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56 Articles found on Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Arty look
07-09-2011
Piet Somseb lives in a small shack in the Goreangab Informal Settlement outside of Windhoek. Somseb has a very neat and arty home with many interesting and unexpected treasures. He has ‘planted’ two
readTender Board rebuffs Ministry of Works
07-09-2011
THE Ministry of Works and Transport has been rebuffed by the Tender Board after it hastily applied last month for tender exemption for New Era Investment to continue with the construction of a
readUS aid saved from Cold War politics
07-09-2011
A REVEALING blow-by-blow account on whistle-blower website Wikileaks paints a picture of a frantic scurry by Prime Minister Nahas Angula and Cabinet Secretary Frans Kapofi to secure the finalisation
readMVAF woes intensify
07-09-2011
THE Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVAF) currently owes a staggering N$30 million to service providers.This revelation comes in the wake of news that patients referred to MediClinic by the fund will be
readUutoni, Kamati progress to African games quarters
07-09-2011
JAFET Uutoni and Nataneal Kamati won their first-round fights on Monday to progress to the quarterfinals of the 49kg and 52kg categories respectively at the All-Africa Games in Maputo.Uutoni recorded
readGaddafi not likely to leave Libya
07-09-2011
BRUSSELS – A former senior United states army officer who helped lead the hunt for Saddam Hussein believes Muammar Gaddafi will be caught as long as those pursuing him use local intelligence and zero
readYellowcake could fall into rogue hands
07-09-2011
THE US government is worried that Namibia doesn’t have enough safeguards to prevent rogue companies from getting their hands on nuclear material sourced locally.After a meeting with Trade and Industry
readIn Brief
07-09-2011
One dead in Kinshasa street clashes KINSHASA – At least one person was shot dead and two wounded when police and opposition supporters clashed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa early
readAnti-govt protests swell in Swaziland
07-09-2011
NANZINI – More than 1 000 people marched through Swaziland’s main city Manzini yesterday in one of the largest protests yet against Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III.Scores of riot
readNew bank rules could hurt world economy
07-09-2011
WASHINGTON – New banking regulations being implemented around the world could significantly slow economic growth and hurt job creation, according to a report released yesterday by a lobbying group
readCompetition watchdog okays gold takeover
07-09-2011
JOHANNESBURG – Australia and South Africa-listed Gold One International said yesterday that Namibian regulators had given the green light to its takeover by a Chinese consortium, removing one small
readPohamba appoints new planning commissioners
07-09-2011
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday appealed to the eight new commissioners of the National Planning Commission (NPC) to make sure that the national development plans that they design and
readMiners strike over food for lunch
07-09-2011
LUSAKA – About 1 200 employees of a contractor company hired to build Zambia’s Muliashi copper mine by China Nonferrous Metals Mining Corporation have gone on strike demanding payment of lunch
readNigeria turning to ‘redback’ for reserves
07-09-2011
BEIJING – China’s yuan will inevitably become a global reserve currency, Nigeria’s central bank governor said, adding his country’s need to diversify reserves grew more urgent after one credit agency
readChina, Russia use struggle ticket to get uranium
07-09-2011
THE Chinese and Russians are cashing in on their liberation struggle ties with Swapo to get a piece of Namibia’s growing uranium pie, Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob admitted to the US
readFrom The Twittersphere
07-09-2011
Some wit and wisdom from Namibians and other tweet peeps:@imthatjen: If you recognise any of the stolen sheep please contact the police immediately … #WeirdStoriesFromNamibianNewsToday @Tuliz: I’m
readWinehouse album becomes century’s bestseller
07-09-2011
AMY Winehouse is still hitting music milestones after her untimely death last month. Britain’s Official Charts Company says Winehouse’s Grammy-award winning ‘Back to Black’ has become the
readTaylor to battle the boys for top award!
