The Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) announced it has cancelled all activities for this year due to the widespread coronavirus pandemic. In a statement released on Friday, the NRU said after lengthy consultations with clubs and all relevant stakeholders, the union’s board resolved to cancel all rugby activities for the remainder of the 2020 season. It...
Athletics Namibia (AN) president Erwin Naimhwaka said the federation is still optimistic it will host its remaining championships scheduled for the year. AN called off most of its planned activities when the state of emergency was declared in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with Nampa, Naimhwaka said the AN board...
The Namibia Football Association (NFA), which expelled the Namibia Premier League (NPL) and its entire executive committee, this past Friday wrote to 16 NPL affiliated clubs inviting them to apply for membership with the association to be part of a new premier league that will resort under the NFA. The letter, which was signed by...
World champion Lewis Hamilton admitted he “wasn’t good enough” after Valtteri Bottas showed just why champions Mercedes re-signed him for 2021 earlier this week by grabbing pole position at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix on Saturday Drawing on his reserves of courage, determination and pace, Bottas beat his championship-leading teammate and six-time world champion with...
The Namibia Premier League (NPL), which was expelled as a member of the Namibia Football Association (NFA) a few weeks ago, yesterday announced that it had established and registered a new professional league with the Business and Intellectual Property Authority (BIPA), and that it had also applied for membership with the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC)....
In case, and I really mean just in case, the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) fails in its last-ditch effort to try and mend the strained relationship between the Namibia Premier League (NPL) and the country’s football governing body, the Namibia Football Association (NFA), then we, as a country and as football fanatics, should be open...
The 8th edition of the annual Katutura Sports Union (KASU) Winter Cup football competition, which was scheduled for this weekend, has now been postponed to 29 August at Khomasdal Stadium. Speaking to Nampa yesterday, KASU chairperson Kuveri Tjonga said the postponement was caused by unavailability of a stadium this weekend in the capital. “It remains...
Following announcements that the 2020 edition of the Namibia Annual Sports Awards (NASA) has been postponed to next year, various athletes and sport administrators have come forth to weigh the decision of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC). The awards were postponed as a result of the widespread Covid-19 pandemic, which has robbed athletes of opportunities...
Yours truly has been following with an eagle eye the unfolding events in the annals of domestic football, threatening to make us a laughing stock of world football. For starters, it’s disgusting that those who have been entrusted to administer the daily affairs of the beautiful game have now turned the game into their own...
Born Rudolf Campbell, in the harbour town of Walvis Bay on the 21st of August 1969, young Dolfie was just like many other boys: football crazy in the affluent township for non- whites during then South West Africa (SWA)’s oppression under the South African apartheid regime. Whereas a sizable chunk of his peers engaged in...