By A Correspondent| Impeccable sources inside the visiting Netball WorldCup delegation have revealed to ZimEye, the netball team want to protest over their missing allowances. Since touching down in the UK, they have not been paid a penny of their promised allowances.
This came as the netball team, 48 hrs before their first match, endured another night eating a meal they said was below standard. The evening meal comprised of small stashes minced meat and what they described as “a few pieces of potatoes” (see picture).
They have been missing their afternoon meals and to this, the Netball President Leticia Chipandu has responded saying, “where we have our lunch or when we have our lunch, that is not your business, or anybody else’s business. I have the interests of my team, I got them to where they are here, so everybody else can go to hell, all I care.” – -ARTICLE CONTINUES-
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Furthermore, some of them are demoralised as they do not have appropriate shoes for playing the match. One source told ZimEye, as they do not have allowances, many they do not have their appropriate Netball sporting shoes.
The team has not been paid their allowances ever since entering the UK and last week and an official audit, document seen by ZimEye show that the money has gone to pay people handpicked by Leticia Chipandu.
Before their last match back home, they protested and were paid 50 bond each to motivate them.
“They can’t even afford the basic netball shoes, the Asics type, which cost just £34,99,” the sources said.
“Do not be surprised to see them refusing to play on Friday, since the Netball President Leticia Chipandu has refused to pay them,” they added.
The fund for the netball team is down by over $39,000 after Leticia Chipandu added to the delegation, people who have nothing to do with the netball team. When she was interviewed, Chipandu at first promised that allowances would be paid (while at Manchester Airport last week Friday night), but she would later shift to tell donors that anyone who is requesting an account of funds distributed should “go to hell.”
By the time of going to press, the team was preparing for its first match with Sri Lanka scheduled for tomorrow, Friday. The matches are being played at Liverpool’s Echo Arena.