Self-inflicted uppercut could floor pro-boxing

Throwing punches: Professional boxing affiliates have been at loggerheads with the committee PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Throwing punches: Professional boxing affiliates have been at loggerheads with the committee PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Professional boxing is at its infancy in Botswana, but has already showed a lot of promise in the ring. However, that progress might be scuppered by internal bickering, observes Staff Writer, CALISTUS KOLANTSHO

If the divisions that played out publicly during the Professional Boxing Association of Botswana (PBAB) meeting in Mogoditshane last week are anything to go by, then professional boxing is in danger of delivering a still born. PBAB meetings have been turned into motions of no confidence contests.

On Saturday the members passed a motion of no confidence on secretary general, Willoughby Kemoen during an ordinary general assembly (OGA). In May, the same motion was passed against the entire committee but afterwards, the members changed their minds and withdrew it.

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