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The 22 people who are taking their former employer to court for having been tested for HIV without their consent, wants to be compensated for the damage they suffered, said Linda Dumba Chicalu, project lawyer at the Legal Assistance Centre's (LAC) AIDS Law Unit, which will represent them in court.
HEALTH Minister Dr Richard Kamwi has categorically denied that HIV-positive women are "systematically coerced" to be sterilised at State hospitals.
The national rugby team, the Welwitschias, followed their disappointing 13-13 draw in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with a quality and dominant 54-14 win at home in the return leg last week.
Langer Heinrich will receive a boost of N$515 million from its parent company, Paladin Energy, for its third expansion plans, said Wyatt Buck, general manager of operations at the mine.
The City of Windhoek said residents should use electricity wisely as they will pay more since the implementation of Time Of Use (TOU) tariffs took effect this week.
Spain Has Launched the Spanish Plan Africa 2009 - 2012, which encourages key initiatives that could play a role in preventing conflicts and strengthening peace in post-conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa.
I Grudgingly Have to Admit the Economic Meltdown is very much with us and that we are now suffering from the secondary round fall-out: Production falling, inventories rising, exports shrinking, company profits gone, dividends diminished or postponed, property values crumbling and job losses all round.
The Highest ranking policeman in the country is seriously concerned with the increase in drug and alcohol abuse in the country.
Increased production at existing uranium mines in Namibia and the opening of new ones in response to growing world demand for nuclear fuel will spearhead renewed economic growth from 2010, experts say.
Not a single day, if not hour, passes by without a motor vehicle accident occurring in Namibia. The insurance industry is inundated with claims making that side of business rather unprofitable to say the least.
The risk of an anthrax outbreak in the flood stricken areas in the north motivated the Veterinary Association of Namibia to donate vaccines to the Directorate of Veterinary Services.
President Hifikepunye Pohamba has been invited by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to visit the European country.
Gold One International, which has operations in Namibia, announced this week that it has sold its Twin Hills project in North Queensland to North Queensland Metals Limited and Heemskirk Consolidated Limited in proportions of 60% and 40%, for A$1.75 million.
THE infiltration of drug traffickers into Namibia appears to be continuing unabated, with another Angolan national arrested in the Caprivi Region on Friday after he allegedly entered the country with a consignment of cocaine.
ON Saturday [tomorrow], the Breaking the Wall of Silence (BWS) will observe Day of Remembrance in honour of those Namibians who either died or went missing in Swapo jails in exile during our war of national liberation.
THE Namclay Bricks and Pavers factory at Uis currently employs 45 people and produces 40 000 face bricks a day.
THE coal stored at the Van Eck power station in Windhoek has been smouldering since the end of March.
WINDHOEKERS should brace themselves for a shock when they open their municipal bills at the end of the month, after the City of Windhoek on Tuesday announced its new annual budget.
THE N$1,8 billion municipal budget, designed to help Windhoek "weather the storm at local level", allocates at least N$1,4 million for entertainment, parties and festivals at the expense of several projects which would have brought relief to the less fortunate communities in the city.
THE four Chinese locomotives, which cost about N$36 million and arrived in Namibia five years ago, could be used for only 33 months and suffered 265 failures during that time from October 2004 until June 2007, Parliament was told yesterday.
THE Namibia Premier League will only have three categories when it holds its awards for the football season on July 10.
GOVERNMENT'S restriction of live sheep exports to South Africa has been found to be illegal by the South African Agricultural Marketing Board.
Victor Shale, Senior Programme Officer of the Governance Institutions Processes in the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) based in South Africa, recently visited Namibia to conduct training workshops for representatives of political parties and to discuss the electoral process as well as party political leadership.
IF Namibia had a National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) in place, it would help the country attract investment for sustainable development projects aimed at fighting climate change.
TEN pupils were recently suspended from a secondary school in Windhoek after they were allegedly caught with dagga on the school premises.
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