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Old Miltonians donate to Percy Ibbotson Home
Lillian Sibanda
OLD Miltonians Rugby Club donated clothes to Percy Ibbotson Home for the male juveniles in Luveve on Saturday.
Adam Ndlovu killed in car accident
Patrick Chitumba and Leonard Ncube
FORMER Zimbabwe international striker and head coach of Castle Premiership side, Chicken Inn Adam Ndlovu has died.
Ndlovu (42) was killed in a car accident early yesterday morning. His younger brother, Peter who is the Zimbabwe senior national team assistant coach, was injured in the same accident when his BMW X5 crashed at the 417km peg near Lupinyu Business Centre close to Victoria Falls International Airport.
Also killed in the accident was a woman identified as Ms Tshili (24) who was travelling together with the two brothers.
Peter was transferred to Mater Dei hospital in Bulawayo at around 8am. He escaped with injuries on his legs and forehead. He was in a stable condition yesterday afternoon and could recognise people and speak.
The Ndlovu brothers were on their way to the resort town to take part in a friendly soccer match pitting Highlanders Legends and the Victoria Falls Social Soccer League select team.
Mtshabezi water finally in city
Temba Dube
PUMPING of water from Mtshabezi Dam to Bulawayo has finally started.
The city had been desperately banking on the dam following reports that a third supply dam, Lower Ncema, could be decommissioned before Christmas.
Without Mtshabezi water, the city was likely to increase the water shedding period from the present four days every week, to six.
The breakthrough occurred on Saturday after a Harare-based company, AC Controls, which was contracted by the State Procurement Board to electrify the Mtshabezi Dam project was fired on Wednesday for “gross incompetence” and allegedly sabotaging the venture.
Confirming the development yesterday, the Minister of Water Resources Management and Development, Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo said new engineers moved on site on Friday and did in one day what AC Controls had failed to do in more than two months.
Police chief blasts corrupt officers
Fadzai Masvada
The Acting Officer Commanding Midlands Police Assistant Commissioner Learn Ncube has blasted corrupt police officers,
Adam Ndlovu’s death a big blow: Chicken Inn
Lovemore Dube
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Developing countries should resist being trampled upon
The industrialised countries want to continue enjoying trade relations tilted in their favour at the expense of developing countries.Zimbabwe, China trade grows
Trade between China and Zimbabwe in the first 10 months of the year amounted to $750 million and is $60 million shy of the total figure achieved for the whole of 2011, Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Lin Lin has said.I am destined to play in Europe: Mukamba
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League Soccer Star of the Year winner and Dynamos midfielder, Denver Mukamba says he is not South African material despite having gone there for trials.
Zim soldiers in Sadc Standby Brigade
Tendai Mugabe recently in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
ZIMBABWE has not deployed troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo, but will only contribute soldiers to a Sadc Standby Brigade for a peacekeeping mission in that country, President Mugabe has said.
The President told journalists in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, last week that the Sadc forces would help the DRC government repel the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.
“We have not deployed our troops in DRC,” said President Mugabe, who is the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
“There is a standby brigade and people should have known by now that Sadc has its standby brigade. It is not Zimbabwe alone going to DRC . . . that is the brigade which is there to take care of any nonsense by way of a coup or revolt. It is Tanzania which is the commander.”