BTU HOST SATO SELECTION

BOTSWANA Teachers Union (BTU) will host Southern Africa Teachers Organisation selections games this Saturday at Serowe College of Education in an effort to defend their 2019 title.

BTU will be selecting the best athletes to represent their union at the 2023 SATO championship, which will be hosted in Botswana this August.

Around 150 BTU members from across the country will compete in six different sports, including basketball, netball, football, volleyball, tennis, athletics, and darts, in the hopes of being chosen to represent the union.

Innocent Puso, BTU Publicity Secretary, indicated that the elimination will be of a higher standard so that they can choose the most outstanding athletes to represent them.

“We have invited qualified officials from various sports to assist us in selecting the best athletes.” “It was difficult at the last championships in Lesotho because other unions had teachers who were professional athletes who once represented their countries at a professional level,” said Puso.

According to the BTU spokesperson, registration was open to all subscribing members in order to offer everyone an opportunity and to allow them to choose from a pool of athletes.

“We have invited all of our members to come and try their luck; on tournament day, they will be divided into multiple teams that will log horns for officials to select their preferred players,” Puso added.

In conclusion, Puso claims that BTU has organised lodging and meals for every enrolled member, and that all they have to do is show up there prepared to impress the officials who will be scouting for the best prospects to assist them win the title again.

Selected athlete from various sports will compete against the other ten teacher unions that make up SATO, which include the Teachers Association of Malawi, the Lesotho Association of Teachers, the Zimbabwe Teachers Association, the Namibia National Teachers Union, the Organizacao Nacional Professores, the South African Democratic Teachers Union, the Zambia National Union of Teachers, the Sindicato Nacional de Professores, the Swaziland National Association of Teachers, and the Tanzania Teacher Association.