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Namibia’s senior women’s cricket team vice-captain, Yasmeen Khan has been selected as one of the world’s top female cricketers to participate in this year’s FairBreak Invitational tournament in Dubai.

With their first boxing bonanza for the year slated for early next month, MTC Kilimanjaro Boxing Club chairman Joseph Benhard says their mission for 2022 is to continue unearthing raw talent and developing the sport in the northern parts of the country.

Teams in the Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) League have lauded the just-ended Trustco Castle Lite 10-a-side tournament, saying it is vital ahead of the new rugby season. 

A 4x100m relay event was launched at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek on Thursday in aid of charity.

Olympians Vera Looser and Alexander Miller were yesterday crowned women’s and men’s champions of the 36th edition of the Nedbank Cycle Challenge in Windhoek. 

Tura Magic versatile defender Emma Naris will today lead a 25-member Brave Gladiators squad to Lusaka, Zambia, where they will face the Shepolopolo on Wednesday in the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) qualifiers.

New Era Sport caught up with the calculated midfield kingpin to talk about his amazing football career and his experience in his adopted land of the Brave.  

The Bank Windhoek Fistball League will return this Saturday with an opening tournament in Swakopmund. With 10 adult and six youth teams, fistball players are ready to compete after a long break. 

I have been following with keen interest all developments around Namibia and Botswana’s ambitions to co-host the 2027 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), and I was quite surprised by how some government officials, especially those from the sports ministry and the Namibia Sport Commission, have been reacting to well-intended criticism.