Econet Media owned Kwese announced this week a new deal with Namibian Broadcasting Corporation to have Kwese Free Sports content on the national broadcasters channels.
According to a report on The Namibian, Namibia makes 24 the countries with Kwese Sports now.
Kwese has done a number of these sub-licensing deals with incumbent broadcasters in African countries. This enables these broadcasters to screen popular content like EPL matches, FIFA World Cup matches that Kwese has secured.
Kwese had a similar deal with Zimbabwe’s national broadcaster ZBC, but the deal collapsed before any content had been screen with the government arguing that since Kwese was also a broadcaster itself, ZBC becoming a sub-licensee of was essentially promotion of a competitor.