Blantyre City Mayor’s Trophy back
been catered for
After four years in oblivion, the Blantyre City Mayor’s Trophy will return to action bigger and better this year, Blantyre City Council’s director of leisure, culture and environment Sylvester Mitini-Nkhoma has disclosed.
Mitini-Nkhoma made the revelation after The Nation asked him whether the introduction of the annual K1.65 million Blantyre City Under-15 Sports Day, which was inaugurated last weekend at the Blantyre Youth Centre (BYC), signifies the eternal death of the Mayor’s Trophy.
“Let me assure you that the annual Mayor’s Trophy will be back with a bang this year, and it will be sustained in years to come. The event has already been catered for in our current budget and before the end of this year, we will relaunch the contest,” he said.
He, however, said they are yet to reveal the actual amount of money that has been injected into the trophy, saying that will be known after their ongoing meetings with the Malawi Schools Sports Association (Massa).
According to Mitini-Nkhoma, the Mayor’s Trophy, which involves football and netball contests among primary school pupils, will be running a few months after the Blantyre City Sports Day, which covers various sports disciplines such as football, netball, cricket, handball, tennis, athletics and taekwondo among under-15 youths.
He added that they are planning to establish a Culture Day which will see the city celebrating Malawian way of life through traditional dances, arts exhibition and singing contests.
The council’s leisure director said the Mayor’s Trophy was stopped in 2010 due to the hard economic times the country was going through.
“Then, we were squeezed by some budgetary constraints. The funds meant for the Mayor’s Trophy was used for the country’s various essential needs,” he said.
