Major boost for Namibian netball

NETBALL in Namibia received a major boost on Wednesday when Debmarine Namibia announced a sponsorship of N$1,8 million for the ailing sport code over the next three years.

The sponsorship will cover an annual senior national netball championship, an annual international tournament to be known as the Netball Pent Series, and regional league grants of N$10 000 for each of Namibia's 14 regions. Besides that financial assistance will also go towards the training of umpires and the development of Netball Namibia's website, which is currently online at netballnamibia.com.na. The CEO of Debmarine Namibia, Otto Shikongo, said their sponsorship of netball followed a decision last year to support Namibia's youth through two primary sports development investments, with the other being their N$14,1 million football sponsorship of the Debmarine Namibia Cup, also over three years.