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1 week ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
A last minute penalty by Danco Burger gave the Namibian Welwitschias a rather fortunate 22-19 victory against Uganda at Walvis Bay on Saturday. The Welwitschias outscored the Ugandan Cranes by three tries to one, but the home side made numerous mistakes, which Uganda used to good advantage, keeping the scoreboard ticking with regular penalties.
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1 week ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
African Stars were crowned Debmarine Namibia Premiership champions for the third year in a row after an entertaining 3-3 draw against Young African on Saturday.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
The Namibian Eagles will host Indian state side Assam in a five-match 50-over series starting next Saturday, June 21. Assam will be led by Rajasthan Royals captain and star batter Riyan Parag, who made history on May 4 this year by becoming the first player in Indian Premier League history to hit six sixes in a row. In that match, he scored 95 not out, including six fours and eight sixes, as the Royals recovered to reach 205/8.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
The Kaiyamo twins, Nande and Mandume, have shown remarkable progress since taking up go-kart racing less than four years ago. After dominating the Rotax Max Namibia Karting Championship’s Bambino class in 2022, with Nande coming first and Mandume second, they repeated the feat by winning the Micro Class and the Mini Max Class over the next two years, and are now competing against South Africa’s best kart-racing drivers.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
The Wanderers Padel Celebrity Challenge Cup will be held at the Wanderers courts on Saturday. Namibian celebrities like legendary sprinter Frank Fredericks, former Namibian editor Gwen Lister, and singer Top Cheri will be out in force to showcase their padel skills in a tournament through which the proceeds will go to charity. According to organizer Shane Snyman, the tournament will take a ‘Team Americano’ format, with eight teams of two people competing.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
The Namibian Welwitschias will be represented by an exciting blend of youth and experience when they take on Uganda in a friendly international rugby match at Walvis Bay on Saturday. Namibia’s director of rugby, Jacques Burger, yesterday named the Namibian squad which sees five newcomers in the starting 15, as well as several experienced national players.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
The NDTC Futsal Premier League title race is still wide open after Chile and Quality Futsal Clubs played out to a pulsating 2-2 draw in a top-of-the-log clash on Saturday. In an explosive encounter of all-out action, Quality took the lead after four minutes when Chisloth Nunda blasted in a long-range strike that gave Chile’s goalie, Gheanen Rudolph no chance. Chile came storming back with incessant attacks as Celso Roberto equalized with a cracking free kick from the edge of the box.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
Namibia Eagles captain Gerhard Erasmus capped a great season by winning three awards at Cricket Namibia’s annual award ceremony on Saturday night. Erasmus won the player of the year award for the second year in a row. He also won the T20 player of the year and ODI player of the year awards.
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2 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
FNB Unam underlined their dominance of women’s rugby when they won the cup for the third year in a row on Saturday. They ran in nine tries to post a comprehensive 57-17 win against Trustco United, with fullback Ivonne Kooper the star of the show, scoring four tries. United gave a battling performance up front and managed to match Unam in the forward exchanges, but they had no answer to Unam’s pacey backline where Kooper excelled alongside her Brave Gladiators teammate, Fiola Vliete.
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3 weeks ago | 
namibian.com.na | Helge Schutz
Helao ‘Pikky’ Ya France recently retired following a career of more than a decade with the national cricket team. Ya France represented Namibia in nearly 200 matches across all formats of the game, scoring 2 776 runs with a top score of 54, and taking 63 wickets with a best performance of 3/12.
