Constituency tournaments: The unanswered questions

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Following shock relevations that the Botswana Football Association (BFA) misled the nation on the constituency tournaments and threats of sanction from FIFA, Staff Writer MQONDISI DUBE explores the unaswered questions

Minister of Sports, Youth and Culture, Shaw Kgathi, was confidence personified when he addressed a media conference this week to clear the air on the controversy surrounding the constituency tournament and threats of suspension from FIFA. The Botswana Football Association (BFA) had been cornered, literally caught with its pants down. The nation was told that BFA had deliberately lied about a pending FIFA suspension as a result of the constituency tournaments.

Poor Boyce Sebetela, who is less than two months into his post as BFA vice president (administration), was dragged to the media conference to face scribes on the prowl.

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