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80 Articles found on Friday, 23 September 2011
Elephants face uphill battle
23-09-2011
THE shooting of a female elephant in the Hoarusib River in the Kunene Region has alarmed conservationists and scientists about the future of the desert-dwelling jumbos.The poaching is being
readA moment of brilliance
23-09-2011
South Africa Springboks’ Pierre Spies tackles Namibia’s captain Jacques Burger during their Rugby World Cup Pool D match at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland yesterday morning. The Namibians gave it a
readPrivatisation of communal land in the North gaining momentum
23-09-2011
TENSION is brewing in the communal farming area of Omakango, east of Okongo in the Ohangwena Region, where ‘politically connected’ individuals have allegedly fenced off large tracts of grazing
readGecko heat dies down
23-09-2011
GECKO Namibia has pledged not to go ahead with a multi-billion- dollar industrial park and port development at Swakopmund if it is proven that the health of people and the environment will be
readBoks beat gritty Welwitschias
23-09-2011
DESPITE going down 87-0 to South Africa yesterday, the Welwitschias can take heart from another gritty performance that showed the amateurs’ game is on the rise. While the world champions have all but
readAbbas to push UN bid despite US
23-09-2011
UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East peace but Palestinians said they would press on with a request for UN recognition of
readMoody’s rates Namibia as ‘stable’ in first-ever rating
23-09-2011
NAMIBIA was given the lowest investment-level credit rating by Moody’s Investors Service as the African nation plans to sell debt in international markets this year.Moody’s rated the country Baa3 with
readIn Brief
23-09-2011
Former Cape Verde president Pereira dies LISBON – Aristides Pereira, who fought Portugal’s colonial rule in the Cape Verde Islands and became the West African country’s first post-independence
readSA court grants leave to appeal in Malema hate speech case
23-09-2011
JOHANNESBURG – ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and the ruling party have been granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling that he was guilty of hate speech.Johannesburg High
readSA court grants leave to appeal in Malema hate speech case
23-09-2011
JOHANNESBURG – ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and the ruling party have been granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling that he was guilty of hate speech.Johannesburg High
readZambian court bars poll results in media
23-09-2011
LUSAKA – Zambia’s high court has issued an injunction blocking independent media from publishing results of the country’s elections before they are officially released by the national electoral
readNakara scoops regional tannery award
23-09-2011
NAKARA won the 2011 Regional Tannery of the Year award for Africa in Shanghai recently.This award is very special, said Kevin Davidow, managing director of Nakara, as the tannery was selected out of
readBarcelona keen to work with Nam
23-09-2011
BARCELONA – The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s vice-president Hugo Basañez has said his chamber is ready and willing to cooperate with Namibian businesses which want to form partnerships
readKnow your unwritten plan
23-09-2011
When looking to the future, your unwritten plan is likely to be far broader and more fluid than your written plan, and making the plan take shape will take effort, says Harvard Business Review.When
readSA mulls laws to rescue banks
23-09-2011
CAPE TOWN – Emergency measures to rescue South African banks from extreme financial straits “within hours” may be tabled in parliament next year.National Treasury deputy director general Ismail
readMoody’s cuts three major US banks
23-09-2011
NEW YORK – Three of the top US banks are likely to start paying more to borrow money.Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday lowered its debt ratings for Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup. The
readAfrica, Asia the economic future: Maria Ramos
23-09-2011
AFRICA and Asia can be the future of the global economy, Maria Ramos, group CEO of Absa, said yesterday.The global economy was shifting, albeit slowly from Europe and North America to Africa and Asia,
readAfrican growth to exceed 5 per cent
23-09-2011
WASHINGTON – The economy of sub-Saharan Africa will grow by more than five per cent this year and next as the region posts a “solid” performance, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.In its
readHarare won’t clip airline’s wings
23-09-2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe will not shut down its bankrupt state airline, an official has said, and is seeking foreign partners to rescue the debt-ridden service after it was grounded by a series of crippling
readOld Mutual in BEE deal with Zimbabwe
23-09-2011
JOHANNESBURG – Old Mutual has reached an agreement with Zimbabwe over local ownership of its Zimbabwe unit, the insurer said in a statement on Wednesday.Under a controversial law, foreign firms
read‘Brics euro fund unfeasible,’ says Chinese expert
23-09-2011
