{"id":246726,"date":"2026-10-09T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namport-commits-n90-million-to-football\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:00:25","slug":"namibia-namport-commits-n90-million-to-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namport-commits-n90-million-to-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Namport Commits N$90 Million to Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The Namibia Ports Authority (Namport) has committed N$90 million to Namibian football over three seasons, with president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah demanding strict accountability in the management of the sponsorship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The sponsorship, worth N$30 million per year, will be channeled through the Namibia Football Association (NFA), with the first installment covering the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The season was initially scheduled to start on 18 September but was later postponed to the weekend of 11 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Namibia Ports Authority (Namport) has committed N$90 million to Namibian football over three seasons, with president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah demanding strict accountability in the management of the sponsorship. The sponsorship, worth N$30 million per year, will be channeled through the Namibia Football Association (NFA), with the first installment covering the 2026\/27 season. The season was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246727,"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":[258,256,10180,3299,5118,19582,4706,724,18864,257,254],"class_list":["post-246726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commits","tag-football","tag-million","tag-n90","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namport","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/246726","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=246726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}