Government to keep at bay five disciplines

Five national sports associations will likely miss the government?s support. The National Sports Council (NSC) official, Andrew Ame, said yesterday that the five associations were yet to submit their annual sports? calendars to the body.

Ami named the associations as Tanzania Golf Union (TGU), inter-ministry games (Shimiwi), Tanzania Table Tennis Association (TTTA), Tanzania Lawn Tennis Association (TLTA) and Tanzania Football Coaches` Association (Tafca).

He said that the Ministry of Information, Culture and Sports would not involve their activities in its budget if the bodies would not present their calendars at NSC.

``The submission deadline was last December but up to now none of them has given us calendar which shows its sports activities,? he said. ``The government will not support them in any way at all unless we get their calendars,`` said Ami.

He named some of the associations who met the deadline as Tanzania Basketball Federation (TBF), Cycling Association of Tanzania (CAT), Tanzania Cricket Association (TCA) and Tanzania Handball Association (Taha).

In another development, Cycling Association of Tanzania said yesterday that it is planning to stage East Africa Inter-city championship in the country in December.