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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-07-31
Eight Bulls players leave for overseas clubs
PRETORIA - Springbok flyhalf Morne Steyn led an exodus of players out of the three-time Super Rugby champion Bulls and to overseas clubs yesterday, the latest group of South African players to head to big-paying teams in Europe and Japan.
The Pretoria-based Bulls said the contracts of the eight players, all South Africa internationals, had expired and they would leave before the start of the domestic Currie Cup this weekend.
Their departure was confirmed three days after the Bulls lost to Australian team ACT Brumbies in the Super Rugby semifinals on Saturday, the first time the Bulls have dropped a post-season game in South Africa.
“These players all became Springboks at the Vodacom Blue Bulls, which speaks volumes of how much impact they had in our structures and teams,” Bulls chief executive Barend van Graan said.
The Bulls tried to retain a number of the players, but said they couldn’t compete with the salaries overseas.
Steyn, who has played more than 100 Super Rugby games for the Bulls and is the Springboks’ second-highest point scorer in tests, will join Stade Francais in France. Six of the eight players leaving are still viewed as part of Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer’s plans and join a growing list of Springboks overseas.
National try-scoring record holder Bryan Habana joined French club Toulon from Cape Town’s Stormers this month, while fellow internationals JP Pietersen and Andries Bekker have signed for Japanese clubs. The 2,08-meter (6-foot-10) Bekker’s international career was likely ended by his move to Japanese team Kobelco Steelers.
Pietersen rocketed into the top 10 sports earners in South Africa after signing a US$1,1 million per season contract with Japanese club Panasonic Wild Knights, South African newspaper The Sunday Times reported recently. Pietersen’s Japan deal was more than five times more than what he makes a year in South Africa off his provincial and national contracts combined.
Along with Steyn, hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle, lock Juandre Kruger, loose forwards Dewald Potgieter and Jacques Potgieter, scrumhalf Jano Vermaak, center Wynand Olivier and fullback Zane Kirchner also officially left the Bulls yesterdaysday.
South Africa flanker Francois Louw and scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar already play in Europe.
Habana, Pietersen, Steyn, Ralepelle, Kruger, Jacques Potgieter, Vermaak and Kirchner are also all current Springboks and the number of internationals now playing overseas and in different seasons will complicate Meyer’s plans for the national team, which starts its Rugby Championship campaign on August 17 against Argentina.
No. 2-ranked South Africa won the last of its three southern hemisphere rugby titles in 2009. -Nampa-AP
IAAF promises aggressive drug testing
MOSCOW - The International Association of Athletics Federations (Iaaf) is determined to crack down on drug-taking in the sport after two leading sprinters tested positive this month, the ruling body’s vice-president Sebastian Coe said yesterday.
Coe was speaking in Moscow, the host of next month’s world athletics championships, after American Tyson Gay, a former world 100 metres champion, and Jamaica’s Asafa Powell, a former 100 metres world record holder, provided positive samples. The two athletes have withdrawn from the Moscow championships.‘The right thing (to do) is being aggressive about our testing, is forever making sure our technology runs ahead of the competitors and our overall task is to make sure the sport is clean for clean athletes,’ Coe told Reuters. ‘I think it would be unrealistic of me to say that we are ever going to reach a period where we will be entirely free from the scourge of drugs in sports,’ the former Olympic 1,500 metres champion added. ‘But...we are taking this more seriously than we have ever taken it before.’The world championships will be the first major outdoor athletics event hosted by Moscow since the 1980 Olympics and it will be held at the same Luzhniki stadium which staged the opening ceremony of the summer Games more than three decades ago.
-Nampa-Reuters
The Pretoria-based Bulls said the contracts of the eight players, all South Africa internationals, had expired and they would leave before the start of the domestic Currie Cup this weekend.
Their departure was confirmed three days after the Bulls lost to Australian team ACT Brumbies in the Super Rugby semifinals on Saturday, the first time the Bulls have dropped a post-season game in South Africa.
“These players all became Springboks at the Vodacom Blue Bulls, which speaks volumes of how much impact they had in our structures and teams,” Bulls chief executive Barend van Graan said.
The Bulls tried to retain a number of the players, but said they couldn’t compete with the salaries overseas.
Steyn, who has played more than 100 Super Rugby games for the Bulls and is the Springboks’ second-highest point scorer in tests, will join Stade Francais in France. Six of the eight players leaving are still viewed as part of Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer’s plans and join a growing list of Springboks overseas.
National try-scoring record holder Bryan Habana joined French club Toulon from Cape Town’s Stormers this month, while fellow internationals JP Pietersen and Andries Bekker have signed for Japanese clubs. The 2,08-meter (6-foot-10) Bekker’s international career was likely ended by his move to Japanese team Kobelco Steelers.
Pietersen rocketed into the top 10 sports earners in South Africa after signing a US$1,1 million per season contract with Japanese club Panasonic Wild Knights, South African newspaper The Sunday Times reported recently. Pietersen’s Japan deal was more than five times more than what he makes a year in South Africa off his provincial and national contracts combined.
Along with Steyn, hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle, lock Juandre Kruger, loose forwards Dewald Potgieter and Jacques Potgieter, scrumhalf Jano Vermaak, center Wynand Olivier and fullback Zane Kirchner also officially left the Bulls yesterdaysday.
South Africa flanker Francois Louw and scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar already play in Europe.
Habana, Pietersen, Steyn, Ralepelle, Kruger, Jacques Potgieter, Vermaak and Kirchner are also all current Springboks and the number of internationals now playing overseas and in different seasons will complicate Meyer’s plans for the national team, which starts its Rugby Championship campaign on August 17 against Argentina.
No. 2-ranked South Africa won the last of its three southern hemisphere rugby titles in 2009. -Nampa-AP
IAAF promises aggressive drug testing
MOSCOW - The International Association of Athletics Federations (Iaaf) is determined to crack down on drug-taking in the sport after two leading sprinters tested positive this month, the ruling body’s vice-president Sebastian Coe said yesterday.
Coe was speaking in Moscow, the host of next month’s world athletics championships, after American Tyson Gay, a former world 100 metres champion, and Jamaica’s Asafa Powell, a former 100 metres world record holder, provided positive samples. The two athletes have withdrawn from the Moscow championships.‘The right thing (to do) is being aggressive about our testing, is forever making sure our technology runs ahead of the competitors and our overall task is to make sure the sport is clean for clean athletes,’ Coe told Reuters. ‘I think it would be unrealistic of me to say that we are ever going to reach a period where we will be entirely free from the scourge of drugs in sports,’ the former Olympic 1,500 metres champion added. ‘But...we are taking this more seriously than we have ever taken it before.’The world championships will be the first major outdoor athletics event hosted by Moscow since the 1980 Olympics and it will be held at the same Luzhniki stadium which staged the opening ceremony of the summer Games more than three decades ago.
-Nampa-Reuters
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