{"id":57835,"date":"2017-12-20T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=57835"},"modified":"2017-12-20T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:55:41","slug":"kamuzu-stadium-turf-in-january-peter-mutharika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/kamuzu-stadium-turf-in-january-peter-mutharika\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamuzu Stadium turf in January\u2014 Peter Mutharika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rehabilitation works underway at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantye got a boost Tuesday when President Peter Mutharika, disclosed that the long-awaited artificial turf would arrive in the country next month.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium\u2019s refurbishment works were budgeted at around K1.5 billion and include the procurement of a turf in the 2017\/18 National Budget.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika, during the ground-breaking ceremony of the five-star Sogecoa Golden Peacock Hotel and Business Park in Blantyre, said as the soccer fraternity awaits the construction of a new stadium in the city, rehabilitation works on the historical facility would go on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be constructing a new stadium at Njamba Freedom Park, apart from the rehabilitation works at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me assure soccer fans that the artificial turf that is key to the works will arrive in the county next month,\u201d Mutharika said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamuzu Stadium was closed due to the risk it posed to people\u2019s lives. The turf had also outlived its lifespan; hence, requiring a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The rehabilitation works have, so far, seen the refurbishment of toilets, drainage system and repainting of terraces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehabilitation works underway at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantye got a boost Tuesday when President Peter Mutharika, disclosed that the long-awaited artificial turf would arrive in the country next month. The stadium\u2019s refurbishment works were budgeted at around K1.5 billion and include the procurement of a turf in the 2017\/18 National Budget. Mutharika, during the ground-breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57839,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57835\/revisions\/57839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}