Author: Richard Attias

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The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.

The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.

- Richard Attias

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

- Richard Attias

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

- Richard Attias

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

- Richard Attias

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

- Richard Attias

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

- Richard Attias

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

- Richard Attias

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

- Richard Attias

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

- Richard Attias

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