Olympics, BFA elections headline busy year
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Election time: BFA will head to the polls in October PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Football's difficult start
Football has plunged into a crisis after the infamous December 16 gathering of Premier League shareholders in Palapye. The game is struggling to recover from the events of that afternoon where Nicholas Zakhem and Jagdish Shah were removed as directors. This week Zakhem was suspended as the BFL shareholder while Shah reportedly resigned. But Zakhem is digging in, insisting procedure was not followed.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...