KINSHASA | Omni Sports Complex Sylo | 14 Hectares | Under Construction

[Pius]

Soon a New Sports facility in Kinshasa

Un complexe omnisports Sylo sera construit à Mikala II à Kinkole, une commune urbano-rurale de la N’Sele située à Kinshasa. Le complexe omnisports Sylo est en construction sur une étendue de 14 hectares au quartier Mikala II, à plus au moins 5 Km de la cité de Kinkole, dans la commune urbano-rurale de la N ’sele à Kinshasa. Le site qui longe la route nationale n°1, a accès sur le fleuve Congo.

M. Pascal Makanisi Sylo, son initiateur qui s’est confié mercredi à l’ACP au terme d’une visite effectuée sur le site, a indiqué que le complexe comprendra, outre le centre attractif « Luna park » déjà opérationnel, un grand bâtiment administratif devant abriter tous les services, 2 terrains de football, 2 terrains de basket-ball, 1 terrain de tennis, une école de football et une piscine.

Il est également prévu l’érection de deux grandes salles (120mx90m et 50mx15m) pour l’hébergement des athlètes, une école agronomique, des terrains de hand-ball, volley-ball de nzango, des salles de boxe et de fêtes ainsi que des étangs.

M. Pascal Makanisi a souligné en particulier que l’un des terrains de football dont les travaux sont terminés, répond aux normes olympiques (120m sur 90m). pour l’école de football.

Il a fait savoir que l’enseignement au niveau primaire sera gratuit et l’accès y sera accordé aux enfants de 7 à 12 ans des familles démunies habitant les zones périphériques de la cité de Kinkole.

Le complexe omnisports Sylo est le 3 ème à être établi au quartier Mikala II après celui de la FECOFA et le centre récréatif de Mikala de M. Olivier Bierlaire, rappelle-t-on.

ACP

Source: http://www.afriqueredaction.com/arti...-44857849.html

[BUTEMBO21]

Wow !!!, 14 Hectares ? Nice. Thank god its not a government thing.

[sweet-d]

This is a very ambitious project it looks great. I hope continues to go along smoothly.

[Trelawny]

Very nice how many seats is this?

[BUTEMBO21]

The Sport facility is under construction . But that pic is not the original design of the stadium. There is no design of the stadium nor does it specify the capacity.

[Epaphras]

Originally Posted by Pius

Soon a New Sports facility in Kinshasa








Source: http://www.afriqueredaction.com/arti...-44857849.html

How many sport facilities do we need in Kinshasa? It's mind blowing that costly projects for hobies and entertainments are privileged over rebuilding broken infrastructures that have the potential to positively alter life. Kinshasa has already 4 stadiums: Stade des Martyrs, Tata Raphael, 24 Novembre (former Reine Astrid), and another in Kintambo...why a fifth? In a city of 8M like Kinshasa there is no public library where people (crowds)could go spend times reading something. Looks like government is in the business of promoting a culture of analphabetism rather than encouraging people emancipation.

[BUTEMBO21]

Originally Posted by Epaphras

How many sport facilities do we need in Kinshasa? It's mind blowing that costly projects for hobies and entertainments are privileged over rebuilding broken infrastructures that have the potential to positively alter life. Kinshasa has already 4 stadiums: Stade des Martyrs, Tata Raphael, 24 Novembre (former Reine Astrid), and another in Kintambo...why a fifth? In a city of 8M like Kinshasa there is no public library where people (crowds)could go spend times reading something. Looks like government is in the business of promoting a culture of analphabetism rather than encouraging people emancipation.

This is a private project.

[Epaphras]

I got you Butembo! Still, the gvnmt should be discouraging projects that feed third-world mentality (distractive nothingness, excessive soccer, music, dances...) and give incentives to those that could directly and significantly improve the quality of life such as education, public health, technology, economy.... A country that is struggling to survive doesn't need to be too distracted. Building a huge central library that can house tens of thousands of books in the heart of Kinshasa would be a milestone of tremendous dividends for the country's future.

