Please empower minority sport codes
Friday, January 25, 2019
Botswana is a football nation as the code is the most popular sport in every corner of this landlocked country.
When the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) divides its cake amongst its close to 40 affiliates, football always gets the lion’s share in terms of annual grants. This is despite the fact that football is not doing well.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...