07-09-2011
TAYLOR Swift will be battling the boys at the 2011 Country Music Association Awards.The country starlet is up for entertainer of the year, where she’ll compete with Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Jason
readCelebs off a plane! Top 10 problem flyers
07-09-2011
Actor Gerard Depardieu and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong both experienced some turbulence recently when they attempted to take flight. Depardieu, who really, really had to go, urinated on a
readIn Brief
07-09-2011
Thousands stranded after 42 die in Japan TOKYO – Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan yesterday as the death toll from a fierce typhoon rose to 42, heaping more misery on a nation
readPhilippines catches largest croc on record
07-09-2011
MANILA – A monster 6.4-metre saltwater crocodile, believed to be the biggest ever captured, has been trapped in the southern Philippines after a spate of fatal attacks, officials said yesterday.The 1
readDrunk man, 84, in highway joyride
07-09-2011
OSLO – An 84-year-old man, visibly drunk, was arrested in Norway after driving the wrong way down a highway in his electric wheelchair, police said on Monday.The man took to the road on Saturday
readPenal system blamed for UK riots
07-09-2011
LONDON – British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke yesterday blamed a “broken penal system” for the unprecedented riots which broke out across the country in August.Clarke said around 75 per cent of
readSyrian city under siege as UN urges action
07-09-2011
BEIRUT – Syrian soldiers opened fire in the restive city of Homs yesterday and armoured vehicles rolled through its streets, activists said, as the United Nations Secretary General urged the world
readWiilonga wa hala iilonga ya pewa aatungi aaChina
07-09-2011
OSHIKONDO Shiilonga nIiyenditho otashi indile Ewilikongundu lyootendela opo li shi pitike shi gandje iilonga yongushu yoodola oomiliona 40 kehangano lyokutunga lyaaChina inaashi pitila methigathano
readOkanona komimvo 11 nomukulupe gwomimvo 93 yi imangeleka
07-09-2011
OMUPONGOLOLI gwIipotha mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena Komufala gwOpevi gwOpolisi Abner Agas okwa lombwele The Namibian kutya okakadhona koomvula omulongona nayimwe (11)Penehafo Kaleinasho Josua komOmahenge
readSipitikopa ota longo iilonga ye pambelewa ngaashi shuuthwa koveta
07-09-2011
OMUNAMBELEWA gwopolisi ngoka ha longele moshitopolwa shOmusati noku li ta lundilwa kutya aniwa ota hepeke aalongithi yondjila moshitopolwa shoka okwa ekelehi omalundilo ngoka. Omunambelewa nguka okwa
readInamu piyaganeka aanambelewa
07-09-2011
OPOLISI ya Namibia oya londodha oshigwana shi iyageke oku piyaganeka aanambelewa mboka taya yalula oshigwana nomagumbo. Opolisi oya indile ishewe aakwashigwana ya tonatele oombwa dhawo nawa pethimbo
readOmilalo molwiitsa dha pangulwa ko RDP
07-09-2011
ONGUNDU yo Rally of Democracy and Progress[RDP] oya uvithwa nayi kehololo kutya aalongi yamwe poUnivesiti ya Namibia oha ya lala naalongwa noku yapa iitsa yili pombanda molwashoka. RDP okwa ti etulo
readIkonakonitha oHIV-AIDS
07-09-2011
UUMINISTELI wUuhaku owa tseyitha kutya mEtitatu eti 7 Septemba 2011 esiku lyokwiikonaakonitha oshali kombinga yomukithi omudhipagi gwo HIV-AIDS moshilongo ashihe na kehe gumwe, unene tuu mboka inayi
readOshilando sha zimine ondungetahenko yomahupilo
07-09-2011
EWILIKO lyoshilando sha Venduka olya zimine ondungethaneko yehumithokomeho lyomahupilo yomumvo 2010-2015. Ondungethaneko ndjika oyi na elalakano lyokweetapo oompito dhiilonga noshowo, onkalo ombwanawa
readOku tula uupapa komakutsi giimuna ota ku yi nawa moKunene
07-09-2011
AANAMBELEWA Yuundjolowele wiimuna moshitopolwa sha Kunene oya pandula meyokomeho ewanawa lya ningwa moku tula uupapa komakutsi giinamwenyo moshitopolwa shoka. Aanambelewa mbaka oya nyanyukwa oshoka
readUukuki womahangu tawu landithwa mbala moositola
07-09-2011
UUKUKI womaludhi gatano otawu ka landithwa mbala moositola moshilongo.Uukiki mbuka wa longwa muusila womahangu owa tegelelwa oku landithwa methimbo ehupi moositola dhomoshilongo. Oshikondo
readIikwalute ya yakwa oku za po Areva
07-09-2011
OLABORATORIUM ya Veritas mo Namibia oya koleke kutya oondoloma ndhoka dha li dha kwatelwa moShiwakopo dhina iikwalute youraana odha yakwa pomina yaAreva po Trekkopye pondje yoShiwakopo. Aafekelwa
readTaya kondjele ombapila dhokasino
07-09-2011
OHOTELA ya Hilton oyi li methigathano enene noohotela dhilwe moVenduka , konima sho ndjika yi indile opo yi pewe ombapila yokukala nokasino. Ohotela ndjoka yili popepi naandjika, Kalahari Sands
readChasing the dots ... Depraved Indifference?
