{"id":244560,"date":"2026-09-16T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kanalelo-fires-back-at-african-stars-gallants-move-sparks-contract-storm\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:30:23","slug":"namibia-kanalelo-fires-back-at-african-stars-gallants-move-sparks-contract-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kanalelo-fires-back-at-african-stars-gallants-move-sparks-contract-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kanalelo Fires Back At African Stars&#8230;. Gallants Move Sparks Contract Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Newly appointed head coach of Marumo Gallants, Namibian international Ronnie Kanalelo, has come out guns blazing in response to questions about the manner in which he exited the door of his former employer, African Stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">&#8220;I believe Solomo (Hei) should come forward and tell me what issues he has with me. It seems we are at odds again. If you have the courage, please approach me and clear the air. I&#8217;m truly tired of your inflated ego. It seems you weren&#8217;t even happy to see me on Saturday after the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609160336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Newly appointed head coach of Marumo Gallants, Namibian international Ronnie Kanalelo, has come out guns blazing in response to questions about the manner in which he exited the door of his former employer, African Stars. &#8220;I believe Solomo (Hei) should come forward and tell me what issues he has with me. It seems we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244561,"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":[258,256,4380,7062,8745,44949,51437,4367,4706,724,257,254,9617,9435,11234],"class_list":["post-244560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-contract","tag-fires","tag-gallants","tag-kanalelo","tag-move","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-stars","tag-storm"],"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\/244560","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=244560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}