admindifferent boxing stables in the country.
The meeting will deal with various issues affecting the sport and will see the selection of names for the new Zimbabwe Boxing Board of Control.
The previous board, led by Richard Hondo since 1980, was dissolved by the Minister of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture, David Coltart, last year in November.
The selection process will include how the board should be selected and suitable candidates as well as when they should be appointed.
The stakeholders will also have to agree if there is need for probationary period for the selected members.
Other issues include the control and development of the sport by the board.
The boxing committee’s chairman, Bartholomew Dendere, said the names will be forwarded to the ministry.
“The meeting is for all the stakeholders in boxing. We want to make chart the way forward, so we are going to come up with names to be forwarded to the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture.
“We feel as stakeholders that we need to meet and discuss on the direction of boxing. We have been there for boxing and we need to set the conditions so that we reclaim our status when we used to be second from football in the 1980s in terms of popularity,” said Dendere.
The stakeholders are set to deal the issue of amendment of the current Boxing and Wrestling Control Act. Some of the issues to be discussed in today’s indaba include the need to adopt international standardisation, inclusion of both genders and the registration of boxers, coaches, managers and promoters for the welfare of each.
The stakeholders will also look on the pension scheme and medical scheme as well as Government funding for the sport.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Spoprt, Arts and Culture, Coltart, has distanced himself from today’s meeting.
Coltart also said that he was in the final stages of selecting a new boxing board, which he will announce shortly.
“(It has) apparently (been) reported that I have convened an all stakeholders meeting for boxing tomorrow (today) . . . There is no such meeting. I am in the final stages of selecting a new boxing board which will be announced shortly, but that is all for now,” Coltart wrote on his Facebook wall yesterday.
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