{"id":226886,"date":"2026-03-14T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mtc-volleyball-national-league-to-start-in-otjiwarongo\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:38:48","slug":"namibia-mtc-volleyball-national-league-to-start-in-otjiwarongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mtc-volleyball-national-league-to-start-in-otjiwarongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: MTC Volleyball National League to Start in Otjiwarongo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>The third season of the MTC Volleyball National League kicks off this weekend in Otjiwarongo, promising an action-packed start for both men and women&#8217;s competitions. Federation CEO Festus Hamukwaya says excitement is high as clubs prepare their squads and new teams join the league.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;The growth of volleyball has improved every year, and the energy level of teams keeps rising,&#8221; Hamukwaya says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The way our transfer window opens, and clubs reinforce their squads, shows that teams are serious about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130340.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>The third season of the MTC Volleyball National League kicks off this weekend in Otjiwarongo, promising an action-packed start for both men and women&#8217;s competitions. Federation CEO Festus Hamukwaya says excitement is high as clubs prepare their squads and new teams join the league. &#8220;The growth of volleyball has improved every year, and the energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226887,"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":[258,256,7027,18890,4706,724,6687,257,19812,254,7138,6673],"class_list":["post-226886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-league","tag-mtc","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-otjiwarongo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-volleyball"],"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\/226886","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=226886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}