adminMtukudzi is one of the role models who have emerged from Mashonaland Central, where the Games will be held this year.
“We gave Tuku a gold medal which shows that he has won a 60km race, which is the distance between Harare and Bindura,” said Kasukuwere.
“We will use his images and words to promote the event and that is very good because he is a role model.
“Tuku also turns 60 this year.”
Lack of adequate funding and incomplete facilities continue to pose a threat to the successful staging of the Games next month.
But the Games’ local organising committee is racing against time to ensure the event becomes one of the best and have lined up a massive fundraising dinner in the capital tomorrow.
Kasukuwere, revealed yesterday that Vice-President, Joice Mujuru, who is also the patron of the Games, will be the guest of honour at the dinner slated for the Rainbow Towers.
Kasukuwere said although the general preparations were “at the advanced stage” they had noted that they required more funding for the 10th edition to scale the heights they have set for themselves.
“We still need assistance from the corporate world in order for us to have a successful 10th edition of the Youth Games.
“We have to pay other accommodation and transport that will be picking and dropping the athletes at different venues during the Games.
“The youths are excited and wants to do their best at the Games hence we do not want to disappoint them, we want to fulfill our promises and ensure that everything is in place.
“The preparations are still going on but we still need assistance from the corporate world and hopefully host this fund-raising dinner will get us that assistance and we will finalise all the remaining business on the Games.” Kasukuwere said.
Meanwhile, Sports and Recreation’s, Tirivashe Nheweyembwa, said the Games can only be a successful with the support from the corporate world.
“The Youth Games have always been known to produce good results and for the results to be good we have to give the youths all what is needed for the Games.
“The local organisers in Mashonaland Central can only be successful without the support of development partners,” said Nheweyembwa.
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