2023-09-08Carlos Kambaekwa The late Solomon Seth Manga’s life was one of selflessness, complimented by his incredible undying love and affection for fellow human beings. Kai Meester will always be remembered for his unwavering service to the community, and his spirit of kindness will never be forgotten. View more
2023-09-15Carlos Kambaekwa Tellingly, the amazing thorny history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages – from illegal occupation and colonisation in the midnight of the 19th century to her long-awaited independence in 1990. View more
2023-09-22Carlos Kambaekwa Born Tunino Haskell on the 28th of May 1961 in the mother city, Cape Town, South Africa, young Tony was, like many other boys his age, playful and adventurous. View more
2023-10-06Carlos Kambaekwa The name Herbert Conradie is synonymous with Namibian football. After all, he was the man who transformed the face of domestic football in many ways. View more
2023-10-13Carlos Kambaekwa Young football playing centre back Obed Muundjua was proudly, or rather comfortably, peddling on the nickname of internationally acclaimed South African football legend Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe. View more
2023-10-27Carlos Kambaekwa History reveals that Katutura glamour football club African Stars was birthed by an enthusiastic group of young men of OvaHerero/Ovambanderu descent in desperate search of challenging the dominance of rival teams such as Tigers and Cape Cross Football Clubs at Windhoek’s old location in 1952. View more
2023-11-03Carlos Kambaekwa Born in the harbour town of Walvis Bay on the 30th of October 1981, Ndeshi grew up in the city of bright lights (Windhoek) in the Wanaheda residential area, a sub-section of Katutura. View more
2023-11-10Carlos Kambaekwa Established by enthusiastic and flamboyant would-be footballers but somehow below-average athletes in 1968, the now-defunct Flames Football Club might not have rated among the big guns of domestic football. View more
2023-11-17Carlos Kambaekwa Growing up in the dusty street of Wanaheda location, a sub-section of Namibia’s largest residential area, Katutura, the calculated boy started his primary education at the Wanaheda Primary School the following year. View more
2023-11-17Carlos Kambaekwa Yours truly has been following with keen interest the unfolding events and applied patterns leading up to the much anticipated Namibia Football Association (NFA) presidential race. View more
2023-11-24Carlos Kambaekwa Indeed, Namibia has been beyond lucky to have watched you play the beautiful game with passion and virtuosity par excellence. View more
2023-12-01Carlos Kambaekwa A truly great multi-gifted athlete, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Jarman was certainly good enough to play for any top football team in the business and stood his own against the equally other solid shot-stoppers of his generation in the shape of Tigers agile net-guard Johannes Nandos ‘The Cat’ Mbako, Eddy Cloete, Johnny de Klerk, Stepha Seibeb and many others. View more
2023-12-15Carlos Kambaekwa Namibian football has produced a significant number of football-playing siblings, but none have captured the imagination of the neutral fan more than the quartet of Young Ones Football Club Willemse brothers, namely Lance, Dean, Johnny and Danny. View more
2023-12-21Carlos Kambaekwa A handful of the country’s leading golfers are crying foul after their apparent mysterious omission from a list of golfers invited to tee off in the upcoming four-day Royal & Ancient (R&A) Golf Club Tourney, slated for the 21February 2024 in neighbouring South Africa. View more
2024-01-12Carlos Kambaekwa One of Namibia’s most colourful socialites, Frans Tarah Shimbulu, is a man of many talents, having tried his hand at almost every available recreational activity there was to be involved in during a near faultless marathon life journey spanning over six solid decades. View more
2024-01-19Carlos Kambaekwa BACK in the day, St Joseph’s Secondary School, the unofficial school of excellence (football-wise), famously known as Döbra, unearthed a significant number of great athletes that went on to establish themselves as big names in the domestic flagship football league, while a few others found refuge in the paid ranks in neighbouring South Africa. View more
2024-01-26Carlos Kambaekwa Born in the town of Walvis Bay in 1954, unlike many of his boyhood buddies who liked to kick a football around, Stein started between the sticks. View more
2024-02-02Carlos Kambaekwa One of five football-playing brothers from Swakopmund’s largest residential area of Mondesa location, the just-departed former Robber Chanties attacker, Ebson /Gaseb, was the younger brother of former Robber Chanties and Orlando Pirates Football Club’s sharpshooter Benjamin ‘Kleintjie’ /Gaseb, famously going by the nickname ‘Springbok’. View more
2024-02-09Carlos Kambaekwa The now-defunct Tsumeb-based outfit, Etosha Lions Football Club, went on an energy-sapping marathon rail tour across the Orange River to engage in several exhibition matches against provincial clubs from that neck of the woods. View more
2024-02-16Carlos Kambaekwa Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Just as the author was slowly coming to terms with the shock departure of the country’s first citizen, Dr Hage Geingob, a long-time close buddy and unselfish bloke with whom we shared the same outlook on many aspects of life in general, including a distaste for tribalism, another sad episode unfolded with the passing of my former colleague, mentor and bandmate Lind View more
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