New or false dawn?

Friday, November 08, 2019

Rakgare was handed the Cabinet responsibility this week PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

After years of probing questions, Tumiso ‘Chillyboy’ Rakgare will soon find roles reversed after President Mokgweetsi Masisi, handed the 36-year-old the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development (MYSC) portfolio. Hopes have been raised, that Rakgare will succeed where his predecessors fell flat, but is this a new or false dawn? Asks Staff Writer, MQONDISI DUBE

At the height of his journalism career, Rakgare was known as an abrasive prober, who took no-prisoners.

He settled right in the nerves of those in football power, as he held them to account. Rakgare, in a way, sparked the debate around Constituency League, when he alerted the then FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, and raised questions if the tournament did not fall foul with the soccer governing body’s laws.

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