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Beata is twenty minutes late for our appointment: "They are coming," the security guard at the gate assures me. So I wait. In my rear-view mirror, I eventually see a small group of runners approaching the stadium on the dusty road. Among them is Beata Naigambo. A light sweat stands on her brow, but there is no other obvious indication that this diminutive young woman just spent the last two hours - and 25bms later - running and training. But she still has to complete her 10 cooling-down laps, and so I wait a little bit longer.
Once finished, the woman I met comes acrofs as friendly, soft spoken and very self-assured. And why shouldn't she be? Beato Naigambo, bom in Ohangwena region, a former A.Shipena learner, resident of Katutura, proud mother of sixth-grader Elizabeth (Queeny) lita and still-working police woman, together with three other women, this year will be representing Namibia at...