The Bank Windhoek indoor hockey action once again took centre stage over the weekend and exhilarating hockey action was the order of the day at the DTS courts. Action started on Friday with the ladies’ premier reserve league kicking off the day’s proceedings when Saints-2 took on their seniors Saints-1 in a heated battle that...
The Namibia Football Association (NFA) Skorpion Zinc Women Super League is set to kick off in October this year, league chairperson Jackie Gertze said. Tura Magic Ladies are the reigning champions of the women super league, having leapfrogged second-placed Namibian Police Ladies to the trophy last season. Last season, the league consisted of 10 teams,...
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and world No.2 Rafael Nadal have entered the US Open tune-up tournament to be played in New York while Serena Williams is in the women’s field. Organisers of the ATP and WTA Western and Southern Open, typically played in Cincinnati but moved to New York this year due to the coronavirus pandemic,...
EPUKIRO – The Okonjoka football team from Aminuis won the preparatory games for the annual Winter Cup held at the Motsomi Primary School sports grounds on Sunday. One of the competition’s organisers, Safe Kaiko, told Nampa in an interview on Monday that the purpose of the games was to prepare teams and players for the...
OSHAKATI – The second edition of the Top Score Oshiwana 7-a-side soccer championship was launched at Oshakati in the Oshana region on Tuesday. This year’s tournament has attracted 79 soccer teams, compared to 46 teams registered for the tournament last year and kicks off on Thursday until Sunday at the Uukwangula Sports Stadium, some 10km...
Both the MTC Nestor Sunshine Boxing & Fitness Academy and the MTC Salute Boxing Academy have upped their fight against Covid-19 after both academies dispatched teams of health officials to disinfect their gyms and maintain strong health standards. In their ongoing efforts to remain ahead in the battle against the deadly coronavirus, both gyms have...
Namibia Tennis Association (NTA) chairperson for the junior tennis committee Santie van der Walt has expressed great satisfaction with the high level of performance displayed by local youngsters at the recent Sanlam Junior Tennis Tournament Series, which ended last weekend. Last weekend’s event marked the second and last edition of the Sanlam-sponsored tennis series for...
Current club: Golden Arrows (SA) Previous Clubs: Desert Rollers, Rambles and African Stars. Position: Goalkeeper Career achievements: I won the second division with Desert Rollers in Omaheke. I also won two Namibia Premier League (NPL) titles with African Stars and the NFA Cup twice with Stars. I won the 2015 Cosafa Cup with the Brave...
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...