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Recognition at the National Youth Week Awards, held on the 29th of April 2026, placed Antonio Shapwanale among Namibia’s young innovators when he received an award for exceptional innovation in the digital and technology industry.<\/p>\n
“We’re not importing solutions. We’re engineering them from here, for here,” said Shapwanale.<\/p>\n
The award was received for the tech company he founded, Starkite Technologies Pty Ltd, in November 2025.<\/p>\n
\n The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Recognition at the National Youth Week Awards, held on the 29th of April 2026, placed Antonio Shapwanale among Namibia’s young innovators when he received an award for exceptional innovation in the digital and technology industry. “We’re not importing solutions. We’re engineering them from here, for here,” said Shapwanale. The award was received for the tech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232648,"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":[258,256,10796,5957,4706,724,257,254,15680,11431,8437],"class_list":["post-232647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-entrepreneur","tag-launches","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-startup","tag-student","tag-tech"],"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\/232647","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=232647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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