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Ellina Mhlanga
Zimpapers Sports Hub
THE Zimbabwe Olympic Committee held their annual general meeting in Harare yesterday with the focus being on the implementation of their strategic plan.
ZOC unveiled their strategic plan for 2026 to 2033 last year, moving from a four-year to an eight-year cycle.
ZOC president Thabani Gonye said: “In this new strategic plan for 2026 to 2033, we are speaking of the rationale that we now have for the General Assembly, why we have moved from the four-year cycle to an eight-year cycle,” he said.
“We were speaking of the key needs in the strategy, which speaks of our capability to be athlete centred.
“That all our activities speak of the performance engine, our vision is to be excellent by 2033,” said Gonye.
Yesterday they also co-opted three board members expected to play a key role in delivering the vision.
The three are Joel Gombera, who chairs the strategic partnership and resource mobilisation commission, Matilda Nyathi (marketing and brand image commission chair) and Nyasha Sanyamandwe, who is the chair for the legal, governance and membership standards compliance commission.
“We were saying how do we then support our athletes and continue and identify the strategies that will get our athletes supported well enough and our member federations supported well enough to achieve what we are looking at achieving.
“At the core of that is capacitating revenue generation.”
They also looked at the legacy projects targeted for this year, which include renovations of their head office in Belvedere, Harare, and the OlympAfrica Centre, expected to be established in Masvingo.
“We will be doing sign-offs and our target is that we should do the sign-offs before the end of the year,” said Gonye.
OlympAfrica Foundation programme manager Marieme Coumba is expected in the country tomorrow for a site visit.
ZOC has also engaged City of Harare to secure use of Highlands Swimming Pool as one of their high-performance training pools on a long-term lease.
The national Olympic committee is also targeting five High Performance Centres across the country.
They will be working with established institutions, including universities. Currently they are looking at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Bindura University of Science Education.
