Sport
Top athletes get shot in the arm for Olympics
THE first four Namibian athletes to qualify for the London Olympics yesterday received a N$400 000...
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Rio Tinto ponders Rössing options
CAPE TOWN – Rio Tinto faces a decision between selling its Rössing uranium mine to China Guangdong...
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Zim general’s death suspicious
HARARE – Testimony before an inquest into a Zimbabwean power broker’s fiery death ended on Monday,...
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Syrian troops besiege Homs
BEIRUT – At least 15 civilians and four soldiers were killed yesterday in the besieged central...
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I’M appealing to the people to stop. It’s not normal, we don’t do that. We need peace, we are all...
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Chasing the dots ... A-Ssad World of Liars and Cheats?
SYRIA, Bashar Assad (A-Ssad?) and the apparent daily death toll. I watch with unreserved horror as...
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THE Arab Spring is coming to China. – John Mccain, US Senator, pointing to a wave of...
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State closes treason case
THE prosecution’s case in the main Caprivi high treason trial was closed in the High Court at Windhoek Central Prison yesterday.
[more]Ndishishi guilty of negligent driving
PERMANENT Secretary of Agriculture Andrew Ndishisi was found guilty of negligent driving in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court on Monday and was sentenced to a fine of N$2 000 or six months’ imprisonment.
[more]Journalist ‘behind Aupindi prosecution’
FORMER Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) boss Tobie Aupindi’s prosecution on alleged corruption stems from pressure by a journalist.
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Otto Tsibeb, guide at the Living Museum of the Damara near Twyfelfontein in the Kunene Region, dances to the singing and clapping of local Damara people who work at the museum.
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Weather
Windhoek
more weatherInterior: Partly cloudy and warm to hot with showers and thundershowers, except in the extreme Northwest.
Coast: Partly cloudy and cool with morning fog patches. A few showers are most likely over the southern and central parts.
Wind: Fresh southeasterly in the south, elsewhere moderate southwesterly.
Katima 20-30
Rundu 20-27
Eenhana 19-30
Ondangwa 20-28
Oshakati 20-30
Outapi 17-28
Windhoek 16-25
Rehoboth 18-29
Gobabis 17-30
Mariental 19-31
Keetmans 19-30
Walvis Bay 17-25
Exchange rate
$1 = N$ USD/NAD 7.5666 7.6039
€1 = N$ EUR/NAD 9.9310 9.9455
£1 = N$ GBP/NAD 11.9748 11.9936
Word-a-day
Lummox ( ) noun
show definitionNoun: A clumsy, stupid person.
Etymology: Of uncertain origin, perhaps from East Anglian lummock (to move heavily or clumsily). Earliest documented use: before 1825.
Usage: Adam is harshly portrayed as an oaf, a nimrod, a village idiot, a lummox, you get the idea.”
Brad Wheeler; Humanizing Biblical Super Heroes; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Apr 23, 2009.
–www.wordsmith.org
