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61 Articles found on Friday, 8 October 2010
Nam growth forecast between 3% and 4%
08-10-2010
WASHINGTON – Despite the global recovery remaining fragile and unemployment rates high, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the probability of a sharp global economic slowdown seemed
readExperts to fix Sacu’s EPA split
08-10-2010
THE Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) has instructed a team of technical experts to draft terms of reference acceptable to all five member states, in order to resolve the contentious issue of an
readSA battles in currency war
08-10-2010
JOHANNESBURG – The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) bought at least US$618 million in the currency markets to try to push the rand weaker in September, the bank’s latest statement on its gold and
readWorld Bank, IMF at odds over hot money flows
08-10-2010
TOKYO/WASHINGTON – Emerging economies should consider steps to contain fund flows that could cause currency rallies and asset bubbles, the World Bank chief was quoted as saying, but the International
readSA will not send troops to Somalia
08-10-2010
CAPE TOWN – South Africa will not be sending troops to conflict-ridden Somalia to boost the African Union’s peacekeeping force, Defence Secretary Mpumi Mpofu said yesterday.“The answer to Somalia is a
readNo bail for accused in Rwandan general shooting
08-10-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South African police officers say that one of the accused in the attempted murder of an exiled Rwandan general offered a $1 million bribe to police to release him upon arrest.A South
readTutu turns 79 and retires from public life
08-10-2010
CAPE TOWN – Desmond Tutu officially began his retirement yesterday, bringing the curtain down on a career that saw him win a Nobel Peace Prize for battling apartheid before emerging as South Africa’s
readBig Brother Africa: You can win N$1 000!!
08-10-2010
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!
08-10-2010
MULTICHOICE Namibia and The Namibian have a great fan prize for a number of lucky winners.This week and next week a number of BBA All Stars t-shirts will be up for grabs. This week four branded
readBig Brother Africa: Not Strapped For Comment!
08-10-2010
A selection of some of the weird and wonderful messages, warts and all, from the SMS ticker tape running across the bottom of the BBA All Stars Screen:* Biggie, this show is rigged worse than cricket
readBig Brother Africa: Yet another teachable moment!
08-10-2010
YEAH all you disasters … oops, I mean dissers … out there, you need to get with the programme. Literally.OK seems you do get with the programme, though you swear you don’t, because you always seem to
readUkraine’s ex-Prime Minister criticises new dress code
08-10-2010
KIEV – Ukraine’s glamorous former prime minister is slamming a new government dress code as “laughable.”Yulia Tymoshenko, known for lacy dresses and stilettos, said on Wednesday that the dress code
readMonkey kills baby in Malaysia
08-10-2010
KUALA LUMPUR – A newborn baby has been killed in Malaysia by a monkey which snatched it from its home, bit its face and neck and then dropped it from a rooftop, reports said yesterday.The four-day-old
readPeruvian wins Nobel writers’ prize
08-10-2010
STOCKHOLM – Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature
readWho wants a Santa-free Christmas?
08-10-2010
BERLIN – A group of German Catholics wants to do away with Santa Claus because of the fictional figure’s commercial hype and replace him with St Nicolas and the selfless giving they say he
readProstitution Happens So Let’s Make It Safe
08-10-2010
IT is a fact that prostitution will take place whether legalised or not. The only difference is that once legalised, the environment will be much safer for those engaged in such business.On
readRegaining Faith After Crime
08-10-2010
MY wife and I were in Windhoek on Friday afternoon, September 17, 2010. We were about to drop a colleague off at the Roman Catholic Hospital in the city centre. A maelstrom of slow-moving taxis, cars,
readHigh Noon For The NUNW
08-10-2010
THE article ‘Pohamba snubs unions’ (The Namibian, October 4 2010) demonstrates the attitude of government towards the Namibian working class.The resolution of the National Union of Namibian Workers
readNot All Bad At Air Namibia
08-10-2010
IN response to the disgruntled Air Namibia employee. On reading your text message to the newspaper, I knew immediately that you had failed to take the wellbeing of Air Namibia as a company into
readTaken For A Ride?
08-10-2010
ALLOW me space in your vibrant newspaper to tell it as it is. It is shocking and disappointing to observe how the Namibian judicial system works towards high level corruption taking place in Namibia
readDon’t Mock Our Social Challenges
08-10-2010
ALLOW me to respond to Minister Hage Geingob’s doubts about jobless statistics. It leaves much to be desired (The Namibian newspaper 01/10/2010) from a man of his stature. It has become a normal trend
readDon’t Leap Into Legalising Prostitution
08-10-2010
THANK you for allowing me a chance to voice my opinions on Minister Kazenambo Kazenambo’s issue of legalising prostitution.Legalisation of prostitution amounts to sanctioning all aspects of the sex
readSave Us From Ignorance And Arrogance
08-10-2010
‘LIES, damned lies, and statistics’. The above quote appeared in The Namibian of Friday, 1st October 2010. Apparently, it is the Trade and Industry Minister, Hage Geingob, who said it, in reaction to
readKazenambo Neglected The Ethics Of His Ministry On Prostitution
08-10-2010
IN his book, ‘The Society of Individuals’, the German sociologist Norbert Elias intones that self-restraint, as a trait built over time into the habits of individuals, is by and large the essence of
readUnitary State or Swapo under threat?
