2021-05-28Carlos Kambaekwa Having started his flawless football journey with uncompromising giant killers Katutura outfit, Hungry Lions Football Club, famously known as ‘The Brave Lions of Judah’, former Black Africa Football Club tough-as-steak fullback Asia Katjeuru Tjetjinda, will go down in history as one of the most underrated defenders of his generation. View more
2021-06-04Carlos Kambaekwa Death has no shame. The country has been plunged into mourning, following the shock passing of one of the most colourful sports personalities in the shape of former Orlando Pirates Football Club and South West Africa (SWA) agile shot stopper, Japhet Shapama Hellao, famously known as ‘Bump Jive’ in football circles. View more
2021-06-25Carlos Kambaekwa Unwavering patriotism, moral duty and above all an unquenchable passion for writing, informing, teaching and entertaining has finally obliged the author to drag myself out of my sickbed to pay homage to our departed sporting heroes who have fallen victim to the devastating, shameless Covid-19 pandemic that has been ravaging like wildfire through our loved ones left, right and centre. View more
2021-07-02Carlos Kambaekwa The most dangerous virus currently in motion, the Covid-19 pandemic, is causing havoc amongst our people, erasing loved ones with devastating brutality. Our athletes are not immune and are falling prey to this “monster” called Covid-19. In today’s edition, New Era Sport pays fitting tributes to those who have been visited by the deadly virus, accelerating their premature departure from earth. View more
2021-07-09Carlos Kambaekwa The author was part and parcel of Forra’s development during his formative years with the ‘Brave Lions of Judah’. A product of the notorious Police Camp enclave, a residential section east of Katutura, Forra made his debut in organised football structures at the tender age of 14 in the maroon/white strip of division two campaigners Hungry Lions. View more
2021-07-19Carlos Kambaekwa A football giant has fallen, Khomasdal mourns the death of a true son of the soil, Uncle Bob. He was the unofficial chosen face of one of Namibia’s most colourful residential areas, Khomasdal. The hippy look-alike long-haired football fanatic has done so much for his community since the dark days of Apartheid. New Era Sport dedicates this page to revisit the amazing life journey of the man who bra View more
2021-07-30Carlos Kambaekwa The ‘Kunene Beast’ has gone to rest. Often going by the nickname of ‘Giddies’, former Hungry Lions and Robber Chanties FC bursting forward Gideon Gurirab is the latest victim of the devastating Covid-19 pandemic. View more
2021-08-06Carlos Kambaekwa Going by the nickname of “Ballack” after the great former Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Peter Ballack, the Luderitzbucht-born stubborn boy of South African migrants, famously known as ‘Ballack’ amongst his peers, was a marvel to watch between the sticks. View more
2021-08-13Carlos Kambaekwa Just as tears of agony started to dry up following the shock passing of Black Africa Football Club legend Albert ‘Lucky’ Richter, another tragedy struck the close- knit family of the Gemengde outfit. View more
2021-08-20Carlos Kambaekwa Former Blue Boys, Atlanta Chiefs, Blue Waters Football Club and South West Africa (SWA) star striker-cum-defender Heinrich Mandume Kandjai, famously known as ‘Eusebio’ after the legendary Mozambican-born Portugal legend Eusebio Da Silva Ferreira, reminisces about his heydays as a much- feared goal poacher and hard-tackling no-nonsense centre-back. View more
2021-08-27Carlos Kambaekwa Former Blue Waters Football Club’s burly forward Lawrence ‘Zondi’ Amadhila was at the peak of his well-oiled flawless football career, forming the spine of Omeya’s golden generation in the mid-seventies (70’s), when news blurred through the grapevine that the much-adored attacker had skipped his motherland to exile in search of better educational opportunities in 1975. View more
2021-09-10Carlos Kambaekwa In contrast to the not so cool tough rules and mean physicality of the oval ball game of rugby, as opposed to what is famously known as a gentleman’s game, football, back in the day, the perceived A-class scholars were mostly spotted wrestling and scrumming on the field, chasing the unorthodox slippery oval ball. View more
2021-09-17Carlos Kambaekwa Wiry former Blue Waters, Eleven Arrows and Bidvest Wits University FC marksman Paulus ‘Paulo’ Shipanga, famously known as ‘Wire’ in football circles, was without an iota of doubt one of the greatest forwards of his generation, making the art of goalscoring look easy like taking candy from a toddler. View more
2021-09-24Carlos Kambaekwa Arguably one of the most skilful but underrated midfielders of his generation, former attacking midfielder of Eleven Arrows and Ramblers football clubs, Lawrence “Kiki” Gaseb, will go down in history as one of the most gifted ball jugglers to have ever played the beautiful game of football on Namibian soil. View more
2021-10-01Carlos Kambaekwa Have you ever bitten your tongue in a meeting? Surely, you sit there like a zombie, say nothing and just nod along to proposals. After all, you obviously don’t want to be the (eternal) naysayer. View more
2021-10-01Carlos Kambaekwa Just as the close-knit family of Wanderers Multi-Sports Club was coming to terms with the untimely death of former squash (muurbal) player Fanie Becker, double tragedy has struck the Pionierspark outfit again as the club mourns the sad passing of club stalwarts Oom Neels Dodds and versatile scrumhalf Edwardo Nell. View more
2021-10-08Carlos Kambaekwa In hindsight, the much-travelled, adorable socialite looks like somebody who could hardly harm a fly, but oh boy, just place a spherical object at his feet and you suddenly witness many a shot-stopper having butterflies running riot in their bellies. View more
2021-10-14Carlos Kambaekwa All roads are leading to the usually sleepy village of Khorixas for the 13th edition of the annual Welwitschia Football Tournament this December. The eagerly-awaited three-day football bonanza is slated for the 17th of December at the Herbert Conradie stadium and the Cornelius Goreseb High School field. View more
2021-10-15Carlos Kambaekwa Let me doff my korrie off for the Africa International Management Services (AIMS) School of Sport, under the watch of retired footie Reinholdt Miga Xoagub, for its long-overdue initiative under the theme ‘Professionalising Sport through Education’. View more