[BUTEMBO21]

Originally Posted by Epaphras

I got you Butembo! Still, the gvnmt should be discouraging projects that feed third-world mentality

Sports employs millions of people and are multibillion dollars industries in Developed and developing nations.

Its shocking that your serious about calling that thrird world mentality. Then the whole WORLD is third world for that matter.


And why should the government discourage people from fullfilling their dreams? Dreams that takes millions out of poverty if well managed.

(distractive nothingness, excessive soccer, music, dances...)

All those things you mention are not nothingness. They employ hundrends of people and thousands of families are depend on these industries.

I can never call them nothing as long long as they make money and take hundrends out of poverty.

A country that is struggling to survive doesn't need to be too distracted. Building a huge central library that can house tens of thousands of books in the heart of Kinshasa would be a milestone of tremendous dividends for the country's future.

Shabani Nonda has just built s mall classy Hotel. He employed Congolese to build and He has employed hundrends again.

Mutombo Dikembe Built a state of the art Hospital which hehas employed professional Congolese.

Would they have done this if they didn't fullfil their dreams in Sports? Should have the government discourage them , would they be able to help 100s of Congolese?

Building schools, hospitals, providing water and electrcity are the responsibilities of the people we voted to run the country.

BTW, there are hundrends of Congolese that build schools, hospitals, if thats what you want.

We can't just take a backwards decision to tell people to stop doing or purcuing professions that take 1000s of families out of poverty just because we have a stone age leaders.

[BUTEMBO21]

Building a huge central library that can house tens of thousands of books in the heart of Kinshasa would be a milestone of tremendous dividends for the country's future.

How would 1 single library change a nationa of 70 million people?


You need to hold Kimbuta and his government , as well as Kinshasa Provincial Assembly accountable. Not Sports athletes, or Artists.

[BUTEMBO21]

Building a huge central library that can house tens of thousands of books in the heart of Kinshasa would be a milestone of tremendous dividends for the country's future.

How would 1 single library change a nationa of 70 million people?


You need to hold Kimbuta and his government , as well as Kinshasa Provincial Assembly accountable. Not Sports athletes, or Artists.

[Epaphras]

Originally Posted by BUTEMBO21

How would 1 single library change a nationa of 70 million people?


You need to hold Kimbuta and his government , as well as Kinshasa Provincial Assembly accountable. Not Sports athletes, or Artists.

Try and see! Our ancestors didn't know that match could produce fire until they've tried! People can educate themselves if they're given means. Zaire or RDC have been Africa's champ a number of times; that didn't put an end to Congo's misery. Congo will excel when it frees itself from third-world mentality. Just a personal viewpoint.

[Pius]

+1. Congrats on such an accurate and eloquent comment Butembo. I share your standpoint.

[Pius]

Building libraries as a contributing factor to development is a good proposition. Kinshasa and other cities in the country should be equipped with more libraries. However, it is wrong to consider culture (sports, music, and other forms of entertainment) and development to be mutually exclusive. Culture, too, is a contributing factor to socio-economic development. The mere existence of libraries does not guarantee the emergence of a reading habit in the population that is conducive to development, as the following report in Kinshasa tragically demonstrates.

[Epaphras]

Originally Posted by Pius

Building libraries as a contributing factor to development is a good proposition. Kinshasa and other cities in the country should be equipped with more libraries. However, it is wrong to consider culture (sports, music, and other forms of entertainment) and development to be mutually exclusive. Culture, too, is a contributing factor to socio-economic development. The mere existence of libraries does not guarantee the emergence of a reading habit in the population that is conducive to development, as the following report in Kinshasa tragically demonstrates.

