Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) president Petri Theron yesterday announced a 28-man squad along with 10 technical staff members who will represent the country at the upcoming Rugby Africa Cup, scheduled to take place in Uganda from 8 to 19 July. The highly anticipated tournament, set to unfold at the Mandela National Stadium in Kampala, will...
Cricket Namibia (CN), in collaboration with Cricket South Africa (CSA) will host an exciting white-ball tour featuring the CSA Emerging Women’s Academy squad. The tour will take place in Windhoek from 2 to 12 July, comprising four T20 matches and three 50-over fixtures, all hosted at the High-Performance Oval in Windhoek. Namibia’s national women’s team,...
No one could have predicted that a young boy from the quiet village of Edundja in the Ohangwena region would one day grow into the man who would put Namibia on the global boxing map. But that’s exactly what Nestor ‘Sunshine’ Tobias has done. Against all odds, he transformed his love for boxing into a...
Khomas region stamped its authority at the 28th Annual Namibian Police Sports Championships held in Otjiwarongo, emerging the overall winners after excelling across several sporting disciplines. The week-long event, which brought together 1 640 officers from all 14 regions, saw participants competing in athletics, football, volleyball, darts, and other disciplines in the male and female...
//Kharas governor Aletha Frederick says the world of sports offers a wide range of career opportunities beyond just being an athlete, such as coaching, sports management, sports medicine and sports journalism, among others. Frederick made these remarks at the AUSC Region 5 Youth Games domestic torch tour at Keetmanshoop last week. She said sports can...
X-Men delivered a massive win in the Futsal League at the weekend, thrashing Flying V 9-0 in one of the biggest victories of the season, while log leaders Chile extended their lead at the top with a convincing 7-1 triumph over Ballers. The emphatic win saw X-Men climb to sixth place on the log with...
The organisers of the recent MTC Kilimanjaro Boxing Club Bonanza have expressed satisfaction with how the event unfolded, describing it as a success that lived up to expectations by attracting a large crowd of passionate boxing fans. The tournament took place on Saturday in Oshakati, as part of the ongoing Oshikuku Expo, and featured over...
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Saturday released the draw for this year’s FIH Men’s Junior World Cup, which will see Namibia’s junior men’s team facing serious competition from some of the world’s hockey powerhouses. The 2025 FIH Men’s Junior World Cup will take place in November and December, in Chennai and Madurai (Tamil Nadu...
Director of Sport in the ministry, Jo-Ann Manuel, has taken a swipe at corporate Namibia, accusing companies of only rushing to associate themselves with athletes after they achieve international glory, while ignoring their struggles at grassroots and developmental levels. She expressed these sentiments last week during a send-off press conference hosted by Navachab Marathon at...
Marathon runner Lavinia Haitope claimed a decisive victory in the women’s 21-kilometre race at the 11th edition of the Nelson Mandela Bay Half Marathon (Qgebertha Half Marathon), held on Saturday in South Africa. Haitope clocked a time of 1 hour, 14 minutes and 1 second (1:14:01) to cross the finish line ahead of a competitive...