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Scotland snubs Zimbabwe, Ireland on course
WINDHOEK - Cricket Scotland has refused to travel to Zimbabwe for an International Cricket Council (ICC) International Cup tie while Ireland has agreed to play in Zimbabwe. Scotland was due in Zimbabwe early October but they revealed this week that their players would not travel as a re...
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AFCON qualifiers in full swing  
WINDHOEK - The Orange Africa Cup of Nations Gabon – Equatorial Guinea 2012 qualifiers officially kick off this weekend with 44 teams contesting for 14 places.  The race will see a total of 132 matches being played between now and October 2011 where the victorious 14 will join the two co...
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One struggle that does not have to continue  
Johannesbsurg - As Women’s Month comes to a close, I hope this year’s celebration has provided us men an opportunity to reflect about our role in an ongoing struggle facing South Africans today. It is the struggle to achieve gender equality and the struggle to respect the rights of all ...
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Behaviour change communication important in reduction of HIV/AIDS
Windhoek – Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) is an interactive process with communities (as integrated with an overall programme) to develop tailored messages and approaches using a variety of communication channels to develop positive behaviors; promote and sustain individual, communit...
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Zim artist to perform at Big Brother eviction show
Harare - Zimbabwe’s hottest Hip Hop musician Stunner will perform at Sunday’s Big Brother Africa eviction show. Stunner, (real name Desmond Chideme) was chosen to perform at Big Brother ahead of several other young Zimbabwean musicians. Stunner told local journalists his performance ...
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Zambians not happy with artist's performance  
 Lusaka - Big Brother Africa All Stars fans in Zambia have questioned the criteria used by the show’s producers to select artists for Sunday’s eviction show. The query comes after last week’s eviction which saw Zambian up-coming artist, Salma Dodia take to the stage. Her performance...
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No Windhoek film festival this year  
Windhoek - The Windhoek International Film Festival that was supposed to kick off  this Friday , September 03 to the 12 , 2010  in Windhoek has been cancelled due to lack of funds.  Due to financial constraints, the Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust (WCFF) unanimously decided at its last ...
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Aly Keita to perform in Namibia
Windhoek - Malian musician Aly Keita is expected to rock Namibian music lovers  next at the FNCC as part of the annual /Ae//Gams Festival that will kick run from 8-11 September 2010 courtesy   of the City of Windhoek.  Keïta will perform in Windhoek on September 10 at Franco Namibia Cu...
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Former Miss Zambia living happily ever after
Lusaka - Two years after handing over the Miss Zambian crown, Precious Mumbi, maybe out of the limelight, but she is currently enjoying the best years of her life. Her face lights up when she talks about the changes that have taken place in just one year. At age 27, the former beaut...
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Zim secures US$50m loan for for agriculture
Harare - Zimbabwe has secured a 50-million-dollar loan facility from the Africa Export Import Bank to revive help revive the country’s agriculture and manufacturing industries, the bank said Monday. “The purpose of the revival fund is to resuscitate a broad range of firms in the product...
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Coal washing plant for Zambian coal mine
Lusaka - Maambia Collieries Limited and ELB, a South African Engineering company, signed a US$20 million contract to construct a coal washing plant at Zambia’s leading coal producer. The agreement to set up the coal washer and part of the re-investment in the mine, is expected to take 3...
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'SA should export mining skills'
Johannesburg - South African mining billionaire Patrice Mostepe says his country could use its comparative advantage in mining technology to gain more economic opportunities from India’s mining industry. Speaking at the SA-India CEOs’ Forum in Sandton, Johannesburg, Motsepe urged mining...
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Brazilian mining firm starts operations in Zambia
Lusaka - Despite resentments from the miners’ unions over its investment in Africa’s leading copper producer, Brazil’s and Africa Rainbow Minerals Limited have jointly started mining operations at Konkola North in Zambia with an initial investment of US$380 million. The joint venture be...
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Baron of the barren
In Namibia, the rare desert elephant survives where few others can   Damaraland-The vista from a desolate table top mountain, littered with scorched red rock and hardly a plant, seemed to stretch forever across the wilderness. A morning mist caused by the clashing air of the icy Atlantic...
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Indian firm to re-bid for Zim steel firm
Harare - India’s Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) says it is considering making a fresh bid for a 70 per cent stake in Zimbabwe-based steel-maker ZISCO. The company’s move comes within days of the country re-inviting bids for the Redcliff-based steel plant, which has captive reserves of o...
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Platinum firm to invest US$1bn in Zimbabwe
Harare - Zimbabwe’s largest platinum miner, Zimplats has started work on a major expansion project which is expected to see annualised output increase to one million ounces and take the company’s investment in the country to over US$1 billion over the last nine years. Management announc...
