Barrick Lumwana Mining Company has joined several Copperbelt mining companies that have welcomed the reintroduction of the ZCCM sports festival which will now be called Mining and Allied Industries Sports Festival.
The festival which will encompass various sporting disciplines is expected to start late this year and will be an annual event not only for mining companies but will include other firms.
Lumwana Mining Company Acting Managing Director Wayne Schiller said his company is ready to partner with government in developing sports through the sports festival which is set to be reintroduced.
Wayne Schiller expressed gratitude that his firm has been considered by government as a partner in developing sports in Zambia.
He told Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili and his delegation who called on him and Lumwana management that the company would like to be associated with various sports in Zambia.
He said his company has been supporting minor sports in North Western Province through the company’s community health welfare which he said has been doing so well.
He however could not disclose how much the company will pump into the sports festival and the team it intends to sponsor.
Schiller was also agreeable to the proposal by Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili who asked the mine to also contribute towards the salaries of the national team coaches.
Mr Kambwili held a meeting with Lumwana management over the sponsorship of local teams and the funding of the hosting of the Zone 6 games which Zambia is privileged to host in December this year.
The Minister explained that government has noticed that sports have been dwindling from the time ZCCM was privatized due to lack of sponsorship.
He observed that mining companies have a duty to sponsor sports in the country as part of ploughing back into the community where they operate.
He noted that government alone cannot manage to pay the US$100,000 for coaches and the K113 billion for hosting of the 2012 Zone 6 games.
He however vowed that the Patriotic Front will not fail to host any tournament like the previous governments which he said failed to host the Africa Cup of Nations in 1980s and the All Africa an Games in 2008.
All the Mining Companies on the Copperbelt have been approached over the sports festival, sponsoring of local clubs and the funds for the coaches and Zone 6 games.
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Another good move from the working gvt. Keep it up guys. ZCCM used to sponsor various sports such as cricket, rugby, hokey, swimming, golf, basket ball, volley ball, netball etc. Uuuuuuuh Good old days.
man of action. they change his ministry to a smaller one but juniour cobra ale bomba konse! kambwili 2016 is yours. at foreign affairs you pushed for dual citzinship and it is in the draft, at labour you scared all companies and they changed there ways allbeit minimally, pressured them into increasin salaries, at sports you went and camped with the national team,dining with them and that increasedd mmotivation, now you are revamping the sports in zambia whilst other ministers are doing nothing! you are the only rightfull candiddate for the PF presidency. viva kambwili viva pf viva 2016
Kambwili has the national interest at heart. though i sometimes wonder why some bloggers speak ill about this man. Zambians are good at talkn though implementation is below paa!! if all zambians would work for the interest of country like Kambwili is doing, am sure we can have positive results in the future. Big ups Kambwili
Good work, but we need a long-term sports strategy for the country. We need to build facilities and improve participation, especially in schools. We need a way to recognise and nurture young talent. Sport is a lucrative source of income. Look at at how the Kenyan athletes have developed their villages of origin.
Bakalanda baknaka!!!!!!! viva Kambwili ulimwaume.
This man has work at his heart, we need to support him sure. Its unfortunate that places like Lusaka you cant even find an open space to build sporting facilities in the compounds. Its really pathetic to find that people end up building even where there is supposed to be a road. At times ourselves as Zambians we are anti progress. I urge the local government and housing to look into the structures that people are building and where. The dirty is just too much every time you want to pass its zikomo while jumping the pot of fire. even the so called low density in LSK isnt that good. the structure of the copeprbelt was well planed only that the carders again began misbehaving by giving plots on awkward places that were meant for something else.Â
good work ba chishomba.keep up the momentum and its good to see the mining firms responding sow ell to this gallant initiative.
Viva CK, you are a man of action.
Baby Cobra is really working. Viva Kambwili
Awe mulibaume ba CK.
This is just waste of resources and working hours.This is what brought ZCCM down because of the amount of money that was spent on sports wear,beer and suits for officials and young women who were used as waitereses instead of working IE nurses and secretaries.Spread of certain diseases was on increase during the festivals.
Where were you. Steve Harapiak, understood the importance of giving always exhausted and depressed miners a relief. He looked at ZCCM’s total cost against the profit and was one to give the miners a chance to relax and get involved in the day to day activities of the mines. After all, most of them were sportsmens in all fields. We could afford to do any social oriented projects until the government decided we had to pay for all civil servants, doctors, nurses, police, city council, you name it, money that was never repaid back to ZCCM. Steve Harapiak went back to Canada because of that. If the mining company doesn’t help with social amenities in line with what they do in their own developed countries, baletulila amasuku pamutwe. We have a copper ore board of only 500 years at KDMP.
Zo ona CK uli kabwili…I like yo courage. It reminds me of yo school dayz. Still as courageous as u were when u were the head boy at MPASS- LYA.
It seems Capitalism is dying slowly, just like the MMD. In Today’s world, Socialism is creeping in as Man has again discoverred that Capitalism is becoming a deadly sin as shown by the French.
The road dt goes to lumwana has pot-holes n horible to drive on!ds is the company dt shd contribute to coaches salaries?wat is the benefit of pipo of NW.province after ds damag of their rd by heavy traks for mining!No wonder the barotse issue!!!!!
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