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52 Articles found on Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Global Fund salaries compatible
28-02-2012
SALARIES of people employed in HIV-AIDS organisations bankrolled by the Global Fund remain “entirely compatible with, or higher than, market standards”, the donor organisation hit back this week.
readGood as new
28-02-2012
Matheus Gipiqua (78) has been creating art for the past 25 years. At first he created wood carvings of animals.But lately is has been too difficult for him to get the wood he needs from the farm to
readBudget speech should answer tough Tipeeg questions
28-02-2012
FINANCE Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila is unlikely to unveil big surprises in her 2012-13 Budget this afternoon, economists said yesterday.“Generally we think that the tone has been set in the
readOmbudsman sues Govt over housing rights
28-02-2012
THE current legal process through which Namibian home owners can lose the roof over their heads due to unpaid debts is set to face a constitutional challenge through an unprecedented case which
readBusiness confidence dips in January
28-02-2012
BUSINESS confidence waned for the first time in seven months in January with the IJG Business Climate Index shedding 3,2 basis points from its all-time high of 122,7 points in December.At 119,5,
readRussia ‘thwarts plot’ to assassinate Putin
28-02-2012
MOSCOW – Russia said yesterday its secret services had thwarted a plot hatched in a Ukrainian port city by suspected militants from Chechnya to assassinate Vladimir Putin after next weekend’s
readNamibian sport needs role models, says Fredericks
28-02-2012
THE shortage of role models in local sport hampers the growth of aspiring young athletes, Namibian sprint legend Frank Fredericks said yesterday.Fredericks said although the country is blessed with
readLower global crop prices to ease food inflation
28-02-2012
ARLINGTON – Global crop prices will retreat sharply this year as farmers around the world expand production to bring stability back to commodity markets and ease fears of food inflation, the US
readAgri Diary
28-02-2012
• Auctions February 29: Total sale of Oubaas Blaauw at farm Langverwacht near Koës March 1: Springboktrek production sale at Springboktrek near Koës. Dorper and Van Rooy. March 2: Gochas auction at
readAgri Digest
28-02-2012
SA budget boosts smallholder farmer CAPE TOWN – The South African budget will redirect resources to smallholder farmer support programmes in an effort to rejuvenate the shrinking sector. According
readGates pushes UN to help poor more
28-02-2012
ROME – Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told the United Nations’ hunger-fighting agencies they were inefficient and urged their leaders on Thursday to set new targets, redirect resources and turn
readBuilding a future on refuse
28-02-2012
OSHETU Rally Shikalepo and Harrison Pendukeni don’t mind to literally get their hands dirty to ensure a future for themselves – and it’s paying off.Shikalepo (23) and Pendukeni (21) grew up in the
readGive with caution
28-02-2012
Going above and beyond in the workplace is a good thing, right?Whether you stay late to help out a colleague with an important presentation or you give a direct report credit for the success of an
readAfrican Digest
28-02-2012
SA papers takes circulation knock JOHANNESBURG – Newspapers have lost about 90 000 buyers in the past year, according to a report yesterday.Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) data showed that from
readChina must move towards market economy
28-02-2012
BEIJING – China must relax its grip on industry and move towards a free-market economy, the World Bank said yesterday in a report that forecast the country would become the world’s largest economy
readinternational Digest
28-02-2012
Growth for arms vendors slows STOCKHOLM – A peace research group says the sales growth for the world’s 100 largest arms producers slowed down to one per cent in 2010 as foreign forces were
readLimpopo looting tests South Africa’s ANC on graft
28-02-2012
POLOKWANE – When the premier of South Africa’s Limpopo province gave his ‘state of the province’ speech this month, he announced that his region led the nation in good financial record keeping.It left
readBusiness confidence dips in January
28-02-2012
BUSINESS confidence waned for the first time in seven months in January with the IJG Business Climate Index shedding 3,2 basis points from its all-time high of 122,7 points in December.At 119,5,
