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67 Articles found on Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Rössing will not agree to MUN’s demands
13-09-2011
WHILE Rio Tinto’s Rössing Uranium Limited is committed to solving the dispute over employee bonus payments with the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN), it would not agree to the union’s “unreasonable
readGovernment tender exemptions balloon
13-09-2011
TENDER exemptions for public works have “skyrocketed” over the past years. This charge is made in an Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) paper released on Friday.The research conducted by
readSilent world
13-09-2011
Namibia marks Deaf Awareness Week during the second week of September. This year organisations involved with the deaf, such as the Namibia National Association of the Deaf (NNAD), CLaSH and the
readNamdeb talks collapse
13-09-2011
THE fight between Namdeb and the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) yesterday came to a head with the latter threatening solidarity mass action countrywide and the diamond giant filing an urgent
readWelwitschias make three changes for Samoa
13-09-2011
NAMIBIA yesterday announced their team to take on Samoa in a World Cup Pool D match in Rotorua tomorrow, showing three changes to the team which lost 49-25 against Fiji in their opener.Out go Nico
readMalema found guilty of hate speech
13-09-2011
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s firebrand ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was found guilty yesterday of uttering hate speech for singing an apartheid-era song that called for the killing of white
readEuropean Union sends in heavyweight to talk trade
13-09-2011
THE European Unions’ trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, will meet with President Hifikepunye Pohamba, key ministers, as well as the business and civil community in Windhoek today to try and inject
readUganda frees five as bomb trial opens
13-09-2011
KAMPALA – Uganda yesterday dropped charges against five suspects, including a Kenyan human rights activist, accused of involvement in 2010 bombings in Kampala, but is expected to try 14 others.Human
readSaadi Gaddafi arrives in Niger: minister
13-09-2011
NIAMEY – One of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi Gaddafii, arrived Sunday in Niger, a government spokesman said.“Today, September 11, a patrol of the Nigerien armed forces
readCivilians flee besieged pro-Gaddafi town
13-09-2011
NEAR BANI WALID – Civilians poured out of the Libyan town of Bani Walid on Monday fearful of new fighting between Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and besieging government troops, an AFP correspondent
readAgriculture diary
13-09-2011
• Meatco Farmers’ Liaison Meetings for 2011 October 17: Windhoek at 09:00 October 18: Otjiwarongo at 09:00 October 19: Tsumeb at 09:00 • Auctions September 17: Namboer presents Rehoboth Show (Cattle
readLow cereal stocks, demand keep food prices high
13-09-2011
ROME – World food prices were steady between July and August but extra demand for cereals kept their price high, the latest figures from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation have showed.The FAO
readFirst green shoots of barley at Omahenene
13-09-2011
THE first phase of Namibia Breweries’ (NBL) barley project is well on track with the first green shoots appearing at Omahenene.NBL corporate affairs manager Gideon Shilongo recently visited the
readGreen Scheme delivers bumper harvest
13-09-2011
THE Green Scheme has delivered a bumper harvest, allowing the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry to fill its silos with 10 100 tonnes of maize and mahangu.All silos in the Caprivi, Kavango,
readUK to push through bank reforms
13-09-2011
LONDON – Britain’s banks face some of the world’s toughest regulations under reforms outlined yesterday, which require them to insulate their retail lending activities and store up billions in extra
readReview export levies, NNFU urges Government
13-09-2011
THE Namibia National Farmers Union (NNFU) has called on Govern- ment to review its export levies on animals, especially goats, exported on the hoof to neighbouring South Africa.Speaking at the
readPaladin gets millions to boost Langer Heinrich
