Botswana Games facilities ready

Francistown Stadium will host the Opening and Closing Ceremony. PIC KEOAGILE BONANG
Francistown Stadium will host the Opening and Closing Ceremony. PIC KEOAGILE BONANG

FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Games Local Organising Committee (LOC) has declared it is all systems go for the competition, which gets underway at the Francistown Sports Complex at 5pm tomorrow.

The games run until December 13 and will be held at various facilities in Francistown, Tonota and Shashe; attracting 2,607 athletes, 250 officials and 500 volunteers in 13 sporting codes.

LOC chairperson, Bobby Gaseitsiwe said preparations are in order.

Editor's Comment
A step in the right direction

It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...

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