Thursday, March 28, 2024

Opening Ceremony of SADC Zone 6 under 20 games in Pictures

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A Zambia Air Force plane flies over head during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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Zambian athletes captured during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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Athletes and officials from Swaziland during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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Athletes from Malawi captured during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 games in Lusaka

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Angolan officials wave during the opening of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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South African athletes during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games

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South African athletes marching during he opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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An unidentified South African athlete tries to capture some moments from the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Sic Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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Nyoni, the official mascot for the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in action during the opening ceremony in Lusaka on Friday evening.

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A dancer from the Amayenge ensemble in action during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka.

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A man on the business end of an ice lolly at the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 games in Lusaka

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A misspelt placard showing for one of the participating teams in the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka.

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A police van on patrol outside the Nkoloma Stadium during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games

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A South African television crew assembling a live camera before the opening of the SADC Under 20 Zone Six Games in Lusaka

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A woman prepares French fries outside the Nkoloma Stadium during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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A vendor selling Mosi, one of Zambia’s lagers outside the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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A woman vending Nshima, Zambia’s staple food outside Nkola Stadium during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games

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One of the luxury coaches shuttling athletes at the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka

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Roasted corn for sale during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games.

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Some Lusaka residents captured outside Nkoloma Stadium during the opening ceremony of the Zone Six Under 20 Games in Lusaka.

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Some property at the scene where a terrace collapsed on people during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Opening in Lusaka

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Some people react after a terrace collapsed at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka during the opening ceremony of the SADC Zone Six Under 20 Games

79 COMMENTS

    • Accidents of terraces collapsing do happen anywhere including the USA. A few years ago it happened at an air show in America.

    • Don’t just be quick to critisize. You don’t know what exactly caused the terrace to collapse. I am happy bout the games and was give positive update by my nephew who is one of the volunteers at the games. Remember wht happened in india during the commonwealth games, that is waht you call a shambles and a death trap compared to the zed games

  1. Picture # 16 is the best, however, I thought an under 20 event such as this should be alcohol free……..MOSI lager, bafi color mu diaspora namate yakama ukumona ka MOSI

  2. Pic #17,
    Hahaha, the woman nshima vendor is so camera shy, I hope she does not shy away from hungry customers.
    Pics 21 & 22, Were there any casualties?

  3. I have reliable sources who are telling me that the country is deplorable and a joke
    They are regretting coming there for these games
    Shame on Zambia

    I dont even know why I am going there in all honest
    Thanks

  4. Ba Lt you have also got picture number 3 wrong.

    so dont play the smart guy over picture 12. Picure 3 is Nambia. Swaziland flag has a shield in the middle.

  5. Hahahaha, pic# 19, I can kill for that mataba, looks delicious.

    I told you people, things done in a hurry seldom last long…pics# 21 & 22 is your perfect example. And to make it even worse, this is China man style. Mwalaipaya abeni.

    And I hope and pray nothing happens to that dam swimming pool, really. Kambwili was too excited. Can you imagine that thing sinking in? Yaba, we’re watching.

  6. Welcome to Zambia where there’s so much dust. Rubbish. Things are done at the last minute. No wonder terrance collapsed. Is this what you call a stadium. Tru. Only pa Zed.

    • Dust or no dust I love Zed jsut because you have no proper ties in Zed doesn’t make you a star wher you are others are relocating to Zed where thery can breath fresh air grow their own food and have a good quality of life compared to being lumbered with high taxes expensive transport and dosers like you claiming welfare benefits and living in cardboard houses.

  7. Sad stories from the pics. A country that has been mining Cu for the past 1 century w/o infrastructure.! 

    • Yes, and half that period the Zambian copper wealth built cities in Europe such as London. In fact, even cities such as Harare across the Zambezi were built on the back of Zambian copper! There you have it, a brief history for you if you are too young to know these things or you simply “skimped out” on your history classes in secondary school.

