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67 Articles found on Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Swakop River gets big
29-03-2011
Residents say it is one of the biggest flows in decades. The Swakop River came down strongly during lunchtime yesterday, flowing from bank to bank – in some places over 100 metres wide. According to
readDoctors fed up with failing system
29-03-2011
DOCTORS working for the Ministry of Health say the system is failing them and their patients. At a meeting called by Health Minister Richard Kamwi yesterday, doctors said the mountain of challenges
readHeaviest floods ever in Namibia
29-03-2011
NORTH-CENTRAL Namibia is experiencing the heaviest floods ever recorded, but unlike in previous years, the area is fully prepared.Flood levels in the Cuvelai basin in north-central Namibia are eight
readLibyan stake in Nam oil licence is frozen
29-03-2011
LIBYA’S interest in a gas and oil exploration licence off the Namibian coast has been frozen after the European Union (EU) hit Muammar Gaddafi’s regime with sanctions for the bloody repression of
readIsaacs’s job future uncertain
29-03-2011
BRIAN Isaacs’s stint as Brave Warriors coach may be over following the team’s 0-4 hammering in Burkina Faso on Saturday.According to NFA Secretary General Barry Rukoro, the Burkina Faso match was
readRadiation in Japan seawater, soil may be spreading
29-03-2011
TOKYO – Workers at Japan’s damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity levels soaring as officials warned yesterday that radiation seeping from the
readPolytechnic turns ‘vision into value’
29-03-2011
“GONE is the time for daydreaming futures. It’s time to have a vision that takes courage to turn it into value.”So said Carva Pop, director of the Polytechnic of Namibia’s Centre for Cooperative
readThe Forgotten Half of the African Sky
29-03-2011
IN Kenya, my home country, there is a popular saying that when two elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Nowhere is that more evident than in the numerous conflicts Africa has seen in the past
readIt Is War In Libya
29-03-2011
FINALLY the United Nations has declared war on Libya through Nato. There was a vote and the majority vote endorsed the need for a declaration of hostilities against the Libyan regime. The rest are
readNotable Quotes
29-03-2011
The only circumstances under which employees’ services would be terminated would be if they resigned from their respective positions at the NBC of their own volition.– NBC Director-General Albertus
readSMSes for Tuesday 29 March 2011
29-03-2011
SMS Of The Day *WHY does Government allow workers a loan to buy a house? Then they rent out the house and go and stay in a Government flat. And still receive a Government subsidy? Is that corruption
readIndependence is a journey, says DBN chief
29-03-2011
INDEPENDENCE is a big word. It encapsulates a departure; a break from the old, to one where you are on your own, able to determine your own destiny. In Namibia, in particular, it has a very profound
readAfricans welcome China’s growing economic power
29-03-2011
LONDON – The prospect of growing Chinese economic clout is welcomed in all African countries, in contrast to other parts of the world where attitudes are either negative or divided, a poll has
readQuitting your job gracefully
29-03-2011
There might be fifty ways to leave your lover, but there are also at least three tips to keep in mind when you are thinking of leaving your job, according to Harvard Business Review.If you’re thinking
readMugabe turns up heat on foreign mining firms
29-03-2011
HARARE – Foreign mining firms in Zimbabwe must sell a majority stake to local blacks within six months, according to a release in the Government Gazette yesterday.The release said companies had 45
readIn Brief
29-03-2011
Afghan truck explosion kills 20 KABUL – A team of suicide bombers shot their way into the compound of a road construction company in eastern Afghanistan and detonated a truck loaded with explosives,
readIn Brief
29-03-2011
Nato begins enforcing Libya no-fly zone NAPLES – Nato has begun enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, the general in charge of operations told reporters yesterday at the Allied Joint Force Command in
readMubarak and family under house arrest
29-03-2011
CAIRO – Ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family are under house arrest, Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said on its website yesterday, denying that the former leader had fled to
readAttacked Libyan woman held at Gaddafi HQ
29-03-2011
CAIRO – Parents of a Libyan woman who claimed she was detained by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops and later gang raped said in interviews aired yesterday that their daughter is being held hostage at the
readPowers must offer Gaddafi exit route
29-03-2011
LONDON – International powers should offer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi an exit strategy when they meet in London today, political commentators said.Humanitarian aid for Libyans and plans to move to
readBerlusconi attends court in tax case
29-03-2011
MILAN – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi made a rare appearance yesterday at a court hearing in Milan for a tax fraud case that he dismissed as groundless and ridiculous.Berlusconi waved to a crowd
readSyria set to end emergency rule
29-03-2011
DAMASCUS – Streets in Latakia, scene of Syria’s latest deadly violence, were deserted yesterday, while in Damascus President Bashar al-Assad readied to announce the end of emergency rule in place
readMerkel blames ‘painful defeat’ on Japan fears
29-03-2011
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday lamented her party’s “painful defeat” in a crucial state poll and blamed the debacle on fears sparked by the Japan nuclear crisis.She said after a
readWin! WIN! Win! Super football prizes up for grabs!!
