Government says there’s need to enhance sporting infrastructure in the country in order to boost the morale of those involved in different sporting disciplines.
Sports, Youth and Child Development Minister Kenneth said lessons have been learnt from the just ended World Cup tournament in South Africa that it was only when the sporting infrastructure was conducive that the performance of footballers was excellent.
Chipungu was speaking in Kabwe this morning when he paid a courtesy call at Central Province Minister Ackimson Banda who was out of the Province on official duties but was represented by his Permanent Secretary Denny Lumbama.
He said government was already making efforts towards improving the country’s stadia and that Ndola Stadium which was currently under construction was one such example of government’s commitment.
He said government was also considering rehabilitating Kabwe Railways Stadium because of its proximity and central location and funds allowing, construction at the site will kick off.
Chipungu further stressed that government could not do this huge task alone but that it needed financial support from cooperating partners and other well-wishers.
The Minister therefore called on NGO’s and other cooperating partners to partner with government in ensuring that the country’s sporting infrastructure was improved.
Zambia wasted the opportunity to host the 2011 All Africa games citing the financial challenges that dogged the country following the global economic clump down early in the year.
Neighbouring Mozambique has however taken up the opportunity to host the prestigious games that will attract more than a third of the continent’s nations.
And Central Province Permanent Secretary has welcomed government’s decision to construct and rehabilitate sporting infrastructure in the country.
Lumbama says the gesture would go a long way in not only improving the performance of different sporting disciplines but also putting the country on the world map in terms of sports activities.
He said the move will also motivate funs who shunned sporting activities because of dilapidated infrastructure.
He said he was aware that government was doing everything possible in ensuring that the environment under which sporting activities were undertaken was favourable.
The Permanent Secretary however reiterated Chipungu’s ’s concerns that government alone could not manage to construct and sporting activities in the country without the support of cooperating partners and other well-wishers.
He further said the improved infrastructure would help boost the efforts footballers and those in other sporting disciplines such as athletes, Boxers and Basket-ballers.
The permanent Secretary said it was the responsibility of every patriotic Zambian to ensure that the sporting infrastructure was eminent and conducive.
He therefore appealed to all capable Zambians to partner with government by making viable contributions towards the improvement of the country’s stadia.
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Do Zambians ever learn? Look at the shanties, illegal plot/land allocation – as if there is no law or government to do simple urban planning. How then can the country host a sports’ event?
Zambia! Mapweletete fye! You abrogated the right to host all Africa Games and now look who is hosting it, a very young nation. Mama twapenga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talk,Talk, Talk,Talk Blah blah blah blah , Zambia is going nowhere with RB
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We Zambians learn, I’m suprized you dont know. Well here is the answer. We Zambians learn very fast to F.U.C.K up!!!! Things. Africa Cup of Nations 1988, all Africa Games 2011 were botched up even before we put our candidature forward.
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Surely these so called ministers think they can fool Zambians,heh. What lessons can these chaps learn. Pls stop dreaming!! The only thing u have managed to learn is how to steal money!!!
Forever Students……always learning :d
Please revive the national sports festival where a lot talent can be tapped before you think of hosting big international events. ZAAA, what happened to the Triangular Championships involving Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique and traditionally hosted at Kafubu in Luanshya? Talking about infrastructure, the ministry of sport should also consider the Luanshya sports complex where fields for various sports disciplines are located in one place and it would cheaper to rehabilitate. Lets develop our athletes first, gradually develop infrastructure and then bid to host international sporting events. In short, lets make our local sport more competitive before we invite others to come and compete with us. NASDEC also needs some serious attention.
Zambia is doing well and yes we have played host to a lot of international functions ICASA, commonwealth, OAU, etc. Southafrica is much better than some of the tuma countries you are hibernating in. Zambia is growing at a fast rate sorry for you who are not here to see and are in exile.
For football to take shape in Zambia. There is need to start from Primary and secondary schools. We need inter-schools, inter-district and inter-provincial. Just rehabilitating stadiums alone will not take Zambia anywhere. The GRZ should also look at different sports like chess, draughts, tennis, pool etc. We have good players in all these disciplines
Ba # 9, what is Zambia doing???? Ubu sushi bwekabweka!!!
This # 9, I have no words for you. You have a very small world, you put up a Kantemba shop and you say you are developing!!! The comments about lessons from SA 2010 made by that f.o.o.l called minister can be made by anyone including a grade 7 pupil. Ifyabupuba fyeke fyeka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ba 3 11 tonga bull akupipenifye amafi yabasungu ku atlanta georgia. baka boyi u cant even come back to zambia bcos you have no shelter and job back here. so much is happening pa zambia in development. if you were in lsaka four ago lobe you are missing the beauty and freedom we enjoy here at home. no place is better than home
One week after one clever Zambian posed this question, now we have ‘answers’ from GRZ. As usual this is just another political rhetoric. We want to see tangible progress.
Bank of Zambia can print money that can be used to build infrastructure. Such increase in money supply would not be inflationary. The injection of money and improved infrastucture will lead to stimulation of economic activity in those areas. why wait for ‘cooperating partners’? this is your own country, why must a foreigner help you build it? Foreigners come for their own interests, zambians must drive own interests. zambians are poor,where is he going to get the well wishers?
