Letshwiti, Zakhem: What went wrong?

In good times: Letshwiti and Zakhem PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
In good times: Letshwiti and Zakhem PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

It is a partnership that delivered the Botswana Football Association presidency in 2016 and again, four years later. Now the relationship is strained, but what went wrong, asks Staff Writer, MQONDISI DUBE 

Nicholas Zakhem was regarded as the power behind the throne when delegates trooped out of Tlotlo Conference Centre after a marathon Botswana Football Association (BFA) election, one late night in August 2016. Maclean Letshwiti had defeated incumbent, Tebogo Sebego in a closely fought election. Zakhem returned to back Letshwiti last year, as again, the incumbent won a race of fine margins. But hardly 12 months after Letshwiti was thrust back to the top seat, murmurs of discontent have emerged from an unlikely source; a man who was key in his ascendancy to power.

Zakhem has said he is unhappy with the way the game is run. In fact, if he had his way, Letshwiti should be recalled. But in contrast, Letshwiti struck a reconciliatory tone and believes it is a relationship that can be mended.

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