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  By Ashton Kelly Bunda CHOMA District Commissioner Sikaleya Gamela says excellence in long distance races is not only a preserve for Ethiopian and Kenyan runners as   Zambia’s Southern Province is hilly and mountainous, as the geographical landscape in Eastern African. When reached for a comment, in a telephone interview from Kitwe, Copperbelt Province, 1996 Japan Olympics 400 meters hurdle gold medalist, Samuel Matete said Mbala District in the Northern Province is equally in good standing as the Southern Province, Ethiopia and Kenya in grooming competitive and resilient athletes. Said Africa’s Legendary Track and field star Matete: “It is not only in the Southern Province m but Mbala has a latitude for long distance training but what is missing is political and corporate will as infrastructure is neglected and only concentrated in Lusaka”. A veteran athlete in his own right, Gamela optimizes on Zambia producing a late Yotam Muleya, re-incarnation arises from the Southern Pr...

  Pele with his mother Celeste in March 1965.   -   Copyright © africanews AP/AP By Rédaction Africanews   with AFP   Last updated:  03/01 - 12:53 BRAZIL Centenary since November 20, Celeste Arantes, Pelé's mother, is not aware of the death of her son because "she is in her own little world", says her daughter soberly. The funeral procession which will cross the streets of Santos up to the cemetery will however pass in front of his house. Doña Celeste, as she is called in Brazil, was 17 when she gave birth to her eldest son on October 23, 1940, unaware that he would become for many the greatest footballer in history, l only player to win three World Cups. Married to Joao Ramos do Nascimento at 16, she gave birth to two other children: Jair ( "Zoca" ), who died in 2020 of cancer, the same disease that defeated "O Rei" on December 29, then Maria Lucia, with whom she lives in Santos, the port city near Sao Paulo. We talk together (...) She is fine, e...