      By the way, the British are still in charge of your copper by setting prices thousands of miles in London. Even backing up their surrogate “Vulture” multinationals through massive capital supports to continue and further “rape” the wealth of their former colonies. Northern Rhodesia/Zambia has always been, and still is, simply a “lease holder” but never in control of its wealth and economic destiny—get a grip baba!

  8. Ukuponta mu ponta, bambi we should come and inspect your homes nopo mulala mwe… Mwacilamo..

    Great pics LT, but ofcourse also you, pay attention to your reporting!!!

  9. I’m not surprised it collapsed, one has to look at the steel frame thickness used..no way on earth would it support that kind of load..any where else the whole place would be closed down. Funny that people are still seating on the same stand in the photo.

    • JJ, I would like to echo your concerns. See, one day I was driving through Avondale only to see three guys high up on the steel frame of a tall building without harnesses. I asked them why they were not using safety gear, and they looked at me like I was nuts! That’s how much we value our lives.

      Now, one might argue that the fault was with their employers. But what about motorists who drive their vehicles at breakneck speed without putting their safety belts on? The belts are there! Often times you find their kids jumping around in there.

  10. Look closely at the erect stand in photo 21; it has only one support no bracing and there are kids standing right underneath it whilst it is fully loaded with spectators. 

  11. Latest from ZNBC Radio New at 16hrs. Kalusha appoints Jim Chongo and Mwansa Mbulakulima to training somewhere. These are his relatives, actually Chong is his maternal uncle. Merit or not? It remains to be seen.

  12. # 16, fishinka ifi mukamba. Mwandi, ifwe bambi tulala pa mpasa elo no guza. But wacinsesha ati “also you”. Ba LT nabena reporting yabu tutu.

  13. #21. ONE DOESN’T NEED TO BE A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER TO KNOW THAT THIS TERRACE CAN EASILY COLLAPSE UNDER SIMPLE MINIMAL WEIGHT. ZAMBIA’S ENGINEERS- WHAT DID COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY TEACH YOU?

  14. Pic #13 dusty streets with visible trash and no sidewalks for pedestrians,too many street food vendors with no health department safety & sanitation certification and #21 unsafe stands.When will zambians ever wake up and do things to the highest international standards?

  15. Those so called terraces are a hopeless cheaply and hurriedly put together pieces of cheap metal.

    Where are the real public property construction companies?

    Health and Safety needs to be emphasised in Zambia. Are there no able lawyers in Zambia that can form a formidable law firm to sue public service providers who fail to provide safety for their customers – the members of the public? I hope anyone hurt from the collapse of those terraces will be compensated properly.

    • My friend I share your passion about Health and safety. It’s good that you bring this very importnt issue up, but don’t you think it would bear more fruit if you set up a Private Health and Safety compnay pa Zed where you would passionately educate masses about the importance of such a topic? It’s not just about suing although this might get companies and organisations to pull theirs socks up but to ensure that tragedies are avoided at all costs. Just asking?

    • Dont forget how poeple in Zambia settle out of court, first of , the masses are so backward so much that, they would rather get tuma 10 kwachas fast fast than come to your firm were in the end might get millions!, ni ku Africa yalikakana!

  16. Armchair critics. What about when the Uk transport comes to a grind when it snows so heavily and they run out of grit and people can’t get to and from work. Ask Boris Johnson to answer that one if he can. It happened last year and one would have thought they would have had a strategy or plan B or C. You lot are busy critisizing why can’t you be on committees or planning teams for such in futurre. Mu na nyanya ku nyoza lyonse with no solution at all.

    • Mixing apples and oranges? Just bcoz UK doesn’t have answers to their issue so we shouldn’t ask the best from ourselves?What ***** will want to copy from another *****?

