The Bank Windhoek 2025 School Closed Chess Championships took place on Saturday at Windhoek High School. The event was the grand final for the top three winners from the previously-held zonal tournaments across various regions. With an impressive turnout of 270 players, participants travelled from the far north, south and coastal areas of Namibia. Acting...
The Windhoek Hockey Tournament is back for its third consecutive year. It promises an exciting and action-packed event that will bring together hockey players from across Namibia. This year’s tournament will feature 11 schools, namely Windhoek High School, Windhoek Gymnasium, Windhoek Afrikaanse Privaatskool, St. Paul’s College, St. George’s Diocesan School, Private School Swakopmund, Edugate Academy,...
The sixth edition and round one of the Nedbank for Good Series took place on Saturday at Omeya Golf Club, and saw 106 players tee off on the day. It was one of the biggest fields in the history of events. The launch of the series featured the Nedbank Ladies Central Open event, which took...
Chief administrator of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) Freddy Mwiya has firmly defended the plan to send nearly 204 Namibian athletes, 12 coaches and a team of officials to Botswana for a ‘pre-competition’ ahead of the upcoming Region 5 Youth Games set to take place in July. Despite some criticism, he believes this strategy is...
The highly-anticipated MTC Maris Cup final is set to take place on 29 March in Windhoek. Young African’s owner and coach Maleagi Ngarizemo will face off against rising force in Namibian football Benedictus Haoseb’s African Stars. The stakes could not be higher, with a hefty N$1.5 million awaiting the winner. Ngarizemo, whose passion for the...
Namibia Defence Force marathon runner Alina Armas expressed her excitement after clinching her 10th victory at the Rossing Marathon since 2013. The 34th Rössing National Marathon, held on Saturday in Swakopmund, saw Armas finish the 42.2-kilometre (km) race in an impressive time of 02:45:31. “I am proud of myself, but it is not easy to...
The organisers of the fistball tournament have promised that their next event will be bigger and better. This follows after hosting a successful tournament this past weekend at the coastal town of Swakopmund. On Saturday, during the tournament at Swakopmund Sport Club FC (SFC), Cohen Fistball Club (CFC) 1 emerged victorious in the A category,...
Isai Sipunga Strauss Lunyangwe Windhoek Gymnasium faced off against Deutscher Turn und Sportverein (DTS) at the CBS Sports Arena in Windhoek on Saturday. The event marked both teams’ first match in the 2025 MTC Hopsol League season. The game ended with a 2-1 victory for DTS. DTS took the lead in the first half with...
“I don’t shy away from responsibility or pressure. I always try and do my best, and I don’t cut corners. I am a straightforward person,” are the words of interim head coach of African Stars, Benedictus ‘Bennie’ Haoseb. He is on the verge of making history as his team storms into the MTC Maris Cup...
Namibia’s senior men’s cricket team, Eagles, will be looking to bounce back this week when they face the Netherlands on Thursday and Canada on Saturday in the International Cricket Council Men’s Cricket World Cup League. The team suffered a tough outing last week, losing to the Netherlands by 53 runs on Friday before narrowly falling...