, including apartheid’s last rulers, excerpts of a book published
readHorror disease hits Uganda
25-10-2010
KAMPALA – A disease whose progression and symptoms seem straight out of a horror movie but which can be treated has killed at least 20 Ugandans and made over 20 000 sick in just two months.Jiggers,
readIranian authorities cut off thief’s hand
25-10-2010
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have amputated the hand of a convicted thief in front of other prisoners, state radio reported yesterday, in a possible step toward restoring the punishment to common use
readCholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti’s capital
25-10-2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE – A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts on Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of
readInjured Silva kept on shooting
25-10-2010
JOHANNESBURG – SA-based photographer Joao Silva lost portions of both his legs during a landmine blast in Afghanistan, yet continued to take pictures while paramedics treated him, The New York Times
readNamibia gwotango mwAfrica
25-10-2010
NAMIBIA oye oshilongo shotango menenvi lyAfrica shina emanguluko lyiikundaneki. Shika osha hololwa momushangwahokololo gwaatoolinkundana yaanangamba kombinga yemanguluko lyiikundaneki muuyuni.
readNamibia ta kongo omiyalu dhomondjila
25-10-2010
NAMIBIA ota ende nawa mondjila yoku ya monkalo yomiyalu dhi li mondjila dhili pethimbo nodhishi kwiinekelwa.Omuwiliki gwoKommisi yomathaneko gopashigwana, Tom Alweendo okwa popi ndhika pethimbo
readAathaneki yiilando okuza ko CUBA
25-10-2010
MINISTA yomalelo giitopolwa, iilando nomagumbo, Jerry Ekandjo otaka edhila ehangano lyaathaneki yiilando niitopolwa meni lyoomwedhi hamano tadhi landula.Ekandjo okwa ti ehangano ndika aniwa oli na
readEkonakono lyeendelela lyoshiketha shaDCP
25-10-2010
OMINISTA mombelewa yOmuperesidende, okwa ti Peresidende Hifikepunye Pohamba okwa tokola kutya oshiketha shokugandja iimaliwa yomapendulepo shehangano lyoopenzela dhaaniilonga yepangelo, nashi ningilwe
readElongo ekulu olya li hwepo
25-10-2010
ELONGO ekulu lyopethimbo lyuukoloni wa South Africa lyokatongo olya li ehwepo okuyeleka nonkalo yelongo lyonena.Ngaka omadhiladhilo nomaiuvo goMinista yegameno, Charles Namoloh ngoka a ti aailongi
readOmupolisi a kwatwa mefadhukepo lya Hecht
25-10-2010
OMUPOLISI gumwe okwa kwatwapo sho ta fekelwa a kwathele Joshua Hecht opo iiyake miikaha yopolisi.Hecht okwa kwatelwe sho ta fekelelwa iilonga yokukengelela. Omupolisi gwondondo yuukonstabela okwa
readOquorum moshigongi shopashigwana
25-10-2010
OMUTUMBA gwoshigongi shopashigwana ogwa zimbuka kuyele metine oshoka ka pwa li omwaalu gwaatotimpango mboka yena oonkondo dhomatokolo gwa gwana.Oshilyo shongundu yo Rally for Democracy and Progress
readAagundjuka yaali ya kwatwa nepangwe
25-10-2010
AAGUNDJUKA yaali gumwe gwoomvula 27 nagumwe gwoomvula 19 yomomukunda Omafo mOukwanyama popepi nOshikango nOhangwena mOshitopowla sha Hangwena oya kwatwa po kOpolisi shi na sha nowaadhika noshikunino
readOmbaanga dha shunitha iihohela pevi
25-10-2010
OMBAANGA mbali ya FNB no ya Venduka oshiwike sha yi odha ulike kutya otadhi shunitha pevi iihohela yadho. Etseyitho lyoombaanga ndhika olya landula ketokolo lyombaanga ya Namibia opo yi shunithe pevi
readPwa tegelelwa iihohela yopevi
25-10-2010
AATSEYIMAHUPILO oya ti eshunopevi lyiihohela lya tseyithwa kombaanga ya Namibia lyiitsa 25 ota li hili omuntu, na oyi inekela otashi vulika ndika li ka landulwe ishewe kekwawo limwe lye lifa mu
readOpolisi ta yi kongo nakudhipaga de Jager
25-10-2010
OPOLISI natango ota yi konakona shoka sheetitha eso lyomunangeshefa gwokoGobabis , Willie de Jager [72] ngoka taku fekelwa a dhipagwa popepi naKatima Mulilo.Omukuluntu gwopolisi moCaprivi, Komufala
readShimbulu na Nashandi muukaansela
25-10-2010
AAKWASWAPO yomOshakati nOndangwa sho ya ningile omahogololo gaahogololwa yawo mUukaansela wOondoolopa ndhika mbali pehulilo lyaAuguste nopetameko lya Septemba nuumvo, Kaansela Katrina Shimbulu ngoka a
readThis tour is all about winning – Div
25-10-2010
SPRINGBOK coach Peter de Villiers couldn’t put it more plainly. Despite all the talk of resting players and the World Cup next year, the only focus on the upcoming Grand Slam tour next month is
readAlonso wins in Korea, takes F1 title lead
25-10-2010
YEONGAM, South Korea – Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso took over the Formula One championship lead by winning Sunday’s extraordinary Korean Grand Prix while rival team Red Bull had neither driver finish.Red
readShock U-turn as Rooney signs new deal with United
25-10-2010
LONDON – Wayne Rooney performed a shock U-turn on Friday by signing a new five-year contract with Manchester United just days after appearing to be on his way out of Old Trafford.Rooney had rocked
readChelsea break club record, Spurs held
25-10-2010
LONDON – Goals by Florent Malouda and Salomon Kalou gave Chelsea a 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday and a club record eighth consecutive home clean sheet.Malouda struck his seventh
readRonaldo, Messi light up La Liga
25-10-2010
MADRID – Cristiano Ronaldo scored four times for Real Madrid while Lionel Messi tormented Zaragoza with a brace to light up the Spanish league on Saturday.While Gonzalo Higuain started Madrid’s 6-1
