Para Table Tennis' wait drags on

Para Table Tennis is for persons living with disability and has slight modifications for wheelchair athletes. This form of table tennis was to make a debut locally in an all Para Table Tennis tournament dubbed ‘Para Table Tennis Day’ at the BNYC Hall. However, on Wednesday the BTTA issued a statement announcing the postponement of the one-day spectacle.

“Para Table Tennis Day has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances to a later date that will be communicated. Sorry for the inconvenience,” part of the statement reads. Contacted for comment, BTTA communications officer, Arthur Kgaswe stated the association was forced to postpone, as the Paralympics Association of Botswana (PASSOBO), a mother body of all sport codes for people with disabilities in Botswana has an event on Saturday. “We had a partnership with an organisation of people with disabilities and something came up from their side so we had to accommodate them,” Kgaswe said, without going into too much detail.