29-03-2011
JOIN in the fun during the run-up to this year’s annual Namibian Newspaper Cup, to be held at Gobabis over the Easter weekend.Super prizes will be up for grabs each week. This week two lucky readers
readHerunga beats Semenya, sets new record
29-03-2011
TJIPEKAPORA Herunga beat World 800m Champion Caster Semenya on her way to setting a new Namibian 400-metre record at the Yellow Pages Inter Provincial Series 1 meeting held in Germiston, South
readMeroro did not fight: Nestor Tobias
29-03-2011
VIKAPITA Meroro lost out on the WBC International light-heavyweight title because “he was not fighting” said his handler Nestor Tobias.An out-of-sorts Meroro lost on points over 12 rounds (117-111,
readKhomas wins junior athletics
29-03-2011
THE Khomas Region finished on top of the medals table at the Coca-Cola National Junior Athletics Championships held at Windhoek’s Independence Stadium over the weekend. The Khomas Region won 89 medals
readCapello risks fans’ ire with changes
29-03-2011
LONDON - England coach Fabio Capello will risk the ire of fans when he makes 11 changes for today’s friendly against Ghana at Wembley.Having secured Saturday’s 2-0 European Championship qualifying win
readCeni scores 100 goals
29-03-2011
RIO DE JANEIRO- Goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni scored the 100th goal of his career to give Sao Paulo a 2-1 win over arch-rivals Corinthians in a pulsating Paulista championship derby marred by three red
readFan throws banana at Brazil striker Neymar
29-03-2011
LONDON - A banana was thrown on to the pitch towards Brazil striker Neymar during Sunday’s 2-0 friendly win over Scotland at the Emirates Stadium.The fleet-footed 19-year-old, who scored both goals,
readCricket protestors clash with police
29-03-2011
MOHALI – Angry protestors hurled stones and clashed with police outside the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium yesterday in the run-up to tomorrow’s India-Pakistan Cricket World Cup
readPonting captaincy deadline set
29-03-2011
SYDNEY – Under-fire Australia captain Ricky Ponting was given just three days to decide his future yesterday as selectors said the next one-day squad would be announced on Wednesday.Ponting, who let
readMuralitharan battling to get fit
29-03-2011
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan faces a race against time to get fit for today’s World Cup semi-final against New Zealand as he struggles with a bruised knee and a hamstring
readIndia, Pakistan in titanic clash
29-03-2011
MOHALI - Anyone who believes cricket is just a game is likely to have their opinion altered when India and Pakistan meet for a World Cup semi-final in the border state of Punjab today.Fixtures between
readYa hilathana poshigongi sha SACU
29-03-2011
POSHIGONGI shehangano lyoompale lyuumbugantu wAfrica opwa li ehilathano keshongo lyankene tapa topolwa oompale ndhoka hadhi gongelwa moshiketha shehangano ndika.Oshigongi sha liko metitano lyaziko
readAanangeshefa aaChina moSADC ya indjipala
29-03-2011
OMUSHANGWAHOKOLOLO kombinga yomapungulo ga China muumbugantu wAfrica ogwa ti opena enenepalo momapungulo noshowo mengeshefo lyaaniimaliwa yoko China moshitopolwa shenenevi shika. Ogwa ti opena
readYandeni iinima yaana oshilonga
