Netball: UNF Boss, Kityo Sarah’s Motion For Africa to Have Club Champions League Passed
The Uganda Netball federation president, Hon. Babirye Kityo Sarah moved a motion for Africa Netball to start hosting Continental club championship.
In the Annual General Assembly of Africa Netball, the continental governing body, held in Pretoria, South Africa on Saturday 20, August, 2022, the Uganda Netball Federation president, Hon. Babirye Kityo Sarah moved a motion for Africa to start having it’s own continental club championship with the aim of exposing the talent beyond boundaries.
The motion found no resistance from the Countries’ presidents who attended the AGM but it was seconded and later passed.
“In today’s meeting, I moved a motion for Africa to start having Club championship, the motion was seconded and passed by the members.” Babirye told this website before adding. “Now we are going to work on documentation the members will take to their respective countries and clubs, and it will have the details of the championship, so clubs should start preparing.”
In the same Annual General Assembly, it was confirmed that Uganda will be the host of the 2023 Africa Netball Championship.
“In the same AGM it was confirmed that Uganda will hosting Africa Netball Championship but Uganda needs to chose dates of hosting after the 2023 World Cup. ” Babirye revealed to this website.
This will be the second time in history for Uganda to host Africa Netball championship, the first came in 2017 and the She Cranes emerged the winner of that championship and it was the first nation to win the title when they are the hosts.
The other crucial which was discussed about in the AGM was the elections.
“We also confirmed that general elections will be held next year [2023] but we are yet to chose the nation that will host the elections, we are still discussing on the constitution that we are expect to finalize it on Sunday but again it was agreed that elections should held after world cup, the chance was given to the current executive to first organize world cup.”
Current Cecilia Molokwane is the president of Africa Netball.