Cricket takes off in Phikwe and Mmadinare
Monday, August 16, 2010
Speaking to Monitor Sport, Botswana Cricket Association (BCA) Coordinator for Selebi-Phikwe and Mmadinare, Taurai Chakanesa, says the programme is meant to introduce the sport to pupils going to government primary schools.
That will give them a chance to play the sport that most people think is for the elite members of the society."BCA held a workshop with government primary school teachers for both Mmadinare and Selebi-Phikwe. Twenty-seven schools were represented at the workshop that was held in June here. In July the programme started," he says.
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