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Auditor falls in love with weightlifting

Lifting weights: Imsirovic
Lifting weights: Imsirovic

Away from crunching numbers, Emma Imsirovic has found new love. Growing up in the streets of Mahalapye, Imsirovic enjoyed lifting weights but little did she know that one day she will be a professional weightlifter and being the only woman in the game as Mmegi Sport Staff Writer, CALISTUS KOLANTSHO finds out

As early as three years-old, Imsirovic was already lifting weights for fun. By then, it was just another game by a little girl. “I started going to exercise in the gym room when I relocated to Gaborone in 2015.

Back home, I did not have access to the gym. My mission of going to the gym was to keep fit, so in 2019 I started having interest in strength building. So I took part in amateur powerlifting competition,” the 25-year-old said.


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The research presented at the recent Botswana Secondary School Teachers Union symposium should serve as a wake-up call to us all.We are so focused on coding, artificial intelligence, and the jobs of tomorrow that we are neglecting the basic safety and emotional well-being of the children sitting in our classrooms today.Statistics are deeply worrying. One study revealed that 34% of secondary school learners in Gaborone meet the criteria for a...

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