{"id":237569,"date":"2026-06-27T06:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-oshikoto-eyes-bigger-sports-future-new-stadium-plans-take-shape\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:13:54","slug":"namibia-oshikoto-eyes-bigger-sports-future-new-stadium-plans-take-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-oshikoto-eyes-bigger-sports-future-new-stadium-plans-take-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Oshikoto Eyes Bigger Sports Future &#8211; New Stadium Plans Take Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><em>Abraham Mwanyekange<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Oshikoto region may soon benefit from the government&#8217;s ambitious sports infrastructure programme, which aims to enhance sporting facilities throughout Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">This development comes following Oshikoto regional governor Sacky Kathindi&#8217;s announcement of an increase in the budget allocation for constituency sports facilities, raising it from N$5 million to N$10 million per facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The initial projects are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260279.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>Abraham Mwanyekange The Oshikoto region may soon benefit from the government&#8217;s ambitious sports infrastructure programme, which aims to enhance sporting facilities throughout Namibia. This development comes following Oshikoto regional governor Sacky Kathindi&#8217;s announcement of an increase in the budget allocation for constituency sports facilities, raising it from N$5 million to N$10 million per facility. Keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237570,"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":[258,256,11292,4342,5760,4706,724,257,918,5212,14777,254,8045,9328],"class_list":["post-237569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bigger","tag-eyes","tag-future","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oshikoto","tag-plans","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-stadium"],"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\/237569","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=237569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}