Namibia’s Commonwealth Games bronze medallist and African cross-country champion, Alex Miller has joined South African-based Mountain Bike Team (MTB) Pyga Eurosteel. Pyga Eurosteel was started in 2013 by London Olympian, Phil Buys, and is one of the most established mountain bike racing teams in South Africa, consistently finishing on podiums at all the country’s high-profile…
The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture (MoEAC) on Monday announced the commencement of the 2023 OCT/NOV National examinations registration for candidates who wish to improve their previous examination results on part-time. The ministry, in a media release availed here on Monday, said the registration for both the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced…
The body of a 47-year-old man who was attacked and killed by a hippopotamus on Friday afternoon was retrieved on Sunday, Chief Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) Romeo Muyunda said. According to Muyunda on Monday, the incident happened at Kayeura Village in the Kavango West Region when a…
More criminal cases were recorded countrywide during the 2022/23 festive season compared to the same period of the preceding year, Namibian Police Force’s Deputy Inspector General for Operations, Major General Elias Mutota, has said. Mutota said this during the Festive Season Road Safety Campaign feedback meeting held in Windhoek on Tuesday. He said alongside the…
Chairperson of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)’s Ministerial Committee of the Organ Troika (MCO), Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, said the Committee still has a lot to do in addressing the challenges faced in various regions. Nandi-Ndaitwah said this during the official opening of the SADC MCO on Monday in the capital, where she said the SADC…
Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) Activist, Michael Amushelelo, on Monday vowed to close down the biggest Shoprite branch in Windhoek. Speaking to the media after he was granted bail by Magistrate John Sindano in the Walvis Bay Magistrate’s Court on Monday, Amushelelo said the Shoprite managers have until he returns to the capital city to…
Namibian athletes who won silverware at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, will only receive their rewards later this year. This was communicated to Nampa by Mbumba Erastus Haitengela, the Executive Director in the Ministry of Sport, Youth and National Service. The games took place in Birmingham, England between 28 July and 08 August 2022. Alex Miller…
Former Brave Warriors winger Paulus Shipanga resigned from his position as head coach of Eleven Arrows with immediate effect following their two-nil defeat to Julinho Sporting on Sunday. Shipanga confirmed to Nampa that he had resigned after the match because of ‘poor results due to lack of support from management.’ “I have been asking the…