Regions have welcomed the new MTC Namibia Premier League, the first of its kind for Namibia and aimed at amplifying the overall development of netball countrywide. Netball Namibia (NN) recently received a three-year sponsorship worth 4.2 million from MTC to assist with the establishment of a premier netball league and the development of netball countrywide. ...
The WTA Pan Pacific Open in Japan, one of Asia’s top women’s tennis tournaments, has been scrapped for the first time because of the coronavirus, organisers said yesterday. The cancellation of the event, which was scheduled for November and was won by Japan’s Naomi Osaka last year, follows last week’s axing of all international tennis...
WALVIS BAY – Cries of anguish reverberated through the informal settlement of Twaloloka in Walvis Bay yesterday as hapless residents sifted through ashes following a devastating fire on Sunday evening, which claimed the life of a one-year-old boy. More than 1 000 people were left homeless after the fire destroyed about 200 shacks at the...
Twenty-four Covid-19 patients at Walvis Bay have recovered from the virus, health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula announced yesterday as the country recorded 68 new positive cases. However, 60 of the cases were reported at Walvis Bay, six in Windhoek, while Keetmanshoop and Swakopmund each reported one case. This brings the total number of confirmed cases...
President Hage Geingob yesterday implored ruling party leaders to “bury” and end slate politics, which has left the movement deeply divided before and after the 2017 elective congress. In a bid to eliminate the influence of slate politics, Geingob remarked that the so-called Team Harambee and Team Swapo should be buried for the sake of...
RUNDU – An unemployed 30-year-old Sinyemba Muro Mukoso from Shamavinyo village in Mukwe constituency in Kavango East has pleaded with good Samaritans to assist with nappies, baby powder, soap, lotion and blankets among other essentials for her newly-born triplets. Two of the newborns are boys and one is a girl. “They were born on 18...
The Namibia Premier League (NPL) has bumptiously accepted its expulsion by the Namibia Football Association (NFA), saying the decision by the local football association to expel the league is unlawful and makes a serious mockery of all norms and values of natural justice. In a letter dated 27 July 2020, the NPL responded to the...
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...
During the opening of the Swapo party post-mortem meeting which started on Saturday on the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly poll, President Hage Geingob confessed there are areas where the party had failed its members. As the sole Swapo presidential candidate in 2019, Geingob said he saw that there was a cry for unity and...
WALVIS BAY – Namibia recorded another Covid-19 death, bringing to eight the virus deaths in the country while a record of 88 new positive cases were registered yesterday. The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Kalumbi Shangula, yesterday said the latest death is that of a 47-year-old man with known underlying health conditions who was...