Attention shifts to Coke semis draw
Friday, March 25, 2011
The draw is scheduled for 12:30pm. So far, 60 clubs have been booted out of the country's premier knockout competition with only four left to chase the P500, 000 first prize.
With defending champions Township Rollers out, only two crowd pullers, Extension Gunners and Mochudi Centre Chiefs, are still in contention. It will be an all-Premier League affair as the two popular sides are joined by 2009 champions, Uniao Flamengo Santos and Palapye minnows, Motlakase, who are in the semi-finals for the first time. Gunners knocked-out two Premier League clubs en-route to the semi-finals while Chiefs had to brush aside minnows, Kanye Swallows, in the Last 16 before labouring against BDF XI to reach the semis.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...