The race to succeed Morena Ramoreboli has exploded into a two-horse sprint, with South African heavyweights Molefi Ntseki and Helman Mkhalele emerging as the leading candidates for the Zebras hot seat, WeekendSport can exclusively reveal. With the clock ticking toward Botswana’s 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign, the Botswana Football Association finds itself under mounting pressure to install a new technical team – and fast. WeekendSport has been reliably informed that the association is...

Botswana’s six athletes carry the weight of a country’s rising sprint tradition into the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship. The Diamond League circuit has run its course. The season’s familiar rhythm – Shanghai to Lausanne, Rabat to Rome, Stockholm to Brussels – has delivered its final times and its final standings. And now, for the first time, the track and field season will not simply end. It will resolve. The World Athletics Ultimate Championship, a...

In the labyrinthine world of African football, where allegiances shift like desert sands and ambition courses through veins richer than any gold vein beneath the Kalahari, a captivating drama is unfolding, one that has set the grapevine ablaze from Gaborone to Johannesburg.

When Tonota FC secured promotion to the FNB Premiership, the instinct might have been to pop the champagne and call it a season well lived. Instead, the club went shopping; not for survival tools, but for the kind of financial muscle that turns newcomers into contenders. The result: sponsorship commitments worth P3.3 million, a war chest that has transformed Tonota from plucky upstarts into the most intriguing story of the forthcoming campaign. The windfall is...

The idea sounds almost improbable at first hearing: Botswana, the landlocked southern African nation celebrated for its diamond mines and vast wildlife reserves, wants to become a basketball destination. Yet the evidence of intent is now unmistakable. Late last month, officials gathered here to announce the Ballin N Da Bush Safari Classic, a three-day international basketball tournament offering a $100,000 prize purse, roughly 1.3 million pula, that places it among the most lucrative events of...

For months, the Botswana Football League seemed stuck in its own half; unable to move forward, unwilling to confront the dysfunction in its boardroom, and offering players, coaches and supporters nothing but silence about when, or even whether, a new season would begin. On Friday, Aug. 28, the waiting ends. The BFL on Monday released its official fixture list for the 2026/27 FNB Premiership campaign, clearing the way for the country’s top-flight football to resume...