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67 Articles found on Friday, 31 August 2012
Broken bulb blamed for court delays
31-08-2012
A BLOWN light bulb has been blamed for delays at the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura.Members of the public have claimed that court staff cannot find files kept in a strongroom whose lights are
readKnives out at SPYL congress
31-08-2012
TENSION is building up among the factions at the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) congress, with threats of a walkout from tomorrow’s elections already having surfaced.During a central committee
readLeo going for a song
31-08-2012
TELECOM Namibia will pay a nominal price of N$2 to buy broke Leo – less than what it costs prepaid customers of the country’s second mobile operator to make a two-minute call.In addition, Telecom
readCredit good for growth – expert
31-08-2012
BORROWING, whether by business or consumers, is vital to stimulate growth in the current economic slump, Professor Brian Kantor, Investec’s chief economist and investment strategist, said
readIran summit stumbles on nuclear, Syria criticism
31-08-2012
TEHRAN – A showpiece summit hosted by Iran stumbled as soon as it opened yesterday when the head of the United Nations pressed Tehran on its nuclear stand, and Egypt’s new leader publicly sided with
readTough semis battles in store
31-08-2012
THE battle for a place in the MTC Rugby Premier League final will be wide open when the country’s top four teams play off in the semifinals at the Hage Geingob National Rugby Stadium tomorrow
readGet your values right early
31-08-2012
When starting a business it is important to establish a set of genuine values before your enterprise gets too complex and thus harder to change, says Harvard Business Review.As a start-up gets off the
readNearly 40 000 SMEs doing business in Namibia
31-08-2012
ONGWEDIVA – Namibia’s small and medium enterprise (SME) sector is about 38 000 businesses strong, FNB Namibia Holdings chief executive officer Vekuii Rukoro has said.Speaking at the official opening
readBarclays made ‘serious mistakes’, says new chief
31-08-2012
LONDON – Absa parent Barclays yesterday named retail boss Antony Jenkins as its new chief executive, handing an insider the task of helping to repair the damage caused by a rate-rigging
read‘Drink less, do more and get rich’
31-08-2012
SYDNEY – The world’s richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, urged those “jealous” of the wealthy to “spend less time drinking” in a piece blasted as “insulting” by Canberra
readEuro breakup would cost Germany 10 per cent of GDP
31-08-2012
FRANKFURT – A complete collapse of the euro would shave up to 10 per cent off the German economy and even just the departure of Greece from the currency club bears substantial risks to business,
readSA mine unrest to affect potential investment
31-08-2012
PERTH – A wave of labour unrest and violence in South Africa’s mining sector will have an impact on potential investments, the country’s resources minister has said.Clashes between police and workers
readWill Bernanke signal new boost to US economy?
31-08-2012
WASHINGTON – Expectant eyes from around the world will be on Ben Bernanke today, looking for assurances that the US economy is solid or, if not, that his Federal Reserve is ready to invest more to
readBurkina Faso to tax mine transfers
31-08-2012
JOHANNESBURG/OUAGADOUGOU – Impoverished Burkina Faso is considering a 20 per tax on the sale of mining licences in a move to raise funds that could hit expansion plans by miners operating in the West
readDA lauds Motlanthe on info bill
31-08-2012
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance has backed Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s stance on referring the Protection of State Information Bill to the Constitutional Court
readDos Santos asks Angola for another 5 year term
31-08-2012
LUANDA –President Jose Eduardo dos Santos asked Angolans to give him five more years in power to further his drive to rebuild the country after its 27-year civil war, on the final day of election
readEx-IBM chief ‘quizzed over upskirt filming’
31-08-2012
TOKYO – A former president of IBM Japan has been questioned by police after allegedly filming up the skirt of an unsuspecting woman in a train station, local media reported yesterday.Takuma Otoshi,
readForeign students in UK risk deportation
31-08-2012
LONDON – More than 2 000 foreign students face possible deportation from Britain after their university was stripped of its right to authorise visas.Immigration Minister Damian Green said yesterday
readSouth African Marikana miners ‘face murder charges’
31-08-2012
JOHANNESBURG – Workers arrested at South Africa’s Marikana mine will be charged later with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police, an official has said.A prosecuting authority spokesman told the
readStorms, drought overshadow UN climate talks
31-08-2012
BANGKOK – World climate change negotiators faced warnings yesterday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in
readIran, Egypt leaders discuss Syria conflict, ties
31-08-2012
TEHRAN – Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Egypt’s Mohamed Mursi yesterday discussed the Syrian conflict and their states’ severed diplomatic ties in their first-ever bilateral meeting, an
readObserver Teachers Exploited
31-08-2012
WE APPRECIATE the efforts by the Ministry of Education, under the good leadership of our two Ministers, for supporting vacation classes for the Grade 10 and 12 pupils countrywide from August 24 to 31
readAre We Patsies?
