Cricket Namibia has been awarded the International Cricket Council (ICC) Associate Member Men’s Performance Team of the Year accolade following a successful 2019, which saw the national team qualify for the 2020 T20 finals for the first time. Namibia’s national cricket team, also known as the Eagles, also attained One Day Internationals (ODI) status following...
Juventus won Serie A for the ninth season in a row when Cristiano Ronaldo set them on the way to a 2-0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday although the Portuguese veteran missed a late penalty. The 35-year-old broke the deadlock in first-half stoppage time with his 31st league goal of the season and Federico Bernardeschi...
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was shown surrounded by pistol-toting generals while in the South masked veterans were socially distanced as the two sides yesterday separately marked the armistice that ended Korean War hostilities. The contrasting events marked 67 years since the ceasefire that left the peninsula divided and millions of families...
HONG KONG – Everyone in Hong Kong will have to wear masks in public from Wednesday, authorities said, as they unveiled the city’s toughest social distancing measures yet to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections. “The epidemic situation in Hong Kong is remarkably severe,” Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung told reporters yesterday as he announced...
REHOBOTH – Three people, aged 23, 28 and 43 died on the spot after the motor vehicle they were travelling in collided head-on with an oncoming Land Cruiser pick up on the Mariental-Stampriet road on Saturday. Namibian Police Force crime investigations coordinator for Hardap Deputy Commissioner Eric Clay told Nampa on Sunday the incident occurred...
Kaddu Kiwe Sebunya One of the leading economic casualties of the Covid-19 outbreak is tourism. The impacts in Africa from a decimated tourism industry will have ripple effects into rural communities and wildlife conservation across the continent. While Africa’s leaders grapple with how to best protect and save lives while avoiding financial ruin, one of...
Residents from Oshetu One informal settlement in Okahandja have warned that if the government cannot give them land, they will get it “through the ballot paper” in the November elections. The group’s spokesperson, /Gerub Gaseb, in an interview with Nampa on Thursday said they plan to form an organisation called ‘Promise Land Association’ to contest...
Individuals in northern Namibia, under a newly formed Kwafela Oshiwana Foundation, on Thursday dispatched two trucks containing a large consignment of staple food to be delivered to the Covid-19 affected communities in the Erongo region. The food was contributed to the foundation by individuals, who delivered it at own cost at the residence of Magda...
Marythar Kambinda KATIMA MULILO – Kamaiso ya sintolo sa Shoprite inyazizwe kuli ina ni ketululo ya mushobo, kasamulaho akufa babeleki bamashumi amabeli kabasilezi mwasikiliti sa Zambezi mañolo, kuli babonahale fapila katengo kakatalima mafosisa mwa Katima Mulilo. “Mufiwa mamela yeñozwi kuli mukupiwa kubonahala fapila mukopano otalima mafosisa hala likakalezo zebonisisizwe mwaliñolo le. Mumamele kuli ze lisiala...
In memory of struggle stalwart Jason Angula Col. Rahimisa Wa-Kahimise Comrade Warrior Comrade Jason- Your Death- is as noble as Your life-ECHOED-Yes Ooh- Tears oozed from my bleeding heart Comrade Jason Angula Angered In silence, through the rust of my pen and the bleeding of my heart Comrade-Polished Politician this is a poem of tears...