13-09-2011
PALADIN Energy has drawn down US$127,2 million, nearly N$930 mil- lion, from the project finance facility for its Langer Heinrich uranium mine, the world’s fifth-largest by output, the company said
readOpec cuts oil demand forecasts
13-09-2011
LONDON – Opec cut its forecast for global oil demand growth next year because of a worsening economic outlook and said a disappointing economic performance in top con- sumer the United States could
readSA to decide on Pioneer, Pannar Seed merger
13-09-2011
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s compe- tition regulator yester- day started hearing an appeal on the proposed merger of Pioneer Hi- Bred, the agricultural unit of US chemicals group DuPont and a lo- cal
readZimbabwe recovery ‘held back by discord’
13-09-2011
DISCORDANCE in Zimbabwe’s power- sharing government was hampering eco- nomic recovery, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday.“The inclusive government cannot create jobs because of policy
readIn Brief
13-09-2011
Russia defends Assad against Western pressure MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday defended the Syrian regime against sanctions for its crackdown on protesters and warned British
readSwedish terror suspects tied to Islamists
13-09-2011
STOCKHOLM – Four terror suspects arrested in Sweden at the weekend have ties to the Somali Islamist movement Shabaab and were plotting an attack using bombs and firearms, a newspaper reported
readAmy’s duet out tomorrow
13-09-2011
British singer Amy Winehouse’s final recording before her death in July, a duet with veteran crooner Tony Bennett, will be released on what would have been her 28th birthday tomorrow.The track and
readIn Brief
13-09-2011
One dead in French nuke site blast PARIS – One person was killed in an explosion at the nuclear site of Marcoule in southern France, the country’s ASN nuclear watchdog said yesterday.Player to
readPolice hear Strauss-Kahn in French case
13-09-2011
PARIS – Police questioned Dominique Strauss-Kahn for three hours yesterday over accusations that the former International Monetary Fund chief tried to rape a writer during a 2003 interview, a judicial
readDozens die in Kenyan pipeline fire
13-09-2011
NAIROBI – More than 100 people burned to death when a fuel pipeline burst into flames in a slum area in the Kenyan capital, police said yesterday.“We are putting the number of dead at over 100, we are
readTaya longele kumwe mehumokomeho
13-09-2011
OMBAANGA yOmapendulepo ya Namibia nehangano Lyoofabulika nehumithokomeho dhalyo[IDC] lya South Africa oya koleke euvathano okulongela kumwe mokukona nokutulakumwe omikuli, nelalakano okutala ngele
readMeatco na Nafau ka ya uvitathane
13-09-2011
OONKUNDATHANA pokati ka Meatco na Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union[Nafau] odha yi mekwena lyahula, onkene oongundu ndhika mbali odha tseyithile komufala gwaaniilonga kutya opena okwaa tsa kumwe
readAa /Khomanin ya ti ota ya ka kondjela evi lyooyinakulu pondje ya Venduka
13-09-2011
OMUWILIKI gwaa /Khomanin, Josephat Gawa!nab okwiilongekidha okuya kOmpangu noshowo kondholongo ngele osha pumbiwa oku kondjela evi ndyoka ati olyaantu ye yoludhi lwaa /Khomanin. Oshiwike sha piti muni
readShifeta a indile eilongekidho nawa
13-09-2011
OMINISTA yOpevi yOmaudhano, oya ti Namibia okwa pumbwa oku kala iilongekidha nawa monakuyiwa ngele tashiya komaudhano.Moonkundathana no Nampa, kombinga yokudhana kwaadhani ya Namibia nuunkundi
readIiponga yo moondjila ya mana iimaliwa ya MVAF
13-09-2011
KONYALA etata lyiiyemo yoshiketha shoku kwathela aantu mboka ya mona iiponga miiyenditho yomwedhi August nuumvo oya longithwa po kiiponga yomoondjila. Konyala oodola oomiliona 12 dhomoomiliona 26 odha
readOkomisi yaana omayego okulumata
13-09-2011
OMUNAMBELEWA gumwe mombelewa yuukaleliposhilongo shaAmerica moVenduka, okwa ulike elimbililo lye kombinga yoonkondo dhaawiliki yoKomisi yokukondjitha uulingilingi. Matt Harrington okwa ulike omaipulo
readToolithiindje ko yakwetu kuuthemba
13-09-2011
Karlush Adolf Eita gwomomukunda Onghili mOmbalantu mOshitopolwa sha Musati okwa kanitha uuthemba we, Okamutse, Okakalata kOmbaanga ya Standard noshowo uukalata uyali wOpoosa, e wu kanithila mOndoolopa
