Rovers struggling to survive

“It has been difficult, most of our players are volunteering their services but we still have to transport them to training, we still have to travel to games and prepare meals for the players on match days, and we are in dire need of financial assistance.

We are relying on gate takings but that is not sustainable which is why we implore any good Samaritan to come on board and help the club anyhow possible,” the Rovers chairman shared.

The Kgatleng based side are also open to forming partnerships with potential sponsors and Molefhe reiterated that they are flexible to have investors who can come and take over reins at the club.

“Our doors are always open, we are looking for investors.

We are grateful for what the society has done since the formation of the club but we believe it is high time we advance with the times and privatize the club. We can’t afford to run this team as a society, if we want to be successful. That is something we have discussed internally and like I am saying, our doors are open,” he revealed.

The First Division league is sponsored by Debswana mining company and it is reported that the team gets a season grant of around P50 000 which is deemed too little by the clubs.

The figure has been in operation since Debswana joined forces with Botswana Football Association in 2012, there has been strong calls by the first division representative members for an improved package.

“We have received our season grant from Debswana and we appreciate a lot what they give to us, but we must admit it is not enough to sustain our clubs, it’s too small.

The funds came during a time where we had to deal with a lot of issues in relation to COVID-19 return to play protocols and we had to spend a lot.

The pre-season was already underway when we received the funds so we were already in some debts which we had to clear,” Molefhe said.

Botswana Football Association (BFA) has also been accused of causing serious inconvenience as they have not yet given the clubs some return to play funds which they were promised to receive before the start of the season.

The association, earlier this year was under scrutiny following accusations of misuse of funds which saw Goabaone Taylor (BFA CEO) and Marshlow Motlogelwa (1ST Vice President) lose their jobs at Lekidi.

“We are yet to receive return to play funds which we were promised ahead of the season. When we projected our spending this season, we included the P22 500 which we were expecting from BFA. It has been a serious inconvenience,” He said.

The club recently parted ways with former Sharps Shooting Stars (now Molepolole City) gaffer Rapelang ‘Razor’ Tsatsilebe and have roped in Carlos Chaba who has been entrusted to guide the team into a respectable position on the log.