The Namibian Bill of Rights clearly dictates that everyone is equal before the law and reserves the right for equal protection/treatment, including inherent dignity and the right to have that particular dignity respected at all times, be it socially or otherwise.
Let me recall the precise words of then Prime Minister Dr Hage Geingob, when he addressed a sizeable audience of sport administrators, officials and sport scribes, of which the author was amongst the attendees, at the old Nictus building in the center of Namibia’s commercial capital Windhoek many moons ago. Geingob, now Namibia’s seating President,...
Born in the Karapamwe residential area, on the outskirts of Rundu on 7 November 1972, the much travelled versatile footballer started out at boyhood team Cuca Tops. He was the youngest squad member at the tender age of 15 in a star-studded team that had the likes of the club’s blue-eyed boy Pau Kandere, NBC...
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...
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...
Famously known as “Plates”, in reference to his surname Plato, the departed rugby administrator will go down in history as one of the most astute rugby administrators in domestic rugby. A born and bred seasider, Chandler was a product of the rugby mad De Duine High School in Walvis-Bay’s residential area Narraville for the affluent...
Unlike many footballers from his generation who started chasing leather in the dusty streets of their respective towns and cities – Selle’s interest in the spherical object took off around bushes on a remote farm at a very young age. From the time that he kicked around a football for his village team Forest Garden...
Theo was born in the remote village enclave of Aroams, Aminus in the vastly populated Omaheke region on the 5th of May 1942. The raw village boy arrived in the city of bright lights (Windhoek) as a nine-year-old boy, barely out of his customary traditional homemade gear (Omutjira). He started school at the revered St...