adminMukamba crowned soccer star
Eddie Chikamhi
Dynamos midfielder Denver Mukamba was last last night crowned the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League Soccer Star of the Year at a colourful banquet in Harare.
Mukamba emerged the season’s finest after fending off the challenge of Highlanders’ slippery attacking midfielder Masimba Mambare and Ronald Chitiyo of Monomotapa who came second and third respectively.
The lanky midfielder, who turns 20 next Friday, got an early birthday present as he walked away with the coveted trophy and a $5 000 cheque.
Chindungwe named Chicken Inn player of the year
Lovemore dube
THIS year’s Soccer Star of the Year finalists’ selectors got another nod of approval for the brilliant work when Chicken Inn crowned defender Felix Chindungwe their player for 2012.
The centreback walked away $1 500 richer at a function kept secret by the club.
Chicken Inn management took its players to an abattoir in Umguza where they had a low profile function attended by players, administrators and workers from the sponsoring company.
Chindungwe received $1 000 from the club with $500 added on by a supporter.
Bosso still to decide on manager, coaches’ fate
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE Highlanders executive will soon meet to deliberate on the fate of first team manager and junior coaches whose contracts are expiring at the end of this month.
Also affected are Kelvin Kaindu’s assistants Tembo Tshuma and Bekithemba Ndlovu.
Welfare manager, Ami Soma-Phiri signed a one-year contract early this year when he took over from Jerry Sibanda, now interim club treasurer.
PERSPECTIVE: Beware of wrath of God
An address to journalists in Bulawayo by America’s new Ambassador to Zimbabwe earlier this week might have thrown some sliver of light on any new improved relations hoped for between Zimbabwe and the United States, but for the Double Speak that it turns out to be.
Ambassador Bruce Wharton said his Government now understood that it has no mandate to interfere in the internal politics of the country.
But surely, does the American envoy think any reasonable Zimbabwean will swallow that kind of stuff when their lives have been rendered miserable through illegal economic sanctions imposed by the US and her allies, causing company closures and loss of income for their bread winners as punishment for introducing land reform by the Zanu-PF Government?
Agency embarks on search for comic queens
Emmanuel Ndlovu
THE genre of stand-up comedy is fast growing and taking shape in the country.
However, it lacks diversity probably due to the absence of comic queens as it is male-dominated.
There is need for female comedians to crack jokes from a feminine point of view in order to spice it up and strike gender balance.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Ensure swift response to disaster situations
The flash floods which hit Tsholotsho District in Matabeleland North recently should serve as a warning to the Civil Protection Unit. The CPU should ensure that its structures at the different levels are ready to respond to disasters such as floods. Tsholotsho like Muzarabani in Mashonaland Central province is prone to floods.
The CPU structures at both provincial and district level in these areas should therefore be ready to respond to distress calls. In Tsholotsho there are villagers settled on the banks of the Gwayi River and each time the area is hit by floods, they are the worst affected. The CPU committees at provincial and district level should be on the ground assessing the situation in the flood prone areas in order to take preventive measures.
Chiefs to rally behind Zanu-PF: Charumbira
Midlands Bureau Chief
CHIEFS in Zimbabwe will continue supporting Zanu-PF as it is the only party that brought back land, which had been taken by the country’s erstwhile colonisers, president of the Chief’s Council, Chief Charumbira said.
The chiefs are custodians of local culture and owners of the land.
In his address to the 13th Zanu-PF Annual People’s Conference recently, Chief Charumbira said the revolutionary party’s policies were in line with the chiefs’ objectives of feeding and taking care of the people.
Woman abandons baby born with multiple deformities
Midlands Correspondent
A woman from Mberengwa allegedly abandoned her newly born baby at Mnene Mission Hospital when she discovered that it had multiple deformities.
The woman only identified as Margaret (34), reportedly bolted out of the labour ward and fled from the hospital after she learnt of the baby’s deformities.
The incident occurred on Tuesday morning.
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Mpilo senior official jailed
Court Reporter
A senior employee at Mpilo Central Hospital was yesterday sentenced to five years in jail for defrauding the health institution of R200 000.
Edgar Mdongo (43), of 72313 Lobengula West had pleaded not guilty to forgery and fraud, but was convicted by Bulawayo senior magistrate Mrs Thobekile Mkhosana-Matimbe.
Three years of his sentence were suspended on condition he pays full restitution by 31 January next year.