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The Cohen Fistball Club (CFC) continued to dominate the Bank Windhoek Fistball League when it won the third round in Swakopmund recently. 

Renowned athletics coach Henk Botha has said the recent 22nd edition of the African Athletics Championships in Mauritius was an important learning curve for young and upcoming Namibian athletes. 

I started playing basketball since grade seven when a friend and classmate, Penda, invited me to the UN Plaza for some games. During the grade eight application process, I applied to Immanuel Shifidi Secondary School, and they offered basketball as a sport code.

Please allow me to share this 4th grade Social Studies topic, which I think is one of the pivotal events that shaped and laid a foundation for both the South African and Namibian political struggle, post-1976.

Children living on the streets and those subjected to child labour have expressed the sentiment of being treated as the stepchildren of Namibia as they are often excluded from child and youth spaces and programmes, and have no access to information, opportunities or justice.

This year, as we celebrate the Day of the African Child under the theme ‘Eliminating harmful practices affecting children: Progress on Policy and Practice since 2013’, we recall the 16 June 1976 uprising in Soweto, South Africa, where high school pupils protested against apartheid-enforced Afrikaans as the medium of instruction.

The Windhoek City Police has raised concern over motorists who knowingly and unlawfully use fake number plates and duplicated numbers on more than one vehicle.  

The Deputy Minister for Industrialisation and Trade, Verna Sinimbo has urged for a well-balanced multilateral trading system that she says should promote trade in a manner that redresses the imbalance in the share of world trade between developed and developing countries. 

Online violence is real violence, and should be considered a serious emerging human rights challenge. It can take the form of public shaming, doxing, harassment, cyberstalking, intimidation and many others. 

Kangaroo Empire CC, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture in the Zambezi region, will host the region’s first ever education and career expo from 1 to 6 August 2022.