Maokaneng’s return: the good and the bad
Monday, December 05, 2022 | 170 Views |
Maokaneng Bontshetse
Like many other football politicians around him, he has swung like a pendulum from this side to the other. He was pro-Maclean Letshwiti in 2016, before aligning with Tebogo Sebego in 2020.
These frequent switches are a regularity, not only in football but in national politics, where they carry nice sounding names like defection and floor-crossing. Bontshetse has always been an integral part of local football politics and has evolved into what some call a king maker. ‘Max’ as he is fondly known in football circles, returns to the BFA at a time when the election fever is fast catching up at Lekidi Football Centre.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...