Johannesburg – Gauteng will host the remaining 57 matches of the South African season despite the province being the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, it was announced yesterday. There had been 276 000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 nationally by late Sunday, the most in an African country, and 4 079 fatalities. South...
Lausanne – Manchester City will be free to play Champions League football next season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) lifted a two-season ban from European competitions imposed by UEFA yesterday. An initial fine of 30 million euros (US$34 million = £27 million) was also reduced to 10 million euros on appeal. City...
Spielberg – Lewis Hamilton secured his first win of the season and the 85th of his career with a perfectly-judged victory from pole position as Mercedes delivered a one-two finish in Sunday’s Styrian Grand Prix. The six-time world champion bounced back from a disappointing season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on the same Red Bull Ring circuit...
Los Angeles – Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James offered a tweet of support Sunday for ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski, who has reportedly been suspended for a vulgar response to an email from a US senator. James joined other NBA players in tweeting “#FreeWoj” on Sunday, two days after Wojnarowski himself posted an apology on...
RUNDU – The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) in the Kavango East region said it would this year make sure that there is an infusion of young blood vying for positions in the upcoming regional and local authority elections. Regional secretary Anselm Marungu made this statement during SPYL’s first regional youth dialogue held at Rundu...
Selma Gumbo The Namibian Police and the office of the governor of Kunene region recently visited the Northern Namibia Development Company (NNDC), a diamond mining company situated at Kunene River in the Epupa constituency. According to information from the NNDC head office, the Exclusive Prospecting Licence (EPL) 2633 was originally granted in 1998, and this...
Inclusivity and unity are key principles towards the attainment of a common objective. An effective and responsive democracy is formed and founded on the bases of constitutional rights and freedoms under which every person has equal fundamental human rights and the opportunity to contribute to the betterment of democracy. In a democracy like ours, we...
OTJIWARONGO – The Swapo Party district conferences of Okahandja and Tsumkwe in Otjozondjupa region successfully took place on Thursday and Friday at the respective towns. Swapo coordinator in Otjozondjupa Susan Hikopua, in an interview with Nampa on Saturday, said the region has an instruction from the central committee of the party to renew mandates of...
Cecilia Xavier A group of community members, residing at the informal areas of Katutura, Ouranda and Otuzemba at Opuwo, staged a peaceful demonstration last week to voice their concerns over what they described as mistreatment by the local town council. The group accused the council of being incompetent, saying local authority leaders have failed to...
CORDOBA – The Santos Bar, across from Cordoba’s celebrated mosque, would normally be groaning with tourists tucking into its trademark Spanish tortillas. But with the coronavirus pandemic, “everything’s dead”, the owner says. The Mezquita, an eighth-century mosque later turned into a cathedral, is the most visited site in the Andalusian town in southern Spain. But...