BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi’s stellar performance at the Region 5 Youth Games in Windhoek, Namibia, has earned the country a total of 32 medals, including 7 gold and 13 silver accolades.
Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS) Chief Executive Officer Henry Kamata expressed satisfaction with the team’s final medal tally, highlighting the significant increase in gold medals from 2 to 7 as a major milestone.
Malawi’s medal count consists of 7 gold medals, 13 silver medals, and 12 bronze medals.
Notable gold medal winners include Byson Maseko, who won the T13 200m race with a time of 24.40 seconds, Nathan Chisale, who claimed gold in the 5,000m contest with a time of 15:12:90, and Nancy Verani, who triumphed in the Special Olympics 200m women’s category.
Team Malawi’s 167 athletes competed in 14 sporting codes, showcasing the country’s diverse sporting talent.
The team is expected to return home on Monday afternoon aboard a chartered flight.
Kamata emphasized that the teams that represented Malawi at the games will be kept as a project, indicating a commitment to nurturing young talent.
Sports analyst Enock Banda backs MNCS CEO Henry Kamata’s decision to retain the young athletes who represented Malawi at the Region 5 Youth Games in Namibia.
Banda believes these talented individuals have immense potential for future success.
“We went to Namibia to compete, not just to participate. The young stars have done beyond our expectations, and it’s crucial we nurture their talent for the future,” he explained.
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-In a bid to close gaps in sports management in the country, Malawi National Sports Council (MNSC) in the central region has organized a five day workshop for General Secretaries of different sports codes.
Sports Development officer at MNSC in the central region Wiza Msowoya
The workshop which has started on Monday, May 30,2022 at the Kamuzu Institute on Sports has drawn over 15 general Secretaries from different sports codes such as Malawi Boxing Association (MABA) Central Region Football Association (CRFA) Volleyball, Women Football, Basketball, Handball and among others.
According to one of the facilitators who is also Sports Development officer at MNSC in the central region, Wiza Msowoya, has said the workshop will help taking different sports codes in the highest level.
GS’s are now being equipped with knowledge and skills which they have been lacking in the past such as; on how the Association is supposed to be structured, how those structures are supposed to execute their duties, how to mobilize funds for their successful run of affairs.
The participants are also expected to know how to come up with strategic plans at the same time, how to achieve, monitor and evaluate them.
“We saw some gaps that have been there regarding management of sports in the region, We do realise and appreciate that the general Secretaries are the people responsible for running of sports that is day today affairs of sports associations hence coming up with this workshop to equip the participants with knowledge and skills for the betterment of running of sports.
“By the end of this workshop we expect these participants will be in a better position to manage sports in a better way. We are delighted that the participants have been overwhelmed with the course and we believe they will manage sports well once the course is concluded”, Msowoya lamented.
One of the participants, General Secretary for Central Zone Basketball Association, Jim Chakholoma hailed Malawi National Sports Council Central region for coming up with the workshop saying it will help to build his Sports management capacity.
“We have been operating before and assumed we were doing it correctly but with the introduction of the course today.
“It has opened our eyes on how the executive Committees are supposed to execute their affairs. After this course I will be totally different person from a person that I came,” he said.
Chikholoma adds, “It has been just a day and with the interaction with my fellow general Secretaries from other sports codes I have noticed quite different things.
“I will share with my fellow executive members and hoping to improve in our capacity, let me urge Sports council to continue arranging these workshops even to the chairpersons”.
The workshop has started on Monday, May 30 and is expected to close on June 3, 2023.
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—Football clubs have to brace for tough times following a decision by the government to revert to earlier Covid-19 restrictions that include a ban of public gatherings for over 100 people.
The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 has announced the sealing of the country’s borders and banned gatherings of over 100 people for the next two weeks to control the spread of Covid-19.
Announcing the measures in Lilongwe yesterday, Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda, who is also co-chair of the task force expressed shock over the fast rising cases of Covid-19, most of which are imported.
Commenting on the restrictions, Malawi National Sports Council acting Chief Executive Secretary Henry Mereka said the government’s decision means football will be played behind closed doors.