08-10-2010
IT has taken former Prime Minister and now Trade Minister Hage Geingob almost two decades to realise that the unitary State is under threat from tribalism.In his support to the Special Advisors and
readEnding Child Marriage
08-10-2010
LONDON – Ahead of the United Nations’ summit to review progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, much of the focus has rightly been on those areas where gains have been most
readRDP/RP Merger: A Marriage Of Convenience And Survival
08-10-2010
IN the Damara and Nama cultures marriage is a family affair. You can be rich as a bridegroom-to-be but will never be allowed to organise and marry alone. In fact, whoever wants to marry a Damara or
readMeekulu Priskila Tuhadeleni a fumvikwa pEndola
08-10-2010
MEEKULU Priskila Tuhadeleni ngoka a manene oondjenda dhe meti 23 Septemba 2010 mOshakati okwa fumvikwa mOlyomakaya geti 2 Oktoba 2010 pEndola moshitopolwa sha Hangwena.Nakusa Meekulu Priskila
readShoti negumbo lye ya thigwa pomutenya
08-10-2010
OMUKULUPE gwoomvula omilongoheyali (70) gwomomukunda Othika mUukwambi Taapopi Shithigona a tseyika wo nedhina Shoti, okwa thigwa pomutenya thiluthilu kumwe naanegumbo lye sho egumbo lye lya pi po
readLeo mekwi lyaOrascom na Vimpelcom
08-10-2010
EHANGANO lyoongodhi dhopeke lya Leo ota li ningi oshitopolwa shehangano enene lyoongodhi dhopeke muuyuni. Ehangano etitano enene miikwangodhi mbika olya holokapo sho Vimpelcom gwa Russia na Orascom
readOmalenga nao naa lundululwe
08-10-2010
OVAKALIMO vomoitopolwa ya yooloka mOshikoto otava indile omalenga akula opaitopolwa nao a kale ko ashike eedula nhano (5) ngashi eekaansela, yo omahoololo taai mo, tashi ti ko taku ningwa vali
readOongoloneya ota ya lundululwa oku yanda omakuyunguto
08-10-2010
ETOKOLO lyepangelo okulundulula omukalo gwoku hogolola oongoloneya yiitopolwa ngashingeyi olye ya oshoka opena uutile kutya shika otashi ka eta omakuyunguto gopamihoko. Ngashingeyi oongoloneya
readYa ninga omaindilo opo ya longe noonzo dhomefuta
08-10-2010
AANTU oyendji oya mbombolokele koombelewa dhuuministeli woohi noonzo dhomefuta etine lyoshiwike sha yi opo ya gandje omaindilo gawo.Omaindilo ngoka ogo ku pewa uuthemba ya longe noonzo dhomefuta.
readPresidende Pohamba a hekeleke aakwaTuhadeleni pEndola
08-10-2010
PETHIMBO ta popi moshituthifumviko sha Meekulu Priskila Tuahadeleni mOngeleki ya Ndola mOhangwena, Omupresidende Hifikepunye Pohamba, okwa gandja omahekeleko koonakuthigwapo ku meekulu Priskila
readZifa to be prosecuted over Saintfiet blooper
08-10-2010
The Zimbabwean department of immigration plans to prosecute the country’s football association for its decision to employ and allow Tom Saintfiet to work in Zimbabwe without a work permit.Saintfiet is
readMisfiring Stars take aim at Tigers
08-10-2010
AFRICAN Stars captain, Andrew Tjahikika believes the NPL’s misfiring defending champions can get their campaign up-and-running against Tigers at the Sam Nujoma Stadium tonight.Stars have not had the
readUutoni keeps Games medal hope alive
08-10-2010
NAMIBIAN medal hopeful and light flyweight boxer Japhet Uutoni yesterday defeated his opponent from Papua New Guinea, Magaiva Lui by 7 points to 5 at the Commonwealth Games underway in New Delhi,
readWozniacki tennis number one
08-10-2010
BEIJING - Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki will replace Serena Williams as number one when the new rankings are released on Monday.Wozniacki, 20, became the first Dane, male or female, to claim the top
readAlonso keeps cool as title race heats up
08-10-2010
SUZUKA - Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso said yesterday composure will be the key in the closing stages of the Formula One season.The two-time world champion, who has won the last two races in Italy and
readUnited’s Namibian wonder winger
08-10-2010
Rudolf Bester’s entry into the PSL was a low key affair, but he continues to prove himself to be one of the best ‘imports’ in the Absa Premiership.The Namibian flyer, who played some key games and
readKasuto wins fight in spectacular style
08-10-2010
NAMIBIAN welterweight boxer Mejandjae Kasuto won his first fight at the Commonwealth Games in spectacular style on Wednesday when he knocked out his South African opponent Siphiwe Lusizi in the third
read‘Bad News’ wins Business League
08-10-2010
THE prizegiving in the annual Trustco-sponsored Squash Business League held at Wanderers, took place in the capital on Wednesday night.Bad News, the team jointly sponsored by The Namibian and
readSMSes for Friday 8 October 2010
08-10-2010
* I AM a black Namibian lady who is shocked and hurt about the defenceless couple being beaten up and the old lady raped in the presence of her husband. What have they done to be beaten up like that?
