Thank you Amantle but you still owe the nation
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Finest athlete
ECCO City Greens' talisman, Malepa Bolelang for scoring his ninth goal of the season at the weekend. With the Zebras struggling to score, coach Stan Tshosane need to look no further.
Week's disappointment
It is a small consolation for the Botswana Football Association (BFA) to host the COSAFA Under-20 tournament after the bid for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations ended in a fiasco. But the BFA should not think that fans will be pacified by hosting a regional tournament for small boys when an opportunity to host a major event has been let to pass. Hard as the BFA leadership might try to explain reasons behind dropping the 2015 AFCON bid, soccer fans would not be forgiving when they think of what would have been. Although hosting the AFCON cannot be compared to the junior COSAFA tournament, where has the money suddenly come from in the middle of the Zebras' 2012 AFCON qualifying campaign? When the 2015 bid was abandoned, we were told that BFA wants to channel its energy and financial resources towards ensuring a successful 2012 AFCON campaign. What has changed?
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....