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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Lesotho will be forced to acquire equipment from South Africa and Botswana to successfully host next month\u2019s African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Youth Games in Maseru, Public Eye has been reliably informed.<\/p>\n

Some of the equipment Lesotho is going to hire includes boxing rings, scoring boards, gloves, electronic timing systems for athletics, hurdles and shot puts.<\/p>\n

Sources the paper spoke to revealed that the equipment will be hired from Welkom and Bloemfontein in South Africa, and also from Botswana. \u201cThese people are going to host these AUSC Games without any equipment of their own, even a pair gloves,\u201d said one source.<\/p>\n

The boxing scoring machine (also called computer scoring) is going to be sourced from Botswana, while a boxing ring will be acquired from Welkom and gloves from Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n

Our source further said: \u201cIt is only now that I am pushing, using the influence that I have that a ring must be bought, even if it will be secured late.<\/p>\n

Lesotho only has one boxing ring which belongs to the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Boxing Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason why I am pushing for the purchase of a new ring is because I don\u2019t want us to be dependent on the LDF ring,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

He further asked: \u201cI mean, if you miss an opportunity like this when will you get it?\u201d The source continued, however, that the hiring a ring and the computer scoring machine will be very expensive compared to buying new ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuying a new expensive ring may cost about M80 000, and it will be cheaper than hiring a ring whose rental will be charged per day that it is here, it should also be accompanied by a trained person from wherever it is going to be hired from.<\/p>\n

Our source also said buying a computer scoring machine could have also been an opportunity for local boxing officials to be trained to operate the system for the first time ever in the history of boxing in the country.<\/p>\n

The Lesotho Boxing Association (LeBA) president, Katiso T\u0161enoli, and the Federation of Athletics Lesotho (FAL)\u2019 Secretary General, Makara Thibinyane, both confirmed in separate interviews with Public Eye that there\u2019s no equipment for boxing and athletics competitions for the upcoming Region 5 Youth Games.<\/p>\n

T\u0161enoli said initially Team Lesotho\u2019s management promised to buy the needed equipment, including a boxing ring but said now it seems that will no longer be the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially, the local organising committee had promised to buy the equipment as Plan A, but now we are going for Plan B which is to hire the equipment from outside the country,\u201d said T\u0161enoli.<\/p>\n

The LeBA boss further concurred with sentiments that the cost of hiring a boxing ring, a computer scoring board and gloves is bound to be more expensive than buying new equipment.<\/p>\n

Thibinyane, on the other hand, also confirmed that all the equipment to be used for athletics during the games will be hired from outside the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have all the equipment,\u201d said Thibinyane.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have an electronic timing system, hurdles, high jump mattresses and shot puts, amongst others.<\/p>\n

\u201d Thibinyane said they needed the latest hurdles and mattresses, and not the outdated ones which they still have.<\/p>\n

The LAF secretary general also confirmed that it is going to be more expensive for Lesotho to hire the equipment than what the country would spend on buying new equipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe equipment we are talking about will include insurances, technical services and all those, of which it would be expensive to hire than if we could buy completely new equipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we don\u2019t know what the problem with procurement is because the finance ministry has released the money.<\/p>\n

\u201d Thibinyane said this was despite the fact that they had already been requested to give specifications of the equipment needed for the Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is despite that on the second week of August we were pressed to give specifications of the equipment to use and we did that.<\/p>\n

\u201d Thibinyane said the time has now run out for them to start buying equipment because it would have to be manufactured for at least six weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese athletics equipment I am talking about is not available in South Africa. It is manufactured in Belgium and it takes six weeks to be made.<\/p>\n

Even if we can get it from South Africa, it will have been ordered from Belgium. So you cannot just go there to buy it, you will have to place an order and then wait for it to be manufactured.<\/p>\n

Botswana Boxing Association\u2019 Secretary General, Taolo Tlouetsile, confirmed to Public Eye that indeed Lesotho has asked them to assist with their computer scoring machines for the boxing events during the upcoming regional youth competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cOk, we were asked to assist and we didn\u2019t charge them,\u201d Tlouetsile said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey may just offer us a token of appreciation.
\nAttempts to get comments from the Minister of Gender and Youth, Sports and Recreation, Likeleli Tampane, and Lesotho\u2019s Chef de Mission for the games, Caswell Moru, failed as their phones rang unanswered.<\/p>\n

This challenge of lack of the equipment, has heaped pressure on several of Lesotho\u2019s problems as host for the AUSC Games, with a series of problems borne by delays to start preparations for the competition.<\/p>\n

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