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SPORT, A COLLABORATIVE

EFFORT

Banda: We need to move together if sport is to develop in Malawi

In his remarks, Minister of Youth and Sports “What needs to be done now is for all of us
Honorable Richard Chimwendo Banda MP present here to work together, and not in
explained that there is a need for di erent isolation, because it is only in unity that we can
stakeholders in sport to come together each achieve more. The private sector should come
year and discuss critical matters that are a ect- in to support sport and supplement the e orts
ing the development of sports in the country if that government is making. Sports associations
Malawi is to move forward in sports develop- should respect and work together with the
ment. Malawi National Council of Sports and para-
statals should also come in and support sports,
“Our neighbors, who could not even compete as was the case in the past, because, for the
with us in the past, have taken a step ahead of Malawi to be a force to reckon with, in terms
us, to the extent that we can no longer com- of sport in the world, there is a need for
pete with them. We used to do well in foot- collaborative e ort from all the key stakehold-
ball, athletics and netball, but that is not the ers,” explained the Minister.
case today. We have fallen down on the peck-
ing order’

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