THESE GUYS ARE SO CLUELESS, GOOD SPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE COULD LEAD TO HOSTING OF BIG SPORTS EVENTS AND BOOST EVENTS TOURISM, BETTER MEDIA FACILITIES, RETAIL BOOST ETC. TO QUOTE CLINTON, IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID!
# 12 napapa sana negative as usual thats why you always fail and send yourself in exile. development pa zed nimbwe even sata and hh have seen thats why they had to go into pact to fight this good work being done by MMD. ITs a mountain to climb to climb to beat govt with all the good works bumper harvest, schools, roads, hospitals, ndola stadium, stable currency, and of all freedom which you dont enjoy in that tundura country with temp at negative 15degrees till your balls go mu stomach and dick shrinks
Moderate your language # 5 , how on earth would you just say that on a public forum. Are you cultured?
what kind of s.tupidity is this from the minister. how many times are you going to be learning lessons all the time. does it need some one to get PhD to understand that a good infrastructure is needed in our country. so many dull minister is this government.
Mr Minister, Be sincere and honest, you know too well that the Zambian leadership Never learn as long as they and their families are comfortable. Just to give an example, if they ever learn they should have by now made it a point that our hospitals in Zambia are brought to high standards like the ones they rush to in SA, but they will never bother as long as they and their families are comfortable. They are so selfish and arrogant that they even go SA for a knee check-up. What kind of parent leaves his family starving while he goes out to have a meal in a restaurant. SHAME!
Let’s have our priorities right, before we dream of the state-of the art stadia it is very urgent and common sense to do something about our hospitals. Many precious lives that are being lost could have been saved.
#13, That mentality of putting other people’s jobs down and ukuponta is exactly why Zambia is not developed. Here in the USA people respect each others jobs. So what if we are here taking care of old ladies? Development is not about every body trying to be a CEO of ZESCO, or trying to be MP or president. It is about people working together as one. From a gabbage collector, to a janitor, to office orderly, secretary to CEO.
run away from zed I failed : You are so backwards iwe! Why are you comparing us in the UK with SA? SA is not your damn country! I am British and I pay huge taxes here (also not forgetting the Forex i contribute to the Bank of Zambia every month!?
Those ministers are useless! Even the development you are talking about is all about taking your “had-earned (or maybe stolen money as this is the norm in Zed) outside the country! Your MMD Ministers need to have objective long planning! Simple as
-In 10years we gonna bring Hospitals to stardand and save money by not going to SA!
-20 years: Build 4 state of the art universities to cop with new technological demands
-30 years: Host the African cup
40 years eradicate poverty
Iwe run away from zed I failed: Even now, a simple study conducted by British airways recommended zambia to invest heavily in the state-of-the-art airport. This would have stopped most major airline to fly to SA as Zambia is the more central, and also encouraged all neighboring countries to catch flights to zambia and board international airlines. This can be done, but not with people like you who just do not separate politics with real development. Development, what development kanshi? Ine kuno ku UK, I am spearheading the 2012 olympics on the IT front-> thats real development!! Our talent will never be appreciated in Zed, hence the official MMD GRZ to encourage us to “Just send money home”! What a policy kanshi….
Talking and intentions are considered great atrributes in Zambia. These are skills for kaponyas and party cadres. We shall go nowhere in Zambia.
Ukutumpa ba GRZ. Do you ever learn? You withdrew from hosting CAN football twice and you are saying you have learnt something? You said you were to build four stadia in preparation of the World Cup so that teams could train in Zambia. Did you learn anything? Ukutumpa. Remove those shanties and build better structures. Zimbabwe’s construction area is disciplined with buildings inspected at every level. Ukutumpa GRZ.
We need a new modern airport called Copperbelt International Airport to cater for Kitwe, Ndola, Luanshya, Chingola and the rest somewhere near the Chichele turn off. Lusaka international airport should also be destroyed and you should have a better structure. Ubungwa. Ba Sata iseni bwangu please!
Why you want to build one stadium now, then start another one in 2020 then a third in 2030 is anybody’s guess. It is a shame sometimes ngawaganiza leadership yathu.
What is there too learn? This is an irritating statement to hear. For it has no substance. One should point out that despite the great infrastructure SA where knocked out in the first round and did not qualify for the World cup in the first place! So exactly what is the lesson that this minister has learnt. Make one feel like swearing#@$
RB and his bunch of hules and theives. All are nothing but a bunch of morons. Senior Citizen….
I thing they budget for 4 stadia and the have “dyelamo” the money for the other 3 and hence got the chinese building the only one in Ndola. These guys have never done a days hard work! You need to live in a developed country for a long time to understand work ethics and also hard work. Pa Zed pena ni steal, steal dyelamo in broad day-light! These “meat-eating” fat ministers come up with so much rubbish. Anyone supporting these people are just sick!! Shame witchcraft is not scientifically proven, otherwise I will bewitch you Ministers till your fat bellies goes pop!
