Bosso Heritage Tour to cost $440

31 Jan, 2016 - 00:01 0 Views

The Sunday News

HIGHLANDERS Football Club members and supporters will have to part with the princely sum of $440 to be part of the entourage that would visit one of the club’s founders’ grave, Prince Rhodes kaNjube kaLobengula in Grahamstown in South Africa next month.

The Heritage Tour, which is expected to kick start the club’s year-long 90th anniversary celebrations, will take five days, including travelling time, with the main event being held on Saturday 20 February. The travelling party will spend the day at the Grahamstown’s Luvuyo Community Hall partaking in various cultural activities as they honour one of the club’s founders.

According to the tour itinerary the $440 has to be paid by 10 February as the group is scheduled to leave Bulawayo eight days later. The money covers the return trip from Bulawayo to Grahamstown, two nights’ accommodation in Port Elizabeth and meals.

Highlanders 90th Anniversary Commemorations Committee chairman Luke Mnkandla said the team will leave on 18 February for Johannesburg by bus, and fly to Port Elizabeth the following day where they will put up for the night before heading to Grahamstown the next morning. Mnkandla, who is also the chairman of the marketing sub-committee, said they were targeting the club’s former and current officials as well as former players, supporters, members, club chapters’ leadership, leaders or representatives of invited institutions, organisations, media houses, companies and public sector departments.

He said they are hoping to involve South African football officials through that country’s football body to magnify the event.

“We have engaged the relatives of Rhodes and they will be present at the event and we are also hoping to lure his last surviving daughter to visit Bulawayo in the near future,” added Mnkandla.

A huge number of Highlanders supporters based in South Africa are expected to grace the event as it would be cheaper for them to travel to Grahamstown. Mnkandla said they have also come up with travel packages for the SA-based supporters but fares vary depending on location.

Highlanders were formed in 1926 by Albert and Rhodes who were King Lobengula’s grand sons, who joined with other friends in Makokoba, Bulawayo as they sought to relieve themselves of boredom and create a regular source of entertainment.

The team was initially called Lions Football Club until 1936 when it was renamed Matabeleland Highlanders Football Club. The name Matabeleland was dropped in 1975. Rhodes was the first chairman but returned to South Africa after the formation of the club. Several activities are lined up for Zimbabwe’s oldest football club with an official launch ceremony scheduled for 28 February at Barbourfields Stadium.

 

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