readWhitney’s ‘son’ taken care of in will
28-02-2012
LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston’s “adopted” son is set to get a share of her fortune.The 48-year-old singer - who died two weeks ago - took Nick Gordon into her home in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was a
read‘The Artist’ silences its critics
28-02-2012
LOS ANGELES – Octavia Spencer crowned her Cinderella story year with a best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for playing a mouthy housemaid who reluctantly tells her story in the US civil-rights era
readSaleh to seek exile in Ethiopia
28-02-2012
SANAA – Aides to Ali Abdullah Saleh said yesterday that the ousted Yemeni president plans to go into exile in Ethiopia, as pressures mounted on him to depart the country for fear of sparking a new
readSenegal’s Wade in tight race for third term
28-02-2012
DAKAR – Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade is in a tight race with his main rival Macky Sall, according to early unofficial tallies from the most contentious poll in the West African state’s recent
readAfrican Briefs
28-02-2012
Afriforum condemns racist training camps JOHANNESBURG – Civil rights organisation AfriForum on Sunday condemned Kommandokorps training camps.On Friday, the Mail & Guardian newspaper reported that
readWorld Briefs
28-02-2012
9 Afghans killed in blast outside Nato base KABUL – A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into the gates of a Nato base and airport in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, triggering a blast that killed
readLet’s talk - Malema to ANC
28-02-2012
JOHANNESBURG – A rift between the ANC Youth League and its mother body can be resolved though a mere meeting, suspended league president Julius Malema suggested on Sunday.“The problems ... can be
readMarzouki, Bill Clinton for Nobel?
28-02-2012
OSLO – Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton may be among the hundreds of nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize,
readEpangelo lya kumikwa li pungule omahooli
28-02-2012
EPANGELO olya kumikwa opo li kuthe ombinga mokupungula omahooli momwaalu omunene, ndele ha kweetha ashike oshinakugwanithwa shika shikale miikaha yomahangano gopaumwene.Omunashipundi shewilikongundu
readPohamba a kumike Hitman a dhengemo omukondjithi gwe mbala
28-02-2012
OMUPERESIDENDE Hifikepunye Pohamba okwa ti okwa hala enyakwa lyuuni nale, Paulus The Hitman Moses a dhengemo omukondjithi gwe, Ricky Burns nongonyo yimwe nopevi. Pohamba okwa kumike Moses, pethimbo
readOsheetwapo shewatelo lyaamboka ya hepa
28-02-2012
AATOTIMPANGO moshigongi shopashigwana oya ti osheetwapo shomuwiliki gwongundu yo All People’s Party, nando oshaanawa okukwathela mboka yeli moluhepo, shika osha pumbwa oku ningilwa ekonakono lyomuule
readAawiliki yaa Herero ya hala oku yalulwa kepangelo
28-02-2012
OSHIGWANA shili kohi yelelo lyopamuthigululwakalo lyaaHerero osha hala aaleli yasho ya ziminwe nokuyalulwa kepangelo ongo aawiliki yopahedhi.Ndele aawiliki mboka taya kongelwa eyalulo okuza kepangelo
readHaikali a kanitha epapa lye moAccra Ghana
28-02-2012
OMUDHENGINGONYO, Martin Haikali okwa ndopa oku gamena epapa lye lyuudhengingonyo lyondjundo ompu kohi yehangano lyokudhenga oongonyo lyaWBO mo Accra sha Ghana olyomakya ga yi. Haikali okwa dhengwamo
readOmwiindili gwiilonga ta pula
28-02-2012
OMWIINDILI gwiilonga ngoka a ndopa okumona iilonga yoku gandja ombautu kehangano lyomatuliloskepa lya Namibia, [Namport] okwa hala okupewa uuyelele okuza koKomissi Yokukondjitha uulingilingi. Centani
readFredericks wants top performance at African Champs
28-02-2012
WITH the National Senior Athletics Championships out of the way, Athletics Namibia president Frank Fredericks says Namibia’s top athletes now need to focus on the continental track-and-field showdown
readOff-beat Namibia crash to nine-wicket defeat against Boland
28-02-2012
NAMIBIA crashed to a nine-wicket defeat against Boland in their CSA 50-Over Match at the Wanderers field on Sunday.Namibia could only muster 84 all out off 27,4 overs, after which Boland scored 85/1
readThe National Senior National Athletics Championships Results: Sunday, February 25
28-02-2012
Men’s 400m Hurdles – Hardus Maritz 52,36, Roussouw van Vuuren 57,35, David Nuseb 57,39; Women’s 200m –1 Globine Mayova 23,78, Tjipekapora Herunga 24,42, Cornel Britz, 25,25; Women’s 3000m –
