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...
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2020-07-172025-11-04Front Page News, Sports
Tales of the Legends – Remembering football legend Sagarias ‘Selle’ Auchumeb 1951 – 2020
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...
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2020-07-012025-11-27Sports
Tales of the legends – Toe-to-toe with Reds’ lethal goal poacher “Der Kaiser” Theo Tjizembua Ndisiro
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...


