{"id":74038,"date":"2019-02-05T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74038"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:33:12","slug":"zimba-to-continue-serving-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/zimba-to-continue-serving-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimba to continue serving boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74040\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lonzoe-zimba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lonzoe-zimba-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lonzoe-zimba-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lonzoe-zimba.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TO COMBINE POLITICS AND BOXING\u2014Zimba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board President Lonzoe \u2018Defector\u2019 Zimba has said his political aspirations will not affect his service towards the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Zimba is vying for a parliamentary seat in Mchinji East constituency after winning Democratic Progressive Party primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Zimba made the remarks recently after donating bags of maize valued at over K5 million to people in the constituency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe good thing with Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board and African Boxing Union (ABU) rules is that they do not bar officials from being active politicians. I also serve in ABU board, so there is no problem,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zimba said he still has the passion for boxing and would like to help the country produce a world champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cJoining politics will help me serve the game better because I will be championing policies to promote boxing in particular and sports in general. It is my dream that Malawi should produce a world champion soon and I will strive to do so,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zimba said he decided to make the donation as a way of sharing what he has with needy members of the community.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI donate maize to people in this constituency to celebrate my birthday in December every year. However, this time I waited a bit due to logistical requirements. I have now fulfilled what I always do and it feels good to share what I have with community members,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zimba\u2019s stand differs from what his Malawi Boxing Association counterpart Justice Katika did by announcing his intention to quit as he is contesting for a parliamentary seat in Blantyre Bangwe constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Katika said he would relinquish his position at an annual general meeting to be held soon as he wants to focus on politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board President Lonzoe \u2018Defector\u2019 Zimba has said his political aspirations will not affect his service towards the sport. Zimba is vying for a parliamentary seat in Mchinji East constituency after winning Democratic Progressive Party primary elections. Zimba made the remarks recently after donating bags of maize valued at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74038","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=74038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74041,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74038\/revisions\/74041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}