readFootball Results
28-02-2012
Sunday 26 February 2012 English Premier League Stoke 2 - 0 Swansea Arsenal 5 - 2 Tottenham Norwich 1 - 2 Man Utd German Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund 3 - 1 Hannover 96 Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Schalke 04
readSport Klub Windhoek honours its top stars
28-02-2012
THE SKW Sport Club honoured its most successful sportsmen and women of 2011 at a special prize-giving ceremony on Friday evening, with the football wing of the club collecting most of the
readFirst pro angling tourney a great success
28-02-2012
THE first Rock and Surf Super Pro League (RASSPL) angling tournament in Namibia took place on February 25. RASSPL Namibia is a franchise of RASSPL South Africa, organising between four and six angling
readWenger hails Walcott performance
28-02-2012
LONDON - Arsene Wenger praised Theo Walcott’s two-goal contribution to Arsenal’s 5-2 derby win over Tottenham, but admitted he considered substituting the winger to spare him more abuse from his own
readSMSes for Tuesday 28 February 2012
28-02-2012
SMS Of The Day *WHEN are we in Namibia going to enjoy consumer protection since, at the end of the day, we all are consumers? Ministry of Trade and Industry, we are counting on you. Food for Thought
readPregnancy, depression and sexual assault do not warrant bail
28-02-2012
THE new facts considered during a second bail application by alleged kidnappers Veyonne Beukes (23) and Dylan Stramis (18), who were arrested in Swakopmund in December last year for the kidnapping of
readChinese Investment: Who Benefits From It?
28-02-2012
CHINA is in the process of establishing six special economic zones (SEZs) in Africa which will boast particularly liberal tax policies. Among the African nations selected by China for this project,
readLean Harvest, Huge Investment
28-02-2012
OUR column of today is inspired by mitiri Mesag Kandjii who, last week, put his foot down on habitual tardiness and ill discipline by pupils at the Highline Secondary School in Windhoek’s Greenwell
readNotable Quotes
28-02-2012
Please, young men and women, you don’t have the freedom for men to marry men and women to marry women. – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe at the weekend told British Prime Minister David Cameron “to
readNBC courts Dubai university
28-02-2012
THE Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), the International University of Management (IUM) and the ABN Training Institute in Dubai recently signed an agreement on media training.In terms of the
readNamibia faces electricity shortage
28-02-2012
NAMIBIA will face an electricity shortage this winter, and despite the efforts of NamPower to develop a culture of energy saving, many businesses and organisations in Windhoek leave their lights on at
readMurder suspect recovering in hospital after suicide attempt
28-02-2012
THE 36-year-old Rosh Pinah resident charged with murdering his ex-lover is recovering under Police guard in the Lüderitz State Hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. The suspect, whose name
readMinimum wage for domestic workers
28-02-2012
THE Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare intends to establish a wage commission to investigate wages and conditions of employment of domestic workers. The current labour law gives the minister the
readGirl (12) narrowly escapes rape
28-02-2012
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl allegedly narrowly escaped being raped at Rehoboth over the weekend.The girl and a friend were walking on Saturday when a man called her from a house. Marrick Philander (37)
readFlyers to fund AIDS response
28-02-2012
AIR passengers leaving Namibia could soon form part of a financing strategy which would see funds channelled to the country’s HIV-AIDS response in the form of a solidarity levy on airline tickets.The
readFinancial troubles hit Camelthorn micro-brewer
28-02-2012
LESS than three years after the first beer was tapped at Camelthorn Brewing Company (CBC), the micro-brewer has had assets of more than N$128 000 attached for not paying rent.Adding to founder Jörg
readEtunda panga killer gets 35 years in jail
28-02-2012
A RESIDENT of northern Namibia who last week admitted that he murdered his common-law wife almost two years ago by hacking her to death with a panga was sentenced to a 35-year prison term on
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