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61 Articles found on Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Vimpelcom mulls pref issue for Sawiris deal
14-09-2010
MOSCOW – Vimpelcom may issue new preferred shares to public investors as well as to Naguib Sawiris’s holding company to gain support for its possible acquisition of the Egyptian tycoon’s assets, two
readIMF says helping job markets worth more stimulus
14-09-2010
OSLO – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reaffirmed its call to extend fiscal stimulus and boost job growth when it met labour groups and government officials to discuss the weak global economic
readGlobal banking rules aim to balance safety, growth
14-09-2010
BASEL, Switzerland – Banks will have to significantly increase their capital reserves under rules endorsed Sunday by the world’s major central banks, which are trying to prevent another financial
readNigeria stock exchange audit ready soon
14-09-2010
LONDON – Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission chief says she expects to publish a KPMG stock exchange audit in just over six weeks, citing public demand after a 2008 crash and the firing of
readAfrica Business Briefs
14-09-2010
Sasol earnings up JOHANNESBURG – Petrochemicals group Sasol yesterday reported a five per cent rise in full-year headline earnings per share and said it was cautious on its outlook, but forecast a
readAgri investment conference starts
14-09-2010
THE first-ever investment conference for the agricultural sector in Namibia will kick off tomorrow in a local hotel in order to stimulate development in irrigation, grape farming and horticultural
readNew ear tags for cattle
14-09-2010
THE sale of new ear tags for cattle, announced by the Ministry of Agriculture recently, started this month, and farmers can claim back for the old ear tags.The new ear tags consist of one regular ear
readErongo farmers hold auction
14-09-2010
THE Omkhaibasen Farmers Cooperative (OKFC) inaugurated a brand new training centre facility during a Farmers’ Day near Usakos in the Erongo Region recently, while a livestock auction raised N$70
readYou can win N$1 000!!
14-09-2010
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: Not Strapped For Comment!
14-09-2010
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:* Kaone needs help, call 911. * K1 leave your
readBig Brother Africa: 4 housemates punished
14-09-2010
AFTER the turbulence in the house over the weekend, Biggie yesterday punished four housemates. “Housemates, you had a busy weekend, where to begin?” Biggie said, before announcing the punishment:
readEgypt blocks Nile water stations
14-09-2010
LUXOR - Authorities have blocked off water purification stations along the Nile in southern Egypt to prevent some 100 tons of diesel oil that leaked from a barge from polluting drinking water,
readDonors must ramp up aid to Africa: Blair commission
14-09-2010
LONDON – International donors must commit to giving billions more dollars in aid to Africa to reduce poverty and help the continent face new challenges, a commission set up by Tony Blair urged
readFarmer’s 24 hour milk filling station a hit
14-09-2010
BERLIN – A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business - he opened a “milk filling station.”The ‘Milchtankstelle’ near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
readIll Kim delays top N Korea meeting
14-09-2010
SEOUL – A key meeting of North Korea’s ruling communist party has been delayed because of the health of leader Kim Jong-Il, South Korea’s cable television news channel YTN said.The station, quoting
readBelgian Catholic church seeks way out of sexual abuse crisis
14-09-2010
BRUSSELS – The Belgian Roman Catholic church yesterday acknowledged widespread sexual abuse over years by its clergy and pleaded for time to set up a system to punish all abusers and provide closure
readThe election challenge: Let the hearing begin!
