Laptop request escalates into a fight

Softball has had its fair share of challenges
Softball has had its fair share of challenges

What began as a routine request for the return of an office laptop has escalated into a full- blown war at the Botswana Softball Association (BSA).

The association’s secretary general, Anastacia Makwa wrote a letter to Latzborn Segaise, requesting that he returns the laptop, which was given to him in his capacity as acting BSA general manager-south zone in May 2018.  But Segaise did not take kindly to the request, and as Makwa discovered, she stirred a hornet’s nest.

In the letter, Makwa reminded Segaise to return the gadget as it was the property of BSA and that the current office bearers should use it.

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