BEIJING – Brazil’s proposal that large emerging economies jointly provide new funds to help ease the euro zone crisis is not feasible, Wei Jianguo, a former Chinese vice commerce minister, told
readIn Brief
23-09-2011
Ten infected with polio in China outbreak BEIJING – At least 10 people in northwestern China have contracted a highly infectious strain of polio, in the first outbreak of the disease in the country
readGive up Yao shark fin soup: Yao Ming
23-09-2011
SHANGHAI – Basketball star Yao Ming and British entrepreneur Richard Branson yesterday launched a campaign urging Chinese to stop eating shark fin soup to help save the predators.Shark fins are used
readTutu declares love for Suu Kyi
23-09-2011
NEW YORK – Talk about practising what you preach: a smitten Archbishop Desmond Tutu declared “love” on Wednesday for democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi.Giggling with excitement, the South African
readDeaths set to spiral in famine-hit Somalia
23-09-2011
NAIROBI – Drought and famine-blighted Somalia is at a “turning point” as conditions decline with hundreds of thousands more people likely to die in coming months, 20 aid agencies warned on
readNo Consensus On Washington
23-09-2011
I HAVE been following the writings of Nahas Angula, Alfredo Hengari and Alex Kaure with great interest. However, I am of the opinion that some questions around the Washington Consensus should be
readNamibians, I Am Disappointed
23-09-2011
ON TUESDAY evening [22 September 2011] I attended the ecumenical service at the Bet-el congregation in Katutura, in light of the repatriation of Namibian (Yes, Namibian!) bones and skulls from
readThe Cold Hard Facts
23-09-2011
I HAVE been accused of being too emotional in my letter [The Namibian, 9 September 2011] regarding the Gecko Industries proposed development on our coast.My humble apologies. I will endeavour to be
readKeep Pregnant Girls From Class
23-09-2011
I AM a bit concerned about the pregnancies in schools. I read in the New Era about a girl who miscarried in a toilet somewhere in the north, and somehow I compared the situation with our learners at
readExpelled But Still Loyal To Swapo
23-09-2011
REGARDING my status and membership of the Swapo Party and the relationship with the Regional Councillor of the Okahandja Constituency, allow me space in your newspaper to clear the air on this issue
readOn Seal Harvesting
23-09-2011
WE welcome the statement of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, printed in your paper today and dated September 19, 2011.We would like to tell the Minister, B Esau, to pursue this way of
readWhat Happened To Socialism?
23-09-2011
BEFORE it’s too late, now is the time that the central government revisit the current anti-socialistic western type of government which has been adopted by Swapo at independence.When we were young and
readEnd Racism, End Regionalism
23-09-2011
KINDLY allow me space in your widely read paper to share my concern with your well-informed readership and hopefully the leadership of our country and our much-loved Swapo.Through all my activism
readGive ‘Blue-Collar’ A High Status
23-09-2011
READING Alex T Kaure’s column, one realises that the debate on education will never end. Let us therefore raise the idea that we may have overlooked in the past.We do have a system that tries to give
readRein In The Fat Cats
23-09-2011
STRIKE fever has hit Namibia.At face value it looks like pure greed by the workers, at least in some of those instances. Workers at Namdeb in the south of the country made a nuisance of themselves as
readResiding on Facebook
23-09-2011
Facebook is still the king of the local idlers’ club, even though Twitter has made quite a fist of it in the popularity stakes lately.Some people are better known for their exploits on Facebook than
readOur foreign policy circus makes us look amateurish
23-09-2011
THE past week has been a hive of diplomatic activity with the 66th session of the UN general assembly in session in New York. The diplomatic agenda, at least in the dominant western press, has been
readEngaging ‘Citizen Angula’
23-09-2011
I CHERISH this opportunity to engage Comrade Nahas Angula once again. But am I dealing with ‘Citizen Nahas’ or ‘Citizen Angula’? I hope it’s the same person. Let me from the outset say that I have the
readAussenkehr’s Farmers: Out And Back Into Poverty
23-09-2011
LET us not beat about the bush here. The issue is not whether the small-scale farmers at Aussenkehr's State-owned Orange River Irrigation Project (ORIP) have failed. That is not what brought about
readPolitical Perspective
23-09-2011
IT is both right and appropriate that the Herero and Nama skulls be returned from Germany to where they belong. Finally. They represent a singularly sad chapter in our colonial history, and it is
readEgaluko lyiipongolo lyagalikanenwa
23-09-2011
KONYALA aantu omayovi 2 000 oya gongalele pegongalo lya Bet-el Lutheran moKatutura ongulohi yetiyali oshiwike shika oku galikanena egaluko lyomasipa gomitse ngoka ga kala ga pungulwa moomisiuma
readAU na South Africa ya lunduluka kombinga ya Libya
23-09-2011
EHANGANO lyUukumwe wAfrika na South Africa oya yalula epangelo mo Libya kohi yo National Transitional Council[NTC]. Nando ongawo iilyo longo yilwe yehangano lyelongelokumwe lyiilongo yokuumbugantu
