KEETMANSHOOP: The Namibian Defence Force (NDF) Soccer team for Karasburg walked away with N.dollars 5 000 cash and a trophy Sunday after winning the soccer tournament held in Noordoewer.
The defence force team beat Young Beauty (YB) team of Karasburg, with four goals to one during the final games of a tournament that started Saturday at Noordoewer sports ground.
Young Beauty was the runner ups in the competition and has walked away with N.dollars 3 000 cash prize.
The third place is occupied by Spiders Football Club and Makalani Grapes and both were awarded N.dollars 800 each. Puma Construction Company sponsored the tournament at a tune of N.dollars 10 000, where 16 soccer teams from settlements such as Warmbad, Noordoewer and Karasburg town participated.
Johan Van Wyk, tournament organizer told Nampa in a telephonic interview Monday that the tournament was successful as it was free of fights or conflicts.
“We enjoyed the tournament because it was in a good spirit no fights at all,” he told Nampa.
Van Wyk added that the proceedings from the gate was about N.dollars 12 000 and will be distributed to needy people in Karasburg who are facing food shortage.
Karasburg Pre-Primary School and the Kindergarten in the same town will also receive a share of the money collected from the gate.
The tournament organizer says another tournament is expected in November and that Puma Construction also promised to be the sponsor.
“I want to tell people in Namibia to give serious attention to soccer in the south because we have talents here. Our people in Windhoek should not just focus on players there, but they should also hold trials and choose players from here,” he pleads.
(edited)KEETMANSHOOP; The Namibian Defence Force (NDF) football team of Karasburg walked away with a cash prize of N.dollars 5 000 after winning a soccer tournament held at Noordoewer in the Karas Region at the weekend.
The NDF team beat Young Beauty of Karasburg 4-1 in the final match of the tournament on Sunday. The tournament, which started on Saturday, was held at the Noordoewer Sports Grounds. Young Beauty was the runner-up in the competition, and they walked away with a cash prize of N.dollars 3 000.
The two teams that made it to the semi-final, Spiders Football Club and Makalani Grapes, were each awarded N.dollars 800 for their troubles. Puma Construction Company was the main sponsor of the tournament with an amount of N.dollars 10 000. A total of 16 soccer teams from Warmbad, Noordoewer and Karasburg took part in the tournament.
Tournament organiser Johan Van Wyk told Nampa in a telephone interview on Monday that the competition was successful, as it was free of fights and conflicts. “We enjoyed the tournament because it was held in a good spirit without any fights,” he told Nampa.
Van Wyk said gate takings amounted to about N.dollars 12 000, adding that the money will buy foodstuff that will be distributed to needy people in Karasburg. Karasburg Pre-Primary School and the kindergarten in the same town will also receive a share of the money collected at the gate.
The tournament organiser said another tournament is to be held in November this year, and Puma Construction has already promised to again be the main sponsor. I want to tell people in Namibia to give serious attention to soccer in the South because we have talent here. Our people in Windhoek should not just focus on players there, but they should also hold trials and choose players from here,” he said.
3 (MOSCOW) – Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot says it is suspending flights to Syria’s capital Damascus next month. State-controlled Aeroflot has four flights to Damascus and is the only Russian airline currently operating direct Moscow-Damascus flights.
The company’s spokeswoman Irina Dannenberg said today that Aeroflot will suspend the flights Aug. 6 for commercial reasons. A 16-month uprising in Syria has morphed into a civil war has killed more than 19,000, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The escalating fighting is also feeding fears that Syria’s war could spill across borders and spark a regional conflagration. Russia has been a long-time ally of Damascus and has supported it with arms supplies.
4 (AURORA, Colorado) – The man accused of gunning down 12 filmgoers and injuring 58 at a screening of the latest Batman movie in Colorado was expected to make his first court appearance today.
James Holmes, 24, is accused of committing the massacre at a packed midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Friday in the town of Aurora, just outside Denver. Witnesses have said that a man clad in full body armour emerged from a fire exit after the show began, threw two canisters of noxious gas into the crowd, fired one round in the air and then began shooting people at random.
