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Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter
HIGHLANDERS Football Club say the refurbishment of the club offices which was pledged by Sakunda Holdings chief executive officer, Kudakwashe Tagwirei is work in progress and spadework at the site will be resuming soon.
During a visit to the Highlanders offices a year ago, Tagwirei made an undertaking that his company will refurbish the Bosso administration centre situated on 4th Avenue and Robert Mugabe Way.
No work has resumed at the club offices, but Bosso says everything is under control.
“We are in the process where Sakunda Holdings have settled for the constructors. We understand as a club that they are still engaging in terms of how they want to carry out the project.
“It’s something we talk about with Sakunda each time we get to meet. As a club we know it’s work in progress and we talk to Sakunda often about the project. As soon as everything is in place you will see the project starting,” said Highlanders chief executive officer Ronald Moyo.
Highlanders acquired the offices in 1986 under the chairmanship of the late Ndumiso Gumede.
Gumede was there when Tagwirei made the announcement that Sakunda Holdings will cover the costs of renovating the Highlanders offices, which are evidently in a state of dilapidation after years of not being refurbished.
In a tender advertisement published in Chronicle some time ago, Highlanders invited suitably qualified suppliers to participate in the request for quotations to supply and deliver working drawings, 3D impressions to carry out club office renovations as well as to supply and fix construction to club office renovation.
Meanwhile, the Highlanders leadership left the country on Sunday for a tour of Europe and arrived safely in France.
The tour will see them going to France, England, Spain and Belgium to visit yet-to-be-named clubs. The tour is a learning venture organised by the club’s principal sponsors, Sakunda Holdings, who announced the expedition some months back.
Club board chairman Luke Mnkandla, executive committee chairman Johnfat Sibanda, club secretary Morgen Dube and treasurer Busani Mthombeni are part of the trip.
The quartet will begin their business in Paris, France, where they will spend three days before splitting up. Mnkandla and Sibanda will head for Manchester while Dube and Mthombeni are destined for Barcelona, Spain, again for three days.
They will reunite to conclude the tour in Brussels, Belgium. — Follow on Twitter @innocentskizoe
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