Ministry plans umbrella sports body

The plan involves amalgamating the Department of Sports and Recreation (DSR), Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) and Botswana National Olympics Committee (BNOC) into a single body to manage sports in the country. It has been realised that the current arrangement where sport is managed by the three bodies is not sustainable. The current system has also brought about confusion because of overlapping roles and turf wars especially between BNSC and BNOC. 

The DSR is tasked with sports regulation and policy formulation while BNSC deals with grass roots development with BNOC taking care of elite sport.