readShithigona’s homestead destroyed by fire
08-10-2010
Taapopi Shithigona (70), also known as Shoti, and his people, from Othika village in the North, have been left homeless recently after his homestead was destroyed by fire.Shithigona told The Namibian
readSecond Uis couple attacker arrested
08-10-2010
THE second attacker of an elderly couple at Uis on Sunday was arrested at a house in Swakopmund on Wednesday night.According to the Erongo Police chief, Commissioner Festus Shilongo, the second
readOkahandja rape case postponed to January
08-10-2010
YOUNG Okahandja rape suspect Rudolf Goagoseb remains in custody after making a second appearance in the Okahandja Magistrate’s Court this week.Goagoseb (18), who was arrested after three schoolgirls
readNo struggle kids ‘dumped’: Kazenambo
08-10-2010
THE Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture is unaware of any children of the liberation struggle who were either forced out of the Berg Aukas National Youth Service camp or dumped under a tree.In
readMeningitis vaccine arrives in country
08-10-2010
HEALTH workers in Windhoek will fill their syringes with lifesaving doses of meningitis vaccine next week.The chairman of the National Health Emergency Management Committee, Dr Jack Vries, told Nampa
readControversy dogs Misa Media Awards
08-10-2010
MARITA van Rooyen of the monthly Travel News Namibia magazine and Manfred Isaacks of the Namibia College for Open Learning (Namcol) scored the biggest awards at the Misa Namibia Media awards held in
readFormer cop guilty of reckless driving
08-10-2010
A FORMER Police officer working for the Drug Law Enforcement Unit in Walvis Bay, Kapinge Shamahaa (33), was sentenced to a fine of N$4 000 or 12 months’ imprisonment for reckless and negligent driving
readCustoms officer arrested at Oshikango
08-10-2010
Police have arrested a 41-year-old male Customs and Exercise officer in a corruption and bribery case at Oshikango on Wednesday.According to Chief Inspector Abner Agas the man will appear in court
readBoy, 15, shot by Gobabis health inspector
08-10-2010
A GOBABIS health inspector appeared in the town’s Magistrate’s Court this week on a charge of attempted murder after he allegedly shot a suspected cable thief in the buttocks with a rifle on
readCycle Classic starts tomorrow
08-10-2010
THE Namibian Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Classic races starts at United Sports Club in Windhoek tomorrow. While the organisers finalise race logistics ahead of the eleventh edition of the prestigious race,
readDiamond dollars rolling in again
08-10-2010
NAMIBIA sold nearly N$3 billion worth of diamonds during the first eight months of 2010, about 22 per cent more than the same time last year.Releasing the latest diamond figures yesterday, Bank
readBig Brother Africa: Who’s A Wally Then?!
08-10-2010
THE end is nigh. Well, in sight. Purgatory has been abolished. And the fat lady has all but sung.Has to be if Ka-zero is sneaking bedtime story space with Angolan bombshell Tatiana! Eeeeeeuw I’m being
readBeijing smothered in smog during UN climate talks in China
08-10-2010
BEIJING – China’s capital Beijing yesterday shared the title of most polluted city in the country, as delegates from around the world worked in nearby Tianjin towards a deal to combat global
readElection preparations start
08-10-2010
OVER 74 000 voters were registered during the August and September nation-wide supplementary registration of voters for the upcoming regional and local elections, the chairperson of the Electoral
readOrina wants court to throw out evidence
08-10-2010
STATEMENTS and alleged admissions that Kenyan nurse Kenneth Orina made to Police officers and magistrates after he was arrested for the alleged murder of his wife at Grootfontein three years ago
readLaw keeps conmen on the streets
08-10-2010
THREE conmen who tried to buy a motorcycle with bogus diamonds and a thick wad of worthless Zimbabwean money were back on the streets only hours after their scam was stopped by the Police yesterday.A
readGrape growers in catch-22
08-10-2010
ORANGE River Green Scheme farmers are fighting to be freed from a service provider who they claim is impoverishing them and monopolising their farming businesses.The farmers at the State-owned Orange
readNotable Quotes
08-10-2010
These blatant false declarations are still continuing and lead to frustration when applying fair trade between the Namibian and South African meat industries. – Agri Inspec Managing Director Hennie
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