Holmes has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest. According to a report in the Washington Post, the gunman might have killed more people had his AR-15 assault rifle not jammed.
5 (TOKYO) – Japanese officials and Tokyo Electric Power ignored the risk of an atomic accident because they believed in the myth of nuclear safety, a government-backed report on the Fukushima crisis said today.
The study, compiled by a panel of scholars, journalists, lawyers and engineers, also said officials were poorly trained to deal with the crisis after the plant’s reactors went into meltdown last year.
It said the fundamental problem lies in the fact that utilities, including TEPCO and the government, have failed to see the danger as reality, adding that they were bound by a myth of nuclear safety and the notion that severe accidents do not happen at nuclear plants in their country.
The 450-page report is the fourth inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in a generation, which happened after the huge tsunami of March 2011 crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.
Reactors went into meltdown, sending clouds of radiation over a wide area, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes, some possibly for the rest of their lives.
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1 (OTJIWARONGO) – The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Otjozondjupa Region on Saturday confiscated nine big bags of dried meat at a campsite on a commercial farm near Otjiwarongo. The Otjozondjupa Regional Police Deputy Commander, Deputy Commissioner Gerhard Uataurua Mavenjono told Nampa today that the recovered meat’s worth is estimated at over N.dollars 20 000.
He noted that they recovered dried meat on Saturday at a camp in the middle of Farm Northland, situated 40 kilometres east of Otjiwarongo. The police chief said no one has been arrested yet, but there are suspects linked to the case. The dried meat was weighed, and it was found that it is from two cattle and a calf, and given to the owners of Farm Northland on Saturday.
2 (HARARE) – President Robert Mugabe’s party dismissed as nonsense the EU decision today to link the lifting of most sanctions against Zimbabwe firms and individuals to a peaceful vote on a new constitution.
Rugare Gumbo, spokesman for the ZANU-PF party, told AFP that it is all nonsense. He questioned why they are talking about a lifting of sanctions dependent on the holding and outcome of a referendum.
Gumbo said they don’t think that’s the way to do it, adding that all sanctions must go. 3 (MOSCOW) – Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot says it is suspending flights to Syria’s capital Damascus next month.
State-controlled Aeroflot has four flights to Damascus and is the only Russian airline currently operating direct Moscow-Damascus flights. The company’s spokeswoman Irina Dannenberg said today that Aeroflot will suspend the flights Aug. 6 for commercial reasons.
A 16-month uprising in Syria has morphed into a civil war has killed more than 19,000, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The escalating fighting is also feeding fears that Syria’s war could spill across borders and spark a regional conflagration.
Russia has been a long-time ally of Damascus and has supported it with arms supplies.
4 (AURORA, Colorado) – The man accused of gunning down 12 filmgoers and injuring 58 at a screening of the latest Batman movie in Colorado was expected to make his first court appearance today.
James Holmes, 24, is accused of committing the massacre at a packed midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Friday in the town of Aurora, just outside Denver.
Witnesses have said that a man clad in full body armour emerged from a fire exit after the show began, threw two canisters of noxious gas into the crowd, fired one round in the air and then began shooting people at random.
Holmes has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest.According to a report in the Washington Post, the gunman might have killed more people had his AR-15 assault rifle not jammed.
5 (TOKYO) – Japanese officials and Tokyo Electric Power ignored the risk of an atomic accident because they believed in the myth of nuclear safety, a government-backed report on the Fukushima crisis said today.
The study, compiled by a panel of scholars, journalists, lawyers and engineers, also said officials were poorly trained to deal with the crisis after the plant’s reactors went into meltdown last year.
It said the fundamental problem lies in the fact that utilities, including TEPCO and the government, have failed to see the danger as reality, adding that they were bound by a myth of nuclear safety and the notion that severe accidents do not happen at nuclear plants in their country.
The 450-page report is the fourth inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in a generation, which happened after the huge tsunami of March 2011 crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.
Reactors went into meltdown, sending clouds of radiation over a wide area, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes, some possibly for the rest of their lives.