31-08-2012
WELL done and thank you Maghitta Visser and all your helpers for saving those poor helpless dogs and returning them to their grieving families. God bless you for your compassion and caring for helping
readWater Is life
31-08-2012
TSUMEB Municipality installed pre-paid meters in the Soweto location and replaced conventional ones in the nearby Omashaka location.Since the establishment of the location before independence (in the
readChurch Misses The Point
31-08-2012
I AM awaiting an equivalent of the Olufuko where the young men walk around with their genitals exposed, wearing jewellery, with nicely dressed hair and pounding millet in the sun to show that they are
readBible Can’t Patch Moral Holes
31-08-2012
WE HAVE witnessed in the past few weeks an exchange of letters about returning biblical studies in our schools, in the hope of restoring vanishing moral values of the youth.The secularists feel that
readAagundjuka yo RDP ya hala etulwopevi li kuthwepo
31-08-2012
AAGUNDJUKA yongundu yo Rally of Democracy and Progress oya indile opo etulwopevi lyaawiliki yatatu li kuthwepo, ngele inashi ningwa ota ya ka holola omadhiladhilo gawo.Ewawa lyaagundjuka yo RDP olya
readEpangelo ota li kiindika omakanka miilonga yimwe
31-08-2012
ANIILONGA yamwe momalelo giilando noshowo miipangelo yepangelo naambyoka yopaumwene ota ya ka indikwa opo ya ninge omakanka.Shika osha uvikwa konima sho okommittee yinasha niilonga ya simana
readOlufuko oshitopolwa oshitiyali
31-08-2012
Ouhengu: Okakadona Okawambo ngee ka miti (osho tashi ti oka ninga oufimba inaka fukala) ohaka ifanwa ehengu. (Oshiwa tu shiive kutya paShiwambo ehengu halo oshikumbu – ngaashi vahapu hatu lumbakanifa
readOsikola mOrangeK
31-08-2012
ANSELA moshikandjohogololo shOranjemund okwa ti otapa ka tungwa osikola yopevi yepangelo poshilando shoka. Oshilando shokawe shoka sha kala konyala omimvo ethele mewiliko lyehangano lyokawe lya Namdeb
readOmaulikilo giipindi gwa Ngwediva otaga ende nawa
31-08-2012
OMAULIKILO gIikwaipindi gokomumvo ga Ngwediva gonuumvo, ngoka ga egululilwe kOmupresidende Hifikepunye Pohamba Omaandaha goshiwike shika, otaga ende nawa, Omupopiliko gwondoolopa ya Ngwediva Andreas
readSMS mOshiwambo
31-08-2012
*Ohome affairs ohayi kwata ethimbo lithike peni nge wa shedye ofani yoye oshili ohakwata ethimbo ele shinene yakwetu. *Yaye vakwetu East gate Rest camp te tu ndipaya ihatu mono omauwanawa gasha
readPohamba a kumagidha aanyasha yi iyageke etopoko mokati kawo
31-08-2012
OMUPERESIDENDE Hifikepunye Pohamba okwa kumagidha iilyo yewawa lyaagundjuka moSwapo opo yi yande omakondjithathano, nokulalakanena okongressa tayi ende nawa. Pohamba okwa gandja ekumagidho ndyoka
readMatch fixing not rife in Namibia
31-08-2012
NAMIBIA is relatively immune to match fixing as there is not much money in domestic football, said NFA secretary general Barry Rukoro. Rukoro, who formed part of a recent Interpol and Fifa discussion
