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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 - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Voters object to Ndjarakana’s reappointment by Tileni Mongudhi
THE 2009 election saga has come back to haunt Moses Ndjarakana, the then Director of Elections, after three objections against his reappointment were lodged with the Electoral Commission of Namibia a day before he was interviewed as one of the five shortlisted candidates for the commission’s top job.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-12
Zim denies secret Iran uranium deal by
HARARE - Zimbabwe on Saturday denied a British newspaper report that it had signed a secret uranium trade deal with Iran.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-12
Mali heads to the polls by
BAMAKO - Malians went to the polls yesterday in their millions for a president expected to usher in a new era of peace and democracy in the first election since a military coup upended one of the region’s most stable democracies.

ENTERTAINMENT - | 2013-08-12
From The Twittersphere by
WITH the artist formerly known as Prince now advising the Namibian government, the country has ended up with regions and towns formerly known as …… (to be filled in at your discretion!). In short, the degermination of names, announced along with the creation of a batch of new constituencies, saw tweets twerk – oops, I mean flow – like the Zambezi River. Plus, life in the taxi lane, smartphones and smart people, Big Brother, the language officially known as English, and more …

NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
!Nami≠Nüs residents against new name by
SHINOVENE IMMANUEL and LUQMAN CLOETE

SOME residents of !Nami≠Nüs (formerly Luderitz) in the //Karas Region said they will petition against the town’s new name today because they were not consulted.

2013-08-12

CONTROVERSIAL ... President Hifikepunye Pohamba points out some of the changes to con-stituency boundaries he announced last week. Some Namibians are unhappy with the changes.

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NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-09
Caprivi is no more by Shinovene Immanuel
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday rushed through recommendations by the Delimitation Commission for the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to start preparations for next year’s elections.

BUSINESS - ECONOMY | 2013-08-09
Brent rises towards US$108 on robust China data by
BRENT crude edged towards US$108 a barrel yesterday ending a four-day decline as robust Chinese data raised hopes that the world’s No.2 economy is stabilising, but uncertainty over the outlook for U.S. stimulus capped prices.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-08-09
Obama and Erdogan discuss Syria, Egypt by
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone on Wednesday to discuss developments in Syria and Egypt, the White House said.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-09
Mandela chose to quit, while Mugabe stays put by
HARARE – Nelson Mandela, now in a hospital, quit after a single term as South African President. Robert Mugabe, Africa’s oldest head of state and the only President Zimbabwe has ever known, is still in charge after disputed elections last week. These two larger-than-life figures, who chose different paths once in power, represent competing styles and ideas that resonate beyond southern Africa.

NEWS - AFRICA | 2013-08-09
SADC ‘must revise report’ on Zim polls by
CAPE TOWN – United States-based non-governmental organisation Freedom House has called upon member states of SADC to revise their preliminary statements and acknowledge flaws in Zimbabwe’s election process, a News Day report said yesterday.

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL | 2013-08-09
More than Snowden dividing United States and Russia by
WASHINGTON – How do US leaders feel about Russia’s behaviour? Not angry, just very “disappointed”.

LETTERS - | 2013-08-09
Listen To The Voice Of Reason by
WELL, well, can people differ again with regard to the credibility of elections in Zimbabwe? Are some of us naïve? If the previous elections were completely rigged, why should something have changed?

OPINIONS - EDITORIALS | 2013-08-09
A Flippant President? by
IF PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba cares about being respected well beyond his head of state title and into the hereafter, he must do more than simply summon “the powers vested in me by the Namibian Constitution”.

SPORT - FOOTBALL | 2013-08-09
Bale, Suarez, Rooney - Premier League’s troublesome trio by
LONDON - A couple of weeks before the start of the English Premier League season, the country’s most exciting player, its most reviled and the linchpin of the England side are involved in emotional and financial tug-of-wars with their clubs.