readEkanka lya Tunacor lya tsikila
23-09-2011
EKANKA lyaaniilonga pofabulika yoohi ya Tunacor olya li lya tsikila sigo oshiwike shayi na ka pwa li pewetike ngele ota pu adhika epotokonono lyuupyakadhi mboka, wu li pokati kehangano ndika
readEkanka metitano tashi vulika
23-09-2011
AANIILONGA yopo mina ya Rossing Uranium otashi vulika ya tameke nekanka metitano ndika, osho ehangano lyaaniilopnga yomoomina [MUN] lya tseyitha. Oshipotha shoka tashi vulika shi tameke nena[etitano]
readEyalulo lyoombwa dhomomeya
23-09-2011
EPANGELO ota li ka ninga eyalulo lyoombwa dhomomeya pehulilo lyomwedhi nguka, oku tala ngele edhipago lyoombwa odhindji ota li vulu oku ningwa omumvo kehe.Ombudsman, John Walters okwa tseyitha shika
readTucna a hala woo okupewa aakalelipo momahangano gepangelo na galwe
23-09-2011
ONDUNDAHANGANO yomahangano gaaniilonga moNamibia[TUCNA] oya indile opo yi pitikwe yikale nomukalelipo mongunduwiliki yiilonga yepangelo noshowo omalutu galwe gepangelo.Ndika olimwe lyomathaneko ga
readAa/Khomanin ya kongo ekwatho ku Ekandjo
23-09-2011
ONGUNDU yoludhi lwaa /Khomanin oya nyanya okuya kombelewa yOminista Yomalelo Giitopolwa, Iilando nOmagumbo noya gandja omushangwa gwomaindilo kombinga yelombwelo kutya naya zepo pofaalama mpoka ye li
readTaya tsikile etungo lyondjila ya Katwitwi
23-09-2011
EHANGANO lyoondjila [Roads Authority][RA] olya shaina euvathano lyoodola oomiliona 275 pamwe nehangano lya Roads Contractor Company no nehangano lya China Henan International Cooperation Group[Chico]
readAalongithi yekuni ota ya ehama
23-09-2011
AALUMENTU oyena okwiimanga kumwe okukondjitha uuwinayi welongitho lyoonkondo moshigwana. Ndika eindilo lya ningwa kehangano lya Namibian Men for Change, okupitila momushangwa, lya pangula noonkondo
readUupyakadhi poKomisi yegameno lyonkalathano
23-09-2011
ETUMWALAKA lyaana esimaneko ndyoka aniwa lya tuminwa ewiliko lyoKomisi yegameno lyopankalathano[Social Security Commission] olya tulitha omukalelipo gwaaniilonga yomehangano ndyoka pevi. Metumwalaka
readTrouble brews at Sport Commission
23-09-2011
ACTING Namibia Sport Commission chief administrator Walter Haseb is said to be unhappy with the sport governing body’s vice chairperson Ben Naobeb's alleged “interference and unfair labour practices”,
readClubs’ monthly bonuses increased
23-09-2011
MTC yesterday announced a 30 per cent increase in its monthly subsidy for nine of the 12 Namibia Premier League clubs. The grant won’t be paid to league champions Black Africa, Orlando Pirates and
readKaanjuka takes Brave Warriors reins
23-09-2011
THE Namibia Football Association yesterday announced that it had upgraded former assistant Bernard Kaanjuka to caretaker coach of the Brave Warriors with immediate effect.Kaanjuka, who – until now –
readFootball Results
23-09-2011
Friday, September 23 German Bundesliga Stuttgart v Hamburg 20h30 SA Premiership Ajax CT v Free State Stars 20h00 Saturday,
readGerrard ready for more action
23-09-2011
BRIGHTON,– Steven Gerrard has declared himself ready for a return to Premier League action after ending his six-month injury lay-off in Liverpool’s 2-1 League Cup third round victory over Brighton.
readReal seek quick fix after bad week
23-09-2011
MADRID – La Liga heavyweights Barcelona and Real Madrid will want vast improvement when they host Atletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano respectively on Saturday.Jose Mourinho’s Real in particular need to
readChampions League T20 starts
23-09-2011
NEW DELHI – The third edition of the Champions League Twenty20 gets under way in Bangalore today with the tournament struggling to carve a niche for itself and experts blaming the short format of the
read#RWC Tweets
23-09-2011
NAMIBIA was a top trending topic on Twitter yesterday after the Rugby World Cup clash against the Springboks. Just a few of the tweets: @SempaiScuba: Fair play to the Namibians though. They were
readOpen Letter No 6 Pleasure, Pain and Purpose
23-09-2011
Dear P. I hear (as I always do) that you are now regularly out there enjoying yourself on your bike, preparing for the Namibian Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Classic on October 8 and 9 2011. You continue to feel
readSwanu supports national medical aid
23-09-2011
SWANU has put its weight behind the National Medical Benefit Fund (NMBF).In a statement, chief administrator at Swanu’s head office Unaani Kawami said that the ideas and intentions of the Social
readSpecial needs youth excels in job
23-09-2011
Eno Shikongo(18) is a well known and liked face at the Maerua Super Spar. He has been working there since he finished schooling at Dagbreek School in Windhoek in 2010.Shikongo is physically and
readNew body to tackle labour unrest at Namdeb
23-09-2011
LABOUR Commissioner Bro-Matthew Shinguadja has been appointed to spearhead talks between the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) and Namdeb to solve an avalanche of problems which have shattered the
readMPs found ‘unfit’ for seats
23-09-2011
AN assessment of the performance of Members of Parliament showed that many do not make full use of their Parliamentary seats for the benefit of society, but rather choose to be silent and anonymous.
