Talking sport politics

Since the 2000, every Minister who has been designated to the Sports and Recreation Ministry has come into office with a promise to turn sport into a professional industry. All of them. I have had serious concerns about the promises which have always been premised on more rhetoric than an understanding of the realities of sport. For instance, for sport to become an industry, sport needs resources. There needs to be facilities, something that hardly exists in Lesotho. The action on the ground simply does not match the rhetoric. There needs to be political will and without political will all …