All this Rollers hullabaloo could have been avoided

The Gaborone High Court last week released the judgement on the long standing court case in the ongoing tussle for the running of Township Rollers. And when it came out, it was as I had expected. All the same it hasn’t solved much but just reminded us of all that we know and should have been done.

I’m pretty sure even the respondents in the case knew what the outcome would be. It’s just that they were in denial. All procedure was flouted and the court case would have been avoided had some people not been stubborn to think that their ‘riches’ make them all powerful and immune to reason and advise.

The major bone of contention was the legitimacy of the current leadership that took some pivotal decisions that concern the team without consultation with the rightly elected Committee. All the hullabaloo is about the way the current leadership sidelined some members of the Township Rollers Football Club Society Committee and moved to privatise the team.

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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