Well said.
Well said indeed!
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Daud Suleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Daud Suleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: {CEZOBAL} Re: Remembering James Brown Gwaza
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 9:23 AM
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/
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