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50 Articles found on Monday, 18 March 2013
Otjiwarongo in CEO debacle
18-03-2013
THE municipality of Otjiwarongo seems to have flouted staff recruitment rules when it advertised the position of chief executive officer (CEO) although the incumbent had not formally resigned yet.The
readNeka gives government seven days
18-03-2013
“SEVEN working days.”That is how long the Namibian Exile Kids Association (Neka) has given the administration of President Hifikepunye Pohamba and Prime Minister Hage Geingob to engage the leadership
read‘Struggle kids’ divide Swapo
18-03-2013
THE ‘children of the liberation struggle’ caused tension at the Swapo Central Committee meeting held over the weekend. The Namibian is informed that the debate around the ‘struggle kids’, as they are
readBIG WAIT STARTS
18-03-2013
Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in a referendum expected to endorse a new constitution that would trim presidential powers and pave the way for an election to decide whether President Robert Mugabe
read‘Government won’t tolerate deceiving labels’
18-03-2013
GOVERNMENT will not tolerate fraudulent and misleading labels on any product circulated or sold in the Namibian market, Trade and Industry Minister Calle Schlettwein has said.Speaking at the
readNamibians happy with Govt’s performance
18-03-2013
NAMIBIANS remain optimistic about the performance of the national economy and a majority feels positively about Government’s efforts to manage the economy, the latest Afrobarometer has shown.In his
readThree ways to use persuasion to get what you need
18-03-2013
In today’s organisations, persuasion trumps formal power. To get things done, you need to be able to sway the undecided and convert opponents, Harvard Business Review says in its Management Tip of the
readEni opens up Mozambique gas riches to China
18-03-2013
MILAN/LONDON – Italian oil firm Eni connected east Africa’s gas riches to energy-hungry China on Thursday with the sale of a 20% stake in its Mozambique offshore project to Chinese oil company CNPC.
readVenezuela looks beyond US to China as customer
18-03-2013
CARACAS – Woe is Venezuela, sitting atop the world’s largest oil reserves. Production is down and its top customer, the United States, is buying less.So here comes China to the rescue, among others,
readHow London’s gold and silver prices are ‘fixed’
18-03-2013
LONDON – London’s gold and silver markets face the possibility of a probe alongside other benchmarks into price setting, putting a century-old practice under the spotlight after the Libor rigging
readSouth Sudan orders firms to restart oil production
18-03-2013
JUBA – South Sudan has ordered oil firms to restart production of crude oil for export through Sudan, the petroleum minister said on Thursday, more than a year after the new nation shut down the
readEgypt moves to help foreign investors repatriate funds
18-03-2013
CAIRO – Egypt’s central bank opened a scheme yesterday allowing foreign investors in the stock and government debt markets access to dollars despite severe shortages of foreign currency.In a statement
readDeveloping world’s rise heralds global shift
18-03-2013
MEXICO CITY – The developing world’s rapid growth has sharply cut extreme poverty, created a new middle class and put the economies of Brazil, China and India on a path to overtake the globe’s
readCypriots’ president defends bailout deal
18-03-2013
NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ president said Saturday that the decision to force bank depositors to share the burden of a 10 billion euro bailout package from its European partners and the International
readChina new premier to tackle pollution
18-03-2013
BEIJING – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged yesterday that his government would ‘show even greater resolve’ in tackling China’s festering pollution crisis, a source of increasing public fury.Li’s
readLebanon must stem flow of fighters to Syria
18-03-2013
BEIRUT – Lebanon must prevent fighters from crossing into Syria, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said after Damascus threatened to respond to cross-border infiltrations.Shortly after his office
readTear gas in Kenya as prime minister files suit
