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57 Articles found on Thursday, 1 November 2012
Otjozondjupa nullified again
01-11-2012
THE Swapo secretariat, for the second time, declared the results of the Otjozondjupa regional conference held at Otjiwarongo last weekend null and void.An extraordinary secretariat meeting, chaired by
readPolice caught poaching springbok
01-11-2012
SIX police officers at Khorixas were caught with the carcasses of poached springbok yesterday.A joint operation by Ministry of Environment and Tourism officials and game guards in the Doro !Nawas
readTeachers arrested
01-11-2012
SOME teachers in the Oshana Region were arrested yesterday for picketing without permission from the police.The teachers from the Oshakati, Ompundja and Onamutai circuits went on strike yesterday,
readNO PUPILS
01-11-2012
A lone teacher sits in a classroom at the Michelle McLean Primary School and catches up on some paperwork. See full report on page 7 of The Namibian Newspaper. Photo: Tanja Bause
readConfidence grows in controversial Namibian phosphate project
01-11-2012
NAMIBIAN Marine Phosphate (NMP), the Namibian partner in the planned Sandpiper Marine Phosphate project, opened its head office in Walvis Bay on Tuesday.NMP CEO of operations Barnabas Uugwanga said
readZuma rides out strikes
01-11-2012
Johannesburg – A storm of violent wildcat strikes in South Africa’s mines has eased, leaving President Jacob Zuma battered but defiant, and buoying his chances of heading off rivals to win a party
readJacobs through to quarters
01-11-2012
SEDI Jacobs overcame a shaky start to beat Dannielle du Plooy of South Africa 6-4, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the ITF South Central African Junior Championships at the Central Tennis Courts
readSouth Africa’s census: Racial divide continuing
01-11-2012
The income of white South African households is six times higher than black ones, new census figures reveal.President Jacob Zuma said the census showed the black majority is still at the “bottom of
readWe need Consumer Protection laws
01-11-2012
Since Independence, Namibia’s lawmakers have been preparing laws to make all our citizens equal and to ensure that our rights are protected. They have scrapped discriminatory laws and created laws
readBankers warn against financial fraud
01-11-2012
WINDHOEK – The Bankers Association of Namibia (BAN) has warned the public about fraudsters targeting businesses in Namibia. BAN chairman Christo de Vries said in a statement issued here on Tuesday
readBarclays hit by fresh US investigations
01-11-2012
LONDON – Barclays, already rocked by an interest rate rigging scandal, unveiled two new US regulatory investigations into the bank's financial probity yesterday and said its profit was hit by charges
readIMF eases restrictions on Zimbabwe
01-11-2012
WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has relaxed restrictions on technical assistance to Zimbabwe, opening the way for an IMF staff-monitored economic programme.The move marks a major
readMiners rattled by DRC plan to raise stakes
01-11-2012
MELBOURNE – Plans by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to raise its stake in new mining projects to 35% from 5% under a revised mining code unnerved investors yesterday, coming on the heels of a
readPortugal Telecom gears for global lead, MTC to benefit
01-11-2012
LISBON – Namibia's mobile sector stands to benefit from the blistering pace at which its technical partner, Portugal Telecom (PT), is positioning itself to become a major player in the European and
readHow to engage your employees
01-11-2012
Most upwardly mobile managers know that an empowered team helps their performance, but a compulsion to control their own fate can cloud that awareness, says Harvard Business Review.Engaged employees
readLüderitz Waterfront development stalls
01-11-2012
THE second phase of the Lüderitz Waterfront development is failing to get off the ground due to insufficient government funding. In 2009, Cabinet directed the ministries of education, youth and
readOndangwa tries out new waste management system
01-11-2012
RENT-A-DRUM has introduced another environmentally friendly and hygienic waste management system in Namibia in collaboration with a leading Finnish company.The new method known as the Molok Deep
readVeld fires, illegal sand mining a challenge in Kavango
01-11-2012
ILLEGAL sand mining, veld fires and lack of human and financial resources are hampering efforts by the Kavango Region to use its biodiversity sustainably.This was revealed at a recent two-day
readHow Namibia turned poachers into gamekeepers and saved rare wildlife
01-11-2012
IN Namibia, the question of who owns the wildlife has often been fraught with difficulties.In 1967 – one year after the United Nations demanded South Africa leave Namibia – the ruling South African
