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Gaborone \u2014 Since school sport was suspended in March 2020 due to disputes over teacher allowances and lack of funds, Botswana has struggled to perform consistently at regional and international competitions.<\/p>\n
Athletics has been the only code bringing glory to the country, largely due to an out-of-school model.<\/p>\n
Various clubs have recruited school-going athletes to keep the candle burning in the absence of a structured school sport programme.<\/p>\n
And when the Minister of Sport and Arts, Jacob Kelebeng,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Gaborone \u2014 Since school sport was suspended in March 2020 due to disputes over teacher allowances and lack of funds, Botswana has struggled to perform consistently at regional and international competitions. Athletics has been the only code bringing glory to the country, largely due to an out-of-school model. Various clubs have recruited school-going athletes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,7219,16362,257,11019,4362,254,9325],"class_list":["post-226325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-gains","tag-momentum","tag-news","tag-revival","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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