Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Boxing federation’s crocks at it again

Home Sports Boxing federation’s crocks at it again

WINDHOEK – In what can be interpreted as the last kick of a dying horse in the aftermath of a wide range of damning allegations stemming from maladministration and having overstayed their welcome in the comfort of Metje Buidling in Windhoek’s Independence Avenue – dodgy boxing officials are at it again.

New Era Sport has reliably learned that the Namibia Boxing Federation (NBF) issued invitations to carefully selected affiliates to attend a hastily organized Elective Congress, slated for next month, much to the chagrin of its subjects.

It also emerged that the beleaguered federation wants to host both the national junior and senior championships next month – much to the amazement of its affiliates. Aggrieved members believe this is just another ploy to prolong their illegal lodging in Namibian boxing.

“This is an act of pure desperation! How can these blokes expect us to compete at that level without having been afforded appropriate time to prepare our own boxers through regional trials,” charged an irritated boxing official.

Namibian boxing officials stand accused of practising autocracy of the highest order and running the business of local boxing as if it were their own private kambashus. “These blokes don’t have boxing at heart at all, they are more interested in lining their own pockets and furthering their personal interests.

“Namibian boxing is on a slippery slope journey or else how can we put our trust in people who deliberately allow overweight boxers to contest for international titles while turning a blind eye to boxers refusing to abide by standard medical laws governing the sport of boxing,” charged a distraught boxing official.

“As far as I’m concerned, these guys do not have the mandate to organize events or facilitate general assemblies because their term of office has long expired,” added a boxing trainer who asked for his identity to be withheld, fearing reprisal.

Insiders say NBF last held its quarterly Elective Congress in 2006, despite the federation insisting that it did hold a subsequent congress in 2010, as prescribed by its own constitution. Several genuine attempts to get the the NBF to make available the minutes of the disputed gathering to the media yielded very little progress.

By Staff Reporter