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56 Articles found on Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Unam murder suspect not fit to stand trial
14-08-2012
THE University of Namibia law student accused of murdering a fellow student in a knife attack four months ago is not fit to stand his trial due to a mental illness.Because he is not fit to stand
readNBC workers vote in favour of a strike
14-08-2012
SHOULD wage negotiations between the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and the Namibia Public Workers’ Union (Napwu) fail this week, a strike is in the cards.A certificate of an unresolved
readFlying start
14-08-2012
Windhoek’s Avis Dam is one of the most popular spots around the city for bird watching. Here a pelican stretches its wings and legs during take-off on Sunday. Photo: Ulla von Holtz
readPohamba orders health probe
14-08-2012
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday announced the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the state of the public health sector.Pohamba ordered the commission – chaired by retired High Court
readTrustco gets credit rating nod
14-08-2012
TRUSTCO Group Holdings has been awarded a “stable outlook” by Global Credit Rating (GCR), responsible for 60 per cent of all ratings on the African continent.In addition, the ratings agency has
readArmy chief ‘retired’ in surprise Egypt shake up
14-08-2012
CAIRO – Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Sunday ordered the surprise retirement of his powerful defence minister and scrapped a constitutional document which handed sweeping powers to the
readBassingthwaighte reaches Olympic target
14-08-2012
MARC Bassingthwaighte says he realised his Olympic dream when he finished 30th in the Men’s Mountain Bike race in London on Sunday.Bassingthwaighte timed eight minutes and 10 seconds behind eventual
readSweden freezes aid to Rwanda over DR Congo
14-08-2012
STOCKHOLM – Sweden announced yesterday that it was provisionally suspending aid to Rwanda pending clarification of reports that the central African nation has backed rebels in Democratic Republic of
readDe Lille blames ANCYL for riots
14-08-2012
CAPE TOWN – Four of Cape Town’s key arterial routes remained shut yesterday morning after a new wave of protests was launched on the Cape Flats.Mew Way and Bonga Drive in Khayelitsha were closed on
readTraore calls for PM to form unity govt
14-08-2012
BAMAKO – Mali’s interim president, Dioncounda Traore, reappointed his prime minister on Sunday, calling upon him to name a new government of national unity within 72 hours to form a united front
readWorld powers weigh emergency meeting on food prices
14-08-2012
PARIS – France, the United States and G20 president Mexico will hold a conference call at the end of August to discuss whether an emergency international meeting is required to tackle soaring grain
readSmall US dairy farms worst hit by historic drought
14-08-2012
CHICAGO – The worst drought in half a century will hit livestock producers in the United States harder than grain farmers as soaring feed costs erase profits and drive many to take on more debt,
readAgricultural diary
14-08-2012
• Auctions August 15: Swakara sale of Deon Barnard at farm Fanara nr. 30 in Koes district August 16: Groenewaldt Brahmans (30 bulls and 60 cows) auction at Namboer Windhoek August 17: Bonsmara
readFMD affects agricultural sector
14-08-2012
THE agricultural sector was flat at zero per cent in real value added during the first quarter of 2012, compared to a 3,4 per cent growth registered in the corresponding quarter of 2011. The first
readUK bank boss to bankers: Learn from 2012 athletes
14-08-2012
LONDON – Britain’s scandal-tainted bankers could learn a thing or two from the country’s athletes after these Olympics, the country’s central banker says.In a newspaper editorial Sunday, Mervyn King
readHSBC can evict Hong Kong Occupy activists, court rules
14-08-2012
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s Occupy movement needs to find a new home. HSBC won a legal motion yesterday to clear out anti-capitalist protesters from a public space below the bank’s headquarters in the
readStanChart in talks to settle Iran laundering probe
14-08-2012
NEW YORK/LONDON – British bank Standard Chartered is trying to reach an early settlement over charges it hid US$250 billion of transactions tied to Iran, backing down under pressure from US regulators
read‘Preferential shares’ scandal ruins Spanish savers
14-08-2012
MADRID – The bank called them “preferential stakes”, but Inocencio Merino would prefer to have avoided them. For him and thousands of other Spanish pensioners, the jargon hid a toxic financial tool
readOkakarara Trade Fair to host gala event Thursday
14-08-2012
WITH just over a month left before the start of the 2012 Okakarara Trade Fair, a gala dinner will be held in Windhoek on Thurdsay at the Old Power Station.The Okakarara Trade Fair Society last Friday
