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55 Articles found on Friday, 1 February 2013
Jarman switches babies’ coffins
01-02-2013
TOMMY Jarman Funeral Services yesterday apologised profusely after switching coffins, resulting in the wrong baby being buried on Wednesday.“There is no excuse for the train of events that led to this
readFishing rights holders’ shotgun marriages in stormy waters
01-02-2013
THE minister of fisheries and marine resources, Bernard Esau, has warned that there is very little room for wriggling out of the joint ventures of new fishing rights holders that were put together by
readCommunal farmers cry foul
01-02-2013
COMMUNAL farmers in the Karas Region are accusing livestock auctioneers of colluding to keep animal prices low and to make exorbitant profits at the expense of poor farmers.The farmers The Namibian
readUNDER THE HAMMER
01-02-2013
Goats were sold at an average price of N$470 at a auction held by Agra at Keetmanshoop yesterday. Photo: Nampa
readCivics look beyond Isaacks
01-02-2013
NAMIBIA Premier League strugglers Civics have sufficient emerging talent to cope with the departure of former talisman Heinrich Isaacs, according to club coach Jeremy Zimmer. The 27-year-old
readSMSes for Friday 01 February 2013
01-02-2013
SMS Of The Day *TO reduce road accidents in Namibia, start teaching driving lessons as a subject in government schools please. Food for Thought *POLITICIANS of Namibia, wake up and do something.
readAthletics Grand Prix in Swakopmund
01-02-2013
TOMORROW will see the third and final leg of the Bank Windhoek Grand Prix taking place at the Swakopmund Stadium.A total of 280 athletes have registered to take part in the prestigious event. The
readNamibia off to a poor start
01-02-2013
NAMIBIA got off to a poor start in their three-day CSA cricket match against Kwazulu Natal Inland yesterday as they were all out for a paltry 128 runs in their first innings. About an hour before
readSeibeb joins African Cycling Centre
01-02-2013
NAMIBIAN development cyclist Costa Seibeb recently joined the UCI African Continental Cycling Centre (WCCA) in Potchefstroom, South Africa, after being nominated to attend the 10-week training camp by
readFixtures
01-02-2013
Saturday, February 2 Ghana v Cape Verde 17h00 South Africa v Mali 20h30 Sunday, February 3 Ivory Coast v Nigeria
readBig guns keep Afcon hopes alive
01-02-2013
SO now that the boys are separated from the men, all eyes will be on the continent’s giants as the quarterfinal knockout stage of the Africa Cup of Nations kicks off with a fixture between joint
readElephants favourite, but upsets loom in last eight
01-02-2013
NELSPRUIT – Ivory Coast have emerged as clear favourites as the African Nations Cup enters its knockout stages but if past finals are anything to go by, the tournament remains ripe for more
readSars files for Malema bankruptcy
01-02-2013
Cape Town – Julius Malema is about to lose all his assets, City Press stated on Thursday.On Wednesday the taxman applied to the North Gauteng High Court to have the former ANC Youth League leader
readLeo calls China for help
01-02-2013
TELECOM Namibia, the new owner of Leo, plans to invest more than N$400 million in an infrastructure network as part of its strategy to compete “heads-on” with MTC and secure between 35% and 40% of the
readEpangelo needs N$400 million for capital projects
01-02-2013
STATE-OWNED Epangelo Mining Company needs about N$400 million to fund its capital projects over a period of three years.These projects include the development of the acquired 35 Exclusive Prospecting
readReach agreement by seeing it their way
01-02-2013
Compromise gets a bad rap, but it’s an essential leadership skill. And you can’t do it effectively without understanding the other side’s point of view, says Harvard Business Review in its Management
readFrench mayor in shady shuttle bus case
01-02-2013
COUTANCES, France – The mayor of French landmark Mont Saint-Michel faces conviction and a hefty fine for allegedly redirecting shuttle services so tourists would depart from outside his
readWTO unlikely to help Laos escape neighbours’ grasp
01-02-2013
BANGKOK – Laos joins the World Trade Organisation tomorrow, a major step for the small communist country but one that experts say may not break its powerful neighbours’ stranglehold over its economy
readRail brakes Africa’s mineral boom
01-02-2013
JOHANNESBURG – African nations will need to spend more than US$50 billion in the next ten years on new rail networks to meet growing demand for mineral resources, Standard Bank has said.The
readSA billionaire shares half of his fortune
01-02-2013
JOHANNESBURG – Billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe on Wednesday announced that his family will contribute at least half the money generated by their assets to charity.“We want to build a track
readDRC to pass oil law requiring tenders
01-02-2013
LUBUMBASHI – A law regulating Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) nascent oil and gas sector will be adopted by April, requiring all potential investors to go through a tender process, the country’s
readWine making takes root in long-isolated Myanmar
01-02-2013
INLE LAKE, Myanmar – Myanmar may be best known for its decades of junta rule, but behind the bamboo curtain maverick entrepreneurs have toiled for years to put the nation on the map for the quality of
readPreserving Black Rhinoceros In Namibia
01-02-2013
AFRICAN Black Rhinos were listed on Appendix I of CITES in 1977 as a mechanism to ban the worldwide trade in rhino horns. The reason for the massive decline in black rhino populations prior to 1977
readBravo Unam!
