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The Last Best Place (Free subscription) | yesterday
Greetings from Windhoek. I'm over here on business but managed to work in a little pleasure as well. This morning I'm finally plugged in just in time for me to head back to South Africa for another meeting and then back to the States. Since I'm over here I can't help thinking... why didn't I think of that ? Half the country's arable land? Cha-ching! What's next, scores of Kimchee pots scattered across...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
WINDHOEK, Namibia -- The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
THE prosecution of an Angolan-born musician who has been facing a cocaine-dealing charge in Namibia for more than four and a half years ended in an acquittal in the Windhoek Regional Court this week.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
THE Khomas Regional Council yesterday rolled into the Mix Camp settlement, 20 km north of Windhoek, to deliver maize meal, tinned fish and cooking oil as food aid to 174 families there.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
A 26-YEAR-OLD Windhoek resident who is accused of murdering a friend by kicking him to death in a shopping centre parking area in the city early last year heard on Friday last week that his case would be transferred to the Windhoek Regional Court for trial.
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
AllAfrica.com, via the Namibian ( Windhoek ) : The Namibia Red Cross Society on Friday thanked donors and organisations that formed part of the relief efforts in response to the flooding in northern Namibia earlier this year. The floods, which hit all six northern regions, affected over 210 000 people, displaced about 65 000, and flooded close to 150 000 hectares of fields. Fifty-three people drowned...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
THE High Court yesterday issued an eviction order against the 'children of the liberation struggle' who for the last two months have camped outside the premises of the Ministry of Veterans' Affairs in Windhoek.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. millionaire Jacob "Kobi" Alexander on Wednesday won another delay in his legal battle to avoid extradition from Namibia over an alleged scheme to backdate millions of executive stock options.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
BIDVEST says it plans to list its Namibian unit on the Windhoek-based bourse next year and intends to continue making strategic acquisitions despite the financial crisis.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
WORKERS at a farm outside Windhoek claim they've been ordered to move although their late employer promised them lifelong residency.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
THE 10 men convicted in the second Caprivi high treason trial last year returned to the High Court in Windhoek on Friday in an attempt to get started with an appeal against their convictions and prison sentences.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
The recent destruction of Telecom's cables in one of Windhoek's industrial areas made me realise we have far more pressing problems at home, than crumbling financial markets.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
A 40-year-old man allegedly hanged himself with a rope in his hotel room at the Motown Hotel in Windhoek's Independence Avenue on Wednesday morning.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Civics Football Club will be out to reclaim its status as the country's number one football entity when the Civilians welcome defending champions Orlando Pirates in an MTC Namibia Premiership match at the Khomasdal Stadium in Windhoek this evening (19h00).
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Ten young Namibian dancers recently returned from a two-week performance visit to Berlin, as part of the "shared experiences" project of p.art.ners berlin-windhoek.