    • Yes you are right we have to higlight the failures. When I gave an example of the UK the stand still happened TWO consecutive years and they ran out of grit to grit the roads too. some who have never travelled to other countries would think evrything is hanky dory in these countrries, but that is not the case. I was trying to say failures happen everywhere but people get together analyse and find out where they went wrong and do something about it. In a nutshell not everything full proof as you may want to think in any place. Positive critism is good but lets not just critisise just for the hell of it but also look towards contributing posiitively to our country too.

  17. I feel sorry for the buses.Such beautiful things to be on such roads.And trash is every where. It’s as if our leaders have never traveled abroad to see how things are done and yet the go abroad all the time.Tuntemba sure are the food vendors at these games.Embarrassing.Very embarrassing.

    • They are blind.Living in Longacres or Avondale,hobnobbing at Pamodzi hotel then staying in posh hotels on foreign visits blinds them to think every place is topnotch.They never venture out to see how poor kabwata street vendors live or visit bluecollar London city employees to enquire how they keep the city in top shape.

  18. Why allow unhygeinic,uninspected and unregulated food vendors to such a place to sell to the public? Thats the problem with zed that any uneducated/untrained fool can sell food to the public with no govt oversight.Try that in developed countries and you’ll be out of business before you can say “justice”

  19. Too many negative comments! You chaps passing silly comments are too selfish and Zambia does not need you!! You can hang in your so called diaspora!

    • Youare spot on. Negativity will not get us annywahere ecxept there is action to follow. don’t just be arm chair critics sitting in whatever foreign land you find yourselves. You only look at the falilures what about the good things none of you lot support. Things start from sopmewhere ask tyhe man who invented bulbs and the brothers that invented the plane when you find them. It is dedication, determination and not always looking at failures because they are only meant for us to learn from them. Why should everything be left to the government only when some of you can do something about it.. Muchinje mwa nyanya kunyoza lyonse

  20. I attended this ceremony & I can tell you all foolish bloggers passing negative comments that it was great,really great!! Stay kwemene uko ku diaspora & see Zambia developing from a distance! Ba ka bw a

    • @Mwanamfumu you are right. Iam so happy with the feedback i got about the games from my nephew. I am a proud Zambian too. Every time I go home (ZED) and I get back here I miss home. There are a lot of nice things happening there and some of you people on this blogg will only see pictures and never apprecaite the beauty in our own yard. Kuli vo chitika pa Zed and I want to be a part of it. I live in a flat with walls made of cardboard. I have to put up with a very noisy neigbour who wakes me up at all times of the day and nite, sivintu ayi. I want to hear the birds churping as I wake and smell the fresh air and enjoy the sun. Zambia awaits me and soon and very soon I will be there

  21. Pic 14, I personally know the guy wearing head phone. His name is Sam; he is Zimbabwean but works for the Supersport.

  22. #38 No one is saying here that the meeting was not great. the meeting could been great even if it was played in muchinga. but it is fools like you who are causing zambia to do shoddy works at the last minute. you don’t need an egineer to tell you that the collapsed terrance was not constructed with safety of the people in mind. look at pic #13, how safe was it driving or walking on the ka road? look at pic #15, can that be allowed where you’re?

  23. WHEN I LEFT ZAMBIA, MOSI WAS K500. NOW ITS 11 TIMES !!! OH MY GELA-NONDO. KA GOLA, LIQUID-GOLD, MOSES, ETC WERE THE NICKNAMES.

    • Mr. so what is wrong with ZAF owning and flying such a plane?????
      Baba, even the military do have, or should have, passenger transport planes that can be used to move personnel and troops quickly and efficiently if need be. Just because ZAF’s budget is too limited to afford painting those planes in military colors does not mean they shouldn’t have that kind of equipment as part of its military inventory!
      All militaries that are worth something around the world do purchase and maintain passenger “transport” planes. It is not just about fighter jets and Apache helicopters—-stop displaying your ignorance in public!

  24. There is a special metal they use even here in US for seats even in schools for arenas imwe! It is light aluminum aloy but very strong and it is double not single imwe Ba Z engineers mwatusebanya.

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