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Windhoek - A Nambian journalist on Friday won a defamation case against the ruling South West Africa People's Organisation after its online publication called him a former anti-independence fighter. John Grobler, 48, sued the Swapo mouthpiece newspaper Namibia Today online for calling him an "ex-Koevoet" and a "mercenary" in an editorial in 2009. The Koevoet, Afrikaans for "crowbar", was a
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THE buzz surrounding the start of Big Brother Africa has rocketed up more than a few notches with the news that Grammy-nominated rapper J Cole will perform at the opening of the show. Yes Namibian fans, you heard correctly! J Cole. MultiChoice made the grand announcement on Monday, along with the news that this year's show will be called Big
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More than 20 traditional chiefs of Namibia's nomadic Himba people have appealed to the United Nations to stop construction of a huge dam in their area, human rights activists said Thursday. The Himba say that generations of graves would be flooded by the mooted 1,700-gigawatt hydroelectric dam. The Himba worry their ancestors will be angered and could react badly, causing
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When Wendelinus Hamutenya told his father that he was gay, the then 18-year-old was packed off to the psychiatric ward of the Windhoek Central Hospital. Seven years later, he's the country's most visible gay man, after winning the inaugural "Mr Gay Namibia" pageant -- which will make him the first black African to compete for the title of Mr Gay
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Windhoek - A Namibian journalist is suing the ruling South West Africa Peoples' Organisation (SWAPO) for defamation after the party labelled him a former anti-independence fighter and a mercenary, a court heard on Monday. John Grobler, 48, alleges that in 2009 Swapo mouthpiece newspaper Namibia Today in an editorial referred to him as an "ex-Koevoet and a "mercenary". The Koevoet,
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THE Police in the central North have reported that 27 people have drowned in dams, wells and oshanas so far this rainy season. Many of them are children. According to Chief Inspector Karl Theron, most of the cases have been reported in the Oshana and Omusati regions. He said from November 28 last year to the past weekend, nine people
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Namibia's competition commission said Wednesday it had cleared a Chinese nuclear company to take over an Australian mining firm with rights to the world's fourth-largest uranium deposit. The go-ahead would allow Taurus Mineral, a subsidiary of state-owned China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company (CGNPC), to buy a controlling share in Australia-based Extract Resources, which holds exploration licenses for the massive
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Oshakati — A Cessna plane made an emergency landing on water on a pan in the Etosha National Park last week. The aircraft has since been retrieved and was transported to Windhoek yesterday for investigations on the cause of the accident. A safari tour over Etosha National Park almost ended in tragedy early last week when the engine of the
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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Thursday hailed Africa as a "golden ground" for foreign investment, and vowed to work with Chinese firms to ensure they comply with local labour laws. "Africa is a fertile place for foreign investors and it is a golden ground for Africa to attract foreign investors, especially for infrastructure which is the blood and muscle
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A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. The hollow ball with a circumference of 1.1 metres (43 inches) was found near a village in the north of the country some 750 kilometres (480 miles) from the capital Windhoek, according to police
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Rundu — A tendency by male teachers to bribe parents with money and cattle after impregnating their school-going children is spiralling out of control in the Kavango Region, New Era can reveal. This is against the backdrop of a standing regulation by the Ministry of Education that any teacher who impregnates or is involved in an intimate relationship with a
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THE Namibian Government has vowed to engage their Nigerian counterparts to have the, allegedly abducted, two minor children of a Namibian doctor, Dr Merlyn Ehileme, returned. In a letter in The Namibian's possession, Wilbard Hellao says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "takes issues involving violation of the rights of children very seriously and it is doing everything to engage the
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Namibia's urban population is growing while poverty and inequality have become less glaring, new statistics showed Friday. According to the latest findings from the 2009-10 national household survey, "37.9 percent of Namibia's population lives in urban areas," up from the 35 percent registered at the previous survey six years earlier, said government statistician Fanuel Hangula. The associated change in the
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Namibian boxer Paulus Ambunda retained the WO African bantamweight title courtesy a split point decision victory over South African Bongani Mahlangu on Saturday in Windhoek. Namibian boxer Paulus Ambunda retained the WO African bantamweight title courtesy a split point decision victory over South African Bongani Mahlangu on Saturday in Windhoek. Two of the judges scored 115-113 in favour of Ambunda
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THIS week is World Mental Health Week with the theme 'Investing In Mental Health'. A message from the secretary general of the World Health Organisation says mental disorders are major contributors to illness and premature death, and are responsible for 13 per cent of the global disease burden. With the global economic downturn - and associated austerity measures - the
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Germany will face up to a bloody chapter of its colonial past Friday when it hands back 20 skulls spirited away after what many historians call the first genocide of the 20th century.
A delegation of 55 Namibians is in Berlin to attend the solemn ceremony to receive the remains which they hope will be just
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A Namibian delegation left for Germany Sunday to reclaim about 20 human skulls used by colonial-era scientists who sought to prove the racial superiority of whites over blacks.
Namibia's Herero ethnic group, incensed by German settlers stealing their land, cattle and women, launched an uprising against their colonial rulers in January 1904.
Around
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Windhoek — Raging bush fires destroyed more than 9 000 hectares of grazing land and killed at least 547 small livestock in the Erongo Region.
The latest incidents that resulted in large-scale damage occurred over the past two weeks, New Era can reveal from its sources.
The worst affected areas are: Spitzkoppe, Tubusis,
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Windhoek — According to the Namibia Consumer Price Index, annual inflation accelerated to 5.4 percent in August from 4.8 percent in July, with the main drivers behind the increase being food, clothing and footwear, and transport inflation. The ease in miscellaneous goods and services inflation did partially offset the increase.
At 5.4 percent, August 2011 inflation
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Windhoek — European Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht made a pit-stop in Windhoek to appease concerns over a troublesome economic partnership agreement (EPA) ahead of the Africa-European Union summit in South Africa.
While the EPAs are not likely to focus dominantly on the agenda of the Africa-EU summit on Thursday in South Africa, De Gucht used
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Windhoek — A young man who stole N$108 from Spar Supermarket where he worked, was fined N$500 or three months in jail in the Windhoek Magistrate's court yesterday.
Gevin Gonseb (20), pleaded guilty to one count of theft.
He stole N$108 from a cash register at Spar at Maerua Mall where he worked
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MINISTER of Health Richard Kamwi has been blamed for the paralysis at the National Disability Council (NDC).
National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia (NFPDN) secretary general Gerson Mutendere said at a media briefing in Windhoek on Tuesday that Kamwi has failed to fulfil his legal responsibility by ignoring a request to nominate new councillors
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The City of Windhoek said this week that the rehabilitation of some of the city's estimated 750 kilometres of tarred road network badly damaged during the past rainfall season will cost the municipality N$80 million.
Acting CEO, Mujiwa Mayumbelo told the Economist on Wednesday that of this amount, N$13.5 million, which was availed through the city's
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Windhoek — For the first time in the country's medical history, a cochlear implant surgery would be performed in Windhoek on three children this Saturday and Sunday.
A cochlear implant is a small, electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
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Windhoek — There is a severe countrywide blood shortage, which has turned into a national crisis, the Blood Transfusion Services of Namibia, revealed yesterday.
The shortage includes all blood types.
Monica Konghola of the Blood Transfusion Services, attributed the shortage in an interview with New Era to the fact that there are not
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