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52 Articles found on Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Kalkrand councillors accused of joyriding in fire truck
26-06-2012
THE Kalkrand Village Council’s chairperson, Adriaan Beukes, and his deputy Christine Garoës are being investigated for alleged misuse of council property. It is alleged that they used the council’s
readLetter B shot in Namibia’s dunes
26-06-2012
THE letter B created by 500 children was photographed on the dunes outside of Walvis Bay on Saturday.The letter is part of the World’s Largest Art Project for Charity, which hopes to raise U$10
readMalema’s visit not political party connected
26-06-2012
THE public lecture that will feature expelled African National Congress youth league president, Julius Malema, is a private event and is not connected to any political party, one of the organisers,
readSimon fight questioned
26-06-2012
WHILE Harry Simon claimed Saturday’s first round blitz of Ruben Groenewald was down to his lethal fists, his opponent blamed the referee and critics feel the fight was a hoax. Simon needed only a
readSuper golden handshake for Aupindi
26-06-2012
Tobie Aupindi, the former Managing Director of Namibia Wildlife Resort (NWR), walked away with about N$5 million when he decided to resign from the company – a deal that the board of directors boasted
readBusiness should brace for ‘adverse headwinds’
26-06-2012
CONSUMER spending drove business confidence up last month, causing the IJG Business Climate Index to bounce back from April by 0,5 basis points, registering 119,2.The index, released by the Institute
readSyrian officers defect, Turkey looks to Nato
26-06-2012
ANKARA – A Syrian general and 38 other soldiers defected to Turkey overnight, state television said yesterday, days after Syria shot down a Turkish warplane, escalating tensions between the two
readNamibian athletes shine in Germany
26-06-2012
NAMIBIA’S top athletes rounded off their preparations for the African Athletics Championships in style, when they took Ingolstadt by storm during an exciting International MTV meeting in the German
readGet into the zone
26-06-2012
There are certain times and certain days when you do your best work, and a few ways to help get to that place of maximum performance, says Harvard Business Review.Everyone aspires to get into ‘the
readBusiness should brace for ‘adverse headwinds’
26-06-2012
CONSUMER spending drove business confidence up last month, causing the IJG Business Climate Index to bounce back from April by 0,5 basis points, registering 119,2.The index, released by the Institute
readKunene farmers urged to grow crops
26-06-2012
OPUWO – Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism, Uahekua Herunga, has called on livestock farmers in the Kunene Region to diversify their farming and do some crop farming as well.Herunga was
readAgricultural diary
26-06-2012
• Auctions June 28: Production sale of boergoats and Van rooy sheep by Willie and Theuns Coetzee and Louis Burger at Namboer auction pens at 18h00. July 4: Total sale of the Pieter de Lange Trust
readLivestock permit prices cause for concern
26-06-2012
OPUWO – Traditional leaders in the Kunene Region need to have a uniform method of charging for the issuing of livestock movement permits to avoid the exploitation of buyers and prevent stock
readRelocated San community hit hard by poor harvests
26-06-2012
LIKWATERERA – The small San community which was relocated to Likwaterera in the Kavango Region during November 2010 has been hit by a poor crop harvest this year and will likely face critical food
readCameron plans radical welfare shake-up
26-06-2012
LONDON – British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday set out radical plans to reform Britain’s welfare system, including housing benefit cuts that could see young adults forced to move back in with
readAfrican Briefs
26-06-2012
Kenya grenade attack kills at least 3 MOMBASA – Officials in Kenya say the death toll from the country’s latest grenade attack has risen to three.Police official, Aggrey Adoli, said yesterday that
readEgypt’s new president hits the ground running
26-06-2012
CAIRO – Islamist Mohamed Mursi, Egypt’s first freely elected president whose powers have been curbed by the military, toured his palatial new residence – where ousted leader Hosni Mubarak once lived –
readBriton dies after jumping from Eiffel Tower in Paris
26-06-2012
