Zebalt Ngaruka Racehorses Boma from Harambee Sports Club (HSC) and Unbroken Promises of Eamon Freygang won the main races at the Back2Basics race held at the Gobabis turf in the Omaheke Region on Saturday. The distance of 2 000 metres was the main plate of the competition for both Nambred and Thoroughbred categories. HSC’s Boma...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Otjinene team manager Brix Kahuure has credited discipline, commitment, and early preparation for their dominant performance at the recently concluded VRK All-Stars tournament held in Windhoek. Hosted by the Namibia Rural Sports Development Federation at Khomasdal Stadium, Otjinene clinched both the football and netball titles, asserting their dominance across the board. Speaking to...
Rudolf Gaiseb LUSAKA – Associate Dean of the School of Agriculture and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Namibia, Simon Angombe, said Namibia has launched a five-year Tripartite One Health National Strategy to address the country’s vulnerability to zoonotic diseases. Speaking at the Africa Biennial Biosciences Communication symposium that took place 26 to 28 August...
Hilma Nalupe The Nedbank for Good Series has wrapped up its coastal leg in style, delivering three competitive and well-supported tournaments at Henties Bay Golf and Lifestyle Estate, Rossmund Golf Course, and Walvis Bay Golf Club. Action teed off on 16 August at Henties Bay Golf and Lifestyle Estate, where a husband-and-wife duo stole the...
Hilma Nalupe When most Namibians think of sport, football, rugby, or athletics usually come to mind. But this week, a small group of dedicated anglers is making history on the international stage, representing Namibia at the XIX Black Bass World Championships in South Africa. Bass angling is a boat-based sport where only bass are targeted...
China’s massive V-Day military parade, scheduled for Sept.3 in Tian’anmen Square, is meant to signal that the country upholds peace and will firmly defend international fairness and justice, a military official said Wednesday. Wu Zeke, deputy director of the Office of the Leading Group for the Military Parade and a senior officer of the Joint...
Lahja Nashuuta At the Etunda Irrigation Project in Namibia’s Omusati region, 33-year-old young farmer Aina Imalwa, popularly known as ‘Aina, the Farmer’, is redefining what it means for young women to succeed in agriculture. Once a mobile hairdresser, she now manages her own six-hectare farm. Her journey is marked by hard work, vision, and unwavering...
Namibia will incorporate nuclear energy into its energy mix and intensify economic diplomacy efforts as part of a broader drive to advance national development and regional integration, Minister of International Relations and Trade Selma Ashipala-Musavyi said on Friday. Speaking at her first diplomatic briefing since assuming office, Ashipala-Musavyi said the decision to bring international relations,...
Lahja Nashuuta Mariental – The Jagger family is reeling from tragedy after two sisters, Diana Jagger and Roselda Higoam, lost their lives in Saturday’s horrific road accident near Mariental, leaving a total of seven children – now all orphans. The deceased sisters’ father, Bereht Jagger, now left to care for the surviving children, lost his...
Vice President Lucia Witbooi will represent Namibia at the fourth Intra-Africa Trade Fair (IATF2025) in Algiers, Algeria. According to a statement issued by the Presidency, Witbooi will attend the fair on behalf of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, following an invitation by Algerian president Abdelmajid Tebboune. The IATF2025, organised by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in collaboration...