readNew Barclays chairman: I’ll review entire business top to bottom
14-08-2012
LONDON – The new chairman of Britain’s Barclays bank says he’ll undertake a top-to-bottom review of the scandal-tainted business, telling The Sunday Telegraph that he isn’t committed to any of his
readHow to explore your next move
14-08-2012
When contemplating a career change, think about seeking out and quizzing several people who are already doing the kind of work you are interested in, says Harvard Business Review.If you’re
readOperating Rössing’s monster trucks: It’s a woman’s world
14-08-2012
SCEPTICS gave Rössing Uranium’s first lady equipment operators one month. Ten years later, seven of the original group of ten women are celebrating a milestone decade and have proved that given the
readChuck D blasts Jay-Z and Kanye West
14-08-2012
The veteran Public Enemy rapper has recorded a track, ‘Catch the Thrown’, as a response to the hip-hop stars’ collaborative single ‘Watch the Throne’, which questions what the pair stand for and
readVatican orders butler to stand trial
14-08-2012
VATICAN CITY – A Vatican magistrate yesterday ordered Pope Benedict’s former butler to stand trial on charges of aggravated theft for leaking documents alleging corruption in the Vatican.In a 35-page
readRescuers hunt for three Ugandan army helicopters in Kenya: army
14-08-2012
NAIROBI – Emergency teams yesterday searched for three Ugandan army helicopters feared to have crashed in thick forest in Kenya while flying to Somalia to support forces fighting insurgents there,
readHoneymoon over for France’s President Hollande
14-08-2012
PARIS - Francois Hollande will celebrate 100 days since his election as French president today knowing his honeymoon with the electorate is over and that life is not going to get easier any time
readReport finds Oslo attack could have been prevented
14-08-2012
OSLO - An independent panel investigating how Norwegian authorities handled twin attacks that killed 77 people in July 2011 said they could have prevented the first and arrested the killer sooner as
readEthiopian shoemaker takes great strides
14-08-2012
EIGHT years ago, Ethiopia’s Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu decided to sell cool colourful shoes made of recycled materials, including car tyres.The company which she started, SoleRebels, would soon become
readTeach Value Addition, Not General Management
14-08-2012
WITH NDP4 (the Fourth National Development Plan), Namibia is moving into the next phase in its journey towards industrialisation. It would probably be safe to say the previous phases of the
readIs It Hard To Say Sorry?
14-08-2012
NO PRIZES for guessing that the dictator and despot, Joseph Stalin of Russia, is our favourite (oxymoron?) political monster. He not only presided over the death of tens of millions of his fellow
readEpangelo ta li kondjitha emangululo lya Boois
14-08-2012
OMBELEWA yOmutamaneki ndjayi oya hala oku kondjitha etokolo ndyoka lya fala sigo omo kweethiwa kwa ngoloneya nale gwoshitopolwa sha Karas, Dawid Boois.Ngoloneya nguka okwa li a ningilwa omatamaneko
readEhala epe lyopamuthigululwakalo moKatutura
14-08-2012
EHALA lya Xwama Cultura Village noshowo ndyoka hali landitha iikulya yopahedhi moshitopolwa sha Wanaheda mo Katutura ota li nenepala. Ongeshefa ya tamekwa ku Twapewa Kadhikua omumvo 2008 oyo yotango
readGumwe tidhwa menongelo a kwatwa
14-08-2012
AANASIKOLA yaali yaamati haya sikola mOseko yOpombanda ya Omuthiya-Iipundi mOndonga moshitopowla sha Shikoto, omaandaha goshiwike sha zi ko, oya tidhwa mo mosikola konima aniwa sho ya dhenge omulongi
readKatjiriova oye amushanga gwalyaanasha mo DTA
14-08-2012
MOSHIGONGI shawo oshinene sha ningilwa mElyambala mOngwediva mOshana mehuliloshiwike lya zi ko, aanyasha yomewawa lyaanyasha mo DTA oya hogolola, Benson Katjiriova gwokoKhomas oye a ninge amushanga
readSMS mOshiwambo
14-08-2012
Vakwetu otuna uudhigu shi nasha naakwiita ya Namibia, oshili aagandji yiilonga metanga lyegameno taleni nawa aakwaita yeni aahokani naahokanwa.Unene tuu omukwiita okwa tumwa a kalonge eli mokamba
readA mangululwa moshipotha shekengelelo enene mo Caprivi
14-08-2012
OMUFEKELWA gumwe gwomaafekelwa 111 taya tamanekelwa ekengelelo enene noshowo onkambadhala yokutendako oshitopolwa sha Caprivi ko Namibia okwa mangululwa mondholongo etitano lyayi. Osha li ongondjodhi
readWarne wants Usain Bolt for Australia’s Big Bash
14-08-2012
USAIN Bolt could repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in Australia’s Big Bash League after defending his sprint double at the London Olympics, local media reported yesterday.The Jamaican told
readCyclists lobby for special bike paths
14-08-2012
NAMIBIA’S Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) is lobbying for special cycling paths in and around Windhoek.BEN founder and managing director Michael Linke said the organisation received funding to
readWINNERS!!! WINNERS!!! WINNERS!!!
