BONA fails to send team to Singapore
Friday, October 18, 2019
Netball is still feeling the effects of hosting the Youth world Cup. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Since the 2017 Netball World Youth Cup, BONA has known no financial peace, due to outstanding debts arising from hosting the global tournament.
The netball team was scheduled to take part in the M1 Cup, a prestigious invitational tournament in Asia. Eight nations, including Botswana were due to take part. BONA had announced that the team would ditch the Africa Cup scheduled to start in South Africa from next week for the Singapore tour.
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