nyex, very ture that life is all about celebrating the gifts and abilities that God has endowed upon us. its sad that mostly when young brilliant minds and fellas are plucked too early from this world, we also seem to delete their abilities and qualitites that we lived to admire and cherish from the very same world. Shame on us a people that does not want to teach/show the young ones anythign about the great ones who were here before us!!!!!!
One James Gwaza was very ambitious fella and his efforts and abilities brought about some new fresh air in the game locally. He was able and brilliant in all senses. We therefore need to remember him and all the other heores that graced our courts and game. All those that have cpontirbuted to the game of basketball in Malawi. Off my mind i can recall Adolf Onions, whose love and enthusiam had seen alot of changes and development in the game of basketball. His love for basketball never made sense to alot of us until now that we try to fill his over sized shoes. Then there are names like Kella Zimpita, Moto Khama etc that made a difference in our game and provided us with entertainment in days gone by. They all have departed from us. Do we then depart their sweet memories or we can honour one of us to carry on with their likeness and abilities for todays ball game? I am developing an awards framework for Netball, Basketball, Volleyball and pool. you may recall the dangerously popular Entertainers Of the year Program on MBC. That effort did a lot of encourgament to the athletes and made some of us to particulalry work harder withthe aim of getting it. Today, that program is gone and there is none that the athlete would look forward to. There is a lack of sponsorhsip but there are plenty of opportuhnities that we can use to survive with the little resources we have. Lack for motivation is one big reason why standards of sport are going down, some things are very trivial but they propel the athlete into orbits of great perfomances. An Award is one such. Recognising his hours of perfecting his art amd skills. I, therefore would like to challenge you Fukula to come up with a criteria or baseline that we can use to honour someone from our league in the name of the fallen heroes. We have some well deserving administrators who are workign tiressly behind our backs that would surely deserve an honour befitting the likes of James Gwaza, Adolf Onions, Coach Wetiwa, Peterson Zembani, Dave Misomali e.t.c The award framework iam developing does not take cash as the motivator, its purely recognition and a certificate or a miniature trophy hence there is less worry of not getting sponsors. Whats your say? Finally, here is my ode to them all..... *As James is to Pacers* *So Adolf is to Big Boys* *While Motto Khama was Civo Banks* *True Heroes* ** *We are the Losers* *Shattered like broken toys* *Not deserving their ranks* *Worthy of Zeroes* ** *They are our Heroes! * *R.I.P* ** ** ** On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Hastings Fukula Nyekanyeka < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Today, as James Gwaza is laid to rest, I stop being sad and start > celebrating James' life and the times he shared with all of us. > > I would suggest that the Basketball Association of Malawi establish a > performance or leadership award in James Gwaza's name. I volunteer to > be part of that process if need be in whatever capacity. > > Thanks > -- > Hastings Fukula Nyekanyeka > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.malawithewarmheart.com/ > > > > -- LifeAsItComes..OneDayAtATime! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://soyapi.com/owinna/cezobal2008 =================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Central Zone Basketball League" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cezobal?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
