Excerpts of Fani's speech at the BFA general assembly
Friday, September 17, 2010
We have several meetings with the Botswana National Sports Council and the Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture. The NEC was concerned that besides the negative effect the constituency tournament was having on mainstream football, FIFA could take steps against BFA for what is perceived as violation of the FIFA statutes. Government differed with BFA as to whether the constituency tournament programme violated the BFA statutes.
The NEC submitted a paper setting out its proposal of how constituency football could be restructured. The main thrust of the proposal was the constituency tournament should be handed to BFA and used as a development league under the Regional Football Association. The NEC further proposed that, to achieve the progamme's objective of identifying and nurturing talent, youth in relation to the programme, should be defined in sport context.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...