14-09-2010
AFTER the last national and presidential elections, nine political parties that participated in the said elections disputed both the modus operandi that governed the elections in question as well as
readThe Great Islamic Threat
14-09-2010
PEOPLE often wind up believing their own cover story. Former British prime minister Tony Blair, for example, is trapped forever in the rationalisations he used in 2003 to explain why he was going
readOmilongo 52 ya dhipagwa sigo August
14-09-2010
EHANGANO lyiikundaneki lyopaigwana IPI olya ti aatolinkundana 52 oya kanitha oomwenyo dhawo moomwedhi hetatu dhopetameko nuumvo, omolwa iilonga yawo.Omwaalu nguka ogwa shuna pevi naatoolinkundana yane
readIilonga yokwoopaleka oosikila ota yi tameke
14-09-2010
OMAHANGANO ngoka taga pewa iilonga yokwoopaleka omanongelo 13 muumbangalantu woshilongo kohi yewiliko lya Millennium Challenge Account ota ga ka tseyithwa mbala.Omanongelo ngoka taga ka opalekwa otaga
readOmashongo ogendji ga taalela elundululo lyevi
14-09-2010
EPANGELO olya taalela omashongo ngaashi iilongitho ya kulupa moofaalama ndhoka dha landwa kulyo opo dhi longithwe metulululo lyaantu. Omashongo omakwawo ngoka epangelo lya taalela ongaashi okulonga
readOmufekelwa muufuthi wokawe iifutilemo noodola 100 000
14-09-2010
OMUWILIKI gwokuhambula pofabulika yokuhonga nokupusha okawe ya NamGem, Erez Ben Shushan okwa egululwa mondjedhililo komatango getine sho iifutilemo noodola 100 000.Shushan oye awike sigo oompaka a
readSwapo ti ilongekidhile okuulika ookandidate
14-09-2010
OPWA tegelelwa iilyo yongundu ta yi pangele yi kii geele miiwike ta yi landula, pethimbo tapa ka ningwa iigongi yomomikunda okuulika ookandidate ndhoka tadhi ka hogololwa molwa omahogololo giikandjo
readAaniilonga ta ya ningi omaindilo
14-09-2010
OKONGRESSA yondundahangano yaaniilonga ya Namibia[NUNW] oya longo ngaashi ya tokola kutya otayi tala nokupopya kombinga yiinima ya guma aaniilonga esiku kehe.Konima yoshigongi ewiliko epe lya NUNW
readIimaliwa natango itayi gumwa
14-09-2010
OMAYALULO gopambaanga gehangano ndyoka lyethigathano lyedhina Scratch a Million moNamibia otaga kala ga mwenekwa, sha landula etokolo lyOmpangu Yopombanda oshiwike sha yi.Omayalulo nenge okambo
readBoks coach defies critics calling for resignation
14-09-2010
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa coach Peter de Villiers has defied the critics calling for his head by insisting the world champions have the right game plan for the World Cup starting in New Zealand in a
readSorry Woods fails to make Tour Championship
14-09-2010
LEMONT, Illinois – There is still plenty of golf ahead for Tiger Woods this year but his PGA Tour season came to an early end at the BMW Championship on Sunday after he failed to earn a spot in the
readCraven 10th in Tour of Britain
14-09-2010
NAMIBIAN cyclist, Dan Craven, finished tenth over-all at the second stage of the Tour of Britain on Sunday.Craven was three seconds behind second-stage winner, Greg Henderson, of Sky Pro Cycling Team,
readAthletes for Commonwealth Games get financial boost
14-09-2010
PREPARATION for Namibia’s participation in the upcoming Commonwealth Games received an injection of N$500 000 from Government a fortnight ago.Namibia will have 28 athletes competing against the best
readNetball focus shifts to Six Nations Cup
14-09-2010
THE national netball team’s technical committee has now changed its focus from the World Championship, to the forthcoming Six Nations Cup set for Singapore in December this year.The country’s netball
readDStv Competition 3
14-09-2010
Winner!Chrisyda Cook from Rosh Pinah is the lucky winner of a SuperSport gift set consisting of a signed Bundesliga club soccer jersey PLUS a SuperSport t-shirt and cap!
readWanderers lose season opener
14-09-2010
DEFENDING cricket premier league champions, Samsung Wanderers, lost their 2010/2011 season’s opening game by a disappointing 44 runs at home to United on Saturday.The loss is not quite the start that
readInter opens Champions League defense at Twente
14-09-2010
LONDON – Inter Milan begins its Champions League title defense with an away match at FC Twente today as the Serie A team struggles to recapture the form and swagger that took it to an unprecedented
readSMSes for Tuesday 14 September 2010
14-09-2010
* WAKE up Africa. The Chinese proverb says: Do not give the people fish, teach them how to fish. In Africa the Chinese give us the fish instead of teaching us how to fish. Food for Thought * ALL
readTeacher gets bail in gang rape case
14-09-2010
A WINDHOEK school teacher who is accused of taking part in the gang rape of a woman in the city’s Okuryangava area late last month, was released on bail of N$3 000 yesterday.With his release on bail,
readRP and RDP members to be sworn in at Parliament today
14-09-2010
NINE Members of Parliament which have so far boycotted sessions are expected to be sworn in at the National Assembly this afternoon, when the House resumes sessions after a two-month recess.The
readRenovations for 13 schools in north
14-09-2010
A LOCAL and a Chinese construction company have signed the first contracts worth N$118 million to renovate and expand 13 schools in the Oshana and Omusati Regions.Namibia received some N$3 billion
readEking out a living in Havana settlement
14-09-2010
RUBEN Kamutuezu lives in a very small shack in the Havana Informal Settlement north-west of Windhoek.He has been living there for the past two years and life has not been easy. When he was still in
readPoverty alleviation to top APP agenda
14-09-2010