readWould-be UK migrants found in coffin truck
01-11-2012
London — British border officials have detained three people who tried to enter the country illegally by hiding in a truck full of coffins. The Border Force says a sniffer dog found the
readZimbabwe pair nabbed for drug corpse
01-11-2012
Harare – Zimbabwe police have detained two men on suspicion of drug-dealing after plainclothes police caught them trying to recover a corpse stashed with 1,4kg of heroin, local media reported on
readMyanmar opium output rises despite eradication effort
01-11-2012
Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has risen for the sixth consecutive year despite a state eradication campaign, a United Nations report said on Wednesday, throwing doubt on government assertions the
readDRC plagued by alarming famine rate
01-11-2012
Brazzaville – The Democratic Republic of Congo has the highest rate of malnutrition in central and west Africa, affecting 43 per cent of children under five, Unicef said on Tuesday. In
readSyrian airport ‘turned into feared prison’
01-11-2012
Beirut – The Syrian regime has transformed a military airport in Hama city into one of the country’s most-feared prisons, where detainees are crammed into hangars and deadly torture is rife,
readProtesters storm Libyan congress
01-11-2012
Tripoli – Protesters stormed Libya’s national assembly on Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of a vote on a proposed coalition government named by the country’s new prime minister just hours
readGloves off for main bout
01-11-2012
THE main bout of the ‘Last Man Standing’ boxing bonanza will be brief, as both the champion Immanuel ‘Prince’ Naidjala and his challenger, Shabani Kilumbelumbe from Tanzania, have vowed not to let
readMeyer building for 2015 World Cup
01-11-2012
CAPE TOWN – South Africa will use next month’s tour of Britain and Ireland to give a young side the opportunity to experience northern hemisphere conditions in advance of the 2015 World Cup, coach
readPSG target Ronaldo and Mourinho
01-11-2012
BIG-SPENDING French side Paris Saint-Germain are ready to shell out 100 million euros for Real Madrid ace Cristiano Ronaldo and bring manager Jose Mourinho at the same time, Italy’s Gazzetta dello
readReading left reeling with unwanted place in history books
01-11-2012
LONDON – Reading now occupy the unwanted place in the record books of losing the highest-scoring games in the League Cup and Premier League when they went down 7-5 to Arsenal in an extraordinary Cup
readFistball cups up for grabs
01-11-2012
THE Namibian fistball season will end on Saturday when the Swakopmund Fistball Club (SFC) hosts the Bank Windhoek National Fistball Cup competition.The tournament will be played in two categories –
readRose confident ‘magical run’ is permanent
01-11-2012
DONGGUAN – England’s Justin Rose said yesterday he was confident his blistering form would become his new standard - and that with better putting, he could have been celebrating his first Major.Rose,
readBrazil probes TV use in football match
01-11-2012
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian football’s disciplinary tribunal is to investigate a complaint that match officials used information based on television replays in their decision to disallow a goal at the
readGymnastics Federation defies Sport Commission
01-11-2012
THE Namibia Gymnastics Federation (NGF) has challenged the Namibia Sport Commission (NSC) following its disqualification as an affiliate of the national umbrella sport body. The NGF is taking legal
readBuchters win Karas Netball League
01-11-2012
THE Buchters team from Lüderitz have won the Karas Netball League for the third consecutive year. Rosh Pinah’s Desert Netball team finished in second place, with Novanam from Lüderitz completing the
readAalongi yi indilwa ya shune komanongelo
01-11-2012
AALONGISIKOLA mboka ye li mekanka lyaa li pampango oya tseyithilwa kutya itaya ka futwa oondjambi molwaashoka ina ya longa sha.Shika osha popiwa kOminista Yuuyelele nOmakwatathano gopaunongononi,
readEgameno lyookandidate dhuupeviperesidende lya kolekwa
01-11-2012
OPOLISI oya koleke egameno lyookandidate ndatu ndhoka tadhi kondjithathana oku kuthapo oshipundi shuupeviperesidende wongundu yo Swapo pehulilo lyomwedhi nguka. Onkundana ndjika oya kolekwa
readSMS mOshiwambo
01-11-2012
*Otandi indile moshiwana mu toolifengeko onda kanifa okamutwe kashangwa Silvanus Walombola nda ndalelwa pEpoko ingu we ka mona olupandu oloye, ongovi 081 6070506 *Ovaleli ova Namibia ovafimanekwa
readOondohotola tadhi hokololithwa
01-11-2012
OONDOHOTOLA mbali otadhi hokololithwa koraata yaaneithano lyuundjolowele[Health Professional Council] omolwa oshiningwanima shomunona a valelwe keena omwenyo omimvo omulongo dha pitipo. Oondohotola,
