Mass exodus face troubled Flamingoes

The battle has reportedly left 16 of their squad players in the lurch. The players’ contracts face termination and others none renewals. According to a source close to the club, two committees; one made up of employees of Botswana Soda Ash mine, which is the parent sponsor of the club, and the other made of non-mine workers at the mining town are at loggerheads over the leadership of the club. The non-mine workers are said to be against the miners’ “scheme” of occupying all top positions in the executive committee and the melee led to the aborted elective annual general meeting (AGM) last week. The source said the problems that have engulfed the club are caused by personal vendetta against the former chairperson. “They have personal problems with the former chairman that the community (none miners) don’t know of and they (miners) want to erase all that he was trying to build, but at the expense of the team.”

The source said the miners committee has gone to an extent of not renewing contracts of the players who the former chairperson had signed and they are replacing them without communication.