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75 Articles found on Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Soup’s up!
11-10-2011
About 50 children from Otjomuise walk to the Sida Di Soup Kitchen after school, where they get a free meal twice a week. One of the goals of the soup kitchen is to help underprivileged children in the
readLüderitz suspends financial manager
11-10-2011
THE strategic executive of finance at the Lüderitz town council, Thomas Shipepe, was suspended yesterday after it was found that the council’s finances are in a shambles. The final straw was when
readEtosha licks its wounds
11-10-2011
THE three separate fires that raged through the Etosha National Park killed roughly 30 rhinos, 50 giraffes, seven elephants, at least two lions and destroyed close to 370 000 hectares of vegetation.
readBillions in balance if trade pact fails
11-10-2011
NAMIBIA will have to pay more than half a billion dollars in duties if the country has not signed the economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) by January 2014.The EU recently
readDrobisch wins Cycle Classic
11-10-2011
JUNIOR cyclist Till Drobisch won the Namibian Cycle Classic on Sunday when he beat Mathias Kreft and Heinrich Kohne in a sprint to the line. Drobisch won the 100km event in a time of two hours, 35
readCameroon voters frustrated
11-10-2011
YAOUNDE – Opposition leaders and voters in Cameroon have complained of delays at polling booths and other organisational shortfalls at a presidential election expected to seal a new term for incumbent
readChinese have another go at Husab
11-10-2011
KALAHARI Minerals yesterday confirmed that it is again talking to China’s Guangdong Nuclear Power about a take-over bid which, if successful, will make the state-owned company the majority shareholder
readCattle, small stock marketing up in second from April to June
11-10-2011
AGRICULTURE picked up during the second quarter, with more cattle and small stock marketed and a slight drop in milk production.About 79 per cent more cattle were marketed compared to the first three
readAgribank funding safeguards jobs
11-10-2011
MORE than a thousand Namibians either got jobs or kept their jobs after Agribank approved N$78,9 million worth of loans to 199 farmers.The loans, approved between July and September, is 72 per cent
readAgri exports bring in over a billion dollars
11-10-2011
NAMIBIA earned just over a billion dollars from live animals and food exports during the second quarter of 2011, about 22 per cent more than in the first quarter.On a yearly basis, export earnings
readRecover from social media blunders
11-10-2011
Social media is legendary for its transparency and speed, but that also means that your mistakes can be wildly visible. Being upfront is a good way to start recovering, says Harvard Business
readStrong Kunene makes NamPower spark
11-10-2011
GOOD water inflow into the Kunene River at the Ruacana hydro power station allowed Namibia to generate more electricity and be less dependent on imports from April to June.According to the Bank of
readMajor economies teetering on recession, data shows
11-10-2011
PARIS – The outlook for the world’s major economies is continuing to darken, according to latest data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published yesterday, which
readCurrency law would hurt US jobs growth, warns China
11-10-2011
BEIJING – China has warned the United States that it would damage relations, and American jobs, if it forces Beijing to let its currency rise under a law to be voted on in the US Senate today. Vice
readExpensive food to starve pockets for years to come
11-10-2011
ROME – Food prices are likely to become more volatile in coming years, increasing the risk that more poor people in import-dependent countries will go hungry, the United Nations (UN) said in an annual
readChina fines Wal-Mart, shuts stores
11-10-2011
SHANGHAI – Wal-Mart has been ordered to temporarily close some stores in the Chinese city of Chongqing and to pay 2,7 million yuan (US$421 000) in fines following an investigation into the mislabeling
readUnion ups pressure on Massmart merger
11-10-2011
JOHANNESBURG – Wal-Mart and Massmart should increase their planned fund to support South African suppliers to at least R500 million from R100 million, the country’s largest service industry union said
