The September Fortebet Actual Stars Sports activities Month-to-month Awards have gone down in historical past with the return of former weightlifter Ali Kavuma, 58, to the highlight after a quick absence.
Acknowledged for his contribution to the sports activities trade, Ali Kavuma was offered with the Lifetime Achievement award as one of many winners of the September 2025 awards. Others included Muzamiru Kakande, who received in boxing, Yasin Nasser in Motor Rally, and Hillary Mukundane, who received in males’s soccer.
Ali Kavuma is greatest remembered for representing Uganda on the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He final appeared on the worldwide degree on the 1998 Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur.Kavuma’s Olympic Video games look with fellow Ugandan Joseph Kaddu in 1988 made him the third Athlete to signify Uganda in weightlifting, becoming a member of Fred Bunjo and the late John Kyazze.After retiring from weightlifting in 1999, he began teaching the game till 2005. Throughout his teaching profession, he took over Irene Ajambo and made her the primary lady and the primary feminine weightlifter to win a medal within the All Africa Video games when she received Bronze within the 2003 Video games in Abuja, Nigeria.He additional guided varied weightlifters to win medals, particularly on the African continent and at worldwide ranges, like Moses Kimbowa, and in addition helped Charles Ssekyaya and Irene Ajambo qualify for the Olympic Video games.Ali Kavuma is at the moment the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Uganda Weightlifting Federation, after getting back from Dubai, the place he went in 2005 to hunt monetary upgrades breaking from sports activities trade with the assistance of Fast Flight Transport Firm.
From Ali Kavuma, Yasin Nasser who made historical past by changing into the second Ugandan to win the Africa Rally Championship becoming a member of the late Charles Muhangi who received it in 1999, was acknowledged for breaking the 26-year wait. Nasser took the racing award beating Ranald Ssebuguzi and Julius Ssemmambo successful his first Fortebet award this yr to finish Ponsiano Lwakataka’s dominance.In boxing, Muzamiru Kakande defeated Sulaiman Ssegawa and Shakur Mugambe for the accolade whereas in soccer, Hillary Mukundane defeated his teammate from Vipers SC, Allan Okello and Ibrahim Kasinde of SC Villa
