Former sports commentator and likable versatile athlete Kevin ‘Tux’ Tucker, who had tried his hand at football and baseball, has passed on. The 77-year-old former Ramblers Sport Club baseball player died in his native Cape Town, South Africa earlier this week to be reunited with his beautiful wife Denise, who predeceased him two years earlier.
Any local baller who had the rare opportunity to play alongside or shared a dressing room with greats Sagaria ‘Selle’ Auchumeb, Engelhard ‘Larney’ Gariseb, Hendrik ‘Doc’ Hardley, Eliphas Sabatha, Frans Archie Ochurub, Atanasius ‘Steps’ Nickel, Benzil Khodiseb, Moses ‘Croocks’ Casper, Hannes Louw and Stanislus Kapapi Ochurub must definitely be worth his salt. One such athlete is none other than for
Former Black Africa agile shot-stopper Protasius ‘Metra’ Toromba is one of a few local footballers who have mysteriously disappeared from the scene without a trace.
Much-travelled Brave Warriors versatile attacking midfielder Robert Nauseb played the bulk of his amazing professional football career for South African glamour football club Kaizer Chiefs.
The strongly-built young man from the great Kaokoland (Opuwo) was a beast in the boxing ring, possessing amazing power. Unfortunately, his promising boxing career was cut short when his unquenchable desire for equality propelled him to skip his motherland into exile.
From the moment the fairly young and innocent-looking Uazuva Mieze arrived in the city of bright lights (Windhoek), she wasted little time burning the midnight oil to transform the ladies’ game, showing glimpses of greatness with some jaw-dropping displays on the netball courts.
Bonifatius Kruger, one of the co-founders of Khorixas outfit Robber Chanties, was not only a highly-gifted versatile athlete and immaculately dresser with his trademark flat caps, but also an astute football administrator and self-made businessman.
He came, he saw, he conquered! Barely out of his pair of shorts, young Patrick Mettler arrived in the city of bright lights (Windhoek) to start a new chapter with the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), and was slotted into the less glamorous portfolio of a raw trainee video editor, and as they say, the rest is history.
He came as an unknown entity, conquered and announced his arrival on the big stage with breath-taking displays week in and week out, marshalling the left side of Blue Waters’ rear-guard with the confidence and maturity of a seasoned campaigner.
Just as retired players from Katutura giant killers Hungry Lions Football Club, famously known as the ‘Brave Lions of Judah’, were still struggling to come to terms with the heart-bleeding departure of the club’s blue-eyed boy Billy Tuahepa, joined in heaven by a few others who have all been mercilessly wiped from mother planet by the monster called Covid-19, death has struck again.