29-03-2011
NGOLONEYA gwa Karas okwa indile aawiliki yopapolitika ya yande iinima yaana shoka ta yi etapo, ndele ya longe nawa niinima mbyoka tayi gumu onkalamwenyo yaantu moshitopolwa unene tuu mbyoka yina nasha
readOnooli ya adhika komeya
29-03-2011
NGOLONEYA yOshitopolwa sha Shana Klemens Kashuupulwa okwa popya ta ti kutya omvula ndji ya loka nuumvo moNooli kumwe nefundja lyayo onene nodhigu noonkondo na ine yi mona mo nale mOshitopolwa.Gavena
readKaiyamo naa inekelwa
29-03-2011
OSHILYO shoparliamende Elia Kaiyamo okwa ti iikondo yepangelo noshowo omalutu galwe goholomende nage wilikwe kaawiliki aainekelwa mboka ya dhindwa nawa noyeshiwike nawa.Okwa ti mbaka ngele oyo taya
readYa dhikepo olutu lwokukondjitha omiyonena
29-03-2011
EHANGANO lyuunamapya moKaiti olya thaneke kutya napa dhikwe olutu lwokukondjitha omiyonena, okukwathela opolisi mokukondjitha uufuthi wiimuna moshitopolwa shoka.Ehangano ndika olya kongo ekwatho
readWarriors na Burkina Faso
29-03-2011
OSPANA yetanga lyokoompadhi ya Namibia the Brave Warriors oya dhengwa nayi kosipana ya Burkina Faso muudhano wokukondjela ehala oku ka dhana mekopi lyiigwana ya Africa, lyomumvo 2012.Uudhano mbuka
readYa kanitha eindilo lyawo
29-03-2011
OONKAMBADHALA kaawiliki yane mehangano lyokutuma omawi mombepo lya NamibiaNBC] opo ohofa yaaniilonga yi mweneke iilonga ya Nbc oku lundulula omutungilo gwehangano ndyoka olya ndopa mohofa metitano
readWal-Mart ta fala NCC kohofa
29-03-2011
EHANGANO lyedhina Wal-Mart ota li fala Okommissi yomathigathano ya Namibia[NCC] kompangu konima sho ndjika ya pula ehangano ndika li gwanithepo iipumbiwa yontumba omanga inaali ziminwa li ye mumwe
readAgra public lectures empower farmers
29-03-2011
THE Agra public lectures, contributing to Namibian agriculture as part of Agra’s corporate social involvement, started again recently. In the first round of public lectures, Agra will inform farmers
readMobile scale worth its weight in dollars
29-03-2011
MODERN equipment acquired by Agra to improve service to farmers showed its worth on at auctions recently hosted in the south. The first time that Agra’s mobile scale was used to weigh cattle on the
readSouth Africa struggles with land reform goals
29-03-2011
KAKAMAS – The neatly painted sign welcoming visitors to Nomalangha Farm has an ambiguous sun blazing on the horizon, either rising above or sinking into the stylised mountains below it.The farm, a
readLivestock & game farming: The astonishing solution to environmental crises and poverty
29-03-2011
IN his book challenging the fundamental misconceptions surrounding the underlying principles of grazing, wildlife and rangelands management, Victor von Alten makes a convincing and passionate argument
readReese ties the knot!
29-03-2011
Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and her talent agent fiance, Jim Toth tied the knot over the weekend in Southern California, her spokeswoman told celebrity magazine People. The 35-year-old
readDogg fans hit the woof!
29-03-2011
AS sure as the sun rises every day, controversy, it seems, will always dog the annual Namibian music awards.The sun rose yesterday and so, doggone it, did the first signs of dissatisfaction among a
readBritney’s back, but can she compete with Gaga?
