Saving 'Ngurungu'

In Botswana most people, especially from the southern regions, know ‘Ngurungu’ as a football team, Sankoyo Bushbucks.  It is a young team from deep in the Ngamiland wilderness with their very own fairytale story in which it became the first ever football team from the north-western region to reach the elite league in 2014. 

On the team’s logo is a bushbuck’s head called ‘ngurungu’ in the Seyei language, because as Kgosi Gokgathang Moalosi of Sankoyo village explains, “Ngurungu is a stubborn and clever animal that knows how to hide and fight dogs when it is hunted”.