It takes time to teach an infant first steps. I don't know where you guys are located but I have the privilege to witness positive impact of libraries in teens' performances at school, in life and even adult education. I'm not saying we should deprive people of their freedom to indulge or invest in whatever they want but the govnt should have visionary leaders able to forsee the country's future just like in some developed regions. There's already a plethora of entertainment business that leads to banditry, shegue phenomenon and other social predicamnets that current gvnmt doesn't know how to deal with.
A geant central national library could also employ thousands of folks if it were well managed.

[BUTEMBO21]

Originally Posted by Epaphras

Try and see! Our ancestors didn't know that match could produce fire until they've tried! People can educate themselves if they're given means. Zaire or RDC have been Africa's champ a number of times; that didn't put an end to Congo's misery. Congo will excel when it frees itself from third-world mentality. Just a personal viewpoint.

You didn't answer me questions.


How do you think Mutombo Dikembe ( A Basketball Player) who spent 10s of millions of $$ and has employed 1000s of Professional Congolese.

How do you think Shabani Nonda ( A Footballer ) Spend millions of his hard earned money to employ 100s of Congolese?

[Epaphras]

Originally Posted by BUTEMBO21

You didn't answer me questions.


How do you think Mutombo Dikembe ( A Basketball Player) who spent 10s of millions of $$ and has employed 1000s of Professional Congolese.

How do you think Shabani Nonda ( A Footballer ) Spend millions of his hard earned money to employ 100s of Congolese?

I didn't, simply bcse while there's maybe 0.005% chance for a congolese to become a Shabani-like building-builder, 70% of congolese at least, for sure, could benefit from an "autodidacte" education from a public library if thy're given an opportunity. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that my dear Butembo!
That's my standpoint.

[Epaphras]

Congo has been Africa's soccer champ, music and dances just like Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba... and other third world countries but misery has remained steadly and even grown exponentially with its trail of poverty, AIDS, tuberculosis, leprosis.... and the likes. It's therefore not an area where a responsible gvnmnt should be fostering projects.
I'm convinced that if the gvnmt get involved in campaigns promoting library attendances, encouraging reading habits by for instance organizing regular national seminars or competitions of book reading and rewarding efforts of winners, only God knows the long term benefit such a plan will bring to the country. Try and see!

[BUTEMBO21]

Originally Posted by Epaphras

Try and see! Our ancestors didn't know that match could produce fire until they've tried! People can educate themselves if they're given means. Zaire or RDC have been Africa's champ a number of times; that didn't put an end to Congo's misery. Congo will excel when it frees itself from third-world mentality. Just a personal viewpoint.

You should be asking , what needs to be done to move Congo from thrid world status.

But don't try to hold or accuse Artists and Athletes who are doing their patriotic duties, for being responsible for the country's ills.

[Epaphras]

Originally Posted by BUTEMBO21

You should be asking , what needs to be done to move Congo from thrid world status.

But don't try to hold or accuse Artists and Athletes who are doing their patriotic duties, for being responsible for the country's ills.

I'm against plethora of entertainment, not against artists. I thought you read me well! 4 geant sport facilities in Kinshasa are more than enough! A fifth is a big waste of money that could be used for more noble causes.
We, with Franco, Tabu Ley, Zaiko.... danced for Mobutu for over 30 years and won the African soccer cup in the 70's What part of the world that isn't aware of congolese music's fame? But, are we better off now? Are we better off than even Tanzania or Begladesh? Not at all! Nation rebuilding is more than just restoring broken bridge or getting chinese to put sidewalks somewhere...What about people emancipation? How in the world you gonna help educate popular mass if the only things you feed them is drinking beer, dancing all night long, playing football, entertaining....but not using their brains to be more creative so they can figure out ways to come out of poverty and misery? While Congolese are dancing and having babies and Shegues in the streets, in other countries people are exploring Mars, Jupiter, searching and finding cures to cancer, and other ailments, moving forward in biotechnonology, physics.....! At this pace, Congo will become another Haiti, poor and underdeveloped even after over 100 years of independence. That's my opinion and I cling to it!

Let's move on folks! We've got to respect everyone's viewpoint or else we fall into dictatorship.