readMcLeod to refresh Nam referees
25-10-2010
FORMER South African top referee Ian McLeod will facilitate a week-long Fifa/Caf Elite Referees Refresher Course in Windhoek for the Namibia Football Association's (NFA) National Referees Committee,
readSMSes for Monday 25 October 2010
25-10-2010
* CITY of Windhoek, when are your new buses going to start operating? We are struggling from Ovambo bus stop to Cimbebasia and from Cimbebasia to Okuryangava. Fifteen people are supposed to stand but
readCaprivi Interconnector switched on next month
25-10-2010
THE long-awaited N$3,2 billion Caprivi Link Interconnector transmission line will be officially inaugurated next month.The Caprivi Link connects Namibia to the electricity networks of Zambia,
readWar of words between Swapo and RDP
25-10-2010
THE gloves were off in Parliament on Thursday when Swapo vice president Hage Geingob took issue with the new official opposition party RDP, accusing them of being frustrated because Swapo had ruled
readSisters’ house squabble turns nasty
25-10-2010
A 20-year dispute between two sisters over a family home in Katutura became heated when the younger sister, Salothe Tsaraes, had an eviction notice served on the other sister, Evaldine
readRuling awaited in Orina trial
25-10-2010
THE murder trial of Kenyan nurse Kenneth Orina is heading for what could be a key point early next year, when a ruling is set to be given on alleged self-incriminating statements that Orina made after
readNamibia’s foster children need increased grants
25-10-2010
JASON* (17) wants to be a pilot and his 14-year-old foster sister, Gracie*, wants to be a lawyer. In the impoverished district of Rehoboth, south of Windhoek, dreams such as these do not always come
readNamas urged to protect heritage
25-10-2010
NAMA traditional leaders in the South have urged their people to “jealously guard their ancestral culture and heritage”. “We must unite in the fight to guard our ancestral land,” said /Khowese //Aes
readHenties councillors, officials not guilty
25-10-2010
HENTIES Bay councillors Anna Amutenya, Lena //Hoëses and Daniel Ndume; as well as former Human Resources Manager Johannes Kuhn and CEO Pieter Gurirab, were found not guilty of corruption in the
readHenties man to be sentenced this week
25-10-2010
EWALD Gaweseb, the man who admitted to drowning his 13-month-old stepson in 2006, will hear his fate this week.Judge Alfred Siboleka postponed the 31-year-old Henties Bay resident’s murder trial until
readNew investments safe, says GIPF
25-10-2010
UNLISTED investments, and the role the Government Institutions Pension Fund has to play in developing Namibia’s economy through these investments, were defended fiercely at the GIPF’s annual
readJudgement reserved in unfair dismissal case
25-10-2010
A FORMER contract municipal worker will soon hear whether his unfair dismissal court challenge against the Keetmanshoop Town Council was a success.Magistrate Philanda Blockstein-Christiaan reserved
readPienaar tames Tigers, African Stars impress
25-10-2010
ORLANDO Pirates marauding centre-back Michael Pienaar was the hero as his side secured a 2-1 victory over ten-man Tigers on Friday.Despite going a goal down into the break, Pirates, who struggled
readBig Brother Africa: From You To Us!
25-10-2010
Messages sent by SMS or on our BBA e-mail address: * BBA withdrawal: It’s sad because it’s very true Jean. I feel abandoned, neglected, unloved. Really! The kind of feeling you get when a
readStandard Bank Namibia ‘freezes’ jobs
25-10-2010
ALTHOUGH Standard Bank Namibia has no immediate plans to follow the major retrenchment example of Standard Bank in South Africa, the local bank has nevertheless decided to halt new appointments for
readIraq war files portray divided nation
25-10-2010
WASHINGTON – The enormous cache of secret war logs disclosed by the WikiLeaks website paints a picture of an Iraq burdened by persistent sectarian tension and meddling neighbours, suggesting that the
readCity puts moratorium on shebeen licences
25-10-2010
ENTREPRENEURS who counted on running a legal shebeen in Windhoek will have to hang in there for at least four months. This came after the CEO of the City of Windhoek, Niilo Taapopi, announced on
readBail conditions eased for Teko’s China link
25-10-2010
AFTER more than a year and three months of being locked up in Windhoek Central Prison, Chinese national Yang Fan – a key suspect in the Teko Trading fraud and corruption case – is eyeing his release
readCivil servants up GIPF ante
25-10-2010
CIVIL servants remain disgruntled by the millions of pension fund dollars lost through the GIPF’s Development Capital Portfolio (DCP) and have opted for mass protests before next month’s elections to
readEvicted
25-10-2010
A 20-year dispute between two sisters over a family home in Katutura reached its peak on Friday when the younger sister, Salothe Tsaraes, had an eviction notice served on the other sister, Evaldine
readNotable Quotes
25-10-2010
I wrapped the dead body of the child in a blanket and gave it to my boyfriend to dispose of it. The intention was to conceal the birth. – Sophia Nanus who in January 2004 gave birth and tried to
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