29-03-2011
As Britney Spears prepares to launch her seventh studio album ‘Femme Fatale’ today, the pop star faces keen competition from Lady Gaga, Katie Perry and Rihanna, who reign atop Billboard’s Hot 100
readWomen say ‘oil war’ in Libya must stop
29-03-2011
THE Namibia National Women’s Organisation (Nanawo) has expressed serious concern over the Libyan situation and condemned attacks on Libya by “some European and American selfish economic expansion
readTsvangirai discusses Zim unity govt with Pohamba
29-03-2011
ZIMBABWEAN Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says the momentum of the two-year-long inclusive government arrangement in his country is “sliding” because of tensions in government following election
readNo demolition order in beach house case
29-03-2011
A COASTAL property owner who tried to get a court order to have her neighbour’s houses demolished has lost her case in the High Court in Windhoek.The case in which Maria Susanna (‘Marie’) Kleynhans
readNDF promotions, appointments
29-03-2011
THE Namibian Defence Force (NDF) has announced promotions and appointments of senior officers made by the NDF chief, Lieutenant General Epapharas Denga Ndaitwah. Major General Charles Shalumbu was
readKamwi pleads for better management in healthcare
29-03-2011
THE scarcity of Namibian doctors in top clinical positions and the number of complaints linked to bungled medical procedures are a clear sign of trouble in the medical sector of Namibia.At a
readErongo gets water rationing
29-03-2011
WATER demand at the coast has surpassed supply, and as a result, NamWater has decided on water rationing for towns and mines in the Erongo Region.On Friday, NamWater announced that water supply to all
readDiergaardt absent for maintenance hearing
29-03-2011
THE Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Theo Diergaardt, failed to show up at the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura for a maintenance hearing yesterday.Diergaardt was scheduled to appear
readConstruction workers stand up to Chinese firm
29-03-2011
CONSTRUCTION workers employed by New Era Investment took to the streets yesterday in a wildcat strike in an attempt to force the construction firm’s management to comply with their demands for better
read‘Handouts’ secure surplus for New Era newspaper
29-03-2011
GOVERNMENT is bound to lose about N$14 million that its daily mouthpiece, New Era, lent to NamZim Newspapers to publish the weekly The Southern Times.In his report of the 2010 accounts of the New Era
readBannerman supports 320 schoolchildren in Erongo
29-03-2011
BANNERMAN Resources has launched its ‘learner assistance scheme’ in which 320 underprivileged rural and urban learners in Erongo benefited. The scheme provided school uniforms and settled the
readNamibian Camelthorn beer impresses even the French
29-03-2011
IT’S not uncommon to hear of food and wine ‘pairing’ occasions, but when it comes to food and beer pairing, eyebrows begin to lift; after all “beer is beer”, right?“Who wants to pair beer with food?”
readNew water supply system for Swakopmund’s DRC
29-03-2011
DUE to alleged poor management from a private company selling credit for water and maintain communal dispensing points in Swakopmund’s DRC informal settlement, the Swakopmund town council has decided
read‘Guide to Radiation’ launched
29-03-2011
A BOOKLET explaining the concepts of radiation safety was developed and launched in Swakopmund recently.It aims to inform uranium exploration and mining workers about the importance of radiation and
readTeachers to flock to Swakop for Math Congress
29-03-2011
THE sixth Mathematics Congress will take place in Swakopmund in May – an event fast becoming the prime platform for math academics of all levels to learn of the latest in mathematics developments and
readPolice have ‘open-air consultations’ with Walvis community
29-03-2011
NAMPOL’S Erongo division is inviting the communities of Okangwena and Namport in Walvis Bay’s Kuisebmond suburb to attend open-air consultative gatherings.Stands will be erected where the public can
readPetition against new Kempinski Strand Hotel
29-03-2011
THE Swakopmund Municipality, Ohlthaver and List (O&L), and the Minister of Local Government and Housing will next week be handed a petition bearing over 1 000 signatures of people opposed to the
readSRA objects to ‘dubious’ Swapo erf sale
29-03-2011
THE Swakopmund Residents’ Association (SRA) is objecting to the Swakopmund Town Council’s “dubious decision” to sell an erf to the Swapo Party.Ten years ago, Swapo leased Erf 3486 in Swakopmund at a
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