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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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NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-07-23
Zuma reins in top Zimbabwe envoy by
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma moved on Sunday to rein in his top envoy on Zimbabwe’s political crisis following complaints by President Robert Mugabe about her.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-07-23
Path to Mideast talks still blocked by
JERUSALEM - The path to formal negotiations with Israel is still blocked despite a US suggestion that the sides are close to returning to the table, a senior Palestinian official said in another sign of skepticism that peace talks will resume.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-23
Water back at hospital by Tuyeimo Haidula
PATIENTS and visitors at the Windhoek Central Hospital can breath a sigh of relief as water has been restored at the institution late on Friday afternoon.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-23
Taxi drivers set to strike by Clemans Miyanicwe
THE president of the Namibia Transport and Taxi Union (NTTU), Werner Januarie, has announced that members of his union will go on a national strike today.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-23
Guard kills dog on Henties beach by Adam Hartman
CASSIE and Jack – the two seven-year-old Swiss Shepherds of Elsa van der Merwe – and her Scottish Terrier were, like always, playing on the beach in front of her Henties Bay home last Friday morning. Cassie was dead by noon when a guard of former President Sam Nujoma shot her.

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-23
Erongo Education Fund launched by Adam Hartman
IT’S hard to believe that an old man in blue overalls, daily going about his general maintenance work for residential and business owners in Libertina Amathila Street in Swakopmund for the past 30 years, is the driving force behind the establishment of a N$600 000 education fund for the Erongo region.

OPINIONS - COLUMNS | 2013-07-23
Namibia: More Divided Than Ever by
KESHII PELAO NATHANAEL

AFTER years of struggle for independence, freedom and justice as well as many lives lost; the hope to freedom and justice seems to have faded.

SPORT - FOOTBALL | 2013-07-23
Tito exit hard to take: Puyol by
MADRID - Barcelona captain Carles Puyol has spoken publicly for the first time of his sadness that Tito Vilanova has had to leave his post as coach after just one season due to ill health.

2013-07-23

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe

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NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-22
Hailulu fails to block ACC probe by Werner Menges
THE chief executive officer of the National Housing Enterprise, Vinson Hailulu, has failed with an attempt to block an Anti-Corruption Commission investigation of allegations made against him.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-07-22
Zimbabwe’s independent TV station on air by
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s first independent television station went on air on Friday to challenge the 30-year state broadcasting monopoly controlled by President Robert Mugabe.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-07-22
Mandela continues hospital stay by
JOHANNESBURG – Global icon Nelson Mandela who celebrated his 95th birthday this week remained in hospital on Saturday, six weeks after he was admitted for treatment for a lung illness.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-07-22
Obama: Black Americans feeling pain by
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says black Americans feel pain after the Trayvon Martin verdict because of a “history that doesn’t go away.”

OPINIONS - NOTABLE QUOTES | 2013-07-22
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A clinic that is open once a week is unheard of. Government must take the necessary steps very urgently. – Primus Josef is baffled by the operating hours at the Okatseidhi village clinic and implores the State to investigate the matter.