PARIS – A British man has committed suicide by climbing up the Eiffel Tower in Paris and jumping to his death, officials said yesterday.Police spotted the man climbing the structure of the tower
readCentral Africa gunmen attack French uranium plant: army
26-06-2012
BANGUI – Gunmen have attacked a uranium plant operated by French nuclear power giant Areva at Bakouma in the southeast of the Central African Republic, army and French diplomatic sources said
readTop editors quit at Australian media giant
26-06-2012
SYDNEY – Top editors at Australian newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald resigned yesterday, after parent company Fairfax last week announced an overhaul designed to embrace the digital
readUulingilingi momalelo giitopolwa niilando weetitha omaipulo ogendji noonkondo
26-06-2012
UULINGILINGI pondondo yomalelo giitopolwa niilando ihawu longwa nawo neitulemo enene oku yeleka naamboka wa longwa pondondo yelelo lyopashigwana.Uuyelele mbuka owa shangwa momushangwa nyolwa
readEtokolo miihokolola ya Boois ta li ka tseyithwa mu Juli
26-06-2012
OHOFA yopashitopolwa ya Kaiti ota yi ka gandja etokolo lyayo kombinga yiihokolola ya gavena nale gwoshitopolwa sha Kara, ngoka woo a li kansela gwoshikandjohogololo sha Berseba, Dawid
readFillipus Junias ta pula afutwe ooN$ oomiliona konyala 3
26-06-2012
JUNIAS Fillipus ngoka a kwatelwe ta fekelwa mekwatonkonga nedhipago lyomukadhonasikola , Magdalena Stoffels momumvo 2010 okwa hala oholomende yi mu fute konyala oodola oomiliona ndatu. Okwa hala
readUunona womekondjo owa shewa, Shalli ta ti
26-06-2012
OMUKWIITA eli moshipundi shevululuko, Leitenanda Ndjayi, Martin Shalli okwa ti osha pumbiwa pu ningwe eyooloko pokati kaanona mboka ya valelwa mekondjelomanguluko pondje yoshilongo noshowo ya
readOshipangelo shimwe sha dhiladhililwa mo Katutura
26-06-2012
OPENA omathaneko oku tunga oshipangelo shimwe moshikandjohogololo sha Katutura Central. Omathaneko ngaka oga tseyithwa ku kansela gwoshikandjohogololo shoka, Ambrosius Kandjii poshigongi naakalimo
readSMS mOshiwambo
26-06-2012
*Ngame otandi kongo ekwatho moshigwana.Ondina omunona apya apile mo 10 April 2012, a pile kOwambo sho ali ta teleke okathima kawo na yinakulu ndele ohema oya hwama omulilo etayi pile kololutu lwe
readAagundjuka yoSwapo ya pe ombedhi Road Safety Council
26-06-2012
OSHITAYI shewawa lyaagundjuka yoSwapo moshitopolwa sha Khomas osha popi omaipulo gawo kombinga yeindjipalo lyiiponga yomoondjila , unene tuu moondjila oonene dhoshilongo. Aagundjuka mbaka oya ti
readOmidhimba dha tompakanithwa oku za pokila yaKatutura
26-06-2012
AASI yaali mboka ya manene oondjenda dhawo moVenduka omafumviko gawo oga li inaa ga ningwa pethimbo ngaashi ga li ga thanekwa omolwa etumpakano lyomidhimba dhawo. Etumpakano ndika olya fala mpoka
readProspects for this week’s Euro 2012 semi-finals:
26-06-2012
Portugal v Spain, Wednesday 19h45, Donetsk SPAIN Holders Spain are favourites given they will use all the experience they have garnered from their sensational run in the last four years with triumphs
readThe Ethiopian town that’s home to the world’s greatest runners
26-06-2012
What do Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba, Derartu Tulu and Fatuma Roba have in common, apart from being Olympic gold medal-winning runners? They all come from Bekoji in Ethiopia – and they were all
readFrom The Twitter Touchline
26-06-2012
THE Twit wits and wordsmiths had a field day on Sunday night, during and after the Italy-England quarter-final. Who’ll forget Andrea Pirlo’s Italian Lob, English goalie Hart being made to look like
readOwen calls for coaching overhaul after Euro agony
26-06-2012
KRAKOW – Former England striker Michael Owen led calls for an overhaul of the country’s coaching yesterday after another major tournament campaign ended in disappointment.England bowed out of Euro
readFour promoted to Northern Stream
26-06-2012
BEE Bob Brothers, Celtics, Epupa 11 Stars and African Lions have been promoted to the Nationwide First Division after winning the playoffs held over the weekend.Bee Bob Brothers won the Southern
readVenus loses in Wimbledon’s first round
26-06-2012
WIMBLEDON – For the first time since her debut appearance at the All England Club 15 years ago, five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams failed to get past the first round.The seven-time Grand Slam
readTwo guilty of roadside robbery
26-06-2012