readMboka ya tindi oku yalulwa taya kwatwa noku geelwa
13-09-2011
KONYALA aakwashigwana yeli 67 moVenduka nayaali poKaiti oya tindi okuyalulwa kaanambelewa yomayalulo. Momushangwa komatango getitano, Amushanga gwOkomisi Yomathaneko gopashigwana, Andries Hungamo okwa
readOmukiintu gumwe a dhipagwa natango moNooli
13-09-2011
ONKUNDANA ye tu zilila momukunda Iiyekeya mOtamanzi mOngandjera mOshitopolwa sha Musati otayi ti kutya meme gumwe omukalimo gwomomukunda Iiyekeya mOngandjera Toini Asino gwoomvula omilongondatu
readConversation with fellow citizens
13-09-2011
WHEN Brother Maletsky of The Namibian invited me to share 'think pieces' with readers on Tuesdays I took that to be an invitation to 'Agora'. In ancient Athens citizens assembled in the Agora, a large
readGaddafi’s Western Friends
13-09-2011
WITH Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in ruins and Gaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so long. Greed for markets and money, it seems, often trumped the West’s
readWIN LIKE A CHAMPION!
13-09-2011
Kapow! Do you want to see some of Africa’s top boxers, as well as our very own champ, Paulus ‘Hitman’ Moses, in action? Now’s your chance to try and score a ticket KO!The Hitman will fight Brazil’s
readSerena loses it as Stosur wins US Open
13-09-2011
AUSTRALIA’S Sam Stosur tamed her own pounding heart and repelled everything (both good and bad) that Serena Williams hurled at her to win the US Open crown and her first grand slam singles title on
readNamibian athletes tear up the track in Mozambique
13-09-2011
NAMIBIAN sprinter Tjipekapora Herunga secured a place in the 400m semi-finals scheduled for today as part of the 10th All-Africa Games (AAG) underway in Maputo, Mozambique.Herunga clocked 52,65
readBanyana qualify for London
13-09-2011
ADDIS ABABA – Banyana Banyana made history on Sunday, drawing 1-1 with Ethiopia in Addis Ababa to qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time. Securing a 4 - 1 aggregate victory over the
readEngland tie up series at wet Lords
13-09-2011
LONDON ... England won the one day series with India on Sunday after they tied the fourth one-day international leaving the world champions still winless in all forms of cricket on their tour this
readWittman wins gold at Commonwealth Youth Games
13-09-2011
SUNE Wittman won the gold medal in the javelin at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Isle of Man on Friday.Wittman threw a distance of 43,25 metres to finish first. She beat Carys Mansfield (39,18)
readRugby World Cup Briefs
13-09-2011
As the dust settled on a thunderous opening weekend where the under dogs came oh so close at the Rugby World Cup, a referee's blunder, a government apology, travel chaos and the first citing were the
readBuffon hails Andrea Pirlo signing
13-09-2011
JUVENTUS goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has been singing the praises of new signing and international team-mate Andrea Pirlo following a stunning debut against Parma. Pirlo created two of Juve’s goals in
readBarca face Milan in group of contrasts
13-09-2011
BARCELONA and AC Milan meet in a heavyweight Champions League opener and the other match in their group pits a team whose name is usually associated with beer against a side owing its existence to
readShifeta reprimands boxing and karate
13-09-2011
Namibia’s Deputy Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture, Pohamba Shifeta has reprimanded two sport codes – boxing and karate – for not paying their international affiliation fees,
readFrom The Twittersphere
13-09-2011
NAMIBIANS and other tweet peeps get Twitter with it:@Lunga89: S/O to the people of Windhoek, Namibia. Thank you for the hospitality and for showing me your great country. @PoshDani: I hate it when I’m
read'Tomb raiding' just the tip of the iceberg
13-09-2011
THE theft of brass and bronze plaques, statues and crosses from graves in the Pionierspark cemetery is just one example of the vandalism rife in Windhoek.Mathilda Moncho of the municipality says other
readThree murders over weekend
13-09-2011
A HUSBAND, a wife and an uncle were murdered by family members in three separate incidents over the weekend.At about 15h00 on Saturday, a 30-year-old man was stabbed to death at Okahandja – allegedly
readTeenager in court over dagga
