Botswana athletes leave for All Africa Games

The team, consisting of 96 athletes and 45 officials has been set a 20-medal target, up from eight at the last games. Botswana will compete in 11 sports disciplines of netball, volleyball (women), judo, table tennis, swimming, karate, tennis, chess, Paralympics, boxing, athletics and badminton.  General manager, Tebo Segaise said she was impressed with the training most codes went through.

Some codes are still involved in last minute fine-tuning with the netball side expected to leave for Johannesburg, South Africa, while table tennis players will take part in the Phikwe Open tomorrow. Segaise said the team is motivated by the presence of world 800m champion, Amantle Montsho whose availability was initially in doubt.