14-08-2012
HERE are the lucky winners of our just-concluded ‘Going for Gold’ competition, which ran in tandem with the London Olympic Games:• N$3 000 in jewellery from leading Namibian jewellers, Herrle &
readParalympic athletes offered rewards for medals
14-08-2012
WINDHOEK – Deputy Director of Sports Shivute Katamba says athletes who manage to bring back medals from the Paralympic Games will receive monetary rewards.A gold medal guarantees N$100 000, silver
readUSA tops Olympics medals table
14-08-2012
LONDON – Medals table at the end of the 2012 Olympic Games: Gold Silver Bronze Total United States 46
readBest Olympics quotes
14-08-2012
LONDON – Following are some of the fun and memorable quotes from the London Olympics:“These were happy and glorious Games.” – International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge hails London 2012
readNursing a hangover, London looks back with pride
14-08-2012
LONDON – London nursed a collective hangover yesterday as it bade farewell to the Olympics and to thousands of athletes heading home, and Britain looked back with pride on a Games one newspaper said
readWoman dies in car accident
14-08-2012
A 49-year-old woman died and four others sustained injuries after a car in which they were travelling left the road and overturned. The accident happened on the B1 road, 21 kilometres north of
readFrom The Twittersphere
14-08-2012
FROM the serious to the sporting, Namibians hit the 140 to express their concerns, fly the flag for Namibia, and provide cultural comments – tongue in cheek and otherwise – on the Olympics closing
readSMSes for Tuesday 14 August 2012
14-08-2012
SMS Of The Day *WHAT is the point of the roadblocks? It is 04h13 on Monday, August 13 on the B1 on the way to Rehoboth. And there is no-one in sight! It appears our intrepid crime-fighters are all
readSanta prepares gifts
14-08-2012
THE Santa Shoebox Project is an initiative of the Kidz2Kidz Trust and started in 2006 in Cape Town with 180 Santa Shoeboxes. In the past six years the project has extended to Namibia and more than
readRegion clamours to save SADC Tribunal
14-08-2012
THERE is a frantic last-ditch attempt by regional activists to save the integrity and independence of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal as heads of state and government meet
readRabies scare hits Anamulenge Constituency in Omusati Region
14-08-2012
VILLAGERS in the north claim that a pregnant woman has died after being bitten by a dog believed to have rabies.People living in the eastern parts of the Omusati Region say a number of dogs in their
readNantu and Khomas directorate at loggerheads
14-08-2012
THE Khomas Regional education director, Thea Seefeldt, is unfazed by a call by the the Namibia National Teachers Union (Nantu) to step down.Nantu’s Khomas regional chairperson, Dankie Katjiuanjo, last
readKeetmans dairy depot to close
14-08-2012
THE Namibia Dairies depot at Keetmanshoop will be closed at the end of September. Namibia Dairies managing director Hubertus Hamm said the closure is part of the company’s objective to streamline
readHit-and-run suspect in court
14-08-2012
THE hit-and-run driver who allegedly hit a Keetmanshoop woman and two children yesterday made a brief appearance in the local Magistrate’s Court on charges of negligent driving and fleeing from the
readDe Klerk urges women to promote their cause
14-08-2012
THE Women’s Action for Development (WAD) executive director, Veronica de Klerk, has called on women leaders in society to groom, train and prepare girls for future leadership roles.De Klerk made the
readAnother big concert bites the dust
14-08-2012
Namibian music fans have been left disappointed yet again. Another concert has fallen through the cracks.The Windhoek Spring Music Festival scheduled for August 24 and 25 will not take place as
readNotable Quotes
14-08-2012
THE principle of international law is that wherever there are allegations of torture these must first be dealt with, because the main case will be tainted by these allegations. – Phil Ya Nangolo,
readEllis realises her dream at Okaepe
14-08-2012
Spending eleven days in the Land of the Brave were enough sunrises for England-based Ellis Riles to realise her love for Namibia and cementing her passion for children.Ellis, from Nottingham, was part
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