Comprehensive Sports Bill deferred
Thursday, December 05, 2013

The bill, which was presented by the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture (MYSC) Shaw Kgathi on Tuesday, seeks to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, the Botswana National Sports Council Act, and to establish the sports council under the new name of the Botswana National Sports Commission.
It also provides for the registration of sports associations and provides for doping control.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...