Bayendi primed for BNOC role

It was an unexpected appointment, which is a departure from the usual choice of sportspeople for the top post. Bayendi, born and raised in Moshupa, signed a five-year contract that will keep her at the helm of the local Olympics sports body. “I am a child in a family of seven. Growing up I was the strongest, playful and hyper one in the family. When I was recently asked what I have played, I told them that I played traditional games (dibeke, koi and mohele). At one point I played mohele with the boys.

I view myself as having been brought up in a traditional Setswana background,” she said. Bayendi said like most children then, they used to go to the cattlepost. During school days, she stayed with her siblings and visited her mother during the school holidays. She also stayed with her grandmother. “After completing my schooling in Moshupa Senior Secondary School, I went to serve my Tirelo Sechaba in Hukuntsi in the Animal Health and Production department.