Zebaldt Ngaruka The former Secretary General of the Namibia Football Association (NFA), Barry Rukoro, remembered the late Charles Kauraisa as a force behind the formation of the Namibia Football Association. Kauraisa (89) died on 3 August 2025 in the capital. In his tribute message, Rukoro said the late Kauraisa was a giant of the beautiful...
The Namibia Schools Sport Union (NSSU) is gearing up to host the 2025 National Athletics Championships at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek early next weekend. All 14 regions are set to converge in the capital for the prestigious national event, with Khomas region entering as defending champions after last year’s dominant display. Khomas secured 40...
Top Score, a leading brand under Namib Mills, has officially announced its sponsorship of various sports items to the Premier League netball club, Unam Jaguars. The sponsorship includes towels, water bottles, socks, sports bags, T-shirts, long sleeve shirts, sun visor caps and backpacks for the players. The items were handed over during a ceremony held...
Teachers from the Khomas region will gather at the Namibia Football Association (NFA) Technical Centre in Windhoek on Saturday to engage in various sports activities to raise awareness of the emotional stress educators experience. The sports activities form part of Teachers’ Wellbeing Week, which commenced in the Khomas region on Monday, and would create a...
Former Brave Gladiators vice captain and Beauties FC coach Salome Iiyambo will lead her club into battle this weekend as they make their debut at the 2024/2025 TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Championships League Cosafa qualifiers. The tournament marks not only a new chapter for Namibia’s most decorated women’s football club, but also a full-circle moment for...
Zebaldt Ngaruka The Namibian Defence Force’s 26 Motorised Infantry Brigade (26 Mot Inf Bde) defeated their Zambian counterparts in all competitions during the bilateral sporting engagements event at the Katima Mulilo Sports Complex in the Zambezi region. The two military formations based along the shared borders participated in various sporting codes such as football, netball,...
COTONOU – At least 27 people have died in Benin after a bus plunged from a bridge into the Oueme River, rescuers said yesterday, updating the toll from the weekend crash that left dozens missing. The director of the west African country’s civil protection agency, Abdel Aziz Bio Djibril, told local Bip Radio that rescuers...
ADDIS ABABA – Amnesty International has sounded the alarm over proposed reforms in Ethiopia targeting the government body overseeing civil society groups, warning the changes risk “a total closure of civic space” in the country. The Horn of Africa nation of some 130 million people is regularly criticised by rights groups for the repression of...
BAR DALORI – Rescuers and residents yesterday resumed searching for survivors as the death toll from five days of torrential rain rose to almost 400, with authorities warning monsoon downpours would continue until the weekend. Torrential rains across Pakistan’s north have caused flooding and landslides that have swept away entire villages, leaving many residents trapped...
JERUSALEM – Mediators were awaiting an Israeli response Tuesday to a fresh Gaza ceasefire plan, a day after Hamas accepted the proposal and signalled its readiness for a new round of talks aimed at ending nearly two years of war. Mediator Qatar expressed guarded optimism for the new proposal, noting it was “almost identical” to...