Both surprisingly have been athletes of immense talent who were above average during their playing days. Nkala or Scud, as she was known by her peers because of her spikes, has several times been voted the player of the series or most valuable player. She won the award in 1993 during the Zone Six club championships in Harare, Zimbabwe. Daka on his part has equally won many awards in his country. In 1974/5, he was runner-up to George Shaya as player of the year, while in 1982, he was chosen coach of the year, an award he won again in 1986. Those who know him or saw him during his playing days say he has/had unbelievably high technique but yet never boasted about it. Equally, he is a graduate of Brazilian coaching among some of the coaching courses that he has attended. Nkala, despite her tiny frame, always astounded many because of the spikes that she delivered to her opponents but never felt like a superior being. It is this humility, which has earned both Daka and Nkala much goodwill among sports fans. It is perhaps one of the reasons she thumped Mosweu during elections as some BVF affiliates took Mosweu to task for trying to ridicule those who were challenging him on national television.
"I think it is the way he conducted the proceedings of the meeting that cost him the BVF presidency," said one volleyball official. Yes, he seemed to give the impression of someone who knows all the causes of volleyball and where he needed to just accept that there were mistakes or oversight, he would try to butt or water down some of the argument. For example when some of the affiliates showed concern that it is not proper to ridicule your fellow sportsperson in the media, his response was that debating the matter could take the whole day as to why one said this or that.
All that the affiliates wanted or tried to show was that it is not sportsmanship to behave in that way. As for Daka he is probably the only coach in Botswana who has never sworn or remonstrated at a referee. Both in defeat and in victory, he has always remained humble.
He is not the one to castigate his officials in the media no matter how they have ill-treated him. Surely these two former athletes, have demonstrated that humility is still one of the greatest human values. Perhaps Daka ought to be given a special Fair Trophy award by the Botswana Football Association because he has never attacked any official or complained about another team's antics. His discipline to say the least has been beyond reproach. When it looked like the ECCO/Chiefs game in the first round would not take place because of a clash of kit colours between the two teams, he never voiced his concern trying to blame Chiefs or ECCO, all he wanted was to play and even in the replay, he down played his team's victory but instead gave Chiefs some credit saying, they missed a lot of chances.
Nkala was equally humble in her victory and instead of the "I", which punctuated most presentations during the deliberations; the catchword was "we". While Sesupo was almost 95 percent English in his deliberations, she was perhaps 90 percent Tswana.
On a different note, this column would like to congratulate ECCO City Greens on winning the league championship in only their third season in the top flight.
This is a sign that this team is destined for greater things. In-fact it has almost been like a roller coaster since gaining promotion two seasons ago. We can only applaud ECCO management, players, the technical team as well as the supporters. It has indeed been one of the most fiercely contested seasons, which saw an increase in attendance right from the first round. In most cases, spectators usually come in large numbers during the second period of the league but this has not been the case.
Sorry Centre Chiefs, the Mochudi team did not expect ECCO to be as strong as they had only targeted the Gaborone teams but is worth giving it another try for the 2007/2008 because it was quite an entertaining season and perhaps should get an award for best entertaining side.
As for Police XI, the Jungle Kings did not defend their title in the manner one would have expected hence it looks like it was by chance that they won the league in 2005/20006 season. The Cops meekly gave away the title. However, the 2007/2008 promises to be even much fiercer if the off the midfield determination is anything to go by. But once more it is the team spirit and togetherness that counts. Good luck to both the Dream Team (Under-23) and the senior national team, the Zebras.
The Junior Zebras will have to pull all the stops in Morocco as it is not going to be easy. The striking force department is the only department, has some reinforcement hence I still think that's where Jerome Ramatlhakwana belongs. The pressure at the senior national team could end up destroying him although it looks like nothing will stop Colwyn Rowe if fielding the player.
