Mbatha braces for evil lurking in the dark

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Don’t drop the ball: Mbatha receives a ball from Zakhem and Mfolo PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

At the end of the official event to welcome new Botswana Football League (BFL), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Senzo Mbatha this week, a football was handed over to the South African, with an accompanying warning not to drop the ball; a symbolic gesture pregnant with endless meanings, notes Mmegi Staffer, MQONDISI DUBE.

It was a modest welcome with some empty seats dotted across the Lekidi Football Centre auditorium.

Just after the clock struck 11am, Senzo Mbatha found himself huddled on a couch placed just outside the entrance of the Lekidi Centre auditorium, where a press conference to unveil the new man was already underway. The top table appeared starved of guests with only the Botswana Football Association chief executive, Mfolo Mfolo and the Botswana Football League chairperson, Nicholas Zakhem the occupants.

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