On Tuesday, Botswana Life delivered on its promise and paid Joel Mogorosi P20,000 as part of the insurance payout he was entitled to after he got injured while with the national team at the recently ended Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It should have been a good day for Mogorosi, but the party-pooper soon came with revelations that the player's club had not paid his salary since January.
This paper's efforts to get a comment have hit a brick wall. However, based on what transpired at the handing over of Mogorosi's cheque, we cannot stop wondering whether Chiefs, who should be a shining example of 'professionalism' in local football, know the implications of this.Is this not the same Mogorosi whose services the Mochudi side fought hard to acquire from rivals Township Rollers just months ago? No matter what may be stipulated in Mogorosi's contract, such maltreatment of players should be condemned in the strongest terms. And if there is a clause stating that the player shall forfeit his right to his salary by reason of being injured, the contract is an ignoble document that does not belong to the 21st Century because it is the sum total of slavery unworthy of a team of the stature of Chiefs whose name suggests sportsmen and women of regal conduct.
