Conrad Angula started working at The Namibian over 37 years ago, on 4 June 1988. Prior to that, he was employed as a time officer by the Tsumeb Corporation Limited where he would write letters to the editor under the pseudonym ‘The Horse’. He applied for a bursary from the Council of Churches of Namibia to study journalism in the United Kingdom. Bob Kandetu and Rosa Namises, who were conducting the interview, advised him to apply to The Namibian because there was a vacancy for a sport journalist. “I applied and was called in for an interview that was conducted by the then general manager, Liz Graig, on a Friday. Editor Gwen Lister recognised me by my name and told me to report for work on Monday,” he says. The Namibian was a weekly at the time, and Angula had six pages to fill. “I didn’t have any formal journalistic training but was just handed a Ricoh manual camera, a notepad and a pen. My first assignment was disastrous. I went to cover netball league matches at the Khomasdal Union Sports Fields. The pictures were bodies without the ball or the ball without bodies,” Angula says. When the first national elections took place, he was assigned to cover the eventualities in the Millie Triangle (Tsumeb, Otavi and Grootfontein). Angula went on to become an award-winning influential football reporter and even had a column, ‘Soccer Safari’, in which he was critical of the governance of football in Namibia. He also travelled with the Brave Warriors to the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso. Angula had a media card of the SA Castle League, and would cover major cup competitions at Ellis Park and Soccer City in Johannesburg. “I developed the love for nicknames during my time as a sport editor, and I also named our national team Brave Warriors and the Women’s team Brave Gladiators.” He nicknamed players such as Gerros ‘The Bomber’ Urikhob, Ronnie ‘The Magnet’ Kanalelo, Robert ‘Baggio’ Nauseb, as well as the clubs – Africans Stars (Samba Boys), Black Africa (Lively Lions), he says. “I also worked on the YouthPaper, TopRevs and Weekender, for which I am still contributing a feature, ‘Catch Up With’, while I also write the highly popular weekly sports feature, ‘Where Are They Now?’”