{"id":42067,"date":"2024-01-18T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?p=42067"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:09:43","slug":"bfl-officials-face-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension","title":{"rendered":"BFL officials face suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Botswana Football Association (BFA) Emergency Committee meets this evening to discuss the unabating Botswana Football League crisis with suspensions of some members reportedly on the cards.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>the BFA president, Maclean Letshwiti, arrived today from Ivory Coast where he had attended a CAF executive committee meeting, which took place on the side lines of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations finals. According to sources, the Emergency Committee will consider suspending two senior BFL officials over their involvement in a &#8216;coup&#8217; that toppled chairperson, Nicholas Zakhemm, and director, Jagdish Shah, last month. Zakhem has since taken the case to BFA&#8217;s Arbitration Tribunal, but the &#8216;new&#8217; leadership has pressed ahead with new changes in the league.<\/p>\n<p>This includes suspending Zakhem as a BFL shareholder as well as withdrawing a case against former Top 8 sponsor, Mascom, and changing signatories to BFL&#8217;s bank account. In the unfolding events, the &#8216;coup&#8217; leaders installed former BFA president, Tebogo Sebego, to replace Godfrey Ratlhaga as the new BFL chairperson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. The Botswana Football Association (BFA) Emergency Committee meets this evening to discuss the unabating Botswana Football League crisis with suspensions of some members reportedly on the cards. the BFA president, Maclean Letshwiti, arrived today from Ivory Coast where he had attended a CAF executive committee meeting, which took place on the side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-42067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BFL officials face suspension - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Botswana Football Association (BFA) Emergency Committee meets this evening to discuss the unabating Botswana Foot ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BFL officials face suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Botswana Football Association (BFA) Emergency Committee meets this evening to discuss the unabating Botswana Foot ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-18T18:38:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/01\/sm_1705581258.876403.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"BFL officials face suspension\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-18T18:38:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2024\/01\/sm_1705581258.876403.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bfl-officials-face-suspension\",\"name\":\"BFL officials face suspension - 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