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48 Articles found on Tuesday, 5 February 2013
School rents out premises to businesses
05-02-2013
THE Academia Secondary School’s decision to lease out the school premises to three companies has shocked Deputy Minister of Education David Namwandi, who described it as “anarchy, unacceptable and
readAir Namibia dumps business plan
05-02-2013
AIR Namibia board chairperson Harald Schmidt has ignited bitter criticism by allegedly dismantling the ailing airline’s business plan for which N$1,2 billion over three years has been earmarked.
readEducation bursary offering oversubscribed
05-02-2013
THE Ministry of Education and the University of Namibia (Unam) have received thousands of applications for an education bursary scheme announced in January.The Namibian understands that around 10 000
readBig year ahead for Trade
05-02-2013
NO Namibian producer should continue to struggle to sell their products in Namibia, Trade and Industry Minister Calle Schlettwein said yesterday, highlighting producers’ plight as one of the focus
readDivide your writing project into manageable tasks
05-02-2013
Sometimes the worst part of writing an email, proposal, or pitch is getting started. Get over the hurdle by approaching the project as a series of manageable tasks, Harvard Business Review says in its
readMorocco’s ruling Islamists target risky reforms
05-02-2013
RABAT – Morocco’s ruling Islamists are pushing ahead with much-needed reforms, notably of an unsustainable subsidies system and pension fund, to plug the hole in its budget, at the risk of alienating
readNiger wants to renegotiate Areva deal
05-02-2013
PARIS – Niger wants to renegotiate the terms of its uranium mining partnership with French nuclear group Areva to make it fairer for the African country, its president told French channel TV5 Monde on
readBritish banks face break-up if fail to ring-fence
05-02-2013
LONDON – Britain’s biggest banks will face being broken up if they fail to ring-fence their retail and investment arms, under draft legislation set to be announced by finance minister George Osborne
readAnglo American Platinum Ltd lost US$715 million
05-02-2013
JOHANNESBURG – Anglo American Platinum Ltd, the world’s largest producer of the metal, announced yesterday it suffered an operating loss of US$715 million in 2012 as violent labour unrest in South
readChina’s looming worker shortage threatens economy
05-02-2013
BEIJING – China’s demographic timebomb is ticking much louder with the first fall in its labour pool for decades, analysts say, highlighting the risk that the country grows old before it grows
readAgra now a public company
05-02-2013
AGRA’S conversion from a cooperative to a public company became effective on Friday, turning more than 4 500 members of the former cooperative into shareholders of Agra Limited, and strengthening the
readRukoro: Goodbye, FNB; hello Meatco
05-02-2013
COME February 28, business veteran Vekuii Rukoro will close the door as head of FNB Namibia Holdings behind him so that he can become the new chief executive officer (CEO) of Meatco the next
readIran says Israel will regret Syria air strike
05-02-2013
BEIRUT – Iran told Israel on Monday it would regret its air strike against Syria last week, without spelling out whether Iran or its ally planned any military response.“They will regret this recent
readKerry Washington wins big at NAACP Image
05-02-2013
Awards Actress Kerry Washington was the big winner at the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) Image Awards on Friday, picking up awards for her roles in the slavery-era
readCAR unity government agreed
05-02-2013
Accra – Former Rebels and opposition politicians have taken key positions in a unity government in the Central African Republic (CAR), local media reported on Sunday.The government was formed after
readNGO ends Mozambique flood aid over graft
05-02-2013
JOHANNESBURG – A charity has withdrawn assistance from flood-torn Mozambique’s biggest displaced persons’ camp after its administrators allegedly plotted to steal food meant for thousands of people, a
readTaiwan admiral questioned over alleged China spy link
05-02-2013
TAIPEI – A Taiwanese admiral has been questioned over his alleged involvement in one of the island’s worst espionage cases, officials said yesterday, as concerns mount over Chinese infiltration of the
readNew US Secretary of State speaks to Netanyahu, Abbas about peace
05-02-2013
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed his commitment to promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace on Sunday in telephone calls to the leaders of both sides, the State Department said.In
readMalala undergoes two operations in Britain
05-02-2013
London – A Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban is in stable condition after undergoing two successful operations to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing, the British
readNew rebel group in DRC
05-02-2013
Kinshasa – As the Democratic Republic of Congo struggles to stem unrest in its east, another newly formed armed rebel coalition has announced it is seeking to topple President Joseph Kabila’s
readUN court overturns genocide convictions of two ex-ministers
05-02-2013
ARUSHA – A UN appeal court Monday overturned genocide convictions of two Rwandan ex-ministers who were jailed for 30 years in 2011, and ordered their immediate release.Appeal judge Theodor Meron
readEx ‘Generations’ actress tells the torrid tale of lovers, drunks, drugs
05-02-2013
Former ‘Generations’ star Pamela Nomvete has blown the lid on the popular soapie’s scandals in a tell-all biography titled ‘Dancing to the Beat of the Drum: In Search of My Spiritual Home’.Nomvete,
readSMSes for Tuesday 05 February 2013
05-02-2013
SMS Of The Day *FOUNDING Father, current President, and Swapo SG, Namibia has been independent for over two decades but nothing has been aggressively or critically deliberated on to remedy the plight
readNamibia bottom of csa standings
05-02-2013
NAMIBIA’S cricket team dropped down to the bottom of the log in the Cricket South Africa Three-Day competition after their nine-wicket defeat against Kwazulu-Natal Inland over the weekend. It was
readSuper Eagles close to free sex
05-02-2013
NIGERIA’S Super Eagles are guaranteed a week of “free sex” from prostitutes if they manage to win the Africa Cup of Nations. The Super Eagles are two games away from potentially winning the
readMancini refuses to concede title
05-02-2013
MANCHESTER – Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini insists his team can still retain their Premier League title despite falling nine points behind Manchester United.City were held 2-2 by Liverpool at
readSun sets on Ivory Coast ‘golden oldies’
05-02-2013
RUSTENBURG – Didier Drogba and Ivory Coast’s ‘golden generation’ headed off into the sunset here Sunday having come up short yet again in their quest to be crowned kings of Africa.For Drogba, who
readFreyer wins Matchless Road Race
05-02-2013
JUNIOR cyclist Martin Freyer of the Kia Motors team won the third leg of the Windhoek Pedal Power cycling series, the Matchless Road Race, on Sunday when he finished the 106,6km event in a time of
readFrom The Twittersphere
05-02-2013
MORE than a few Namibians were up in the early hours of Monday morning – believe it! – to watch the US Super Bowl … or the Beyonce half-time concert, or both, or just Beyonce! Either way, it was an
readThe Algerian Tragedy
05-02-2013
EXETER – Commenting on the recent Algerian hostage crisis on an international news channel, one terrorism “expert” made a remarkable claim: “Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was founded because
readDo Not Need Pravda?