07-09-2011
WEEKENDS are times for reflection, times for responsible intake of one’s favourite libation and times to reflect within that slightly fuzzy cloud about the current state of our ever more confusing
readNamibia warns Flying Fijians
07-09-2011
THE Namibian rugby team has warned the ‘Flying’ Fijians ahead of their opening Rugby World Cup pool game on Saturday.Hooker Hugo Horn believes the team’s balance of old and new has them ready to
readNamibia Squash Open Championships thrill
07-09-2011
THE Namibia Open Squash Championships held in Windhoek over the weekend ranks amongst the most successful tournaments to be staged in the country, according to participants and event
read‘Kidz on Bikez’ at SKW this Saturday
07-09-2011
CHILDREN younger than ten years will get going on their iron horses when Cycletec Adventure Centre hosts the ‘Kidz on Bikez Adventure’ in conjunction with Bank Windhoek’s Kidz Fun Fair. The
readProfitt out of World Champs
07-09-2011
ILLNESS has ruled out top Namibian rhythmic gymnast Anica Profitt from taking part at the World Championships in Montpellier, France, later this month.Following her victory at the Senior Olympic
readFrenzied fan support inspires Tonga at World Cup
07-09-2011
AUCKLAND – If World Cup success was measured by fan support, Tonga would be laughing all the way to the final.About 5 000 fans, all of them wearing something red and white in the team’s colours,
readFederer, Williams on form at US Open
07-09-2011
NEW YORK – Roger Federer and Serena Williams beat the weather and their opponents to storm into the quarter-finals of the US Open on Monday and send an ominous warning to the current world number ones
readBin Hammam slams Fifa ethics
07-09-2011
MOHAMED Bin Hammam has launched a stinging attack on Fifa ethics committee deputy chair Petrus Damaseb and Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke, saying he is confident of coming out “unscathed of
readEvicted shack dwellers take a stand
07-09-2011
A GROUP of people who were evicted from their homes in Windhoek’s Hakahana informal settlement in mid-winter have begun court proceedings to reclaim ownership of their plots.In court documents filed
readUnam knew about sex-for-marks claims
07-09-2011
THE University of Namibia (Unam) management knew of the exchange of marks for sexual favours between lecturers and students long before it officially launched an investigation into recent
readNCCI calls for a swift solution to Namdeb strike
07-09-2011
THE Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) has called for an immediate resolution of the Namdeb strike, saying a prolonged industrial action would have far-reaching consequences for the
readMedical history in the making
07-09-2011
THREE young Namibians will be one step closer to hearing sounds this weekend, when the first cochlear implant surgeries in Namibia are to be carried out in Windhoek.The operations will potentially
readLüderitz diamond divers go back to sea
07-09-2011
DIAMOND divers are to resume operations in the middle of September after Namdeb halted mining activities on short notice since April 7.The moratorium was lifted after a meeting with the Ministry of
readKavango illegal grazers in court
07-09-2011
GOVERNMENT’S insistence to proceed with criminal charges against Oshiwambo-speaking farmers who were charged with trespassing and illegal grazing in north-western Kavango more than six years ago
readFree Trade in Africa, for better or worse?
07-09-2011
IT is not certain that an African free trade area will further regional integration or deepen the existing inequality between countries.For the past year and a half the African tripartite free trade
readFencing in communal areas investigated
07-09-2011
LAND enclosure and the privatisation of communal land are part of a complex web of a changing socio-economic and political environment of customary practices, modernisation and the development of new
readEx-Rössing employee plans civil action
07-09-2011
FORMER employee of Rössing Uranium Limited, Sakaria Tonateni, wants to open a civil case against the company to claim compensation after a workplace accident in 1979 left him with deteriorating
readCity moves to evict townlands settlers
07-09-2011
THE City of Windhoek has taken the first legal steps to have a group of alleged illegal occupants evicted from land which the City owns close to the Daan Viljoen Nature Reserve.In terms of an order
readChild killer admits murder, rape charges
07-09-2011
HE took a stone and threw it against the child’s head. When he saw that this had not killed her, he took another, bigger stone, and threw that, too, against her head.This time she lay still. He
readSMSes for Wednesday 07 September 2011
07-09-2011
SMS Of The Day *CAN someone tell me how people are going to study medicine in Russia yet they have a chain of Es and Gs for Grade 12? And some with with just Grade 10 certificates? This is disastrous
readNotable Quotes
07-09-2011
Any person promoting a culture of laziness and corruption instead of culture of hard work and ethics at Unam must be given marching orders. – Rally of Democracy and Progress Secretary of Information
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