“This means spectators cannot be allowed to watch matches during the said period,” said Mereka.
The new measures have come at a time football lovers were waiting with bated breaths for a Blantyre derby – between Nyasa Big Bullets and Mighty Wanderers- which is slated for January 2, 2021.
Most clubs in the country’s top flight league survive on gate revenues and the new measures will affect their already shrinking pulse negatively.
Sunduzwayo Madise: Malawi National Sports Council board chair
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—On Wednesday night Malawi leader Lazarus Chakwera approved a list of board of directors of 67 parastatal organizations and he has been praised for including professionals.
Of course governance expert Khumbo Munthali has described the appointments as “a combination of competence or expertise and reward for patronage,” but the fact is that public intellectuals and patriotic professionals have made it in the Boards.
On the list there is one rare gem in law, Sunduzwayo Madise. Dr. Madise is now Malawi National Council of Sports board chairperson. Those who were born after 2000 might be puzzled as to what criteria did the president use in appointing Madise, a legal scholar and Dean of Faculty of Law at the Chancellor College, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, to chair sport council?
Well, Madise was the Vice President of Football Association of Malawi (FAM) in the 2000. He is remembered for the persecution he faced at the hands of the same sports council he will be chairing for allegedly bribing referees.
Serious revelations had been made at a Blantyre Magistrate Court alleging that Madise had tried to bribe some match officials during a World Cup first qualifying round first leg match against Kenya in Blantyre in April, 2000.
The revelations had been made by the then acting Sports Council executive secretary George Jana when he testified in a case that the Madise suggested to the Council to bribe the officials.
Jana told a packed Blantyre principal magistrate’s courtroom that the former vice president of the FA took US$1,000 from the FA’s coffers for the alleged bribery.
Malawi won the match 2-0 and then drew the away leg 0-0 in Nairobi to reach the group stages of the qualifiers.
“It happens everywhere”
The executive secretary said in court he was surprised that the referees had demanded US$1,000 more than their regular fee of US$3,800, which usually covered their expenses.
Jana disclosed before Principal Resident Magistrate Sylvester Kalembera that when the council confronted Madise on the allegations of match bribes, the former vice president allegedly answered: ”If other countries were doing it, we could also do it.
“There was no problem in bribing the referees as it happens everywhere,” Madise is alleged to have said.
Jana said the Sports Council did not get any receipts for the US$1,000.
In the corruption case, Madise was accused of corruptly accepting 30,000 rand in cash (about US$3,700) and 2,833.75 rand in settlement of hotel bills from Global African Football (GAF) consultant Ian Riley.
Television rights
The Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) also investigate allegations that the monies were bribes, for the purposes of awarding television broadcasting rights for the Malawi v South Africa World Cup qualifier to GAF, instead of their rivals, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
The SABC had complained to the Malawi government, saying it suspected foul play during the award of the contract.
Madise was arrested after the Anti-Corruption Bureau took up the matter and sent a team of investigators to South Africa.
He was subsequently suspended form the FA executive and later got fired.
But Madise denied the corruption charges.
This was the first high level corruption case involving a senior sports official in Malawi.
He was tried, convicted and slapped with a suspended sentence.
Sundu’s next step
Mzati Mkolokosa, the one who has been fired yesterday from Ministry of Information, in one of his articles in 2015 argues that Sundu rose again, in a bigger way than before, for after the fall he enrolled to study law at Chanco and earned himself an LLB. His academic performance earned him a teaching post in the Faculty of Law at the institution. He went on to study for an LLM and he is now a PhD holder and the dean of faculty.
Mzati thinks Sundu was not really in the wrong but his popularity in sports fraternity was his enemy. According to Mzati, Sundu appeared in the media more than any other official at FAM then because he was friendly and, therefore, media friendly.
That’s about Dr. Sundu the new board chair of the Malawi National Sports Council. After a fall he rose with much energy and he is still resisting the force of gravity.
His life is indeed a classroom as Mzati Mkolokosa put it.
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