{"id":217410,"date":"2025-12-20T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibias-sport-year-of-highs-and-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:27:02","slug":"namibias-sport-year-of-highs-and-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibias-sport-year-of-highs-and-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia&#8217;s Sport Year of Highs and Hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>NAMIBIA Sports Commission chief Freddy Mwiya says the 2025 sporting calendar delivered notable successes, key events and some governance challenges as the sector gears up for major competitions ahead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Responding to questions by <em>The Namibian Sport<\/em>, Mwiya says: &#8220;The year 2025 was a very busy year for the NSC with a great number of successes and some few challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The new political leaders brought in hope and healthy working relationships as they are approachable people with a great sense of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMIBIA Sports Commission chief Freddy Mwiya says the 2025 sporting calendar delivered notable successes, key events and some governance challenges as the sector gears up for major competitions ahead. Responding to questions by The Namibian Sport, Mwiya says: &#8220;The year 2025 was a very busy year for the NSC with a great number of successes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,17519,14522,724,9052,257,254,9325,6537],"class_list":["post-217410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-highs","tag-hurdles","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sport","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}