readKaaronda a tidhwa miilonga
01-11-2012
AAWILIKI yaali aanankondo mondundahangano yaaniilonga, National Union of Namibian Workers[NUNW] oya tidhwa miilonga kewilikongundu pitithi lyopokati konima yoshigongi shopaulumompumbwe metitatu
readSMSes for Thursday 01 November 2012
01-11-2012
SMS Of The Day *I BEG to differ about the three worst ministries mentioned in Monday’s paper. They are all in a chaotic state and all collapsed a long time ago. But if you had to go to court nine
readWordweaver wins gold
01-11-2012
Wordweaver Publishing received two gold awards at the Namibian Children’s Book Forum Awards, held on Saturday – an incredible achievement for the fledgling publishing house, that launched its first
readWage talks nearing end
01-11-2012
AN agreement on salary adjustments for civil servants, including teachers and nurses, may be reached soon.Negotiations between the government, the Namibia Public Workers Union (Napwu) and the Namibia
readFrom The Twittersphere
01-11-2012
TEACHERS and car guards, teeth and tomato sauce, word abuse; Unam’s ‘partying ways’, lobsters and zinger wings, bikes and likes, not forgetting the dougie … Namibian tweeps dot the i’s and cross the
readState case closed in third treason trial
01-11-2012
THE prosecution has wrapped up its case in the third Caprivi high treason trial, which is being heard in the High Court at Oshakati.Following the closing of the State’s case against Albius Moto Liseli
readStudents concerned over teachers strike
01-11-2012
THE low attendance this week at state schools in especially Katutura will have an impact on this year’s examination results.This concern was expressed by pupils The Namibian spoke to yesterday during
readState gets time to call UK fraud witnesses
01-11-2012
THE prosecution in the High Court trial of five men who are accused of having been involved with an international gang of bank card fraudsters that was active in Namibia during 2007 has been given
readSPYL blocks Facebook discussions
01-11-2012
THE Swapo Party Youth League has disabled posting on its Facebook page until after the party congress, secretary for information Job Amupanda has confirmed.1“What we did is to stop the campaigns,
readShishani is back!
01-11-2012
Last Band Standing 2012 first prize winner Shishani recently landed back in the country and is already setting the music scene alight. The singer-songwriter of half Belgian, half Namibian descent is
readPolice, NWR to clamp down on shebeens in national parks
01-11-2012
THE Otjozondjupa police have warned that they will clamp down on the illegal sale of alcohol and drugs in the Etosha National Park by employees of Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) or relatives visiting
readOver N$15m raised for Unam campus
01-11-2012
MORE than N$15 million was raised for the construction of the University of Namibia's southern campus on Tuesday evening.Construction of the southern campus at Keetmanshoop is set to start in the
readMad Max Meltdown Tom Hardy driving Charlize Theron crazy
01-11-2012
There’s no love lost between Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron on the set of ‘Mad Max, Fury Road’, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.The British method actor has been driving the South-African born
readJournalist barred from taking notes in court
01-11-2012
A WALVIS Bay magistrate yesterday admitted that he had made a mistake by preventing a journalist from taking notes in court.Magistrate Andre Matulich, told The Namibian's coastal reporter, Adam
readA case of mistaken identity
01-11-2012
THE Jesus Centre Family Church in Windhoek’s Okuryangava neighbourhood has denied that Pastor Haruna Goroh was arrested in connection with the manufacturing and sale of fake qualifications, as
readPolice get new helicopter
01-11-2012
THE Namibian Police Air Wing has received a new EC 145 helicopter which is currently the only one of its kind in Africa.The unit’s new hangar was also inaugurated by the Minister of Safety and
readFisheries observers call off strike
01-11-2012
A STRIKE by close to 200 fisheries observers at Lüderitz and Walvis Bay only lasted five hours yesterday. The workers called off the strike after it emerged that procedures as stipulated in the
readDoctors found not guilty
01-11-2012
DOCTORS Martha Iiyambo and Anna Kalilo, who were charged with misconduct, have been found not guilty by the professional conduct committee.Dr Joggie Briedenhann, the chairperson of the hearing,
readNotable Qoutes
01-11-2012
IGNORE them and say focused on our demands. The battle is on. – Dankie Katjiuanjo, the Namibia National Teachers’ Union (NANTU) Khomas Region chairperson who was suspended by the union last week,
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