Tue, 09 Jan 2018 08:25:46 +0000 By MICHAEL MIYOBA THE cholera outbreak in Petauke has halted our planned soccer festival which was meant to educate people on various health issues, Rural Sports Foundation (RSF) Director Job Mwanza has said. On 5th January, Minister of Sports, Youth and Child Development Moses Mawere announced the ban on sporting gatherings at a briefing in Lusaka. Mawere noted that suspension of all sporting activities will be effective until relevant authorities’ advice on when things would return to normal sporting programmes. And speaking in an interview with Daily Nation Sports from Petauke, Mwanza noted that the district had recorded four suspected cases of people affected with cholera. Mwanza said the two-day sports festival which was scheduled to run from 6th to 7th January has been pushed to a later date due to the escalating cholera outbreak. He said that the decision to postpone the tournament meant to educate more […]
