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FNB Wanderers Rugby Club on Saturday beat Western Suburbs 52-19 in the Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) league.

The ongoing heatwave in the United Kingdom could see some Commonwealth Games events moved to the morning or late in the afternoon, but Namibia’s athletes will have to adapt, Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) Abner Xoagub has said.

Newly-appointed coach of the Desert Jewels Mary Waya has set her sights on qualifying the Namibian national netball team for the 2023 Netball World Cup to be staged in South Africa. 

Namibia on Saturday sent off a woman’s football team to compete at the Special Olympics Unified Cup in the USA.

The new season of the popular Next Ma/Gaisa Star Search competition promises to be bigger and better this year, following a memorandum of understanding, signed on Friday between organisers and the African Institutional Management Services.

An Oviritje music concert in aid of elderly residents of Katutura will take place in Stoke on Trent, England, on 6 August. 

Vivo Energy Namibia, the marketer and distributor of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants, launched its latest partnership in convenience retail innovation last Thursday with the opening of the first FreshStop shop at the Highway Shell service station in Ongwediva in the Oshana region. 

The fourth edition of the Africa Youth in tourism innovation challenge and summit is set to take place in Namibia from 27 to 29 July in Windhoek. 

The first Bitcoin ATM in Namibia is now operational at Maerua Mall in Windhoek via the Crypto Kiosk. A Bitcoin ATM can liquidate crypto currency into cash directly from crypto wallets, and also turns cash into crypto currency, sent directly to crypto wallets . 

The Stampriet Aquifer Uranium Mining Committee, representing the interests of inhabitants of south-east Namibia in the Omaheke region, are concerned proposed uranium extraction methods could potentially harm an aquifer that supplies the only fresh drinking water in the area.