readAU, Somali forces seize Mogadishu rebel bases
11-10-2011
MOGADISHU – African Union and Somali government troops said yesterday they seized key positions from Islamist insurgents during an offensive to flush out the last rebel pockets in
readTrial opens in white extremist’s murder
11-10-2011
VENTERSDORP – The trial of two black farm workers accused of bludgeoning to death South African white supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche started in a rural court yesterday.The workers – Chris Mahlangu,
readAnti-Gaddafi fighters make gains in Sirte
11-10-2011
SIRTE – Libya’s revolutionary forces have seized a convention centre that had served as a key base for fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in the fugitive leader’s hometown, as they squeezed remaining
readAll Bieber wants for Christmas …
11-10-2011
IT’S official. Justin Bieber is getting under the mistletoe with Mariah Carey. Bieber (17) has finally revealed to his fans on Twitter that he will be collaborating with the Grammy-winning singer on
readRihanna shoots to top of UK charts
11-10-2011
Barbados-born R&B singer Rihanna went straight to the top of singles charts with ‘We Found Love’ to claim her sixth British number one, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.Her six number ones
readEx-leader of Cape Verde wins US$5m African prize
11-10-2011
JOHANNESBURG – A US$5 million prize for good African governance was awarded yesterday to the former president of Cape Verde, cited for turning his small island nation into a model of democracy,
readCuban Ladies in White fear for ailing leader’s life
11-10-2011
HAVANA – Cuba’s Ladies in White – wives and mothers of political prisoners who have emerged as influential dissidents in their own right – blamed the government Sunday for their leader’s grave health
readIran calls Wall Street protests ‘American Spring’
11-10-2011
TEHRAN – An Iranian military commander said Sunday that the protests spreading from New York’s Wall Street to other US cities are the beginning of an “American Spring,” likening them to the uprisings
readAnti-Wall Street protests spur political debate
11-10-2011
LOS ANGELES – Growing protests targeting Wall Street and US economic inequality spawned heated rhetoric among politicians on Sunday as organisers planned more demonstrations this week.“It’s
readMore clashes erupt in Egypt
11-10-2011
CAIRO – Several hundred Christians pelted police with rocks outside a Cairo hospital yesterday in fresh clashes the day after 24 people died in riots that grew out of a Christian protest against a
readNamibia’s Global Competitiveness
11-10-2011
THE World Economic Forum issues, on annual basis, The Global Competitiveness Report. Report compares countries’ economic potential for growth. Potential for economic growth is measured through
readHealth system exposes signs of prevailing inequality
11-10-2011
ACCORDING to the UNDP Development Report 2009, Namibia has the highest levels of inequality in the world. In the same vein Herbert Jauch and others refer to Namibia as a rich country with poor people.
readIiyamakuti natango ota yi ka gandjwa ku Cuba
11-10-2011
OMAGANO giiyamakuti ngoka Namibia ta gandja ko Cuba otaga ka gandjwa kohi yetonatelo enene moNamibia noshowo pamautho gopaigwana goku landitha iikwakuti niimeno unene tuu mbyoka yili moshiponga shoku
readAawiliki poKhorixas ya kwatwa nokuholoka mondholongo
11-10-2011
AANTU yahetatu oya kwatwapo kaanambelelwa yOkomisi yokukondjitha uulingilingi, taya fekelwa ya dhanena iiniwe yewiliko lyoshilando shoka noshowo yoshitayi shopoosa poKhorixas.Mbaka ota ku kundanekwa
readEhengumukilo mumwe lya Wal-Mart na Massmart
11-10-2011
EHENGUMUKILO mumwe lyoongeshefa dha Wal-Mart naandhoka dha Massmart mo South Africa noshowo moNamibia otashi vulika lika ete ekanitho enene lyoompito dhiilonga miilongo mbika iyali. Elondodho ndika
readAanona yaheyali ya si kuuzigo moKavango
11-10-2011
AANONA yaheyali oya si moshitopolwa shaKavango na gumwe okwa li monkalo ombwinayi tashi vulika eso lyeetwa kuuzigo waashiwike. Omunona gwoomwedhi omulongo okwa li monkalo yi li hwepo moshipangelo sha
readEwilikongundu lya tindi ethigopo lyiilonga ku Kiiyala
11-10-2011