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Tanzania seeks to curb load shedding
Lusaka - Tanzania, Africa’s third largest gold producer, seeks to secure US$150 million to finance a new hydro power transmission facility to improve the availability of electricity and boost mining and other economic activities in the country’s vast regions. According to a statement by...
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AFDB to finance Bots economic review
Gaborone - The African Development Bank (AFDB) will finance Botswana’s economic meltdown study following the world economic crunch. AFDB has reportedly earmarked $US 280 000 to undertake research on the world economic crunch’s  impact on Botswana’s economy. The research project wil...
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Woolworths retracing footsteps to Zim
Harare - Clothing and food retailer Woolworths wants to open up a store in Zimbabwe within 18 months to take advantage of a recovering economic and political environment in the country. “We are going to re-open. We think Zimbabwe is going to be fantastic economy in five years time,” sai...
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Zim eyes US$2bn annual windfall from diamonds
• Harare - Zimbabwe’s  diamond output from its Marange fields will reach 40 million carats in the next three years, with annual revenues expected at around $2 billion, a government adviser told Reuters news agency. The government says it has stockpiled 4.5 million carats from its two ...
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Zambia in record harvest
• Govt support input scheme pays off. • Country exports to Nam, Zim and DRC. Lusaka - Zambia’s unprecedent harvest of 2.8 million tones of maize will mean the country will have to sell it to neighbouring countries who have a deficit. The Food Reserve Agency, Zambia’s quasi-governm...
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Illegal Zim nationals in SA to be deported
Johannesburg - Deportation of Zimbabwean citizens living in South Africa will resume after December 31 2010 following the SA cabinet’s approval of a proposal to end the special dispensation for Zimbabwean nationals, introduced in April 2009. Government spokesman Themba Maseko said on Th...
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Zim needs US$200m for polls
Harare - Zimbabwe will need US$200 million to hold polls next year if leaders insist on meeting unity deal time-frames, according to Finance Minister Tendai Biti. Fresh elections are due in 2011 under the power-sharing pact signed two years ago by President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minist...
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Former Bots defence minister in court  
Gaborone - Botswana’s former Minister of Defence, Security and Justice, Ramadeluka Seretse, has been charged with corruption by the Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Seretse tendered his resignation from cabinet on Monday. On Wednesday he appeared before Village Chief Magistrate ...
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Windfall for apartheid era pregnancies
Johannesburg - South Africa’s Department of Public Service and Administration in May launched the pension redress project through which women forced to resign from their teaching posts after getting married during the apartheid era will have more time to claim for years of compensation for...
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Illegal Zim nationals in SA to be deported
Johannesburg - Deportation of Zimbabwean citizens living in South Africa will resume after December 31 2010 following the SA cabinet’s approval of a proposal to end the special dispensation for Zimbabwean nationals, introduced in April 2009. Government spokesman Themba Maseko said on Th...
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Conference discusses youths and MDGs
Windhoek – Namibia’s Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture Kazenambo Kazenambo last week attended a World Youth Conference in Leon, Guanajuato in Mexico to analyse the situation facing young people regarding the Millennium Development Goals for 2015.  The conference bro...
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Conference on protecting housing consumers held
Windhoek – Kavango Block Brick, a Namibian construction company in partnership with the Development Bank of Namibia, the Polytechnic of Namibia and the Namibia Standards Institute this week held a conference on the basic minimum requirements for housing in order to protect housing consumer...
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Brazen ATM bombers dare police
Police details in Pretoria, South Africa, retreated after 12 heavily armed ATM bombers faced off with them, opening fire on the cops moments after they blasted open two Absa cash machines. The Star newspaper reported that the bombings, two of three early on Wednesday in Gauteng and Nort...
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Bots to honour US$70m Zim pledge
Harare - Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti left for Botswana on Wednesday to meet government officials there over a $70 million line of credit pledged by Gaborone. The pledge was made under a Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) initiative. This is the most promising a...
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Swaziland out to shock Ghana
Mbabane - Sunderland record signing Asamoah Gyan will on Sunday lead the bulk of the Black Stars of Ghana who shone so brightly at the recent World Cup to a Nations Cup qualifying tie against Swaziland. Gyan and company were only a penalty kick away from becoming the first African team...
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Above normal rainfall for Namibia
Windhoek – Namibia’s Meteorological office has predicted above normal rainfall for the country. The rainy season outlook for October to December this year and from January to March of next year generally indicate normal to above-normal rainfall figures. For the period of October to D...
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Munya five not out
Windhoek – This week’s nominations in the AllStar’s house saw Uti, Mwisho and Code up for possible eviction and Mwisho as the House’s Head obviously saved himself and he put MUNYA up for possible eviction – for the fifth time. Munya, the Zimbabwean housemate, who keeps bouncing back int...
