Will CAF gift Botswana early Independence present?
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 560 Views |
Obed Itani Chilume Sports Complex PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
CAF president, Patrice Motsepe will announce at the Marriot Hotel shortly after the executive committee casts their votes through a secret ballot. Botswana Football Association (BFA) president, Maclean Letshwiti will be on the other side of the aisle as he votes with the CAF executive committee to decide Botswana's fate.
A six-member Botswana delegation flew into Cairo on Monday and will make a 10-minute presentation before the CAF executive this morning. The meeting starts at 9am and all bidding countries will be allowed a brief presentation on their bids. Thereafter, the CAF executive will retreat into a closed-door session to deliberate on the bids before the secret ballot. At 12:30 pm, Motsepe will emerge from the closed-door meeting to announce the winning bids for the 2025 and 2027 tournaments.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...