The Afcon Local Organising Committee (LOC) in Rustenburg – which has joined forces with the North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture – will today start selling tickets for the tournament in Gaborone.
The LOC has expressed concern at the slow rate of ticket sales in Rustenburg and Port Elizabeth and, by venturing into Botswana, the organisers hope to push up the attendance figures of the Group D matches that will be played at Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace.
Stands where tickets will be sold have been set up at the Rail Park Mall in Gaborone. Fans can also buy their tickets at post offices in Gaborone.
Radio stations in Botswana will also be carrying the message of Afcon ticket sales as a way of marketing the matches that will be played in Rustenburg.
Although Group D is made up of tournament favourites Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Togo and Algeria, football fans have not been too eager to snap up tickets for the potentially exciting matches.
However, North West MEC for sport, arts and culture Tebogo Modise believes venturing into Botswana will beef up attendance figures during the matches.
“People from Botswana are well known for their love of football,” says Modise in a statement.
“This is their tournament as well, so we want to see them here in their thousands. It makes sense for us because they are in our province every day.
“Many parts of Botswana are literally down the road from us, so they can access the games with ease,” Modise adds.
Your comments on this story...
Miss editor please update us on The Mighty Buccanneers
I thank you in advance
On ly in SA where you find people celebrating Q1, full stadia in only one game, draw against Algeria, scared of CV & believe that a victory against minnors will be an achievement.
Still Patriotic though. Foward will Gordons mediocrity foward!
A Sangoma saw darkness
A prophet saw darkness
Even Abafundisi on Khozi are not sure
So to those who are patriotic, do so at your own health risk. We cannot rely on Phala,Shabba,Parker, never.
It will be a nice outing for people who get ‘complementary tickets as per ticket structure’ I learned about yesterday. We loyal soccer supporters must just welcome those and create an atmosphere which will persuade them to attend ordinary PSL games in future. Businesses only give their staff ‘complementary tickets’ when we have the so called high profile games and expect us to celebrate ‘sold out games’. Like you put it yesterday, let us just go out there and be patriotic.
the whole planning phase is a joke, first the coach is wrong, the mandate is wrong n not realistic, the players selected dont deserve to be there, there is no system and no cohesion.
This teams has no match winners yet they their team dynamics are in question. Dont make this about Pirates players because i can give a list of players who not playing for Pirates but where suppose to be selected. Being narrow minded is not an achievement but a curse, so please u need see isangoma se gay to help you.