18-03-2013
NAIROBI – Police in Kenya lobbed tear gas Saturday on crowds supporting the prime minister as he filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to void the presidential election, a vote the prime minister
readAfghan clerics warn US to heed Karzai demands
18-03-2013
KABUL – Afghanistan’s leading religious body on Saturday warned the presence of US troops in the country would soon be treated as an “occupation” unless the United States hands over detainees.The fate
readSouth Africa cardinal says paedophilia not a crime
18-03-2013
JOHANNESBURG – A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC paedophilia is an illness and not a crime.Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of
readStrong support for Zimbabwe yes vote
18-03-2013
HARARE – Ballot counting was under way in Zimbabwe yesterday after a referendum on a new constitution set to curb President Robert Mugabe’s powers and usher in crucial elections in the
readRDP mOshana a kundathana na Gavena Kashuupulwa
18-03-2013
EWILIKO lyoRally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) lyomoshitopolwa shaShana mEtiyali lyshiwike shika olya ningile oonkundathana nomukalelipo gwepangelo mOshana Gavena Klemens Kashuupulwa niilyo yimwe
readEkanitho lyoonzo dhoshigwana ka li wetike
18-03-2013
“Ekanitho kala wa waa li wete e to pula komeho” noyafa ya hala oshigwana shi taleko ekanitho momahangano ga yama kepangelo ngaaka. Okutala ontengekothaneko omumvo nomumvo osha fa tashi ulike kutya
readTaa hupile mokuyoga iihauto
18-03-2013
OMUKALO gwokuyoga iihauto noondunda dhokulanditha ogwi indjipala mepandaanda lya tseyika nawa koyendji lyaEveline moshilandopangelo.Okwa kundanekwa kehe ondunda yokulandithila ontiyali mepandaanda
readSwapo e wu lombwele pEenhana
18-03-2013
ONGUNDU yoSwapo okupitila mompangu oya gandja elombwelo kaanona haa iyithana oyekondjelomanguluko ya ze mo moompadhi oontalala mombelewa yoSwapo pEenhana.Palombwelo lya gandjwa ohela mompangu
readOshimaliwa nashi longithwe nawa
18-03-2013
EGUMBO etiyali lyopashigwana lyoNational Council okwa kundanekwa lya longitha nayi noonkondo oshimaliwa tashi ihile poN$400 000 moshimaliwa shuuwanawa wolweendo ashike lwomasiku omulongo nagahamano
readMagic victory alters title race
18-03-2013
TURA Magic caused a major upset when they beat Black Africa 1-0 on Friday night, to throw the Namibia Premier League title race wide open again. Junias Theophilus scored the winning goal midway
readSMSes for Monday 18 March 2013
18-03-2013
SMS Of The Day *FIRST we put our hope in Barack Obama when he became president of the United States of America, then on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Now it is on the new Pope ‘to save Africa’.
readNamibia crash to big defeat
18-03-2013
NAMIBIA crashed to an innings and 114 run defeat against Kwazulu-Natal within two days of their three-day CSA Challenge match on Friday. Sent in to bat, Namibia were under pressure from the start as
readManchester City’s title hopes in tatters
18-03-2013
LONDON – Manchester City’s fingertip hold on their Premier League title was further loosened after a demoralising 2-0 defeat at Everton on Saturday left them praying for a football miracle.Leon
readGreek banned after Nazi salute
18-03-2013
ATHENS – AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been banned from any Greek national team for life after giving a Nazi salute while celebrating a goal in the Greek league.Greece’s football
readMalawi names squad to face Namibia
18-03-2013
MALAWI named a 20-man squad for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Namibia in Windhoek.‘The Flames’ are also expected to play Botswana in a friendly match tomorrow. In the squad are ten locally
readAmla, De Villiers hit world-record stand
18-03-2013
JOHANNESBURG – Captain AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla smashed 238 runs yesterday to set a world-record stand for the third wicket as South Africa plundered 343-5 against Pakistan in the third one-day
read‘Sharks embarrassed by Brumbies’
18-03-2013
SHARKS coach John Plumtree says his team was left “embarrassed and hurt” after being stunned in a 29-10 defeat to the Brumbies in Durban on Saturday.A spectacular first-half display by the
readGladiators settle in Germany