readTeam Namibia raring to go at Paralympic Games
31-08-2012
NAMIBIA’S athletes are ready to take on the world’s best at the 2012 London Paralympic Games. According to team leader Penandino Kandjii, they have been using the excellent training facilities at
readSangakkara in race for four ICC awards
31-08-2012
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara was yesterday nominated in four categories for the International Cricket Council awards, including player of the year.The 34-year-old batsman-wicketkeeper will
readPoor lights to be fixed soon
31-08-2012
THE poor lighting at the Sam Nujoma Stadium will hopefully be a thing of the past, after the Namibia Premier League and the City of Windhoek entered negotiations to rectify the situation. The
readBester hungry for game time
31-08-2012
ORLANDO Pirates attacker Rudolf Bester is hopeful of finally cementing his place in the first team following limited playing time in Soweto.The 29-year-old joined the Buccaneers from Maritzburg United
readRecords tumble as China takes first Paralympic Games gold
31-08-2012
LONDON – World records tumbled in the pool and on the cycling track yesterday, as the first day of competition at the London Paralympics got under way and China won the Games’ first gold medal.At the
readTickets to ‘Battle of the Warriors’ on sale
31-08-2012
TICKETS to the Namibian featherweight title fight between Tommy Nakashimba and Matheus Kandala on September 14 are now on sale, the organisers say.Available are N$50 ordinary seat tickets as well as
readSport Fixtures
31-08-2012
Friday, August 31 Rugby: Currie Cup Lions v Griquas 18h10 Saturday, September 1 English Premier League West Ham v Fulham 14h35 West Brom v Everton
readManchester United rely on Van Persie for goals
31-08-2012
LONDON – Manchester United will need new signing Robin van Persie to shoulder the goal-scoring burden when they travel to promoted Southampton in the Premier League on Sunday without the injured Wayne
readWorkers don’t benefit from NUNW-Swapo relationship
31-08-2012
WORKERS – especially those at grassroots level – do not benefit sufficiently from the relationship between the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) and the ruling party Swapo.So said Justina
readUnion complains about bus hours
31-08-2012
THE Namibia Domestic and Allied Workers’ Union (NDAWU) has demanded an investigation into the operations of the City of Windhoek bus service.According to Rocco Nguvauva, the acting general secretary
readThink like a vulture today
31-08-2012
ALL seven of Namibia’s vulture species were ranked by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as ‘endangered’ this year – something to think about tomorrow on Vulture Awareness Day.
readSMSes for Friday 31 August 2012
31-08-2012
SMS Of The Day *I WOULD like to urge anyone who goes through a difficult time right now, no matter what it is, to watch the Paralympic games. You will forget your problems. Very inspiring indeed!
