Month: April 2022

Namibia’s most avid scholar Peya Mushelenga, minister of information and communication technology bagged his second doctorate – this time a Doctor of Philosophy in Law – from the University of Western Cape, South Africa, on Wednesday last week, bringing to 12 the number of degrees he has harvested so far. 

Swakopmund council has appealed to the government and relevant stakeholders to find a solution for the about 290 incomplete mass houses in Swakopmund or sell the houses voetstoots (as is) to residents.

The director of the Namibia University of Technology Eenhana campus said learning has gotten underway, and he is satisfied with the progress.

Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) member of parliament (MP) Mike Kavekotora has said he was really disappointed when going through finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi’s budget statement that nothing new or inspiring was contained in the budget, apart from the theme.

Chairman of the newly-appointed Fifa normalisation committee for the beleaguered Namibia Football Association (NFA), Bisey Uirab yesterday said they will waste little time in putting shoulder to wheel in their new assignment, saying their first meeting as a committee is already set for Monday.

Close to 250 athletes from across the country will converge at the Independence stadium in the capital today and tomorrow for the senior national athletics championships.

Back in the day, during the time when there were no properly organised league structures for local football teams, notably those from the impoverished native [Bantu] settings, many teams were content to field the same starting 11 for very long periods, unless death struck or serious injury occurred. 

When I perused through the lengthy but well-crafted Fifa letter addressed to embattled Namibia Football Association (NFA) secretary general Franco Cosmos on Wednesday, 30 March 2022, I immediately knew that a new dawn was definitely on the horizon, and nothing could stop the winds of change blowing across Namibian football.