The Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry, Ruth Maphorisa told a Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting on Wednesday that they are having a problem with collecting outstanding revenue from the Premier league. Maphorisa said that they have since written a letter to the Premier League threatening to take legal action. She said the league's management committed to paying the full amount by July 10, which will be at the end of the season. The facilities under question are the new Lobatse Stadium and the Molepolole Sports Complex.
Under the arrangement, the government collects 25 percent of the gate takings paid to the stadiums after Premier League matches. This was not done at certain games with some stretching back to the 2010/2011 season when the new Lobatse stadium was still in use. Maphorisa said it is not possible to have teams pay stadium fees upfront when they have not established how much they were going to make from games. She said they are in the process of handing over the stadiums to the Botswana National Sports Council (BNSC) and they expect the stadium fees from the Premier League to go directly to stadium maintenance.
