{"id":67634,"date":"2018-06-28T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67634"},"modified":"2018-06-28T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T06:35:13","slug":"civil-sporting-club-date-silver-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/28\/civil-sporting-club-date-silver-strikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Sporting Club date Silver Strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY MPHATSO NKUONERA,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>MANA:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civil Sporting Club will host Silver Strikers at Bingu National Stadium (BNS) in Lilongwe on July 5 as part of Lilongwe City Council\u2019s (LCC) commemoration of the country\u2019s 54th Independence Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Stallichi Mwambiwa, LCC Acting Director of Administration and Chairperson of the city\u2019s July 6 celebrations, said the friendly would be among the day\u2019s main events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to inform Lilongwe City residents that on July 5, the two teams will battle it out for the bragging rights of the city,\u201d Mwambiwa said.<\/p>\n<p>He promised tight security at BNS where a game between Silver and Nyasa Big Bullets, on July 6 last year, led to the death of eight people in a stampede.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of what happened when lives of innocent people were lost. We are planning to open the gates early so as to enable free flow of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working hand in hand with BNS management to open the gates early. After a military parade at the BNS, we will conduct special prayers, asking God to continue comforting the bereaved families,\u201d Mwambiwa said.<\/p>\n<p>BNS Manager, Eric Ning\u2019ang\u2019a, has since appealed to communities around the facility to take care of their children so as to avoid a repeat of the stampede.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have put in place security measures but children require extra attention; hence, my humble appeal to the parents around BNS to take care of the children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Civil and Silver will meet for the third time this season after they played in a friendly in Dowa District and in the Airtel Top 8 quarter-final match at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>The Lilongwe rivals are yet to meet in the league this season.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Silver claimed a double over Civil in the league. Silver lead the league\u2019s log table with 23 points from 10 games whereas Civil are on third-place with 19 points from 10 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MPHATSO NKUONERA, MANA: Civil Sporting Club will host Silver Strikers at Bingu National Stadium (BNS) in Lilongwe on July 5 as part of Lilongwe City Council\u2019s (LCC) commemoration of the country\u2019s 54th Independence Anniversary. Stallichi Mwambiwa, LCC Acting Director of Administration and Chairperson of the city\u2019s July 6 celebrations, said the friendly would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67634","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\/67634","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=67634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67637,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67634\/revisions\/67637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}