01-02-2013
WHEN the University of Namibia (Unam) announced last year that it was going to provide wireless internet on all its campuses countrywide, the news was met with much excitement from students. We were
readThe Housing Burden
01-02-2013
THANK you once more for allowing me space in our esteemed newspaper that tells it as it is! I would like to use this platform to embark upon an issue which is of national concern, and this is the
readUnam Blocks Access To Education
01-02-2013
I AM humbly requesting you to accord me a space to cry out for the rescue of our tertiary education. The senior students’ accounts with outstanding fees have now been blocked to prevent any access to
read‘My Health Is My Private Affair’
01-02-2013
DEAR Dr Abraham Iyambo, When you uttered those words you forgot you are a cabinet minister, a person in the limelight. In fact, you are probably the most important minister in the Namibian cabinet.
readNamibian Towns Stifle Economic Prosperity
01-02-2013
CITIES and towns are major engines for economic growth. In Namibia, if you ask most municipalities, if not all, for land to do business the answer that greets you is “no land available or serviced”.
readAir Namibia Is On Course
01-02-2013
YOUR paper and almost all print media recently carried extensive reports on Air Namibia’s operational and managerial processes, blaming management without exception. Some papers failed the thin line
readSomeone Who Can Do The Sums
01-02-2013
THE most important asset of a company, in particular an airline, is its reputation. It must have a reputation of reliability and punctuality. Unfortunately, it appears to me that the present
readEconomic Freedom
01-02-2013
IT IS a fact that Namibia has abundant resources able to provide an economic surplus but our spending causes a deficit. Therefore, we have to overhaul both private and public sectors. Education and
readRelease Unused Sport Equipment
01-02-2013
IN A country where the top echelons of society supervise and safeguard elements of division and polarisation, the power and ability of sports to unite Namibians, despite hunger and poverty, cannot be
readUsakos municipal theft suspect redeployed
01-02-2013
KLAAS Uanga, former assistant accountant at the Usakos municipality and one of five suspects in the theft of municipal cheques, has been appointed as the personal assistant (PA) to the town’s CEO,
readStarved child in hospital, pregnant mother not yet arrested
01-02-2013
THE mother who allegedly tied her son to a pole in Opuwo and left him there without food for more than three weeks has not yet been arrested. She is almost nine months pregnant and is in hospital with
readProbe into state of health done
01-02-2013
IT is now up to President Hifikepunye Pohamba to make public the findings of the four-month probe into the state of the public health sector, which was handed over to him yesterday.Albert Kawana, the
readPolytechnic to refocus course offerings
01-02-2013
THE Polytechnic of Namibia (PoN) has begun preparing for its transition to a university and plans to reduce the number of students enrolled for certain courses in order to focus more on science,
readOkahandja road tender challenge fails
01-02-2013
AN ATTEMPT to stop the Roads Authority from awarding a tender for the design and management of the planned upgrading of the road between Windhoek and Okahandja has ended in failure in the High Court
readNigerian vessel to be auctioned
01-02-2013
A NIGERIAN multi-purpose vessel, the HD Challenger, is to be auctioned within the next month although the owners are still disputing a N$30 million claim by Elgin Brown and Hamer Namibia, who did
readNamibRe financials being rectified - Daxa
01-02-2013
THE Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation Ltd (NamibRe) this week said the reason why its 2011/12 audit report is still outstanding is because debtors’ balances and foreign currency transactions
readNamdeb gets nasty with RDP councillor
01-02-2013
THE Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) has alleged that the dismissal of its Oranjemund local authority councillor Ronnie Slabbert by Namdeb constitutes “ruthless political victimisation”.
