‘Protecting the Game’ a must read (Part II)

At the material time, the BFA offices were located at Extension 10 in Gaborone, next to Gaborone Secondary School’s football field. It was a walking distance from the UB. The police had permitted the students to undertake a protest march to the BFA offices. Koufie had suggested that Mamelodi should turn down the request, but he declined.

More than a handful of students marched to the BFA offices, animated in song. It was about 200 students. Their Minister of Sports was elevated by a quickly erected stand made of bricks from the BFA garden. He opened the petition, explaining that they had decided to protest because of the perpetual defeat of the national team, the Zebras. Amongst other things, they demanded that the coaches be changed and Koufie be dismissed as they had failed Batswana in developing football. They also demanded that the BFA CEO (Mamelodi himself) must resign or be fired, as all failures were taking place under his watch.