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Miners' US$20bn rush for African resources  
Sydney - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Dennis Richardson said Australian miners were involved in 500 projects across 40 nations in Africa, taking the value of Australian investment in the continent’s resources sector to an estimated US$20 billion. “This year alone, m...
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'NEPRU has fallen apart'  
Windhoek - Operations at Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) have ground to a halt with almost all the staff members deserting the beleaguered think tank and management contemplating disposing of the NEPRU building to settle outstanding staff salaries, pension and medical aid ben...
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Harare at standstill as singer Akon arrives in Zimbabwe
Harare - Chaos reigned on the streets of Harare on Thursday as American R&B star Akon swept into town ahead of a gig at the National Sports Stadium on Saturday September 3. Hundreds of fans waited for the Senegal-born star at the Harare International Airport. And when he finally a...
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The Southern Times turns six...
The Southern Times, the weekly regional newspaper owned by NAMZIM, a joint venture company between Zimbabwe and Namibia, celebrates six years in existence on Saturday September 4....
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Why African farmers fail
Lack of investment, poor infrastructure cited Windhoek - Lack of meaningful investment in the agricultural sector, poor infrastructure and failure by African farmers to apply modern farming techniques have been cited as major contributors to poor yields and failure by African countries...
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Zim steals Windhoek hockey thriller     
WINDHOEK -Zimbabwe emerged overall winner of the Momentum International Hockey Challenge played in Windhoek, Namibia last week, winning five of the seven age group categories that were contested between the two nations. Doco Mukwewa was the toast of the final match of the series as he ...
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Zebras, surprise leaders in AFCON qualifiers
While most African teams have been playing friendly matches to fine tune preparations towards the 2012 AFCON qualifiers, teams in Group K have already been competitively battling in the qualifiers proper. The early fixtures in Group K is due to the addition of Togo after their two-editi...
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Brian Lara to grace Zim cricket awards ceremony
Harare - Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) received a major boost last week after it was confirmed that one of the legends of the game, Brian Lara will be in the country as guest of honour at the 2010 CBZ Cricket Awards. Lara will grace the awards ceremony, which will be held in Harare on September...
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JJD in Irvin Khoza's footsteps
WINDHOEK - There are many words to describe Namibian football administrator, Johnny Johnson Doeseb. Nicknamed ‘JJD’, he was labeled the Roman Abramovich of Namibian football, a pseudonym he assumed after the Chelsea FC owner with whom he shares some similarities. Young, flamboyant and fa...
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Sex workers: the biggest losers at the World Cup  
Johannesburg - While many are still coming down from the excitement of the World Cup, Zodwa Sangweni* is one South African who was disappointed by how the much-hyped event turned out.  A sex worker in Johannesburg, Sangweni said despite predictions that sex business would be booming, th...
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We have come a long way with HIV
Windhoek – The HIV scourge has been a part of our lives for a long time. It’s been part of mine for so long, it goes back to primary school – the years when the ABCD (Abstain, Be faithful, use condoms, Delay) methods were introduced in Namibia and when we learnt about what the abbreviation...
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We have come a long way with HIV
 Windhoek – The HIV scourge has been a part of our lives for a long time. It’s been part of mine for so long, it goes back to primary school – the years when the ABCD (Abstain, Be faithful, use condoms, Delay) methods were introduced in Namibia and when we learnt about what the abbreviatio...
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Same old story... ...Munya again
Windhoek – Zimbabwe’s Munya and Kenyan beauty Sheila are up for eviction this Sunday, August 29. Munya has seen it all before, three times to be exact. Will he make it four survivals in a row? Initially Munya was up for Eviction with Code but by the powers vested in her, Jen as Head ...
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Zim teenager memerises Britain in X factor auditions
Harare - Zimbabwean teenager Gamuchirai (Gamu) Nhengu is mesmerizing music fans in Britian as she has emerged as the overwhelming favourite to win Britain’s ITV X Factor show. The 18-year old beauty became an instant hit with the judges and the audience in the first episode of the show...
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Coffee with Benjex!
Benjex is a Luderitz based R&B music group which consists of ED Man, Cillio, Vaico and Exit. The group was formed in 2008. Group members say they are facing financial challenges to grow into a big brand. This week the Southern Times was in Luderitz, the town famous for sea food, and paid...
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Capacity crowd expected at 60 000 seater Akon zim show venue
Harare - Will the Akon and Sean Paul concert draw a capacity crowd at the 60 000 seater National Sports Staduim in Harare on September 4? Although the staduim has played host to many national events it has only been filled to capacity on limited occasions, like the recent international fr...
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Zim gold output to double
Harare - Zimbabwe expects to double last year’s gold out put this year, industry officials said.  The Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines said the country is on course to double last year’s gold output despite regular disruptions in electricity supplies. In a statement, the chamber said the coun...
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