readHousing, energy top priorities for Windhoek
01-02-2013
PROVIDING housing, electricity, water and sanitation to informal areas, as well as urgently looking into renewable energy, was high on the priority list at the City of Windhoek’s first council
readFreelance journalist harassed for information
01-02-2013
A FREELANCE journalist for The Namibian at Khorixas, Clemans Miyanicwe, was yesterday taken to the police station in the town in an apparent attempt to force him to disclose the name of a source he
readFirebrand Beukes faces probe
01-02-2013
A COMPLAINT about a tribalistic remark which a Windhoek-based political activist, labour consultant and lay litigant, Hewat Beukes, allegedly made to police officers at the High Court in Windhoek has
readBusinesspeople in Otjomuise unhappy with pirate taxis
01-02-2013
Business people at the Otjomuise shopping complex in Windhoek are unhappy with private taxi drivers that park in front of their shops, claiming that these vehicles are occupying their customers’
read15 years in prison for rape of child
01-02-2013
A WINDHOEK resident convicted of raping a four-year-old child when he was 21 years old received the prescribed minimum prison term of 15 years for the crime this week.Transport company employee Kallie
readFrontlining on Twitter
01-02-2013
THE slice and dice on the issues and non-issues of the day from the Namibian (mainly) Twitter frontline. From Big Sean to Jacob Zuma, the ‘struggle kids’ to revolution, banks and taxi ranks ... and
readForever in Ink
01-02-2013
While the first tattoo ever done has been rumoured to have been accidental (with someone possibly having had an open wound and either touching or rubbing it with a hand covered in soot or ashes from a
readBring An End To Tender Exemptions
01-02-2013
JUST what has our military accomplished to deserve a toast and merry-making when the Ministry of Defence claimed just before Christmas that it urgently needed champagne and whiskey glasses? And,
readThe Public Side of Minister Abraham Iyambo’s Health
01-02-2013
MINISTER Abraham Iyambo says his health is nobody’s business. I agree. But it is (if it is true) the public’s business when an ailing minister (or any other citizen for that matter) travels abroad to
readSo, What About Home Affairs?
01-02-2013
EVERYONE seems to have something awful to say about the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). It is almost like a predictable running gag in a bad novel. The public must soberly engage government on the
readPrivate Men, Public Lives
01-02-2013
WHEN I read the article titled ‘I am in good shape, now leave me alone’ in The Namibian of last Friday, the immediate question that came to mind was: why do our leaders, especially presidents, go
readPolitical Perspective
01-02-2013
IF WE wish to level the playing field in Namibia, then there should be no such thing as ‘struggle credentials’ anymore. Most of those who claim to have ‘struggled’ more than others have already been
readNotable Quotes
01-02-2013
AS artists, we forget where we come from, we come from the struggle, with this album I did not shy away from my struggle but I wrote about it. – Kwaito artist Gazza, says his latest album titled
readJust My Opinion What’s your BEEF?
01-02-2013
Late last year I wrote an article about the year that was with regards to the entertainment industry. One thing I mentioned was that the ladies in the industry, like Linda, Blossom, Lady May, TeQuila,
readWe are all ‘struggle kids’
01-02-2013
This week, everyone and his illiterate cousin (including yours truly) had a full go on social media at the children of veterans who decided to fasten the laces on their well-worn shoes and set off on
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