Archive - Sep 2009

Naitembu, Iipinge win Victory Races

Victory Races

Johannes Naitembu and Helena Iipinge each received N$10 000 after being crowned as the overall Men and Women’s winners of the 21km Old Mutual Victory Races series at the awards ceremony in Windhoek on Wednesday.

According to the rules of the series, the overall category winners were determined by taking the two best times of an athlete in the series. Athletes also had to participate in the final in Windhoek and at least one other event of the series.

Victory Races

Victory Races

Brave Warriors squad to face Zambia

Heini Isaacks

Brave Warriors coach Tom Saintfiet on Wednesday announced a 25-man squad of home based players in preparation for the Cosafa Challenge competition in Zimbabwe next month where Namibia will face Zambia in their opening match. The squad includes several newcomers, notably Black Africa goalkeeper Arnold Subeb and Blue Waters defender Gottlieb Nakuta.

Heini Isaacks

Heini Isaacks

Radio and TV feast for African football fans

Abedi Pele

Millions of football fans across Africa will be able to tune into exclusive news and views via a TV, radio and online ”football feast” over the coming months, Standard Bank, the sole African sponsor of Orange AFCON 2010, announced in a press release on Wednesday.

Abedi Pele

Abedi Pele

Tom Saintfiet

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Brave Warriors coach Tom Saintfiet talks about his squad that was selected in preparation for the Cosafa Cup competition where they will face Zambia on October 25, 2009.

Shipahu still in the lead

Tangeni Shipahu

Tangeni Shipahu of Wesbank Tigers remains at the top of the goalscoring chart despite not scoring in Tigers’ 0-0 draw against African Stars last week. Shipahu, in fact, was sent off for a foul and then dissent and will now miss Tigers’ next game away to United Stars in Tsumeb on Saturday. Shipahu leads the log with three goals from two matches, followed by four players who have each scored two goals.

Tangeni Shipahu

Tangeni Shipahu

Motocross at Swakop

Jean Venter

Entries from Angola and Botswana.

By Bernd Kroemer

On October 3rd the eighth Motocross Championship leg will be held at Swakopmund. It is the last national race before the international “Motocross Inter-Series” gets staged in November. The venue of this prestigious race day is the Coastal Cement Works track opposite the salt-pans, 10km outside of Swakopmund on the road towards Wlotzkas Baken. At the same time this event will serve as a qualifier to decide who’s to become a member of the official Namibian MX team.