{"id":68145,"date":"2018-07-06T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68145"},"modified":"2018-07-06T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T07:36:16","slug":"inkosi-mmbelwa-world-cup-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/06\/inkosi-mmbelwa-world-cup-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Inkosi M\u2019mbelwa World Cup-bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY BERNARD MHONE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inkosi ya Makosi M\u2019mbelwa V of Mzimba District has been nominated to watch the Fifa World Cup final in Russia on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>M\u2019mbelwa has earned the trip to Russia courtesy of Zondwayo Mgemezulu, brother in-law to Manson Gondwe, who won the grand prize of Zampira Promotion, which TNM runs.<\/p>\n<p>Spe aking dur ing the handover ceremony of a dummy air ticket and match ticket in Mzimba on Wednesday, Gondwe said he could not travel to Russia on health grounds and opted for Mgemezulu to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the promotion stipulate that a winner of the World Cup trip can travel with a person of their choice; hence, Mgemezulu settled for M\u2019mbelwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am overwhelmed. I could have loved to watch the World Cup final live but I have a problem with my legs, so I chose my brother in-law to represent me. My in-law has, in turn, opted to travel to Russia with Inkosi ya Makosi,\u201d said Gondwe, a Be Forward Wanderers and Brazil fan.<\/p>\n<p>Mgemezulu applauded his in-law for offering him the chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have chosen to travel with Inkosi M\u2019mbelwa V as a sign of respect. He is a big man in Mzimba. He is our father and being his subject, I thought I should be accompanied by such a man of integrity and dignity,\u201d Mgemezulu said.<\/p>\n<p>M\u2019mbelwa said he was looking forward to watching the final, which will take place at the 81,000-capacity Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me thank the one who nominated me. He could have chosen to travel with his family members. It takes courage to give away such a huge offer. I really appreciate and accept this offer. I am very happy because I am a football fan. I am short of words,\u201d M\u2019mbelwa said.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, TNM Regional Distribution Manager for the Northern Region, Yamikani Bakuwa, said the company will spend K15 million on the all-paid-for trip for the two people, who will depart on July 13 and return four days later.<\/p>\n<p>Gondwe, who is a businessman, won the promotion during the final draw of the first component of the promotion on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He predicted correctly the result of a league game between Nchalo United and Silver Strikers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY BERNARD MHONE: Inkosi ya Makosi M\u2019mbelwa V of Mzimba District has been nominated to watch the Fifa World Cup final in Russia on July 15. M\u2019mbelwa has earned the trip to Russia courtesy of Zondwayo Mgemezulu, brother in-law to Manson Gondwe, who won the grand prize of Zampira Promotion, which TNM runs. Spe aking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68145","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\/68145","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=68145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68147,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68145\/revisions\/68147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}