The Association of the Teaching of English in Malawi (Atem) national drama finals risk not being held as there is no sponsorship for the event.<\/p>\n
Atem President Fanuel Mapira said on Tuesday that they were keeping their fingers crossed to get sponsorship to host the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have written proposals but nothing has come up . We were supposed to hold the national finals in May but, because we don\u2019t have money yet and have not yet paid for the venue, we are hoping to hold it in early June,\u201d Mapira said.<\/p>\n
The Atem leader said with students preparing to write examinations, their last date to hold the national finals is June 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cJune 10 is the last date and if we don\u2019t find sponsorship now or by June 10 then we will not hold them this year. We are running short of time. But for now everything is in place, all the schools in the three regions are ready although we had problems in the Southern Region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Mapira has announced that Chichiri Secondary School, which made it to the national finals in the Southern Region, has been replaced.<\/p>\n
\u201cChichiri Secondary School will not go to the national finals and instead Blantyre Baptist Academy, which came fourth, will assume position three and automatically go to the finals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chichiri Secondary School was allowed to participate in the regional finals after they complained of unfair judgment during the divisional finals where they came fourth.<\/p>\n
Atem rules stipulate that the top three schools during divisional finals make it to the regional finals.<\/p>\n
After the complaint, Atem South chapter gave Chichiri Secondary School the go ahead to participate in the regional finals.<\/p>\n
The school, which has in the past dominated the competition went on to claim position three.<\/p>\n
This, however, did not go down well with some schools such as Blantyre Baptist Academy and Joyce Banda Foundation which complained and asked Atem South chapter to penalise Chichiri.<\/p>\n
Blantyre Baptist Academy said had it been that Chichiri did not participate, having come fourth in the divisional finals, they would have got position three.<\/p>\n
\u201cAtem South had problems making a ruling before referring it to national [level]. But looking at the whole issue, which is straight forward, Chichiri Secondary came fourth and was not supposed to participate in the regional finals. So they will not participate in the national finals and instead Blantyre Baptist Academy will,\u201d Mapira said.<\/p>\n
Mapira said this has been communicated to Blantyre Baptist Academy and Chichiri Secondary School.<\/p>\n
There were, however, reports that Chichiri Secondary School had asked Atem to refund funds they incurred in participating in the regional finals but Mapira said \u201ceverything has been sorted out.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Atem South chapter chairperson Smart Chikumbeni said Chichiri was told through its deputy head teacher and that they were yet to get a response.<\/p>\n
\u201cChichiri has not been penalised as it was a collective mistake by all patrons of the schools involved but we can just say it has been substituted,\u201d Chikumbeni said.<\/p>\n
Mapira said if they get sponsorship, the schools which will battle in the national finals are Katoto, Luwinga and Chibavi secondary in the Northern Region, Tsabango, Sos and KIA Green Light Secondary schools in the Central Region with Providence Girls, Blantyre Baptist Academy and Jacaranda School of Orphans representing Southern Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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