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Mqondisi Dube
  • Bodybuilding muscles back to life

    But the organisers of the Gaborone Classic will put an end to the nearly five-year drought when bodybuilders come to the city for a show of unrivalled grit and power.The venue is yet to be confirmed. Show organiser, Lust Sithole, said they are eager...

  • Karate, football now chess, what’s going on?

    These are the most recent public spates within sports bodies, which should leave the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) as the guardian of sport, worried. There are several others fighting behind the scenes as most escape public scrutiny. It...

  • Sebego non-committal on BFA presidency

    Sebego is tipped to challenge the incumbent, Maclean Letshwiti. However, the former president told MmegiSport on the side lines of the Botswana Football League (BFL) shareholders meeting in Palapye last week that there were other factors to consider...

  • BFA overstepped mandate- Sebego

    Speaking at the opening of the BFL shareholders' meeting in Palapye on Saturday, Sebego said while the BFA was right in trying to appreciate their situation, there was no need for the mother body's further intervention, which included...

  • Give Branch the money!

    Ross has been the perfect Branch off from what has been the unrelenting daily dose of the tragic comedy at Lekidi Football Centre.While football authorities were at each other's throat, thousands of kilometres in the barren lands of Saudi Arabia,...

  • BFA suspends BFL but Palapye meeting proceeds as planned

    Following a meeting of its Emergency Committee last night, the BFA announced it was provisionally suspending the BFL with immediate effect. In a statement, the mother body said the suspension was due to gross violation of the BFA and BFL...

  • BFL saga: Eyes on the ball

    No one is prepared to blink with the ugly spate unfolding in front of a stunned nation as each corner chases what has been an elusive victory thus far. However, both camps are claiming victory at this stage with football emerging as the biggest loser...

  • Olympics, BFA elections headline busy year

    Football's difficult startFootball has plunged into a crisis after the infamous December 16 gathering of Premier League shareholders in Palapye. The game is struggling to recover from the events of that afternoon where Nicholas Zakhem and Jagdish...

  • I am still in charge- Zakhem

    Following a meeting held in Palapye last month, which had the approval of 13 of the 16 Premier League clubs, Zakhem was removed from the BFL board.This week he was suspended as a BFL shareholder and was subsequently removed from a meeting called by...

  • Feud exposes BFA to FIFA ban

    On Monday, the Minister of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture, Tumiso Rakgare wrote to the BFA through the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) requesting for a meeting to get detailed insight into the BFL crisis. However, the BFA rebuffed the...

  • Clubs to boycott weekend games

    This comes after the BFL secretariat issued this weekend's fixtures but Ratlhaga told Mmegi Sport the boycott is still on. Out of 16 Premier League clubs, 13 were part of the Palapye meeting which the mother body, the Botswana Football...

  • Football braces for the Battle of the Cowshed

    The second, was the Battle of the Cowshed, which was fiercely fought as Mr Jones, with the help of other neighbouring farms sought to wrestle back initiative of Animal Farm.But led by Snowball and Napoleon, the animals prevailed.The animals...

  • ‘This is our club’ doesn’t pay bills

    They want Sechele, who had come in as a Good Samaritan trying to save Gunners’ sinking ship, to stay away as far as possible from their club. Sechele has told the club’s hierarchy that he doesn’t feel safe with his investment at Gunners and has...

  • After VAR, now the sin bin, really?

    Purists are watching as modern trends threaten to decimate the natural feel of the game and introduce totally new dynamics driven by technology. Football in its purest form had at the centre, the acknowledgement and appreciation of human error. But...

  • Motsepe widens gulf between haves and have nots

    Between Botswana’s Eleven Angels and Egyptian super club, Al Ahly, which one features more prominently in Motsepe’s football agenda? In this context, Eleven Angels or Mutondo Stars from Zambia’s Super League, represent a group of poor clubs who...

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