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BABUSA presses ahead with BNSC affiliation

Rathaya Tanyala scooped the gold medal in Kata for the Girls 14-15 years category PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Rathaya Tanyala scooped the gold medal in Kata for the Girls 14-15 years category PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

The Botswana All Budo Styles Association (BABUSA) president, Shihan Thuto Thuto, is not giving up on his organisation becoming an affiliate of the Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC).

Thuto vowed over the weekend that it is high time the BNSC recognised BABUSA. Speaking to SportMonitor on the sidelines of the inaugural International Shito-Ryu Kenshikan Kenshikai Karatedo Botswana (ISKKB) inter club tournament held at University of Botswana Students Centre, Thuto said BABUSA caters for the world unlike Botswana Karate Association (BOKA).

“BABUSA is new in this country and because it is me, we are faced with challenges when we want to register with the BNSC. But we will not give up. We will keep fighting, it is our right. We are here to cater for those students who are talented but cannot get an opportunity to represent their country because of the system of governance we find ourselves under,” Thuto said. He revealed that the BNSC is no longer responding to their letters and the plan is for BABUSA executive committee to have a meeting where a decision will be taken to raise their concern with the BNSC board chairperson.

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