Minister wasted chance to send gender parity message

However, given an opportunity to show his undoubted commitment to gender equality and equity, the Minister decided to go for an all male list in picking the Minister's Award recipients.

Tebogo Letsile joined departed heroes, Major David Bright, Pio Paul and Ibrahim Ahmed as the recipients of the Minister's Special Award during the Botswana National Sport Awards on Saturday. Not that by picking an all male line-up means the Minister is anti-gender equality, but it does not score him well with gender activists and all other progressive forces.