11 Oct 2020

Maclean Letshwiti has retained Botswana Football Association (BFA) presidency position after defeating both Tebogo Sebego and Ookeditse Malesu at the association’s ordinary general assembly held on Saturday.

The elections had to go for a re-run as in the first round, Letshwiti was not voted by 70 per cent as per BFA consitution as he garnered 32 votes, Sebego 20 while Malesu failed to attract a single vote.

However, in the second round, Letshwiti won by 33 votes against Sebego’s 27.

In a very closely contested first vice president position, Marslow Motlogelwa won with 29 votes while Maokaneng Bontshetse got  28 and Ngele Ngele got only two votes.

Masego Nchingage retained second vice president position with 26 votes while  Senki Sesinyi got 23 votes and Solomon Ramochotlhwane got 11 votes.

Lobito Ncube, who ran as an independent candidate, got the female additional member position after defeating Itsholeng Disang 32-22 in a re-run.

In the first round both Ncube and Disang had a tie of 24, while Tsoseletso Magang was voted by 11 delegates, Joy Setshedi got one vote.

Tebogo Kamati, Carlos Sebina, and Alec Monyake are new BFA ordinary members.

Monyake won after a very heated re-run.

In the first round both Monyake and Kesego Okie were at 25 and after a second round, they both amassed 30 each, but in the final lap, Monyake got 32 votes while Okie was voted by 23.

Meanwhile, in his speech, Letshwiti promised that as the executive, they would work hard to transform BFA into an organisation that promoted transparency and accountability in all its operations.  

He said there was a need to inculcate a sense of responsibility in everything that they did and adhered to disciplined conduct so that the organisation would become ethical in everything it undertook.

Furthermore, he said the executive would ensure that the needful was done to make BFA an exemplary organisation in terms of upholding sound principles of governance and management.

“I wish to assure you that we will remain committed to our manifesto, to our aspirations and that of the nation.

We will reach out to women and inculcate them into our programme aggressively,” he said.

The president said moving forward, there was also a need to commercialise football especially the Premier League.

“We need to implement everything we set out to do at development level. 

We need to transform the game and we need to this as a matter of urgency.

We need to go back to strengthen stakeholder relations and to move faster in incentivising the game.” he said. ENDS