Author: Carlos Kambaekwa (Carlos Kambaekwa )

History reveals that the forced removal from Windhoek’s Old Location to the slightly modest Katutura location left many of the residents in tatters and homeless in 1968. 

Dear readers, my aging fingers are trembling with anger and disbelief as I pen this tribute to a man I personally regarded as a brother, trusted buddy and former teammate.

 Just as the football family started to come to terms with the sad passing of football legend Ou /Hurob Zimmer Goreseb, another well-known football personality followed him to his fresh grave.

Doubtlessly one the most colourful footies of his generation, former Tigers Football Club attacker Mario Davids was one hell of a menace for defenders in the country’s topflight league during a three-and-a-half-year spell with the rejuvenated Ingwe.

Well, Yours Truly has been following with an eagle’s eye all the brouhaha about the sudden emergence of football teams from state-owned entities entering the fray. 

Should the untold history of Namibian football be told in bold, the name of Theodore ‘Wherrick’ Zimmer-Goreseb, better known as ‘Uerivara’ or ‘Ou /Hurob’, is likely going to feature prominently.

Arguably one of the most accomplished but less talked-about central defenders of his generation, former Botswana Police Eleven, African Stars, Blue Waters, Tigers Football Clubs and Brave Warriors' Ngajozikue Bethuel Mbuende, famously known as “Rasta” in football circles, was your typical modern-day centre-back, never afraid to launch attacks from the back. 

Former Eleven Arrows and Blue Waters football clubs’ sharpshooter, Pule Tjombe is among a rare breed of footies to have worn both the gold-and-maroon strip of Arrows and Blue Waters’ foam and navy attire at different levels.

As the curtain comes down on arguably one of the most exciting and closely-contested title races, all eyes will be fixed on the defining moment for one of the greatest football teams to have ever graced our shores - Orlando Pirates.