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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...

This year, sport expects to receive P160 million, a similar amount that the sport's mother body, the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC), got in 2024. The budget, which has been around P100 million per year since 2018, only registering a...

In contrast, in neighbouring South Africa, which is also on the brink of introducing the programme, the once-off cost of implementation has been put at between R60 million (approximately P44 million) and R80 million (approximately P60 million). The...

The figure of P160, 508, 090 is subject to approval by Parliament following Finance Minister, Ndaba Gaolathe's budget presentation on February 9. There has been growing expectation from the BNSC affiliations for an increase in the government...

This is the unambiguous statement sent by the Botswana Football League Disciplinary Committee through a ruling handed down to Security Systems coach, David Botlhasitse, last week. The BFL prosecutor, Makungekwa Maswabi set the ball rolling by...