Namibia: Government Misses the Commercial, Economic Dimensions of Sport ... Slashed Budget Could Have Serious Repercussions

It's now crystal clear as daylight that sport is placed right at the bottom of our government's list of priorities - if the massive cut evidenced in the skeleton budget allocation to the country's presiding sport body, the National Sports Commission (NSC) is anything to go by.

Yours truly is damn sure that many of you out there would scorn to own me in a lie if I dare conclude that those entrusted to pull the purse strings in the upper echelons of our administration dismally failed to recognize the unique potential of sport to foster social inclusion and awareness raising in safeguarding the intrinsic values of sport, ultimately fostering socio-economic benefits.

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