Thamane opens up amid raging softball storm

Friday, September 13, 2019

Local softball has made the wrong headlines in recent weeks with the committee led by Thabo Thamane facing a vote of no confidence. But amid the swelling storm, Thamane has remained calm, and tells Mmegi Sport Staff Writer, CALISTUS KOLANTSHO that he has been turned into an enemy for doing things by the book

Expectations rose when the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) CEO, Thabo Thamane beat Katlholo Mosimanegape in the Botswana Softball Association (BSA) presidential election.

Under the campaign slogan ‘The New Dawn’, Thamane was seen as a messier sent to save softball. But now matters have turned sour and calls are growing for him and his committee to vacate office.

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