18-03-2013
BRAVE GLADIATORS stars Stacey Naris and Veweziua Kotjipati are enjoying life in Germany where they play fourth-tier women’s football.The defensive pair, who recently left for Germany, ply their trade
readFrom The Twittersphere
18-03-2013
IT seems to have been something of a ‘Harlem Shake’ of a weekend: some twerk and jerk, and a hint of beserk! From the village to the new S4, serious thoughts, ‘no really’ moments; reflections,
readTreason trial boycotters end stay-away
18-03-2013
THE entrance of a new defence lawyer into the marathon main Caprivi high treason trial has brought an end to a long boycott of the trial by 15 of the treason accused.Defence lawyer Ilse Agenbach
readTipeeg catches flak in NA
18-03-2013
THE Tipeeg job-creation project has been catching flak from opposition parties in the National Assembly during the debate on the 2013/14 national budget.The opposition parliamentarians have been
readNo interest in Govt advertising tender
18-03-2013
THE Tender Board is to decide this week whether to re-advertise a tender for the advertisement of government tenders in newspapers after no daily newspaper submitted a bid. The only bid was from a
readNew kids on the music scene
18-03-2013
Namibian music fans can gear up for a new musical phenomenon going by the name of ‘Jy Moet Onthou’ (Afrikaans for ‘you must remember’). Formed a couple of months ago, the trio is already making waves
readKaras politicians arrested in France
18-03-2013
POLICE in France on Sunday arrested two Karas Region politicians upon their arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The Namibian ambassador to France, Frieda Nangula Ithete, said Keetmanshoop
readHereros unhappy with Otjimbingwe land handover
18-03-2013
THE Herero community of Otjimbingwe feel they have been given the short end of the stick in the allocation of two farms to the Damara Tsoaxudaman Traditional Authority at Otjimbingwe.According to
readGovernor at loggerheads with Lüderitz Waterfront duo
18-03-2013
A MEETING between the board of the directors of the Lüderitz Waterfront Development Company and Karas Governor Bernadus Swartbooi a week ago ended on a sour note, The Namibian was reliably informed. A
readFarmworkers union staff out in cold
18-03-2013
AFTER the Namibia Farmworkers Union (Nafwu) failed to reinstate three dismissed staff members in early January, it has gone ahead and suspended its remaining three employees, with a disciplinary
readEx-mine employee wins back seized assets
18-03-2013
A FORMER employee of diamond mining company Namdeb has regained control of his bank and investment accounts and a bakkie which were temporarily seized from him in terms of the Prevention of Organised
readNam, SA, Angola sign enviro accord
18-03-2013
TODAY the governments of Namibia, Angola and South Africa will sign a groundbreaking environmental treaty in the Angolan city of Benguela.The Benguela Current Convention is a formal agreement between
readDeal with land distribution like war veterans’ issue - Hanse-Himarwa
18-03-2013
HOACHANAS – The Hardap regional governor, Katrina Hanse-Himarwa, has called on the government to deal with the land resettlement programme in the same way that it is addressing the plight of war
readCity Police impound vehicles
18-03-2013
THE Windhoek City Police on Friday night removed several vehicles parked at the Gammams Service Station in Khomasdal after the week’s grace given to the owners to remove the cars expired.Last week,
readHugo Chavez’s death inspires budget debate
18-03-2013
THE death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez earlier this month seems to have reignited the spirit of socialism in Namibian parliamentarians.The budget debate in the National Assembly for the past
readAgribank labour dispute back in court
18-03-2013
THE Agricultural Bank of Namibia in a renewed court challenge has to prove that it followed the law when it laid off all its staff in 2007. Four of the laid-off workers – Alex Kamandju, Gerhard
readNotable Quotes
18-03-2013
WE did not receive any communication from Foreign Affairs advising that the National Council should not attend the event after having requested their accreditation and visa application. – Panduleni
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