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46 Articles found on Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Nalisa ‘considered’ for NAC appointment
16-01-2013
WORD in the corridors of the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) is that Brian Nalisa, who did a controversial consultancy on the restructuring of the company, is being considered take the over the reins
readAir Namibia woes intensify
16-01-2013
AIR Namibia’s management had to put out fires yesterday after cabin crew members dished more dirt about the airline’s financial woes.According to two cabin crew members, they have not been receiving
readTransNamib CEO job raises eyebrows
16-01-2013
THE appointment of TransNamib’s deputy board chairperson, Sara Naanda, as its new chief executive officer (CEO) has raised eyebrows.Naanda was part of a board meeting where it was decided to sack
readThumps up
16-01-2013
Grade-1’s at Hanganeni Primary School near Swakopmund DRC informal settle- ment show thumbs up in their new school environment. Photo: Adam Hartman
readCraven joins Azerbaijani team
16-01-2013
NAMIBIAN professional cyclist Dan Craven is raring to go after joining a new cycling team, Synergy Baku Cycling Project in Azerbaijan. After his disappointment of last year when he crashed out of the
readObama, Netanyahu: Bad blood between allies
16-01-2013
Washington - President Barack Obama heads into his second term weighed down by an American government snarled in partisan gridlock, but also by an unproductive relationship with the leader of Israel,
read2012 a better mining year for Rössing Uranium
16-01-2013
RÖSSING Uranium last year produced just over four million pounds of uranium oxide, about 26% more than in 2011.Figures released yesterday by global miner Rio Tinto, which has a 69% stake in Rössing,
readBig year for Arandis’ Dantago Clothing
16-01-2013
ARANDIS – Dantago Clothing, which manufactures children’s clothing for Woolworths South Africa, will be expanding its services to stores in Botswana and Lesotho this year.Speaking to Nampa, Dantago
readStandard Bank freezes some banking fees
16-01-2013
STANDARD Bank Namibia is trying to gain market share by luring new clients with the promise that there will be no increase in its banking fees for personal transactional and current account holders
readPortugal’s struggling companies fuming at tax chaos
16-01-2013
LISBON – Portugal’s largest income tax hikes in four decades of democracy have stirred a furore as the government has failed to specify new tax brackets, leaving individuals and firms guessing what
readBritish business chiefs urge Cameron to avoid EU isolation
16-01-2013
LONDON – Prime Minister David Cameron must not risk jeopardising Britain’s EU membership and damaging the weak economy, business chiefs warned ahead of the premier’s key Europe speech later this
readRail link to streamline Southern African trade
16-01-2013
JOHANNESBURG – Five Southern African countries plan to coordinate their rail services to bolster trade through Africa’s largest port in Durban, South Africa’s railway company has said.The deal will do
readKeetmans can increase its profits
16-01-2013
THE Keetmanshoop Town Council has recorded a net profit of N$9,2 million for the financial year ended June 2011, but Auditor General Junias Kandjeke found that the accounting and internal controls of
readAmplats could cut 14 000 jobs in restructuring
16-01-2013
JOHANNESBURG – Top global platinum miner Anglo American Platinum could cut up to 14 000 jobs in a major restructuring of its strike-hit South African operations, the firm said yesterday.Amplats plans
readVenezuela struggles with sporadic food shortages
16-01-2013
CARACAS, Venezuela – Mireya Bustamante spent most of the day trying in vain to find flour to bake a birthday cake for her four-year-old son.Like most Venezuelans, the single, 33-year-old officer
readRights activist arrested in Zimbabwe
16-01-2013
Harare - Zimbabwe police arrested and charged a director of a human rights organisation for alleged election fraud on Monday, a lawyer for the accused said.Beatrice Mtetwa said Zimrights director Okay
readDiCaprio’s US$200 000 date with Bill Clinton
16-01-2013
Leonardo DiCaprio bid US$200 000 to spend a day with Bill Clinton during Sean Penn’s Haiti fundraiser.The ‘Django Unchained’ actor was one of the many A-list stars at the benefit in Los Angeles and
readLance Armstrong addresses doping scandal on Oprah
16-01-2013
The first ever no-holds-barred interview with world-renowned sporting personality, cyclist Lance Armstrong when he sits down with the queen of talk Oprah on Discovery TLC will be screened locally on
readUS military suicides exceed combat deaths in 2012
16-01-2013
Washington – The number of US troops committing suicide set a record in 2012, exceeding the number of combat deaths, the Pentagon said on Monday.The Pentagon said 349 active-duty troops killed
readAfghan Taliban condemn French military intervention in Mali
16-01-2013
KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents on Tuesday condemned France’s military intervention in Mali, warning that it would have “disastrous” consequences.France, which pulled its last combat troops
readAfrican mediators press Sudans to defuse hostilities
16-01-2013
Addis Ababa - The African Union sought on Monday to defuse hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan that brought them close to war last year and end a freeze on oil exports that threatens to wreck
readKenya’s Odinga hopes for fair election
16-01-2013
Nairobi – Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Monday he was confident of winning outright in the first round of the presidential election on March 4 - his third bid for the top job.“I am very
readUuministeli wElongo wa dhenga ondalaye
16-01-2013
UUMINISTELI wElongo owa fa wa dhenga ondalya kombinga yetokolo lyawo kutya aalongwa mboka ye li mOoprimasikola otaya ka pewa omabo, oopena niifo osha li okutameka nuumvo.Metiyali lyoshiwike sha zi ko,
readOosikola dha tameka ishewe nuuwanawa nuudhigu wadho
16-01-2013
OOSIKOLA dha tameka ishewe nuuwanawa nuudhigu wadho naavali oyendji kumwe naatekulu yoshigwana shokomongula, shoka opo sha tameke osikola ohela, ongula yohela oya kala yi ipyakidhila nokufala aanona
readIita mu Sudan oya tameke ngiini?
