{"id":198692,"date":"2025-05-24T00:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-buccaneers-defy-nfa-back-kanalelo\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T00:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:37:18","slug":"namibia-buccaneers-defy-nfa-back-kanalelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-buccaneers-defy-nfa-back-kanalelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Buccaneers Defy NFA, Back Kanalelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Bucks Buccaneers FC says its head coach, Ronnie Kanalelo, will continue his duties despite being provisionally suspended from all Namibia Football Association-related activities over &#8216;gross misconduct&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kanalelo and rival coach Paulus Shipanga of Blue Waters admitted to taking weapons into Okahandja&#8217;s Nau-Aib Stadium which they brandished during a post-match bust-up after their Namibia Premier Football League match on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">This drew the ire of the national football governing body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">As a result,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505230236.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucks Buccaneers FC says its head coach, Ronnie Kanalelo, will continue his duties despite being provisionally suspended from all Namibia Football Association-related activities over &#8216;gross misconduct&#8217;. Kanalelo and rival coach Paulus Shipanga of Blue Waters admitted to taking weapons into Okahandja&#8217;s Nau-Aib Stadium which they brandished during a post-match bust-up after their Namibia Premier Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,51436,9135,51437,4706,724,257,9079,254],"class_list":["post-198692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buccaneers","tag-defy","tag-kanalelo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nfa","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}