BISA Gets BOPEU Sponsorship

PALAPYE: In a bid to improve sports activities in schools, Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) has stepped up to the plate to sponsor BISA awards. This was done during the Botswana Integrated Sports Association (BISA) annual meeting held at Botswana International University of Science & Technology (BIUST) recently.

During the meeting, BISA North-Central regional organiser Ontuetse Otukile said they had to squeeze the awarding ceremony in the agenda since some of the awards were pending from the initial ceremony, which was held earlier this year.

“During the ceremony held earlier this year as BISA we did not award other awards hence we squeezed this day which is supposed to be our annual meeting in order to allow BOPEU to donate the awards that were pending,” said Otukile.

Editor's Comment
Bravo BDF for the first step addressing GBV

The statement, whilst some may say, comes a little bit too late, is timely as gender-based violence (GBV) continues to haunt the country. A week hardly passes without reports of a wife, a girlfriend or boyfriend being killed by their intimate partners. Just recently, a high-ranking officer stationed at Glen Valley Barracks reportedly murdered his wife and has so far managed to evade arrest. It is also alleged that another soldier murdered his...

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