Table tennis players to get P230 meal vouchers
Kabelo Boranabi | Wednesday February 17, 2021 19:41
The Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA), with assistance from a local audit firm, Mamlathan & Associates will assist a total of 32 players with meal vouchers for February, with negotiations for the next months, ongoing. The initiative is to help assist the players whose chances of making money from the sport have been immensely reduced due to limited competitions. Despite table tennis being played at an amateur level, players had a chance to make P4,000 on average from tournaments, which were held fortnightly before COVID-19 struck.
'In the quest to ameliorate living standard of BTTA athletes Mamlathan & Associates will sponsor top 16 ranked players for both men and women categories, the 32 players will receive P230 meal voucher per player for February 2021. This initiative was executed following research made by BTTA exco. The findings revealed that most of the athletes are undergraduates and new graduates as a result they do not have ample monthly sources of income. The negotiations are currently ongoing for the initiative to extend to the next months,' BTTA public relations officer Tiro Motswasele said.
BTTA will host a Top 16 tournament on February 27 at the BNYC Hall. The winners of the tournament, which will be first of the year, will walk away with P3,000, runners up with P1,500 while the semifinalists will pocket P750.