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/ 29 January 2007
Joao Ndjakosoma is not talking today; since he and his friend got lost coming back from the beach and walked into a minefield by accident 20 years ago, he started suffering debilitating epileptic fits. Yesterday, he had a particularly violent one, biting through his tongue and lower lip — but at least he is alive, unlike his friend who was killed by a mine and whose name no one in Salinas really remembers anymore.
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/ 29 September 2006
The Namibian ministry of defence claim that armoured vehicles manufactured by its commercial subsidiary, August 26 Holdings, have only been sold to United Nations demining operations in Angola and Iraq has raised further questions about the transparency and accountability of the company.
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/ 25 September 2006
A secretive military company belonging to the Namibian Defence Force, has come under fire from opposition parliamentarians for its lack of accountability and transparency. Among other things, opposition parties are concerned about the foreign policy implications of the company supplying armoured troop carriers to private military companies active in Iraq.
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/ 18 November 2002
A Malaysian businessman caused confusion in the Namibian High Court this week when he claimed ownership of a diamond mine that was the focus of another wrangle. Tuesday’s case was supposed to settle a dispute over a diamond claim on the Skeleton Coast.
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/ 21 September 2002
Leaden-footed bureaucracy, rather than commercial farmers dragging their heels, is the main reason why it would take decades before black Namibian farmers would own half of commercial farm land, the Institute for Public Policy Research Institute in Windhoek said this week.
The dispute in which the Namibian government is likely to face an R89,1-billion claim against its Ministry of Mines and Energy has became still more intriguing over the past fortnight.
The Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy is facing claims for losses and damages of more than R89-billion — nearly three times Namibia’s gross domestic product — after it allegedly illegally cancelled exclusive prospecting licenses held by a small local diamond-mining outfit.
WOMEN cabinet ministers in South Africa have banded together to defend President Thabo Mbeki against accusations that he is a womaniser. A statement by Minister of Public Service Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, issued on behalf of all the women in the cabinet, and women deputy ministers, was published in the Sunday Independent newspaper. It says they took […]