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1 week ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
Senior men's cricket team captain, Karabo Motlhanka is settling well at his new club, Cleeve Cricket Club, in the United Kingdom (UK) after moving there earlier this month. Motlhanka, who has previous experience playing in the UK and Zimbabwe, joins the Bristol City-based side until the end of the season in September. In 2017, Motlhanka was in the UK where he played for the Holmewood Cricket Club, scoring 902 runs in 33 matches.
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1 week ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
The Botswana Football Association (BFA) this week accelerated efforts to introduce Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system in the local league beginning next season. Botswana could become one of the first COSAFA members to introduce VAR, after the BFA held the second of a three phase training project for match officials this week. The BFA Referees Manager, Phodiso Rasetsoga said following the second workshop, they are pleased with progress.
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1 week ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
In 2014, Irish rock band, The Script, released an album, ‘No Sound Without Silence’ which contained the song ‘No Good In Goodbye’. In the song, they pose rhetoric questions, ‘Where is the good in goodbye?
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1 week ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
Sebata Consolidated Holdings, which divested from Township Rollers this week, has not made a decision on assets that were purchased for use by the club. These assets include a bus for the men's team, a mini-bus for the women's side, six vehicles for executive management and staff. Sebata also secured office space, accommodation for staff players and reached an agreement for the lease of the Royal Aria Stadium.
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1 week ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
What is with Township Rollers and broken investor ‘marriages’? This week, Botswana’s glamour club suffered a fourth investor heartbreak following the termination of a five-year deal signed last year with Sebata Consolidated Holdings.
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2 weeks ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
The death clock struck a cruel blow as Botswana woke up to the sombre news of the passing on of one of its gallant sons, Stanley ‘Hunter’ Tshosane on Friday. Tshosane, a soldier on and off the field, was a tactical genius who dared a nation to dream with his enduring troops en-route to the country's first ever Africa Cup of Nations finals appearance. A man who was part of a football revolution engineered at the barracks, Tshosane's coaching career blossomed at Mogoditshane Fighters and BDF XI.
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2 weeks ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
A breakdown in relations between investor, Tendani Sebata and the Township Rollers committee led by Bafana Pheto has led to the abrupt termination of a five-year deal. Last year, Sebata acquired 80 percent stake in Rollers, through its investment arm, Popa Popa Investments which gave him control of Botswana's most successful club for five years. But the deal has failed to last a full season after Sebata told Rollers yesterday that he was disinvesting from the team.
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2 weeks ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
The Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) is reeling from successive resignations of committee members, but its president, Gilbert Kunwane, sees them as "good riddance". Secretary-general Taolo Tloutsile jumped ship last month and in his place, Irene Ntelamo was co-opted. But Ntelamo did not last long as she threw in the towel this week. BoBA spokesperson, Gaone Motshwanaesi, has now been asked to take over the role and will hold dual positions until the mother body's elective congress in June.
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2 weeks ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
Botswana's Ntungamili Raguin is holding his own against the world's best junior tennis talent as he makes progress towards featuring in a junior grand slam. Raguin was in Izmir, Turkey, this week participating in the J100 ITF World Tennis Tour where the sixth seed progressed to the quarter-finals. He lost to second seeded Turkish player, Cem Christopher Kucukhuseyin 6-7, 6-1 yesterday.
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2 weeks ago | 
mmegi.bw | Mqondisi Dube
Businessman Tendani Sebata has cut ties with Township Rollers just a season into a five-year deal. This week, Sebata is expected to announce the decision to terminate the relationship over a breach of contract. Sebata has invested more than P15 million since assuming control of the club at the beginning of the season. The transport business mogul acquired 80 percent stake in Popa last year July, which gave him control of running of the club.
