Located approximately 185 km north-east of Okahandja, the village of Okatupapa, in the heart of the vastly-populated Otjozondjupa region, is home to this author and is the place where few noted personalities have spent a significant chunk of their formative years.
Back in the day, unfashionable Khorixas outfit Robber Chanties Football Club boasted arguably one of the deadliest frontline combinations in domestic football.
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 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...
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...
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...