In December, the BTTA will host four high-profile international tournaments to be hosted at the Botho University Multi-Purpose Hall. The four tournaments will feature different age groups as the BTTA opens up the festive season action. The annual...
Ahead of their travel, the Botswana Rugby Union (BRU) will launch a new locally designed kit and new partnerships with sponsors today. Botswana is seeded in Group A with Morocco, Madagascar and Cameroon. The repêchage Group B will have teams that...
On Saturday, Rollers take on FC Ambassadors at the Royal Aria Stadium at 4pm to mark the Gaborone Region Women's Football Division 1 opening weekend. Banyana Ba Popa were promoted to Division 1 from the second tier last season and will look to...
But there was a glimmer of hope when he joined taekwondo in 2021, and he now dreams of a better future, with his sights set on the Olympic stage. An athlete of few words, the 19-year-old told MmegiSport this week that taekwondo has become his...
Some of the key focus areas that need the minister’s immediate attention include school sport and the pending Sport Act. Senior manager at the Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA), Game Mothibi, believes it is easy to turn the...
The odds would be with the home side but the visitors could turn the tables on the Zebras and spoil what would be a day of national festivities. Mauritania began the AFCON qualifiers phase with a win over Zebras but things have gone downhill since as...
Doubtless, Letsile Tebogo's golden moment in Paris on July 8 stands out as Botswana's shining moment this year. Amidst a change of government after last month's general election, the country could be set for another landmark with the...
Victory for the Zebras will seal the team’s qualification to the 2025 AFCON finals in Morocco. This would be the team’s first AFCON qualification since its first and only appearance in 2012. The Zebras started the campaign on a low note but have...
They suffered their second successive defeat in the First Division South league this past weekend, this time against Police XI who scored one goal in each half. In their first match of the season, a fortnight ago, Young Stars lost 1-0 to new comers,...
The First Division Leagues are to remain under the custodian of the BFA despite a move to grant back Botswana Football League (BFL) its autonomy in September. The move saw a delayed start for the second tier leagues and Babitseng has recently said...
Leburu won himself Simmental bull zero tooth followed by Edwin Madigela in second position who walked away with a heifer zero tooth. Tinashe Chiwanga is a proud owner of a zero tooth ram after finishing in the third position and a meat master ewe...
Nkobolo was involved in a car accident that left him in a wheelchair and cut his athletics career short. However, the former national team sprinter told SportMonitor over the weekend that psychologically he is trying by all means to get back to the...
Tshube was previously with the UB's Department of Sport and Exercise Psychology before moving to the US. “If you look at the BNSC staff budget/wage bill if you like, the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) wage bill is lower. Then you...
The country’s most popular sport had witnessed unending fights under the previous administration led by then-president, Maclean Letshwiti. This year alone, the BFA had slapped suspensions on former Masitaoka chairperson, Godfrey Ratlhaga and Lame...
As the nation gathered at the National Stadium this morning at 6am, it was all jubilations as Batswana welcomed their newly inaugurated President, Advocate Duma Boko, which many hope will bring change they long for. However, in their crosshairs will...
During a press briefing this week, Babitseng said the BFA has received $290, 000 (approximately P3.8 million) from FIFA to be directed towards the running of the women's national league. He said in addition, the BFA received P2 million from the...
Magang will contest for the position of Gender Minority in the FIVB board at the upcoming elective congress to be held in Porto, Portugal from November 15-17. She is the only African candidate in the elections. “I will be representing the world, it...
It is an anxious wait for the sport fraternity, eager to see who will be appointed the minister responsible for the sector. Boko is likely to appoint the new Sport minister next week and the local sporting figures have outlined their expectations for...
The big switches take place just a few weeks before the CAVB Zone VI Senior Club Volleyball Championships, which Gaborone hosts. The transfers came as the first round of the league concluded. At the end of the first round, BDF VI leads the women’s...
In countries like the United States, boxing has made fighters some of the richest sportspersons in the world. Botswana has had its fair share of amateur boxers like Lechedzani 'Master' Luza and Oteng Oteng. Whilst most join the amateur ranks,...
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