Jomo Sono, the South African icon known as the Black Prince, praises the quality of Botswana’s topflight but warns that a generation of talent is slipping away for lack of academies and school sport. For ninety minutes at the National Stadium, Jomo Sono watched Botswana football at its most electric. Township Rollers dismantled their oldest rivals, Extension Gunners, by three goals to none, and the roar that followed each strike carried the unmistakable sound of...

After seven years as the first man to hold the BFA’s football-operations brief, Monnakgotla ‘Pelembe’ Mojaki departs for a District Commissioner’s post in Tlokweng – leaving behind a tenure of continental milestones and lingering controversy. For seven years, Monnakgotla ‘Pelembe’ Mojaki occupied a seat few in Botswana football had ever held, and this week he vacated it. The Botswana Football Association’s general manager of football operations is set to leave the organization on Tuesday, Sept....

QUOTE – A historic gold, a silver, and a government ready to pay up: how a small southern African nation is turning athletics glory into cold, hard cash – and betting on its future. There are no ticker-tape parades in Gaborone, no motorcades winding through the capital’s wide avenues. But when Botswana’s athletes touched down from Budapest this month, they returned to something arguably more practical: a checkbook. The inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship had...

QUOTE – The ten-year partnership will dress Team Botswana through 2036, with performance bonuses and a youth legacy program folded into the landmark agreement When the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) sat down at the negotiating table with Nike, it was not simply looking for a sponsor to slap a logo on a track suit. It was after something far more enduring – a partnership that could, over time, reshape the country’s sporting landscape from...

Township Rollers have paid upwards of P1.2 million to settle outstanding debts with three former employees and secure the removal of a FIFA transfer ban that threatened to disrupt their season, an exclusive report by WeekendSport reveals. Rollers chairman Thapelo ‘Fish’ Pabalinga confirmed the club has resolved financial claims by former coach Abdelaziz “Aziz” Karkache, South African forward Thabiso Mokenkoane, and Congolese midfielder Ntambwe Wafauna Djo. The settlements total approximately P1.085 million, with overall costs,...

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...