Elder brother of equally-talented attacker Boeta Mungunda, the much-traveled Edward Karigub was a phenomenal baller who cut his teeth with several leading teams in the country’s lower-tier leagues until he announced his arrival in topflight football with Katutura glamour football club African Stars.
The unwritten history of Namibian football will be rendered gravely incomplete if the name of Blue Waters Football Club is not inscribed in the opening paragraphs of the narrative.
Born Oarabile Moloi in Namibia’s capital Windhoek on 25 December 2006, young Moloi’s genes dictated that he would be a great footballer in his own right. After all, his late great-granduncle – the legendary Percy ‘Chippa’ Moloi – was a phenomenal footballer himself.
They are not famously known or referred to as the last line of defence by pure incident; goalkeepers are often made fun of and brutally taken for granted as just objects that are there to prevent the opposition from scoring goals.
The harbour town of Walvis Bay is known for its amazing cool weather oozing from the freezing Atlantic Ocean, but the sea hub is also home to many prominent personalities in different fields.
An academic par excellence, mentor, educator, my friend William Karamata, your shocking departure has left many of us with great memories to keep and help comfort us for the rest of our lives, as we mourn, cherish and celebrate the great moments you shared with us during your tenure as a young vibrant educator, fresh from the University of Zululand in South Africa.
A product of the revered Petrus Ganeb High School (Uis), former Green Dangers Football club agile gloves-man Hendrik Alwyn Snewe, a schoolteacher by profession, was a fearless goalkeeper for the ‘Greens”, as the Kamanjab outfit is fondly known amongst her ardent supporters.
DEAR readers, please pardon me but my disturbed fingertips are trembling with pain, grief and disgust as I’m trying my level best to gather few ounces of strength and courage, tickling the keyboard ivories in my pursuit to ink a dignified tribute for a departed media colleague, well known socialite Uapingena Ngava, famously known as Uapi in social circles.
Paddling on the name of a football legend comes with a load of heavy expectations, but now-retired African Stars Football Club flying winger Edison Muheua was unfazed, so to speak.
Born in the harbour town of Walvis Bay on the banks of the giant Atlantic Ocean in 1966, young Kephas Costa Lucas was just like many other Pikininis his age in the neighbourhood – football crazy. He would play football at the slightest provocation; be it in the streets, on his way to school, in the dunes, or at any other available piece of open space.