readLatest acting judges announced
23-09-2011
THREE of Namibia’s most experienced judges and two members of the Society of Advocates of Namibia are part of the latest batch of appointments as acting judges of the country’s Supreme Court and High
readLate Bondelswart Captain hailed at memorial service
23-09-2011
FAMILY, friends and Bondelswart clan members on Tuesday evening flocked to the Emmanuel Lutheran Congregation Church at Keetmanshoop for the memorial service of late Bondelswart Captain Katrina
readEnd of the road for Liberty
23-09-2011
A FINAL winding-up order which has been given in the High Court in Windhoek marks the end of the road for Liberty Friendly Society.The friendly society, which offered a maternity benefits plan to its
readBritish police take Nampol’s hand
23-09-2011
THE time has come to nip murder, rape, armed robbery, violence against women and children and housebreaking in the bud.This was the unambiguous message from the Namibian Police chief, Lieutenant
readBike container creates jobs
23-09-2011
THE organisation Fahrrader für Afrika e.V. (Bicycles for Africa) was founded at the beginning of this year with the aim of collecting used bicycles, tools and spare parts in Germany and sending them
readBethanie faces power blackout
23-09-2011
NAMPOWER has threatened to cut electricity to Bethanie village in the south because of unpaid bills.The village council’s unpaid electricity bill is around N$500 000 after it failed to pay its utility
read'Aupindi had his pool paid for'
23-09-2011
ANTONIO di Savino, co-accused of former Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) MD Tobie Aupindi (36), allegedly paid for a swimming pool for Aupindi shortly after the former MD announced his “turnaround
readAltersheim ends Napwu agreement
23-09-2011
AN acrimonious relationship between the Otjiwarongo Altersheim and the local Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) branch has led to the termination of the recognition agreement between the two
read3 acquitted in procurement scam
23-09-2011
THREE officials that were charged with misconduct in an alleged procurement racket that fleeced the Ministry of Education close to N$400 000 from 2008 have been acquitted. At least four officials were
readSMSes for Friday 23 September 2011
23-09-2011
SMS Of The Day *WELL done Namibia. You were truly brave. Very gutsy determined performance. One Namibia One Nation. SMS your views to 99902 Food for Thought *WE won’t achieve food security if we
readNotable Quotes
23-09-2011
It’s a big honour playing the Boks at a World Cup but never mistake respect for fear.– Namibian Rugby captain Jacques Burger tweeted on his Twitter account ahead of yesterday’s game against South
readExpect Mesmerising, Transcendental Sounds – Simphiwe
23-09-2011
Namibian music fans will soon have the opportunity to see one of South Africa’s most soulful songstresses live in concert. The incomparable Simphiwe Dana is one of the headline acts at this year’s Old
readAround the World... For Free?
23-09-2011
Relying on the kindness of strangers is certainly an interesting way to live, although not one many would choose for themselves. For adventure lover and former ‘Survivor’ winner, Parvati Shallow –
readLocal Student Gillian Mouton Makes Top 10 in Face of Sarie Competition
23-09-2011
Gillian Cheri-Lee Mouton was recently named as one of the top ten finalists in the South African Afrikaans women’s magazine, Sarie’s Voorbladgesig competition.It’s a competition where Sarie readers
readGetting it Wrong ... Getting it Right
23-09-2011
Life can be peculiar at times, and no one knows that better than me. There are times that I am certain I am right about things, people and situations, and usually I am right on the money. As a triple
readSensing Something ... About the Census
23-09-2011
Ihave not been counted! And I so desperately wanted to be amongst those exclusive and elusive few that refused to be counted, but since no-one showed up, I was forced to join the larger group.I found
readFrontlining on Twitter
23-09-2011
WISDOM, wit, and random words from Namibians, and a few other tweeps, at large on Twitter:@DoritosOverHoes: Give the death penalty the death penalty. @iAmVistorina: Domestic violence in Namibia
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