Kgosietsile bows out after 16-year BNOC reign

Friday, October 06, 2017

After nearly two decades at the helm of the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC), veteran administrator, Malealea Negroes Kgosietsile will walk out of Cresta Lodge in Gaborone tomorrow for the last time as the organisation’s president. He tells Mmegi Sport Staff Writer, CALISTUS KOLANTSHO he is content with the shift he put in, in the last 16 years

When Kgosietsile leaves Cresta Lodge in Gaborone tomorrow, a new BNOC president will be in place. Kgosietsile is not seeking re-election after a satisfying reign having been first elected in 2001.

He said he was motivated to run for the presidency as his wish was to take Botswana’s elite sport to a new level on the globe.

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