#13 You are very dull. Can you honestly say that nurses are better off working at UTH rather than at the Royal Hammersmith Hospital? Also are you saying teachers are better off teaching at Luanshya Boys’ Secondary School rather than at a UK school? You people talk of progress, what progress? I was in Zambia last Christmas. Unless you have a line in stolen merchandise, you are going nowhere. A country’s economic performance is judged by the size of the disposable income of the middle classes, i.e. teachers, nurses, engineers, etc. In Zambia, you are either rich or poor. There is no middle way.
Zambia seriously needs to introduce an Institute of Sport to oversee sport development at elite level and monitor strategies for mass participation at grassroot level to promote talent identification. At grassroot level, government departments such as the Ministries of Health, Education, Youth and Child development etc that share cross cutting initiatives that include wellbeing, skills and community cohesion could work together and streamline funding. Elite sport would then be promoted by adopting good practice in performance through research and training of coaches. This approach would allow government to identify the sociological benefits of sport that could be used to address policy initiatives to deal with crime, health and community development. Performance sport…cont:
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Zambia needs to locate sport within to spheres and address them accordingly. Performances sport should be seperated from the sociological benefits of sport. The sociological benefits of sport would address policy initiatives that focus on wellbeing, crime, education, community development and cohesion. This approach will then streamline funding and attract funding from different sources address similar iniatives. This in short implies that there would be increased participation at grassroot level and social capital that would result in more volunteers. Performance sport would then strategically focus on developing athletes from a variety of sports to perform at elite level capitalising on strategies enforced through the sociological sphere. This would lead into creating or introducing…
There’s a big difference between performance sport and the sociology of sport. Performance sport is driven by sports science heavily focused on research and training of coaches. The sociology of sport is quite often used to address ultilitarian iniatives such as those identified by policy e.g. Education – PE, crime, obesity, community development/cohesion e.t.c. Through the socila context, sport ends up being promoted heavily at grassroot level which in turn increases social capital. Performance sport then uses the social context as a platform to identify talent. However, this approach needs to be overseen by an institute of sport that should also be responsible for training coaches and volunteers. Overall, the two spheres could streamline funding and clearly identify areas that need…
yap yap yap …. blah blah blah!!!!! it must be some kind of viral infection… or maybe be something in the drinking water. somebody please help me understand.
Building infrastructure should be underpinned by a strategic approach to sport development. Performance sport is heavily demanding and if we need to perform at elite level and make a name for ourselves, we need to invest in quality sports coaches, volunteers and a strategic plan. This will identify the stage/level we at and highlight what sort of competition we should be aiming for. Based on this strategy, we would slowly develop our infrastructure that should be done in partnership under the local stragic partnerships i.e. a group involving all stakeholders. Gradually sports coaches will develop and become knowledgeable and our performance will be of a high standard. The idea of sending athletes from all disciplines to just take part does more damage and is waste of the much neede funds.
Until we identify and seperate the two forms of sport, we are miles away from hosting or winning big at major games. The NSCZ of Zambia and most sporting bodies have had the same people since independence. Surely, how do we expect to move on……? We could start by maintaining and improving the facilities we have at the moment first. There is no point in spending billions of dollars on infrastructure that is going to cost further millions in maintenance. This is why, Zambia needs strategic thinkers that can come up with initiatives that can sustain such programmes. Sport is only beneficial economically if there’s is a strategy. At the moment, the current sport policy addresses ultilitarian purposes that are contrary to the justification of building infrastructure. We are we going?
Until we identify and seperate the two forms of sport, we are miles away from hosting or winning big at major games. The NSCZ of Zambia and most sporting bodies have had the same people since independence. Surely, how do we expect to move on……? We could start by maintaining and improving the facilities we have at the moment first. There is no point in spending billions of dollars on infrastructure that is going to cost further millions in maintenance. This is why, Zambia needs strategic thinkers that can come up with initiatives that can sustain such programmes. Sport is only beneficial economically if there’s is a strategy. At the moment, the current sport policy addresses ultilitarian
Zambia, a country made up of “PROFESSIONAL STUDENT-POLITICIANS”—-forever in class (learning) and never graduate to apply their acquired knowledge. If they are not in perpetual learners mode, they are either “studying” reports of one kind or another, or in the process of doing this or that—-never at a point of taking charge of anything and accomplish something that ‘Wows!’ everybody and brings some much needed pride to our Country.
Are we ever going to have Zambian politicians/leadership who already have had their “studies/lessons” done and are ready to move this country forward????!!!!!!
#20 dalitso you can come wipe arse here in zed not buzungu it will be more decent. be proud.# 21 kuomboka ne nsaka how do claim to be british when you were born and bred in zambia. I can never give up my citizenship for a piece of silver. # 30 chitapankwa a zambian nurse in UK has nothing to show for. We see you when you come to zambia miserable as you admire our houses and property. you complain of busfares, cost of food and drinks but generous as we are we take care of your misery. you are languishing in UK and now the govt that side does not want to give you jobs in preference to labor from EU
rubbish thinking..after refusing to host 2011 all africa games…what have you learnt..you failures..!!
Awe ama leaders balitumpa fye. They are a let down indeed.