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I am not a good   writer but one would expect  journalist to be a little bit more proffesional  with their grammar and spelling. Here is one example of such type of inferior workmanship


 


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Malawi to strike gold with World Cup by Isaac Masingati, 16 April 2006 - 07:22:56 Imagine three jumbo aircrafts each spilling 500 soccer fans that, in turn, spew into our hotels to savor our local cuisine and sleep in our dream foams in turn for their sweet dollar.
Imagine also France’s playmaker Thiery Henry, striker David Trezeguet; Argentine winger Lionel Mecce or Brazil’s Ronaldinho frog-jumping and stretching their murderous limbs at Civo Stadium in preparation for the following day’s World Cup tussle in South Africa. Big fun, big money!
And yet, despite the seams of gold the 2010 world showcase passes to Africa, it appears Malawi - as economically pathetic as she is - would rather sit in her rags and watch her neighbours share the spoil.
The country’s stadia are but what Barcelona’s Jose Mourinho would rightly call potato fields, while Mecce would be forgiven if he called our drum-holed streets minefields.
“I think government should start working on infrastructure now. A lot of people out there are showing interest to use our country for camping and accommodation during the competition,” says South African Airways Marketing Manager for Malawi, Grey Ndovi.
The hosts, South Africa, and other neighboring countries such as Botswana and Zambia have reportedly paced up their preparations by improving airports, road network, hotels and pitches for overseas participating teams and their supporters to use them as operational bases.
According to Ndovi, people from the United Kingdom, America and Germany have been making enquiries on Malawi as a preferable destination for camping due to its climate which is similar to that of South Africa and, also, because of its political stability.
“People want to know if we have airfields that can accommodate three jumbo planes at a time, hotels that can take in 500 guests at a time and high standard stadia for training, but do we have answers to those questions?” queries Ndovi.
Malawi’s biggest airfield, Kamuzu International Airport, can only accommodate one jumbo and is in bad shape. It is have for burglars too, despite the world requirement that airports be the most secured areas, particularly now that the head of Bin Ladden who masterminded the hijacking of American planes in 2001is yet to be staked out and counted.
Ndovi says while Malawi is the safest destination in Africa, it is important that government and the private sector who will also be beneficiaries to the World Cup, wake up from their slumber and start planning like their colleagues elsewhere are doing.
“We are talking of jumbos flying all the way from Germany and America, landing at Kamuzu International Airport and giving our tourism industry a big boost. All these people want to be accommodated in Lilongwe for convenience,” he says.
Ndovi who has attended a number of business meetings where issues of World Cup and accommodation in Africa have been discussed says prospective clients have also been quizzing if Malawi has good pitches for training.
“I have told them we have two good stadia in Lilongwe (CIVO and Silver) and a big one in Blantyre but it looks they do not like the idea of extending flights to Blantyre. They say it would be expensive unless we renovated and extended Chileka Airport so that they can fly straight to Blantyre and stay at the Le Meridien.”
Ndovi says South African Airways are doing everything to ensure that they provides flight services to people who want to camp in Malawi but warn that it needs full government participation.
The marketing manager hinted that he would soon be meeting minister of tourism Patricia Kaliati to see how the various players can work towards the games.
Kaliati , on her part, says she would be meeting line ministries like transport and sports to establish ways of making Malawi the first destination for World Cup revelers. Apart from her word though, it is apparent that so far government has nothing to show and hopefully Malawi won’t sit on the bench and watch the World Cup opportunities elude her.
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-- Edited by Zee at 01:59, 2006-04-17

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Horribly inept. And I'm sure he thought he was writing with flair. What newspaper is that from? Doesn't it have an editor?

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this is straight ass crap.......


 


Malawi’s biggest airfield, Kamuzu International Airport, can only accommodate one jumbo and is in bad shape. It is have for burglars too, despite the world requirement that airports be the most secured areas, particularly now that the head of Bin Ladden who masterminded the hijacking of American planes in 2001is yet to be staked out and counted



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May be instead of waiting to count the head of Bin Laden, we should start with that of the editor.

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abre les ojos wrote:

 Doesn't it have an editor?
he might be the editor himself..........

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 YOU KNOW WHAT, THATS WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IN MALAWI LOOK tv personalities they way the talk,KAYA MWINA KAYA ndangodutsa sinditchile khwani ine chonde   

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