Selebi-Phikwe shifts to mining rugby talent

In 2011, the Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) identified Tebogo Primary School as a rugby centre of excellence, through the Re Ba Bona Ha development programme. Project coordinator, Tosca Segaise told Mmegi Sport that the project is aimed at developing rugby in the former mining town.“For a programme to progress it should have a caretaker and I was available. I was on the ground when the project was piloted.  We wanted to develop rugby in this town,” he said.

Segaise said they identified three primary schools; Phikwe, Tebogo and Reuben Mpabanga to be part of the project when it was launched.  He said the three schools were the strongholds of rugby, with Tebogo the focal centre where training sessions take place.