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More than 25, 000 bucket seats, tonnes of concrete, three covered stands and a dominant sky blue colour define the relatively colossal structure that is the National Stadium. Nestled between the country's institution of higher learning, the...

With seven games before curtains fall on the 2024-2025 season, four teams are tied to each other like glue. It is proving very difficult to separate grain from chaff as the season hits the home straight. By this time of the season, fans would have...

Botswana football teams are now part of sport bets, but the development has raised concerns that players could breach betting rules. The BFL chief executive, Bennett Mamelodi, said they are drafting sports betting regulations, which would be...

Last month, Parliament approved a motion brought by MP for Molepolole North, Arafat Khan, to audit the AFCON process after Botswana spent P65 million on the botched bid. The costs were largely driven up by a bid book which cost P61 million and is...

Countless celebrations have come through the track as athletics has recorded the most significant moments in Botswana's 58 year history. No code comes close to athletics in delivering decisive moments, with all four Olympic Games medals won since...

The usual suspects are beginning to peel away as the World Cup qualifiers reached the oil and water separation point over the latest FIFA week.The back-to-back fixtures have given the clearest hint of which nations could be on the plane destined for...

Sources close to the process, which is now a subject of investigation by Parliament, said there was advise from technocrats against going ahead with the bid after Namibia pulled out at the last minute. Instead, bidding for the 2029 edition was seen...

. You can change the faces but it seems, not the modus operandi at the Lekidi Football Centre. In Animal Farm, when Mr Jones left, there was hope for change, but before the book ends, the old habits return in even more ruthless fashion. At the BFA,...

Africa could be re-arranging a long-standing obdurate reliance on European imports for national team jobs. The signs are beginning to emerge. Bafana Bafana legend, Benni McCarthy, recently touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to...

Da Rosa set the platform with a campaign changing win away to Cape Verde before he completed the double at the Obed Itani Chilume Stadium to leave the Zebras on the brink of a second AFCON finals qualification. Ramoreboli was roped in for the...

The entrance of Motsepe as a candidate for the CAF presidency in 2021 excited a continent that has seen its football fortunes plummet under former strongman, the late Issah Hayatou of Cameroon. Towards the end of his 29-year reign, Hayatou was...

Some are actually unusable if you take the sad story of the Masunga Sports Complex. The Molepolole Sports Complex is also one facility that could morph into a white elephant. In fact, general stadia maintenance, including private facilities like the...

Last Friday, Parliament approved a motion presented by the Molepolole North Member of Parliament, Araf Khan, to probe the P65 million process (inclusive of the bid book). In 2023, the Botswana government, through the then Ministry of Youth, Gender...

After deliberations, the National Assembly voted in favour of a motion brought before the House by Molepolole North Member of Parliament, Arafat Khan, to investigate the process, which cost the country in excess of P65 million. Sources told...

The BNSC is responsible for the maintenance of public stadia and Serufho, responding to MmegiSport inquiries, acknowledges the difficult task the commission is confronted with. "It is quite challenging as the facilities are not generating enough...