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BRAGGING about the lead the Swapo Party had taken in the presidential and National Assembly elections after seagoing workers and Namibians living abroad cast their votes on Friday, Swapo vice president Hage Geingob on Sunday told opposition parties' supporters to rally behind the winner.
NAMIBIAN lightweight world boxing boxing champion, Paulus 'Hitman' Moses says he fears no-one when he enters the ring, including the famous Mexican fighter Marco Antonio Barrera, who he is set to meet in his second title defence early next year.
OHORONGO yesterday secured nearly N$1 billion of the required N$2,5 billion to develop the country's only cement factory.
NEWS coverage of political parties by the NBC is continuing to irk opposition parties in the run-up to next week's elections.
THE Police in Erongo on Saturday arrested five men suspected of being involved in an attack on the farm Riksburg near Karibib two weeks ago in which Dottie Jooste (89) was fatally injured and her helper, Selma Kavari, sustained serious injuries.
LEONEL and Mzamo, sharing a bed. K-I-S-S-I-N-G and having S-E-!!! Hold it, according to Leonel, nothing happened between him and Mzamo. BBA nation, the man lied (oops) told The Namibian yesterday that he did not "do the deed' with Mzamo.
MINIMUM-WAGE earners belonging to trade unions on average had to make do with an increase of N$188 last year, but because of high inflation, the buying power of their monthly N$2 190 dropped by more than three per cent compared to 2007.
AIR Namibia has launched a new flight service to Accra, Ghana.
NAMIBIA'S national rugby team beat Tunisia 18-13 in Tunis at the Stade El Menza and now stand a good chance to qualify for the IRB Rugby World Cup to be staged in New Zealand 2011.
NAMIBIA'S diamond manufacturing industry took quite a hit from the global financial crisis, with the country's beneficiation strategy being set back a few notches as a result.
THREE people were killed when a South African-registered aircraft which had taken off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on a flight to southern Angola crashed in the city early yesterday.
THE Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) at noon on Saturday finally made copies of the final voters' roll available to political parties - six days after the original date, which was Monday, November 9 - and the number of voters shrunk suddenly by over 300 000 to only 961 175 voters.
THE Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) yesterday refused to give reporters a breakdown of the first votes cast in this year's National Assembly and presidential elections by about 900 Namibians at 24 diplomatic missions abroad.
VIOLENCE has to be condemned, wherever it happens and whoever the perpetrators are. We would therefore roundly condemn individuals responsible, or the organisations they belong to, who may be inciting such acts.
NAMIBIAN citizens can start expecting improved service delivery from Government following the launch of a Performance Management System (PMS) for the public service.
Swakopmund Municipality's health services department introduced a plan to curb the indiscriminate use of plastic shopping bags in the town.
IT was a classic Mastercard moment. Priceless!
NAMIBIA'S new Government Diamond Valuator (GDV) is a fully Namibian-owned company.
OPPOSITION parties are frustrated because they still have not received copies of the final voters' roll, which has been available for public perusal at all 107 constituency offices countrywide since Monday already.
MANY registered voters are not sure whether they may vote only in their own constituency or in all 13 regions.
THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) yesterday accused the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) of selling out the workers.
THE silly season, or politics of promises, as others know it, has seen different political parties making a myriad of promises to Namibian voters over the past couple of months.
OLD Mutual Namibia rode out the financial storm this year, emerging solid, the company's results for the first nine months of 2009 show.
THE housemates are going back in time this week, way back to the 1940s. As part of this week's task the house has been transformed into a downtown jazz club, complete with a list of sleazy club owners and shady characters.
A FUEL pump problem has been identified as the cause of a plane crash in which two French and two American tourists were injured in Windhoek in May last year.
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