BFA seeks to empower BPL

Botswana Premier league CEO, Bennette Mamelodi will be part of the committee that will find ways of empowering the Premier League PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Botswana Premier league CEO, Bennette Mamelodi will be part of the committee that will find ways of empowering the Premier League PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

Botswana Football Association (BFA) has moved to give the Botswana Premier League (BPL) more powers to run their affairs. BFA president, Tebogo Sebego who proposed at the association’s general assembly that a committee be formed to ensure this initiative is undertaken, made the revelations.

Sebego told delegates that it has become necessary for the association to embrace the developing trends and accord the BPL more powers. He said consideration maybe to form a legal entity that will run the Premier League and pay a license fee to the association. “It is time we allow the Premier League to run as an entity, employ its staff and source sponsorships.

It will remain the product of the BFA but allowed to grow and professionalise. This has to start with empowerment of the Premier League by amending the constitution,” he said.

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