{"id":77566,"date":"2019-05-03T10:50:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77566"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:50:59","slug":"region-5-most-active-but-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/region-5-most-active-but-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Region 5 most active but fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

to win at big meets<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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YET TO WIN MEDALS AT BIG INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS\u2014 Region 5 athletes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minister of Labour, Sports, Youth and Manpower Development, Grace Chiumia, has asked African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region Five member countries to do careful soul-searching to identify underlying factors for their poor performance in international competitions and come up with tangible solutions to improve athletes\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n

Chiumia made the remarks during the opening of AUSC\u2019s Executive Committee Meeting at Sunbird Capital in Lilongwe Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am reliably informed that our region is the most active of all the regions in Africa and I am proud of that.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, our activeness is not reflected in the performance of our athletes and teams at continental and international levels,\u201d<\/em> Chiumia said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chiumia said Malawi was playing her role in boosting athletes\u2019 performance by constructing sports facilities in all the 28 districts of the country using Local Development Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government of Malawi is really striving to promote sports among its citizens. To achieve this, the government planned to develop infrastructure, a comprehensive Sports Development Programme focusing on grassroots and continuously work with AUSC secretariat and fellow member countries.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe government also believes that promotion of sports in schools will ensure establishment of a solid base for talent identification and development, which will see sustainable improvement in the performance of our athletes and teams,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chiumia said Malawi was also working hard to prepare well for a successful hosting of the 2022 Region Five Games.<\/p>\n

AUSC Chairperson, Vetumbuavi Veii, urged member countries to invest more in activities. “I also challenge Malawi to get ready to host the 2022 Region 5 Youth Games,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The meeting has attracted delegates from 10 countries namely Angola, South Africa, eSwatini, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia and hosts Malawi.<\/p>\n

Malawi will host the regional competition in the next three years for the first time. Botswana was last year\u2019s host country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

to win at big meets By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Minister of Labour, Sports, Youth and Manpower Development, Grace Chiumia, has asked African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region Five member countries to do careful soul-searching to identify underlying factors for their poor performance in international competitions and come up with tangible solutions to improve athletes\u2019 performance. Chiumia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77566","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\/77566","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=77566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77572,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77566\/revisions\/77572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}