05-02-2013
RISE citizens of all rank and stations, for we are bearers of good news this morning! No, we are not about to regale you with tales of life hereafter but our mission this morning has to do with the
readWorkers at Trekkopje unhappy with pay
05-02-2013
ABOUT 150 workers of the Cosira Group, which is the main contractor at Areva’s Trekkopje uranium project, stopped working yesterday because of “unhappiness about pay”, a worker told The Namibian.The
readVaalgras tribal leader boycotts governor’s meeting
05-02-2013
THE embattled chief of the Vaalgras Traditional Authority, Joel Stephanus, has boycotted a consultative and information meeting Karas Governor Bernadus Swartbooi had convened with his community at
readTrade, health discuss tobacco control
05-02-2013
HEALTH Minister Richard Kamwi yesterday blamed the tobacco industry for hampering the implementation of the tobacco control law adopted in 2010, saying African countries should take lessons from
readIyambo remembrances
05-02-2013
NEWS of the passing of Education Minister Abraham Iyambo prompted a near tsunami of messages on Facebook and Twitter on Saturday, as Namibians mourned the loss of a politician “who touched our lives”.
readRehoboth probes housing allowance payments
05-02-2013
THE Rehoboth Town Council stopped the payment of housing allowances to its staff this month because of discrepancies in the payment of the allowance.Council staff complained to The Namibian last week
readPilot ordered to pay back Nampost bursary
05-02-2013
A FORMER Namibia Post employee who claimed she was under no obligation to pay back a bursary she had received from the company has lost a High Court case in which Nampost sued her for the money it
readNantu and Finnish teachers’ union sign agreement
05-02-2013
THE Namibia National Teachers’ Union (Nantu) and the Trade Union of Education of Finland (OAJ) have signed a three-year agreement on training.Nantu secretary general Basilius Haingura signed the
readHardap Region reduces malnutrition deaths
05-02-2013
THE number of children under the age of five who died of hunger has dropped significantly in the Hardap Region. The Mariental State Hospital’s chief medical officer, Dr Jean-Paul Tshitende, says the
readSmelly ‘longdrops’ a thing of the past
05-02-2013
THE stench of pit latrines – which is are still a part of Namibian life in the rural areas and informal settlements – could soon become something of the past with the introduction of ‘Toilet Friend’.
readIyambo repatriation date not yet known
05-02-2013
THE date of the repatriation of the body of the late Education Minister Abraham Iyambo has not yet been set, Cabinet Secretary Frans Kapofi said yesterday. A meeting was held yesterday to discuss the
readIllegal strike to cost teachers
05-02-2013
THE permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Alfred Ilukena, has instructed all regional education offices to deduct money from teachers who participated in an illegal strike last
readFugitive murder and rape suspect rearrested
05-02-2013
ONE of the men accused of the brutal rape and murder of a woman at Swakopmund in September 2005 was rearrested on Saturday, after spending more than a year and a half as a fugitive from justice.Having
readNamibian filmmakers welcomed back from NY
05-02-2013
The Namibian Film Commission (NFC) recently welcomed back six filmmakers, who took part at African Diaspora International Film Festival from November 21 to December 11 last year, at an event, held
read40 resettlement farming units lying idle in Karas
05-02-2013
FORTY farmers have failed to utilise the farming units allocated to them under the government’s resettlement programme in the Karas Region, leaving vast tracts of land lying idle. The Lands and
readNotable Quotes
05-02-2013
THERE is no doubt that Namibia has lost one of the brightest, committed and [most] hardworking senior ministers of our republic. The huge gap that he has left behind will be difficult to fill. –
readKentani: An oasis of Van Rooy champions
05-02-2013
IN Namibia the name Francois Theron is synonymous to Van Rooy sheep stud farming.Some of the country’s best and most well-known Van Rooy rams were and are still bred at farm Kentani near Kalkrand. It
readAgricultural diary
05-02-2013
February 7: Production auction of Freddie Dreyer’s boer goat, dorper and white dorper rams as well as ewes at Aranos farmers’ association pens. February 8: Swakara ram auction of Von Hase/Schreiber at
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