EWILIKONGUNDU lya Road Fund Administration[RFA] olya tindi oku taamba etseyitho lyomunambelewa omukuluntupitithi okuthigapo iilonga ye. Ewilikongundu olya ekelehi woo omipopyo dha, Penda Kiiyala
readOmimvo hamano mondholongo
11-10-2011
OMUKWASHIGWANA gwAngola okwa pewa egeelo lyomimvo hamano konima yekumba shoka a monika ondjo mokukala niingangamithi yoludhi lwokokaine. Aniceto Pedro okwa pewa egeelo ndika kohofa yopashitopolwa ya
readAayaluli po Aussenkehr inaya futwa
11-10-2011
KONYALA aayaluli 460 yoshigwana nomagumbo poAussenkehr moshitopolwa sha Karas ka ya li ya futwa iimaliwa ya wo konima yiilonga yokuyalula oshigwana nomagumbo pokati ka Auguste na Septemba
readTiger Woods shrugs off hot-dog-flinging fan
11-10-2011
SAN MARTIN – Tiger Woods’ tough 2011 season took one more odd turn on Sunday when a fan flung a hot dog in his direction in the final round of the Frys.com Open.Woods was preparing to putt at the
readMatch fixings cost £1m, says Pakistan’s on trial
11-10-2011
LONDON- A British sports agent representing two Pakistani cricketers accused of a betting scam told an undercover reporter that Test matches could be thrown for £1 million, a court in London heard
readRoddick beats Lu in Shanghai Masters
11-10-2011
SHANGHAI – Andy Roddick rallied to beat Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 Monday in the first round of the Shanghai Masters.The 10th-seeded Roddick won the first set easily, but Lu picked up his
readAthletics Namibia expels administrator Namaseb
11-10-2011
ATHLETICS Namibia has expelled its office administrator, Brian Namaseb. The expulsion is said to have been effected some weeks ago.AN secretary general Frank Slabbert confirmed Namaseb’s expulsion to
readFootball results
11-10-2011
Southern Stream First Division Saturday, October 8 Monitronic College 4-1 Young Ones Blue Boys 2-2 Fedics Utd Spoilers
readGalz and Goals festival headed to Eenhana
11-10-2011
THE Ohangwena Region will host the latest edition of the NFA Galz and Goals Festival due to be held in Eenhana from October 12 to 15.The festival will kick off on Wednesday with coach educators
readUefa to decide Rooney’s Euro 2012 fate this week
11-10-2011
NYON – Wayne Rooney will find out on Thursday how many European Championship matches he will miss for kicking an opponent in a qualifying game.Uefa said yesterday that its disciplinary panel will
readMorocco, Sudan seal African Cup qualifiers
11-10-2011
JOHANNESBURG – Morocco and Sudan claimed the last two places at next year’s African Cup of Nations as a qualifying competition full of shocks wrapped up on Sunday with another big team missing out on
readNDF remain on top of NVF Cup log
11-10-2011
THE Namibia Defence Force continues to lead the men’s competition of the Namibia Volleyball Federation (NVF) Cup after they won their Saturday match against DTS 3-1.This was the defending champions’
readNamibia on track for six Nations netball
11-10-2011
NAMIBIA has begun preparations in earnest for their assault at the netball Six-Nations Cup set for December in Singapore. According to All Namibia Netball Association Secretary General Dalene Coetzee
readAfrican shotgun Grand Prix in Windhoek
11-10-2011
THE African shotgun Grand Prix is scheduled to take place between October 21-23 at the Namibia Olympic Shotgun Range in Windhoek.This event is one of the greatest annual shotgun events staged in
readTop teams endorse World Cup schedule change
11-10-2011
AUCKLAND – Rugby’s leading teams are ready to play two games in a week at the 2015 World Cup in England after complaints the schedule at the ongoing edition in New Zealand has been weighted against
readWales’Jenkins wary of French boot in semi-final
11-10-2011
AUCKLAND – Wales skills coach Neil Jenkins predicts Saturday’s World Cup semifinal against France could be decided by which team is more clinical with the boot, rather than which has the best
readAll Blacks lose Slade, Muliaina to injury
11-10-2011
AUCKLAND – New Zealand’s chances of ending an extended World Cup drought could hinge on two players who were more focussed on skate boarding and fishing than rugby in recent weeks before being dragged
readZim farmers oppose tribunal suspension
11-10-2011
TWO Zimbabwean farmers have launched an application with the African Commission for Human Rights to set aside the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) decision to suspend the SADC Tribunal.