readSeal tourism continues regardless of annual cull
31-08-2012
TOURISTS by the busload visit the Cape Cross Seal Reserve daily to see Cape Fur seals, regardless of the fact that a few hours before they enter the reserve, scores of seal pups are killed as part of
readUnited Nations alerted about phosphate mining
31-08-2012
IN an open letter to United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon, environmental lobby group Swakopmund Matters states that marine phosphate mining would make a mockery of the UN’s oceans
readOutapi hospital in state of disrepair
31-08-2012
THE Outapi District Hospital, one of the four big hospitals in the Omusati Region, is in a mess, with broken washing machines and cleaners who are required to do administrative work.Several general
readNDP threatens to boycott Sibbinda by-election
31-08-2012
THE president of the Namibia Democratic Party (NDP), Martin Lukato Lukato, says his party will not participate in the upcoming Sibbinda by-election in the Caprivi Region unless the Electoral
readNBC needs an independent audit
31-08-2012
AN independent audit into the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation’s (NBC) income and expenditure is inevitable after the deteriorating financial situation at the national broadcaster recently resulted
readMurder convict on the run after escape
31-08-2012
ONE of the two men found guilty of robbing and murdering a Windhoek City Police officer in May 2010 remains on the run after he managed to escape out of Police custody three weeks ago.Levi Shilunga is
readKeetmans workers appear in court for scrap metal theft
31-08-2012
FOUR municipal workers were yesterday arraigned on theft charges in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing manhole covers and a rubbish skip. They are Albertus Basson (37),
readGondwana rocked by burglary
31-08-2012
AN unknown number of suspects are on the run after an armed robbery at Gondwana Travel Centre in Windhoek’s Klein Windhoek suburb yesterday.According to Gerry Shikesho of the City Police, the suspects
readWoman charged with baby murder
31-08-2012
A 26-year-old Khorixas woman, Barbina Kangombe, appeared in the local Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with the murder of her newborn baby last week.State prosecutor Immanuel Uariua opposed the
readNo State Sides With Workers
31-08-2012
I WOULD like to respond to the letter ‘Call a General Strike’ in The Namibian of Friday, 24 August 2012.The letter writers say that: ‘The capitalist state is not on the side of the worker’. Well, that
readNBC Strike Was Bad
31-08-2012
I WOULD like to congratulate NBC employees for their victory in the battle of their salary increments, and other benefits, by downing tools, as well as the Government of the Republic of Namibia for
readLand Grab Is Inevitable In Namibia
31-08-2012
THE war of 1904–1908 between Germans and Hereros was caused by the land and cattle grab by Germans which left Hereros without land and poor.The land was, and is still, the main factor of production
readPolitical Leadership Is Key To A Winning Namibian Future
31-08-2012
ON March 12 2010, Mo Ibrahim delivered in the Great Hall at the University of Ghana-Legon a lecture entitled ‘Taking Responsibility: How to fix the mess that Africa is in’. As an architect of good
readTurning to Comedy to Win Votes
31-08-2012
IT’S funny to see how the foreign correspondents are speculating on the imminent demise of the ANC after the recent Lonmin debacle that made headlines worldwide.So many arm-chair critiques from far
readThe one-trick pony
31-08-2012
Our government can only talk to us if the NBC is on air. That is perhaps the saddest fact to have come out of the whole sad sorry saga.The NBC, being that vital, says more about government ineptitude
readCharity Begins With Youth
31-08-2012
THE Swapo Youth League kicked off a six-day congress on Wednesday with the theme: ‘SPYL in pursuit of Namibia’s technological and economic revolution’. Yet the programme given to the public over most
readThe Myth Of A Big Brother In Africa
31-08-2012
I’M not writing about the now widely-known Big Brother television show here. I have something else in mind. What I have in mind is the belief that one single country or even a number of them can
readGangsterism, Selfishness, Killing RDP
31-08-2012
AFTER attending public rallies of the Rally for Democracy and Progress in Windhoek and at Omuthiya following the party’s establishment a few years back, I told some of my newsroom colleagues that
readPolitical Perspective
31-08-2012
SOMEBODY recently posed the question on the social network Twitter as to whether education or skills were more important. Most who responded unequivocally gave their vote to education, but the word
readFrontlining on Twitter
31-08-2012
MATTERS of life, death, and kapana; grandpas, parents, and aliens; saints and sinners. More snip- pets from the daily chronicles of life, as tweeted by Namibians.@SONIQX: English is the official
readNotable Quotes
31-08-2012
NO other youth wing in Namibia is comparable to the SPYL. The opposition parties’ youth wings are non-entities, we lead and they follow. The same way the Swapo Party leads and all opposition parties
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