Who do you trust?

Local football fraternity is currently divided into three camps – one for Maclean Letshwiti, another for Solomon Mantswe and the other for the current football leader Tebogo Sebego. The two challengers claim to have the magical touch to heal local football of all its ills. OTHUSITSE TLHOBOGANG reports on the nail-biting race for the supreme office of the world’s most loved sport. Botswana Football Association’s (BFA) elective congress is closing in fast yet some fundamentals are yet to be finalised. The association leadership is currently racing against time to set up an electoral board following FIFA’s instruction to go on with elections. The world football governing body this week instructed BFA to hold the election as per their constitution without failure after some had felt the elections should be postponed to next year. Electoral Board The FIFA instruction has piled pressure on the Tebogo Sebego-led National Executive Committee (NEC) to make sure the elections are held in accordance with the constitution. This means the NEC has just over two weeks to set up the electoral board which they have long been tasked to do by the general assembly. The board is expected to oversee this year’s elections scheduled for July…