In the same issue of The Namibian as the quoted letter above, there's an article about the recent defeat of the Namibian Warriors football team by the visiting Liberian Lone Star team.
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This defeat is attributed by the newspaper to bad luck, inexperience and a poor referee.
'“That referee was poor in his performance. Because of this referee we lost the game. '
The Namibian government doesn't come in for a kicking anywhere in the article nor, amongst the excuses for failure, is it conceded that the Liberian team might have been the better one although certainly some of the apparently quite considerable failures of the local team are highlighted in the article.
So next year's potential shot at the Africa Cup of Nations is a non starter for Namibia this year. Perhaps some of the blame for this could be laid at the feet of SWAPO themselves? Had the government empowered their own football team perhaps it would have beaten the foreigners who, in any event, as was pointed out in the article, been noted in the past for their frailty on the road.
Perhaps the government is unaware of what is happening in the football field.