readFrom The Twittersphere
11-10-2011
UNFILTERED tweet takes on daily life and popular culture by Namibians, as well as a couple of other tweeps:@laVida_Loca: #SRCElections, The Unam bullshit train has left the station @Chefe_Grande: RIP
readClamour for reparations gets louder
11-10-2011
CIVIL society has added its demand that the German government must do the honourable thing and pay reparations to the descendants of the 1904 to 1908 genocide.The Nangof Trust also expressed his
readKavango poison survivors on the mend
11-10-2011
THE two survivors of the poisoning that killed seven other children in the Kavango Region are out of danger, hospital officials said yesterday. Dr Yuri Yangazov, medical supervisor at the Rundu
readPohamba warns against consequences of hunger
11-10-2011
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has called for urgent action to prevent starvation in Namibia.Addressing Swapo members during the official opening of a regional office in Outapi on Sunday, Pohamba said
readJailed ex-NBC chief’s appeal postponed
11-10-2011
THE appeal which former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation director general Gerry Munyama has lodged against his seven-year prison sentence is now scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court at the end
readNAC workers, union in fallout
11-10-2011
THE Namibia Airports Company (NAC) has issued a warning to disgruntled employees who have threatened to strike that such an action would be illegal.The NAC and the Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu)
readUnicef’s MacLeod on way out
11-10-2011
UNICEF country representative Ian MacLeod will leave the United Nations organisation by October 17 after a three-and-a-half-year stint in Namibia. He will be leaving Unicef to return to his native
readImmigration officials on edge over working conditions
11-10-2011
IMMIGRATION officers at Ariamsvlei claim complaints about unpalatable working conditions and non-payment of overtime claims are not being addressed despite numerous meetings with the head office of
readNamibian picks up an international film grant
11-10-2011
Namibian filmmaker Oshosheni Hiveluah and four other Africans have each won a US$10 000 grant from Focus Features’ Africa First short film programme.Hiveluah received the honour for her short film
readACC not peddling ‘selective justice’ – Noa
11-10-2011
ANTI-Corruption Commission (ACC) director Paulus Noa took issue with an allegation that the crime-fighting organisation is doing so selectively. Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia
read/Khomanin eviction case postponed for arguments
11-10-2011
THE case in which the Windhoek Municipality is trying to get an eviction order against a group of alleged illegal squatters who have occupied farmland owned by the municipality is now due to be argued
readMiekie competes for slimmest pet title
11-10-2011
IT seems dieting may be going to the dogs, with nine dogs and one cat in the finals for this year’s Hill’s Pet Slimmer of the Year title.Once again a Dachshund from Swakopmund, ‘Miekie’ Ochs, is in
readTwo artists to hold combined exhibition
11-10-2011
‘BEAUTIFUL faces and places’ is an exhibition by Mitzi Maritz and Michelle //Inixas that will start this Friday at the Alliance Française de la cote in Swakopmund.Maritz is a Swakopmund resident, and
read‘Bird Paradise’ is not just another tourism business
11-10-2011
THE newly established ‘Bird Paradise’ north if Walvis Bay’s sewage works will not just be another community-based tourism project; but will also become a centre where local youth can be educated and
readOkombahe’s sewerage network to be upgraded at last
11-10-2011
AN UPGRADE and extension project of Okombahe’s sewerage network, which was already planned in 2002, will finally materialise within the next year.The funds for the initial 2002 plan was used in 2005
readDumpsites considered for Otjimbingwe and Okombahe
11-10-2011
THE construction two separate dumpsites for Otjimbingwe and Okombahe settlements are being investigated.Representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry and the Erongo Regional
readArandis push for economic independence
11-10-2011
ARANDIS Town Council is planning to host its first ever Stakeholders Investment Conference on November 4.This is part of the small town’s efforts toward economic sustainability. Through the
read‘Walvis Bay’ loads bananas from Columbia for Europe market
11-10-2011
BELIEVE it or not, there is a Danish container vessel bearing the name of ‘Walvis Bay’ which has recently begun operations – loading bananas – from Columbia for the European market.A web-report from a
read‘Tonnes and tonnes’ of US dollars for Zimbabwe via Walvis Bay
11-10-2011
THE Herald newspaper of Zimbabwe recently quoted Zimbabwean Finance Minister, Tendai Biti saying that his country has to find a way to transport “tonnes and tonnes” [of US currency] to Zimbabwe, from
readWalvis Bay goes ‘tick-tock’
11-10-2011
THE Walvis Bay Municipality introduced its new city clocks which have been erected throughout the town over the past couple of weeks. Speaking at the official inauguration of the clocks, Mayor Klazen
readSandpiper project bulk sample done
11-10-2011
NAMIBIAN Marine Phosphate on Friday announced the completion of the ‘bulk sample programme’, considered a major component of the Definitive Feasibility Study for the offshore Sandpiper Phosphate
readUis owes NamWater N$4 million
11-10-2011
THE Uis Settlement Area owes Namibia’s water utility, NamWater, around to N$4 million.According to the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Erongo Regional Council (ERC), and Councillor for
readSMSes for Tuesday 11 October 2011
11-10-2011
SMS Of The Day *HOW about putting the first Presidential Jet, the Falcon 900B, on auction? Let the Ministers fly with Air Namibia. SMS your views to 99902 Food for Thought *All taxis and buses used
readNotable Quotes
11-10-2011
THERE’S a time to come and a time to go and I think the journey for me is over. – Peter de Villiers called it quits as South Africa coach after the reigning champions lost a World Cup quarter-final to
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