Sports

A 4x100m relay event was launched at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek on Thursday in aid of charity.

Olympians Vera Looser and Alexander Miller were yesterday crowned women’s and men’s champions of the 36th edition of the Nedbank Cycle Challenge in Windhoek. 

Tura Magic versatile defender Emma Naris will today lead a 25-member Brave Gladiators squad to Lusaka, Zambia, where they will face the Shepolopolo on Wednesday in the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) qualifiers.

New Era Sport caught up with the calculated midfield kingpin to talk about his amazing football career and his experience in his adopted land of the Brave.  

The Bank Windhoek Fistball League will return this Saturday with an opening tournament in Swakopmund. With 10 adult and six youth teams, fistball players are ready to compete after a long break. 

I have been following with keen interest all developments around Namibia and Botswana’s ambitions to co-host the 2027 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), and I was quite surprised by how some government officials, especially those from the sports ministry and the Namibia Sport Commission, have been reacting to well-intended criticism.

The Namibia Football Association (NFA) last year invested over N$1 million in the training and development of local referees, and the results of that investment are starting to bear the desired fruits.

Clubs campaigning in the MTC Netball Premier League (NPL) have welcomed the Fast Five Cup, a pre-season tournament slated for next week at the Trustco United Sport Grounds in the capital.

Once the crossing of the T’s and dotting of the I’s has been finalised in the coming days, Namibia’s super featherweight boxer Jeremiah ‘Lowkey’ Nakathila will get another opportunity to return to the global stage to face Mexico’s Miguel ‘El Alacran’ Berchelt in what is expected to be a mega showdown.