Half-marathon to be held in different towns

Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter
THE Commissioner-General of Police half-marathon will now be held in different towns every year to enable citizens to interact with the police hierarchy in a sporting environment.

Until this year when the road race was staged in Bulawayo on Saturday, previous events have exclusively been held in Harare.

Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga said they had taken a deliberate step to foster and strengthen social cohesion and alliances through the half-marathon. “A society that has closely-knit interactions is better-placed to combat all forms of crime,” said Matanga.

He also urged people to remain vigilant, warning that the Covid-19 pandemic had not yet been contained.

“As we all know, the past period has not been favourable for gatherings such as this one due to the Covid-19 containment measures hence we could not hold this event in 2020. We are grateful to the authorities for allowing the 2021 edition of the Commissioner-General of Police’s 21km road race to take place. We remain alive to the fact that as a nation and society, we are not yet out of the woods.

“The third wave is menacing on the horizon with some nations recording alarming new infections and fatalities. We therefore, should religiously adhere to Covid-19 guidelines and wherever possible encourage one another to receive the Covid-19 vaccine so that we robustly hedge our immunity,” he said. — @innocentskizoe.