Omapumba and Tuck Lyn Bucks respectively won the netball and football categories of the 13th edition of the Okozonduzu open tournament at Okondjatu on Sunday. The one-weekend tournament saw 24 football and 20 netball teams vie for cash prizes of N$35 000 in total. In the first netball semi-final Tuck Lyn Bucks defeated Bogolos from...
The tension between the PSL and Safa was getting out of hand, but I’m elated that the right decision to restart the football season was taken in the end. The sense of anticipation about the resumption of football was palpable. When Irvin Khoza announced that the 2019/20 PSL season was set to resume this coming...
KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian ex-finance minister and his wife were hit with corruption charges yesterday, the latest episode in a crackdown against dissent since a scandal-plagued party returned to power. Lim Guan Eng was a minister for nearly two years until the reformist government he was in collapsed in February, as a new pact...
WUHAN – Fans dancing at an electronic music festival, long lines at breakfast stands, gridlocked traffic – the scenes in coronavirus ground zero Wuhan these days would have been unthinkable in January. The central Chinese city’s recovery after a 76-day lockdown was lifted in April has brought life back onto its streets. The queues snaking...
PORT OF SPAIN – Trinidad and Tobago’s ruling People’s National Movement party has declared victory in a close-run general election where it lost a seat to the opposition, which has said it will contest the result. The run-up to Monday’s ballot was dominated by the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic – largely seen as...
WASHINGTON – US Secret Service agents shot and wounded a man who was apparently armed outside the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump, after being briefly whisked away in the middle of a press conference. A 51-year-old male approached a Secret Service officer standing at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, one...
TEHRAN – Iran is watching developments in Lebanon closely, wary of losing any of its hard-won influence after a deadly mega-blast in Beirut sparked angry demands for reforms to its delicately balanced system. One week on from the chemical explosion that wreaked destruction across swathes of the Lebanese capital, the strategic eastern Mediterranean country is...
Timo Shihepo Brave Gladiators star girl Zenatha Coleman is excited about the next stage in her career following the recent announcement that she had penned a deal with Spanish giants Sevilla Femenino Football Club. Coleman, who was a free agent after leaving Spanish side Valencia in May, has been given a one-year contract for the...
OTJIWARONGO – A male employee of the Central North Regional Electricity Distributor (Cenored) at Otjiwarongo whose spouse tested positive for Covid-19 last week, also tested positive for the virus over the weekend. Cenored last Wednesday temporarily closed its three buildings in Otjiwarongo following the positive test result of the employee’s spouse on Tuesday. Cenored’s Executive...
Hileni Mwandingi GOBABIS- The first locally transmitted case diagnosed in Gobabis of a 44-year-old female that was reported on Sunday evening by the health minister has sent shockwaves throughout Omaheke. Although it is the third Covid-19 confirmed case, it became the first locally transmitted case, as the patient had no travel history or outside contact...