6 June 2011
BLACK Africa captain, Hartman Toromba was the biggest winner at the club’s awards ceremony held at the Parliament Restaurant in Windhoek on Saturday night.
Toromba, who was influential in the club winning the 2010/11 Premiership title collected a N$5 000 cheque for winning the Black Africa Player of the Season award.
He beat striker Bradley Wermann and Warren Neidel who were also nominated for the same award.
In other awards, Mervin Katire won the Players’ Player award while Elifas Heita won the Chairman’s award. They pocketed N$2 000 and N$2 500 respectively.
The Top Goalscorers award was shared among Jerome Louis, Bradley Wermann and Marco van Wyk who each scored 10 goals for the club this season.
The most Improved Player award went to Denzil Haoseb while Roger Katjiteo was awarded as the Most Disciplined Player of the team.
At the awards ceremony, the owner of the club, Ranga Haikali thanked the team for winning the title.
“I would like to congratulate the players for a job well done for becoming the first team to win the million dollar prize money,” Haikali said.
“It is extremely important that our planning should be meticulous for the coming season and there should be no room for error because all the other clubs will be focusing on trying to dethrone us,” he added.
Haikali also announced that long serving chairman of the club, Bonny Paulino had stepped down from his position and would be replaced by Cassius Moetie.
“We have resolved to appoint Cassius Moetie to succeed Bonny as the chairman of Black Africa with immediate effect. Bonny will however continue to serve as the director of the club,” Haikali said.
Moetie was the club’s public relations officer prior to his appointment. Paulino served as the club’s chairman for 14 years.
Moetie, in his acceptance speech said that the club needed to work harder next season in order to make sure that they remain champions.
“We need to be proactive, and we cannot rest on our laurels in the new season,” Moetie said.
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