Robbie Savage

Robson Savage (31 January 1967 – 20 July 2017) was a Namibian football fan and socialite. He was the official mascot of the Brave Warriors, Namibia's national football team, as well as of the first inter-racial rugby match between South Africa and pre-independent Namibia in 1987.

Savage was born on 31 January 1967 and grew up in Windhoek's Khomasdal suburb. He had three sisters. He had Down syndrome and was the widest-known Namibian that lived with the disease. Savage's role as mascot of the Brave Warriors enabled him to tour the African continent for several sports events. Namibian president (then prime minister) Hage Geingob, himself an ardent football fan, took him to the 1998 African Cup of Nations in Burkina Faso. Savage, without being invited, attended a personal talk between the two Prime Ministers there, and he also took the opportunity to inspect the Burkinabé Guard of honour.

Nampa CEO Isack Hamata writes that through his frequent public appearances "he unknowingly de-stigmatised Downs Syndrome". and died from this complication on 20 July 2017.