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29 Oct

OYDC and WWF hosts Play 2 Conserve Grand Finale

Lusaka, Zambia 29th October, 2020 – OYDC Zambia Sports Development Centre and the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) will on Saturday 31st October, 2020 host the much anticipated “Play 2 Conserve” project grand finale. The event will include a symbolic tree planting exercise and performances from local artist. The OYDC Zambia partnered with the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to run a project dubbed “Play 2 Conserve” aimed at promoting conservation and environmental protection using sport. The project kicked off in January, 2020 with [...]

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21 Oct

OYDC ZAMBIA & SOCHEM ENTERPRISE SIGN PATERNSHIP AGREEMENT WORTH OVER K200, 000

OYDC Zambia – Sports Development Centre has partnered with a local Zambian firm SOCHEMICALS Enterprise the makers of SoClean products to provide sanitary and monetary support to the sports facility. During the signing ceremony, OYDC Zambia Chief Executive Officer Dr. Fredrick Chitangala, said the Centre wants to associate more with local firms such as SOCHEM Enterprise and ensure that local products and services are promoted even in times when the nation is grappling with the COVID-19. Dr. Chitangala disclosed that with the coming of SOCHEM Enterprise [...]

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29 Sep

Coach urges girls to take up netball

A netball coach Bessie Nanyangwe, has urged young girls from communities surrounding OYDC Zambia to take up the sport of netball. Nanyangwe, who is an assistant coach for Matero Netball team, which is part of the Teulings Youth Sports Challenge, disclosed that most of the girls in her team have chances of being selected to play for the national team. She adds that unlike being home and doing nothing, young girls should take the opportunity to join netball at [...]

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09 Sep

It’s Game On: Teulings is back!

After months of not being on the playing fields, young athletes below the age of 20 years on Tuesday, 8 September, 2020 thronged the OYDC Zambia – Sports Development Centre to participate in the Teulings Youth Sports Challenge.The Teulings Youth Sports Challenge engages young talented athletes in beach volleyball, netball, taekwondo, hockey and swimming.The games which were suspended on 17 March, 2020 due to the outbreak of the Covid-19, resumed with activities in netball, hockey and beach volleyball. [...]

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27 Jul

OYDC ZAMBIA CLEARED TO RESUME ALL SPORTS ACTIVITIES

The OYDC Zambia – Sports Development Centre wish to announce that it has been cleared to resume all sports activities which were suspended indefinitely on the 17th March, 2020 following the outbreak of the Corona Virus. OYDC Zambia, Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Fredrick Chitangala, says the Centre is happy that the permit was granted adding that before resuming all activities key stakeholders such as national sports federations will be engaged to formulate a roadmap on how to resume sport at the [...]

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06 May

OYDC Zambia donates 300 face masks

OYDC Zambia on Wednesday, 6th May, 2020, donated three hundred face masks to different sports associations and staff valued at K5000. The sport associations which received the donation are Tennis (40 masks), Taekwondo (40 masks), Volleyball (30 masks), Table Tennis (40 masks), Disability Sport Federation Zambia (35 face masks) and the rest given to staff and members of the press who were present. OYDC Zambia Board of Trustees Chairperson Simagolwa Shakalima, presented the items to the recipients and was joined by trustee member Wana Msiska and [...]

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28 Apr

NOCZ President Alfred Foloko pays tribute to fallen heroes

National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) president Alfred Foloko, has paid tribute to the fallen heroes who perished in 1993 plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Libreville, Gabon. Speaking after laying wreaths at the memorial site outside the Independence Stadium in Lusaka Foloko, said the Olympic movement acknowledges the part the fallen heroes played in the development of sport in the country stating that those in sport should consider emulating the heroes and avoid wrangles. [...]

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27 Apr

OYDC ZAMBIA IN TALKS WITH MOTHER BODIES TO RESUME SOME SPORTS ACTIVITIES

The OYDC Zambia – Sports Development Centre will consult the Ministries of Health and Youth, Sport and Child Development, National Sports Council of Zambia, and the National Olympic Committee of Zambia on steps to take to resume some sports activities which do not involve physical contact. OYDC Zambia, Chief Executive Officer Dr. Fredrick Chitangala says this move follows the recent national address by President Edgar Lungu, where he announced that non-contact sport activities such as tennis & golf could resume. Dr. Chitangala says if the relevant stakeholders [...]

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23 Apr

Zambia Judo Association donates face masks to Shalom School

Zambia Judo Association (ZJA) president Alfred Foloko, who is also National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ ) president on Thursday, 23 April, 2020 led the judo family to donate face masks to Shalom School in Lusaka’s Garden Township. Foloko, said the move to donate face masks follows President Edgar Lungu’s recent directive for all citizens to wear masks in public places as a way to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus which has killed thousands of people globally and three [...]

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17 Mar

OYDC Zambia suspends all sport & non sport activities indefinitely

OYDC Zambia – Sports Development Centre Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Fredrick Chitangala, has announced the indefinite suspension of all sport and non-sport activities at the multisport facility with immediate effect. Dr. Chitangala, says the move follows today’s address by the minister of Health Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, where he updated the nation on measures being taken by government to avoid any possible outbreak of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) which has become an international public health concern. He says OYDC Zambia, will adhere to [...]

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