SOKONI ELECTED ZAMBIA BOXING FEDERATION PRESIDENT
Bornface Sokoni is the new president of the Zambia Boxing Federation.
Sokoni defeated Mashekwa Nalumango by 25-19 votes in the federation elections held at the National Sports Council of Zambia offices on Saturday, February 15.
Former President Dan Chiteule – elected in 2021 – did not seek re-election because he is unwell. His vice-president Nalumango threw down the gauntlet to challenge Sokoni who stood firm to carry the day.
Bornwell Gift Banda retained his Secretary-General position unopposed. Banda was elected in 2023 following the resignation of Limbikani Phiri.
Under Chiteule’s leadership, Zambia’s national team has achieved immense success.
At the 2022 Africa Championships in Maputo, Mozambique, Zambia placed third with four gold and three bronze medals. Scooping the gold medals were minimumweight Margret Tembo, flyweight Patrick Chinyemba, lightweight Andrew Chilata and female lightweight Felistars Nkandu.
Chinyemba and Chilata maintained their sparkling show punching their way to the quarter-finals of the 2023 World Championships in Uzbekistan, and last year, Chinyemba and welterweight Gerald Kabinda won two gold medals in the African Games in Accra to help Zambia finish fifth overall with two gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Chinyemba also won the IBA Africa flyweight title in the first ever IBA Champions’ Night series in Africa held in Addis Ababa.
At the Paris Olympics, Chinyemba and Tembo represented Zambia but Chinyemba’s hopes of ending Zambia’s 40-year medal drought in the Olympics went up in smoke when he lost to Cape Verde’s David Pina in the quarter-finals.
The following were elected in Saturday’s Zambia Boxing Federation elections:
President- Bornface Sokoni
Vice President- James Kunda Kapansa
Secretary General – Bornwell Gift Banda
Deputy Secretary General-Humphrey Kasosolwa
Treasurer- Godfrey Chikampa