16-01-2013
AANTU oyendji muuyuni oye li ye li ya kumwa kutya omolwashike naanaa iita mu Sudan itayi hulu. Nande ongaaka, aantu yamwe kaye shi kutya iita moshilongo shika oya tewa naanaa ku shike.Moshinyolwa
readChasing the dots ... The Last Chance Saloon!
16-01-2013
WE enter yet another year as the global organised crime syndicates meet in Davos to exchange inside trading information, tax-avoidance deals and creative money-laundering methods in collusion with the
readSMSes for Wednesday 16 January 2013
16-01-2013
SMS Of The Day *MINISTER of Health, make your workers responsible and accountable for the mismanagement of Namibian state hospitals! It is every Namibian’s tax money going down the drain! And many of
readZuma backs maligned Bafana
16-01-2013
THERE are too many critics complaining about Bafana Bafana who have never played professional soccer, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday.“There are too many critics. I was telling the team that
readVermaelen expects Gunners to fire against Swansea
16-01-2013
LONDON – Thomas Vermaelen has backed his Arsenal team-mates to respond positively after a defeat by Premier League champions Manchester City and overcome Swansea City in their FA Cup third round
readStage 9 frustrates Waldschmidt
16-01-2013
STILL on a high after his 15th-place finish on stage eight, Ingo Waldschmidt endured a frustrating time during Monday’s ninth stage of the Dakar Rally. An uncomfortable ride during the longest stage
read‘We must maintain momentum’
16-01-2013
AFRICAN Stars coach Ali Akan says his side must maintain their consistency in order to wrest the Namibian Premier League title from the clutches of Black Africa. Stars face Orlando Pirates at the Sam
readSerena Williams scare as Federer coasts at Open
16-01-2013
MELBOURNE – Serena Williams’ bid for a historic Grand Slam hit an injury hurdle at the Australian Open yesterday, as Roger Federer and Andy Murray coasted and a landmark for Chinese tennis proved
readFrom The Twittersphere
16-01-2013
FORGET about JanuWorry, seems Namibians have, largely, got the JanuJollies! Wit, humour and pertinent impertinences are in full flow on Namibian Twitter timelines, from randy goats to stalker
readDeputy minister’s ‘tribal tirade’ investigated by police
16-01-2013
TWO high-ranking police officers have arrived in Keetmanshoop to investigate alleged tribalist remarks made against police officers by Mines and Energy Deputy Minister Willem Isaack at Berseba on New
readTeacher’s furniture trashed in jealous rage
16-01-2013
A 32-year-old Keetmanshoop teacher, who is accused of smashing her roommate’s furniture in a fit of jealousy, on Monday made a brief appearance in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate Court on a charge of
readKunene to reshuffle school principals
16-01-2013
SOME school principals in the Kunene Region will be transferred, the deputy education director in the region, Bernadette Jagger, has announced.“When you stay at one place you become stagnant and the
readCoastal schools overcrowded
16-01-2013
REGARDLESS of several new school classrooms being built by the private sector and the government at the coast, as well as the opening of a whole new school in Walvis Bay, pupils in grades one, eight
readIlukena ‘misquoted’ on free stationery
16-01-2013
AN ambiguous statement by the permanent secretary of education, Alfred Ilukena, has resulted in much confusion among parents of primary school learners and the public alike.In a recent press
readLeake Hangala rejoins Swapo
16-01-2013
A FORMER managing director of NamPower, Leake Hangala, has rejoined Swapo five years after quitting the ruling party.“I don’t want to talk much about my decision but all I can do is to confirm that I
readKhorixas hospital water reconnected
16-01-2013
AFTER being without water for eight days, Khorixas hospital patients and staff were relieved on Friday when the municipality reconnected water to the health facility.The hospital’s water supply was
readKaaronda continues his fight against dismissal
16-01-2013
FIRED secretary general of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), Evilastus Kaaronda on Monday continued his fight for his dismissal to be declared unfair by the labour commissioner.Kaaronda’s
readGirls detained for wearing hot-pants
16-01-2013
RUNDU – More than 40 girls were rounded up by the police at Rundu over the festive season for wearing hot-pants.The police said wearing these very short pants amounted to public indecency. Twenty-five
readFraud suspect Pienaar still wants out of cell
16-01-2013
FRAUD suspect Adriaan Pienaar’s tenth attempt to get a court order for his detention in a hospital rather than a police holding cell came to the same end as its predecessors – failure – in the High
readKaras enrolment increases
16-01-2013
SCHOOLS in the Karas Region have recorded a significant growth in enrolment figures for grade one pupils. Revealing the news to The Namibian yesterday, Karas education director /Awebahe Johannes
readAcademic year off to a smooth start
16-01-2013
YESTERDAY marked the opening of the 2013 academic year for Namibia’s primary and secondary schools, as well as the first day of school since the government announced free education for grades zero to
readNotable Quotes
16-01-2013
THIS only expanding, expanding is not fair. You chew what you can chew. You cannot expand like you are America with money. – Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Works and Transport warned Government may lose
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