TWO of the four men accused of a violent roadside robbery near Okahandja in May 2006 were found guilty in the Windhoek Regional Court yesterday.Patrick Londeni (36) and Elifas Tobias Aukongo (24) were
readThree farm murder suspects in court
26-06-2012
THE three men arrested in connection with the murder of Dordabis area farmer Joseph (‘Seppie’) Möwes three weeks ago remain in custody after making a first court appearance yesterday.The three men
readTeenage pregnancies increasing in Karas
26-06-2012
KEETMANSHOOP – Teenage pregnancies at Government schools in the Karas Region are increasing.Figures obtained from the office of the Director of Education in the Karas, /Awebahe //Hoeseb, showed that
readSPYL Kavango conference never discussed top four
26-06-2012
THE recently elected Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) leadership in the Kavango Region has distanced itself from a widely reported resolution that the current top four positions in the mother body be
readReho, NamWater in payment talks
26-06-2012
DETAILS pertaining to the down payment of the Rehoboth Town Council’s water debt with NamWater are being discussed after the town’s water was reconnected. Government has agreed to give N$5 million
readRDP says Swapo lures members
26-06-2012
RALLY for Democracy and Progress (RDP) accuses the Swapo Party of trying to lure members to the ruling party if they wish to get out of abject poverty.RDP spokesperson Jeremiah Nambinga said the
readPM’s Neeef gets mixed reaction
26-06-2012
SWAPO Party MP Petrus Iilonga donned his workers’ beret when he pleaded that a section in the New Equitable Economic Empowerment Framework (Neeef), which stipulates that Government may sell off some
readOn the Rule of Law
26-06-2012
OUR world is in dire need of justice. Efforts need to come to terms with the difficulties finding measured and justified responses to injustice exceeding the tolerable limits (what ever tolerable
readBrace Yourself For The Second Coming Of The Shebeeners
26-06-2012
THEY are quite an impressive lot, the shebeeners. They are justifiably quite vocal about their right to sell liquor (with an occasional kapana thrown in as part of the deal) and are not squirmy to use
readOmbudsman OKs seal culling
26-06-2012
NAMIBIA’S Ombudsman, John Walters has proposed a host of changes to the regulations governing culling in Namibia, although he endorses the practice.After a lot of complaints from seal rights
readStorm over Swapo’s Hardap election
26-06-2012
SWAPO secretary for information Jerry Ekandjo had to calm tempers at the party’s regional leadership elective conference on Sunday at Mariental, after a storm erupted over who should attend the
readCourt resurrects medicines regulations
26-06-2012
THE regulations setting out the process through which medical doctors have to obtain a licence before they can sell and dispense medication directly to patients have been brought back to life through
readNotable Quotes
26-06-2012
THERE ‘S a huge difference between these groups of people, there are no comparisons whatsoever. You cannot put Sam Nujoma and Nathanael Maxuilili in one room. – Martin Shali, retired Lieutenant
readSMSes for Tuesday 26 June 2012
26-06-2012
SMS Of The Day *WHY proclaim pockets of towns and villages that can’t sustain themselves while we already have old ones that are struggling with NamPower and NamWater bills? Is proclamation the only
readFrom The Twittersphere
26-06-2012
NAMIBIAN tweeps seemed to wake up in Harry Simon mode yesterday, delivering KOs left, right and centre! Plus, the usual dose of wit and ... wisdom. @mevrou_moongo: My goodness, this is another way of
readTravolta sued for libel as gay claims resurface
26-06-2012
A Los Angeles man who wrote a book about his alleged gay encounters with John Travolta filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against the actor and his attorney.Robert Randolph claimed that Travolta and
read‘Brave’ hits the bullseye with US$66,7 million
26-06-2012
For the third time this year, following strong openings from ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’, a movie with a tough female protagonist topped the box office in a major
readSchuster lashes out at movie ‘murderers’
26-06-2012
SOUTH African funny man, Leon Schuster, doesn’t see the comedy in DVD piracy.There have been at least two attempts to illegally record his latest movie ‘Mad Buddies’ – before it officially opened on
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