13-09-2011
THE possibility that a teenager (17) was dealing in dagga at Klein Aub has not been ruled out by the Police.The boy made a brief appearance in the Rehoboth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday on a charge
readTeachers tested in English proficiency
13-09-2011
PUBLIC and private school principals across Namibia wrote a English language proficiency test last Friday, and all of the country’s teachers are expected to write the same test today.Khomas Region
readRegional chief to investigate hospital stink
13-09-2011
TOP management at the Grootfontein State Hospital will be put under the spotlight in the next week, when the regional director drops in for an inspection.Otjozondjupa Regional Health Director Peter
readProject to protect women launched
13-09-2011
PROMOTING an understanding of, and raising awareness about, the rights of women leading to protection of these rights are amongst the goals of the “My Rights as a Woman and Namibian Citizen! Gender
readOshakati to deepen river
13-09-2011
THE Oshakati Town Council is awaiting the awarding of a tender for the deepening and lining of part of the Cuvelai delta system, known as the Okatana River, to reduce the flooding of suburbs on its
readNam more competitive with Wacs
13-09-2011
Through Wacs, a joint investment of Telecom Namibia, the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) and the Botswana Government, Namibia’s capacity has increased to 5,2 terabits per
read‘Hart van Windhoek’
13-09-2011
In order to stand a chance to win tickets to the ‘Hart van Windhoek’ Friday concert, send a SMS to 45045. Each SMS costs N$2,00. One lucky winner can win a pair of tickets. You can enter as many times
readFMD restrictions continue
13-09-2011
THE 21-day ban on the movement of animals in two regions of Namibia will not be lifted today. The ban on the movement of livestock in the Otjozondjupa and Omaheke regions was implemented on August 23
readElection appeal case postponed
13-09-2011
THE pending Supreme Court appeal against the High Court’s dismissal of a challenge to the conduct and outcome of Namibia’s National Assembly election near the end of 2009 has been postponed to October
readBattle over disability council continues
13-09-2011
NAMIBIA Disability Council (NDC) director Martin Limbo has hit out at the National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia (NFPDN), saying that he is not accountable to the federation and
read15 census officials fired in Ohangwena
13-09-2011
FIFTEEN census enumerators in the Ondobe constituency allege that they were apparently after they wanted to know about their payment.The fifteen numerators, who were involved with the counting in
read‘The Silent Abuser’ exhibited in Swakop next week
13-09-2011
DOMESTIC workers are some of the most neglected and vulnerable women in Namibia. Day to day they suffer at the hands of a silent abuser, their employer. When Karin Retief, a freelance photojournalist
readPhosphate mining takes shape in Walvis Bay
13-09-2011
AN annual estimate of five million tonnes of phosphate is anticipated to be mined about 50 kilometers off the coast of Conception Bay (south of Walvis Bay) in the near future.The Sandpiper Phosphate
readRössing launches high school radio outreach programme
13-09-2011
Rössing Uranium launched its radio outreach programme for high school learners, called ‘The Rössing story’, with an informative and interactive information session at the Kolin Foundation Senior
readNew electricity tariffs announced for Erongo
13-09-2011
THE average increase in electricity tariffs for Erongo by Erongo RED have been approved by the Electricity Control Board (ECB) and are set at 17,2 per cent. This is the first time Erongo RED’s tariff
readSMSes for Tuesday 13 September 2011
13-09-2011
SMS Of The Day *I WANT know is it allowed for a boss to force an employee to go through an HIV test? If not, can somebody tell me where to report this because I’m not happy with it. SMS your views to
readNotable Quotes
13-09-2011
It was smelly and the corpses were decomposing. – A Grootfontein source said after corpses at the Grootfontein State hospital had to be moved last week, after they began to rot because of lack of
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