Topic: Namibia in the News

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Businessman urges Oshakati to come clean

Posted by admin on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 02:08 AM

	A BUSINESSMAN from Oshakati is up in arms over people who urinate and even defecate in the alley next to his business. Read full article: 'Businessman urges Oshakati to come clean'

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Articles: Parents urged to register orphans

Posted by admin on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 02:07 AM

	The Regional Councillor for Rundu Rural Constituency, Herbert Shixwameni, has called on parents - especially those looking after orphans - to ensure that they registered all orphans with the relevant ministries. Read full article: 'Parents urged to register orphans'

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Articles: Debt hits salaries of municipal workers

Posted by admin on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 02:05 AM

	THE pressure to pay for bulk water and power has resulted in municipal workers at Karibib not being paid. Read full article: 'Debt hits salaries of municipal workers'

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Articles: No money, no exams, no results

Posted by admin on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 02:04 AM

	THE Polytechnic of Namibia has announced that it will de-register an unspecified number of students because of bad debts. Read full article: 'No money, no exams, no results'

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Articles: Crunch time for Councils

Posted by admin on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 02:02 AM

	REGIONAL Councils will have to become less dependent on State funding this financial year and will be expected to pay their own running costs from now on. Read full article: 'Crunch time for Councils'

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Articles: Political Perspective

Posted by admin on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 04:27 AM

	IT APPEARS to be silly season on a few counts for former Swapo presidential candidate-hopeful and Minister of Higher Education, Nahas Angula, who seems to have abandoned good sense in some of the comments he's made in Parliament lately. Read full article: 'Political Perspective'

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Articles: Pros And Cons To Paternity Leave

Posted by admin on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 04:25 AM

	THERE are both pros and cons to the issue of paternity leave which is currently being discussed in Parliament and elsewhere. Read full article: 'Pros And Cons To Paternity Leave'

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Articles: Civil servants fail to meet tax deadline

Posted by admin on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 04:23 AM

	THOUSANDS of civil servants failed to meet Wednesday's deadline for individual tax returns for the 2003-04 financial year because of inefficiencies in the accounting departments of several Government Ministries. Read full article: 'Civil servants fail to meet tax deadline'

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Articles: Body-art as new self-expression

Posted by admin on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 02:26 AM

	If the lines of people waiting to be tattooed, pierced or painted at Paris's recent Body Show are anything to go by, body decoration is almost as much a tribal ritual today as it was a few hundred years ago. Read full article: 'Body-art as new self-expression'

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Articles: Alleged 'castration' case takes a new turn

Posted by admin on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 02:24 AM

	THE Namibia National Farmers Union yesterday seized the opportunity provided by television reports of the alleged castration of a farmworker by his employer to direct a broadside warning against "white commercial farmers" in Namibia. Read full article: 'Alleged 'castration' case takes a new turn'

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