The rugby ticket saga has not come to rest. Instead it has flared up anew with two major new twists added to the plot this week.
Firstly, the Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture, John Mutorwa said his ministry has yet to be informed by the Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) about the outcome of a hearing in Paris.
Lashing out at the NRU, Mutorwa said his ministry will not tolerate this kind of conduct from sports administrators.

In the second development, it is emerging that a group of Namibian rugby supporters wrote a letter to World Cup Rugby Ltd in Ireland and managed to have their tickets released. Represented by Windhoek lawyer, advocate Raymond Heathcote, Ben van der Merwe, Mark Barnard and Leeba Fouche were successful in obtaining their tickets directly from World Cup Rugby Ltd.
Another group of Namibian supporters of about 20 individuals, which following the same route, was however not successful.
Advocate Heathcote told the Economist the IRB has returned all monies for tickets to the NRU and distanced itself from the local administrative body. All Namibians still wishing to buy tickets must now follow the Heathcote route and deal directly with World Cup Rugby Ltd.
All applications will be handled on an individual basis. In Namibia, the NRU has to refund all tickets already sold.
Nevertheless, due to the ticket sale irregularities, the NRU executive remains banned by the IRB from attending the current Rugby World Cup.
In a statement this week, Mutorwa said the ministry will no longer tolerate such irregularities in any sport code, and urged sport clubs, sport bodies and umbrella sport bodies to call their leaders, who go astray by denying them their votes during times of elections, to order.
Mutorwa said, “Accountability, fairness, democracy, the rule of law and transparency must continue to be the ethos, values and principles to guide those that entrusted with the management and administration of all sport organisations. They must not be compromised, now or in the future.” Mutorwa said this is a sad and unfortunate incident, since this is the time that the national team needs the support of everybody, especially the undivided support of their leaders.