POVERTY alleviation and employment creation will top the agenda of the All People’s Party (APP) should its candidates be elected to power in the forthcoming Regional Councils and Local Authorities
readPolitburo saves Booys
14-09-2010
SWAPO’S Central Committee and Politburo decided that three regional councillors, who recently took up their jobs, should not be challenged in the party primaries for the November regional and local
readPohamba calls for gender equality
14-09-2010
President Hifikepunye Pohamba has called for a fair gender representation on the ruling Swapo Party’s nomination lists for the November 2010 Regional Councils and Local Authorities
readOkahandja worries about future
14-09-2010
REFUSAL by some Okahandja local authority councillors to endorse the re-appointment of the town’s CEO, is seen as a contributing factor to the financial mess in which the ‘garden town’ finds itself
readDowngrading of Karasburg Municipality is a ‘political ploy’
14-09-2010
THE Democratic Party of Namibia (DPN) claims that a “political ploy” by central Government is to be blamed for Karasburg Municipality being downgraded to a village council.Government cited poor
readFour years in jail for stabbing
14-09-2010
ANDREW Stiebel (27) was sent to prison for four years last week by Swakopmund Magistrate Benhard Tjatjara for attempted murder, when he stabbed a man three times in 2008.During the late afternoon of
readDPN does not trust ECN
14-09-2010
THE Democratic Party of Namibia (DPN) has reiterated its stance that it has no trust in the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN).“They (ECN) brought themselves in doubt and lost their credibility in
readSpecialist findings about key impacts over Rössing’s expansion
14-09-2010
RÖSSING Uranium is expanding, which is good news to some, but the impacts of the expansion could be negative for others.The aim of the mine’s expansion is to increase its production of uranium oxide,
readSRA makes a special point for voters’ registration
14-09-2010
A SPECIAL cubicle serving as a point of voters’ registration for the Swakopmund Residence Association (SRA), who will be contending for more seats on the Swakopmund Municipal Council during the coming
readLittle school project is making a big difference
14-09-2010
THE DRC School Project on the outskirts of Swakopmund might be small but it is making a big difference in the lives of children who missed valuable opportunities with schooling.The project gives
readCharmaine fills a need she knows
14-09-2010
CHARMAINE Ceaser knows what it is like to be poor and hungry and with this knowledge she is now making sure that more than a 120 children of Swakopmund’s DRC-squatter-settlement get two meals a week.A
readAreva’s big move to Trekkopje Mine
14-09-2010
THE first four absorption columns to be erected at the MAXI-plant of Areva’s Trekkopje Mine arrived in Walvis Bay last Wednesday.These giants weigh over 100 tonnes per unit, is over eight metres high
readFresh fish from Uis
14-09-2010
WITHIN the next nine months the first batch of fresh fish, born, bred and harvested in the village of Uis will be marketed in Namibia for Namibians.This was made possible by a multi-national and
readNPL to go according to plan
14-09-2010
THE 2010/11 Namibia Premier League (NPL) programme will not be delayed, despite the postponement of it’s kick-off, said the league’s Chief Executive Officer, Matthew Haikali.Haikali said the games
readRich states should pay for Africa mineral advice
14-09-2010
LONDON – Rich countries should pay for African governments to get advice on negotiating the best deals for exploiting their natural resources, a panel set up by former British Prime Minister Tony
readMandela ‘breathed fire’ over Iraq war: Hain
14-09-2010
LONDON – Nelson Mandela was so upset over Britain invading Iraq in 2003 that he called a government minister and “virtually breathed fire” about why it was a mistake, the ex-minister revealed
readBig Brother Africa: The Chickens Come Home To Roost!
14-09-2010
ACHTUNG! Take a bow Namibians, you’ve shown you’ve got … ermmmmm … morals.Yeah baby, Namibia was part of the ‘moral’ minority that voted for Zambian Bible puncher Psaloma to stay in the house. Take
readMunyama’s wife pleads for mercy
14-09-2010
DESPITE the financial hardships which Gerry Munyama and his family are suffering due to his fraud conviction, they seem to have difficulty letting go of certain luxuries.During her testimony in
readSwapo to put up clean candidates
14-09-2010
THE Swapo Party has dashed the hopes of some serving regional and local authority councillors for taking up yet another term in office, after the party decided that people with criminal records, or
readDavid Imbili mentioned in another DCP failure
14-09-2010
FINANCIAL statements released more than eight months before the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) gave N$10 million to Sepiolite Production to buy a third of the shares in Afhold Limited,
readMushimba courts Namcor
14-09-2010
THE Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL), Swapo Women’s Council (SWC) and the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), are all part of a consortium vying to supply 50 per cent of all fuel in Namibia to
readNotable Quotes
14-09-2010
Nappa urges all houses of Parliament to compromise and re-introduce the motion on abortion. – The Namibia Planned Parenthood Association (Nappa) says there is an urgent need to overturn current
readPohamba calls for gender equality
14-09-2010
President Hifikepunye Pohamba has called for a fair gender representation on the ruling Swapo Party’s nomination lists for the November 2010 Regional Councils and Local Authorities
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